Events on Tuesday, November 11

Tom Stoppard on Chekhov

Special Event

Tom Stoppard on Chekhov

Tuesday 11/11 @ BAM Harvey Theater

One of Time's 100 Most Influential People in 2008, Sir Tom Stoppard builds up the hype for a banner '09 with... 

Benefit for Issue Project Room feat. Moby, Alex Waterman, and MC Tony Conrad

Music: Experimental

Benefit for Issue Project Room feat. Moby

Tuesday 11/11 @ Santos Party House

Brooklyn's Issue Project Room has been granting artists the freedom to experiment and innovate through a variety of media since 2003.... 

Ongoing Events

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 11/11 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

<em>Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now</em>

Art

Signs of Change

Tuesday 11/11 @ Exit Art

The Signs of Change exhibit at Exit Art features an array of mass-mobilizing posters, photographs, movies, and recordings that chronicle social-justice... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Tuesday 11/11 @ Various locations

Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... 

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 11/11 @ The People's Improv Theater

Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,... 

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Tuesday 11/11 @ Gladstone Gallery

In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... 

<em>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Tuesday 11/11 @ Laura Pels Theatre

Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Tuesday 11/11 @ Various locations

The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... 

<em>Taking Over</em>

Theatre

Taking Over

Tuesday 11/11 @ The Public Theater

Danny Hoch's one-man extravaganza Taking Over gives a good name to theatre with a social conscious, using scathing humor to make... 

<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Tuesday 11/11 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch

For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women... 

<em>Perverted by Theater</em>

Art

Perverted by Theater

Tuesday 11/11 @ Apex Art

In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David... 

Every Minute, Four Ideas: The Films of Arnaud Desplechin

Festival: Performing Arts

The Films of Arnaud Desplechin

Tuesday 11/11 @ IFC Center

Arnaud Desplechin may be one of the cinema's most important living directors (he's certainly the best ensemble film director working today),... 

<em>The Atheist</em>

Theatre

The Atheist

Tuesday 11/11 @ Barrow Street Theater

In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago.... 

Zhang Xiaogang: <em>Revision</em>

Art

Zhang Xiaogang

Tuesday 11/11 @ PaceWildenstein

Zhang Xiaogang — whose acclaimed Bloodline portraits distilled the sobering heritage of China's Cultural Revolution — plumbs his childhood memories of... 

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Theatre

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Tuesday 11/11 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

<em>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Tuesday 11/11 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped... 

<em>The Grand Inquisitor</em>

Theatre

The Grand Inquisitor

Tuesday 11/11 @ New York Theatre Workshop

Famed British director Peter Brook helms this well-staged parable from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. A co-presentation by New York Theatre Workshop... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Tuesday 11/11 @ Quad Cinema

In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... 

<em>Stages</em>

Film

Stages

Tuesday 11/11 @ Film Forum

Somber and episodic, the Dutch film Stages pays such serious homage to Bergman that it very well could have taken "Scenes... 

<em>JCVD</em>

Film

JCVD

Tuesday 11/11 @ Angelika Film Center

Some action stars age gracefully, (see Sean Connery) some not so gracefully (see Chuck Norris), and still others go into politics... 

<em>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Tuesday 11/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 11/11 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>Farragut North</em>

Theatre

Farragut North

Tuesday 11/11 @ Linda Gross Theater

Playwright Beau Willimon served on the staff of many political campaigns — including Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid — and his knowledge gives us... 

Robert Morris: <em>Deflationary Objects</em>

Art

Robert Morris

Tuesday 11/11 @ Leo Castelli Gallery

Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity,... 

<em>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Tuesday 11/11 @ Soho Rep

It's taken 13 years for Sarah Kane's extraordinarily controversial play Blasted to make it to New York, but Soho Rep's production... 

Blek Le Rat

Art

Blek Le Rat

Tuesday 11/11 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints.... 

<em>Beachwood Drive</em>

Theatre

Beachwood Drive

Tuesday 11/11 @ June Havoc Theatre

Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a... 

<em>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Tuesday 11/11 @ Angelika Film Center

This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem... 

Mart&iacute;n Ram&iacute;rez

Art

Martín Ramírez

Tuesday 11/11 @ Ricco Maresca Gallery

In 1931, Fresno police arrested a Mexican immigrant named Martín Ramírez for vagrancy: he was out of work in the Depression-era... 

<em>Repo! The Genetic Opera</em>

Film

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Tuesday 11/11 @ Angelika Film Center

Not even Paris Hilton can detract from the unlikely appeal of this science-fiction goth-rock opera.  It's the year 2056, and a... 

<em>A Man for All Seasons</em>

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Tuesday 11/11 @ American Airlines Theater

A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims... 

Ann Lislegaard: <em>Crystal World</em> & <em>The Left Hand of Darkness</em>

Art

Ann Lislegaard

Tuesday 11/11 @ Murray Guy

For parts two and three of her highly referential 3D video trilogy, artist Ann Lislegaard filters her consuming mind-and-matter explorations about... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 11/11 @ Richard Rodgers Theatre

There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient... 

Mr.

Art

Mr.

Tuesday 11/11 @ Lehmann Maupin

In 2005, the painter known as Mr. first creeped out New York with his disproportionate bobble-head sculptures of wide-eyed, Japanese youths,... 

<em>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Tuesday 11/11 @ Walter Kerr Theatre

Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard play tortured artists in love in Christopher Hampton's pared-down translation of Chekhov's classic. Thomas' fully... 

<em>Happy-Go-Lucky</em>

Film

Happy-Go-Lucky

Tuesday 11/11 @ Landmark Sunshine

British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 11/11 @ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater... 

<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Tuesday 11/11 @ Landmark Sunshine

Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John... 

Andreas Gursky

Art: Photography

Andreas Gursky

Tuesday 11/11 @ Matthew Marks Gallery

Rave culture — its primordial Dionysian spirit of oneness decried as mind-numbingly repetitive or drug-induced — has languished outside the art... 

<em>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Tuesday 11/11 @ New York City Center

Though it probably wouldn't hurt, you don't need to be much of a baseball fan or know much about the sport's... 

<em>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Tuesday 11/11 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

If you're lucky enough to score a coveted ticket to Black Watch's limited run, you're in for one helluva show. Based... 

Richard Prince: <em>Canal Zone</em>

Art

Richard Prince

Tuesday 11/11 @ Gagosian Gallery

Part post-apocalyptic vision, part biographical flashback, Richard Prince's Canal Zone is set in primal overdrive. Filled with an abundance of virile... 

Inbal Pinto Dance Company: <em>Shaker</em>

Dance

Inbal Pinto Dance Company

Tuesday 11/11 @ The Joyce Theater

One of the most imaginative contemporary dance troupes currently touring, the Tel Aviv-based Inbal Pinto Dance Company takes up residence at... 

<em>Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914&ndash;1939</em>

Art

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939

Tuesday 11/11 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived —... 

<em>Speed-the-Plow</em>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Tuesday 11/11 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is... 

<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Tuesday 11/11 @ Angelika Film Center

English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes... 

Christa Toole: <em>Level Zero</em>

Art

Christa Toole

Tuesday 11/11 @ Phoenix Gallery

In a thoughtful and seductive suite of mixed-media paintings, New York artist Christa Toole ponders complex theories from the science of... 

<em>If You See Something Say Something</em>

Theatre

If You See Something Say Something

Tuesday 11/11 @ Joe's Pub

We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded...