All events on Thursday May 01
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- [SOLD OUT] Dolly Parton
- Thursday May 1 (8pm) @ Radio City Music Hall
- Sold Out!
- In classic Horatio Alger fashion, miniature powerhouse Dolly Parton escaped her dirt-poor Tennessee roots to find fame and fortune in the big city. Over the... View details »
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- Brain Food
- Thursday May 1 (7pm) @ Delia/Viking Showroom
- Charlie Ayers has come a long way since his days cooking in the kitchens of Hilton hotels in New Jersey. After graduating from culinary school... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Kills
- Thursday May 1 (7pm) @ Webster Hall
- Giveaway
- The Kills' Alison Mosshart is all about sizzle — though not necessarily sex. Reveling in her throaty, cigarette-stained croak, the heavy clang of distorted blues... View details »
- Music: Classical
- New York Miniaturist Ensemble
- Thursday May 1 (10pm) @ The Stone
- If you shun classical music for its lack of brevity, here's your deliverance. Founded four years ago by Juilliard grads, the New York Miniaturist Ensemble... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- I'm from Barcelona
- Thursday May 1 (8pm) @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
- Giveaway
- IFB mastermind Emanuel Lundgren isn't actually from Barcelona, but the 28 other musicians in his supergroup aren't making an issue out of it. As twee... View details »
- Film
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Thursday May 1 (6:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- Sergio Leone may have pioneered the spaghetti western with his "Dollar Trilogy," but the Italian director's true masterpiece is the dark, star-studded Once Upon a... View details »
- More Flavor: Lecture
- Abstraction and the Holocaust
- Thursday May 1 (6:30pm) @ The Jewish Museum
- Tate Modern curator Dr. Mark Godfrey examines the repercussions of the Holocaust on the abstract-art movement in America. Although popular abstractionists like Barnett Newman and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Bernstein Collaborations
- Thursday May 1 (8pm–10:40am) @ New York State Theater More times »
- NYCB's season-long tribute to choreographer Jerome Robbins continues with an all-Robbins/Leonard Bernstein program — the work of lifelong friends and occasional enemies who would have... View details »
- Art
- Recent Icelandic Art
- Thursday May 1 (6–9pm) @ Scandinavia House More times »
- OpeningFree
- Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia House hosts work by... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Thursday May 1 (7pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times »
- Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses befitted the greed and self-absorption that characterized the '80s. The play, and its subsequent film adaptation, hit... View details »
- Art
- Purvis Young
- Thursday May 1 (1pm–midnight) @ GalleryBar More times »
- Free
- After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and had a dream, wherein... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Thursday May 1 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre in New York More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Thursday May 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Thursday May 1 (8pm) @ 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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Thursday May 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- Thursday May 1 (7pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Thursday May 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 »
- Art
- Lee Friedlander
- Thursday May 1 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Thursday May 1 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Thursday May 1 (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 »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Thursday May 1 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- Thursday May 1 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Thursday May 1 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Thursday May 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 »
- Art
- Gustave Courbet
- Thursday May 1 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Passing Strange
- Thursday May 1 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Thursday May 1 (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 »
- Art
- Whitney Biennial
- Thursday May 1 @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
- Giveaway
- For its 74th installment, the Whitney Biennial expands its exhibition space and (lightly) trims its list of contributors. Through March, the Seventh Regiment Armory hosts... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Thursday May 1 @ 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: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Thursday May 1 (7:30pm) @ New York City Center More times »
- Itamar Moses is a young, successful playwright who happens to be best friends with a young, incredibly successful novelist named Jonathan Safran Foer. A fictionalized... View details »
- Art
- Kanishka Raja
- Thursday May 1 (10am–6pm) @ Envoy Gallery More times »
- Free
- Kanishka Raja's immersive installation Indian Yellow, which tackles India's Gujarat carnage of 2002, greets viewers at the door with figures from an idyllic British colonial... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Macbeth
- Thursday May 1 (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
- Director Rupert Goold switches out Scottish castles for Soviet regalia in his modern revamping of Macbeth. Patrick Stewart returns to the stage (he was a... View details »
- Art
- Big Kids Little Kids
- Thursday May 1 (2–8pm) @ Cinders in Wburg More times »
- Free
- There have been a lot of cheap shots volleyed between the youths of New York and Philadelphia. But regardless of who's a suburb of whom,... View details »
- Art
- Lots of Things Like This
- Thursday May 1 (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art More times »
- Free
- Author and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers curates this show of whip-smart, witty one-liners, selected for their playful mix of text and image. The list of... View details »
- Art
- Tseng Kwong Chi
- Thursday May 1 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery More times »
- Free
- Without newlyweds or a bus-load of septuagenarians, photographs of "picture-perfect" places like the Taj Mahal, Niagara Falls, and Cinderella's Castle are just postcards — it's... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Gregory Crewdson
- Thursday May 1 (10am–6pm) @ Luhring Augustine Gallery More times »
- Free
- For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with an army of production... View details »
- Art
- © MURAKAMI
- Thursday May 1 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art in Bklyn More times »
- Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order to distance himself from... View details »
- Art
- After the Reality 2
- Thursday May 1 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
- Free
- Tokyo gallerist Hiromi Yoshii revisits Japan's post-superflat art scene with After the Reality 2, a group exhibition featuring several first-time exhibitors and the return of... View details »
- Art
- The Date Farmers
- Thursday May 1 (11am–6pm) @ Jonathan Levine Gallery More times »
- Free
- Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez — collectively known as the multimedia-art team the Date Farmers — mash up art history with Southern California's multi-ethnic culture,... View details »
- Art
- Residential Erection
- Thursday May 1 (11am–6pm) @ Postmasters More times »
- Free
- In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a political cartoonist and the... View details »
- Film
- New York African Film Festival
- Thursday May 1 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- God's Ear
- Thursday May 1 (8pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
- Playwright Jenny Schwartz made a downtown splash last year with her breakout play God's Ear, and now the Vineyard Theatre revives the production with a... View details »
- Art
- Paul Chan
- Thursday May 1 (noon–10pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift either skyward or down... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fire Island
- Thursday May 1 (6pm) @ 3LD Art & Technology Center More times »
- Sitting on floor cushions and deck chairs, the audience provides the stage here, playing an integral role in recreating the relaxed, beachy feel of notoriously... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Emancipation
- Thursday May 1 (7:30pm) @ Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center More times »
- The Classical Theatre of Harlem presents Emancipation, a brand-new play by longtime company member Ty Jones. Emancipation tells the story of Nat Turner's historical 19th-century... View details »
- Art
- Lucas Reiner
- Thursday May 1 (11am–6pm) @ Kips Gallery More times »
- Free
- Los Angeles painter Lucas Reiner may be related by blood to some of the funniest men in America, but when it comes to painting, he's... View details »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Thursday May 1 @ 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
- Thursday May 1 (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
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Thursday May 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ American Folk Art Museum More times »
- The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and compiler of a 15,000-page... View details »
- Art
- Anne Hardy
- Thursday May 1 (10am–6pm) @ Bellwether Gallery More times »
- Free
- Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs — five of which are... View details »
- Art
- Ralph Bakshi
- Thursday May 1 (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 »
- Art
- Tamara Kostianovsky
- Thursday May 1 (11am–6pm) @ Black & White Gallery More times »
- Free
- Tamara Kostianovsky's debut solo exhibition, Actus Reus, is the second part of a three-part series, titled The Proper Animal and hosted by Black & White... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- EATfest
- Thursday May 1 (7pm) @ Roy Arias Theatre Center More times »
- On TV, Dr. Phil commands us to lose weight and our politicians beg us to trust them. Emerging Artist Theatre's EATfest 2008 encourages us to... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Constantine's Sword
- Thursday May 1 @ 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
- Thursday May 1 (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 »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Thursday May 1 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
- Film
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Thursday May 1 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Yellow Moon
- Thursday May 1 (8:30pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
- Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several Smiths LPs-worth of adolescent... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Steve & Idi
- Thursday May 1 (8pm) @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in New York More times »
- Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then, just as Steve's on... View details »
- Film
- Stuff and Dough
- Thursday May 1 (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 »
- Art
- The Bruce High Quality Foundation
- Thursday May 1 (10am–6pm) @ Susan Inglett Gallery More times »
- Free
- The Bruce High Quality Foundation's motto is "Professional problems, amateur solutions" — a perfect summary of its invigorating handmade aesthetic and DIY spirit. The title... View details »
- Film
- Then She Found Me
- Thursday May 1 @ 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
- Thursday May 1 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Birthright
- Thursday May 1 (8pm) @ Billie Holiday Theater More times »
- Jackie Alexander's Birthright is a startlingly realistic story about an African-American family in post-Katrina Louisiana. Set in 2006, the play investigates themes of unemployment, incest,... View details »
- More Flavor: Workshop
- Tribeca Film Festival and Apple
- Thursday May 1 @ 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
- The New Normal
- Thursday May 1 (noon–6pm) @ Artists Space More times »
- Free
- Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public — has inspired ample... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- Thursday May 1 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Endgame
- Thursday May 1 (7:30pm) @ BAM in Bklyn More times »
- In Beckett's Endgame, the past is contained in garbage cans, the future is crippled, and the present is blind — but dark humor still reigns.... View details »
- More Flavor: Conference
- PEN World Voices
- Thursday May 1 @ Various locations More times »
- The PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature is, as the name suggests, an annual celebration of language, writing, and free speech. Now entering its... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- 123 Festival
- Thursday May 1 (8pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- ABT II, Ailey II, and Taylor 2 — the second companies of American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Paul Taylor Dance Company,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Sound and the Fury
- Thursday May 1 (8pm) @ New York Theatre Workshop in New York More times »
- Elevator Repair Service's inventive adaptation of the opening chapter of The Sound and the Fury delivers the soul of Faulkner's novel without summarizing or paraphrasing.... View details »
- Performing Arts
- UniverSoul Circus
- Thursday May 1 @ Various locations More times »
- Step right up to behold ghetto-fabulous pachyderms, comedic acrobats, and hip-hop in the big top! Based out of Atlanta and inspired by black vaudeville from... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Port Authority
- Thursday May 1 (8pm) @ Linda Gross Theater More times »
- "I never thought about myself," claims senior citizen Joe (Jim Norton) in playwright Conor McPherson's Port Authority. Yet he does. A lot. So do middle-aged... View details »
