Events on Sunday, February 22
Robbert Bobbert and the Bubble Machine
Sunday 2/22 @ The Bell House-
Following in the footsteps of aging rock icons like They Might Be Giants and Stephin Merritt, Apples in Stereo's Robert Schneider...
Sunday 2/22 @ Joe's Pub
This year's litany of Oscar oversights starts with The Wrestler being snubbed for both Best Picture and Best Song. So that...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush
Sunday 2/22 @ Cort Theatre
Obama's entering the White House, but one downside to this otherwise fairly hopeful fact is that we have very few Will...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Sunday 2/22 @ V&A
Erik Lindman is a talented young artist whose work reflects both a mature sensibility and a goofy sense of humor. House...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Sunday 2/22 @ Various locations
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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....
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ Laura Pels Theatre
In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the...
Sunday 2/22 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 2/22 @ (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...
Sunday 2/22 @ Landmark Sunshine
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Kenneth Anger's supernaturally influential, six-decade-long career is not without its sighing what-ifs: several adaptations never went past maybe steps; famed shorts...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
Sunday 2/22 @ 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,...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 2/22 @ Various locations
Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ Invisible-Exports
Lisa Kirk's stellar career reached a new high with last year's solo show at P.S.1, but the artist's latest project is...
Sunday 2/22 @ Various locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
Sunday 2/22 @ International Center of Photography
The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures...
Sunday 2/22 @ Symphony Space
A global financial crisis, war and terrorism, a major building project in Flushing: not this new year, but 1939. Reflecting simultaneous...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ P.S. 122
The National Theater of the United States of America (NTUSA) is much more subversive than its official name implies. This fearless...
Sunday 2/22 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
The connection between Paris Hilton and America's ill-fated military interventions might seem tenuous, but after viewing Jonathan Horowitz's sculptures and video...
Sunday 2/22 @ IFC Center
That The Secret of the Grain scored big at the French box office attests not only to the (typically) impeccable taste...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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,...
Sunday 2/22 @ Classic Stage Company
If you prefer your celebrity couples in period costume, this production of Uncle Vanya is a smart choice; Peter Sarsgaard and...
Sunday 2/22 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ Linda Gross Theater
Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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....
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
