Events on Tuesday, March 31
Tuesday 3/31 @ Lexington Avenue Armory
Choice Eats promises to be larger in scope and even more ambitious than last year's tasting extravaganza. Village Voice's inner- and...
Radio City Speaker Series: Free Speech and the Power of the Press
Tuesday 3/31 @ Radio City Music Hall
The hits just keep on coming. Last month brought Bill Maher and Ann Coulter to the Radio City stage; tonight, the...
Notes on Conceptualisms: An Evening with Ugly Duckling Presse
Tuesday 3/31 @ The Kitchen
To appropriate a line from Gertrude Stein, conceptual writers know: "To write is to write is to write is to write…"...
Tuesday 3/31 @ Secret Williamsburg location
Calling all shutterbugs: the fine folks at LVHRD need your help to break a world record. New York's top party photogs...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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,...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Tuesday 3/31 @ Various locations
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born...
Tuesday 3/31 @ IFC Center
Kyoshi Kurosawa normally plies his trade in the horror genre, so Tokyo Sonata, a meditation about modern domesticity, marks a compelling...
Tuesday 3/31 @ Quad Cinema
We first heard about Plato's Retreat from a small cameo in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam. Years later, we didn't need...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/31 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 3/31 @ Exit Art
As far as fields of practice go, art and science have often been split like coasts — the former deciphers our...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/31 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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....
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/31 @ Classic Stage Company
CSC's production of poet Anne Carson's An Oresteia — a new translation of three separate Greek tragedies — is a fascinating...
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
Tuesday 3/31 @ International Center of Photography
The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures...
Tuesday 3/31 @ Landmark Sunshine
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/31 @ (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...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/31 @ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
charity: water at Chelsea Market
Tuesday 3/31 @ Chelsea Market
Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of...
Tuesday 3/31 @ Deitch Projects
Jon Kessler spies on his own kinetic sculptures, feeding live video of his mobile creations into banks of jury-rigged monitors. His...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/31 @ Sputnik
Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/31 @ Laura Pels Theatre
In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the...
Tuesday 3/31 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/31 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
For their 11th-annual festival, the folks at MATA have put together a stellar lineup, featuring string-and-brass ensembles, J-pop knob twiddlers, coffee-cup...
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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
Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...
