Events on Sunday, November 2

ING New York City Marathon

Sports

NYC Marathon

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Various locations

Whether you're a running nut or just want to take in the spectacle of more than two-million international participants and eggers-on,... 

Beasts of the East Fest feat. Harvey Milk w/ the Body, Tombs, and Wet Nurse

Music: Experimental

Harvey Milk

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Club Europa

Though Athens, Georgia, is best known for producing kooky college-rock bands (the B-52's, R.E.M., the Elephant 6 bands), Harvey Milk went... 

The Felice Brothers w/ Deer Tick

Music

The Felice Brothers

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Spiegelworld

With their Catskills manners, feel-good refrains, and an occasional harmonica interlude, the Felice Brothers claim they "sound like a barn smells."... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In... 

Blek Le Rat

Art

Blek Le Rat

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Beachwood Drive</em>

Theatre

Beachwood Drive

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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>If You See Something Say Something</em>

Theatre

If You See Something Say Something

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Joe's Pub

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

Jason Douglas Griffin: <em>80's Babies</em>

Art

'80s Babies

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Leo Kesting Gallery

With his graphic style and street-wise influence, Jason Douglas Griffin gives us 80's Babies. These portraits of twentysomethings include paintings on... 

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

Film

Let the Right One In

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Sunday 11/ 2 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker

Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells... 

Cannonball Press presents Prints Gone Wild

Art: Happening

Prints Gone Wild

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Supreme Trading

Cannonball Press, Brooklyn's esteemed purveyors of prints for the people, hosts its third-annual festival of hand-made graphic art. Ink-stained wretches from... 

<em>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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>The Grand Inquisitor</em>

Theatre

The Grand Inquisitor

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone: <em>We Burn, We Shiver</em>

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Sunday 11/ 2 @ SculptureCenter

In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,... 

<em>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Film

Happy-Go-Lucky

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from... 

James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>

Art: Photography

Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Brooklyn Historical Society

From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many... 

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

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

D&iacute;a de los Muertos

Festival: Performing Arts

Día de los Muertos

Sunday 11/ 2 @ St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery

Mano a Mano — a nonprofit group dedicated to Mexican culture — presents four days of spooky celebrations surrounding the Día... 

<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Sunday 11/ 2 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Farragut North</em>

Theatre

Farragut North

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Storm King Art Center

In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere,... 

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

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Sunday 11/ 2 @ American Airlines Theater

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

Chanel Mobile Art

Art

Chanel Mobile Art

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Rumsey Field in Central Park

Visionary architect Zaha Hadid collaborates with Chanel and fashion baron Karl Lagerfeld to land an ephemeral museum in the middle of... 

<em>Pop Surrealism: In the Language of Angels</em>

Art

In the Language of Angels

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Ad Hoc Art

This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly... 

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

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

Elizabeth Peyton: <em>Live Forever</em>

Art

Elizabeth Peyton

Sunday 11/ 2 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits... 

<em>The First Basket</em>

Film: Documentary

The First Basket

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Village East Cinema

For the Jewish kids who came of age in New York's tenements — mostly children of immigrants —  playing sports meant... 

<em>Wig Out!</em>

Theatre

Wig Out!

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Vineyard Theatre

Drag balls aren't all glamour and vogueing, as playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney illustrates in his raucous new show Wig Out! The... 

Sun K. Kwak: <em>Times Composed</em>

Art

Sun K Kwak

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art

Sun K. Kwak, the Brooklyn-based pioneer of masking-tape art, has executed sprawling, fluid murals on the walls of numerous museums and... 

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Theatre

[title of show]

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 11/ 2 @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School

As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big... 

<em>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Various locations

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

<em>Absinthe</em>

Performing Arts

Absinthe

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Spiegelworld

This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... 

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

City Gems

War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Sunday 11/ 2 @ War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Avoid the fumbling tourists clogging the Rockefeller Center and Central Park rinks by hopping the ferry to Staten Island to get... 

<em>Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback</em>

Film: Documentary

Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Anthology Film Archives

With their landmark album Black Monk Time, the Monks created a unique document of the pre-Woodstock '60s, made up of Beatlemaniac... 

<em>The Atheist</em>

Theatre

The Atheist

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Barrow Street Theater

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

<em>NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith</em>

Art

NeoHooDoo

Sunday 11/ 2 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Paragraph

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

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

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Museum of Arts and Design

To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items... 

<em>The Glass Cage</em>

Theatre

The Glass Cage

Sunday 11/ 2 @ The Mint Theater

The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that... 

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

Art

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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>Rosemary's Baby</em> (1968)

Party: Halloween

Rosemary's Baby

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Film Forum

In a bit of inspired programming, Film Forum screens Roman Polanski's dad-might-be-the-devil classic on All Saint's Day. Mia Farrow stars as... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Artists and Fleas

The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... 

<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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...