Events on Sunday, September 21

2008 Peking Opera Festival: <em>Women Generals of the Yang Family</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Opera
2008 Peking Opera Festival
@ Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
Shu Fang Peking Opera Company's Women Generals of the Yang Family is a Peking classic depicting the 800-year-old story of the...  View details »
Ice Cube
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Music: Hip-Hop
Ice Cube
@ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
With high-profile roles in films like Are We There Yet? and xXx: State of the Union more recently on the radar,...  View details »

Ongoing Events

<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Theatre
Quickening
@ Center Stage
Quickening uncovers the struggles of four women who make the choice to have abortions. Set in a Portland abortion clinic, the...  View details »
Ongoing
Artists and Fleas
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
More Flavor: City Gem
Artists and Fleas
@ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Trouble the Water</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film: Documentary
Trouble the Water
@ IFC Center
Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Hollywood on the Hudson: Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's...  View details »
Ongoing
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Lola Staar's Dreamland Roller Rink
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
More Flavor: City Gem
Dreamland Roller Rink
@ Dreamland Roller Rink
Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this...  View details »
Ongoing
Crossing the Line: FIAF Fall Festival 2008
Month_09 Monday Day_22
More Flavor: Festival
FIAF Fall Festival
@ Various locations
Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking...  View details »
Ongoing
Manhattan Cask Ale Festival
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Cask Ale Festival
@ Chelsea Brewing Company
Benjamin Franklin once said, "Beer is proof god wants us to be happy." This weekend, the Gotham Imbiber and its second...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Democracy in America</em>: Convergence Center at Park Avenue Armory
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Art: Festival
Democracy in America
@ Park Avenue Armory
Creative Time and Park Avenue Armory celebrate the election year (and their first-amendment rights) with Democracy in America: The National Campaign....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>South Pacific</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
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 »
Ongoing
<em>The Wackness </em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film
The Wackness
@ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...  View details »
Ongoing
Jennifer Steinkamp: <em>Daisy Bell</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Art
Daisy Bell
@ Lehmann Maupin
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Circus Amok presents <em>Sub-Prime Sublime</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
More Flavor: Spectacle
Circus Amok
@ Various NYC parks
After nearly two decades of daring, New York's own Circus Amok still overwhelms the senses with its boisterous take on traditional...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Break Out</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Dance
Break Out
@ Union Square Theatre
The creators of Jump are debuting an extreme new dance production, Break Out, in Union Square Theatre, the former home of...  View details »
Ongoing
Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
@ Various locations in the East River
Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Bottle Shock</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film
Bottle Shock
@ Various locations
In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including...  View details »
Ongoing
Sol LeWitt at Storm King
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Crossing the Line: Dance 2008
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Performing Arts: Festival
Crossing the Line
@ Various locations
A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>A Man for All Seasons</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Man for All Seasons
@ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Hamlet 2</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film
Hamlet 2
@ Various locations
With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Art
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Sa Ka La </em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sa Ka La
@ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street
Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has been hailed as one of the world's greatest playwrights, yet few Americans had seen his work...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Art
Louise Bourgeois
@ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...  View details »
Ongoing
ASSSSCAT 3000
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
ASSSSCAT 3000
@ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from...  View details »
Ongoing
Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Art
Kehinde Wiley
@ Studio Museum in Harlem
Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
@ Various locations
Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Mister Foe</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film
Mister Foe
@ Angelika Film Center
Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous...  View details »
Ongoing
Kevin Bewersdorf: <em>Monuments to the INFOspirit</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Art
Kevin Bewersdorf
@ V&A
Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Other Options</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Art
Other Options
@ Eyebeam
Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Bonnie & Clyde: A Folktale</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bonnie & Clyde
@ The American Theatre of Actors
Striking a nice balance between old-time musical-theatre fun and a sly critique of the Bush administration, the new original musical Bonnie...  View details »
Ongoing
James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Art: Photography
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
@ Brooklyn Historical Society
From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many...  View details »
Ongoing
The Festival of New Trumpet Music
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Music: Festival
The Festival of New Trumpet Music
@ Various locations
In feudal times, the shrill sound of the trumpet heralded noteworthy arrivals — recently crowned royalty or new seasons, for instance....  View details »
Ongoing
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Theatre
Lady
@ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Theatrical parables about our nation's state of affairs aren't uncommon, but few draw as many subtle parallels as Lady. In the...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film
Brideshead Revisited
@ Various locations
For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format....  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Opera
Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness
@ La MaMa E.T.C.
Wickham Boyle's Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness uses the specificity of personal experience to try to better understand a pivotal moment...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Towelhead</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film
Towelhead
@ Various locations
It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded...  View details »
Ongoing
Brooklyn Indie Market
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
More Flavor: Shopping
Brooklyn Indie Market
@ Brooklyn Indie Market
The Brooklyn Indie Market is the stateside equivalent of an Arab souk. Located a stone's throw from Smith Street's many tasty...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>A Secret</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film
A Secret
@ Various locations
This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>A Number</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Number
@ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row
In Caryl Churchill's play A Number, a father faces the consequences of cloning his only son. As the original and the...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>I Served the King of England</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film
I Served the King of England
@ Various locations
How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Art: Architecture/Design
Home Delivery
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of...  View details »
Ongoing
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Yard Dogs Road Show
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Yard Dogs Road Show
@ Spiegelworld
The wily Wild West-era vaudevillians of the Yard Dogs Road Show blow into town again tonight for two performances at Spiegelworld....  View details »
Ongoing
GreenFlea Market
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
More Flavor: City Gem
GreenFlea Market
@ William J. O'Shea Junior High School
As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Absinthe</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Absinthe
@ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>After Nature</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Art
After Nature
@ New Museum of Contemporary Art
The After Nature exhibition evokes a nightmare/fantasy of humankind's impending self-destruction and its aftermath. Sculptor Maurizio Cattelan imagines a horse's deadly...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Traitor</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film
Traitor
@ Various locations
Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist...  View details »
Ongoing
J.M.W. Turner
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Art
J.M.W. Turner
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Featuring powerful works such as 1794's Tintern Abbey and 1835's The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Metropolitan...  View details »
Ongoing
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Ciao Italy Performing Arts Festival
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Festival
Ciao Italy
@ Associazione San Cono
Not far from the touristy San Gennaro Festival is Ciao Italy, a celebration of Williamsburg's Italian community. Ciao is not for...  View details »
Ongoing
Paragraph
Month_09 Monday Day_22
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Art
Street Art, Street Life
@ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>American Teen</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film: Documentary
American Teen
@ Various locations
The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school...  View details »
Ongoing
Mel Kadel and Suzanne Sattler: <em>Swirl of Swarm</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Art
Swirl of Swarm
@ Cinders
Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Godfather </em>(1972) and <em>The Godfather Part II</em> (1974)
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
@ Film Forum
Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>[title of show]</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Theatre
[title of show]
@ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Battle in Seattle</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film
Battle in Seattle
@ Various locations
In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political...  View details »
Ongoing
The Science Barge
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
@ Riverside Park South
Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film
Burn After Reading
@ Various locations
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Fifty Words</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fifty Words
@ Lucille Lortel Theatre
In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film: Documentary
The Order of Myths
@ IFC Center
Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Glass Cage</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Glass Cage
@ The Mint Theater
The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Fela!</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fela!
@ 37 Arts
Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right...  View details »
Ongoing
Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone: <em>We Burn, We Shiver</em>
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
Art
We Burn, We Shiver
@ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>All of Us</em>
Month_09 Monday Day_22
Film: Documentary
All of Us
@ Cinema Village
Documentarian Emily Abt focuses on Bronx doctor Mehret Mandefro, and two of her female African-American patients as they struggle to manage...  View details »
Ongoing
Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_09 Sunday Day_21
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
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Ongoing
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