Events on Sunday, September 21

2008 Peking Opera Festival: <em>Women Generals of the Yang Family</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

2008 Peking Opera Festival

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

Ice Cube

Music: Hip-Hop

Ice Cube

Sunday 9/21 @ 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,... 

Ongoing Events

Lola Staar's Dreamland Roller Rink

City Gems

Dreamland Roller Rink

Sunday 9/21 @ Dreamland Roller Rink

Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this... 

Film

Burn After Reading

Sunday 9/21 @ Various locations

After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift... 

<em>Other Options</em>

Art

Other Options

Sunday 9/21 @ Eyebeam

Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails... 

<em>Absinthe</em>

Performing Arts

Absinthe

Sunday 9/21 @ Spiegelworld

This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... 

<em>After Nature</em>

Art

After Nature

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 9/21 @ Paragraph

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

Theatre

Lady

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Sunday 9/21 @ 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>I Served the King of England</em>

Film

I Served the King of England

Sunday 9/21 @ Various locations

How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy... 

Mel Kadel and Suzanne Sattler: <em>Swirl of Swarm</em>

Art

Swirl of Swarm

Sunday 9/21 @ Cinders Gallery

Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which... 

<em>The Godfather </em>(1972) and <em>The Godfather Part II</em> (1974)

Film

The Godfather and The Godfather Part II

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

All Tomorrow's Parties Festival: New York 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

All Tomorrow's Parties Festival

Sunday 9/21 @ Kutsher's Country Club

Up in the Catskills, the New York installment of legendary UK alternative fest All Tomorrow's Parties features the Meat Puppets, Built... 

Yard Dogs Road Show

Performing Arts

Yard Dogs Road Show

Sunday 9/21 @ Spiegelworld

The wily Wild West-era vaudevillians of the Yard Dogs Road Show blow into town again tonight for two performances at Spiegelworld.... 

Manhattan Cask Ale Festival

Food/Wine

Cask Ale Festival

Sunday 9/21 @ Chelsea Brewing Company

Benjamin Franklin once said, "Beer is proof god wants us to be happy." This weekend, the Gotham Imbiber and its second... 

NY Craft Beer Week

Food/Wine

Craft Beer Week

Sunday 9/21 @ Various locations

Contrary to popular belief, moderate beer consumption doesn't make you fat — it's the accompanying munchies and other bad dietary habits... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 9/21 @ 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>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Sunday 9/21 @ Various locations

The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... 

<em>Fifty Words</em>

Theatre

Fifty Words

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

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

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>Towelhead</em>

Film

Towelhead

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>A Number</em>

Theatre

A Number

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

New York Clown Theatre Festival

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

New York Clown Theatre Festival

Sunday 9/21 @ The Brick Theater

The Brick Theater Inc.'s third annual New York Clown Theatre Festival descends upon Williamsburg this September, proving that there's more to... 

<em>Trouble the Water</em>

Film: Documentary

Trouble the Water

Sunday 9/21 @ IFC Center

Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 9/21 @ Artists and Fleas

The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... 

Circus Amok presents <em>Sub-Prime Sublime</em>

Special Event

Circus Amok

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

Theatre

Quickening

Sunday 9/21 @ Center Stage

Quickening uncovers the struggles of four women who make the choice to have abortions. Set in a Portland abortion clinic, the... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>All of Us</em>

Film: Documentary

All of Us

Sunday 9/21 @ Cinema Village

Documentarian Emily Abt focuses on Bronx doctor Mehret Mandefro, and two of her female African-American patients as they struggle to manage... 

<em>Bonnie & Clyde: A Folktale</em>

Theatre

Bonnie & Clyde

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Sunday 9/21 @ 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>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Sunday 9/21 @ 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.... 

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Theatre

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Sunday 9/21 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Sunday 9/21 @ Guggenheim Museum

After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela!

Sunday 9/21 @ 37 Arts

Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 9/21 @ 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>Democracy in America</em>: Convergence Center at Park Avenue Armory

Festival: Performing Arts

Democracy in America

Sunday 9/21 @ 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.... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

Kevin Bewersdorf: <em>Monuments to the INFOspirit</em>

Art

Kevin Bewersdorf

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>A Secret</em>

Film

A Secret

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>

Art

Kehinde Wiley

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>Mister Foe</em>

Film

Mister Foe

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>Break Out</em>

Dance

Break Out

Sunday 9/21 @ Union Square Theatre

The creators of Jump are debuting an extreme new dance production, Break Out, in Union Square Theatre, the former home of... 

<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>

Art

Home Delivery

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>The Glass Cage</em>

Theatre

The Glass Cage

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

J.M.W. Turner

Art

J.M.W. Turner

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>Hamlet 2</em>

Film

Hamlet 2

Sunday 9/21 @ Various locations

With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the... 

James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>

Art: Photography

Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

The Festival of New Trumpet Music

Festival: Performing Arts

The Festival of New Trumpet Music

Sunday 9/21 @ Various locations

In feudal times, the shrill sound of the trumpet heralded noteworthy arrivals — recently crowned royalty or new seasons, for instance.... 

Crossing the Line: FIAF Fall Festival 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

FIAF Fall Festival

Sunday 9/21 @ Various locations

Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking... 

<em>Sa Ka La </em>

Theatre

Sa Ka La

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

Jennifer Steinkamp: <em>Daisy Bell</em>

Art

Daisy Bell

Sunday 9/21 @ Lehmann Maupin

In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God.... 

Crossing the Line: Dance 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Crossing the Line

Sunday 9/21 @ Various locations

A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French... 

Ciao Italy Performing Arts Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Ciao Italy

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone: <em>We Burn, We Shiver</em>

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Sunday 9/21 @ SculptureCenter

In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,... 

<em>Battle in Seattle</em>

Film

Battle in Seattle

Sunday 9/21 @ Various locations

In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>Bottle Shock</em>

Film

Bottle Shock

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>A Man for All Seasons</em>

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Sunday 9/21 @ American Airlines Theater

A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims... 

<em>Hollywood on the Hudson: Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39</em>

Film

Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39

Sunday 9/21 @ 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... 

<em>Traitor</em>

Film

Traitor

Sunday 9/21 @ Various locations

Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist...