Highlights this weekend include the hip hop musical “ Mexodus ,” South African musician Nduduzo Makhathini at Wynton Marsalis’ “House of Swing” and the 50th anniversary of “ The Rocky Horror Picture Show .”

Also, free events include an acrobatic circus on a food truck in Lincoln Center and Downtown magazine’s costume contest for canines at Pier 57.

Theater

“ Mexodus “

Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre — 18 Minetta Lane, Manhattan (Greenwich Village)

Through Nov. 1, Various times.

“ Mexodus ,” a new musical from playwright Brian Quijada and musician Nygel D. Robinson , uses hip-hop and other Black art forms to tell the semi fictional story of a runaway Black slave who crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico. There, a former Mexican soldier of the Mexican American War turns out

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