Events on Tuesday, December 16

DIY Law-Breaking & Mischief-Making: A Conversation About Rogue Artists, Pranksters, and Other Trouble-Makers

Special Event

DIY Law-Breaking & Mischief-Making

Tuesday 12/16 @ EFA Project Space

For the rogue in all of us, Nonsense NYC editor Jeff Stark hosts a panel of mischievous and well, kinda illicit... 

Doveman feat. Thomas Bartlett, Sam Amidon, Dougie Bowne, and Peter Ecklund

Music

Doveman

Tuesday 12/16 @ The Stone

For his most recent release, Thomas Bartlett, the mastermind behind Doveman, covered the soundtrack to Footloose, substituting the synth-pop glitz of... 

Ongoing Events

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Theatre

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Tuesday 12/16 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

Peter Callesen: <em>Folded Thoughts</em>

Art

Peter Callesen

Tuesday 12/16 @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery

Using ephemeral, everyday sheets of paper, Danish artist Peter Callesen realizes magical 3-D sculpture installations. His first solo US show, this... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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... 

Calder Jewelry

Art

Calder Jewelry

Tuesday 12/16 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

He may be best known for his innovative mobiles and wire sculptures, but as his current show at the Met attests,... 

Federico Fellini's <em>Amarcord</em> (1973)

Film

Amarcord

Tuesday 12/16 @ Film Forum

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975, Federico Fellini's Amarcord is his most sentimental and unabashedly... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Tuesday 12/16 @ Quad Cinema

In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 12/16 @ Barbès

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

Art

Alex Grey

Tuesday 12/16 @ MicroCoSM Gallery

Alex Grey, best known for his Sacred Mirrors series of metaphysical anatomical maps, is ready to show his (ever-evolving) self-portraits in... 

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

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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>Pal Joey</em>

Theatre

Pal Joey

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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... 

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

Art

Robert Morris

Tuesday 12/16 @ Leo Castelli Gallery

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

<em>Slava's Snowshow</em>

Theatre

Slava's Snowshow

Tuesday 12/16 @ Helen Hayes Theatre

Slava Polunin's style of pantomime, which he calls "Expressive Idiotism," is on display at the revived Slava's Snowshow. When he first... 

<em>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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... 

Mr.

Art

Mr.

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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>Improbable Frequency</em>

Theatre

Improbable Frequency

Tuesday 12/16 @ 59E59 Theaters

Ireland's Rough Magic Theatre Company makes its US debut with Improbable Frequency, an absurd, over-the-top musical comedy about a British spy... 

<em>The Brooklyn Block Party</em>

Art

The Brooklyn Block Party

Tuesday 12/16 @ Ad Hoc Art

Block parties are a classic Brooklyn fixture, but the Ad Hoc gallery puts a special twist on it: this one is... 

Nayland Blake: <em>Behavior</em>

Art

Nayland Blake

Tuesday 12/16 @ Location One

Location One presents a survey of Nayland Blake's provocative mixed-media work, drawing from nearly every facet of Blake's 25-year career. Blake,... 

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

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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... 

Oliver Sudden & Michael Portnoy: <em>The Dudion Levers</em>

Art

The Dudion Levers

Tuesday 12/16 @ Martos Gallery

At the 1998 Grammys, "Director of Behavior" Michael Portnoy achieved as-seen-on-TV notoriety when he spazzed out beside a bewildered Bob Dylan... 

<em>The Firemen's Ball </em>(1967)

Film

The Firemen's Ball

Tuesday 12/16 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Made during the Czech New Wave's abbreviated springtime, The Firemen's Ball was "banned forever" in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion in... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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>The Labyrinth Wall: From Mythology to Reality</em>

Art

The Labyrinth Wall

Tuesday 12/16 @ Exit Art

Exit Art has invited 50 artists to help lead New Yorkers through these jumbled times, with the aid of its Labyrinth... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 12/16 @ Paragraph

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

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: <em>Bamboo Blues</em>

Dance

Pina Bausch

Tuesday 12/16 @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

Tanztheater is one of the most dynamic styles of contemporary dance, incorporating a collage of music, dialogue, and stage design with... 

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

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Tuesday 12/16 @ Various locations

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

Union Square Holiday Market

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Union Square Holiday Market

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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 12/16 @ IFC Center

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

<em>Dance Dance Revolution</em>

Dance

Dance Dance Revolution

Tuesday 12/16 @ Ohio Theatre

Les Freres Corbusier, the cheeky and frenetic dance/theatre ensemble responsible for immersive theater environments like Hell House, is at it again... 

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

Art

Richard Prince

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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... 

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Tuesday 12/16 @ Gladstone Gallery

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

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

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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>Wendy and Lucy</em>

Film

Wendy and Lucy

Tuesday 12/16 @ Film Forum

Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the... 

<em>We Are Wizards</em>

Film: Documentary

We Are Wizards

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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... 

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Cory Arcangel

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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>Becky Shaw </em>

Theatre

Becky Shaw

Tuesday 12/16 @ 2econd Stage Theatre

Becky Shaw mixes screwed-up pseudo-siblings, a lightning-fast marriage, and an awkward blind date into one fantastic screwball romance of a play.... 

Trinity Church presents Handel's <em>Messiah</em>

Music: Classical

Handel's Messiah

Tuesday 12/16 @ Trinity Church

Savor the chance to hear Handel's Messiah on the site where the epic oratorio received its New World premiere. Trinity Church... 

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

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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>Tristan und Isolde</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Tristan und Isolde

Tuesday 12/16 @ Metropolitan Opera House

Daniel Barenboim's interpretation of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (itself an interpretation of Shakespeare's play) opens this week at the Metropolitan... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Tuesday 12/16 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Andreas Gursky

Art: Photography

Andreas Gursky

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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 12/16 @ 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... 

Neil Young

Music

Neil Young

Tuesday 12/16 @ Madison Square Garden

If there were a Geiger counter that detected, instead of toxic radiation, the presence of a heart in music listeners, it... 

Cindy Sherman

Art: Photography

Cindy Sherman

Tuesday 12/16 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Tuesday 12/16 @ Linda Gross Theater

Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new...