Events on Tuesday, December 23
Tuesday 12/23 @ Hammerstein Ballroom
While we don't know exactly who or how many Clan members will show up for tonight's show (it's always a gamble,...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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,...
Tuesday 12/23 @ Ad Hoc Art
Block parties are a classic Brooklyn fixture, but the Ad Hoc gallery puts a special twist on it: this one is...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/23 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
Rave culture — its primordial Dionysian spirit of oneness decried as mind-numbingly repetitive or drug-induced — has languished outside the art...
Tuesday 12/23 @ Linda Gross Theater
Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new...
Tuesday 12/23 @ Exit Art
Exit Art has invited 50 artists to help lead New Yorkers through these jumbled times, with the aid of its Labyrinth...
Tuesday 12/23 @ Landmark Sunshine
There's a lot of Oscar buzz building over Mickey Rourke's performance in The Wrestler, but does Darren Aronofsky's movie live up...
Tuesday 12/23 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
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Tuesday 12/23 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Tuesday 12/23 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/23 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Tuesday 12/23 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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,...
Tuesday 12/23 @ Various locations
White Plains-based reggae artist Matisyahu is making a pretty good case for Jews and gentiles alike to ditch out on the...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/23 @ Monkey Town
For the fifth year in a row, Monkey Town's appealing to the pervs, and busting the porn out of your lonely...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/23 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/23 @ IFC Center
In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Tuesday 12/23 @ Film Forum
The character and name Yukio Mishima is an evocative one, and about as multifaceted as a Buckyball. It's the glamorous nom...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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....
Tuesday 12/23 @ Barrow Street Theater
In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago....
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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,...
Tuesday 12/23 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Tuesday 12/23 @ Film Forum
Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/23 @ 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...
