Events on Sunday, March 22

<em>ROOMS a Rock Romance</em>

Theatre

ROOMS a Rock Romance

Sunday 3/22 @ 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!

Sunday 3/22 @ Japan Society

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

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Sunday 3/22 @ 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

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 3/22 @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School

As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big... 

Theatre

Ruined

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Sunday 3/22 @ 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

Sunday 3/22 @ Soho Rep

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

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

City Gems

War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Sunday 3/22 @ 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

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Sunday 3/22 @ 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

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>Tokyo Sonata</em>

Film

Tokyo Sonata

Sunday 3/22 @ IFC Center

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

Theatre

BELLES

Sunday 3/22 @ 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

Sunday 3/22 @ 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> Distracted </em>

Theatre

Distracted

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>This Is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection</em>

Art: Photography

This Is Not a Fashion Photograph

Sunday 3/22 @ International Center of Photography

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

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>La Didone</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Didone

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Art

Jonathan Horowitz

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>Tokyo!</em>

Film

Tokyo!

Sunday 3/22 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

Theatre

God of Carnage

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Art

Jenny Holzer

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 3/22 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>Z</em> (1969)

Film

Z

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>Pierre Bonnard:</em><em> The Late Interiors</em>

Art

Pierre Bonnard

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 3/22 @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from... 

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Art

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Sunday 3/22 @ 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>Zombie...The Serial Killer Next Door</em>

Theatre

Zombie

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Theatre

Venice Saved: A Seminar

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Art

House of Cards

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>Hunger</em>

Film

Hunger

Sunday 3/22 @ IFC Center

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

<em>An Oresteia</em>

Theatre

An Oresteia

Sunday 3/22 @ Classic Stage Company

CSC's production of poet Anne Carson's An Oresteia — a new translation of three separate Greek tragedies — is a fascinating... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>The Orchid Show: Brazilian Modern</em>

Special Event

The Orchid Show

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Good Negro

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Sunday 3/22 @ Various locations

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

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

Theatre

Red-Haired Thomas

Sunday 3/22 @ Ohio Theatre

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

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 3/22 @ Artists and Fleas

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

<em>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Sunday 3/22 @ IFC Center

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

Theatre

West Side Story

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

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

Art

Hernan Bas

Sunday 3/22 @ 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,... 

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Special Event

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Widowing Of Mrs. Holroyd

Sunday 3/22 @ 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.... 

Art: Photography

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

Sunday 3/22 @ 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

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

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

Art

Ofri Cnaani

Sunday 3/22 @ (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

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Film

Everlasting Moments

Sunday 3/22 @ 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

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Sunday 3/22 @ 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...