Events on Saturday, March 13
Tanya Tagaq and the Kronos Quartet
Saturday 3/13 @ Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
The adventurous Kronos Quartet have redefined what it means to be a classical group, performing works by everyone from minimalist composer...
Saturday 3/13 @ Highline Ballroom
Joe Hurley has been mining what he calls "the Great Irish Songbook" for years, and this annual revue consistently receives great...
Hip Hop Karaoke NYC - 4th Annual Tribute to The Notorious B.I.G.
Saturday 3/13 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Come celebrate the life of one of Hip-Hop's most legendary figures
Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
Saturday 3/13 @ 92YTribeca
Trimpin: The Sound of Invention is an amusing journey through the sonic world of an eccentric creative genius. Artist/inventor/engineer/composer Trimpin shuns...
The Deedle Deedle Dees Family Variety Show
Saturday 3/13 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
A rock-n-roll variety show for the whole family featuring the Deedle Deedle Dees, Toy Boat author Randall de Sève reading from...
Saturday 3/13 @ 92YTribeca
Vetiver and its leader Andy Cabic are at the center of the new American folk scene. Cabic began recruiting friends in...
Saturday 3/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 03.13.10 Le Bingo!
Saturday 3/13 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Free Blast Radius compilation CD's give-aways!
Plus Guest DJs!...
Booga Sugar's St. Patricks Day Party
Saturday 3/13 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Booga Sugar's St. Patrick's Day Party (A benefit for the Thomas P Cloherty Education Fund) with Acquiesce and Streams of Whiskey....
Jarrod Gorbel (of Honorary Title) w/ Arms
Saturday 3/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Honorary Title began...
New York International Children's Film Festival Presents Shorts for Tots
Saturday 3/13 @ Symphony Space
Various, Various, 2010, 65 Min. Recommended Ages: 3 to 6 SHORTS IN COMPETITION: SHORTS FOR TOTS - A kaleidoscopic showcase of...
DJ DEEJAY PRESENTS... "MMP! vs. BBG!"
Saturday 3/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
“MMP! vs BBG!”
an all Madonna Michael Jackson Prince dance party! with special guest DJ MISS GUY!
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Tokyo String Quartet & Shai Wosner, piano
Saturday 3/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
The Tokyo String Quartet’s “delightfully suave and graceful performances…provide many insights into the inexhaustible world of Beethoven’s imagination.”
—Gramophone
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Saturday 3/13 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
A Fuzzy Lemons song is guaranteed to have a catchy melody, clever lyrics, and a groove that grown-ups will love as...
Saturday 3/13 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
After much ballyhoo within the music industry, garnered mainly through the intensity of their live sets, Priestess signed a deal...
Saturday 3/13 @ The Bowery Presents
Balkan Beat Box is steeped with an intense lifetime of research into their own non-Western roots as well as other cultures....
Art Museums, Private Collectors, and the Public
Saturday 3/13 @ New Museum
Ongoing Events
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ Eastern District
Eastern District's group show East Williamsburg addresses that nasty "g word" ("gentrification") with new works by prominent street artists BANK$Y (neé...
Saturday 3/13 @ BAM
The Tempest is both an amorphous fantastical tale, and Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre. Sam Mendes embraces both aspects in his...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ Theatre 80
The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ Various locations
Kick off your celebration of St. Patrick's Day a weekend early with this fest devoted to the arts of the fighting...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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...
Saturday 3/13 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 3/13 @ 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,...
Radiohole: Whatever, Heaven Allows
Saturday 3/13 @ Performance Space 122
A limited number of $1.22 tickets are available
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Saturday 3/13 @ 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...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 3/13 @ The Flea Theater
Henri Murger's 1849 novel Scenes De La Boheme is a bountiful source for inspiration. Among the better-known adaptations are the Lillian...
Saturday 3/13 @ Film Forum
With Gone With the Wind and Wizard of Oz to his name, the debonair, ever-versatile Victor Fleming should be more heralded....
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Saturday 3/13 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ The Duke Theater
Until the Royal Shakespeare Company sets up camp at The Armory in summer 2011, New Yorkers have to make do with...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The Belles Heures (1405-1408/9) of Jean de Berry is one of the most...
Saturday 3/13 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Since Peter Gelb took over as general manager four years ago, the Met has been redefining opera with visually charged productions...
Saturday 3/13 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Saturday 3/13 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Saturday 3/13 @ 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...
Saturday 3/13 @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
North Atlantic is experimental theater ensemble The Wooster Group’s decidedly downtown answer to the ever-lush musical South Pacific: think of a...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ Metropolitan Opera House
It's easy to see why Giacomo Puccini's popular opera has endured the test of time and become a staple of practically...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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...
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2010
Saturday 3/13 @ Various
This popular fest has a reputation of bringing the best of French cinema to our urban backyards. This year's many highlights...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Saturday 3/13 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Saturday 3/13 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Lenin’s Embalmers takes what could be a gruesome — or simply dull — topic and transforms it into a riveting dark...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!
Saturday 3/13 @ BAM
The face that launched a thousand Method thesps, Montgomery Clift is best remembered as the determined American dreamer who reaches up...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ Anthology Film Archives
The film leg of our city's all-out, month-long tribute to Marguerite Duras salutes her radical directorial career. While that means sorry...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ Landmark Sunshine
The pains of being pure at heart are many in Bradley Rust Gray's The Exploding Girl, a moody, osmotic character study that...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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...
Harkness Dance Festival: Doug Varone Presents
Saturday 3/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Immensely talented choreographer Doug Varone shines the spotlight on three of his former dancers who have made a great impact on...
Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology
Saturday 3/13 @ Exit Art
Like a goodwill ambassador, Mary Mattingly's floating habitat the Waterpod Project spent five months on New York's highly toxic seas, touring...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ Galerie Lelong
Emilio Perez' particular method of generating entirely abstract compositions through layering acrylic and latex pigments on wood, and then distressing the...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Legendary British drag rabble-rouser Bette Bourne has 70 years worth of biographical finery to parade about the stage and the skilled...
Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss
Saturday 3/13 @ Film Forum
Leni may be more famed, but this well-made documentary reminds that Veit Harlan was equally instrumental to the Nazi's achtung propaganda....
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 3/13 @ 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...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Saturday 3/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The renovation of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon provides an opportunity for the unprecedented loan of the alabaster mourner figures...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Come see photographer Tom Wool's awe-inspiring black and white images of life in the Rongbuk Valley. Wool's sensitive images capture the...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Saturday 3/13 @ 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...
iPassport Raffle: Win an Apple ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport
Saturday 3/13 @ Performance Space 122
Be automatically entered to win a brand new ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport between now and March...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Saturday 3/13 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Saturday 3/13 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 3/13 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Saturday 3/13 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Your ticket to two-for-one admission to the Rubin Museum and six other NYC museum gems. Print it, cut it, and keep...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 3/13 @ 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...
Saturday 3/13 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Saturday 3/13 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Saturday 3/13 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 3/13 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 3/13 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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....
