Events on Tuesday, November 25

Dragonforce w/ Turisas and Powerglove

Music

Dragonforce

Tuesday 11/25 @ Roseland Ballroom

Listening to the relentless riffage and inhuman guitar solos in Dragonforce's seven-plus-minute tracks is a lot like being stuck in a... 

Dexter Sinister: <em>True Mirror Microfiche</em>

Books: Reading

Dexter Sinister: True Mirror Microfiche

Tuesday 11/25 @ The Kitchen

The mysterious pamphleteers known as Dexter Sinister draw back the veil for an evening of readings and performances based around microfiche... 

Yip Yip w/ Mixel Pixel and Ninjasonik

Music: Electronic

Yip Yip

Tuesday 11/25 @ Cake Shop

In a city that owes everything to a talking mouse, Yip Yip just might be the weirdest thing to come out... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Pal Joey</em>

Theatre

Pal Joey

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Tuesday 11/25 @ Gladstone Gallery

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

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>A Man for All Seasons</em>

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Tuesday 11/25 @ American Airlines Theater

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

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

Art

Richard Prince

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

Carole Lombard Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Carole Lombard Festival

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Tuesday 11/25 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>Perverted by Theater</em>

Art

Perverted by Theater

Tuesday 11/25 @ Apex Art

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

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

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 11/25 @ Barbès

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

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

Art

Ann Lislegaard

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>JCVD</em>

Film

JCVD

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>Farragut North</em>

Theatre

Farragut North

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

Cory Arcangel: <em>Adult Contemporary</em>

Art

Cory Arcangel

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 11/25 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Tuesday 11/25 @ Wollman Rink

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

<em>Taking Over</em>

Theatre

Taking Over

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>Happy-Go-Lucky</em>

Film

Happy-Go-Lucky

Tuesday 11/25 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

Union Square Holiday Market

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Union Square Holiday Market

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>A Christmas Tale</em>

Film

A Christmas Tale

Tuesday 11/25 @ IFC Center

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

<em>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

Zhang Xiaogang: <em>Revision</em>

Art

Zhang Xiaogang

Tuesday 11/25 @ PaceWildenstein

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

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

Film

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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,... 

Mr.

Art

Mr.

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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>If You See Something Say Something</em>

Theatre

If You See Something Say Something

Tuesday 11/25 @ Joe's Pub

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

Mart&iacute;n Ram&iacute;rez

Art

Martín Ramírez

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>We Are Wizards</em>

Film: Documentary

We Are Wizards

Tuesday 11/25 @ Cinema Village

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

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

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>The Atheist</em>

Theatre

The Atheist

Tuesday 11/25 @ Barrow Street Theater

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

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

Art

Robert Morris

Tuesday 11/25 @ Leo Castelli Gallery

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

<em>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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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Theatre

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Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914&ndash;1939</em>

Art

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Tuesday 11/25 @ Various locations

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

Andreas Gursky

Art: Photography

Andreas Gursky

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>La Damnation de Faust</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Damnation de Faust

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

Cindy Sherman

Art: Photography

Cindy Sherman

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

Manny Farber, 1917-2008

Film

Manny Farber

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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...