Events on Thursday, January 29
Gordon Gano and the Ryan Brothers
Thursday 1/29 @ The Bell House-
In their '80s heyday, the Violent Femmes inspired many a "Blister in the Sun" sing-a-long. Former Femmes lead singer Gordon Gano...
Thursday 1/29 @ Drom
The creative upstarts behind NYC WTF know what you crave on a Thursday night and have nailed it with their Dance...
Things I've Learned from the Women Who've Dumped Me...Live!
Thursday 1/29 @ 92YTribeca
Former Daily Show and Colbert Report writer/producer Ben Karlin hosts an evening of comedy, live music, and readings from the book...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 1/29 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 1/29 @ 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...
Thursday 1/29 @ Location One
Location One presents a survey of Nayland Blake's provocative mixed-media work, drawing from nearly every facet of Blake's 25-year career. Blake,...
American Politics: From the Archives
Thursday 1/29 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Thanks to Illinois' backroom politics, Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington — in which a crooked governor handpicks idealistic, straight-arrow...
Thursday 1/29 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker
Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells...
Thursday 1/29 @ Angelika Film Center
English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes...
You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush
Thursday 1/29 @ Cort Theatre
Obama's entering the White House, but one downside to this otherwise fairly hopeful fact is that we have very few Will...
Thursday 1/29 @ Exit Art
Exit Art has invited 50 artists to help lead New Yorkers through these jumbled times, with the aid of its Labyrinth...
Thursday 1/29 @ Linda Gross Theater
Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new...
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
Thursday 1/29 @ International Center of Photography
The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures...
Thursday 1/29 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
Becky Shaw mixes screwed-up pseudo-siblings, a lightning-fast marriage, and an awkward blind date into one fantastic screwball romance of a play....
Thursday 1/29 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Israel-born artist Ofri Cnaani now resides in NYC, which serves as the urban backdrop for her noir, graffiti-inspired drawings. In contrast...
Thursday 1/29 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Like many early 20th-century painters, Pierre Bonnard retreated to the hinterland for his twilight years. But rather than twiddling his artistic...
Thursday 1/29 @ V&A
Erik Lindman is a talented young artist whose work reflects both a mature sensibility and a goofy sense of humor. House...
Thursday 1/29 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 1/29 @ American Airlines Theater
Hedda Gabler Tesman is neither subtle nor delicate, which is why Christopher Shin's adaptation and Ian Rickson's production of Ibsen's classic...
Thursday 1/29 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Working from photographic source material — both found media imagery and personal snapshots — Marlene Dumas has constructed an impressive body...
Thursday 1/29 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch
For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women...
Thursday 1/29 @ Classic Stage Company
If you prefer your celebrity couples in period costume, this production of Uncle Vanya is a smart choice; Peter Sarsgaard and...
Stephanie Lempert: GeoBiographies
Thursday 1/29 @ Claire Oliver
As dense with words as the asteroid belt is with space detritus, Stephanie Lempert's photographs are framed in quotation marks. In...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Thursday 1/29 @ Various locations
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born...
Thursday 1/29 @ 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...
Thursday 1/29 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Thursday 1/29 @ Cinders Gallery
The products of Baltimore collective Closed Caption Comics include varied narrative, tactile, and visual experiences — from psychedelic vignettes inspired by...
Thursday 1/29 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Thursday 1/29 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Avant-garde puppetry genius Dan Hurlin's newest work depicts the life of Mike Disfarmer, a portrait photographer in small-town Arkansas from the...
Thursday 1/29 @ Feature Inc.
Alex Brown's puzzle-like oil paintings are Op-Art wonders: landscapes and headshots as elaborate, pixilated mosaics in a Pantone-worshipping color palette. Brown's...
Thursday 1/29 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Thursday 1/29 @ Women's Project
Bloomsbury novelist Virginia Woolf's one and only play, Freshwater, pokes fun at Art with a capital "A." Staged by Ann Bogart's...
Thursday 1/29 @ Museum of the City of New York
The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's...
Thursday 1/29 @ Landmark Sunshine
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Thursday 1/29 @ The Theatre at Saint Peter's
Enter Laughing: The Musical is old-school musical comedy at its best. Joseph Stein, who wrote the book for Fiddler on the...
Thursday 1/29 @ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...
Thursday 1/29 @ Landmark Sunshine
There's a lot of Oscar buzz building over Mickey Rourke's performance in The Wrestler, but does Darren Aronofsky's movie live up...
Thursday 1/29 @ Soho Rep
Dan LeFranc's Sixty Miles to Silver Lake is a fresh take on the well-worn plot line: deadbeat dad and kid reconcile....
Thursday 1/29 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
He may be best known for his innovative mobiles and wire sculptures, but as his current show at the Met attests,...
Thursday 1/29 @ Deitch Projects
Giving a proper showcase to the late Stephen Sprouse's full range of artistic influence, Rock on Mars is both a retrospective...
Thursday 1/29 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The daughter of famed animators Faith and John Hubley, Emily Hubley has crafted her own cachet through wondrous handiwork, as in...
Thursday 1/29 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is...
Thursday 1/29 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Video artist Pipilotti Rist exhibits a site-specific, immersive piece commissioned by MoMA across the museum's second-floor atrium. Attendees can walk around...
Thursday 1/29 @ Angelika Film Center
This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem...
Thursday 1/29 @ Duo Theater
It took ten years and some creative thinking for the Greeks to defeat Troy. The six multitasking dancers of Company XIV...
Thursday 1/29 @ David Zwirner
Fred Sandback's famed wire and colored yarn "sculptures" are as precise and chaste as priests preparing for mass. With their vertical,...
Thursday 1/29 @ Various locations
Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,...
Thursday 1/29 @ 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...
Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection
Thursday 1/29 @ Gagosian Gallery
Almost as much of a force in the NYC art world as the works presented in this exhibit, Ileana Sonnabend's taste...
Thursday 1/29 @ Various locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
Thursday 1/29 @ Deitch Studios
Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace...
The Corrector in the High Castle
Thursday 1/29 @ Various locations
Justin Lieberman's concurrent exhibitions at Marc Jancou Contemporary and Zach Feuer Gallery, The Corrector in the High Castle, is based on...
Thursday 1/29 @ 59E59 Theaters
Terre Haute imagines conversations between Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and author Gore Vidal with unsentimental compassion. McVeigh contacted Vidal after...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Thursday 1/29 @ Museum of Arts and Design
To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items...
Thursday 1/29 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Thursday 1/29 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Art and life are inseparable for Tehching Hsieh. The Taiwan-born artist, who literally jumped ship into the US in 1974, created...
Thursday 1/29 @ Landmark Sunshine
Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John...
Thursday 1/29 @ Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Juilliard
Last century, California proved to be one of the most fertile centers for composers of new music. Well-funded LA and SF-based...
Thursday 1/29 @ Jack Shainman Gallery
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Thursday 1/29 @ IFC Center
That The Secret of the Grain scored big at the French box office attests not only to the (typically) impeccable taste...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Thursday 1/29 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...
