Events on Friday, April 10

Ben Sollee

Music

Ben Sollee

Friday 4/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Cellist Ben Sollee is one to watch. According to NPR, he was one of 2007's best talents. So why have you... 

The Wrens w/ Amazing Baby

Music

The Wrens

Friday 4/10 @ The Bell House-

Much like your average adolescent, the Wrens have found plenty to brood about. Formed in the late '80s, this band of... 

The Wedding of Winkel & Balktick

Party

The Wedding of Winkel & Balktick

Friday 4/10 @ Secret Brooklyn location

Party people Winkel and Balktick have entertained the underground and NYC fringe folk for years; with tonight's party, they pledge undying... 

Ongoing Events

<em> Distracted </em>

Theatre

Distracted

Friday 4/10 @ 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>Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea</em>

Art

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Friday 4/10 @ 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>La Didone</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Didone

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

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

Art

Ofri Cnaani

Friday 4/10 @ (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... 

Alyssa Monks

Art

Alyssa Monks

Friday 4/10 @ DFN Gallery

Alyssa Monks' new paintings up at DFN are simply stunning. A continuation of the artist's bather series (contemporary versions of classic... 

<em>Exit the King</em>

Theatre

Exit the King

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

<em>Work to Do</em>

Special Event

Work to Do

Friday 4/10 @ 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

Friday 4/10 @ Landmark Sunshine

Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... 

<em>Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage</em>

Theatre

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

Friday 4/10 @ The Playhouse, Abrons Arts

A collaborative effort between San Francisco's Shotgun Players and New York downtown theatre ensemble Banana Bag & Bodice, Beowulf: A Thousand... 

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Special Event

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Friday 4/10 @ Chelsea Market

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

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

<em>The Old West: Myth, Character, and Reinvention</em>

Film

The Old West: Myth, Character, and Reinvention

Friday 4/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Tall tales of the Old West loom over our imaginations like the Sequoias out yonder. Many of these myths were self-invented:... 

<em>Valentino: The Last Emperor</em>

Film: Documentary

Valentino: The Last Emperor

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

Theatre

End Days

Friday 4/10 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre

Deborah Zoe Laufer's End Days is a comedic and carefully observed portrait of a family that left NYC for the suburbs... 

Art

Corpus Extremus (LIFE+)

Friday 4/10 @ Exit Art

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

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Friday 4/10 @ 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>American Swing</em>

Film: Documentary

American Swing

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

<em>Pierre Bonnard:</em><em> The Late Interiors</em>

Art

Pierre Bonnard

Friday 4/10 @ 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

Ruined

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

<em>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Friday 4/10 @ IFC Center

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

Theatre

BELLES

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

Food/Wine

Dine in Brooklyn

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Friday 4/10 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

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

Art

Hernan Bas

Friday 4/10 @ 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,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Friday 4/10 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Red Fly/Blue Bottle</em>

Theatre

Red Fly/Blue Bottle

Friday 4/10 @ HERE Arts Center

Red Fly/Blue Bottle is a multimedia experiment conducted by the play's protagonist, Clarissa. An entomologist, her scientific specialty both explains and... 

Art

Sites

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

Sophie Calle: <em>Take Care of Yourself</em>

Art

Sophie Calle

Friday 4/10 @ Paula Cooper Gallery

Displaying a unique approach to what might otherwise inflict emotional trauma, artist Sophie Calle rose to challenge an ex's breakup email... 

Theatre

God of Carnage

Friday 4/10 @ 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>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Friday 4/10 @ 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>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Friday 4/10 @ Various locations

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

<em>An Oresteia</em>

Theatre

An Oresteia

Friday 4/10 @ Classic Stage Company

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

Martha Friedman: <em>The Organization of Batter</em>

Art

Martha Friedman

Friday 4/10 @ Wallspace

Riffing on Rosalind Krauss' essay, "The Double Negative," in which the author considers the "organization of matter" through systems and repetition,... 

<em>Tokyo Sonata</em>

Film

Tokyo Sonata

Friday 4/10 @ IFC Center

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

<em>Waiting for Godot</em>

Theatre

Waiting for Godot

Friday 4/10 @ Studio 54

Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by... 

<em>Tangled Alphabets</em>: Le&oacute;n Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Art

Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Friday 4/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

For all its fundamental utility, language can also warp into an abstract whatsit — at least in the artful hands of... 

Theatre

Chasing Manet

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

<em>This Is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection</em>

Art: Photography

This Is Not a Fashion Photograph

Friday 4/10 @ International Center of Photography

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

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

Art

Jenny Holzer

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

Friday 4/10 @ 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,... 

<em>ROOMS a Rock Romance</em>

Theatre

ROOMS a Rock Romance

Friday 4/10 @ New World Stages

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

Spring Exhibitions

Art

Spring Exhibitions

Friday 4/10 @ Artists Space

Flowers that manage to exist in cement-road crevices: a timeless analogy for nature's resiliency in the face of man, and also,... 

<em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</em>

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Friday 4/10 @ Various locations

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

<em>Macbeth&nbsp;</em>

Theatre

Macbeth

Friday 4/10 @ Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center

Shakespeare leaves everything to the imagination, which is why the production of Macbeth by director John Castro and his Hipgnosis Theatre... 

Theatre

Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them

Friday 4/10 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

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

Art

Tehching Hsieh

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

<em>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Friday 4/10 @ Circle in the Square Theatre

Norman's plan for a "dirty weekend" with his sister-in-law Annie turns into a couple days of chaos with the whole family... 

Open Tables

Workshop/Class

Open Tables

Friday 4/10 @ Sputnik

Sometimes it feels like NYC's got as many "DJ"s as it does "actors." But, if you're a budding turntablist serious about... 

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Art

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Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

The Orchid Show

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

Art

Jonathan Horowitz

Friday 4/10 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Friday 4/10 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Theatre

The Good Negro

Friday 4/10 @ 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

KRAZY!

Friday 4/10 @ Japan Society

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

<em>Hunger</em>

Film

Hunger

Friday 4/10 @ IFC Center

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

Theatre

Moonchildren

Friday 4/10 @ Wings Theatre

Theatrical-upstart troupe the Attic presents Moonchildren, the beloved (if underperformed) debut work by Michael Weller. The play subtly captures the zeitgeist... 

<em>Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West</em>

Art: Photography

Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

<em>Goodbye Solo</em>

Film

Goodbye Solo

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Friday 4/10 @ 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... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Friday 4/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

In recent decades "landscape" has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Friday 4/10 @ 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...