All events on Saturday March 01

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Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Saturday Mar 1 (2 & 8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
In the Heights
Music: DJ
DFA Dance Party
Saturday Mar 1 (9pm–1am) @ MoMA
Giveaway
If you're as keen as we are on the whole museum-party thing, throw on a rainbow ensemble and head uptown for this month's PopRally. Along... View details »
DFA Dance Party
More Flavor: Party
Women's History Month Carnival
Saturday Mar 1 (6–11pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
Free
Tonight's Brooklyn Museum fête presents a carnaval-themed take on Women's History Month, bringing together hands-on partiers for interactive exhibits that honor both South American arts... View details »
Women's History Month Carnival
Music: Rock/Pop
Genghis Tron
Saturday Mar 1 (9:30pm) @ Market Hotel
Giveaway
Genghis Tron take black metal's chalice-hoisting bombast and grindcore's furiously blasting squall, and trick it all out with synths and danceable electro beats. The group... View details »
Genghis Tron
Music: Rock/Pop
Roky Erickson
Saturday Mar 1 (6pm) @ Webster Hall
Giveaway
As a founding member of '60s psych legends 13th Floor Elevators, singer/guitarist Roky Erickson wasn't shy about experimenting with drugs (he often described the band's... View details »
Roky Erickson
Performing Arts: Dance
AHOY!
Saturday Mar 1 (8pm) @ S.L.A.M. More times »
If pirates being devoured by a giant octopus 20 feet above your head is the sort of thing that floats your boat, AHOY! — the... View details »

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Art
Tara Donovan
Saturday Mar 1 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws and uses the material... View details »
Tara Donovan
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Saturday Mar 1 (2 & 8pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Art
Extreme Embroidery
Saturday Mar 1 (10am–6pm) @ Museum of Art and Design More times »
Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Art and Design once again draws glares from grandmas everywhere. In... View details »
Extreme Embroidery
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Saturday Mar 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Art
Francis Alÿs
Saturday Mar 1 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America More times »
Free
While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year collaboration. The first showcase... View details »
Francis Alÿs
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Saturday Mar 1 (7 & 10pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
Fuerzabruta
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Saturday Mar 1 (2, 5 & 8pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
Jump
Art
Lucian Freud
Saturday Mar 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly paints with a chisel,... View details »
Lucian Freud
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
Saturday Mar 1 @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas of the fashion blogosphere.... View details »
blog.mode
Art
New York States of Mind
Saturday Mar 1 (noon–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art More times »
Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what has made New York... View details »
New York States of Mind
Art
Jaishri Abichandani
Saturday Mar 1 (noon–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art More times »
Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished curator and a practicing... View details »
Jaishri Abichandani
Art
Unmonumental
Saturday Mar 1 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial squad brings together 30... View details »
Unmonumental
Art
Lee Friedlander
Saturday Mar 1 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop window reflections, and odd... View details »
Lee Friedlander
Art
Jasper Johns
Saturday Mar 1 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop artist for his use... View details »
Jasper Johns
Art
Jan de Cock
Saturday Mar 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The Belgian artist brings his... View details »
Jan de Cock
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Play About the Naked Guy
Saturday Mar 1 (7pm) @ Baruch Center for the Performing Arts, Nagelberg Theatre More times »
Fast-paced and exuberantly profane, The Play About the Naked Guy skewers Off-Broadway's longstanding "art vs commerce" debate. Christopher Borg's Eddie saves the Integrity Players theatre... View details »
The Play About the Naked Guy
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Saturday Mar 1 (3 & 8pm) @ Minetta Lane Theatre More times »
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven by rage — and... View details »
Adding Machine
Art
Marvin Franklin
Saturday Mar 1 (noon–5pm) @ New York Transit Museum More times »
Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may not seem like a... View details »
Marvin Franklin
Performing Arts: Theatre
Open House
Saturday Mar 1 (8pm) @ Various locations More times »
Seeing other people's apartments in the city is pleasingly voyeuristic, a sanctioned invasion of space. How clever, then, that the Foundry Theatre stages Open House... View details »
Open House
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rum & Coke
Saturday Mar 1 (2 & 7:30pm) @ June Havoc Theatre More times »
In Carmen Peláez's one-woman show Rum & Coke, the protagonist begins a search for beauty and a forgotten Cuba after finding her great-aunt Amelia Peláez's... View details »
Art
Pop Subversion
Saturday Mar 1 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art More times »
Free
Over 30 artists fill Ad Hoc's walls with twisted fairy-tale imagery, tortured visages, and disemboweled beauties in Pop Subversion. Some confront the frustrations of city... View details »
Pop Subversion
Performing Arts: Theatre
Betrayed
Saturday Mar 1 (3 & 8pm) @ Culture Project More times »
George Packer's complex and devastating new play draws on extensive interviews with Iraqi interpreters for US forces over the past five years. Betrayed follows three... View details »
Betrayed
Performing Arts: Theatre
Grace
Saturday Mar 1 (2 & 8pm) @ Lucille Lortel Theatre More times »
Playwright Mick Gordon calls his plays "theatre essays" because they analyze a specific subject in hand, while portraying the lives of real people. On Religion,... View details »
Grace
Art: Photography
Archive Fever
Saturday Mar 1 @ International Center of Photography More times »
Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution with a creative eye.... View details »
Archive Fever
Art
Cai Guo-Qiang
Saturday Mar 1 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with rays of light, it... View details »
Cai Guo-Qiang
Art
Gustave Courbet
Saturday Mar 1 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making modern paintings before the... View details »
Gustave Courbet
Art
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Saturday Mar 1 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His intellectual classicism didn't find... View details »
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hunting and Gathering
Saturday Mar 1 (2 & 8pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
Hunting and Gathering's simple, sweet appeal lies in its hyper-real portrait of young NYC. Ruth is a thirtysomething who keeps her stuff in storage while... View details »
Hunting and Gathering
Performing Arts: Comedy
The Black Comedy Experiment
Saturday Mar 1 @ The Tank More times »
Giveaway
Formulaic 'hood classics and Def Comedy Jam reruns wither and die in the face of this weekend's lineup of local standup talent. Founded by two... View details »
The Black Comedy Experiment
Art: Photography
Irving Penn
Saturday Mar 1 (10am–6pm) @ The Morgan Library More times »
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is best known for iconic,... View details »
Irving Penn
Performing Arts: Theatre
Happy Endings
Saturday Mar 1 (8pm) @ Access Theater More times »
In a revolt against love-story banality, Blue Coyote Theater Group commissioned nine playwrights to write shorts based on the lives of sex workers. Presented as... View details »
Happy Endings
Art
Be Kind Rewind
Saturday Mar 1 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a video store's entire inventory... View details »
Be Kind Rewind
Performing Arts: Theatre
Thicker Than Water 2008
Saturday Mar 1 (7pm) @ Ensemble Studio Theatre More times »
Showcasing the young and the talented is Ensemble Studio Theatre's Thicker Than Water, a collection of one-acts from the company's ensemble of up-and-coming playwrights. Amazingly,... View details »
Thicker Than Water 2008
Art
Jasper Johns
Saturday Mar 1 @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
Free
While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the last decade. Johns, now... View details »
Jasper Johns
Film: Documentary
The Unforeseen
Saturday Mar 1 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
For a treatise on suburban sprawl and its impact on the environment, The Unforeseen is surprisingly soft-spoken. Maybe that's because this kind of material speaks... View details »
The Unforeseen
Art
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Saturday Mar 1 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120 international female artists working... View details »
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Art
Xu Zhen
Saturday Mar 1 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery More times »
Free
A masterful obfuscator of facts and images, Xu Zhen (in his artworks, at least) has waged armed assaults on China's neighboring countries with remote-controlled toy... View details »
Xu Zhen
Art
Nayland Blake
Saturday Mar 1 (11am–6pm) @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
Free
For many years, Nayland Blake's surrogate was a big white bunny that showed up in his drawings and sculptures. But in his new pieces at... View details »
Nayland Blake
Art: Photography
Robert Mapplethorpe
Saturday Mar 1 (10am–6pm) @ Sean Kelly Gallery More times »
Free
Famous for his sensual photographs of flowers and notorious for his S&M images, Robert Mapplethorpe also took excellent portraits. Sean Kelly Gallery presents nearly 50... View details »
Robert Mapplethorpe
Art: Architecture/Design
Design and the Elastic Mind
Saturday Mar 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation and consumer culture. In... View details »
Design and the Elastic Mind
Performing Arts: Theatre
Life in a Marital Institution
Saturday Mar 1 (8:30pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
In the funniest, most bizarre scene in James Braly's Life in a Marital Institution, Braly's wife Susan drags him to a liberal commune in upstate... View details »
Life in a Marital Institution
Performing Arts: Dance
Center of Sleep
Saturday Mar 1 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Dance Theater Workshop More times »
Giveaway
Blurring the lines between dance and installation art, Yanira Castro + Company's new Center of Sleep is an immersive multimedia experience. Exploring the extreme shifts... View details »
Center of Sleep
Performing Arts: Theatre
Looking Up
Saturday Mar 1 (8pm) @ Theater for the New City More times »
Trapeze-theatre piece Looking Up seamlessly combines two unlikely mediums into a surprisingly nice little love story. Solo trapeze artist Wendy and fast-talking bartender Jack "meet... View details »
Looking Up
Performing Arts: Theatre
The 39 Steps 
Saturday Mar 1 @ American Airlines Theater More times »
Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan), there are sly references... View details »
The 39 Steps 
Film
It's a Free World...
Saturday Mar 1 @ BAM Rose Cinemas More times »
British director Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006) just may be the reigning king of cinematic socialist realism. In It's a Free... View details »
It's a Free World...
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Saturday Mar 1 (3 & 8pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
Ben Katchor's epic indie-rock musical The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower returns, upgrading to the Vineyard after its successful... View details »
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Film
CineKink
Saturday Mar 1 @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
For the fifth year running, CineKink showcases screen-legal perversions — legal, at least, in this city — with nearly a week of naughty clips and... View details »
CineKink
Art
Luc Tuymans
Saturday Mar 1 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a media-saturated era, he's tackled... View details »
Luc Tuymans
Performing Arts: Theatre
Questa
Saturday Mar 1 (8pm) @ Wings Theatre More times »
Victor Bumbalo's new play, Questa, focuses on Paul, a young victim of an attempted gay-bashing, who accidentally kills his attacker in self-defense. Paul's resulting guilt... View details »
Questa
Art
Sterling Ruby
Saturday Mar 1 (11am–6pm) @ The Drawing Center More times »
Free
Soho's venerable Drawing Center hosts a broad range of 2-D works by LA-based sculptor Sterling Ruby in its Drawing Room project space. In addition to... View details »
Sterling Ruby
Art
Matt Leines
Saturday Mar 1 (11am–6pm) @ Clementine Gallery More times »
Free
Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who studied illustration at RISD,... View details »
Matt Leines
Art
Jen DeNike
Saturday Mar 1 (noon–6pm) @ Amy Smith Stewart More times »
Free
At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united by a recurring motif... View details »
Jen DeNike
Art
The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
Saturday Mar 1 (10am–9pm) @ Milk Gallery More times »
Free
Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that reached out to people... View details »
The Vision and Art of  Shinjo Ito
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
Saturday Mar 1 (2 & 8pm) @ The Belasco Theatre More times »
The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel Breaker) who flees his... View details »
Passing Strange
Art: Photography
Carrie Mae Weems
Saturday Mar 1 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery More times »
Free
... rican American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to New York with a mini-retrospective at Chelsea's Jack Shainman Gallery. Weems... View details »
Carrie Mae Weems
Music: Classical
John Zorn
Saturday Mar 1 (8pm) @ St. Ann's Warehouse More times »
Tzadik impresario, East Village-composer kingpin, and MacArthur Grant recipient John Zorn can rustle up a fine racket, but he's still got an... View details »
John Zorn
Performing Arts: Theatre
Paradise Park
Saturday Mar 1 (2 & 8pm) @ Signature Theatre More times »
Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the playwright's third and final... View details »
Paradise Park
Performing Arts: Theatre
Gray Area
Saturday Mar 1 (2 & 8pm) @ Barrow Group Theatre More times »
When a jaded New York City theatre critic berates Civil War re-enactors on the radio, his cruel jests reach the ears of three Southern enthusiasts... View details »
Gray Area
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
Saturday Mar 1 (2 & 8pm) @ Studio 54 More times »
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon... View details »
Sunday in the Park with George
Art
Cao Fei
Saturday Mar 1 (11am–6pm) @ Lombard-Freid Gallery More times »
Free
Chinese artist Cao Fei's RMB City is a virtual metropolis designed for the online world Second Life, and Lombard-Freid Gallery is exhibiting a scale model... View details »
Cao Fei
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Saturday Mar 1 @ Paragraph More times »
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
Paragraph