All Performing Arts events
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Limón Dance Company
- Tuesday Dec 2 (7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- José Limón's thriving company celebrates his centenary with a week at Joyce. Two familiar works, A Choreographic Offering, Limón's homage to company co-founder Doris Humphrey,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Opening Night
- Tuesday Dec 2 (7:30pm) @ BAM Harvey Theater More times »
- The Swedish dramatist August Strindberg once resolved that, "On a flimsy framework of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns." John Cassavettes' 1977 film Opening... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Shen Wei Dance Arts
- Wednesday Dec 3 (7:30pm) @ Judson Memorial Church More times »
- Even if you're not a contemporary-dance buff, you're probably familiar with '07 MacArthur Genius Shen Wei and just don't realize it: he choreographed a segment... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Dance Dance Revolution
- Wednesday Dec 3 (8pm) @ Ohio Theatre More times »
- Les Freres Corbusier, the cheeky and frenetic dance/theatre ensemble responsible for immersive theater environments like Hell House, is at it again with Dance Dance Revolution.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- The Moth Uncorked
- Friday Dec 5 (7:30pm) @ The Players Club
- The last main-stage Moth show of the year is all about wine. Tonight's storytellers include chef and wine expert Tamara Reynolds, author and wine lover... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Brian Posehn
- Friday Dec 5 (8 & 10:30pm) @ Comix More times »
- Seasoned standup comic and self-proclaimed metal nerd Brian Posehn hits Comix's stage for four shows of geeky comic-book humor, pot jokes, and yes: very serious... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Stella w/ Eugene Mirman
- Tuesday Dec 9 (8pm) @ Nokia Theatre More times »
- They may not have their own TV show at the moment, but David Wain, Michael Showalter, and Michael Ian Black — two-time boob-tube vets —... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Musée des Femmes
- Thursday Dec 18 (8pm) @ Zipper Factory Theater
- Giveaway
- Musée des Femmes is a titillating fusion of pan-ethnic dance, theatre, and vaudeville spectacle in which beauty and torment square off in vignettes about legendary... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Christmas Carol
- Saturday Dec 20 (8pm) @ Green-Wood Cemetery Chapel More times »
- When Tim Allen can make a successful trilogy of Santa related movies, it's a sign that uplifting, morally redeeming Christmas stories have seen better days.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sandra Bernhard
- Friday Dec 26 (9:30pm) @ Joe's Pub More times »
- Granted, you probably won't be the one smooching them, but these are some pretty hot lips to be hanging out with come New Year's Eve.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Aziz Ansari
- Friday Jan 9, 2009 (8 & 10:30pm) @ Comix More times »
- He may not have the swagger of Kanye, but comedian Aziz Ansari definitely one-ups the rapper on rollerblading skills. Mounting his very own Glow in... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Cheech & Chong
- Saturday Jan 31, 2009 (8pm) @ Radio City Music Hall
- Just in case you weren't aware: there's no smoking in Radio City. And pot is still totally illegal, dude. That said, tonight Cheech Marin and... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Billy Elliot
- Tuesday Dec 2 @ Imperial Theatre More times »
- The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot, a sentimental musical about... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Speed-the-Plow
- Tuesday Dec 2 (7pm) @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre More times »
- Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is finally a true ensemble... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Taking Over
- Tuesday Dec 2 (7pm) @ The Public Theater More times »
- Danny Hoch's one-man extravaganza Taking Over gives a good name to theatre with a social conscious, using scathing humor to make the audience howl and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Seagull
- Tuesday Dec 2 (7pm) @ Walter Kerr Theatre More times »
- Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard play tortured artists in love in Christopher Hampton's pared-down translation of Chekhov's classic. Thomas' fully realized performance as Arkadina... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Streamers
- Tuesday Dec 2 (7:30pm) @ Laura Pels Theatre More times »
- Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's 1976 play is neither... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Blasted
- Tuesday Dec 2 (7:30pm) @ Soho Rep. More times »
- It's taken 13 years for Sarah Kane's extraordinarily controversial play Blasted to make it to New York, but Soho Rep's production makes up for the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- [title of show]
- Tuesday Dec 2 (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Tuesday Dec 2 (8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Man for All Seasons
- Tuesday Dec 2 (8pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times »
- A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims of its leader. In... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Black Watch
- Tuesday Dec 2 (8pm) @ St. Ann's Warehouse More times »
- If you're lucky enough to score a coveted ticket to Black Watch's limited run, you're in for one helluva show. Based on the true stories... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Atheist
- Tuesday Dec 2 (8–10pm) @ Barrow Street Theater More times »
- In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago. The 90 minutes of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Tuesday Dec 2 (8pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sleepwalk With Me
- Wednesday Dec 3 (8pm) @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker More times »
- Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells an engaging and very... View details »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- La Damnation de Faust
- Thursday Dec 4 (8pm) @ Metropolitan Opera House More times »
- Hector Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust (The Damnation of Faust) is usually performed in concert halls, where one's imagination is free to run as wild... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Big Terrific
- Thursday Dec 4 (8pm) @ Sound Fix More times »
- Free
- If the giggles elicited by clowning around with your friends aren't evidence enough, Big Terrific proves that hearty laughs can be had outside of comedy... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- ASSSSCAT 3000
- Sunday Dec 7 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre More times »
- Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from The Daily Show, Saturday... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Celebrity Autobiography
- Monday Dec 8 (7:30pm) @ The Triad Theater More times »
- Actor and veteran award-show writer Eugene Pack assembles a talented cast to read excerpts from B-list celebrities' autobiographies, with well-chosen passages and nuanced performances eliciting... View details »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- The Met: Live in HD
- Saturday Dec 20 (noon) @ BAM More times »
- Thanks to HD transmissions, opera-goers no longer have take out mortgages or travel far to attend the Met. The first Live in HD screening of... View details »
