Events on Tuesday, February 17
Tuesday 2/17 @ Symphony Space
1939 was a year to remember for America's alabaster cities. With the Great Depression finally receding and prosperity back on the...
Gunter Hampel and Giuseppi Logan
Tuesday 2/17 @ The Bowery Poetry Club
One of the first labels to take a chance on the likes of Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, and Sun Ra, ESP-Disk...
Tuesday 2/17 @ IFC Center
Tonight, Thom Power's weekly documentary series, Stranger than Fiction, pays tribute to the "Dean of Black Documentary," William Greaves. Famous for...
Tuesday 2/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The ethereal weavings and ruminations of Brooklyn's School of Seven Bells are easy to get lost in. On!Air!Library! vocalists Alejandra and...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/17 @ (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...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Tuesday 2/17 @ Various locations
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born...
Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection
Tuesday 2/17 @ Gagosian Gallery
Almost as much of a force in the NYC art world as the works presented in this exhibit, Ileana Sonnabend's taste...
Tuesday 2/17 @ Symphony Space
A global financial crisis, war and terrorism, a major building project in Flushing: not this new year, but 1939. Reflecting simultaneous...
Tuesday 2/17 @ Classic Stage Company
If you prefer your celebrity couples in period costume, this production of Uncle Vanya is a smart choice; Peter Sarsgaard and...
The Corrector in the High Castle
Tuesday 2/17 @ Various locations
Justin Lieberman's concurrent exhibitions at Marc Jancou Contemporary and Zach Feuer Gallery, The Corrector in the High Castle, is based on...
Tuesday 2/17 @ Laura Pels Theatre
In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the...
Tuesday 2/17 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/17 @ Landmark Sunshine
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Tuesday 2/17 @ Deitch Projects
Giving a proper showcase to the late Stephen Sprouse's full range of artistic influence, Rock on Mars is both a retrospective...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/17 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/17 @ Various locations
Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,...
Tuesday 2/17 @ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...
Tuesday 2/17 @ Various locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush
Tuesday 2/17 @ Cort Theatre
Obama's entering the White House, but one downside to this otherwise fairly hopeful fact is that we have very few Will...
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
Tuesday 2/17 @ International Center of Photography
The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/17 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/17 @ World Financial Center Winter Garden
For the month of February, dance enthusiasts and Financial District busybodies alike bear witness to daily, site-specific dance interludes in the...
Tuesday 2/17 @ IFC Center
That The Secret of the Grain scored big at the French box office attests not only to the (typically) impeccable taste...
Tuesday 2/17 @ Gana Art Gallery
The erotic monstrosities of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights meets Giacometti's minimalist haunted-house sculpture, The Palace at 4 a.m.,...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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....
Tuesday 2/17 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Tuesday 2/17 @ Linda Gross Theater
Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new...
Stephanie Lempert: GeoBiographies
Tuesday 2/17 @ Claire Oliver
As dense with words as the asteroid belt is with space detritus, Stephanie Lempert's photographs are framed in quotation marks. In...
Tuesday 2/17 @ 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....
