Events on Tuesday, April 7
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Just because Obama's in office doesn't mean we're off the hook. There's work to be done and drinks to be had,...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ Union Hall
Adult Ed presents another round of informative imbibing tonight, this one focused on varying hues, their implications, and their histories. Explore...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ Santos Party House
A drool fest for old-school noiseniks and the art-world elite, tonight's Santos Sessions party brings together similarly minded bands and performers...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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 4/ 7 @ 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 4/ 7 @ 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,...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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 4/ 7 @ 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...
Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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 4/ 7 @ (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 4/ 7 @ 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 4/ 7 @ 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 4/ 7 @ Sputnik
Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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 4/ 7 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ Exit Art
As far as fields of practice go, art and science have often been split like coasts — the former deciphers our...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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 4/ 7 @ 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 4/ 7 @ 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...
charity: water at Chelsea Market
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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 4/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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 4/ 7 @ Classic Stage Company
CSC's production of poet Anne Carson's An Oresteia — a new translation of three separate Greek tragedies — is a fascinating...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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 4/ 7 @ 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 4/ 7 @ 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...
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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 4/ 7 @ 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...
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ International Center of Photography
The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ IFC Center
Kyoshi Kurosawa normally plies his trade in the horror genre, so Tokyo Sonata, a meditation about modern domesticity, marks a compelling...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Tuesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
