Events on Saturday, April 26

Global Underground: International Hip-Hop Film and Music Mini-Fest

Festival: Performing Arts

Global Underground

Saturday 4/26 @ University Settlement

Ever since its beginnings in the South Bronx, hip-hop has been a till-the-breaka-dawn kind of thing — so it's fitting that... 

Meat Beat Manifesto w/ Raz Mesinai's Badawi

Music

Meat Beat Manifesto

Saturday 4/26 @ Highline Ballroom

Since forming in Swindon in 1987, MBM have toyed with breaks, techno, industrial, dub, and everything in between, carving out a... 

Less feat. Stefny

Music: DJ

Stefny

Saturday 4/26 @ The Annex

After ten years as a DJ, Stefny has steadily, humbly begun working her way into the production world. Her Radiolaria EP... 

<em>Anatomy of a Murder </em>(1959)

Film

Anatomy of a Murder

Saturday 4/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Otto Preminger's early knack for noir resurfaces in his controversial, entertaining courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Murder. In a stirring story... 

Dances of Vice: A Tribute to <em>Die Dreigroschenoper</em>

Party

Dances of Vice

Saturday 4/26 @ Montauk Club

Located not far from Park Slope's sleepy preschool nexus, the gothic, stained-glass Montauk Club feels like a time machine built for... 

Five Eyes Festival feat. Sigmund Droid w/ Boy/Crisis, Gunfight!, and DJ Steamclam

Special Event: Benefit

Sigmund Droid w/ Boy/Crisis

Saturday 4/26 @ The Steampoint

Every once in a while, conscience creeps into your calendar — happily, at tonight's benefit fest for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation,... 

Ford & Fitzroy

Music

Ford & Fitzroy

Saturday 4/26 @ Trash Bar

Ford & Fitzroy are a seriously stand-out local band who're still paying dues. (That is to say, these guys wail and... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Stuff and Dough</em>

Film

Stuff and Dough

Saturday 4/26 @ Film Forum

Suffused in natural light and crackling with background noise, Romania's latest film import brims with the clatter of everyday life —... 

Tseng Kwong Chi: <em>Self Portraits 1979-1989</em>

Art

Tseng Kwong Chi

Saturday 4/26 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery

Without newlyweds or a bus-load of septuagenarians, photographs of "picture-perfect" places like the Taj Mahal, Niagara Falls, and Cinderella's Castle are... 

Asian Cultural Festival

Performing Arts

Asian Cultural Festival

Saturday 4/26 @ Queens Theatre in the Park

Hosted by the most diverse of the five boroughs and now in its third year, the week-long Asian Cultural Festival showcases... 

Theatre

Fire Island

Saturday 4/26 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center

Sitting on floor cushions and deck chairs, the audience provides the stage here, playing an integral role in recreating the relaxed,... 

<em>The New Normal </em>

Art

The New Normal

Saturday 4/26 @ Artists Space

Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public... 

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

Art

Lee Friedlander

Saturday 4/26 @ 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>God's Ear</em>

Theatre

God's Ear

Saturday 4/26 @ Vineyard Theatre

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

Tamara Kostianovsky: <em>The Proper Animal, Part II</em>

Art

Tamara Kostianovsky

Saturday 4/26 @ Black & White Gallery

Tamara Kostianovsky's debut solo exhibition, Actus Reus, is the second part of a three-part series, titled The Proper Animal and hosted... 

Tribeca Film Festival and Apple

Workshop/Class

Tribeca Film Festival and Apple

Saturday 4/26 @ The Apple Store, Soho

For the fourth year running, the Apple Store teams up with the Tribeca Film Festival for a series of free filmmaking... 

<em>Endgame</em>

Theatre

Endgame

Saturday 4/26 @ BAM

In Beckett's Endgame, the past is contained in garbage cans, the future is crippled, and the present is blind — but... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Saturday 4/26 @ 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>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Saturday 4/26 @ Broadhurst Theatre

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

National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica

Dance

National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica

Saturday 4/26 @ Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts

Rex Nettleford is the director of the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica. He's also an Oxford Rhodes Scholar, a Vice... 

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

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Saturday 4/26 @ 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... 

Peter Coffin: <em>You Are Me</em>

Art

Peter Coffin

Saturday 4/26 @ Andrew Kreps Gallery

In Peter Coffin's latest solo show, 30 video screens play archival footage of frolicking animals, while a motorized, roller coaster-like contraption... 

<em>The Visitor</em>

Film

The Visitor

Saturday 4/26 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

Se&aacute;n Curran Company

Dance

Seán Curran Company

Saturday 4/26 @ Dance Theater Workshop

Seán Curran's work, which draws on his experience as a former Bill T. Jones dancer and theater choreographer, appeals to dance... 

<em>Big Kids Little Kids </em>

Art

Big Kids Little Kids

Saturday 4/26 @ Cinders Gallery

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

The Bruce High Quality Foundation: <em>The Retrospective </em>

Art

The Bruce High Quality Foundation

Saturday 4/26 @ Susan Inglett Gallery

The Bruce High Quality Foundation's motto is "Professional problems, amateur solutions" — a perfect summary of its invigorating handmade aesthetic and... 

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

Theatre

Untitiled Mars

Saturday 4/26 @ 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... 

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

Art

Paul Chan

Saturday 4/26 @ 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... 

Gustave Courbet

Art

Gustave Courbet

Saturday 4/26 @ 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>Yellow Moon: The Ballad of Leila and Lee</em>

Theatre

Yellow Moon

Saturday 4/26 @ 59E59 Theaters

Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several... 

The Date Farmers: <em>The Crying Playboy</em>

Art

The Date Farmers

Saturday 4/26 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez — collectively known as the multimedia-art team the Date Farmers — mash up art history with... 

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

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Saturday 4/26 @ 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... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Saturday 4/26 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Art

Design and the Elastic Mind

Saturday 4/26 @ 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... 

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

Film

New York African Film Festival

Saturday 4/26 @ Various locations

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

&Oacute;scar Valero's Flamenco Dance Company <em>FUERZA: El Swing del Flamenco</em>

Dance

FUERZA: El Swing del Flamenco

Saturday 4/26 @ Connelly Theatre

Óscar Valero joins his Flamenco Dance Company artists to shake it to some sultry Andalusian rhythms. A heavyweight on the local... 

Performing Arts: Opera

La Fille du Régiment

Saturday 4/26 @ Metropolitan Opera House

The Met's new production of Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment is an exceptional reason to journey uptown. An everyman epic full... 

Ralph Bakshi

Art

Ralph Bakshi

Saturday 4/26 @ Animazing Gallery

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

<em>Up the Yangtze </em>

Film: Documentary

Up the Yangtze

Saturday 4/26 @ IFC Center

Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Saturday 4/26 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

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

Art

Georganne Deen

Saturday 4/26 @ 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... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Saturday 4/26 @ 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>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Saturday 4/26 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

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

Dave Eggers curates <em>Lots of Things Like This</em>

Art

Lots of Things Like This

Saturday 4/26 @ Apex Art

Author and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers curates this show of whip-smart, witty one-liners, selected for their playful mix of text and... 

<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Saturday 4/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Saturday 4/26 @ 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>&copy; MURAKAMI</em>

Art

© MURAKAMI

Saturday 4/26 @ 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... 

elizabeth!

Music

elizabeth!

Saturday 4/26 @ Dizzy's Club

Whether she's singing scat to standards or playing trombone on her original tunes, Brooklyn-based musician elizabeth! makes an impression. Before relocating... 

Tribeca Film Festival

Film

Tribeca Film Festival

Saturday 4/26 @ Various locations

The Tribeca Film Festival always heaps on the glitz and glamor with its high-profile mainstream films (Tina Fey's Baby Mama kicks... 

<em>Macbeth</em>

Theatre

Macbeth

Saturday 4/26 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

Kanishka Raja: <em>Indian Yellow</em>

Art

Kanishka Raja

Saturday 4/26 @ Envoy Gallery

Kanishka Raja's immersive installation Indian Yellow, which tackles India's Gujarat carnage of 2002, greets viewers at the door with figures from... 

<em>Constantine's Sword</em>

Film: Documentary

Constantine's Sword

Saturday 4/26 @ Quad Cinema

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

<em>Hostage Song</em>

Theatre

Hostage Song

Saturday 4/26 @ Kraine Theater

The new indie-rock musical Hostage Song offers a glimpse into the dark, hallucinatory experiences of two bound and blindfolded American civilians.... 

David Ford: <em>White Like Me</em>

Art

White Like Me

Saturday 4/26 @ Jack the Pelican

David Ford's multimedia installation White Like Me incorporates the florid magic realism of his large-scale paintings, the incisive wit of his... 

Anne Hardy

Art

Anne Hardy

Saturday 4/26 @ Bellwether Gallery

Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs —... 

EATfest

Theatre

EATfest

Saturday 4/26 @ 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>WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution</em>

Art

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution

Saturday 4/26 @ 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... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Saturday 4/26 @ 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>The Four of Us</em>

Theatre

The Four of Us

Saturday 4/26 @ 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... 

Lucas Reiner: <em>Envoi</em>

Art

Lucas Reiner

Saturday 4/26 @ Kips Gallery

Los Angeles painter Lucas Reiner may be related by blood to some of the funniest men in America, but when it... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Saturday 4/26 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Saturday 4/26 @ 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... 

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

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Saturday 4/26 @ 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>Then She Found Me</em>

Film

Then She Found Me

Saturday 4/26 @ Various locations

Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of... 

Dance

Zvidance

Saturday 4/26 @ Citigroup Theater at the Ailey Studios

Originally from Israel, where he performed with Batsheva Dance Company, choreographer Zvi Gotheiner complements his lush, sweeping movement with a remarkable... 

Scapino Ballet Rotterdam

Dance

Scapino Ballet Rotterdam

Saturday 4/26 @ The Joyce Theater

Don't let the commedia dell'arte name fool you — this 60-year-old troupe is very nieuwe wereld. Artistic director Ed Wubbe mows... 

Gregory Crewdson

Art: Photography

Gregory Crewdson

Saturday 4/26 @ Luhring Augustine Gallery

For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with... 

<em>Roman de Gare</em>

Film

Roman de Gare

Saturday 4/26 @ Angelika Film Center

Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's... 

Theatre

Emancipation

Saturday 4/26 @ 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... 

<em>After the Reality 2 </em>

Art

After the Reality 2

Saturday 4/26 @ Deitch Projects

Tokyo gallerist Hiromi Yoshii revisits Japan's post-superflat art scene with After the Reality 2, a group exhibition featuring several first-time exhibitors... 

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

Art

Cai Guo-Qiang

Saturday 4/26 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

<em>Birthright</em>

Theatre

Birthright

Saturday 4/26 @ Billie Holiday Theater

Jackie Alexander's Birthright is a startlingly realistic story about an African-American family in post-Katrina Louisiana. Set in 2006, the play investigates... 

Jeremy Boyle

Art

Jeremy Boyle

Saturday 4/26 @ Hudson Franklin Gallery

Like Sol Lewitt trapped in RadioShack, Jeremy Boyle surrenders his artistic role to mechanical gizmos. The latest version of his Self-Playing... 

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

Art

Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions

Saturday 4/26 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Saturday 4/26 @ 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... 

Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung: <em>Residential Erection</em>

Art

Residential Erection

Saturday 4/26 @ Postmasters

In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a... 

Bent Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Bent Festival

Saturday 4/26 @ DCTV

Noise-rockers and techno-twiddlers rejoice — the Bent Festival is entering its fifth year of circuit-bending mayhem. Sound-based sculptural installations fill the... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Saturday 4/26 @ Union Square Theatre

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

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

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Saturday 4/26 @ 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... 

Women Center Stage Festival

Theatre

Women Center Stage Festival

Saturday 4/26 @ Culture Project

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

<em>Steve & Idi</em>

Theatre

Steve & Idi

Saturday 4/26 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then,...