Events on Thursday, November 27

Thanksgiving Volunteering

Special Event: Volunteer

Thanksgiving Volunteering

Thursday 11/27 @ Various locations

Many have likely cut back their holiday travel plans, now that the economy is going down the tubes. A flight across... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Beyond a Memorable Fancy: Print, Perception, and the Artist's Intervention</em>

Art

Beyond a Memorable Fancy

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>A Man for All Seasons</em>

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Thursday 11/27 @ American Airlines Theater

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

Mart&iacute;n Ram&iacute;rez

Art

Martín Ramírez

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

Sean Fader

Art

Sean Fader

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>Speed-the-Plow</em>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Thursday 11/27 @ 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

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>We Are Wizards</em>

Film: Documentary

We Are Wizards

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

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

Art

Ann Lislegaard

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

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

Art

Keith Haring

Thursday 11/27 @ Deitch Studios

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

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

Art

Cory Arcangel

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

<em>Labyrinth</em> (1986)

Film

Labyrinth

Thursday 11/27 @ Landmark Sunshine

For those with a weakness for David Bowie in Spandex and a curiosity about Jennifer Connelly pre-Requiem for a Dream, the... 

Youssou N'Dour's Great African Ball

Music: Global

Youssou N'Dour

Thursday 11/27 @ Best Buy Theatre

Grammy-award winner and Mbalax proponent Youssou N'Dour graces NYC's Nokia Theatre at Times Square with his careening, caressing tenor. The Senegalese... 

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

Art

Elizabeth Peyton

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Thursday 11/27 @ 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 Atheist</em>

Theatre

The Atheist

Thursday 11/27 @ Barrow Street Theater

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

Andreas Gursky

Art: Photography

Andreas Gursky

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Thursday 11/27 @ Various locations

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

<em>Farragut North</em>

Theatre

Farragut North

Thursday 11/27 @ 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

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

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Theatre

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Thursday 11/27 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

Zhang Xiaogang: <em>Revision</em>

Art

Zhang Xiaogang

Thursday 11/27 @ PaceWildenstein

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

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

Theatre

If You See Something Say Something

Thursday 11/27 @ Joe's Pub

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

Kate Gilmore

Art

Kate Gilmore

Thursday 11/27 @ 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.... 

Mr.

Art

Mr.

Thursday 11/27 @ 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,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Thursday 11/27 @ Paragraph

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

<em>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

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

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Thursday 11/27 @ SculptureCenter

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

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

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

Art

Robert Morris

Thursday 11/27 @ Leo Castelli Gallery

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

Carole Lombard Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Carole Lombard Festival

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

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

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>Perverted by Theater</em>

Art

Perverted by Theater

Thursday 11/27 @ Apex Art

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

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Thursday 11/27 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>Taking Over</em>

Theatre

Taking Over

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

William Eggleston

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

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

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Thursday 11/27 @ 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

Thursday 11/27 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Cindy Sherman

Art: Photography

Cindy Sherman

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

<em>JCVD</em>

Film

JCVD

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten</em>

Film: Documentary

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Thursday 11/27 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Veteran rockumentary-maker Julien Temple began gathering footage of Joe Strummer as early as 1976, when the self-proclaimed "mouthy little git" had... 

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Thursday 11/27 @ Gladstone Gallery

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

<em>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

Deprogram

Music: DJ

Deprogram

Thursday 11/27 @ Love

Chris Alker and Sushi Steve, responsible for the Lower East Side's weekly Stereo-Type parties, DJ and host this new monthly jam... 

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

Art

NeoHooDoo

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914&ndash;1939</em>

Art

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>The Grand Inquisitor</em>

Theatre

The Grand Inquisitor

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

Union Square Holiday Market

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Union Square Holiday Market

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>Happy-Go-Lucky</em>

Film

Happy-Go-Lucky

Thursday 11/27 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

<em>Pal Joey</em>

Theatre

Pal Joey

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

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

Art

Pipilotti Rist

Thursday 11/27 @ 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>A Christmas Tale</em>

Film

A Christmas Tale

Thursday 11/27 @ IFC Center

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

<em>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

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

Art

Richard Prince

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

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

Film

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Thursday 11/27 @ 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... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Thursday 11/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...