Events on Saturday, February 28
Saturday 2/28 @ Santos Party House
It's a special thing to watch the brothers of Tiefschwarz work their tandem magic upon the turntables. When they're really in...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 2/28 @ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
A playground altercation between two preteen boys escalates to full-on war when their parents get involved in French playwright Yasmina Reza's...
Saturday 2/28 @ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/28 @ P.S. 122
The National Theater of the United States of America (NTUSA) is much more subversive than its official name implies. This fearless...
Saturday 2/28 @ V&A
Erik Lindman is a talented young artist whose work reflects both a mature sensibility and a goofy sense of humor. House...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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....
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Saturday 2/28 @ Various locations
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born...
Saturday 2/28 @ Laura Pels Theatre
In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the...
Saturday 2/28 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection
Saturday 2/28 @ Gagosian Gallery
Almost as much of a force in the NYC art world as the works presented in this exhibit, Ileana Sonnabend's taste...
Saturday 2/28 @ WaMu Theater at MSG
Featuring a performance of Astral Weeks, and the inclusion of a vibrant band of old friends, tonight's show...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ Exit Art
As far as fields of practice go, art and science have often been split like coasts — the former deciphers our...
Saturday 2/28 @ Landmark Sunshine
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ Various locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
Saturday 2/28 @ Jacob K. Javits Center
Unfortunately, most wine events in the city are thinly veiled marketing schemes for distributors to hock their vintages, but the New...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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....
Douglas Dunn & Dancers: Pulcinella
Saturday 2/28 @ 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 —...
Saturday 2/28 @ Deitch Projects
Giving a proper showcase to the late Stephen Sprouse's full range of artistic influence, Rock on Mars is both a retrospective...
Saturday 2/28 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
Hernan Bas is Miami's biggest home-grown art star, known for darkly poetic, romanticized works that read as chapters in an epic,...
Saturday 2/28 @ Various locations
Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ New World Stages
ROOMS a Rock Romance may well be the musical for this new economic era. Spare and briskly paced, Rooms has a...
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
Saturday 2/28 @ International Center of Photography
The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ (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...
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
Saturday 2/28 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/28 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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....
Saturday 2/28 @ Classic Stage Company
If you prefer your celebrity couples in period costume, this production of Uncle Vanya is a smart choice; Peter Sarsgaard and...
Saturday 2/28 @ The New York Botanical Garden
The recession might have trampled your plans for a tropical getaway, but that doesn't mean you can't still pretend. As spring...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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.,...
Saturday 2/28 @ Radio City Music Hall
Released nearly three decades ago, Brian Eno and David Byrne's first collaboration, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, went out...
Saturday 2/28 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 2/28 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
Saturday 2/28 @ Linda Gross Theater
Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new...
You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush
Saturday 2/28 @ Cort Theatre
Obama's entering the White House, but one downside to this otherwise fairly hopeful fact is that we have very few Will...
Saturday 2/28 @ IFC Center
While his recent work has fixated more on the nature of violence, no other filmmaker has delved into our unholy relationship...
Saturday 2/28 @ Black Betty
During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Saturday 2/28 @ 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...
