8 pm: Cabaret

Michael Feinstein, vocal champion of the American songbook, celebrated last year’s 100th birthday of George Gershwin with a new album, “Michael & George--Feinstein Sings Gershwin.” The singer-pianist, working with a small musical ensemble, will concentrate on Gershwin when he performs in the intimate cabaret configuration at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

* Michael Feinstein, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive. 8 p.m. $32 to $47. (562) 916-8500.

all day: Documentaries

The International Documentary Assn. and the Directors Guild of America present DocuDay, an all-day marathon of the Oscar-nominated documentaries, both long and short form. This is one of the few Academy Award weekend activities that is open to the public, and an excellent chance to see these films on the big screen (and the DGA theater is a beautiful venue). Some highlights: Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus’ “The Farm: Angola, U.S.A.,” Barbara Sonneborn and Janet Cole’s “Regret to Inform,” and Robert B. Weide’s “Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth.” A question-and-answer period with the filmmakers will follow each screening.

* DocuDay, Directors Guild of America, 7920 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. At 10 a.m., Program A: “The Farm: Angola, U.S.A.” At noon, Program B: “Dancemaker.” At 2:15 p.m., Program C: “The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years,” “A Place in the Land” and “Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square.” At 4:45 p.m., Program D: “Regret to Inform.” At 8 p.m., Program E: “The Last Days.” At 10 p.m., Program F: “Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth.” $5 to $7 for each program. All-day pass, $20, for IDA members only. (213) 480-3232.

11 am & 1 pm: Family

With giant puppets and human actors, Bits ‘N Pieces Puppet Theatre presents its touring show, “The Dinosaur and the Ant,” based on Aesop’s fable, with a 9-foot-tall, glow-in-the-dark dinosaur who meets the hardest-working “Antasaurus” in the primeval forest.

* “The Dinosaur and the Ant,” Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University, Malibu, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. $14. (310) 456-4522; (213) 365-3500. Also, Sunday, 1 and 4 p.m. at Norris Theatre, Crossfield Drive and Indian Peak Road, Rolling Hills Estates. $13. (310) 544-0403.

All day: Convention

There will be stacks and stacks of vintage and new comic books at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention, not to mention the armies of action figures, many models, tables full of toys, movie memorabilia and trading cards. Guest appearances will include Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, stars of the new sci-fi movie “Matrix,” director Joel Silver, and TV actors Seth Green, from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and Daniel Bernhardt, from “Mortal Kombat Conquest.”

* Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention, Shrine Auditorium Expo Center, 700 W. 32nd St. Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $7. (818) 954-8432.

7 pm: Theater

“Too Old for the Chorus,” a new musical revue by Marie Cain, Shelly Markham and Mark Winkler (of “Naked Boys Singing!” fame), is about getting older in a youth-obsessed society. It will be the last show directed by Robert Schrock, who is leaving his post as Celebration Theatre’s producing artistic director. Schrock will be taking the company’s longest-running hit show ever --”Naked Boys Singing!”-- to New York.

* “Too Old for the Chorus,” Celebration Theatre, 7051 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, Saturday, 7 p.m. Dark on Sunday. Regular schedule: Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 7 p.m.; Sundays, 3 and 7 p.m. Beginning April 1, Thursdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 and 7 p.m. Ends May 30. $25. (310) 289-2999.

8 pm: Music

Works by Elgar and Tchaikovsky make a rare appearance on a program of the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra, when conductor Lucinda Carver leads the Serenade for Strings and “Souvenir de Florence” in the ensemble’s latest concert. Carver will also be her own soloist in a performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14, K. 449.

* The L.A. Mozart Orchestra, at the Wilshire-Ebell Theatre, 4401 E. 8th St., 8 p.m. $25 to $36. (818) 705-5860.

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Freebies

Afro-Cuban jazz and funk band B-Side Players appears at Borders Books, 2110 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach. 8 p.m. (562) 799-0486.

Francophonie Day Celebration includes a fashion show and French performers, Sofitel Hotel, 8555 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, 9 a.m. to midnight. (310) 652-0306.