Events on Wednesday, May 7
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Stripped Stories
- @ Comix
- Sex is funny. No one can deny this. Tonight, writer, performer, and comedian Giulia Rozzi and fellow funnywoman Margot Leitman host... View details »
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- More Flavor: Lecture
- Union Hall Secret Science Club
- @ Union Hall
- Union Hall's popular Secret Science Club jumps onto the hot topic (ha cha!) of global warming. Dr. Wallace Broecker, the Newberry... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Pharoahe Monch
- @ S.O.B.'s
- Raised in South "suicide" Queens, Pharoahe Monch could have easily become a well-to-do drug dealer or a gully rapper riddled with... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Electric Prunes
- @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
- There's nothing wrong with a well-timed redux, but neo-garage bands like the White Stripes, the Hives, and the Kooks don't have... View details »
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- Cai Guo-Qiang
- @ Guggenheim Museum
- Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- STRETCH (a fantasia)
- @ 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... View details »
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- Purvis Young
- @ GalleryBar
- After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and... View details »
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- Redbelt
- @ Various locations
- Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a ju-jitsu studio but refuses to participate in competitions, which he believes compromise the... View details »
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- Lots of Things Like This
- @ 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... View details »
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- Roman de Gare
- @ 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... View details »
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- Gustave Courbet
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- 123 Festival
- @ The Joyce Theater
- ABT II, Ailey II, and Taylor 2 — the second companies of American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- E.S.T. Marathon
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- @ Union Square Theatre
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Eminent Domain
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- South Pacific
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- @ 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... View details »
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- Ralph Bakshi
- @ Animazing Gallery
- With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- God's Ear
- @ Vineyard Theatre
- Playwright Jenny Schwartz made a downtown splash last year with her breakout play God's Ear, and now the Vineyard Theatre revives... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Macbeth
- @ Lyceum Theatre
- Director Rupert Goold switches out Scottish castles for Soviet regalia in his modern revamping of Macbeth. Patrick Stewart returns to the... View details »
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- Whitney Biennial
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- For its 74th installment, the Whitney Biennial expands its exhibition space and (lightly) trims its list of contributors. Through March, the... View details »
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- © MURAKAMI
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Sound and the Fury
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- @ Longacre Theatre
- It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying... View details »
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- New York African Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch.... View details »
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- Paul Chan
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Visitor
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins... View details »
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- Lee Friedlander
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Port Authority
- @ 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... View details »
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- Residential Erection
- @ Postmasters
- In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- @ IFC Center
- Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Endgame
- @ BAM
- In Beckett's Endgame, the past is contained in garbage cans, the future is crippled, and the present is blind — but... View details »
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- The New Normal
- @ Artists Space
- Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public... View details »
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- Olafur Eliasson
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Yellow Moon
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- Kanishka Raja
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- @ Minetta Lane Theatre
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... View details »
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- The Bruce High Quality Foundation
- @ Susan Inglett Gallery
- The Bruce High Quality Foundation's motto is "Professional problems, amateur solutions" — a perfect summary of its invigorating handmade aesthetic and... View details »
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- [SOLD OUT] Flight of the Conchords
- @ Town Hall
- If you consider brushing your teeth part of foreplay, chances are you're familiar with "business time" — the intense two-minute form... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- @ 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... View details »
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- Then She Found Me
- @ Various locations
- Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of... View details »
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- Recent Icelandic Art
- @ Scandinavia House
- Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Constantine's Sword
- @ Quad Cinema
- Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects.... View details »
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- Adolph Gottlieb
- @ PaceWildenstein
- Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and... View details »
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- Jollyship the Whiz Bang
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tamara Kostianovsky
- @ 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... View details »
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- Son of Rambow
- @ Angelika Film Center
- Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a... View details »
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- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- Ariadne Unhinged
- @ The Playhouse, Abrons Arts
- The Gotham Chamber Opera's Ariadne Unhinged is the story of a woman who, deserted on a Greek island, steps up to... View details »
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- The Four of Us
- @ 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... View details »
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- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Charlie Haden, Ethan Iverson, and Paul Motian
- @ Village Vanguard
- For this five-night stand, legendary Jazz drummer Paul Motian (perhaps best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio) teams... View details »
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- Passing Strange
- @ 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... View details »
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- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- Anne Hardy
- @ Bellwether Gallery
- Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs —... View details »
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- Steve & Idi
- @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
- Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then,... View details »
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- Sunday in the Park with George
- @ 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... View details »
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- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- @ Broadhurst Theatre
- Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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