FUNDRAISER FOR HAITI: The Asian Indian Community Foundation, Hindu Cultural Society and Indian Association of Buffalo are raising money for a new school for children in Haiti, beginning at 5 p. m. Saturday in Villa Maria College, 240 Pine Road, Cheektowaga.

Asheville Community Theatre serves a real family-pleaser with Barbara Field's "The Boxcar Children," directed by Lori Beland Hilliard.

What to watch, what to see, what to listen to and what to enjoy in our weekly guide to what's on in the arts Tim Teeman THEATRE: Arthur and George Birmingham Repertory Theatre , from March 20 to April 10 David Edgar's adaptation of Julian Barnes's novel traces the relationship of Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, and George ...

7 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, Kate Goldman Children's Theatre, 831 42nd St. , adults/seniors, for students at The Playhouse ticket office, by phone at (515) 277-6261 or online at dmplayhouse.com. With only three performances remaining, time is running out to see 'The Boxcar Children.' The play, based on a book by Gertrude Chandler Warner, tells the story of Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny Alden. The children are suddenly orphaned when a tragic boating accident kills their parents. Fearful that they will be separated, they flee from the authorities and find refuge in an abandoned boxcar. Beginning Saturday, Science Center of Iowa, 401 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, (515) 274-6868, sciowa.org; admission fees apply to non-members and for IMAX Things are looking up - toward outer space - at the Science Center of Iowa, which is launching several new and enhanced attractions this week, just in time for spring break visitors. On Saturday, SCI will reopen its upper-level experience platform Why The Sky? to the public after two weeks of construction. A new exhibit within the platform called Magic Planet includes a 24'-diameter interactive digital video globe that makes it easy for visitors to understand dynamic global systems, such as climate, the biosphere or geologic history. Another new experience is the live program called Martian Rock. Based on the book by Carol Diggory Shields and will introduce visitors to a pair of Martians traveling through our solar system looking for life. And in the planetarium, the show 'Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity will make its debut. Also on March 19, the IMAX film 'Hubble' opens.