Events on Tuesday, February 24

Tom Jones

Music

Tom Jones

Tuesday 2/24 @ Terminal 5

Now a royal knight, Tom Jones is going strong after 40 years of low-buttoned shirts, hip thrusts, and classic, lady-killing croons;... 

Punch Up Your Life! feat. Pete Holmes, Jessi Klein, and John Oliver

Comedy

Punch up Your Life!

Tuesday 2/24 @ Housing Works Bookstore

If you're thinking a bookstore is a weird place to go for a comedy show, you're not alone. But downtown standup... 

My Favorite Things feat. Dego w/ Leroy Burgess and Tyler Askew & Big Bang

Music: DJ

My Favorite Things feat. Dego

Tuesday 2/24 @ APT

4 Hero's hardcore track "Mr Kirk's Nightmare" detonated the UK's early-'90s Technicolor happy-house rave scene with dark, paranoid breakbeats, paving the... 

Ongoing Events

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 2/24 @ Barbès

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

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

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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... 

Theatre

Dollhouse

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Tuesday 2/24 @ Barrow Street Theater

David Comer's justly praised production (he took home the '09 Obie for Outstanding Director, the play won the Lucille Lortel Award... 

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

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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... 

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

Art

Ofri Cnaani

Tuesday 2/24 @ (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 Secret of the Grain</em>

Film

The Secret of the Grain

Tuesday 2/24 @ IFC Center

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

Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection

Art

Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection

Tuesday 2/24 @ Gagosian Gallery

Almost as much of a force in the NYC art world as the works presented in this exhibit, Ileana Sonnabend's taste... 

<em>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Tuesday 2/24 @ IFC Center

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

<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

Tuesday 2/24 @ Cort Theatre

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

Calder Jewelry

Art

Calder Jewelry

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Tuesday 2/24 @ Various locations

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

Theatre

This Beautiful City

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Tuesday 2/24 @ Linda Gross Theater

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

Stephen Sprouse: <em>Rock on Mars</em>

Art

Stephen Sprouse

Tuesday 2/24 @ Deitch Projects

Giving a proper showcase to the late Stephen Sprouse's full range of artistic influence, Rock on Mars is both a retrospective... 

<em>Becky Shaw </em>

Theatre

Becky Shaw

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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.... 

Simon Evans: <em>Island Time</em>

Art

Simon Evans

Tuesday 2/24 @ James Cohan Gallery

Simon Evans debuts his artistic pluralism at the James Cohen Gallery with Island Time, a series of works inspired by island-survival-as-metaphor.... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 2/24 @ Paragraph

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

Theatre

The Savannah Disputation

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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>Pierre Bonnard:</em><em> The Late Interiors</em>

Art

Pierre Bonnard

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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... 

<em>Fresh Kills</em>

Theatre

Fresh Kills

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</em>

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Tuesday 2/24 @ Various locations

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

Alexander Melamid: <em>Holy Hip-Hop!</em>

Art

Alexander Melamid

Tuesday 2/24 @ Forum Gallery

Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered... 

Festival: Performing Arts

The 1939 Project

Tuesday 2/24 @ Symphony Space

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

<em>Hedda Gabler</em>

Theatre

Hedda Gabler

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

This Is Not a Fashion Photograph

Tuesday 2/24 @ International Center of Photography

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

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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,... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Tuesday 2/24 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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>Undercurrents & Exchange</em>

Dance

Undercurrents & Exchange

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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... 

<em>The Wrestler</em>

Film

The Wrestler

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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... 

Art

The Garden at 4 AM

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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.,... 

Doug Varone

Dance

Doug Varone

Tuesday 2/24 @ The Joyce Theater

Doug Varone's Alchemy receives its New York premiere as the centerpiece in tonight's program. Inspired by the beheading of Wall Street... 

Theatre

Uncle Vanya

Tuesday 2/24 @ Classic Stage Company

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

Art: Photography

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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,... 

<em> Distracted </em>

Theatre

Distracted

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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... 

Theatre

Ruined

Tuesday 2/24 @ 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>Revolutionary Road</em>

Film

Revolutionary Road

Tuesday 2/24 @ Various locations

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

Art

Mars-1

Tuesday 2/24 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Mars-1's (aka Mario Martinez) paintings could be scenes from a PlayStation game — if only game-designers had the courage to explore... 

Food/Wine

NYC Restaurant Week

Tuesday 2/24 @ Various locations

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