Events on Friday, March 20

Art Battles Spring Fling

Special Event

Art Battles Spring Fling

Friday 3/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Tonight, four artists go head-to-head in a live art battle. But instead of using N 6th Street or some custom Nikes,... 

Ozomatli: Reunited with Chali 2na

Music: Global

Ozomatli

Friday 3/20 @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza

A mirror of LA eclecticism, Ozomatli's crew of Latino, black, white, and Asian members play a danceable mix of salsa, cumbia,... 

Sound Noir feat. DJ Dex w/ Big Bully

Party

Sound Noir

Friday 3/20 @ 286 Meserole St

Sound Noir unites NYC's disparate nightlife-loving tribes tonight with the inaugural party in its beautiful new Brooklyn loft space. DJ Dex,... 

Ongoing Events

Theatre

BELLES

Friday 3/20 @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row

The punny title of Mark Dunn's BELLES refers to both the now-archaic telephone company nickname "Ma Bell" and the six Walker... 

<em>Performance 1</em>: Tehching Hsieh

Art

Tehching Hsieh

Friday 3/20 @ 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... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Friday 3/20 @ 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> Distracted </em>

Theatre

Distracted

Friday 3/20 @ Laura Pels Theatre

In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the... 

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

Art

Simon Evans

Friday 3/20 @ 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.... 

Big Art Group: <em>SOS</em>

Theatre

SOS

Friday 3/20 @ The Kitchen

Big Art Group's hallucinatory theatrical happenings create immersive environments through real-time film projections. As the action unfolds, a forest of technology... 

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Art

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Friday 3/20 @ Cinders Gallery

Maxwell Williams curates \/1R7U4L 1|\|$4|\|17'/ ("Virtual Insanity"), a show of cheeky art that both celebrates and undermines our ever-tightening relationship with... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Friday 3/20 @ Various locations

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

<em>Enter Laughing</em>

Theatre

Enter Laughing

Friday 3/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kessler's Circus

Friday 3/20 @ Deitch Projects

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

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

Theatre

Zombie

Friday 3/20 @ 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... 

Soho Think Tank presents <em>Red-Haired Thomas</em>

Theatre

Red-Haired Thomas

Friday 3/20 @ Ohio Theatre

The central character of Robert Lyons' Red-Haired Thomas is a snarky Thomas Jefferson (Alan Benditt). The lively patriot tells the tale... 

Art

House of Cards

Friday 3/20 @ 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>Tokyo Sonata</em>

Film

Tokyo Sonata

Friday 3/20 @ IFC Center

Kyoshi Kurosawa normally plies his trade in the horror genre, so Tokyo Sonata, a meditation about modern domesticity, marks a compelling... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Friday 3/20 @ 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 Orchid Show: Brazilian Modern</em>

Special Event

The Orchid Show

Friday 3/20 @ 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>Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling's Opera</em>

Theatre

Kaspar Hauser

Friday 3/20 @ 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

Friday 3/20 @ 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>Hedda Gabler</em>

Theatre

Hedda Gabler

Friday 3/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Ofri Cnaani

Friday 3/20 @ (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 Curious Case of Benjamin Button</em>

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Friday 3/20 @ Various locations

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

Theatre

God of Carnage

Friday 3/20 @ 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>Tokyo!</em>

Film

Tokyo!

Friday 3/20 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

<em>People Without History</em>

Theatre

People Without History

Friday 3/20 @ The Performing Garage

In his latest work, People Without History, Richard Maxwell serves up a sci-fi take on the Battle of Shrewsbury, imagining a... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Friday 3/20 @ Paragraph

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

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Friday 3/20 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Art

Corpus Extremus (LIFE+)

Friday 3/20 @ Exit Art

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

<em>La Didone</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Didone

Friday 3/20 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

Gleefully existing at the intersection of camp and high-brow culture, the Wooster Group's La Didone sets a new standard for genre-bending... 

<em>Z</em> (1969)

Film

Z

Friday 3/20 @ Film Forum

Off in make-believe, Zorro emblazoned "Z"s onto hillsides and exploitative aristocrats as his qui vive declaration. But in 1965, the billowy... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Friday 3/20 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Theatre

West Side Story

Friday 3/20 @ The Palace Theatre

Argentine opera singer Josephine Scaglione's magnetically angelic presence contrasts beautifully with the unforgiving world around her in Arthur Laurents' gritty revival... 

Art

Jonathan Horowitz

Friday 3/20 @ 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... 

Film

Cronenberg Classics

Friday 3/20 @ IFC Center

While his recent work has fixated more on the nature of violence, no other filmmaker has delved into our unholy relationship... 

Theatre

Ruined

Friday 3/20 @ 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... 

Art

Mars-1

Friday 3/20 @ 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>Hunger</em>

Film

Hunger

Friday 3/20 @ IFC Center

Hunger takes its aesthetic and narrative cues from its protagonist, IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender). Focusing on Sands' last... 

Two Girls for Five Bucks and the Ten-Dollar Heartbreakers

Comedy

Two Girls for Five Bucks

Friday 3/20 @ Ars Nova Theater

Two Girls for Five Bucks sounds cheap, but really it's a steal. This sketch-comedy duo's show — complete with the Ten-Dollar... 

Hernan Bas: <em>Works from the Rubell Family Collection</em>

Art

Hernan Bas

Friday 3/20 @ 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,... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Friday 3/20 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

Friday 3/20 @ 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>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Friday 3/20 @ 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... 

Art

Sites

Friday 3/20 @ 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... 

<em>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Friday 3/20 @ Landmark Sunshine

Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... 

Theatre

The Widowing Of Mrs. Holroyd

Friday 3/20 @ 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>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Friday 3/20 @ 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... 

<em>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Friday 3/20 @ IFC Center

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

Theatre

The Good Negro

Friday 3/20 @ 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... 

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Special Event

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Friday 3/20 @ Chelsea Market

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

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Friday 3/20 @ 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>This Is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection</em>

Art: Photography

This Is Not a Fashion Photograph

Friday 3/20 @ International Center of Photography

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

Open Tables

Workshop/Class

Open Tables

Friday 3/20 @ Sputnik

Sometimes it feels like NYC's got as many "DJ"s as it does "actors." But, if you're a budding turntablist serious about... 

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

City Gems

War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Friday 3/20 @ 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... 

DREYER

Film

DREYER

Friday 3/20 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

The great Danish early-cinema auteur Carl Theodor Dreyer produced otherworldly art out of basic, reactive elements — namely faith, family, and... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Friday 3/20 @ 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

Jenny Holzer

Friday 3/20 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Jenny Holzer thrives outside the more traditional, brick-and-mortar art world of paint and photography, using LED and light projection as her... 

Food/Wine

NYC Restaurant Week

Friday 3/20 @ Various locations

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

<em>ROOMS a Rock Romance</em>

Theatre

ROOMS a Rock Romance

Friday 3/20 @ New World Stages

ROOMS a Rock Romance may well be the musical for this new economic era. Spare and briskly paced, Rooms has a... 

Art

KRAZY!

Friday 3/20 @ Japan Society

For all the otaku and hikikomori out there, this exhibition needs no further explanation — but for anyone curious about how... 

Film

Everlasting Moments

Friday 3/20 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Friday 3/20 @ 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... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Friday 3/20 @ 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... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Friday 3/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Visual artists have long been interested in the stage as an arena for experimentation, and their interdisciplinary collaborations have immeasurably enriched...