Events on Sunday, November 23

<em>Reggae in a Babylon</em> (2005)

Film: Documentary

Reggae in a Babylon

Sunday 11/23 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

As part of its Punk 'n' Pie series, BAMcinématek presents a rare screening of German director Wolfgang Büld's 1978 film Reggae... 

Fondue Takedown

Food/Wine

Fondue Takedown

Sunday 11/23 @ Union Pool

The organizers of the famed Chili Takedown are, erm, taking on a new dish this evening. Perhaps nostalgic for the dinner-party... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

Ray Mortenson: <em>Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx</em>

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>Pal Joey</em>

Theatre

Pal Joey

Sunday 11/23 @ Studio 54

Joey Evans is a scheming-but-sweet performer who comes to Chicago with dreams of starting his own nightclub in Roundabout's revival of... 

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

Theatre

If You See Something Say Something

Sunday 11/23 @ Joe's Pub

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

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 11/23 @ Artists and Fleas

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

<em>We Are Wizards</em>

Film: Documentary

We Are Wizards

Sunday 11/23 @ Cinema Village

Even if you are wholly untouched by any curiosity about wizards, you'd have to have been lurking under a rock (and... 

<em>The Atheist</em>

Theatre

The Atheist

Sunday 11/23 @ Barrow Street Theater

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

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Sunday 11/23 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

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

<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

<em>Farragut North</em>

Theatre

Farragut North

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

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

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>The Twentyfirst</em>

Art

The Twentyfirst

Sunday 11/23 @ Silver Shed

Nestled on a roof in east Chelsea, artist-run contemporary art space the Silver Shed has only been open for a few... 

Keith Haring: <em>The Ten Commandments</em>

Art

Keith Haring

Sunday 11/23 @ Deitch Studios

Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace... 

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

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>Pop Surrealism: In the Language of Angels</em>

Art

In the Language of Angels

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Sunday 11/23 @ Various locations

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

<em>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

Kate Gilmore

Art

Kate Gilmore

Sunday 11/23 @ 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.... 

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

Film

Let the Right One In

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>The Grand Inquisitor</em>

Theatre

The Grand Inquisitor

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

Manny Farber, 1917-2008

Film

Manny Farber

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

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Theatre

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Sunday 11/23 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Sunday 11/23 @ Wollman Rink

While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 11/23 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

Sean Fader

Art

Sean Fader

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

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 11/23 @ 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>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

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

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

Dance

The Rite of Spring

Sunday 11/23 @ Joyce Soho

Greek-born choreographer Andonis Foniadakis' piece for Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève was one of the most exhilarating works seen on... 

William Eggleston: <em>Democratic Camera: Photographs and Video, 1961-2008</em>

Art: Photography

William Eggleston

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

Carole Lombard Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Carole Lombard Festival

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Sunday 11/23 @ American Airlines Theater

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

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Sunday 11/23 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

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

Art

Elizabeth Peyton

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

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

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Sunday 11/23 @ SculptureCenter

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

<em>JCVD</em>

Film

JCVD

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

Pipilotti Rist: <em>Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)</em>

Art

Pipilotti Rist

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

<em>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>Taking Over</em>

Theatre

Taking Over

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914&ndash;1939</em>

Art

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939

Sunday 11/23 @ 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 —... 

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

City Gems

War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Sunday 11/23 @ 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>Happy-Go-Lucky</em>

Film

Happy-Go-Lucky

Sunday 11/23 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 11/23 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

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

Art

NeoHooDoo

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

<em>A Christmas Tale</em>

Film

A Christmas Tale

Sunday 11/23 @ IFC Center

In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the... 

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

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

Union Square Holiday Market

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Union Square Holiday Market

Sunday 11/23 @ 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... 

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

Film

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Sunday 11/23 @ 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...