Events on Thursday, March 26

Tom Davis: <em>39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss, The Early Days of </em>SNL<em> from Someone Who Was There</em>

Books: Reading

Tom Davis w/ Mark Malkoff

Thursday 3/26 @ 92YTribeca

To paraphrase an old saying, if you remember early Saturday Night Live episodes, then you weren't there. A handful of behind-the-scenes... 

Janera presents <em>To End Modern Day Slavery: Dance for Freedom</em>

Special Event: Benefit

To End Modern Day Slavery: Dance for Freedom

Thursday 3/26 @ Chelsea Art Museum

Janera, an online social network for diaspora folks (aka global nomads), hosts tonight's salon to bring attention to the plight of... 

Housing Works DJ Challenge feat. Andrew WK vs $mall &cent;hange

Party

Housing Works DJ Challenge

Thursday 3/26 @ Housing Works Bookstore

Tonight, illustrious NYC crate-diggers Andrew WK and $mall ¢hange face off in a DJ battle of outlandishly epic proportions. Allowed to... 

Harlem Shakes' <em>Technicolor Health</em> Release Show

Music

Harlem Shakes

Thursday 3/26 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

While it's hard to predict the next New York buzz band, it would be a smart bet to place your money... 

The Prodigy

Music: Electronic

The Prodigy

Thursday 3/26 @ Roseland Ballroom

With new rave having firmly established itself in the 21st-century musical zeitgeist, what better time for a reappearance of old rave?... 

Ongoing Events

<em> Distracted </em>

Theatre

Distracted

Thursday 3/26 @ 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

Thursday 3/26 @ International Center of Photography

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

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Thursday 3/26 @ 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>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Widowing Of Mrs. Holroyd

Thursday 3/26 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Thursday 3/26 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>Exit the King</em>

Theatre

Exit the King

Thursday 3/26 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

400-year-old King Berenger (Geoffrey Rush) doesn't know he has only 90 minutes left to live at the beginning of Ionesco's rarely... 

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Art

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Thursday 3/26 @ 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

Thursday 3/26 @ 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>People Without History</em>

Theatre

People Without History

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

Art

Sites

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

Festival: Performing Arts

New Directors/New Films

Thursday 3/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

In a city brimming with strong film festivals, New Directors/New Films still emerges as one of the most important annual cinematic... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

Food/Wine

Dine in Brooklyn

Thursday 3/26 @ Various Brooklyn restaurants

It's great that the "week" in Restaurant Week has lasted for two months, but the series still doesn't cater (ha-cha!) to... 

The Color Palate Project

Food/Wine

The Color Palate Project

Thursday 3/26 @ Monkey Town

Curated by Brooklyn-based Swedish designer Helena Fredriksson, the rousing Color Palate Project enlists ten international artists to riff on an assigned... 

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

Special Event

The Orchid Show

Thursday 3/26 @ 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>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Thursday 3/26 @ 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>Work to Do</em>

Special Event

Work to Do

Thursday 3/26 @ 112 Greene Street

Soho's artistic heyday wasn't all that long ago, but thanks to the tourist-clogged streets and uber-fancy shops that sent many art-pushers... 

<em>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Thursday 3/26 @ 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

Ruined

Thursday 3/26 @ 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

Jonathan Horowitz

Thursday 3/26 @ 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>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Thursday 3/26 @ IFC Center

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

<em>An Oresteia</em>

Theatre

An Oresteia

Thursday 3/26 @ Classic Stage Company

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

Art

KRAZY!

Thursday 3/26 @ Japan Society

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

<em>Tokyo Sonata</em>

Film

Tokyo Sonata

Thursday 3/26 @ IFC Center

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

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Thursday 3/26 @ 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+)

Thursday 3/26 @ Exit Art

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

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Thursday 3/26 @ Paragraph

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

Theatre

Venice Saved: A Seminar

Thursday 3/26 @ 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>Pierre Bonnard:</em><em> The Late Interiors</em>

Art

Pierre Bonnard

Thursday 3/26 @ 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

God of Carnage

Thursday 3/26 @ 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>Z</em> (1969)

Film

Z

Thursday 3/26 @ 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>Zombie...The Serial Killer Next Door</em>

Theatre

Zombie

Thursday 3/26 @ 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

The Good Negro

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

Art

House of Cards

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

Film

Everlasting Moments

Thursday 3/26 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

Two Girls for Five Bucks and the Ten-Dollar Heartbreakers

Comedy

Two Girls for Five Bucks

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

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

Art

Tehching Hsieh

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

Theatre

Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them

Thursday 3/26 @ The Public Theater

Christopher Durang's latest satirical comedy, Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, doesn't take itself too seriously despite... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

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

Art

Hernan Bas

Thursday 3/26 @ 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>Hedda Gabler</em>

Theatre

Hedda Gabler

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

<em>Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling's Opera</em>

Theatre

Kaspar Hauser

Thursday 3/26 @ 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>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Thursday 3/26 @ Various locations

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

<em>ROOMS a Rock Romance</em>

Theatre

ROOMS a Rock Romance

Thursday 3/26 @ New World Stages

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

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

Art

Kessler's Circus

Thursday 3/26 @ Deitch Projects

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

Music: Hip-Hop

?uestlove

Thursday 3/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Although his name begins with "?," there is no questioning  the talent of the Roots' drummer and bandleader, ?uestlove. The hip-hop band... 

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

Theatre

SOS

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

Art

Jenny Holzer

Thursday 3/26 @ 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>Hunger</em>

Film

Hunger

Thursday 3/26 @ IFC Center

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

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

Theatre

Chasing Manet

Thursday 3/26 @ 59E59 Theaters

Tina Howe brings offbeat wit to nursing homes in her well-observed new play Chasing Manet. In it, a famous painter who's... 

Theatre

Rambo Solo

Thursday 3/26 @ Soho Rep

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

Art: Photography

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

Thursday 3/26 @ 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,... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

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

Art

Ofri Cnaani

Thursday 3/26 @ (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

Thursday 3/26 @ Various locations

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

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

Theatre

Red-Haired Thomas

Thursday 3/26 @ Ohio Theatre

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

<em>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Thursday 3/26 @ 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>Tokyo!</em>

Film

Tokyo!

Thursday 3/26 @ 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

BELLES

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Special Event

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Thursday 3/26 @ Chelsea Market

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

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Thursday 3/26 @ 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... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Thursday 3/26 @ 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

Thursday 3/26 @ 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...