Events on Monday, September 22

The Metropolitan Opera: Opening Night Gala

Performing Arts: Opera

Met's Opening Night Gala

Monday 9/22 @ Metropolitan Opera House

The Metropolitan Opera kicks off the season in style with a celebration of its 125th anniversary. The Gala stars Renée Fleming... 

White Williams

Music: Electronic

White Williams

Monday 9/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

A noise-rock veteran and former tourmate of fellow gee-whiz electro artists Dan Deacon and Girl Talk, Joe Williams was still only... 

Ongoing Events

The Festival of New Trumpet Music

Festival: Performing Arts

The Festival of New Trumpet Music

Monday 9/22 @ Various locations

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

<em>Other Options</em>

Art

Other Options

Monday 9/22 @ Eyebeam

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

<em>All of Us</em>

Film: Documentary

All of Us

Monday 9/22 @ 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>Sa Ka La </em>

Theatre

Sa Ka La

Monday 9/22 @ 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... 

<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Monday 9/22 @ 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.... 

<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Monday 9/22 @ 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>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela!

Monday 9/22 @ 37 Arts

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

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

Film

Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39

Monday 9/22 @ 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>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Monday 9/22 @ 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... 

Film

Burn After Reading

Monday 9/22 @ 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>Mister Foe</em>

Film

Mister Foe

Monday 9/22 @ 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... 

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

Monday 9/22 @ The Triad Theater

Actor and veteran award-show writer Eugene Pack assembles a talented cast to read excerpts from B-list celebrities' autobiographies, with well-chosen passages... 

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

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

Monday 9/22 @ 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>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>

Art

Home Delivery

Monday 9/22 @ 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>Hamlet 2</em>

Film

Hamlet 2

Monday 9/22 @ Various locations

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

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

Film

The Godfather and The Godfather Part II

Monday 9/22 @ 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... 

<em>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

Monday 9/22 @ 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... 

Crossing the Line: Dance 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Crossing the Line

Monday 9/22 @ Various locations

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

Yard Dogs Road Show

Performing Arts

Yard Dogs Road Show

Monday 9/22 @ Spiegelworld

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

<em>Battle in Seattle</em>

Film

Battle in Seattle

Monday 9/22 @ Various locations

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

Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD

Performing Arts: Opera

The Met: Live in HD

Monday 9/22 @ BAM

Thanks to HD transmissions, opera-goers no longer have take out mortgages or travel far to attend the Met. The first Live... 

<em>Bottle Shock</em>

Film

Bottle Shock

Monday 9/22 @ 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... 

William Pope.L: <em>October Projects</em>

Art

William Pope.L

Monday 9/22 @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash

In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through... 

<em>Traitor</em>

Film

Traitor

Monday 9/22 @ Various locations

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

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

Special Event

Circus Amok

Monday 9/22 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 9/22 @ Paragraph

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

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Theatre

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Monday 9/22 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

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

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Monday 9/22 @ 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... 

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

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Monday 9/22 @ SculptureCenter

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

<em>I Served the King of England</em>

Film

I Served the King of England

Monday 9/22 @ Various locations

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

<em>Democracy in America</em>: Convergence Center at Park Avenue Armory

Festival: Performing Arts

Democracy in America

Monday 9/22 @ 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.... 

Crossing the Line: FIAF Fall Festival 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

FIAF Fall Festival

Monday 9/22 @ 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>A Secret</em>

Film

A Secret

Monday 9/22 @ 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... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Monday 9/22 @ Various locations

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

Monday Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 9/22 @ The Bowery Poetry Club

Monday Night Bingo at Bowery Poetry Club is the furthest thing from your local church's senior night — in other words,... 

<em>Towelhead</em>

Film

Towelhead

Monday 9/22 @ 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>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Monday 9/22 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

<em>Trouble the Water</em>

Film: Documentary

Trouble the Water

Monday 9/22 @ IFC Center

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