Events on Saturday, November 22
Saturday 11/22 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
24 Hour Party People, Michael Winterbottom's fantastic and surreal retelling of Factory Records' years of operation, breaks down the fourth wall...
Turkey Day with Pilgrim William
Saturday 11/22 @ Joe's Pub
Nothing says "Thanksgiving" like a striptease. Right? Pilgrim William (aka Bradford Scobie) hosts a night of holiday-themed burlesque, music, and comedy,...
Saturday 11/22 @ 92YTribeca
Reclaiming Americana for folks who hail from "real America," Charlottesville, Virginia collective the Hackensaw Boys reinvent bluegrass, infusing traditional Appalachia tropes...
Saturday 11/22 @ Sullivan Room
Chicago's Curtis Alan Jones, aka Green Velvet, hits Sullivan Room for a night full of jacking, electric house. Since his work...
Ongoing Events
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
Democratic Camera — a long-overdue retrospective of work by William Eggleston — celebrates the career of an artist who's widely recognized...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ Ad Hoc Art
This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly...
Saturday 11/22 @ PaceWildenstein
Zhang Xiaogang — whose acclaimed Bloodline portraits distilled the sobering heritage of China's Cultural Revolution — plumbs his childhood memories of...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ Joyce Soho
Greek-born choreographer Andonis Foniadakis' piece for Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève was one of the most exhilarating works seen on...
Saturday 11/22 @ Smith-Stewart
Whether they appear foolhardy or feminist, Kate Gilmore's masochistic video performances transfix with the same fear/fascination ratio as a ten-car pileup....
Saturday 11/22 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Saturday 11/22 @ Film Forum
Film Forum pays tribute to 1930's funny lady Carole Lombard, underrated and often eclipsed by her on-screen male co-stars and off-screen...
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Saturday 11/22 @ 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 —...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...
Saturday 11/22 @ Landmark Sunshine
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
Saturday 11/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Video artist Pipilotti Rist exhibits a site-specific, immersive piece commissioned by MoMA across the museum's second-floor atrium. Attendees can walk around...
Saturday 11/22 @ IFC Center
In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the...
Saturday 11/22 @ Black Betty
During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of...
Saturday 11/22 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Hector Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust (The Damnation of Faust) is usually performed in concert halls, where one's imagination is free...
Saturday 11/22 @ Leo Castelli Gallery
Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity,...
Saturday 11/22 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Manny Farber was an inimitable cultural critic. Even when the termite-art advocate was defecating on your favorite film, what kept you...
Saturday 11/22 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 11/22 @ Museum of the City of New York
The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's...
Saturday 11/22 @ Deitch Studios
Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace...
Saturday 11/22 @ Phoenix Gallery
In a thoughtful and seductive suite of mixed-media paintings, New York artist Christa Toole ponders complex theories from the science of...
Saturday 11/22 @ Silver Shed
Nestled on a roof in east Chelsea, artist-run contemporary art space the Silver Shed has only been open for a few...
Saturday 11/22 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...
Saturday 11/22 @ Cinema Village
Even if you are wholly untouched by any curiosity about wizards, you'd have to have been lurking under a rock (and...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ Metro Pictures
After a four-year hiatus, Cindy Sherman returns strong at Metro Pictures. Her striking self-portraits continue in the clever, satirical tradition of...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ Union Square
Holiday shopping is often the stuff of anxiety attacks, but it doesn't have to be bankruptcy-inducing or mind-numbing, thanks to the...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ Barrow Street Theater
In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago....
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Saturday 11/22 @ Apex Art
In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David...
Saturday 11/22 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Saturday 11/22 @ Skirball Center NYU
Things literally are not what they seem in Aurélia's Oratorio. Clothes come to life, kites fly girls, and limbs emerge from...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ BAM
Thanks to HD transmissions, opera-goers no longer have take out mortgages or travel far to attend the Met. The first Live...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ EFA Project Space
The Elizabeth Foundation offers up a group show of cutting-edge printmakers alongside a host of ideas that spring from the ancient...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
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Saturday 11/22 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ 3rd Ward
Thespian and award-winning photographer Sean Fader reveals his unsettling self portraits at 3rd Ward's third solo art show. In the tradition...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ Anthology Film Archives
The counterculture reports that rang from Bonnie and Clyde's barrels appealed to disillusioned Americans during both the Great Depression and Vietnam-dominated...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ 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...
Saturday 11/22 @ Team Gallery
Cory Arcangel rose to art-world fame with his hall-of-mirrors work, which cleverly (and cheekily) reappropriates media to highlight technology's protean relationship...
If You See Something Say Something
Saturday 11/22 @ Joe's Pub
We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded...
Saturday 11/22 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
