Events on Wednesday, February 25

Tokyo Police Club w/ Born Ruffians and Harlem Shakes

Music

Tokyo Police Club

Wednesday 2/25 @ Webster Hall

With its fast-paced rhythms and power-punk take on the indie anthem (think the Thermals or Tapes 'n Tapes), hyperactive indie post-punk... 

K'naan

Music: Hip-Hop

K'naan

Wednesday 2/25 @ S.O.B.'s

K'naan is a difficult dude to pin down. As a child of Somalia, his concept of growing up on the streets... 

Milton

Music

Milton

Wednesday 2/25 @ The Living Room

Before he jets to Austin for this year's SXSW fest, seasoned singer/songwriter Milton hits the Living Room for the last installment... 

Ongoing Events

Dance

Douglas Dunn & Dancers: Pulcinella

Wednesday 2/25 @ Citigroup Theater at the Ailey Studios

With a résumé like Douglas Dunn's (Jacob's Pillow, Martha Graham, Joffrey, Merce Cunningham), it's no shocker that his own troupe —... 

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

Art

Simon Evans

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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.... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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>Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling's Opera</em>

Theatre

Kaspar Hauser

Wednesday 2/25 @ The Flea Theater

Kaspar Hauser (Preston Martin) is one little boy who should have stayed lost. The real-life 19th-century Nuremberg foundling is the spirited... 

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

Art

Pierre Bonnard

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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>L'isola disabitata</em> (The Desert Island)

Performing Arts: Opera

L'isola disabitata

Wednesday 2/25 @ Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John Jay College

Despite being centuries old, there's always something new about opera. Gotham Chamber Opera proves this by marking the bicentennial of Joseph... 

Art

Mars-1

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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... 

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

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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>Enter Laughing</em>

Theatre

Enter Laughing

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

Alexander Melamid

Wednesday 2/25 @ Forum Gallery

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

<em>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Wednesday 2/25 @ IFC Center

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

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Wednesday 2/25 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

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

Art: Photography

This Is Not a Fashion Photograph

Wednesday 2/25 @ International Center of Photography

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

<em>Hedda Gabler</em>

Theatre

Hedda Gabler

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Wednesday 2/25 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Theatre

Chuck.Chuck.Chuck.

Wednesday 2/25 @ The Collapsable Hole

Chuck. Chuck. Chuck. is a jolting introduction to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Immediate Medium takes full advantage of the... 

<em>Undercurrents & Exchange</em>

Dance

Undercurrents & Exchange

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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... 

Art

Sites

Wednesday 2/25 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Back in 1982, artist Agnes Denes staged an environmental coup (not to mention a conceptual beaut) by planting two acres of... 

Food/Wine

NYC Restaurant Week

Wednesday 2/25 @ Various locations

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

Theatre

Dollhouse

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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... 

Art

The Garden at 4 AM

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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.,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Wednesday 2/25 @ Paragraph

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

Theatre

Chautauqua!

Wednesday 2/25 @ P.S. 122

The National Theater of the United States of America (NTUSA) is much more subversive than its official name implies. This fearless... 

Art: Photography

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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

Ruined

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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... 

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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

Wednesday 2/25 @ V&A

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

<em>Revolutionary Road</em>

Film

Revolutionary Road

Wednesday 2/25 @ Various locations

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

Theatre

This Beautiful City

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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... 

<em>Zombie...The Serial Killer Next Door</em>

Theatre

Zombie

Wednesday 2/25 @ The Studio at Theatre Row

Bill Connington wrote and stars as Quentin P. in this one-man adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' Zombie. A crazed and all-too-real... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

Ofri Cnaani

Wednesday 2/25 @ (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... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Wednesday 2/25 @ Wollman Rink

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

Art

Maya Hayuk

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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>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

Wednesday 2/25 @ Cort Theatre

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

Art

House of Cards

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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... 

<em>Becky Shaw </em>

Theatre

Becky Shaw

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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

The Savannah Disputation

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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... 

Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection

Art

Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection

Wednesday 2/25 @ Gagosian Gallery

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

Doug Varone

Dance

Doug Varone

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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... 

Calder Jewelry

Art

Calder Jewelry

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Wednesday 2/25 @ Various locations

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

<em>Fresh Kills</em>

Theatre

Fresh Kills

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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.... 

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

Art

Stephen Sprouse

Wednesday 2/25 @ Deitch Projects

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

Theatre

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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

Uncle Vanya

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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>Performance 1</em>: Tehching Hsieh

Art

Tehching Hsieh

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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... 

Festival: Performing Arts

The 1939 Project

Wednesday 2/25 @ Symphony Space

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

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Wednesday 2/25 @ 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...