Events on Monday, September 27

An Evening of Gatsby with Elevator Repair Service and Oskar Eustis

Books: Reading

An Evening of Gatsby with Elevator Repair Service and Oskar Eustis

Monday 9/27 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Get a decidedly fresh take on F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tonight with members of esteemed NYC experimental theatre troupe Elevator Repair... 

Evan Ziporyn's "Typical Music"

Music: Classical

Evan Ziporyn's "Typical Music"

Monday 9/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Evan Ziporyn’s “Typical Music” w/ Todd Reynolds , Vicky Chow and Ashley Bathgate 9.27.10 Advance: $15 | Day of show: $15... 

Music

The Tallest Man on Earth @ Webster Hall

Monday 9/27 @ The Bowery Presents

Also Performing: S. Carey (featuring Sean Carey from Bon Iver) Montezumas frontman Kristian Matsson started recording a set of rustic, gravelly-voiced... 

We Are The Song: After The Storm presents HOUSE OF LOVE A SPECIAL EVENING WITH ROBIN SKYE to benefit the After The Storm Foundation with special guests Randy Redd, Cole Burden, George Petit and more

Music

We Are The Song: After The Storm presents HOUSE OF LOVE A SPECIAL EVENING WITH ROBIN SKYE to benefit the After The Storm Foundation with special guests Randy Redd, Cole Burden, George Petit and more

Monday 9/27 @ Joe's Pub

House Of Love, Robin Skye’s stunning debut album (June 2010) produced by George Petit, co-written by Petit and Randy Redd and... 

Bill Santiago's The Funny of (Latin) Dance

Comedy

Bill Santiago's The Funny of (Latin) Dance

Monday 9/27 @ Joe's Pub

Calling all salsaholics, tango freaks, bachata addicts, merengue maniacs, chachaficianados, and bailamosapiens of all kinds ...who like a good laugh! Stand-up... 

Music: Hip-Hop

M.I.A w/ Rye Rye

Monday 9/27 @ Terminal 5

If you read a lot about new music on the Web, odds are pretty good that, at some point between the... 

Nasty Mondays

Party

Nasty Mondays

Monday 9/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Nasty Mondays   9.27.2010 FREE Doors: 10:00 PM | Show: 10:00 | 21+   DJ’s Max and Sören have set the... 

America & Israel: The Idea of Divine Election

Special Event

America & Israel: The Idea of Divine Election

Monday 9/27 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Alana Newhouse and Jeffrey Goldberg, Todd Gitlin and Liel Liebovitz, moderators How has the idea of divine election shaped American and... 

Music

Teenage Fanclub

Monday 9/27 @ The Bowery Ballroom

After first gaining acclaim for a densely melodic sound which anticipated the coming emergence of grunge, Scotland's Teenage Fanclub spent the... 

Nasty Mondays NYC @ (le) poisson rouge

Special Event

Nasty Mondays NYC @ (le) poisson rouge

Monday 9/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Nasty Mondays 9.27.2010 FREE Doors: 10:00 PM | Show: 10:00 | 21+   DJ’s Max and Sören have set the standard... 

Sri Lanka Today: Working towards Sustainable Peace

Special Event

Sri Lanka Today: Working towards Sustainable Peace

Monday 9/27 @ Asia Society and Museum

Dr. Gamini Lakshman Peiris. Featuring: Honourable Dr. Gamini Lakshman Peiris, M.P. Minister of External Affairs The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri... 

Music

'Healing Songs' Music for Masabumi Kikuchi w/ Greg Osby + more

Monday 9/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

 'Healing Songs' Music for Masabumi Kikuchi   w/ Greg Osby , Paul Motian , Billy Hart , James Genus , Lew... 

Music

Bobby Bare Jr. / Blue Giant

Monday 9/27 @ The Mercury Lounge

Nominated for a grammy at the age of 6 years old for a duet with his dad called "daddy what if"-written... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Come Fly Away</em>

Theatre

Come Fly Away

Monday 9/27 @ Marquis Theater

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

<em>Clean Slate for the Pessimist</em>: An Exercise in Default Accountability

Art

Clean Slate for the Pessimist

Monday 9/27 @ Various Locations Along the BQE

Designed to look like a large-scale guerilla marketing campaign, this project, which began as a critique of the appropriation of art... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 9/27 @ Paragraph

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

Monday Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 9/27 @ The Bowery Poetry Club

Monday Night Bingo at Bowery Poetry Club is the furthest thing from your local church's senior night — in other words,... 

King Tut Exhibition

Special Event

King Tut Exhibition

Monday 9/27 @ Discovery Times Square Exposition

"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of... 

Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Litchfield, CT

Getaways

Jauntsetter Weekend Escape

Monday 9/27 @ Various locations in Litchfield

Just a two-hour drive from the city, Litchfield, Connecticut is a great escape for stressed-out city dwellers. Home to a stellar... 

Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever

Film

Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever

Monday 9/27 @ BAM

Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman.... 

1st Irish 2010

Festival: Performing Arts

1st Irish

Monday 9/27 @ Various locations

Ireland is "The Land of 100,000 Welcomes." It is also home to an unbroken line of writers who have influenced world... 

<em>underneathmybed</em>

Theatre

underneathmybed

Monday 9/27 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Playwright Florencia Lozano revisits her childhood home and the psychological state of her 13-year-old self, in underneathmybed. Escaping Argentina's "Dirty War"... 

<em>Black Angels Over Tuskegee</em>

Theatre: Drama

Black Angels Over Tuskegee

Monday 9/27 @ The Actors' Temple Theatre

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... 

Botanica Bar

Get Social: Happy Hour

Botanica

Monday 9/27 @ Botanica Bar

We love this bar. It's our home away from home, our office away from office. You simply can't find nicer bartenders... 

Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>

Art

Spencer Finch

Monday 9/27 @ 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,... 

The Sullivan Project presents <em>Graham & Frost</em>

Theatre

Graham & Frost

Monday 9/27 @ Performance Space 122

Though Graham & Frost is a prized addition to the 1st Irish Festival, it has nothing to do with Ireland. Instead,... 

Les Paul Mondays

Music

Les Paul Mondays

Monday 9/27 @ Iridium Jazz Club

It's hard to think of someone more instrumental in shaping the sound of modern music than Les Paul. In addition to... 

VENT

Festival: Performing Arts

VENT

Monday 9/27 @ Soapbox Gallery

As the names of both the festival and the gallery suggest, these events are all about taking advantage of our fave... 

<em>Kings of Pastry</em>

Film: Documentary

Kings of Pastry

Monday 9/27 @ Film Forum

Grown men crying over pastry, sounds a little absurd but that's what you get in the Kings of Pastry. The latest... 

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

Monday 9/27 @ The Triad Theater

Actor and veteran award-show writer Eugene Pack assembles a talented cast to read excerpts from B-list celebrities' autobiographies, with well-chosen passages... 

<em>Vestie Davis' New York</em>

Art

Vestie Davis' New York

Monday 9/27 @ 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,... 

<em>A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop</em>

Film

A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop

Monday 9/27 @ Various locations

If you're a fan of Zhang Yimou, the acclaimed Fifth Generation director behind such films as Red Sorghum, Raise the Red... 

<em>Never Let Me Go</em>

Film

Never Let Me Go

Monday 9/27 @ Various locations

If you've read Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, then you know what this film is about. If you haven't,... 

<em>Roadkill Confidential</em>

Theatre

Roadkill Confidential

Monday 9/27 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center

Art and terrorism make a gruesome twosome in this contemporary noir drama of intrigue and roadkill. A modern-day undercover agent with... 

<em>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Monday 9/27 @ 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... 

<em>Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson</em>

Theatre

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Monday 9/27 @ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

After an acclaimed run off-Broadway, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by... 

<em>Greater New York</em>

Art

Greater New York

Monday 9/27 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

It seems like the city's been a flurry of artwork, all dealing with process. Whether we're viewing the installation of an... 

<em>Heartbreaker</em>

Film

Heartbreaker

Monday 9/27 @ IFC Center

Actor Romain Duris displays his charming versatility in Heartbreaker, a clever romantic-comedy from first-time French feature-filmmaker Pascal Chaumeil. Duris is Alex... 

FIAF presents Crossing the Line 2010: <em>Hetero</em> and <em>The Sea Museum</em>

Theatre

Crossing the Line 2010

Monday 9/27 @ French Institute Alliance Francaise

"Crossing the Line" lives up to its name with these two site-specific presentations — though attendees won't know the exact details... 

Lower Manhattan Arts League presents Fall Downtown

Festival: Performing Arts

Fall Downtown

Monday 9/27 @ Various Downtown locations

This is it. The glut. The cornucopia. The land of plenty. Lower Manhattan Arts League has brought together an astounding array... 

<em>Another American: Asking and Telling</em>

Theatre

Another American: Asking and Telling

Monday 9/27 @ DR2 Theatre

Marc Wolf's performance in his one-man show Another American: Asking and Telling is revelatory. As he inhabits the voices of dozens... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Monday 9/27 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Mad. Sq. Mark't

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Mad. Sq. Mark't

Monday 9/27 @ Madison Square Park

Take the unique and seasonal design, homeware, and jewelry offerings you find at the Union Square Holiday Market, and combine it... 

The 48th Annual New York Film Festival

Festival: Film

New York Film Festival

Monday 9/27 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

Despite Lincoln Center's construction and recent staff changes at the Film Society, there's one thing that continues to run like clockwork,... 

<em>Last Train Home</em>

Film: Documentary

Last Train Home

Monday 9/27 @ IFC Center

Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines... 

Sean Raspet: As If Written In

Art

Sean Raspet: As If Written In

Monday 9/27 @ The Kitchen

This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in... 

Gateway to Himalayan Art

Art

Gateway to Himalayan Art

Monday 9/27 @ Rubin Museum of Art

Confused by those 40-armed deities? Let Gateway to Himalayan Art break it down for you. In this new introductory exhibition, you'll... 

Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps

Art

Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps

Monday 9/27 @ The Kitchen

In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states... 

Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered

Art

Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered

Monday 9/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Shortly after the Met acquired two Viennese silver wine coolers in 2002 from the Sachsen-Teschen Service, the core of the surviving... 

Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids

Special Event

Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids

Monday 9/27 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Join Nancy and Rachel for reading, singing, and dancing appropriate for kids 3 and under and their caretakers. Special discounts on... 

Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View

Special Event

Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View

Monday 9/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

On July 7, Ringo Starr's 70th birthday, the Met opened a special display of his gold-plated snare drum that will be... 

Inspired by the Arts: Using Painting, Poetry and Music to Trigger Your Creativity

Workshop/Class

Inspired by the Arts: Using Painting, Poetry and Music to Trigger Your Creativity

Monday 9/27 @ 92YTribeca

Take your inspiration from the arts. In each class, a painting, a poem, a photograph or a piece of music is... 

Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950&ndash;1980

Art: Photography

Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980

Monday 9/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A master of classic American street photography, Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988) is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure... 

Contemporary Tibetan art show

Art

Contemporary Tibetan art show

Monday 9/27 @ Rubin Museum of Art

Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond marks the first exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in a New York City museum. The nine... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950&ndash;1980

Art: Photography

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980

Monday 9/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In excerpts from a 1988 archival recording, photographer Leon Levinstein talks about his work and the experience of photographing in the... 

Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana

Art

Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana

Monday 9/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Episodes from the great Indian epic the Ramayana are among the themes most favored for Indian miniature painting. This classic of... 

Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography

Art: Photography

Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography

Monday 9/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This exhibition explores themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography. Drawn almost entirely from the Met’s collection, Between Here and... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Monday 9/27 @ 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.... 

Tours

Art

Tours

Monday 9/27 @ 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... 

Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bamb&uacute;

Special Event

Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú

Monday 9/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Don’t miss this opportunity to see Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop the site-specific installation created for... 

Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bamb&uacute;

Art

Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú

Monday 9/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curator Anne Strauss talks to Doug and Mike Starn about their new work, Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You...