Events on Wednesday, May 14

<em>Ladies of the Corridor</em> Republishing Launch Party

Party

Ladies of the Corridor

Wednesday 5/14 @ Hurley's

Dorothy Parker's collaboration with Arnaud d'Usseau, The Ladies of the Corridor, was her last major project and also her most overlooked.... 

Bonde do Role w/ the Death Set, Holy Hail, and Gang

Music

Bonde do Role

Wednesday 5/14 @ Club Europa

Discovered by Diplo on a trip to Rio, Bonde do Role put their stamp on baile funk with '80s guitar riffs,... 

The Moth feat. Jonathan Ames

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

The Moth feat. Jonathan Ames

Wednesday 5/14 @ Museum of Jewish Heritage

It seems fitting that Jonathan Ames, best known for his audacious personal essays (including one recounting a shower mishap that resulted... 

Negative Approach w/ Clockcleaner and Dustheads

Music

Negative Approach

Wednesday 5/14 @ Southpaw

Negative Approach typify the knuckle-dragging but high-minded brutality of classic '80s hardcore. With the glut of meat-headed bands these days, it's... 

The Autobiography of a Biographer

Special Event

The Autobiography of a Biographer

Wednesday 5/14 @ Symphony Space

The modern-day biographer's job ain't easy. It requires exhaustive research and demands equal attention to both the subject's commendable and reprehensible... 

Ongoing Events

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

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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... 

Neo Rauch

Art

Neo Rauch

Wednesday 5/14 @ David Zwirner

Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding... 

E.S.T. Marathon 2008

Theatre

E.S.T. Marathon

Wednesday 5/14 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre

Ensemble Studio Theatre's festival of one-act plays is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Presenting established and emerging playwrights, the festival is usually... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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>La Chinoise </em>(1967)

Film

La Chinoise

Wednesday 5/14 @ Film Forum

France's student riots of May 1968 are now a widely mythologized example of late-60s' turbulence and strife. Jean-Luc Godard captures the... 

Urs Fischer and Gavin Brown: <em>Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?</em>

Art

Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?

Wednesday 5/14 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery

The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, bu­t you can still see it, sort of. American gallery... 

<em>The Sound and The Fury (April Seventh, 1928)</em>

Theatre

The Sound and the Fury

Wednesday 5/14 @ New York Theatre Workshop

Elevator Repair Service's inventive adaptation of the opening chapter of The Sound and the Fury delivers the soul of Faulkner's novel... 

<em>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Wednesday 5/14 @ LIVE from the NYPL

When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of... 

New York Photo Festival

Art: Photography

New York Photo Festival

Wednesday 5/14 @ Various DUMBO locations

As March's art fairs fade from memory, fans of contemporary photography have carved out an event all to themselves. For five... 

<em>Endgame</em>

Theatre

Endgame

Wednesday 5/14 @ BAM

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

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

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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... 

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

Film

New York African Film Festival

Wednesday 5/14 @ Various locations

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

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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... 

Walton Ford

Art

Walton Ford

Wednesday 5/14 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery

Walton Ford's watercolors mimic the composition and style of history painting, and the confusing overlap of myth that accompanies it. In... 

<em>Noise</em>

Film

Noise

Wednesday 5/14 @ Various locations

With Noise, writer/director Henry Bean has made a feature about urban sound pollution that doesn't grate on its viewers. It's no... 

<em>Les Liaisons Dangereuses </em>

Theatre

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Wednesday 5/14 @ American Airlines Theater

Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses befitted the greed and self-absorption that characterized the '80s. The play, and its... 

Zhang Huan: <em>Blessings</em>

Art

Zhang Huan

Wednesday 5/14 @ PaceWildenstein

For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Wednesday 5/14 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

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

Purvis Young: <em>Protest</em>

Art

Purvis Young

Wednesday 5/14 @ GalleryBar

After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and... 

<em>Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy</em>

Fashion/Style

Superheroes

Wednesday 5/14 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume... 

<em>Jollyship the Whiz Bang</em>

Theatre

Jollyship the Whiz Bang

Wednesday 5/14 @ Ars Nova Theater

Life ain't easy for the aging, alcoholic pirate in Jollyship the Whiz Bang, a "Pirate-Puppet-Rock Odyssey." At sea for months, Captain... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Wednesday 5/14 @ Storm King Art Center

In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere,... 

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

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Wednesday 5/14 @ Broadhurst Theatre

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

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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>Constantine's Sword</em>

Film: Documentary

Constantine's Sword

Wednesday 5/14 @ Quad Cinema

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

<em>Macbeth</em>

Theatre

Macbeth

Wednesday 5/14 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

Robert Therrien

Art

Robert Therrien

Wednesday 5/14 @ Gagosian Gallery

Robert Therrien quite literally transforms mundane items into objects of whimsically huge proportion. In No Title (Folding Table and Chairs), super-sized... 

<em>Son of Rambow</em>

Film

Son of Rambow

Wednesday 5/14 @ Angelika Film Center

Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a... 

Pharoah Sanders

Music

Pharoah Sanders

Wednesday 5/14 @ Birdland

Pharoah Sanders is not the Kangol-clad, cable-knit-sweater-wearing, electric-clarinet kind of jazz musician. A link between Coltrane's free-form experiments and the fusion... 

<em>Top Girls </em>

Theatre

Top Girls

Wednesday 5/14 @ Biltmore Theater

Top Girls isn't what you'd call a "feel-good" play. It's more like a provocative, hard-to-digest one that will leave you thinking... 

Tom Sachs:  <em>ANIMALS</em>

Art

Tom Sachs

Wednesday 5/14 @ Sperone Westwater

In one of his two latest exhibitions, high-profile craftsman Tom Sachs (and his basement factory of art-elves) transform a Chelsea gallery... 

<em>Steve & Idi</em>

Theatre

Steve & Idi

Wednesday 5/14 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

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

<em>From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art</em>

Art

Recent Icelandic Art

Wednesday 5/14 @ Scandinavia House

Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia... 

Adolph Gottlieb: <em>Paintings from Four Decades</em>

Art

Adolph Gottlieb

Wednesday 5/14 @ PaceWildenstein

Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and... 

Theatre

La Femme Est Morte

Wednesday 5/14 @ P.S. 122

Having picked up the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's Best Ensemble award last summer, the Shalimar company returns to New York with eight... 

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

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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>The Fall</em>

Film

The Fall

Wednesday 5/14 @ Landmark Sunshine

In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone.... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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... 

Ralph Bakshi

Art

Ralph Bakshi

Wednesday 5/14 @ Animazing Gallery

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

<em>Roman de Gare</em>

Film

Roman de Gare

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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... 

<em>The New Normal </em>

Art

The New Normal

Wednesday 5/14 @ Artists Space

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

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

Art

The Bruce High Quality Foundation

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Wednesday 5/14 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

<em>Corporate Carnival</em>

Special Event

Corporate Carnival

Wednesday 5/14 @ World Financial Center

Corporate Carnival turns the World Financial Center Winter Garden into a circus sideshow of daring acts: ambitious executives climbing the corporate... 

Gustave Courbet

Art

Gustave Courbet

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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>STRETCH (a fantasia)</em>

Theatre

STRETCH (a fantasia)

Wednesday 5/14 @ The Living Theatre

Kristin Griffith gives an uninhibited performance as Richard Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods in Susan Bernfield's STRETCH (a fantasia). History remembers... 

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

Art

Tamara Kostianovsky

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Wednesday 5/14 @ Paragraph

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

MOMIX <em>Passion</em>

Dance

MOMIX

Wednesday 5/14 @ The Joyce Theater

Moses Pendleton's gravity-defying MOMIX dance company performs Passion, a visually stunning piece that kicks off the group's four-week season at the... 

<em>&copy; MURAKAMI</em>

Art

© MURAKAMI

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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... 

<em>Redbelt</em>

Film

Redbelt

Wednesday 5/14 @ Various locations

Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a ju-jitsu studio but refuses to participate in competitions, which he believes compromise the... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Wednesday 5/14 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Anne Hardy

Art

Anne Hardy

Wednesday 5/14 @ Bellwether Gallery

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

<em>Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead</em>

Film

Poultrygeist

Wednesday 5/14 @ Village East Cinema

Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of... 

<em>Yellow Moon: The Ballad of Leila and Lee</em>

Theatre

Yellow Moon

Wednesday 5/14 @ 59E59 Theaters

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

<em>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

Wednesday 5/14 @ Longacre Theatre

It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying... 

Christian Vincent: <em>Runyon Canyon</em>

Art

Christian Vincent

Wednesday 5/14 @ Mike Weiss Gallery

  The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they... 

<em>God's Ear</em>

Theatre

God's Ear

Wednesday 5/14 @ Vineyard Theatre

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

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

Art

Paul Chan

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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>Port Authority</em>

Theatre

Port Authority

Wednesday 5/14 @ Linda Gross Theater

"I never thought about myself," claims senior citizen Joe (Jim Norton) in playwright Conor McPherson's Port Authority. Yet he does. A... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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>Then She Found Me</em>

Film

Then She Found Me

Wednesday 5/14 @ Various locations

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

<em>Prisoner of the Crown</em>

Theatre

Prisoner of the Crown

Wednesday 5/14 @ Irish Repertory Theatre

The Chelsea-based Irish Repertory Theatre company is devoted to Irish and Irish-American work. The New York premiere of Richard F. Stockton's... 

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

Art

Kanishka Raja

Wednesday 5/14 @ 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>The Visitor</em>

Film

The Visitor

Wednesday 5/14 @ Landmark Sunshine

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