Events on Thursday, March 5
Thursday 3/ 5 @ The Bell House-
Celebrating the first release from long-missing '50s folk singer Connie Converse, Miho Hatori and Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears hit...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ NYU Kimmel Center
Tonight's eclectic show benefits the Chill Foundation, which helps at-risk, inner-city kids learn how to snowboard. Chamber-pop sextet Ra Ra Riot...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 3/ 5 @ New World Stages
ROOMS a Rock Romance may well be the musical for this new economic era. Spare and briskly paced, Rooms has a...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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,...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Exit Art
As far as fields of practice go, art and science have often been split like coasts — the former deciphers our...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Landmark Sunshine
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ The Theatre at Saint Peter's
Enter Laughing: The Musical is old-school musical comedy at its best. Joseph Stein, who wrote the book for Fiddler on the...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Museum of the City of New York
The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ James Cohan Gallery
Simon Evans debuts his artistic pluralism at the James Cohen Gallery with Island Time, a series of works inspired by island-survival-as-metaphor....
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Cinders Gallery
Known for her kaleidoscopic highlighter-bright designs, but also for venturing through organic patterns and naturalistic wood-panel drawings, Maya Hayuk is a...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
Becky Shaw mixes screwed-up pseudo-siblings, a lightning-fast marriage, and an awkward blind date into one fantastic screwball romance of a play....
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
Thursday 3/ 5 @ International Center of Photography
The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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....
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch
For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Vineyard Theatre
Downtown docu-musical-theatre collective the Civilians created This Beautiful City from interviews they conducted in Colorado Springs, the conservative evangelical capital of...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Laura Pels Theatre
In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Gana Art Gallery
The erotic monstrosities of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights meets Giacometti's minimalist haunted-house sculpture, The Palace at 4 a.m.,...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ (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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Cort Theatre
Obama's entering the White House, but one downside to this otherwise fairly hopeful fact is that we have very few Will...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Piers 92 & 94
While the economy has been slowing, the Armory Show has been growing. The 2009 edition expands from Pier 94, which boasts...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Various locations
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Playwrights Horizons
Crazy is relative in Evan Smith's very funny new play about a born-again evangelical door-to-door missionary, played with farcical exuberance by...
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
Thursday 3/ 5 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
An annual holiday from the local cineplex and its wholesale American fare, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema arrives touting the recent best...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ P.S. 122
The National Theater of the United States of America (NTUSA) is much more subversive than its official name implies. This fearless...
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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,...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ V&A
Erik Lindman is a talented young artist whose work reflects both a mature sensibility and a goofy sense of humor. House...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Angelika Film Center
This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Classic Stage Company
If you prefer your celebrity couples in period costume, this production of Uncle Vanya is a smart choice; Peter Sarsgaard and...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Various locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
