Events on Sunday, April 20

Jim Norton

Comedy

Jim Norton

Sunday 4/20 @ Carolines

Squishy, pink, bug-eyed white dudes will never stop being funny — and Jim Norton is king of the squishy, pink, bug-eyed... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution

Sunday 4/20 @ 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... 

Eliot Feld's Mandance Project

Dance

Mandance Project

Sunday 4/20 @ The Joyce Theater

Eliot Feld's Mandance Project returns for its fourth Joyce season. The first program includes solos for two lovely ladies: former Martha... 

<em>Untitiled Mars (This Title May Change)</em>

Theatre

Untitiled Mars

Sunday 4/20 @ P.S. 122

Jay Scheib's experimental play, Untitled Mars (This Title May Change), attempts to answer David Bowie's age-old question, "Is there life on... 

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

Art

Jan de Cock

Sunday 4/20 @ 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>Macbeth</em>

Theatre

Macbeth

Sunday 4/20 @ Lyceum Theatre

Director Rupert Goold switches out Scottish castles for Soviet regalia in his modern revamping of Macbeth. Patrick Stewart returns to the... 

New York Comic Con

Conferences

New York Comic Con

Sunday 4/20 @ Jacob K. Javits Center

New York Comic Con features a who's-who lineup of illustrators, writers, filmmakers, artists, and actors. With celebrities like postmodern author Neil... 

<em>The Four of Us</em>

Theatre

The Four of Us

Sunday 4/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions

Sunday 4/20 @ 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... 

Earth Day Expo 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Earth Day Expo 2008

Sunday 4/20 @ Habana Outpost

It's all too easy to get guilted into going green, with freegan friends and Al Gore cheerleaders pushing us into dangerously... 

Women Center Stage Festival

Theatre

Women Center Stage Festival

Sunday 4/20 @ Culture Project

Progressive downtown stalwart Culture Project has announced a promising lineup for its annual Women Center Stage festival. Highlights include a conversation... 

Ralph Bakshi

Art

Ralph Bakshi

Sunday 4/20 @ Animazing Gallery

With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's... 

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Sunday 4/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Design and the Elastic Mind

Sunday 4/20 @ 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... 

<em>God's Ear</em>

Theatre

God's Ear

Sunday 4/20 @ Vineyard Theatre

Playwright Jenny Schwartz made a downtown splash last year with her breakout play God's Ear, and now the Vineyard Theatre revives... 

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

Art

Lee Friedlander

Sunday 4/20 @ 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>Sunday in the Park with George</em>

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Sunday 4/20 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Sunday 4/20 @ 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... 

Georganne Deen: <em>The Love that Has No Opposite</em>

Art

Georganne Deen

Sunday 4/20 @ Smith-Stewart

Los Angeles painter Georganne Deen is an icon among West Coast post-punk aesthetes, and well-known to readers of Juxtapoz magazine as... 

<em>The Visitor</em>

Film

The Visitor

Sunday 4/20 @ Landmark Sunshine

Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 4/20 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Sunday 4/20 @ 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,... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Sunday 4/20 @ Union Square Theatre

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

Cai Guo-Qiang: <em>I Want to Believe</em>

Art

Cai Guo-Qiang

Sunday 4/20 @ Guggenheim Museum

Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with... 

Theatre

Emancipation

Sunday 4/20 @ Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center

The Classical Theatre of Harlem presents Emancipation, a brand-new play by longtime company member Ty Jones. Emancipation tells the story of... 

Gustave Courbet

Art

Gustave Courbet

Sunday 4/20 @ 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... 

Lady Pink and Aiko: <em>Brick Ladies of NYC</em>

Art

Lady Pink and Aiko

Sunday 4/20 @ Ad Hoc Art

Brick Ladies of NYC celebrates Lady Pink and Aiko Nakagawa, longstanding heavy hitters in both the street-art scene and the modern-art... 

15th Annual New York African Film Festival<em> </em>

Film

New York African Film Festival

Sunday 4/20 @ Various locations

Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch.... 

Paul Chan: <em>The 7 Lights</em>

Art

Paul Chan

Sunday 4/20 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 4/20 @ 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... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>Take your time</em>

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Sunday 4/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Sunday 4/20 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

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

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Sunday 4/20 @ 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

Sunday 4/20 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 4/20 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Big Kids Little Kids </em>

Art

Big Kids Little Kids

Sunday 4/20 @ Cinders Gallery

There have been a lot of cheap shots volleyed between the youths of New York and Philadelphia. But regardless of who's... 

<em>Constantine's Sword</em>

Film: Documentary

Constantine's Sword

Sunday 4/20 @ Quad Cinema

Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects.... 

The Kids in the Hall

Comedy

The Kids in the Hall

Sunday 4/20 @ Best Buy Theatre

Not everyone "gets" the Kids in the Hall's humor (it helps if you prefer a good deal of absurdity peppering your... 

<em>&copy; MURAKAMI</em>

Art

© MURAKAMI

Sunday 4/20 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Sunday 4/20 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Sunday 4/20 @ American Folk Art Museum

The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and... 

<em>Another Vermeer</em>

Theatre

Another Vermeer

Sunday 4/20 @ Dorothy Strelsin Theatre

In historical drama Another Vermeer, notorious art forger Han van Meegeren sells his own painting — claiming it a crecently discovered... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Sunday 4/20 @ 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... 

EATfest

Theatre

EATfest

Sunday 4/20 @ Roy Arias Theatre Center

On TV, Dr. Phil commands us to lose weight and our politicians beg us to trust them. Emerging Artist Theatre's EATfest... 

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

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Sunday 4/20 @ Broadhurst Theatre

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