Events on Sunday, February 15

Music

The Love Hangover Showcase

Sunday 2/15 @ The Bell House-

The Love Hangover Showcase is the brainchild of musician Richard Alwyn, who organized the first "hangover" in 2000 while living in... 

Pitchfork's Show No Mercy Presents Ocean, Salome, Riff Cannon, and Batillus

Music

Ocean, Salome, Riff Cannon, and Batillus

Sunday 2/15 @ Public Assembly

More evil than cutting off a metalhead's beard on his birthday, Pitchfork's Show No Mercy showcase at Public Assembly is quickly... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Enter Laughing</em>

Theatre

Enter Laughing

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Ray Mortenson: <em>Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx</em>

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Sunday 2/15 @ 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>Pal Joey</em>

Theatre

Pal Joey

Sunday 2/15 @ Studio 54

Joey Evans is a scheming-but-sweet performer who comes to Chicago with dreams of starting his own nightclub in Roundabout's revival of... 

<em>Pierre Bonnard:</em><em> The Late Interiors</em>

Art

Pierre Bonnard

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Theatre

Ruined

Sunday 2/15 @ New York City Center

Playwright Lynn Nottage uses Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and her Children as a jumping-off point to explore the brutality of what's... 

<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>The Funeralogues</em>

Theatre

The Funeralogues

Sunday 2/15 @ Unitarian Church of All Souls

The Funeralogues turns a comical light on the darkest moment of the human experience. This site-specific (set in the Church of... 

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

City Gems

War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Sunday 2/15 @ War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Avoid the fumbling tourists clogging the Rockefeller Center and Central Park rinks by hopping the ferry to Staten Island to get... 

<em>The Secret of the Grain</em>

Film

The Secret of the Grain

Sunday 2/15 @ IFC Center

That The Secret of the Grain scored big at the French box office attests not only to the (typically) impeccable taste... 

<em>Speed-the-Plow</em>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>Performance 1</em>: Tehching Hsieh

Art

Tehching Hsieh

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Film

I Am Cuba

Sunday 2/15 @ IFC Center

Agitprop often tends to be like the tasteless sale of timeshares — it feels like they're tossing in everything and the... 

Theatre

The Savannah Disputation

Sunday 2/15 @ Playwrights Horizons

Crazy is relative in Evan Smith's very funny new play about a born-again evangelical door-to-door missionary, played with farcical exuberance by... 

<em>This Is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection</em>

Art: Photography

This Is Not a Fashion Photograph

Sunday 2/15 @ International Center of Photography

The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Sunday 2/15 @ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Although Hair was written over 40 years ago, capturing the spirit of a certain movement and period in our history, its... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Sunday 2/15 @ Various locations

The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Alex Brown: <em>Fodderland</em>

Art

Alex Brown

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Sunday 2/15 @ Linda Gross Theater

Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new... 

Theatre

Dollhouse

Sunday 2/15 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

Mabou Mines' OBIE award-winning adaptation of A Doll's House goes well beyond Ibsen's material in deconstructing social conventions and the intricacies... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 2/15 @ Artists and Fleas

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

<em>Becky Shaw </em>

Theatre

Becky Shaw

Sunday 2/15 @ 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.... 

Theatre

This Beautiful City

Sunday 2/15 @ Vineyard Theatre

Downtown docu-musical-theatre collective the Civilians created This Beautiful City from interviews they conducted in Colorado Springs, the conservative evangelical capital of... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 2/15 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Hedda Gabler</em>

Theatre

Hedda Gabler

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

Sunday 2/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

From setup to snap and on through to print, the picture postcard of the early 1900s aimed to be a simple,... 

Theatre

Uncle Vanya

Sunday 2/15 @ Classic Stage Company

If you prefer your celebrity couples in period costume, this production of Uncle Vanya is a smart choice; Peter Sarsgaard and... 

<em>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 2/15 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

Ofri Cnaani: <em>A Tale of Ends</em>

Art

Ofri Cnaani

Sunday 2/15 @ (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... 

<em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</em>

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Sunday 2/15 @ Various locations

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born... 

<em>Terre Haute</em>

Theatre

Terre Haute

Sunday 2/15 @ 59E59 Theaters

Terre Haute imagines conversations between Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and author Gore Vidal with unsentimental compassion. McVeigh contacted Vidal after... 

Marlene Dumas: <em>Measuring Your Own Grave</em>

Art

Marlene Dumas

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Festival: Performing Arts

The 1939 Project

Sunday 2/15 @ Symphony Space

A global financial crisis, war and terrorism, a major building project in Flushing: not this new year, but 1939. Reflecting simultaneous... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Sunday 2/15 @ Wollman Rink

While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks... 

<em>You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush</em> feat. Will Ferrell

Comedy

You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush

Sunday 2/15 @ Cort Theatre

Obama's entering the White House, but one downside to this otherwise fairly hopeful fact is that we have very few Will... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Sunday 2/15 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 2/15 @ 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>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Sunday 2/15 @ Landmark Sunshine

Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... 

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Erik Lindman: <em>House Wine, House Music</em>

Art

House Wine, House Music

Sunday 2/15 @ V&A

Erik Lindman is a talented young artist whose work reflects both a mature sensibility and a goofy sense of humor. House... 

<em>The Wrestler</em>

Film

The Wrestler

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Theatre

Freshwater

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Sunday 2/15 @ IFC Center

No less than Marty Scorsese helped distribute this grim intersection of five interlocking storylines about the Camorra, the Italian mafia arm... 

Keith Haring: <em>The Ten Commandments</em>

Art

Keith Haring

Sunday 2/15 @ Deitch Studios

Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace... 

Calder Jewelry

Art

Calder Jewelry

Sunday 2/15 @ 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,... 

<em> Distracted </em>

Theatre

Distracted

Sunday 2/15 @ Laura Pels Theatre

In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the... 

<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Tracy Morgan

Comedy

Tracy Morgan

Sunday 2/15 @ Carolines

Longtime standup comedian Tracy Morgan brings his stream-of-consciousness jokes to Carolines for a slew of shows over four days. After seven... 

Art

Maya Hayuk

Sunday 2/15 @ Cinders Gallery

Known for her kaleidoscopic highlighter-bright designs, but also for venturing through organic patterns and naturalistic wood-panel drawings, Maya Hayuk is a... 

<em>Revolutionary Road</em>

Film

Revolutionary Road

Sunday 2/15 @ Various locations

Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,... 

<em>Fresh Kills</em>

Theatre

Fresh Kills

Sunday 2/15 @ 59E59 Theaters

Working Man's Clothes' gritty production of Fresh Kills is reminiscent of top-notch TV drama, but with a lot more emotional honesty.... 

<em>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Food/Wine

NYC Restaurant Week

Sunday 2/15 @ Various locations

Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Sunday 2/15 @ 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...