Events on Sunday, March 29
Sunday 3/29 @ The Hilton
We're told all it'll take to get out of this recession is a little creativity — and we think its about...
Sunday 3/29 @ Highline Ballroom
Steeped in the lore of an ancient and mysterious age, the Pagan Knights Tour isn't as much a metal fest as...
Sunday 3/29 @ Film Forum
When Jules Dassin directed 1948's The Naked City, he set out to make a dirt-under-the-fingernails crime flick that would wallop audiences...
Sunday 3/29 @ Cake Shop
In line with fuzz-punkers like No Age and Times New Viking, Waaves mastermind Nathan Williams is as inspired by the Beach...
Sunday 3/29 @ Radegast Hall & Beer Garden
Pop a blood thinner and get ready to indulge in America's favorite pork product. On March 29, comedian Matthew Timms brings...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ Landmark Sunshine
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ IFC Center
Kyoshi Kurosawa normally plies his trade in the horror genre, so Tokyo Sonata, a meditation about modern domesticity, marks a compelling...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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....
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
Sunday 3/29 @ International Center of Photography
The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures...
Sunday 3/29 @ Monkey Town
Curated by Brooklyn-based Swedish designer Helena Fredriksson, the rousing Color Palate Project enlists ten international artists to riff on an assigned...
Sunday 3/29 @ (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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ New World Stages
ROOMS a Rock Romance may well be the musical for this new economic era. Spare and briskly paced, Rooms has a...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West
Sunday 3/29 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
From Zane Grey's far-fetched dime novels to homespun images describing a seemingly limitless stretch of adventure, the American West — as...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
Sunday 3/29 @ 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,...
Sunday 3/29 @ Soho Rep
Contrary to what its name implies, the Obie award-winning Nature Theater of Oklahoma is based in New York, and is known...
Sunday 3/29 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 3/29 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
Sunday 3/29 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
Thirty-odd years after reintroducing Gustave Caillebotte to American audiences, the Brooklyn Museum offers another marvelous paean to a figure whose posthumous...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ Laura Pels Theatre
In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Sunday 3/29 @ Various locations
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
charity: water at Chelsea Market
Sunday 3/29 @ Chelsea Market
Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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,...
Sunday 3/29 @ Classic Stage Company
CSC's production of poet Anne Carson's An Oresteia — a new translation of three separate Greek tragedies — is a fascinating...
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Sunday 3/29 @ 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
Sunday 3/29 @ 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
Sunday 3/29 @ 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...
