All events on Thursday May 08
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- Ferron
- Thursday May 8 (7pm) @ Highline Ballroom
- Since her first release more than 25 years ago, singer/songwriter Ferron has been writing inward-facing, confessional songs that are revered for the poetry of their... View details »
- Art
- Walton Ford
- Thursday May 8 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery More times»
- Free
- Walton Ford's watercolors mimic the composition and style of history painting, and the confusing overlap of myth that accompanies it. In Dying Words, Ford plays... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Hilary Easton + Company
- Thursday May 8 (8:30pm) @ Danspace Project More times»
- Giveaway
- Acclaimed choreographer Hilary Easton's work draws on the humor of everyday life to contrast and highlight poignant themes. Her latest work, Noise + Speed, uses... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- [SOLD OUT] El Perro del Mar
- Thursday May 8 (9pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
- Sold Out!
- El Perro del Mar's From the Valley to the Stars builds on the band's haunting doo-wop vibe with organs, pianos, and glittery orchestrations (the latter... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Indian Jewelry
- Thursday May 8 (8pm) @ Cake Shop
- Giveaway
- Though Houston-based noisemakers Indian Jewelry do have a few core members, their lineup has been known to expand and contract from show to show. It's... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- E.S.T. Marathon
- Thursday May 8 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre More times»
- Ensemble Studio Theatre's festival of one-act plays is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Presenting established and emerging playwrights, the festival is usually a mixed bag, but... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Reason without Meaning
- Thursday May 8 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ The Kitchen More times»
- The Venezuela-born, Brooklyn-based choreographer Luis Lara Malvacías straddles disciplines, fusing movement, video art, sculpture, and tracking devices in his recent work Reason without Meaning. Set... View details »
- Film
- Stranded
- Thursday May 8 (7pm) @ Anthology Film Archives
- Long before Vincent Gallo, there was Juleen Compton, one of the first filmmakers to produce, write, and star in her own film. Made in the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Far...
- Thursday May 8 (7:30pm) @ Dance Theater Workshop More times»
- Rachid Ouramdane was born in France with Algerian origins; and as an adult, he explores this hybrid identity through dance. Far..., Ouramdane's new piece... View details »
- Art
- Zhang Huan
- Thursday May 8 (6–8pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times»
- OpeningFree
- For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric Western world — must... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
- Thursday May 8 (8pm) @ T. Schreiber Studio More times»
- The succinct comedies in this theatrical two-fer from Christopher Durang and Tom Stoppard both investigate the nature of bad dreams. Durang's The Actor's Nightmare focuses... View details »
- Art
- Tom Sachs
- Thursday May 8 (10am–6pm) @ Sperone Westwater More times»
- Free
- In one of his two latest exhibitions, high-profile craftsman Tom Sachs (and his basement factory of art-elves) transform a Chelsea gallery into a ten-room menagerie... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Thursday May 8 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre in New York More times»
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Thursday May 8 (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 8 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- Thursday May 8 (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
- Lee Friedlander
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Macbeth
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Thursday May 8 (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
- © MURAKAMI
- Thursday May 8 (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
- Whitney Biennial
- Thursday May 8 @ 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 »
- Art
- Gustave Courbet
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Thursday May 8 (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
- Olafur Eliasson
- Thursday May 8 (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
- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- Thursday May 8 (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: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Thursday May 8 (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
- In the Heights
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Thursday May 8 @ 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
- Passing Strange
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Film
- Then She Found Me
- Thursday May 8 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Thursday May 8 (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
- Kanishka Raja
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Film
- New York African Film Festival
- Thursday May 8 @ 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
- Redbelt
- Thursday May 8 @ Various locations More times»
- Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a ju-jitsu studio but refuses to participate in competitions, which he believes compromise the martial art's principles. But... View details »
- Art
- Ralph Bakshi
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Constantine's Sword
- Thursday May 8 @ 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 »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Thursday May 8 @ 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: Theatre
- God's Ear
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Film
- Roman de Gare
- Thursday May 8 @ 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 »
- Art
- Paul Chan
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Art
- Lots of Things Like This
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Yellow Moon
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- Thursday May 8 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times»
- In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume and clothing. Superheroes delves... View details »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Thursday May 8 (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 8 (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
- Tamara Kostianovsky
- Thursday May 8 (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
- Steve & Idi
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Birthright
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Film
- Son of Rambow
- Thursday May 8 @ Angelika Film Center More times»
- Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a bootleg copy of First... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- 123 Festival
- Thursday May 8 (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 8 (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 »
- Art
- The New Normal
- Thursday May 8 (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 8 @ 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: Opera
- La Fille du Régiment
- Thursday May 8 (8pm) @ Metropolitan Opera House More times»
- Sold Out!
- The Met's new production of Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment is an exceptional reason to journey uptown. An everyman epic full of love and war,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- Ariadne Unhinged
- Thursday May 8 (8pm) @ The Playhouse, Abrons Arts More times»
- The Gotham Chamber Opera's Ariadne Unhinged is the story of a woman who, deserted on a Greek island, steps up to the very edge of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Endgame
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Charlie Haden, Ethan Iverson, and Paul Motian
- Thursday May 8 (9 & 11pm) @ Village Vanguard More times»
- For this five-night stand, legendary Jazz drummer Paul Motian (perhaps best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio) teams up with Bad Plus... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- STRETCH (a fantasia)
- Thursday May 8 (8pm) @ The Living Theatre More times»
- Kristin Griffith gives an uninhibited performance as Richard Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods in Susan Bernfield's STRETCH (a fantasia). History remembers Woods for "accidentally" erasing... View details »
- Art
- Residential Erection
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Art
- Recent Icelandic Art
- Thursday May 8 (noon–6pm) @ Scandinavia House More times»
- Free
- 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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Thursday May 8 @ 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
- Jollyship the Whiz Bang
- Thursday May 8 (8pm) @ Ars Nova Theater More times»
- Life ain't easy for the aging, alcoholic pirate in Jollyship the Whiz Bang, a "Pirate-Puppet-Rock Odyssey." At sea for months, Captain Clamp and his shipmates... View details »
- Art
- The Bruce High Quality Foundation
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Port Authority
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Art
- Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Thursday May 8 (noon–5pm) @ Fisher Landau Center for Art More times»
- Free
- Notorious shopping grounds for bloodthirsty gallerists and curators, Columbia's MFA Exhibition is your chance to play collector and try to guess which one of these... View details »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- Thursday May 8 (8pm) @ Longacre Theatre More times»
- It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying spectacle — and, miraculously,... View details »
- Art
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Thursday May 8 (9:30am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times»
- Free
- Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and European contemporaries — he... View details »
- Art
- Purvis Young
- Thursday May 8 (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 »
