Events on Saturday, February 27
Saturday 2/27 @ Skirball Center NYU
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is about romantic love and love of the theatre all gone wrong. However, the Bard purposely...
Saturday 2/27 @ 3rd Ward
Purim has to be HEEB's favorite holiday: it's a huge celebration with masks, music, and noisemakers, and a great excuse to...
Saturday 2/27 @ Joe's Pub
For those who thought Pulp Fiction (1994) could have benefited from more skin, Casino O' Fortune Cookie Productions has your fix....
Saturday 2/27 @ YogaWorks Soho
The latest edition of Get Your Dance On kicks the dance-party-for-the-soul up a notch at YogaWorks Soho, with two floors featuring...
Purim Party with Hadag Nahash at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 2/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Hadag Nahash, meaning Snake Fish, is one...
Haydn’s Keyboard Trios with András Schiff
Saturday 2/27 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Saturday, February 27, 2010, 8pm
András Schiff, piano
Yuuko Shiokawa, violin
Miklós Perényi, cello
...
Saturday 2/27 @ Terminal 5
2nd Annual Salute to Texas Independence Day Pat Green Performing with: Eli Young Band / Reckless Kelly / Roger Creager Any...
Saturday 2/27 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Parents and kids: Come in your PJ's to a Shabbat good-bye party! Smell the spices, watch the candle shine, sing with...
The Big Quiz Thing @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 2/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
7pm doors & show
$7
Strictly 21+
“It might save us from the hell that is...
Saturday 2/27 @ Symphony Space
Astrograss' spirited mix of bluegrass, folk music and humor makes for a show you can't take your eyes or ears off...
Saturday 2/27 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Future Rock is electronic sensory overload. The trio has steadily been touring the US, electrifying audiences and developing a dedicated following...
Saturday 2/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Le Bingo!
with Murray Hill & Linda Simpson 6:30pm
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Saturday 2/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Freedom Party NYC, NYC's #1...
Future Rock w/ Junior Boys (DJ Set) / FIGO (DJ Set)
Saturday 2/27 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Future Rock is electronic sensory overload. The trio has steadily been touring the US, electrifying audiences and developing a dedicated following...
Glenn Branca Official Record Release Show
Saturday 2/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Glenn Branca performing his new record The Ascension: The Sequel, plus a Robert Longo slideshow from his re-release of Men In...
Saturday 2/27 @ New Museum
Ute Meta Bauer will talk with Otto Piene about the way artists and scientists at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies...
The Filmshop Presents Unprotected - A night of short film and music w/ Emanuel and the Fear
Saturday 2/27 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The FilmShop presents: UNPROTECTED Chinese Ruffians. Unsightly Celebrity. Girl adrift. Vulnerable Narcissists. Humdrum Penetration. This is just a sample of what...
Saturday 2/27 @ 92YTribeca
"Without a doubt, the best film at SXSW 2009 was writer-director David Lowery's lovely, lived-in, slow-burning debut feature St. Nick"- Aaron...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 2/27 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Saturday 2/27 @ 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...
Saturday 2/27 @ The High Line, Chelsea Market Passage
Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch is a man in search of lost time. He feeds viewers a Proustian Madeleine for their senses,...
Saturday 2/27 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 2/27 @ The Brick Theater
The Debate Society's (Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, Michael Cyril Creighton, Oliver Butler) concoction of misfires is a fast-moving hour of genuine...
Saturday 2/27 @ August Wilson Theatre
Like the signs on the buses say: The hits just keep on comin' — five years now for this crowd-pleasing bio-musical...
Saturday 2/27 @ Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church
When three modern-day music buffs hole up in a wintry cabin to seek warmth and wet their whistle, they find themselves...
Saturday 2/27 @ Laurie Beechman Theater
Book editor Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir. It's appropriate, then, that Karen Finley begins The Jackie Look with a...
Saturday 2/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Although Tim Burton is best known for whimsically macabre classics like Beetlejuice (1988) and Edward Scissorhands (1990), the prolific filmmaker also...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Carmen Bambach discusses the life and work of the painter, draftsman, teacher, and poet Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572) on the...
Saturday 2/27 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Saturday 2/27 @ Jacob K. Javits Center
This vino convention crams years of knowledge into two days, making it perfect for both oenophiles looking for the next great...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Saturday 2/27 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Saturday 2/27 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Saturday 2/27 @ Performance Space 122
Radiohole's PBR-popping, hyper-charged Whatever, Heaven Allow is a colorful mess — cast members even hurl brightly hued Jell-O shots into their...
Saturday 2/27 @ New York City Center
Bill Cain's fascinating new play gives us a glimpse into the day-to-day lives of Shakespeare and his acting company, the King's...
Saturday 2/27 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Saturday 2/27 @ St. Luke’s Theatre (308 West 46th Street)
Award-winning writer/director Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee addreses an overlooked part of history: the first African-American fighter pilots in the...
Saturday 2/27 @ Various locations
Back in their respective days, Hiroshima Mon Amour(1959) and The Lover (1984) caused quite a scandal for author Marguerite Duras, who may or may...
Saturday 2/27 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
Take the Whitney lift to floor five if a) you missed the past 80-or-so years of Biennials or b) your inner...
Saturday 2/27 @ Cort Theatre
Arthur Miller's modern tragedy A View from the Bridge could easily veer into melodrama in less skilled hands, but Gregory Mosher's...
Saturday 2/27 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Saturday 2/27 @ Guggenheim Museum
It's been eight-plus decades since the six arresting paintings in this exhibition have been shown together. Their emphatic use of color...
Saturday 2/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A typographic manual and manifesto, Jan Tschichold's 1928 The New Typography heralded a "see" change in how the printed page was...
Saturday 2/27 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Saturday 2/27 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Saturday 2/27 @ American Museum of Natural History
Hop aboard a stuffed camel for this four-city ancient trade route, making stops in X'ian, Turfan, Samarkand, and Baghdad. AMNH invites...
Saturday 2/27 @ BAM
On May 30 of last year, Brooklyn-based artist Penelope Umbrico keyed "sunset" into Flickr's search engine and received 5,537,594 matches. The...
Saturday 2/27 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin's annual festival for the inquisitive brings together artists, scientists, and even a Tibetan lama to explore the ways of...
Saturday 2/27 @ Ohio Theatre
Playwright Charles Mee, a frequent collaborator with Anne Bogart/SITI Company and Martha Clarke, has penned a loving send-up of French culture....
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Saturday 2/27 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Although she produced art in many mediums, from painting to photography, Viola Frey's lasting imprint can be found in ceramics. As...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Saturday 2/27 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The title of this Rubin exhibition cites the "churning" sea of Hinduism's creation belief and the West's for-science explorations of the...
Saturday 2/27 @ Walter Kerr Theatre
Stephen Sondheim's melancholic farce receives a stirring revival due to Trevor Nunn's expertly delicate touch. Nunn elicits several nuanced performances from...
Saturday 2/27 @ BAM
Mark Morris is known as one of the most musical choreographers working today, making an effort to use live musicians when...
Saturday 2/27 @ Under St. Marks
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Saturday 2/27 @ Linda Gross Theater
Sam Shepard's new one-act two-hander flows effortlessly and ends too quickly, humorously highlighting the fleeting nature of life. After being thrown...
Saturday 2/27 @ Abrons Arts Center
After trekking around the globe performing from England to Australia, downtown theatre group WaxFactory returns home for a three-month retrospective of...
Saturday 2/27 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Sure, some of us like a microbrew to accompany our vintage video-gaming — and for that, we head to Barcade. But...
Saturday 2/27 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Ethan Hawke revives Sam Shepard's 1985 play about an act of violence that sets off a strange series of events. This...
Saturday 2/27 @ The Duke Theater
Until the Royal Shakespeare Company sets up camp at The Armory in summer 2011, New Yorkers have to make do with...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Saturday 2/27 @ City Hall Park
Peter Coffin, the artist who flew a UFO over the Baltic Sea in summer 2008, takes over City Hall Park with a...
Saturday 2/27 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
This celebratory trifecta of "live dance documentary" brings together professionals and students to share their thoughts about working and studying at...
Saturday 2/27 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Saturday 2/27 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
With just three features to his name, Bong Joon-ho has planted himself on the shortlist for favorite South Korean export. Suspense...
Saturday 2/27 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 2/27 @ Film Forum
Two years after he made Head with the Monkees, director Bob Rafaelson lensed a not-yet-famous Jack Nicholson going ape-beep over toast....
Saturday 2/27 @ Under St. Marks
Alex Bond's reading of selections from her fictionalized memoir, Late Nights with the Boys, is as funny as it is surprising....
Saturday 2/27 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
For the past decade, Film Comment has handpicked art-house, festival, and repertory musts for NYC cinephiles. This trend continues with a...
Saturday 2/27 @ Galerie Lelong
Emilio Perez' particular method of generating entirely abstract compositions through layering acrylic and latex pigments on wood, and then distressing the...
Saturday 2/27 @ New York Public Library
On the 250th anniversary of the publication of Candide, Voltaire's masterpiece attacking the philosophical doctrine of Optimism made popular by writers...
Saturday 2/27 @ 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...
Saturday 2/27 @ Theater for the New City
Veteran playwright and actor Charles Busch aims his flamboyant and acerbic wit at the cinematic depiction of convent life in this...
Saturday 2/27 @ BAM
The Tempest is both an amorphous fantastical tale, and Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre. Sam Mendes embraces both aspects in his...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Saturday 2/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
South African artist William Kentridge paints stark images of apartheid, colonialism, and totalitarianism. Through a wash of pastel and charcoal, he...
Radiohole: Whatever, Heaven Allows
Saturday 2/27 @ Performance Space 122
A limited number of $1.22 tickets are available
Saturday 2/27 @ International Center of Photography
"If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world."...
Saturday 2/27 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Saturday 2/27 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch
"Give it a sweet melody" was the aesthetic must for Vestie Davis, a painter who froze mid-century New York in winsome,...
Saturday 2/27 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row
The full title of Susanna Centlivre's Restoration comedy is The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret! Director Rebecca Patterson's adaptation shortens...
Saturday 2/27 @ American Airlines Theater
Nicholas Martin's madcap revival of Present Laughter scores some big laughs, even if the subtlety of Noel Coward's original wit becomes...
Saturday 2/27 @ IFC Center
From the popular, boy-cut clothing line to Quentin Tarantino's production company, Band of Outsiders has been a favorite reference for hep...
Saturday 2/27 @ American Folk Art Museum
A prolific 19th-century painter who was once considered "America's first modern" for his prepossessing, flat-color land- and seascapes, Thomas Chambers is...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Ian Wardropper discusses the Met’s recent acquisition of its first work by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783), the Austrian sculptor best...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Carmen Bambach talks to composer Bruce Adolphe about how he translated the art and ideas of Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572)—whose...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Saturday 2/27 @ Asia Society and Museum
Presented for the first time to U.S. audiences, this remarkable exhibition brings together more than one hundred extraordinary objects from ten...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Pablo Bronstein and curator Gary Tinterow discuss Bronstein’s new drawings and etchings that suggest mythical histories and hypothetical futures of...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Saturday 2/27 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca is pleased to present a gallery exhibition of alumni chosen from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s 1999-2008 classes....
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Beginning in the remote desert community of Papunya in the early 1970s, Australia's...
The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra goes Carioca
Saturday 2/27 @ Symphony Space
The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra goes Carioca features guest Music Director Cliff Korman, and friends. The evening will be a celebration...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Take a break from city life and visit the Met’s blog dedicated to your neighboring medieval garden! July 1, 2009 marked the first anniversary...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator James David Draper discusses the attribution to the teenage Michelangelo of the marble sculpture now on special loan to the...
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This show from the Met’s permanent collection features the 1971 mural-size collage The Block by Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), as well...
WaxFactory : Quartet v4.0 at the Abrons Art Center
Saturday 2/27 @ Performance Space 122
WaxFactory continues its Year 11 Retrospective at the Abrons Arts Center* with the newly reimagined version of its 2002 hit production,...
Saturday 2/27 @ New Museum
The H BOX program was initiated in 2006, directed by Benjamin Weil. Each year, four artists are invited to produce a...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Co-curators Jeffrey Munger and Meredith Chilton discuss the details of a delightful dessert table with culinary historian Ivan Day. This table...
Saturday 2/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
For the first time in the Museum's new building, MoMA presents an installation featuring the full group of Claude Monet's late...
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition The Drawings of Bronzino, on view through April 18, is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), and includes nearly...
Saturday 2/27 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Taste of RMA tours offer museum visitors an introduction to Himalayan art, exploring process, materials, iconography, religion, and cultural influence along...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! In 1975, the Met acquired, by gift and purchase, more than 400 works...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Saturday 2/27 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Children’s Book Sale: All day 2/27 and 2/28
Saturday 2/27 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
All paperbacks are $1 and all hardcovers are 30% off. Plenty of new and special stock, from board books through young...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 2/27 @ Rubin Museum of Art
In this fascinating exhibition, the Tibetan Buddhist belief that death provides an important opportunity for spiritual enlightenment is explored. Upon the...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania, on view at the Met through September 6, 2010, is the first...
Saturday 2/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With a body of work that is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the 1860s and 1870s, long before collage techniques were being used by avant–garde artists of the early 20th century, aristocratic...
Tom Murrin: The Talking Show (The Magical Ridiculous Journey of Alien Comic)
Saturday 2/27 @ Performance Space 122
Fairy godfather of downtown performance Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic) takes us on a talking tour of his life - and...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The Du Paquier ceramic manufactory, founded by Claudius Innocentius du Paquier in Vienna...
Saturday 2/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This summer's installation in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden celebrates the bold use of color in modern and contemporary sculpture....
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Saturday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photographer Robert Frank discusses his groundbreaking publication The Americans with Jeff Rosenheim, curator at the Met, and Sarah Greenough, curator at...
Saturday 2/27 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Parents and kids: Come in your PJ's to a Shabbat good-bye party! Smell the spices, watch the candle shine, sing with...
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