All events on Monday April 28
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- Gilgamesh
- Monday Apr 28 (8pm) @ 92nd St Y
- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa and Inverse Theater founder Chad Gracia give The Epic of Gilgamesh a thoroughly modern update. Written on stone tablets centuries... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Hate Eternal
- Monday Apr 28 (7pm) @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
- Giveaway
- Metal fans tend to speak about everything in hyperbole (Epic! Brutal! Technicaaaaaal!), but when it comes to Tampa Bay's Hate Eternal, it's hard to overstate... View details »
- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- NYMoth Story Slam
- Monday Apr 28 (7:30pm) @ The Bitter End
- Everyone is seized by the green goblin now and then — whether because of the usual competitive vices (money, love, jobs) or the bizarrely specific... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- The Broadway Beauty Pageant
- Monday Apr 28 (8pm) @ New World Stages
- Before Daniel Radcliffe strips down on the Great White Way, a chorus line of beefcakes gives new meaning to "Broadway babes." In a benefit for... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- 120 Days
- Monday Apr 28 (10:30pm) @ Mercury Lounge
- Giveaway
- Norwegian dance fiends 120 Days inhabit a distant world awash in electro anarchy — a dark realm where U2 do eternal battle with Joy Division.... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Verve
- Monday Apr 28 (8pm) @ WaMu Theater at MSG More times »
- Giveaway
- The Verve are best remembered for their mega-hit "Bitter Sweet Symphony," but the Northern English band was more than a one-hit wonder. Over the course... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Monday Apr 28 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Monday Apr 28 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Monday Apr 28 @ 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 »
- Art
- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- Monday Apr 28 (noon–6pm) @ PS1 Contemporary Art Center in LIC 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 »
- Art
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Monday Apr 28 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Monday Apr 28 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Monday Apr 28 @ Broadhurst Theatre More times »
- Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The weighty issues on display... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Movement Research
- Monday Apr 28 (8pm) @ Judson Memorial Church More times »
- Free
- Movement Research's eclectic Monday-night performances at Judson Church provide equal stimulation for trained and untrained eyes. Those familiar with contemporary modern dance's quirky intellectualism can... View details »
- Film
- New York African Film Festival
- Monday Apr 28 @ Various locations More times »
- Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch. But due to the... View details »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Monday Apr 28 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- Satyagraha
- Monday Apr 28 (8pm) @ Metropolitan Opera House More times »
- Satyagraha comes to the Met following an acclaimed run in London. This new production of Philip Glass' 1979 opera about Gandhi's formative years in Africa... View details »
- Art
- Ralph Bakshi
- Monday Apr 28 (10am–7pm) @ Animazing Gallery More times »
- Free
- With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's worked with comix demigod... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Constantine's Sword
- Monday Apr 28 @ Quad Cinema More times »
- Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects. What's unusual about Constantine's... View details »
- Art
- Olafur Eliasson
- Monday Apr 28 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy of meteorological description. In... View details »
- Film
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Monday Apr 28 @ Various locations More times »
- The Tribeca Film Festival always heaps on the glitz and glamor with its high-profile mainstream films (Tina Fey's Baby Mama kicks things off). But the... View details »
- Film
- Stuff and Dough
- Monday Apr 28 (1, 3:15, 5:40, 7:50 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times »
- Suffused in natural light and crackling with background noise, Romania's latest film import brims with the clatter of everyday life — from a dripping sink... View details »
- Film
- Then She Found Me
- Monday Apr 28 @ Various locations More times »
- Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of sitcom, even after garnering... View details »
- Film
- Roman de Gare
- Monday Apr 28 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's whodunit plot is pure... View details »
- More Flavor: Workshop
- Tribeca Film Festival and Apple
- Monday Apr 28 @ The Apple Store, Soho More times »
- Free
- For the fourth year running, the Apple Store teams up with the Tribeca Film Festival for a series of free filmmaking workshops and discussions. The... View details »
- Art
- White Like Me
- Monday Apr 28 (noon–6pm) @ Jack the Pelican in Williamsburg More times »
- Free
- David Ford's multimedia installation White Like Me incorporates the florid magic realism of his large-scale paintings, the incisive wit of his photography, and the unpredictability... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- Monday Apr 28 @ IFC Center More times »
- Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam,... View details »
