All events on Monday September 22

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Performing Arts: Opera
The Met: Live in HD
Monday Sep 22 (6pm) @ BAM More times »
Thanks to HD transmissions, opera-goers no longer have take out mortgages or travel far to attend the Met. The first Live in HD screening of... View details »
The Met: Live in HD
Music: Electronic
White Williams
Monday Sep 22 (8pm) @ (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 23 when he dropped... View details »
White Williams
Performing Arts: Opera
Met's Opening Night Gala
Monday Sep 22 (6:30pm) @ Metropolitan Opera House
The Metropolitan Opera kicks off the season in style with a celebration of its 125th anniversary. The Gala stars Renée Fleming in fully staged scenes... View details »
Met's Opening Night Gala

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Art
Louise Bourgeois
Monday Sep 22 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of the arts for the... View details »
Louise Bourgeois
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Monday Sep 22 @ 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 »
Paragraph
Film
Mister Foe
Monday Sep 22 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous Scottish estate, spying on... View details »
Mister Foe
Film
The Wackness
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
The Wackness
Film
Battle in Seattle
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political agenda. Most protest films... View details »
Battle in Seattle
Film
Brideshead Revisited
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format. The story of the... View details »
Brideshead Revisited
Art
William Pope.L
Monday Sep 22 (10am–6pm) @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash More times »
Free
In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through the city, titled The... View details »
William Pope.L
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations in the East River More times »
Free
Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns to the source for... View details »
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Film: Documentary
The Order of Myths
Monday Sep 22 @ IFC Center More times »
Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially segregated Mardi Gras tradition... View details »
The Order of Myths
Film
Towelhead
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
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 in the Texas suburbs... View details »
Towelhead
Film
Bottle Shock
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including one made by small... View details »
Bottle Shock
Art: Architecture/Design
Home Delivery
Monday Sep 22 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Barry... View details »
Home Delivery
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fela!
Monday Sep 22 @ 37 Arts More times »
Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right notes. Jones, whose acclaimed... View details »
Fela!
Film
I Served the King of England
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy has everything to do... View details »
I Served the King of England
Film
Hamlet 2
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the cinematic pike, or pure... View details »
Hamlet 2
Film: Documentary
Trouble the Water
Monday Sep 22 @ IFC Center More times »
Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts many Americans, especially while... View details »
Trouble the Water
Film
Traitor
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist bomber Samir (Don Cheadle)... View details »
Traitor
Film
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but many more fans of... View details »
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
More Flavor: Festival
FIAF Fall Festival
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking groceries; jazz is "turned... View details »
FIAF Fall Festival
Performing Arts: Theatre
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Monday Sep 22 (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
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Art
Street Art, Street Life
Monday Sep 22 (noon–6pm) @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts More times »
Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator Lydia Yee of the... View details »
Street Art, Street Life
Film: Documentary
American Teen
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school seniors in Warsaw, Indiana.... View details »
American Teen
Art
Other Options
Monday Sep 22 @ Eyebeam More times »
Free
Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails of securing support for... View details »
Other Options
Performing Arts: Comedy
Celebrity Autobiography
Monday Sep 22 (7:30pm) @ The Triad Theater More times »
Actor and veteran award-show writer Eugene Pack assembles a talented cast to read excerpts from B-list celebrities' autobiographies, with well-chosen passages and nuanced performances eliciting... View details »
Celebrity Autobiography
Art: Festival
Democracy in America
Monday Sep 22 @ Park Avenue Armory More times »
Free
Creative Time and Park Avenue Armory celebrate the election year (and their first-amendment rights) with Democracy in America: The National Campaign. The ambitious array of... View details »
Democracy in America
Film
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
Monday Sep 22 @ Film Forum More times »
Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola and cinematographer Gordon Willis... View details »
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
Music: Festival
The Festival of New Trumpet Music
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
In feudal times, the shrill sound of the trumpet heralded noteworthy arrivals — recently crowned royalty or new seasons, for instance. Starting today, the high... View details »
The Festival of New Trumpet Music
More Flavor: Spectacle
Circus Amok
Monday Sep 22 @ Various NYC parks More times »
Free
After nearly two decades of daring, New York's own Circus Amok still overwhelms the senses with its boisterous take on traditional three-ringers. Offbeat, political, and,... View details »
Circus Amok
More Flavor: Competition
Monday Night Bingo
Monday Sep 22 (7:30–10pm) @ The Bowery Poetry Club More times »
Monday Night Bingo at Bowery Poetry Club is the furthest thing from your local church's senior night — in other words, instead of dentures and... View details »
Monday Night Bingo
Film
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Monday Sep 22 @ MoMA More times »
As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's movie scene in the... View details »
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Film
Burn After Reading
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift both their tone and... View details »
Burn After Reading
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sa Ka La
Monday Sep 22 (8pm) @ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street More times »
Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has been hailed as one of the world's greatest playwrights, yet few Americans had seen his work until three years ago,... View details »
Sa Ka La
Art
We Burn, We Shiver
Monday Sep 22 (11am–6pm) @ SculptureCenter More times »
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative, rainbow-striped Hell Yes! —... View details »
We Burn, We Shiver
Film
A Secret
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not really about the Holocaust.... View details »
A Secret
Performing Arts: Festival
Crossing the Line
Monday Sep 22 @ Various locations More times »
A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French dance festival, but after... View details »
Crossing the Line
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Yard Dogs Road Show
Monday Sep 22 (10pm) @ Spiegelworld More times »
The wily Wild West-era vaudevillians of the Yard Dogs Road Show blow into town again tonight for two performances at Spiegelworld. In a hodgepodge of... View details »
Yard Dogs Road Show
Film: Documentary
All of Us
Monday Sep 22 @ Cinema Village More times »
Documentarian Emily Abt focuses on Bronx doctor Mehret Mandefro, and two of her female African-American patients as they struggle to manage their HIV/AIDS diagnosis, their... View details »
All of Us