Music

The Secret History

Thursday 3/18 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

The Secret History plus The Ballet, Murder Mystery, Tyburn Saints   Having written an album that was just labeled "best of... 

Music

Joanna Newsom @ Town Hall - SOLD OUT!

Thursday 3/18 @ The Bowery Presents

Theatre

A Lie of the Mind

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

City Gems

Paragraph

Thursday 3/18 @ Paragraph

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

Special Event

Behind the Screen

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Theatre

Equivocation

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

East Williamsburg

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Spencer Finch

Thursday 3/18 @ 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,... 

Art

William Kentridge: Five Themes  

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Malevich in Focus

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Vestie Davis' New York

Thursday 3/18 @ 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,... 

Theatre

Zero Hour

Thursday 3/18 @ DR2 Theatre, 103 East 15th Street

Zero Mostel made his name as a comedian and Broadway star — most famously as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof... 

Film

Victor Fleming Festival

Thursday 3/18 @ Film Forum

With Gone With the Wind and Wizard of Oz to his name, the debonair, ever-versatile Victor Fleming should be more heralded.... 

Art

OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe

Thursday 3/18 @ Ise Cultural Foundation

Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of... 

Art

The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Theatre

Present Laughter

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Theatre

Come Fly Away

Thursday 3/18 @ Marquis Theater

See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway.... 

Theatre

Next Fall

Thursday 3/18 @ Helen Hayes Theatre

Geoffrey Nauffts' Next Fall arrives on Broadway with its superb original cast intact, tackling difficult questions about religion and the nature of... 

Theatre

Palestine

Thursday 3/18 @ Fourth Street Theatre (83 East 4th street)

What does it mean to be the daughter of "the most famous Palestinian-American"? In Palestine, Najla Said — daughter of the... 

Special Event

Traveling the Silk Road

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Theatre

A Life in Three Acts

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Film

That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!

Thursday 3/18 @ BAM

The face that launched a thousand Method thesps, Montgomery Clift is best remembered as the determined American dreamer who reaches up... 

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Theatre

South Pacific

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Theatre

Happy In The Poorhouse

Thursday 3/18 @ Theatre 80

The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of... 

Theatre

Race

Thursday 3/18 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

David Mamet gets his teeth back in this fast-paced and highly entertaining new play. The all-star cast handle Mametese with aplomb... 

Theatre

Glee Club

Thursday 3/18 @ Access Theater

Although not related to Fox’s Emmy-winning TV series, Blue Coyote Theater Group’s Glee Club is thoroughly enjoyable as it follows an... 

Dance

Corella Ballet

Thursday 3/18 @ New York City Center

Ángel Corella is celebrating 15 years with American Ballet Theatre and his new Corella Ballet Castilla y León. The forever-adorable danseur... 

Special Event

Breaking Bad RV Tour

Thursday 3/18 @ Various locations

This is about as close as we'd like to get to a meth lab, thanks. In honor of Breaking Bad's new... 

Performing Arts: Opera

Carmen

Thursday 3/18 @ Metropolitan Opera House

There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by... 

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Thursday 3/18 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Art

Architectural Digest Home Design Show

Thursday 3/18 @ Pier 94

Whether amping up a home theater or finally committing to that Airstream, anyone aiming for a little spring spruce-up should head... 

Art

The New Typography

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Last Chance—The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Theatre

Time Stands Still

Thursday 3/18 @ Biltmore Theater

Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of... 

Art: Photography

Ryan McGinley

Thursday 3/18 @ Team Gallery

Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —... 

Theatre

Radiohole: Whatever, Heaven Allows

Thursday 3/18 @ Performance Space 122

Performing Arts

In the Words of Duras

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Re:Construction

Thursday 3/18 @ Various locations

Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried... 

Performing Arts

Three Pianos

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Collecting Biennials

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Film

Marguerite Duras on Film

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Theatre

A View From the Bridge

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Performing Arts: Opera

The Nose

Thursday 3/18 @ Metropolitan Opera House

Since Peter Gelb took over as general manager four years ago, the Met has been redefining opera with visually charged productions... 

Film

The Exploding Girl

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris

Thursday 3/18 @ International Center of Photography

Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for... 

Special Event

Candide at 250

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Miroslav Tichý

Thursday 3/18 @ 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."... 

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Festival

Brainwave

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Theatre

Avenue Q

Thursday 3/18 @ New World Stages

After a long and successful run on Broadway, Avenue Q makes a smooth transition to its new home at New World... 

Art

The Hours of Catherine of Cleves

Thursday 3/18 @ The Morgan Library

Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off... 

Theatre

Yank!

Thursday 3/18 @ York Theatre Company (619 Lexington Ave, 212.935.5824)

An insightful view into the still-illegal existence facing gay American soldiers, Yank! is a timely, funny, and deeply moving knockout. The... 

Theatre

A Little Night Music

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Festival: Film

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2010

Thursday 3/18 @ Various

This popular fest has a reputation of bringing the best of French cinema to our urban backyards. This year's many highlights... 

Art

Alex Couwenberg

Thursday 3/18 @ Kathryn Markel Fine Arts

Los Angeles painter Alex Couwenberg handles paint like a cross between an austere Minimalist and a high-end pastry chef, wielding the... 

Theatre

Mr. and Mrs. Fitch

Thursday 3/18 @ Second Stage Theatre

Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played... 

Theatre

In the Heights

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Theatre

Alice in Slasherland

Thursday 3/18 @ HERE Arts Center

Alice (Amy Kim Waschke) fell through a hole alright — the one connecting Earth and hell opened by horny drunken teenagers... 

Art

Tim Burton

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Theatre

Lenin's Embalmers

Thursday 3/18 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre

Lenin’s Embalmers takes what could be a gruesome — or simply dull — topic and transforms it into a riveting dark... 

Theatre

Blind

Thursday 3/18 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Craig Wright's sleek interpretation of Oedipus Rex opens after the dirty secret is revealed and Oedipus (Seth Numrich) and Jocasta (Veanne Cox) are... 

Art

Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

SNØHETTA

Thursday 3/18 @ Scandinavia House

   There's currently much ado about the innovative, eco-friendly architecture firm Snøhetta. Based in Oslo, the two-decade-old outfit counts the harmonious,... 

Art

Herb Brown

Thursday 3/18 @ BLT Gallery

Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized... 

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Thursday 3/18 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Theatre

North Atlantic

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Thursday 3/18 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center

Marielle Heller adapts and stars in this raw and powerful take on Phoebe Gloeckner's autobiographical graphic novel. Diary centers on 15-year-old... 

Theatre

Fela

Thursday 3/18 @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 W 49th St)

After last season's successful run on Off-Broadway, Fela! takes its rightful place on the Great White Way. Choreographer Bill T. Jones'... 

Theatre

+30NYC

Thursday 3/18 @ Center Stage

+30NYC features seven different short plays imagining New York three decades in the future. Best of the bunch are Christine Evans'... 

Film

Mid-August Lunch

Thursday 3/18 @ Film Forum

Film Forum says: Writer-director Gianni Di Gregorio (co-writer of Gomorrah) also stars in this charming tale of a middle-aged man... 

Art

Barnstormers Group Exhibition

Thursday 3/18 @ Joshua Liner Gallery

Incredible (and international) public art heads indoors for an explosive exhibit at Joshua Liner. The Barnstormers are a collective spanning the... 

Art

Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Dance

Yasuko Yokoshi: Tyler Tyler

Thursday 3/18 @ New York Live Arts

“Every small act seems burned onto the space and onto your retina. A violent emotion is reduced to a single controlled... 

Art

The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Monet's Water Lilies

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Special Event

Getting the Job You Really Want

Thursday 3/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Barry Cohen

Job hunting is the worst job of all. Let career... 

Special Event

iPassport Raffle: Win an Apple ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport

Thursday 3/18 @ Performance Space 122

Be automatically entered to win a brand new ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport between now and March... 

Art

Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons

Thursday 3/18 @ New Museum

"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the... 

Special Event

Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Romare Bearden’s “The Block”

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Tours

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks

Thursday 3/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College is one of the finest college or university collections in... 

Art

Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Art

The Drawings of Bronzino

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Thursday 3/18 @ 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.... 

Art

Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection

Thursday 3/18 @ 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... 

Dance

danceNOW [NYC] presents nicholas leichter dance's The Whiz

Thursday 3/18 @ Joe's Pub

Dancenow [NYC] presents Nicholas Leichter dance’s new The Whiz: Emerald City, the Wizard of Oz for the Obama generation, as a... 

Art

The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art

Thursday 3/18 @ National Academy Museum

The National Academy presents ...