Events on Saturday, March 21

Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament

Special Event

Cut&Paste

Saturday 3/21 @ Webster Hall

Break out the Wacom tablet: it's that time of year again, when designers step out of pristine, white-walled studios to showcase... 

Mister Saturday Night feat. Todd Terry and Ewan Pearson

Music: DJ

Ewan Pearson

Saturday 3/21 @ Santos Party House

Whether Ewan Pearson is programming and producing for Goldfrapp and Tracey Thorn, remixing Supermayer and Hot Chip, producing his own tracks... 

Dance

Astoria Music Society: Spring Song Dance

Saturday 3/21 @ LaGuardia Performing Arts Center

The Astoria Symphony celebrates the first full day of spring with its debut dance recital. Music director Silas Nathaniel Huff's symphonic... 

Raphael Saadiq

Music

Raphael Saadiq

Saturday 3/21 @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza

Raphael Saadiq described his 2002 debut, Instant Vintage, as "gospeldelic" — a funky hybrid of spiritualism, turntablism, and deeply groovy funk.... 

Ongoing Events

Theatre

West Side Story

Saturday 3/21 @ 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

House of Cards

Saturday 3/21 @ 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>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Saturday 3/21 @ 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

The Good Negro

Saturday 3/21 @ 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>This Is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection</em>

Art: Photography

This Is Not a Fashion Photograph

Saturday 3/21 @ 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 Widowing Of Mrs. Holroyd

Saturday 3/21 @ 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.... 

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

Art

Ofri Cnaani

Saturday 3/21 @ (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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Saturday 3/21 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Theatre

Rambo Solo

Saturday 3/21 @ Soho Rep

Contrary to what its name implies, the Obie award-winning Nature Theater of Oklahoma is based in New York, and is known... 

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

Art

Kessler's Circus

Saturday 3/21 @ 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

Saturday 3/21 @ 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>Hedda Gabler</em>

Theatre

Hedda Gabler

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

Art

Jenny Holzer

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

<em>Tokyo Sonata</em>

Film

Tokyo Sonata

Saturday 3/21 @ IFC Center

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

<em>Z</em> (1969)

Film

Z

Saturday 3/21 @ 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>La Didone</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Didone

Saturday 3/21 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

Saturday 3/21 @ 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>People Without History</em>

Theatre

People Without History

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Saturday 3/21 @ Artists and Fleas

The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... 

<em>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Saturday 3/21 @ 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>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Saturday 3/21 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

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

Art

Hernan Bas

Saturday 3/21 @ 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>Tokyo!</em>

Film

Tokyo!

Saturday 3/21 @ 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> Distracted </em>

Theatre

Distracted

Saturday 3/21 @ Laura Pels Theatre

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

Art

Mars-1

Saturday 3/21 @ 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

Saturday 3/21 @ Paragraph

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

Theatre

Ruined

Saturday 3/21 @ 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>The Orchid Show: Brazilian Modern</em>

Special Event

The Orchid Show

Saturday 3/21 @ 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>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

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Art

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Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

DREYER

Film

DREYER

Saturday 3/21 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

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

Two Girls for Five Bucks and the Ten-Dollar Heartbreakers

Comedy

Two Girls for Five Bucks

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

Art

Corpus Extremus (LIFE+)

Saturday 3/21 @ Exit Art

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

Film

Cronenberg Classics

Saturday 3/21 @ IFC Center

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

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Saturday 3/21 @ 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

Sites

Saturday 3/21 @ 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>Hunger</em>

Film

Hunger

Saturday 3/21 @ IFC Center

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

Theatre

God of Carnage

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

Party

Make Love, Not War

Saturday 3/21 @ Black Betty

During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

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

Art

Simon Evans

Saturday 3/21 @ 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.... 

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

Theatre

Red-Haired Thomas

Saturday 3/21 @ Ohio Theatre

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

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

City Gems

War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Saturday 3/21 @ Various locations

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

Theatre

Venice Saved: A Seminar

Saturday 3/21 @ P.S. 122

David Levine's brainy, interactive theatre piece, Venice Saved: A Seminar, gathers actors and the audience around the table to debate political... 

<em>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Saturday 3/21 @ 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

Saturday 3/21 @ IFC Center

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

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Saturday 3/21 @ 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

KRAZY!

Saturday 3/21 @ Japan Society

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

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Special Event

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Saturday 3/21 @ 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>ROOMS a Rock Romance</em>

Theatre

ROOMS a Rock Romance

Saturday 3/21 @ New World Stages

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

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

Art

Tehching Hsieh

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

SOS

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD

Performing Arts: Opera

The Met: Live in HD

Saturday 3/21 @ BAM

Thanks to HD transmissions, opera-goers no longer have take out mortgages or travel far to attend the Met. The first Live... 

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

Art

Pierre Bonnard

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

Theatre

BELLES

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

Art

Jonathan Horowitz

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

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

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Saturday 3/21 @ 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>Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling's Opera</em>

Theatre

Kaspar Hauser

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

Film

Everlasting Moments

Saturday 3/21 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Saturday 3/21 @ 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

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Saturday 3/21 @ 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...