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EIFMAN BALLET’S ANNA KARENINA. The St. Petersburg–based contemporary dance company unveils the American premiere of a new Russian classic: Boris Eifman’s adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel, with music by Tchaikovsky. Performances are May 18 through 22 at the Cutler Majestic, 219 Tremont Street in the Theater District. Tickets are $35 to $75; call (800) 233-3123. "FREAKS AND GEEKS PAJAMA PARTY." It’s too late for DVD sales to rescue Freaks and Geeks from the television cult-fave graveyard, but it’s not too late to throw a couple of midnight screenings of the defunct series’s best episodes. On May 21 and 22 the Coolidge Corner does just that. Friday-night attendees get to vote on favorite episodes, with the winners screening Saturday; and though cast member Samm Levine, who was scheduled to appear, has taken a job in Romania instead, the search is on for a replacement host. The Coolidge is at 290 Harvard Street in Brookline, and tickets are $9 each night; call (617) 734-2500. WHITE CHRISTMAS. After dumping the Boston Ballet’s The Nutcracker for the Rockettes last year, the Wang Center is spending some $2 million to co-produce a theatrical adaptation of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas — which it appears will alternate holiday seasons with the showgirls. The inaugural production runs November 25 through December 31 at the Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont Street in the Theater District. Tickets are $22 to $78; call (800) 447-7400. VICTOR NAVASKY. Headbangers who scoured Metallica’s liner notes know Navasky as the author whose book about the McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklist, Naming Names, inspired . . . And Justice for All’s "The Shortest Straw." The rest of the liberal world has known him for the past three decades as the editor of the Nation. On May 23, Navasky discusses his journalistic memoir A Matter of Opinion at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street in Harvard Square. Free tickets are available at the Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue in Harvard Square; call (617) 661-1515. THIS JUST IN: COLDPLAY. May 13 at Avalon. Tickets are $20 and go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.; call (617) 931-2000.
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