Events on Tuesday, March 10

Scion A/V Kistuné Pioneer Release Party feat. Guns 'n' Bombs w/ Heartsrevolution

Music: Electronic

Guns 'n' Bombs

Tuesday 3/10 @ The Studio at Webster Hall

Say what you will about corporate sponsorship, but the folks at Scion are sure throwing some awesome free parties via their... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Orchid Show: Brazilian Modern</em>

Special Event

The Orchid Show

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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>Hedda Gabler</em>

Theatre

Hedda Gabler

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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... 

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

Art

Simon Evans

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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> Distracted </em>

Theatre

Distracted

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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

Tuesday 3/10 @ Various locations

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

Theatre

God of Carnage

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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... 

<em>Becky Shaw </em>

Theatre

Becky Shaw

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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.... 

Jon Kessler:<em> Kessler's Circus</em>

Art

Kessler's Circus

Tuesday 3/10 @ Deitch Projects

Jon Kessler spies on his own kinetic sculptures, feeding live video of his mobile creations into banks of jury-rigged monitors. His... 

Film

Everlasting Moments

Tuesday 3/10 @ Landmark Sunshine

Director Jan Troell hails from a different, more staid era of Swedish filmmaking, a time before vampires chewed up that country's... 

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

Art: Photography

This Is Not a Fashion Photograph

Tuesday 3/10 @ International Center of Photography

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

Theatre

The Savannah Disputation

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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 3/10 @ 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>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Good Negro

Tuesday 3/10 @ The Public Theater

Given the current debate about living in a post-racial United States, Tracey Scott Wilson's The Good Negro is a particularly timely... 

<em>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Tuesday 3/10 @ IFC Center

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

Art

Mars-1

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 3/10 @ Paragraph

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

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 3/10 @ Barbès

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

Art

The Garden at 4 AM

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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.,... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Tuesday 3/10 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Theatre

The Widowing Of Mrs. Holroyd

Tuesday 3/10 @ The Mint Theater

D.H. Lawrence is infamous for his provocative novels like Lady Chatterley's Lover and The Rainbow, but he also wrote eight plays.... 

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

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Tuesday 3/10 @ Various locations

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

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

Art

Ofri Cnaani

Tuesday 3/10 @ (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>Tokyo!</em>

Film

Tokyo!

Tuesday 3/10 @ Landmark Sunshine

An imaginative ode to Japan's capital told in three parts, Tokyo! is cleverly linked by themes of alienation, identity, and destiny.... 

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

Art

Alexander Melamid

Tuesday 3/10 @ Forum Gallery

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

<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 3/10 @ 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: Photography

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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... 

Theatre

Ruined

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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... 

Food/Wine

NYC Restaurant Week

Tuesday 3/10 @ Various locations

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

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Special Event

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Tuesday 3/10 @ Chelsea Market

Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of... 

Art

Corpus Extremus (LIFE+)

Tuesday 3/10 @ Exit Art

As far as fields of practice go, art and science have often been split like coasts — the former deciphers our... 

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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,... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Tuesday 3/10 @ Wollman Rink

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

Theatre

This Beautiful City

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 3/10 @ 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... 

Festival: Performing Arts

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema

Tuesday 3/10 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

An annual holiday from the local cineplex and its wholesale American fare, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema arrives touting the recent best... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Tuesday 3/10 @ Asia Society and Museum

Check out the premiere U.S. museum showing of Yang Fudong's Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest. The five-part cinematic masterpiece depicts...