Events on Thursday, March 6

The Wurst Monthly feat. diskJokke

Music: DJ

diskJokke

Thursday 3/ 6 @ APT

Though perhaps not as well known as his countrymen Lindström and Prins Thomas, Norway's diskJokke (born Joachim Dyrdahl) is an equally... 

I Like Attention

Comedy

I Like Attention

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Sound Fix

I Like Attention is Williamsburg's alt-comedy fourth-grade talent show, with host Max Silvestri (Gabe & Max's Internet Thing) hand-picking the finest... 

<em>Tales of Times Square</em>

Film: Documentary

Tales of Times Square

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Museum of Sex

In his book Tales of Times Square, former Screw editor Josh Alan Friedman spins gritty, grimy gold from the quarter peeps... 

Third Annual Asian-American/African-American Poetry Reading

Books: Poetry

Third Annual Asian American/African American Poetry Reading

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Asian American Writers' Workshop

Maybe we're not far enough removed from slam poetry to really appreciate it again. But the readers at the third annual... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Fight Girl Battle World</em>

Theatre

Fight Girl Battle World

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Center Stage

Now that graphic novels and sci-fi movies possess some geek-chic caché, Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company has translated that aesthetic to the... 

Sterling Ruby: <em>CHRON</em>

Art

Sterling Ruby

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The Drawing Center

Soho's venerable Drawing Center hosts a broad range of 2-D works by LA-based sculptor Sterling Ruby in its Drawing Room project... 

Theatre

Romeo and Juliet

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row

In this updated, witty interpretation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, familiar tropes clash with contemporary archetypes. The four-actor cast stays true... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Museum of Art and Design

Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from... 

Jen DeNike: <em>Thirteen</em>

Art

Jen DeNike

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Smith-Stewart

At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united... 

Lee Friedlander: <em>A Ramble in Olmsted Parks</em>

Art

Lee Friedlander

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Matt Leines: <em>The Righteous Age</em>

Art

Matt Leines

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Clementine Gallery

Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Grace</em>

Theatre

Grace

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

Playwright Mick Gordon calls his plays "theatre essays" because they analyze a specific subject in hand, while portraying the lives of... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Hispanic Society of America

While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year... 

<em>The Unforeseen</em>

Film: Documentary

The Unforeseen

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Angelika Film Center

For a treatise on suburban sprawl and its impact on the environment, The Unforeseen is surprisingly soft-spoken. Maybe that's because this... 

<em>Gray Area</em>

Theatre

Gray Area

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Barrow Group Theatre

When a jaded New York City theatre critic berates Civil War re-enactors on the radio, his cruel jests reach the ears... 

Carrie Mae Weems: <em>A Survey</em>

Art: Photography

Carrie Mae Weems

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Jack Shainman Gallery

  African American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to New York with a mini-retrospective at Chelsea's... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Union Square Theatre

After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... 

Jaishri Abichandani: <I>Reconciliations</I>

Art

Jaishri Abichandani

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Queens Museum of Art

Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished... 

<em>WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution</em>

Art

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution

Thursday 3/ 6 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120... 

Gustave Courbet

Art

Gustave Courbet

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... 

<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Thursday 3/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art,... 

<I>blog.mode: addressing fashion</I>

Special Event

blog.mode

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas... 

<em>Questa</em>

Theatre

Questa

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Wings Theatre

Victor Bumbalo's new play, Questa, focuses on Paul, a young victim of an attempted gay-bashing, who accidentally kills his attacker in... 

Luc Tuymans: <em>Forever</em>

Art

Luc Tuymans

Thursday 3/ 6 @ David Zwirner

Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a... 

<em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Broadhurst Theatre

Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The... 

Tim Minchin

Comedy

Tim Minchin

Thursday 3/ 6 @ New World Stages

Australian comic Tim Minchin — dubbed Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — gives Off-Broadway audiences a sampling of his... 

<em>The Art of Marvin Franklin</em>

Art

Marvin Franklin

Thursday 3/ 6 @ New York Transit Museum

Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may... 

Michel Gondry: <em>Be Kind Rewind</em>

Art

Be Kind Rewind

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Deitch Projects

In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Robert Mapplethorpe: <em>Certain People</em>

Art: Photography

Robert Mapplethorpe

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Sean Kelly Gallery

Famous for his sensual photographs of flowers and notorious for his S&M images, Robert Mapplethorpe also took excellent portraits. Sean Kelly... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Drawings 1997-2007</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Matthew Marks Gallery

While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the... 

<em>Betrayed</em>

Theatre

Betrayed

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Culture Project

George Packer's complex and devastating new play draws on extensive interviews with Iraqi interpreters for US forces over the past five... 

<em>Design and the Elastic Mind</em>

Art

Design and the Elastic Mind

Thursday 3/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation... 

Whitney Biennial 2008

Art

Whitney Biennial

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

For its 74th installment, the Whitney Biennial expands its exhibition space and (lightly) trims its list of contributors. Through March, the... 

<em>Paradise Park</em>

Theatre

Paradise Park

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Signature Theatre

Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the... 

<em>The Vision and Art of  Shinjo Ito</em>

Art

The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Milk Studios

Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that... 

<em>The Four of Us</em>

Theatre

The Four of Us

Thursday 3/ 6 @ New York City Center

Itamar Moses is a young, successful playwright who happens to be best friends with a young, incredibly successful novelist named Jonathan... 

<I>New York States of Mind</I>

Art

New York States of Mind

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Queens Museum of Art

Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what... 

<I>Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century</I>

Art

Unmonumental

Thursday 3/ 6 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop... 

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The Belasco Theatre

The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel... 

Lucian Freud: <em>The Painter's Etchings</em>

Art

Lucian Freud

Thursday 3/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly... 

<em>It's a Free World... </em>

Film

It's a Free World...

Thursday 3/ 6 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

British director Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006) just may be the reigning king of cinematic socialist realism.... 

The Apple Sisters

Comedy

The Apple Sisters

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The People's Improv Theater

1940s Americana isn't typical sketch-comedy fodder, but that doesn't deter the Apple Sisters, who lovingly recreate the radio era onstage with... 

Xu Zhen:<em> Just Did It </em>

Art

Xu Zhen

Thursday 3/ 6 @ James Cohan Gallery

A masterful obfuscator of facts and images, Xu Zhen (in his artworks, at least) has waged armed assaults on China's neighboring... 

<em>The 39 Steps</em>

Theatre

The 39 Steps 

Thursday 3/ 6 @ American Airlines Theater

Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan),... 

<em>Sunday in the Park with George</em>

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Studio 54

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat... 

Cao Fei: <em>RMB City</em>

Art

Cao Fei

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Lombard-Freid Gallery

Chinese artist Cao Fei's RMB City is a virtual metropolis designed for the online world Second Life, and Lombard-Freid Gallery is... 

Housing Works Thrift Shops: Annual Spring Preview Sales

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Housing Works Thrift Sales

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Various locations

Shopping for spring-fashion essentials at Manhattan prices ain't easy, but Housing Works' city-wide shopping extravaganza eases the pain with discounts on... 

Irving Penn: <em>Close Encounters: Portraits of Artists and Writers</em>

Art: Photography

Irving Penn

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The Morgan Library

Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is... 

<em>Life in a Marital Institution</em>

Theatre

Life in a Marital Institution

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 59E59 Theaters

In the funniest, most bizarre scene in James Braly's Life in a Marital Institution, Braly's wife Susan drags him to a... 

Nayland Blake: <em>What the Whiskey Said, What the Sun Is Saying </em>

Art

Nayland Blake

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Matthew Marks Gallery

For many years, Nayland Blake's surrogate was a big white bunny that showed up in his drawings and sculptures. But in... 

<em>Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions</em>

Art

Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His... 

<em>Open House</em>

Theatre

Open House

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Various locations

Seeing other people's apartments in the city is pleasingly voyeuristic, a sanctioned invasion of space. How clever, then, that the Foundry... 

Jan de Cock: <em>Denkmal 11</em>

Art

Jan de Cock

Thursday 3/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The... 

<em>Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art </em>

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Thursday 3/ 6 @ International Center of Photography

Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution...