Events on Tuesday, September 23

Shugo Tokumaru

Music

Shugo Tokumaru

Tuesday 9/23 @ The Mercury Lounge

A self-proclaimed master of more than 100 instruments, avant-folkie Shugo Tokumaru fuses traditional Japanese tropes with the more-precious-than-thou tweeisms of Sufjan... 

Ongoing Events

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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>Other Options</em>

Art

Other Options

Tuesday 9/23 @ Eyebeam

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

<em>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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... 

<em>A Secret</em>

Film

A Secret

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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>Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now</em>

Art

Signs of Change

Tuesday 9/23 @ Exit Art

The Signs of Change exhibit at Exit Art features an array of mass-mobilizing posters, photographs, movies, and recordings that chronicle social-justice... 

<em>Mister Foe</em>

Film

Mister Foe

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Tuesday 9/23 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

<em>Towelhead</em>

Film

Towelhead

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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>Break Out</em>

Dance

Break Out

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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>Democracy in America</em>: Convergence Center at Park Avenue Armory

Festival: Performing Arts

Democracy in America

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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>Traitor</em>

Film

Traitor

Tuesday 9/23 @ Various locations

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

<em>Absinthe</em>

Performing Arts

Absinthe

Tuesday 9/23 @ Spiegelworld

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

The Festival of New Trumpet Music

Festival: Performing Arts

The Festival of New Trumpet Music

Tuesday 9/23 @ Various locations

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

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

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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... 

<em>All of Us</em>

Film: Documentary

All of Us

Tuesday 9/23 @ Cinema Village

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

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

Art

William Pope.L

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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>Battle in Seattle</em>

Film

Battle in Seattle

Tuesday 9/23 @ Various locations

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

The Bad Plus

Music

The Bad Plus

Tuesday 9/23 @ Village Vanguard

Three distinct musical personalities make up the Bad Plus. Drummer David King drives syncopated, rough-around-the-edges rhythms, while Ethan Iverson's piano provides... 

<em>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Tuesday 9/23 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela!

Tuesday 9/23 @ 37 Arts

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

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 9/23 @ The People's Improv Theater

Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,... 

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

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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... 

Crossing the Line: FIAF Fall Festival 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

FIAF Fall Festival

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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>Fifty Words</em>

Theatre

Fifty Words

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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... 

Film

Burn After Reading

Tuesday 9/23 @ Various locations

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

Doug Aitken: <em>Migration</em> & <em>Empire</em>

Art

Doug Aitken

Tuesday 9/23 @ 303 Gallery

Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303... 

New York Clown Theatre Festival

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

New York Clown Theatre Festival

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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... 

Phoebe Washburn: <em>Tickle the Shitstem</em>

Art

Tickle the Shitstem

Tuesday 9/23 @ Zach Feuer Gallery

Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a... 

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

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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>Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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>Hamlet 2</em>

Film

Hamlet 2

Tuesday 9/23 @ Various locations

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

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Theatre

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Tuesday 9/23 @ 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>The Godfather </em>(1972) and <em>The Godfather Part II</em> (1974)

Film

The Godfather and The Godfather Part II

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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... 

Crossing the Line: Dance 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Crossing the Line

Tuesday 9/23 @ Various locations

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

Sue Williams: <em>Project for the New American Century</em>

Art

Sue Williams

Tuesday 9/23 @ David Zwirner

From the all-over-patterened, cock-and-balls expressionism of her early career, Sue Williams has — in the last two decades — developed a... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Tuesday 9/23 @ Various locations

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

Afrika Bambaataa

Music: DJ

Afrika Bambaataa

Tuesday 9/23 @ APT

Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance... 

<em>Invasion 68: Prague</em>

Art: Photography

Invasion 68: Prague

Tuesday 9/23 @ Aperture Gallery

For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and... 

<em>Bottle Shock</em>

Film

Bottle Shock

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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

Tuesday 9/23 @ American Airlines Theater

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

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

Special Event

Circus Amok

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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... 

<em>The Glass Cage</em>

Theatre

The Glass Cage

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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... 

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

Film

Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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... 

Derek Buckner: <em>Marshmallows</em>

Art

Derek Buckner

Tuesday 9/23 @ George Billis Gallery

In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 9/23 @ Paragraph

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

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Tuesday 9/23 @ Gladstone Gallery

In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... 

<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Tuesday 9/23 @ 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.... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 9/23 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

<em>Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914&ndash;1939</em>

Art

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939

Tuesday 9/23 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived —... 

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

Film

I Served the King of England

Tuesday 9/23 @ Various locations

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