Events on Thursday, March 26
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- Music: Electronic
- The Prodigy
- @ Roseland Ballroom
- With new rave having firmly established itself in the 21st-century musical zeitgeist, what better time for a reappearance of old rave?... View details »
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- To End Modern Day Slavery: Dance for Freedom
- @ 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... View details »
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- Reading
- Tom Davis w/ Mark Malkoff
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Harlem Shakes
- @ 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... View details »
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- Housing Works DJ Challenge
- @ 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... View details »
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- Kessler's Circus
- @ Deitch Projects
- Jon Kessler spies on his own kinetic sculptures, feeding live video of his mobile creations into banks of jury-rigged monitors. His... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Good Negro
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- BELLES
- @ 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... View details »
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- Rachel Getting Married
- @ Various locations
- The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Distracted
- @ Laura Pels Theatre
- In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the... View details »
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- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- @ Various locations
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born... View details »
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- Sites
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hair
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Venice Saved: A Seminar
- @ 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... View details »
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- DREYER
- @ BAM Rose Cinemas
- The great Danish early-cinema auteur Carl Theodor Dreyer produced otherworldly art out of basic, reactive elements — namely faith, family, and... View details »
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- House of Cards
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sleepwalk With Me
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tehching Hsieh
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- God of Carnage
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Competition
- Work to Do
- @ 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... View details »
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- Everlasting Moments
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- Director Jan Troell hails from a different, more staid era of Swedish filmmaking, a time before vampires chewed up that country's... View details »
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- Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them
- @ 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... View details »
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- \/1R7U4L 1|\|$4|\|17'/
- @ Cinders
- Maxwell Williams curates \/1R7U4L 1|\|$4|\|17'/ ("Virtual Insanity"), a show of cheeky art that both celebrates and undermines our ever-tightening relationship with... View details »
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- charity: water at Chelsea Market
- @ Chelsea Market
- Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of... View details »
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- Corpus Extremus (LIFE+)
- @ Exit Art
- As far as fields of practice go, art and science have often been split like coasts — the former deciphers our... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Ruined
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jonathan Horowitz
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Valentino: The Last Emperor
- @ Film Forum
- The titular allusion of Matt Tyrnauer's warts-and-all portrait of Italian couturier Valentino Garavani to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 epic is an apt... View details »
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- Pierre Bonnard
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- An Oresteia
- @ Classic Stage Company
- CSC's production of poet Anne Carson's An Oresteia — a new translation of three separate Greek tragedies — is a fascinating... View details »
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- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- @ 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... View details »
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- Our Town
- @ 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... View details »
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- Billy Elliot
- @ Imperial Theatre
- The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... View details »
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- South Pacific
- @ 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... View details »
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- Rambo Solo
- @ Soho Rep
- Contrary to what its name implies, the Obie award-winning Nature Theater of Oklahoma is based in New York, and is known... View details »
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- Zombie
- @ 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... View details »
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- KRAZY!
- @ Japan Society
- For all the otaku and hikikomori out there, this exhibition needs no further explanation — but for anyone curious about how... View details »
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- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- West Side Story
- @ 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... View details »
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- Kaspar Hauser
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tokyo!
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- An imaginative ode to Japan's capital told in three parts, Tokyo! is cleverly linked by themes of alienation, identity, and destiny.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
- @ International Center of Photography
- The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- ROOMS a Rock Romance
- @ New World Stages
- ROOMS a Rock Romance may well be the musical for this new economic era. Spare and briskly paced, Rooms has a... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- New Directors/New Films
- @ 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... View details »
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- Z
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tokyo Sonata
- @ IFC Center
- Kyoshi Kurosawa normally plies his trade in the horror genre, so Tokyo Sonata, a meditation about modern domesticity, marks a compelling... View details »
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- Goodbye Solo
- @ Angelika Film Center
- At a time when the American cinematic landscape is as barren as a date between two mumblecore actors, North Carolina-born Ramin... View details »
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- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Orchid Show
- @ 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... View details »
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- People Without History
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- Kenneth Anger
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- SOS
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- Two Girls for Five Bucks
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Animation
- Waltz With Bashir
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... View details »
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- The Color Palate Project
- @ Monkey Town
- Curated by Brooklyn-based Swedish designer Helena Fredriksson, the rousing Color Palate Project enlists ten international artists to riff on an assigned... View details »
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- Cronenberg Classics
- @ IFC Center
- While his recent work has fixated more on the nature of violence, no other filmmaker has delved into our unholy relationship... View details »
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- Jenny Holzer
- @ 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... View details »
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- In the Heights
- @ 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... View details »
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- Hedda Gabler
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Widowing Of Mrs. Holroyd
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Gomorrah
- @ IFC Center
- No less than Marty Scorsese helped distribute this grim intersection of five interlocking storylines about the Camorra, the Italian mafia arm... View details »
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- Behind the Screen: Video Game Technology
- @ Museum of the Moving Image
- Sure, some of us like a microbrew to accompany our vintage video-gaming — and for that, we head to Barcade. But... View details »
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- Exit the King
- @ 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... View details »
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- Ofri Cnaani
- @ (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... View details »
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- Hunger
- @ IFC Center
- Hunger takes its aesthetic and narrative cues from its protagonist, IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender). Focusing on Sands' last... View details »
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- Dine in Brooklyn
- @ 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... View details »
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- Hernan Bas
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Red-Haired Thomas
- @ Ohio Theatre
- The central character of Robert Lyons' Red-Haired Thomas is a snarky Thomas Jefferson (Alan Benditt). The lively patriot tells the tale... View details »
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- Chasing Manet
- @ 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... View details »
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- Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
- @ 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... View details »
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- Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
- @ 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... View details »
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- Lutz Bacher: MY SECRET LIFE
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present MY SECRET LIFE, Lutz Bacher's first museum survey exhibition, which spans several decades... View details »
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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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- Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
- @ 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... View details »
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- Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich.... View details »
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