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Monday, February 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Monday, February 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
THEATER
Lucyana Randall: Exquisite Agitation
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2022
8:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Speak of the devil. I was just drunkenly discussing Alain Badiou at the bar at Sardi’s the other night — trust me, my life sounds a lot more interesting than it actually is — and now here’s a theater piece taking off from his work. The musings on eroticism — not the hardcore Maoism.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: If Peter Luger is the quintessential Old Brooklyn steakhouse, St. Anselm is the New.
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Monday, February 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Eric Wubbels: Beings (I.X)/Duo
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Composer/pianist Eric Wubbels explores composition and improvisation, microtonality and noise, first with an all-star ensemble and then in a duo with vocal/electronic frontierswoman Charmaine Lee.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic food at As You Are. Streaming at home, try a White Noise: pour 3 oz. Cocchi Americano and 2 oz. St-Germain into a Collins glass over ice. Top with soda water. Stir. Garnish with a grapefruit twist.
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Monday, February 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Monday, February 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Monday, February 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Mar 6, 2022, 5:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 6, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Mar 6, 2022, 1:00 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 6, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park
59th Street – 110th Street/Central Park West – 5th Avenue, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, February 27, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
THEATER
Lucyana Randall: Exquisite Agitation
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2022 (also on FEBRUARY 28)
8:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Speak of the devil. I was just drunkenly discussing Alain Badiou at the bar at Sardi’s the other night — trust me, my life sounds a lot more interesting than it actually is — and now here’s a theater piece taking off from his work. The musings on eroticism — not the hardcore Maoism.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: If Peter Luger is the quintessential Old Brooklyn steakhouse, St. Anselm is the New.
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Sunday, February 27, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
MUSIC
Harlem Chamber Players: Black History Month Celebration
WEDNESDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 & 27, 2022
6:00 PM WEDNESDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
WEDNESDAY: Harlem School of the Arts
645 St. Nicholas Avenue, Harlem, Manhattan
SUNDAY: Central Library, Brooklyn Public Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
WEDNESDAY: $20; $15 students/seniors advance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY: Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The expert and exciting Harlem Chamber Players conclude their Black History Month celebration with two overlapping-but-not-identical recitals. In both shows, you get some new (including brand-World-Premiere-new) pieces from the excellent Nkeiru Okoye, and something by the Grand Old Man of African-American mainstream classical music, William Grant Still (unbelievably still underplayed). Wednesday you also get something from late 20th Century composer David Baker, whose jazz-inflected music sounds great, if maybe just a tiny bit staid, right now (it’s also unaccountably underplayed) (well, OK: accountably; let’s not let anyone off the hook). On Sunday, you get the sizzling Jessie Montgomery’s very greatest hit — and Dvorák (who whatever else you want to say about him was an ardent supporter of African-American classical music — and advocate for a strong African-American influence on classical music — at a time when you wouldn’t have expected someone on his way to becoming a Dead White Male to take those positions).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wednesday Uptown, go to ROKC — Ramen, Oysters, Kitchen, Cocktails — and just try not to be totally charmed. Sunday in Brooklyn, try longtiime neighborhood standby The Islands, long one one the best Jamaican restaurants in New York City (but be warned that a friend recently had a bad service experience there recently — to be sure, the service has always been on Island Time).
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Saturday, February 26, 2022, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
MUSIC
Kate Gentile: Find Letter X / Snark Horse
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
Jazz Gallery
1160 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$25-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Brooklyn drummer Kate Gentile plays with bands identified as jazz, and she plays with the International Contemporary Ensemble (because — repeat after me — genre is a construct). At the early show tonight she plays a set with her current band, and at the late show a set of material developed with her band’s pianist, the excellent Matt Mitchell, comprising one-bar compositions.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thai Diners being such a thing around here these days, it should come as little surprise that the estimable Hand Hospitality group (usually focusing on Korean) has opened one: Random Access.
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Sat, Feb 26, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 4:00 PM
MUSIC
Spectrum: 10th Anniversary Celebration
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 & 27, 2022
7:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Spectrum
481 Van Brunt Street, Door 7A, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Ticket price unavailable
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Spectrum FINALLY reopens in its spacious (especially for them) new venue on the Red Hook waterfront. Saturday features a bunch of the usual improvising suspects curated by (and featuring) the excellent composer/pianist Gabriel Zucker. Sunday features noisey-and-otherwise guitar, curated by (and featuring) Tony Geballe.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’ll be a stone’s throw from Hometown Bar-B-Cue.
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Saturday, February 26, 2022, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
TENET Vocal Artists feat. Ensemble Caprice: Charpentier’s “Les Plaisirs de Versailles” @ 340
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2022
6:00 & 8:00 PM
House of the Redeemer
7 East 95th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If Jordi Savall didn’t satisfy your French Baroque jones on Wednesday (and if you have one, one night wouldn’t have), New York’s crack TENET Vocal Artists ensemble joins with Montreal’s Ensemble Caprice to present a staged performance of Charpentier’s divertissement Les Plaisirs de Versailles, as delightful a work as you could ever hope to experience. Along with some complementary contemporary (with Charpentier, I mean: not us) music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Earl’s Beer and Cheese: your place for beer. And cheese.
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Friday, February 25, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC / DANCE
The Moving Orchestra X Môtô Spirits: In Good Spirits
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
8:00 PM
Groupmuse
Môtô Spirits Distillery
93 Forrest Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Moving Orchestra does its usual composed-and-improvised-music-with-dance-movement thing. Only this time with rice whiskey!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Roberta’s may not be what it used to be. But it’s still something.
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Friday, February 25, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Merche Blasco
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
8:00 PM
Qbit
Mise-En_Place
341 Calyer Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Multimedia/electronics artist Merche Blasco performs sets with various collaborators, including Lucie Vitková, Gryphon Rue, and Annete, a 3D printer that Blasco built.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to the stylish, extremely popular Mexican spot Oxomoco and hope you like it more than I do.
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Friday, February 25, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Mdou Moctar: Afrique Victime / Bartees Strange
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
7:30 PM
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
30 Lafayette Ave, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$28-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you don’t know it already, North African desert guitar music is THE SHIT — and Mdou Moctar is this year’s exemplar. Bartees Strange does distinctive singer-songwriter R&B (and just when you think he could use a fast song, he comes up with one). This kicks off a concert series curated by poet/critic Hanif Abdurraqib, who’s done what is by far some of the best music writing of the last few years.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No, all African food isn’t the same, and no, Ethiopian food has nothing to do with the Tuareg culture from which North African desert guitar music arises. But Bati Ethiopian Kitchen is a good spot nonetheless.
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Friday, February 25, 2022, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
MUSIC
Elliot Sharp Aggregate Trio: 70th Birthday Celebration
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
Jazz Gallery
1160 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$25-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Actually by my count No Wave noisemacher Elliot Sharp turns 71 this year — but we’re not gonna hassle the guy at his birthday party. Tonight he’ll be putting on his jazz saxman’s hat.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Mod Korean at Atoboy.
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Thursday, February 24, 2022, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM
MUSIC
Eartheater / LEYA / Ish Couture
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2022
10:00 PM
Market Hotel
1140 Myrtle Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
For years I’ve been pronouncing the name of Alexandra Drewchin’s performing persona as “Earth Eater” — but I recently realized it must really be “Ear Theater”, which makes a lot more sense. Either way, her avant-pop is complex and compelling (and she puts on great shows). Harp-violin duo LEYA drones along entrallingly. And Ish Couture: you won’t believe how catchy his beats are.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speaking of things you won’t believe, you won’t believe how good the Birria are at Nene’s Deli Taqueria. Stunning.
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Thursday, February 24, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Gyan Riley’s Elixer
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20 in person; free-$10 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Gyan Riley is an astonishingly eclectic guitarist, melding different styles (he’s particularly conversant with Carnatic/Hindustani) into a coherent stylistic whole. This is his electric band.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, not only is the Colombian (duh) food at Colombia in Park Slope delicious, but — I promise you — you won’t leave hungry. Streaming at home, have a Brandy Crusta: Use a lemon peel to rim a large chilled wine glass with sugar. Pour 2 oz. Brandy, 1/2 oz. Grand Marnier, and 1/4 teaspoon each of lemon juice and Simple Syrup, with 3 dashes of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into the rinsmed glass. Garnish with the lemon peel.
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Thursday, February 24, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Adam Schatz’s Civil Engineering
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2022
8:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$23.86
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The highly eclectic, genre-defying Adam Schatz will do a solo set of songs, and then be joined by an ace large ensemble for a set of compositions for (and improvisations by), um, large ensemble.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Threes Brewing’s CEO recently likened vaccine mandates to the Nürnberg laws. Go to their Gowanus Tap Room and spit or vomit on the bar. But whatever you do, don’t spend any money there.
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Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 26, 2022, 8:30 PM
PERFORMANCE
Lucyana Randall: Exquisite Agitation
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24 – 26, 2022
7:30 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Standup, sure — but weird standup.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best udon in Brooklyn? Probably! Hanon.
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Thursday, February 24, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Nicole Mitchell / Angel Bat Dawid
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2022
7:30 PM
Afrofuturism
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$30-$45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Avant-jazz flautist/composer Nicole Mitchell realizes Octavia E. Butler. Neo-psych/spiritual jazz more-than-just-a-clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid — one of this List’s very favorite current performing artists — honors Yusef Lateef. Wow.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Is Quality Bistro that good? No, but it’s perfectly serviceable — and unlike most places in these sad times, it’ll be open after this show.
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Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 3:00 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
Theodora Skipitares: Grand Panorama
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24 – 27, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 6)
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
Pay what you can Thursday; $25 advance all other shows; $30 day of all other shows; $20 students/seniors advance all other shows; $25 students/seniors day of all other shows; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Veteran master of puppet theater Theodora Skipitares explores Frederick Douglass’s obsession with the then-new medium of photography (yeah I never knew, either) and his optimistic hopes for its applications and effects.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Northwestern Chinese spot (not just out of solidarity with the Uyghurs, hearty cumin-drenched Northwestern Chinese is officially The Shit) Jiang’s Kitchen is, rather mysteriously, not as good as its lamented predecessor Jiang Diner was. But its $29 three-course Winter Menu is a steal!
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Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 10:00 PM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 11:00 PM
MUSIC
Dweller 003
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 27, 2022
10:00 PM
Various Locations
$10-$30 per show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Dweller festival’s purpose is to remind us that electronic dance music — Techno, House, and their successors — is Black music (not to mention great music). The big show is the looooonnnnnggggg Nonstop at Nowadays (56-06 Cooper Avenue, Ridgewood Queens) Saturday night. But don’t such other notable shows at Tygapaw at Rash (941 Willoughby Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn), also Saturday night; and KeiyaA at Heaven or Las Vegas (4 Irving Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn) on Sunday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: These are all over the place. You’re on your own.
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Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 3:00 PM
OPERA
Taylor Mac: The Hang
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 27, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 6)
8:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
HERE
145 Sixth Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Hudson Square, Manhattan
$35-$100
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A reinstatement of a postponed PROTOTYPE Festival show that you really NEED to go to! The last days of Socrates turned into a celebration of queer culture (if you’ve read Plato, not a stretch). Let’s face it, Taylor Mac can do anything.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sophisticated Italian (and a really first-rate beverage program) at Altro Paradiso.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Marta Sanchez Quintet: “SAAM (Spanish American Art Museum)” Album Release
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance; $25 door; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Composer/pianist Marta Sanchez and her quintet (with guests) play through her new album, looking at her life as if it were on display in an art exhibition.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, plausible French Bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, despite its unseasonability it seems only right to have a Gintonic: pour 1-1/2 oz. Gin into a large wine glass over ice. Top with tonic water. Garnish with a few Juniper berries, a lemon twist, and a lime wheel. If you feel like throwing in any herb sprigs, go right ahead.
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Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER / MUSIC / DANCE
David Byrne: American Utopia
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 27, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
5:00 & 9:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
St. James Theater
246 West 44th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$59-$179
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If a collaboration between David Byrne and Annie-B Parson were put on at BAM, I wouldn't think twice about Listing it (although I'd still feel constrained to make a comment about Boomer Nostalgia moving on to the Pop Avant-Garde). So I'm not gonna demerit this cuz it's on Broadway. AM I?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Maybe the sushi at Sushi Lab is overelaborate and tries too hard. But it's there.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Amir ElSaffar
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15 in person; free-$10 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trumpeter Amir ElSaffar inflects his jazz with Iraqi maqam — and boy is it arresting.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, you idealy want to be at Reyes Deli & Grocery over the weekend for their barbacoa and goat stew tacos and their tamales. But the regular tacos and tortas available on weekdays are riduculously good themselves. Streaming at home, have a Saz-Arak: rinse a chilled Old Fashioned glass with Arak. Pour 2 oz. Bourbon, 1 oz. St-Germain, and 1/2 oz. lemon juice, with 2 dashes of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into the rinsed glass. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 4:00 PM
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Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 6:00 PM
THEATER
Enda Walsh: The Same
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 27, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 6)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$59
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When he’s not writing books for disappointing musicals, Enda Walsh writes unique, sort-of-absurdist-but-in-the-end-not-really theater pieces in which you figure out the logic underlying the seemingly anomalous situational behavior the play presents as it goes along, usually reaching full understanding just before play’s end. And in Ireland, a country with an overabundance of fine actors, they think the two here — Eileen Walsh and Catherine Walsh (is there only one surname in Ireland???) — are just fantastic. They should know.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ardesia Wine Bar really is the place to go from the Irish Arts Center.
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Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 7:15 PM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 3:15 PM
THEATER
Happenstance Theater: Barococo
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 27, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 6)
7:15 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:15 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Physical comedy depicting the last days of the French aristocracy as launching pad for commentary on wealth disparity. Set to late French Baroque!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You could do a lot worse in this neighborhood than the Sicilian food at Piccola Cucina Uptown.
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Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 3:59 PM
THEATER
Peter Born, Diana Oh, Niegel Smith, Okwui Okpokwasili & Carrie Mae Weems: Arden — But, Not Without You
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 27, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 6)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Flea
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$15-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You’re walking through a forest and you come to a clearing where you fing going on collective rites that give you the feelings of hope, affirmation, and fellowship you’ve been missing for the last couple of years (unless you’re an introverted misanthrope like me who was relieved at not having to deal with other people).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cretan food is hard to come by around here — but they serve some at Mirathi. Try the black truffle tarama (probably not strictly Cretan) (but good), the Cretan snails, and the Apaki Kleftiko — all stuff you’ve probably never had except maybe in Crete.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
Harlem Chamber Players: Black History Month Celebration
WEDNESDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 & 27, 2022
6:00 PM WEDNESDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
WEDNESDAY: Harlem School of the Arts
645 St. Nicholas Avenue, Harlem, Manhattan
SUNDAY: Central Library, Brooklyn Public Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
WEDNESDAY: $20; $15 students/seniors advance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY: Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The expert and exciting Harlem Chamber Players conclude their Black History Month celebration with two overlapping-but-not-identical recitals. In both shows, you get some new (including brand-World-Premiere-new) pieces from the excellent Nkeiru Okoye, and something by the Grand Old Man of African-American mainstream classical music, William Grant Still (unbelievably still underplayed). Wednesday you also get something from late 20th Century composer David Baker, whose jazz-inflected music sounds great, if maybe just a tiny bit staid, right now (it’s also unaccountably underplayed) (well, OK: accountably; let’s not let anyone off the hook). On Sunday, you get the sizzling Jessie Montgomery’s very greatest hit — and Dvorák (who whatever else you want to say about him was an ardent supporter of African-American classical music — and advocate for a strong African-American influence on classical music — at a time when you wouldn’t have expected someone on his way to becoming a Dead White Male to take those positions).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wednesday Uptown, go to ROKC — Ramen, Oysters, Kitchen, Cocktails — and just try not to be totally charmed. Sunday in Brooklyn, try longtiime neighborhood standby The Islands, long one one the best Jamaican restaurants in New York City (but be warned that a friend recently had a bad service experience there recently — to be sure, the service has always been on Island Time).
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Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 9:00 PM – Sat, Feb 26, 2022, 9:59 PM
DANCE / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Rashaad Newsome: Assembly (Performances)
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 26, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 5)
9:00 PM
Wade Thompson Drill Hall, Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
At 9:00 PM, Rashaad Newsome’s sprawling installation exploring centuries of Black and Queer culture transforms into a performance venue, with dancers, musicians, MCs, whathaveyou.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wonder if the recent revamp at Restaurant Daniel involved bringing the food back to 1990s standard? You can stop by their bar before the show to find out.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 8:59 PM
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Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 8:59 PM
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Jordi Savall: Monteverdi’s Madrigals of Love and War
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2022
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$16-$105
TICKETS + INFORMATION
We’re gonna take a deep dive into hyperbole here: violist/conductor Jordi Savall is a plausible candidate for Western Music’s Greatest Living Musician. And Book 8 of Monteverdi’s Madrigals, the Madrigals of War and Love, has a strong claim to being at or near the peak of all Western vocal music. (One of them — the Lamento della NInfa — might even be the first doo-wop song!) So yeah, I kind of recommend this concert.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: When I send you to Cuban funspot Guantanamera, I want you to understand, it isn’t because the food is that good (it isn’t a patch on, say, the truly excellent Pilar Cuban Eatery in Bed-Stuy). It’s more because the place is so lively, and the live music tends to be wonderful. And it’s near Carnegie Hall and OPEN after shows! And on Tuesdays (like tonight), Mojitos cost only $6!!!!! You can’t beat that with a stick.
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Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 11:00 PM
MUSIC
Dayna Stevens Quartet
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 27, 2022
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Village Vanguard
178 7th Avenue South, West Village, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A little more mainstream than what we usually List here. But if you like down-the-middle saxplaying in the Ben Webster big-man-with-a-big-horn tradition, Dayna Stevens has what you want — but contemporary, post-Bop, post-Coltrane; in no sense a throwback. He has a great quartet, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Music this sensual deserves the sheer pleasure of the St. Tropez wine bar.
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Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 8:59 PM
THEATER
Suzan-Lori Parks: Fucking A
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24 – 26, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 6)
8:00 PM
Pope Auditorium, Fordham College at Lincoln Center
133 West 60th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$15; $5 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Suzan-Lori Parks is a hell of a playwright. But the reason this student production is getting Listed is that it features a new incidental score by Paul Pinto. This List is a Paul Pinto fanboy if anyone is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Remember when Rosa Mexicano was good? Wouldn’t it be nice if it were still?
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Vikingur Ólafsson
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2022
7:30 PM
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$60-$80
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I agonized about whether to List this. Not that I’m not excited about this show — the album on which it is based is one of my current faves — but it hews perilously closer to Standard Rep than what this List usually covers. Are we going to recognize the Early Classical period — some of the freshest, most purely enjoyable music around — as instead constituting Early Music, and hence Listable? For all that the major mainstream orchestras and soloists play it, it might as well be (even when the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra took to touting itself a few years ago as “New York’s only orchestra devoted to the Classical Period”, it never strayed far from Mozart, Haydn, and early Beethoven). So here we go! As for pianist Vikingur Ólafsson, I for one am thrilled to have a chance to hear him live; he’s never made an album that’s less than fabulous.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sugarfish: adequate, well-priced sushi — and OPEN after the show!
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Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 26, 2022, 8:29 PM
THEATER
Bertholt Brecht: The Mother
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 26, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 19)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
The Wooster Group
The Performing Garage
33 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan
$30-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A revival of this very fine production of Brecht’s polemical play, for all us Commies.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s ironic that I’m going to send you to one of the bougiest places imaginable, but the French comfort food at La Mercerie can only be described as wonderful. This isn’t what Brecht meant by “Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral” — but then on the other hand, Lenin and Trotsky frequented the Café Central in Vienna.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
DANCE
Kyle Abraham & A.I.M.: An Untitled Love
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 26, 2022
7:30 PM
Harvey Theater, BAM Strong
651 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$28-$60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dance sensation Kyle Abraham choreographs to the music of Neo-Soul great D’Angelo, and I for one wouldn’t miss it for the world.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Karasu izakaya has reopened through the door in the back of the Walter’s dining room (and I’ve heard word that a pretty spectacular bartender is helping out with the drinks).
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Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 7:30 AM – Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 8:30 AM
DANCE
New York City Ballet: Visionary Voices
TUESDAY – THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 24, 2022 (also on APRIL 22 – 24 & 29 & MAY 1)
7:30 PM
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$38-$205
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Oh God what a great program. A new piece by Jamar Roberts (to Wayne Shorter). A welcome revival of Pam Tanowitz’s interesting Bartók Ballet (set to the single piece in the classical repertoire that sounds most like the December’s Children-era Stones, Bartók’s Fifth String Quartet). And another very welcome revival, of Kyle Abraham’s huge hit of a few years ago (can it REALLY be four years now?) (I guess two of those intervening years never really happened), The Runaway, one of the most sheerly exciting pieces in this company’s repertoire. This really is kind of unmissable.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: With all that excitement, you’re gonna want a Martini, some oysters, and a Cadillac burger: P.J. Clarke’s.
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Monday, February 21, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Luke Stewart feat. Irreversible Entanglements: Assassinations for Free Jazz Ensemble
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bassist/composer Luke Stewart enlists his fellow members in Moor Mother’s great Free Jazz band Irreversible Entanglements to commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic food at As You Are. Streaming at home, Malcolm of course wouldn’t have wanted you to drink anything alcoholic at all, but let’s have an XYZ: pour 1-1/2 oz. dark Rum (Jamaican by preference), 1 oz. Cointreau, and 2/3 oz. lemon juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Monday, February 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 4:30 PM
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Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 5:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – 27, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 1:00 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – 27, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park
59th Street – 110th Street/Central Park West – 5th Avenue, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train (see below). The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, February 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Jay Clayton: 80th Birthday Celebration
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on 3rd Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You only turn 80 once — but if that birthday falls during a Pandemic, your live celebration can be postponed multiple times. On this night the leading NYC Free Jazz and New Music singer Jay Clayton FINALLY gets to celebrate hers with a concert performance.
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MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, really excellent Palestinian at Albadawi. Streaming at home, celebrate with an Original French 75: pour 1 oz. each of Cognac and Simple Syrup, and 3/4 oz. lemon juice, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Champagne flute. Top with Champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Saturday, February 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Stile Antico: Toward the Dawn
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2022
8:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$10-$45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There are fashions in Early Music performance as everything else. For a while, vocal groups singing Renaissance music were attaining a level of purity and perfection of intonation that was almost unbelievable, reaching levels of sheer beauty that were almost unimaginable. Then Stile Antico came along and shook things up by adding strong amounts of expressiveness. Their visits to New York have become highly anticipated events. This is a typically attractive program, fittingly mixing in Nico Muhly with his Renaissance forebears.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Interesting, well-made Chinese at Atlas Kitchen.
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Saturday, February 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Saturday, February 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Mixology 2022: Kamau Patton / Speaker Music
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance; $25 door; $50 three-night festival pass
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Roulette’s electronics festival concludes with two artists whose electronic pieces are in the service of penetrating social critique: Kamau Patton and Speaker Music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Superb Palestinian at Albadawi.
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Saturday, February 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
ShoutHouse / Sky Creature
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2022
8:00 PM
Tribeca New Music Festival
the cell
338 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$30-$50; $20 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A great double bill! Will Healy’s ShoutHouse band is exciting and expansive and brings the funk. Majel Connery’s Sky Creature band (well Matt Walsh has something to do with it) ROCKS. But guess what: it’s all sort of classical music, too!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seems like a good time for some Detroit-style pizza at Lions & Tigers & Squares.
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Saturday, February 19, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Kamala Sankaram & Bombay Rickey
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2022
7:30 PM
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Kamala Sankaram presents a selection of her fabulous vocal music, and does a set with her Yma Sumac-goes-surfing-in-Murdeshwara-and-then-goes-to-the-movies-in-1960s-Europe band Bombay Rickey.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Duh.
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Saturday, February 19, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
PERFORMANCE
Suzanne Bocanegra: Honor, an Artist Lecture
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2022
7:00 PM
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$25-$125
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The “artist lectures” created by visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra should never work. They’re theatricalized talks, using props and other visual media, given by Bocanegra through the medium of an actor who repeats words fed to them through an earpiece by Bocanegra, sitting on the side of the stage. What’s weird is that the two of these I’ve seen already were fascinating, compelling: a seemingly bad idea gone right. This one addresses Bocanegra’s obsession with a 16th Century tapestry in the Met’s collection called Honor. Lili Taylor becomes the first actor to do more than one of these.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I myself learned French Bistro at the original Downtown Quatorze, and it’s wonderful that they’re still plugging away in a more northerly location that arguably needs them more.
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Saturday, February 19, 2022, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
madison moore & Sadie Barnette feat. Shaun J. Wright: Nightife-In-Residence Saturday Session 1
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2022
12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 & 5:00 PM
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$5-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An exhibition exploring the cultural significance and impact of queer Black rave culture comes to life, when DJ Juana activates a recreation/reimagination of the first Black-owned gay bar in San Francisco.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wine, pasta, and aperativos at La Devozione.
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Fri, Feb 18, 2022, 9:00 PM – Sat, Feb 19, 2022, 10:00 PM
DANCE / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Rashaad Newsome: Assembly (Performances)
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 & 19, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 5)
9:00 PM
Wade Thompson Drill Hall, Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
At 9:00 PM, Rashaad Newsome’s sprawling installation exploring centuries of Black and Queer culture transforms into a performance venue, with dancers, musicians, MCs, whathaveyou.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wonder if the recent revamp at Restaurant Daniel involved bringing the food back to 1990s standard? You can stop by their bar before the show to find out.
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Friday, February 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Magdalena Bay
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2022
8:00 PM
Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$22
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Electro-pop duo Magdalena Bay is good enough that you wish they were that bit better that would take them over the top. Great videos!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I suppose you could have a bad time at Jupiter Disco. But I doubt it. (No one would call their cocktails serious, but I’m still liking the A.M. Radio these days.)
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Friday, February 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC/PERFORMANCE
Mixology 2022: Excepter / Bonnie Baxter
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance; $25 door; $50 three-night festival pass
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A fun night of electronics. Excepter is sorta psychedelic electronics-drenched folk-blues rock. Bonnie Baxter feeds personal archival tapes into samplers and drum machines.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Some of the best pita you’ve ever had at Bedouin Tent.
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Friday, February 18, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Chris Morrissey
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
Jazz Gallery
1160 Broadway, NoMad, Manhattan
$25-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The thought-provoking bassist Chris Morrissey brings in a new quartet, featuring on alto Charlotte Greve, who herself has done some very thought-provoking work over the last year or two.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Mod Korean at Atoboy.
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Fri, Feb 18, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 19, 2022, 8:30 PM
THEATER
Bertholt Brecht: The Mother
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 & 19, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 19)
7:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
The Wooster Group
The Performing Garage
33 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan
$30-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A revival of this very fine production of Brecht’s polemical play, for all us Commies.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s ironic that I’m going to send you to one of the bougiest places imaginable, but the French comfort food at La Mercerie can only be described as wonderful. This isn’t what Brecht meant by “Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral” — but then on the other hand, Lenin and Trotsky frequented the Café Central in Vienna.
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Thursday, February 17, 2022, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
MUSIC
Sun Ra Arkestra
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2022
9:00 PM
Afrofuturism
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$55-$65
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As I keep insisting, we don’t List ghost bands here — but in the case of the Sun Ra Arkestra, what a ghost! And non-ghost bandleader Marshall Allen remains as visionary a (nonogenarian) artist as ever. Moreover, none-ghost guest stars Moor Mother (!!!!!) and Kelsey Lu will provide contemporary relevance enough for three shows.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Cuban at Guantanamera.
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Thursday, February 17, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Thursday, February 17, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Magos Herrera: Remanso
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2022
8:00 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$41.40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The excellent CDMX-in-New York singer-songwriter Magos Herrera premieres new songs written during Lockdown — backed by a quartet and a string quartet (drawn from the ranks of The Knights!).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: First-rate bistro at Le Crocodile.
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Thursday, February 17, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Thursday, February 17, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Distant Pairs: Devin Kenny & E. Jane: That New New Flesh
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2022
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room Live Stream
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
ISSUE Project Room concludes (we can only hope) its series of streamed (very) remote collaborations, this time between two visual artist/sound producers, Devin Kenny in Berlin and E. Jane in Brooklyn.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Berlin Sour: pour 2 oz. Kümmel, 1/2 oz. Maraschino liqueur, 1 oz. lemon juice, and 1/4 oz. Simple Syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon slice and a cocktail cherry.
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Thursday, February 17, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Thursday, February 17, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Mixology 2022: Marcia Bassett
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance; $25 door; $50 three-night festival pass
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Roulette’s annual electronics festival kicks off with a set by Marcia Bassett, who combines sound and abstract visuals.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Plausible French Bistro at Bacchus.
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Thursday, February 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
AXIOM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2022
7:30 PM
Afrofuturism
Juilliard In Person & Live Stream
Alice Tully Hall
1941 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As part of Carnegie Hall’s Afrofuturism Festival, Juilliard’s house student contemporary music ensemble does an all-star line-up of George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, Marcos Balter, and Tania León.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, longstanding bistro Café Luxembourg is either boring or comfortingly dependable: you decide. Streaming at home, have an Old Cuban (NOT a reflection on Ms. León, now at the height of her powers): very gently bruise 6 mint leaves with 3/4 oz. lime juice in a cocktail shaker. Pour in 1-1/2 oz amber Rum and 1 oz. Simple Syrup, with 2 dashes of Angostura bitters. Fill with ice. Shake. Strain into a Martini glass or coupe. Top with Champagne. Slit a lime slice halfway through so it can perch on the glass rim, pierce it with a mint sprig, and set it on the rim.
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Thursday, February 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
OPERA
Marc Neikrug: A Song by Mahler
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2022
7:30 PM
Kaplan Penthouse, Juilliard School
70 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Oh I dunno this new music-theater piece about a concert singer navigating early-onset Alzheimer’s is kinda Old Skool for this List. But everybody involved with the production is great, so let a thousand flowers bloom.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’ll admit that for some reason I’ve been obsessed with P.J. Clarke’s lately.
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Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 19, 2022, 8:30 PM
THEATER
Jaime Sunwoo: Specially Processed American Me
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 – 19, 2022
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$25 advance; $20 students/seniors advance; $28 door; $23 students seniors door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As the author of an essay (now lost to the mists of time) called Notes on Spam, which attempted to present that processed meat as a metaphor for, like, everything, I can only applaud a multimedia play more persuasively using Spam as a taking-off point for an exploration of American cultural, culinary, and sexual colonialism in Southeast Asia, viewed through the lens of three generations of Korean women.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Stylish Korean-American at Ms. Yoo.
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Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 8:30 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
Puppet Lab
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 – 20, 2022
7:30 PM THURSDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
St. Ann’s Warehouse
45 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
$20 advance; $25 door; $35 combo both programs
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dueling puppets (see above)! Two mixed programs of puppet theater (check their website to see which program is given when).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It struck me recently, as I was wondering around DUMBO, that it’s as surprisingly as mediocre a dining neighborhood as Soho, and for what is probably the same reason: it’s become a sort of rootless tourist trap rather than a real neighborhood (the streets on the weekend are thronging), drawing moreover the kind of crowd that doesn’t really care about good food. I’m gonna just throw up my hands and send you to Gran Eléctrica (Mexican), which isn’t great but is very far from bad.
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Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 3:00 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
Theodora Skipitares: Grand Panorama
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 – 20, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 6)
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
Pay what you can Thursday; $25 advance all other shows; $30 day of all other shows; $20 students/seniors advance all other shows; $25 students/seniors day of all other shows; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Veteran master of puppet theater Theodora Skipitares explores Frederick Douglass’s obsession with the then-new medium of photography (yeah I never knew, either) and his optimistic hopes for its applications and effects.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Northwestern Chinese spot (not just out of solidarity with the Uyghurs, hearty cumin-drenched Northwestern Chinese is officially The Shit) Jiang’s Kitchen is, rather mysteriously, not as good as its lamented predecessor Jiang Diner was. But its $29 three-course Winter Menu is a steal!
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Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 3:00 PM
OPERA
Taylor Mac: The Hang
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 – 20, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 6)
8:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
HERE
145 Sixth Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Hudson Square, Manhattan
$35-$100
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A reinstatement of a postponed PROTOTYPE Festival show that you really NEED to go to! The last days of Socrates turned into a celebration of queer culture (if you’ve read Plato, not a stretch). Let’s face it, Taylor Mac can do anything.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sophisticated Italian (and a really first-rate beverage program) at Altro Paradiso.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Ryan Sawyer, Michael Formanek & Patricia Brennan
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2022
8:00 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20.71
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Drums, bass, and vibes — but not just any drums, bass, and vibes, but three of the most interesting players around.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Llama Inn might conceivably still be serving after the show; certainly before.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER / MUSIC / DANCE
David Byrne: American Utopia
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 – 20, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
5:00 & 9:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
St. James Theater
246 West 44th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$59-$179
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If a collaboration between David Byrne and Annie-B Parson were put on at BAM, I wouldn't think twice about Listing it (although I'd still feel constrained to make a comment about Boomer Nostalgia moving on to the Pop Avant-Garde). So I'm not gonna demerit this cuz it's on Broadway. AM I?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Maybe the sushi at Sushi Lab is overelaborate and tries too hard. But it's there.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Distant Pairs: Francesco Cavaliere & Tomoko Sauvage: Uza Cima Part II
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2022
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room Live Stream
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
ISSUE Project Room continues its series of streamed (very) remote collaborations, this time between visual artist/sound producer Francesco Cavaliere in either Berlin or Turin (I’d go visit him in either!) and water-music specialist Tomoko Sauvage in Paris.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Road to Turin (this is fun): light up a clove, blow it out, put it on a plate, and invert a chilled rocks glass over it to trap the smoke. Pour 1-1/2 oz. Shochu, 3/4 oz. sweet Vermouth (de Torino be preference duh), and 1 teaspoon dry Vermouth, with 3 dashes of orange bitters and 1 dash of chocolate bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into the smoked rocks glass. Garnish with an orange twist studded with another clove.
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Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 4:00 PM
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Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 5:30 PM
THEATER
Enda Walsh: The Same
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 – 20, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 6)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$59
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When he’s not writing books for disappointing musicals, Enda Walsh writes unique, sort-of-absurdist-but-in-the-end-not-really theater pieces in which you figure out the logic underlying the seemingly anomalous situational behavior the play presents as it goes along, usually reaching full understanding just before play’s end. And in Ireland, a country with an overabundance of fine actors, they think the two here — Eileen Walsh and Catherine Walsh (is there only one surname in Ireland???) — are just fantastic. They should know.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ardesia Wine Bar really is the place to go from the Irish Arts Center.
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Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 7:15 PM – Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 3:15 PM
THEATER
Happenstance Theater: Barococo
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 – 20, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 6)
7:15 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:15 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Physical comedy depicting the last days of the French aristocracy as launching pad for commentary on wealth disparity. Set to late French Baroque!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You could do a lot worse in this neighborhood than the Sicilian food at Piccola Cucina Uptown.
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Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
Peter Born, Diana Oh, Niegel Smith, Okwui Okpokwasili & Carrie Mae Weems: Arden — But, Not Without You
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 – 20, 2022
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Flea
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$15-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You’re walking through a forest and you come to a clearing where you fing going on collective rites that give you the feelings of hope, affirmation, and fellowship you’ve been missing for the last couple of years (unless you’re an introverted misanthrope like me who was relieved at not having to deal with other people).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cretan food is hard to come by around here — but they serve some at Mirathi. Try the black truffle tarama (probably not strictly Cretan) (but good), the Cretan snails, and the Apaki Kleftiko — all stuff you’ve probably never had except maybe in Crete.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
New York Festival of Song: Buenos Aires, Then and Now
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2022
8:00 PM
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$20-$70
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You will no doubt be fascinated to learn that, with the possible exception of Mexico City, BA is this List’s favorite city other than New York. Here the New York Festival of Song, in conjunction with Opera Hispánica, traces its fertile music scene from early Euro-classical through Nuevo Tango through some more contemporary stuff — leaving a lot out, to be sure: this is the polite side of BA (in other words, be forewarned: this is a LOT slicker than the kind of presentation we usually List around here).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Get THE FUCK over to the new UWS Charles Pan-Fried Chicken RIGHT NOW. Really.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Chai
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2022
8:00 PM
Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Japanese pop-punk-into-light-funk (like New York in the very late ‘70s — in a cartoon!) band Chai is sweet! And smart! And they play their own instruments!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Onetime Vietnamese sensation Bunker has revamped its menu — bringing it a little closer to that of its original glory days.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
O’Neill: Long Day’s Journey into Night
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 – 20, 2022
7:00 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Minetta Lane Theater
18 Minetta Lane, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$67-$97
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Contrary to the popular belief that I like anything long (Feldman! Bruckner! Wagner! Glass/Wilson!), this List is no fan of the work of Eugene O’Neill. But this shortened version of Long Day’s Journey into Night was directed by Robert O’Hara, one of the most piercing artists now working in American theater, and has a stellar cast. Did I mention that it’s shortened?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Much as I’ve liked the cooking of Chef Michael Toscano in the past, I find the Italian food at his current venture, Da Toscano, rather iffy. But it’s right next door.
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Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 8:00 PM
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Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 4:30 PM
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Monday, February 14, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
PRISM Quartet feat. Tony Arnold & Arturo O’Farrill: Mending Wall
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance; $25 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The splendid saxophone quartet PRISM are joined for a staged show by no less than soprano Tony Arnold and pianist Arturo O’Farrill. The show explores walls: identity, community, division, freedom. And the composers of the world premieres that comprise the piece are George Lewis, Martin Bresnick, Juri Seo, and O’Farrill himself!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Eclectic food at As You Are.
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Monday, February 14, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Monday, February 14, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
MUSIC
counter)induction presents: Caleb van der Swaagh
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022
4:00 PM
Soapbox Gallery In Person & Live Stream
636 Dean Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$25 in person; pay what you can live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Cellist Caleb van der Swaagh plays Ligeti, Berio, and such local faves as Jessica Meyer and Pauline Kim Harris.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, French-Japanese mashup on skewers at Maison Yaki. Streaming at home, have a Copperhead: pour 2 oz. Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy and 1/2 oz. each of Rye and yellow Chartreuse into an ice filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a Nick and Nora glass.
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Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 5:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14 – 20, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 1:00 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14 – 20, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park
59th Street – 110th Street/Central Park West – 5th Avenue, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train (see below). The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, February 13, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
yMusic: Curated by Laurie Anderson
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2022
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, Noho, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What more do you need to know?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Taiwanese at 886.
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Sunday, February 13, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
MUSIC
Harlem Chamber Players: Black History Month Concert
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2022
4:00 PM
The Woodland
60 Woodland Road, Maplewood, New Jersey
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Any chance to hear Jessie Montgomery’s rocket of a string quartet Strum is welcome. Nkeiru Okoye’s music is vivid, energized, and energizing. And William Grant Still next to Dvorák will demonstrate that underplayed Dead Black Men can be as fusty as overplayed Dead White Men.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: There’s no suprise that French Restaurant Lorena’s is considered by everyone to be one of the best in New Jersey. Too bad about the dumbed-down Super Bowl menu today, though.
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Sunday, February 13, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
MUSIC
ACRONYM: Ad Astra
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2022
4:00 PM
Music Before 1800
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$5-$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Early music band ACRONYM — one of the glories of the New York music scene — performs music composed as Europe was awakening from the devastating nightmare of the Thirty Years’ War, which had erased much of its population. Hmmmm, what parallel could they be drawing? (A video of the show will streamed starting a week later, at 4 PM on February 21, for $15 — for those who don’t care about spontaneity, immediacy, or sound quality.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Eritrean at Massawa.
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Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 11:30 PM – Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 12:30 AM
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Saturday, February 12, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC / DANCE / PERFORMANCE
Flying Lotus
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2021
8:00 PM
Afrofuturism
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$12.55-$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Traversing the outer musical borders of advanced hip-hop, Flying Lotus is about as good as it gets. Too bad Carnegie Hall — probably the greatest venue in the world for large-scale unamplified music — sucks so badly for amplified.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very enjoyable Greek at Souvlaki GR.
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Saturday, February 12, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Zoh Amba Trio
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2022
8:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Saxophonist Zoh Amba has only lived in New York a few months, but she’s already making a big noise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I can’t but send you down the block for homestyle Japanese at Bessou, one of the most charming restaurants in the City.
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Saturday, February 12, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Saturday, February 12, 2022, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
MUSIC
Ralph Alessi Quartet
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Streamed Second Set
1160 Broadway, NoMad, Manhattan
$25-35 in person; $20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I think of Ralph Alessi as a Stealth Trumpeter: he’s hardly unknown, but he doesn’t generate the kind of awe his chops warrant. And this quartet has a killer rhythm section!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hill Country’s Texas barbecue is still actually quite good.
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Saturday, February 12, 2022, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
MUSIC
Uri Caine, Mark Hellas & Ben Perowski
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2022
7:30 & 9:00 PM
Mezzrow
163 West 10th Street, West Village, Manhattan
$40 advance; $25 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist Uri Caine is a master at mashing up straight-ahead jazz with various other musics. Wonder what he’ll be doing tonight?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Italian sensation Via Carota manages to simultaneously be wildly overrated and still quite good.
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Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 4:00 PM
OPERA
Beethoven: Fidelio
THURSDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10 & 12 – 13, 2022
7:00 PM THURSDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Heartbeat Opera
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$25-$125
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Heartbeat Opera brings back its now almost legendary recasting of Beethoven’s stirring but flawed opera about resistance to political oppression (and faithfulness in marriage) as centering on a contemporary Black American political prisoner and his heroic spouse. A major event.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I myself learned French Bistro at the original Downtown Quatorze, and it’s wonderful that they’re still plugging away in a more northerly location that arguably needs them more.
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Friday, February 11, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Ethan Iverson: Every Note Is True
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Hyper-articulate pianist Ethan Iverson has a large-ensemble piece played, and does a trio set.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, unaccountably underrated pizza at Sottocasa. At home, have an Alaska: pour 2-1/4 oz. Old Tom Gin and 1/4 oz. yellow Chartreuse, with 1 dash of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
Peter Born, Diana Oh, Niegel Smith, Okwui Okpokwasili & Carrie Mae Weems: Arden — But, Not Without You
MONDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 – 9 & 11 – 13, 2022
7:00 PM MONDAY –WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
The Flea
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$15-$25 Monday – Wednesday; $15-$35 Friday – Sunday
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You’re walking through a forest and you come to a clearing where you fing going on collective rites that give you the feelings of hope, affirmation, and fellowship you’ve been missing for the last couple of years (unless you’re an introverted misanthrope like me who was relieved at not having to deal with other people).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cretan food is hard to come by around here — but they serve some at Mirathi. Try the black truffle tarama (probably not strictly Cretan) (but good), the Cretan snails, and the Apaki Kleftiko — all stuff you’ve probably never had except maybe in Crete.
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Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Ari Hoenig & Dan Weiss Duo
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 & 12, 2022
8:00 PM
Soapbox Gallery In Person & Live Stream
636 Dean Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$25 in person; pay what you can live stream
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two drummers. Dan Weiss is one of the most interesting in New York right now — and Ari Hoenig is no slouch, either.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Mitchell’s Soul Food is such a huge personal fave of mine that I almost hate to tell you about it. At home, have a Turf Club: pour 2 oz. Gin, 3/4 oz. dry Vermouth, 1/4 oz. Maraschino liqueur, and 1/4 teaspoon Absinthe, with 1 dash of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Express a lemon twist into the drink and then toss in the rind as a garnish.
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Friday, February 11, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Tredici Bacci / The Narcotix / Mike Etten
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2022
8:00 PM
The Broadway
1272 Broadway, Bed-Stuy, Broadway
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This List is always good for a recommendation of its finta Italo-Pop faves Tredici Bacci. But this bill is solid all the way through. The Narcotix, with their Neo-Psych Soul. And Mike Etten, who’s been behind a ton of good Brooklyn Indie music; if now he’s trying to emulate early Post-Beatles solo records, well, I lived through that the first time.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vegan food pretending not to be at Toad Style.
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Friday, February 11, 2022, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
MUSIC
Román Filiú
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
Jazz Gallery
1160 Broadway, NoMad, Manhattan
$25-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Backed by piano, bass, and a string quartet, alto saxophonist Ramón Filiú plays an extended composition invoking his native Santiago de Cuba.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Il Florista is a (Mediterranean duh) restaurant! Il Flaurista is a flower shop! Stop, you’re BOTH right!
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Thursday, February 10, 2022, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM
MUSIC
Liminal States: Lea Bertucci
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2022
10:00 PM
Bowerbird Live Stream
Free/pay what you can ($20 suggested) (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another entry in Bowerbird’s series designed to stream you into sleep. Tonight you’ll be lulled by reed-player/soundscaper Lea Bertucci.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Warm Old Fashioned: place a sugar cube at the bottom of an Old Fashioned glass and saturate it with 3 dashes of Angostura bitters. Add an orange slice and a cocktail cherry, and a splash of club soda. Muddle. Remove the remains of the fruit. Pour in 2 oz. Bourbon and top with hot water. Garnish with another orange slice and another cocktail cherry.
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Thursday, February 10, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Cleak Shrey & Winston Oleki: Organs
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Organs! And more.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Eclectic food at As You Are. At home, have a Widow’s Kiss: pour 2 oz. Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy and 1/4 oz. each of yellow Chartreuse and Bénédictine, with 2 dashes of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 6:00 PM
THEATER
Martin Baross & Jonathan Payne: Addressless
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 & 10 – 13, 2022
8:00 PM MONDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY
5:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
224 Waverley Place, West Village, Manhattan
$30 Monday, Thursday, Saturday & Sunday; $1-$25 Friday
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An adaptation of a Hungarian production that seeks to provide audiences with an immersive simulacrum of the experience of housing insecurity.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Extra Virgin was doing Mediterranean before it was a thing.
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Thursday, February 10, 2022, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
MUSIC
Jeremy Dutton: I’m Jeremy Dutton
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
Jazz Gallery
1160 Broadway, NoMad, Manhattan
$15-25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jeremy Dutton is not only an excellent drummer, but a really good composer. He and his stellar quintet will play some hot-off-the-presses new music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: French-Korean fusion might seem a little contrived, but at LittleMäd it works.
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Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 8:30 PM
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Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 8:30 PM
THEATER
Jaime Sunwoo: Specially Processed American Me
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10 – 12, 2022 (continuing through FEBRUARY 19)
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$25 advance; $20 students/seniors advance; $28 door; $23 students seniors door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As the author of an essay (now lost to the mists of time) called Notes on Spam, which attempted to present that processed meat as a metaphor for, like, everything, I can only applaud a multimedia play more persuasively using Spam as a taking-off point for an exploration of American cultural, culinary, and sexual colonialism in Southeast Asia, viewed through the lens of three generations of Korean women.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Stylish Korean-American at Ms. Yoo.
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Thursday, February 10, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
OPERA
Beethoven: Fidelio
THURSDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10 & 12 – 13, 2022
7:00 PM THURSDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Heartbeat Opera
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$25-$125
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Heartbeat Opera brings back its now almost legendary recasting of Beethoven’s stirring but flawed opera about resistance to political oppression (and faithfulness in marriage) as centering on a contemporary Black American political prisoner and his heroic spouse. A major event.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I myself learned French Bistro at the original Downtown Quatorze, and it’s wonderful that they’re still plugging away in a more northerly location that arguably needs them more.
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Wed, Feb 9, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 3:00 PM
OPERA
Taylor Mac: The Hang
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 – 13, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 6)
8:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
HERE
145 Sixth Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Hudson Square, Manhattan
$35-$100
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A reinstatement of a postponed PROTOTYPE Festival show that you really NEED to go to! The last days of Socrates turned into a celebration of queer culture (if you’ve read Plato, not a stretch). Let’s face it, Taylor Mac can do anything.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sophisticated Italian (and a really first-rate beverage program) at Altro Paradiso.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM
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Wed, Feb 9, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER / MUSIC / DANCE
David Byrne: American Utopia
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 – 13, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
5:00 & 9:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
St. James Theater
246 West 44th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$59-$179
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If a collaboration between David Byrne and Annie-B Parson were put on at BAM, I wouldn't think twice about Listing it (although I'd still feel constrained to make a comment about Boomer Nostalgia moving on to the Pop Avant-Garde). So I'm not gonna demerit this cuz it's on Broadway. AM I?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Maybe the sushi at Sushi Lab is overelaborate and tries too hard. But it's there.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Distant Pairs: Michiyo Yagi & Jan Bang: Through a Looking Glass
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2022
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room Live Stream
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In a week otherwise redolent of the full-scale return of live in-person performance, ISSUE Project Room continues its series of streamed (very) remote collaborations, this time between avant-koto master Michiyo Yagi in Tokyo and electronics guru Drew McDowell in Kristiansand, Norway.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fernando: pour 1 oz. each of Gin, Aquavit (Linie, for Jan Bang’s sake), and lemon juice, with 1 dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Wed, Feb 9, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 4:00 PM
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Wed, Feb 9, 2022, 7:15 PM – Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 3:14 PM
THEATER
Happenstance Theater: Barococo
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 – 13, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 6)
7:15 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:15 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Physical comedy depicting the last days of the French aristocracy as launching pad for commentary on wealth disparity. Set to late French Baroque!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You could do a lot worse in this neighborhood than the Sicilian food at Piccola Cucina Uptown.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
J. Hoard: “Big Creature” Album Preview
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2022
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, Noho, Manhattan
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Brooklyn Nu R&B guy J. Hoard crosses the estuary to preview his upcoming album.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Here’s a wild idea: let’s go to Indochine and pretend it’s the ‘80s (WHY would you want to pretend it’s the ‘80s????).
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Paul Pinto: Whiteness: Part One (and other portraits)
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10 – 12, 2022
6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30 & 8:00 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00 PM SATURDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
Culture Hub
47 Great Jones Street, Noho, Manhattan
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Is there a better, deeper, more entertaining musician/performer in New York than Paul Pinto? Not for my money. This is an immersive video cantata exploring White privilege, racial identity, and related matters by Pinto, who is mixed race but afraid of (or guilty about? ask him) reading White. Since it’s Pinto, it will be funny as well as biting and perceptive. Your ticket to the show at La MaMa also gets you entry to an installation of other video works by Pinto around the corner (and over the Noho border) at Culture Hub.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Stylish Italian at Il Buco.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Tue, Feb 8, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 8:30 PM
THEATER
Claire Barron: Shhhh
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8 – 13, 2022
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
2:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2
330 West 16th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$51.50-$71.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I know people who think they don’t like theater. They think it’s a lot of people saying things people would never say in real life. Usually, I send them to the kind of non-narrative, unnaturalistic, unpsychological Epic Theater this List prefers. But really, they ought to go see something by Claire Barron to see that narrative(ish) sorta-psychological theater can still be vital, can still kick, can do what it does without being slavishly naturalistic. Barron also directed and stars.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: For the evening shows, Spanish at Salinas. For the matinée, tacos (duh) at Los Tacos No. 1 in the Chelsea Market.
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Tue, Feb 8, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
O’Neill: Long Day’s Journey into Night
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8 – 13, 2022 (continuing through FEBRUARY 20)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Minetta Lane Theater
18 Minetta Lane, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$67-$97
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Contrary to the popular belief that I like anything long (Feldman! Bruckner! Wagner! Glass/Wilson!), this List is no fan of the work of Eugene O’Neill. But this shortened version of Long Day’s Journey into Night was directed by Robert O’Hara, one of the most piercing artists now working in American theater, and has a stellar cast. Did I mention that it’s shortened?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Much as I’ve liked the cooking of Chef Michael Toscano in the past, I find the Italian food at his current venture, Da Toscano, rather iffy. But it’s right next door.
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Tue, Feb 8, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 8:00 PM
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Tue, Feb 8, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 4:30 PM
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Monday, February 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
THEATER
Eva Elizabeth Novak: Park
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2022
8:00 PM
Exponential Festival Online
YouTube
Free (donation requested)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A piece responding to the circumstance that everybody was living their personal lives outdoors in public over the past couple of years.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Black Manhattan (not for the faint of heart): pour 2 oz. Rye and 1 oz. Averna Amaro, with 1 dash each of Angostura and orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chllled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Monday, February 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
THEATER
Martin Baross & Jonathan Payne: Addressless
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 & 10 – 13, 2022
8:00 PM MONDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY
5:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
224 Waverley Place, West Village, Manhattan
$30 Monday, Thursday, Saturday & Sunday; $1-$25 Friday
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An adaptation of a Hungarian production that seeks to provide audiences with an immersive simulacrum of the experience of housing insecurity.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Extra Virgin was doing Mediterranean before it was a thing.
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Monday, February 7, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Monday, February 7, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 7:00 PM – Wed, Feb 9, 2022, 7:59 PM
THEATER
Peter Born, Diana Oh, Niegel Smith, Okwui Okpokwasili & Carrie Mae Weems: Arden — But, Not Without You
MONDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 – 9 & 11 – 13, 2022
7:00 PM MONDAY –WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
The Flea
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$15-$25 Monday – Wednesday; $15-$35 Friday – Sunday
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You’re walking through a forest and you come to a clearing where you fing going on collective rites that give you the feelings of hope, affirmation, and fellowship you’ve been missing for the last couple of years (unless you’re an introverted misanthrope like me who was relieved at not having to deal with other people).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cretan food is hard to come by around here — but they serve some at Mirathi. Try the black truffle tarama (probably not strictly Cretan) (but good), the Cretan snails, and the Apaki Kleftiko — all stuff you’ve probably never had except maybe in Crete.
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Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 5:30 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 – 13, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Feb 13, 2022, 1:00 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 – 13, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park
59th Street – 110th Street/Central Park West – 5th Avenue, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train (see below). The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, February 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Angelica Sanchez Trio feat. Michael Formanek & Billy Hart
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist Angelica Sanchez is backed by one mother of a rhythm section. (There’ll be some Mary Lou Williams and Duke Ellington on the bill along with a lot of Sanchez.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Eclectic food at As You Are. At home, have a nearly perfect cocktail, the Last Word: pour 3/4 oz. each of Gin, yellow Chartreuse, Maraschino liqueur, and lime juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Sunday, February 6, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
DANCE
White Wave: 2022 SoloDuo Dance Festival
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2022 (also on FEBRUARY 7)
6:00 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$20 advance; $25 door; $15 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A buncha local dancers and choreographers create and perform a buncha solos and duets.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lorely Biergarten: exactly what it sounds like.
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Sunday, February 6, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
MUSIC
Sam Sadigursky: “The Solomon Diaries” Album Release Show
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2022
4:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15 in person; free-$10 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The eloquent post-Klezmer composer/clarinetist Sam Sadigursky takes off from the history and remnants of the Borscht Belt (believe it or not) to examine/invoke freedom (from leaden food?), rebellion (against regimented leisure?), celebration, tradition, independence, loss, hope, decay and renewal.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, see if you like Runner Up (which reportedly has upgraded it’s all-outdoors dining facitilities) more than I do. At home, the Brooklyn cocktail was probably (cocktail history is rarely clear) invented by a bartender who was Jewish. Here’s a version that hews closer to the original than the modern version known now; hence, the Brooklyn (Original): pour 1-1/2 oz. of Rye and sweet Vermouth, and 1/4 oz. each of either Golden Moon Amer dit Picon or Bigallet China-China and Maraschino liqueur, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Sunday, February 6, 2022, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
THEATER
Peter Born, Diana Oh, Niegel Smith, Okwui Okpokwasili & Carrie Mae Weems: Arden — But, Not Without You
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2022
3:00 PM
The Flea
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$15-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You’re walking through a forest and you come to a clearing where you fing going on collective rites that give you the feelings of hope, affirmation, and fellowship you’ve been missing for the last couple of years (unless you’re an introverted misanthrope like me who was relieved at not having to deal with other people).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cretan food is hard to come by around here — but they serve some at Mirathi. Try the black truffle tarama (probably not strictly Cretan) (but good), the Cretan snails, and the Apaki Kleftiko — all stuff you’ve probably never had except maybe in Crete.
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Sunday, February 6, 2022, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
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Sunday, February 6, 2022, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
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Saturday, February 5, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
New York Philharmonic: Anthony Roth Costanzo Sings Berlioz
THURSDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 & 5, 2022
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
Authentic Selves: The Beauty Within
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
70 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$39-$83
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The big news on this program curated by Anthony Roth Costanzo to explore marginalized identities is Julius Eastman’s Symphony No. II — The Faithful Friend: The Lover’s Love for the Beloved, which never gets played around here (and certainly not by the Philharmonic) (the now-resurgent Eastman having been, in his lifetime, about as marginalized as a major cultural figure could be): Minimalism with maximum emotional impact. There’s also a new vocal piece by Gregory Spears, whom I’d call mellifluous if it didn’t sound like I was belittling him. As for the titular Berlioz, it’s always been a conundrum what vocal type or types should sing the songs in his ineffable orchestral cycle Les Nuites d’Eté. The most frequent choice is a mezzo; Costanzo now proposes a counter-tenor: himself. I can’t wait.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Get over to Bar Boulud while it’s still Cassoulet season.
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Sat, Feb 5, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 8:00 PM
THEATER
Aleshea Harris: On Sugarland
THURSDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 5 & 6, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 20)
7:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS & INFORMATION
An exploration/celebration of the survival/transmission of Black American culture through parlous times. Aleasha Harris is one surprising, pointed playwright — and God knows choreographer Raja Feather Kelly is brilliant.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice neighborhood Italian at Cacio e Vino.
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Saturday, February 5, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe / Susie Ibarra
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2022
8:00 PM
Les Paul Festival
Sharp Theater, Ramapo College Berrie Center
505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, New Jersey
$24-$30; in person; $18 children under age 17
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You can say the suburbs are boring, but this one will be resounding with beautifully laidout lectronic noise and interesting percussive sounds.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better Spanish than we urban snobs expect to find in Mahwah at Sangria.
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Saturday, February 5, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Julius Rodriguez
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2022
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$21.55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Artist Formerly Known As Orange Julius gets ready to make his move to the big time — a place this eminently talented pianist/drummer/composer completely belongs. One of the new generation bringing jazz back to pop in a manner that keeps its musical integrity.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Burger and a beer at Threes Brewing.
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Saturday, February 5, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
Sō Percussion: A Brooklyn Percussion Extravaganza
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2022
6:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
$25 in person; $15 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sō Percussion, the Godfathers of the current percussion ensemble boom, host an evening of percussion ensembles — from Brooklyn! Contemporary classical, Trinidadian, Japanese, Brazilian . . . and more!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, excellent Palestinian at Albadawi. Streaming at home, this long show might be complemented by a string of easy-to-make, easy-to-drink White Port & Tonics: pour 1-1/2 oz. white Port into a large wine glass or goblet over ice. Top with tonic water. Stir. Garnish with a lemon or lime twist.
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Friday, February 4, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
National Black Theater: Beauty in the Abyss
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2022
8:00 PM
Authentic Selves: The Beauty Within
New York Philharmonic
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Juilliard School
165 West 65th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A sort of theatrical poetry cabaret exploring notions of physical beauty and desirability.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fancy Mediterranean at Boulud Sud.
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Fri, Feb 4, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 5, 2022, 10:00 PM
MUSIC
Borderlands Trio: “Wanderlust” Album Release Party
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 & 5, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
Jazz Gallery In Person & Saturday Live Streams
1160 Broadway, NoMad, Manhattan
$25-$35 in person; $20 live stream
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
A piano trio led by the splendid pianist/composer Kris Davis.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, French-Korean fusion might seem a little contrived, but at LittleMäd it works. Streaming at home, have a Border Crossing: pour 1-1/2 oz. Tequila into a Collins or Highball glass over ice. Add 2 teaspoons of lime juice and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. Top with Mexican Coke. I’d throw in a lemon wedge and a lime wedge as garnishes.
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Friday, February 4, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Rosehardt & Little Kruta
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2022
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$35.60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Future Hip-Hop guy Rosehardt was supposed to play a breakout concert in March 2020. That didn’t happen, so instead he spent the next two years making a movie about his experience of The Lockdown. Now, he’ll show the movie — and then play that breakout set, accompanied by the Little Kruta orchestra.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: First-rate bistro at Le Crocodile.
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Friday, February 4, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2022
7:30 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
70 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$34-$74
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sure, Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time has one of the best backstories in European classical music: composed in a Nazi prison camp, scored for the combination of instruments whose players the composer happened to know among his fellow inmates. But what’s key here is that this piece is one of the best things in all of music: haunting, transporting, evocative — and sounding like absolutely nothing else; a moving statement of faith even if you don’t share that faith, fully conveying the mystery that absolute faith invokes. Also on the program are Stravinsky’s delightful Suite Italienne, Neoclassicism at its sunniest, and the first of Brahms’s two Clarinet Sonatas, not the kind of thing we List here — but which can only be described as supernal.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delighful Cuisine Bourgeois at neighborhood standby La Boite en Bois.
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Fri, Feb 4, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Trio 3 feat. Oliver Lake: Final Concerts
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4 – 6, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
5:30 & 7:30 PM SUNDAY
Dizzy’s Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center In Person & Saturday Live Stream
10 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$40 Friday in person; $45 Saturday in person; $35 Sunday in person; $25 students in person; $20 Saturday live streams
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The last shows by the stupendous trio formed 30-some odd years ago by alto player Oliver Lake — the most vivacious player in free jazz — with the great bassist Reggie Workman and the exotic drummer Andrew Cyrille. Sitting in will be saxophonist Bruce Williams and — get ready! — the fabulous piano and musical mind of Vijay Iyer. (There’s a rumor going around that these may be Lake’s last live shows, period — but I don’t know anything about that.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Dizzy’s Club is a place I would recommend not eating in. Better to go to the Uptown Momofuku Noodle Bar and mull over how times have changed. Streaming at home, have a Carnival Jump Up: pour 2 oz. Gold Rum (Trinidadian by preference), 1 oz. coconut cream, and 1/2 oz. each of Grenadine and lime juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a Highball glass. Garnish with a lime slice and a pineapple slice.
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Friday, February 4, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Carl Hancock Rux: SP Remix
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2022
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, Noho, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Carl Hancock Rux is a poet, a playwright, a singer-songwriter, an actor, and a very compelling performer on the outskirts of Neo-Soul.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Taiwanese at 886.
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Friday, February 4, 2022, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MUSIC
Robert Black: First Fridays
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2022
12:00 PM
Bang On A Can Live Stream
Free (donation requested)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Is this the best installment yet of Robert Black’s continuing monthly attempt to expand the solo repertoire for solo double bass? Might be: new pieces by Angélica Negrón and Julia Wolfe!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Garibaldi: pour 1-1/2 oz. Campari and 4 oz. orange juice into a Highball glass over ice. Stir. Garnish with an orange wedge.
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Thursday, February 3, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Distant Pairs: Puce Mary & Drew McDowell
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2022
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room Live Stream
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In a week otherwise redolent of the full-scale return of live in-person performance, ISSUE Project Room resumes its series of remote streamed collaborations, this time between electronic musicians Puce Mary in Copenhagen and Drew McDowell in Brooklyn.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Blood and Sand: pour 3/4 oz. each of Scotch, sweet Vermouth, Cherry Brandy, and orange juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 6:00 PM
THEATER
Martin Baross & Jonathan Payne: Addressless
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 & FEBRUARY 3 – 6, 2022 (continuing through FEBRUARY 13)
8:00 PM MONDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY
5:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
224 Waverley Place, West Village, Manhattan
$30 MONDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY; $1-$25 FRIDAY
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An adaptation of a Hungarian production that seeks to provide audiences with an immersive simulacrum of the experience of housing insecurity.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Extra Virgin was doing Mediterranean before it was a thing.
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Thursday, February 3, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC / DANCE / PERFORMANCE
Soul Science Lab: Make a Joyful Noize
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2022
8:00 PM
Afrofuturism
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$20-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Hip-hop duo Soul Science Lab are eclectic and questing to begin with. But to kick off Carnegie Hall’s Afrofuturism Festival, they’ve put together a multi-media extravaganza. Sure beats another Beethoven traversal.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’ma send you to Guantanamera again, because it would be good to go somewhere after this show that would be almost as much fun as the show itself was — and the Cuban food is good, too.
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Thursday, February 3, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
New York Philharmonic: Anthony Roth Costanzo Sings Berlioz
THURSDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 & 5, 2022
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
Authentic Selves: The Beauty Within
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
70 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$39-$83
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The big news on this program curated by Anthony Roth Costanzo to explore marginalized identities is Julius Eastman’s Symphony No. II — The Faithful Friend: The Lover’s Love for the Beloved, which never gets played around here (and certainly not by the Philharmonic) (the now-resurgent Eastman having been, in his lifetime, about as marginalized as a major cultural figure could be): Minimalism with maximum emotional impact. There’s also a new vocal piece by Gregory Spears, whom I’d call mellifluous if it didn’t sound like I was belittling him. As for the titular Berlioz, it’s always been a conundrum what vocal type or types should sing the songs in his ineffable orchestral cycle Les Nuites d’Eté. The most frequent choice is a mezzo; Costanzo now proposes a counter-tenor: himself. I can’t wait.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Get over to Bar Boulud while it’s still Cassoulet season.
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Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 5, 2022, 8:30 PM
DANCE
Dzul Dance: Legends of the Forest
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 – 5, 2022
7:30 PM THURSDAY
7:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$48; $40 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Myths and legends from pre-Hispanic Mexican culture.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lasagna Restaurant has the biggest selection of lasagnas you’ve ever seen. Whether or not that’s a good thing is up for debate.
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Thursday, February 3, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
An Evening with Nico Muhly
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2022
7:30 PM
Saint Thomas Church In Person & Live Stream
1 West 53rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$10-$60 in person; $10 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Composing phenom Nico Muhly (who came out of the Episcopalian/Anglican choral tradition and so should be right at home at Saint Thomas) puts together an evening of chamber and vocal music by himself and, oh yeah, Benjamin Britten.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Le Grande Boucherie has to be one of the most striking new restaurants in New York: an almost Disneyland recreation of the ideal of the Belle Époque grand Parisian café. I’ll be shocked if the food is good. Streaming at home, have an Episcopal Cocktail: pour 1-1/2 oz. green Chartreuse and 3/4 oz. yellow Chartreuse into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice.
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Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 5, 2022, 8:30 PM
THEATER
Jaime Sunwoo: Specially Processed American Me
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 – 5, 2022 (continuing through FEBRUARY 19)
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$25 advance; $20 students/seniors advance; $28 door; $23 students seniors door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As the author of an essay (now lost to the mists of time) called Notes on Spam, which attempted to present that processed meat as a metaphor for, like, everything, I can only applaud a multimedia play more persuasively using Spam as a taking-off point for an exploration of American cultural, culinary, and sexual colonialism in Southeast Asia, viewed through the lens of three generations of Korean women.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Stylish Korean-American at Ms. Yoo.
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Thursday, February 3, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
DANCE
New York City Ballet: Visionary Voices
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2022 (also on FEBRUARY 22 – 24)
7:30 PM
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$38-$205
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Oh God what a great program. A new piece by Jamar Roberts (to Wayne Shorter). A welcome revival of Pam Tanowitz’s interesting Bartók Ballet (set to the single piece in the classical repertoire that sounds most like the December’s Children-era Stones, Bartók’s Fifth String Quartet). And another very welcome revival, of Kyle Abraham’s huge hit of a few years ago (can it REALLY be four years now?) (I guess two of those intervening years never really happened), The Runaway, one of the most sheerly exciting pieces in this company’s repertoire. This really is kind of unmissable.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: With all that excitement, you’re gonna want a Martini, some oysters, and a Cadillac burger: P.J. Clarke’s.
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Thursday, February 3, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
THEATER
Aleshea Harris: On Sugarland
THURSDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 5 & 6, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 20)
7:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS & INFORMATION
An exploration/celebration of the survival/transmission of Black American culture through parlous times. Aleasha Harris is one surprising, pointed playwright — and God knows choreographer Raja Feather Kelly is brilliant.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice neighborhood Italian at Cacio e Vino.
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Wed, Feb 2, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 3:00 PM
OPERA
Taylor Mac: The Hang
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2 – 6, 2022 (continuing through FEBRUARY 20)
8:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
HERE
145 Sixth Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Hudson Square, Manhattan
$35-$100
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A reinstatement of a postponed PROTOTYPE Festival show that you really NEED to go to! The last days of Socrates turned into a celebration of queer culture (if you’ve read Plato, not a stretch). Let’s face it, Taylor Mac can do anything.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sophisticated Italian (and a really first-rate beverage program) at Altro Paradiso.
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Wed, Feb 2, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER / MUSIC / DANCE
David Byrne: American Utopia
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2 – 6, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
5:00 & 9:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
St. James Theater
246 West 44th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$59-$179
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If a collaboration between David Byrne and Annie-B Parson were put on at BAM, I wouldn't think twice about Listing it (although I'd still feel constrained to make a comment about Boomer Nostalgia moving on to the Pop Avant-Garde). So I'm not gonna demerit this cuz it's on Broadway. AM I?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Maybe the sushi at Sushi Lab is overelaborate and tries too hard. But it's there.
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Wed, Feb 2, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 4:00 PM
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM
MUSIC
Limited Resources
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2022
8:30 PM
Freddy’s
627 Fifth Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Improvised and experimental music, jazz-based and not. So we get an uncategorizable trio consisting of more-than-a-reed player Jeremiah Cymerman, more-than-a-cellist Mariel Roberts, and more-than-a-percussionist Mike Pride. We get the out-jazz trio Never. And we get Seven’s noise-clouded pop songs (think if the Jesus and Mary Chain lived in Queens and weren’t basically conventional wimps underneath).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Freddy’s has stuff to eat and drink — and unlike, say, Joe’s Pub isn’t trying to scrape you.
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 10:30 PM
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Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 8:29 PM
THEATER
Claire Barron: Shhhh
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 – 6, 2022 (continuing through FEBRUARY 13)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
2:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2
330 West 16th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$51.50-$71.50
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I know people who think they don’t like theater. They think it’s a lot of people saying things people would never say in real life. Usually, I send them to the kind of non-narrative, unnaturalistic, unpsychological Epic Theater this List prefers. But really, they ought to go see something by Claire Barron to see that narrative(ish) sorta-psychological theater can still be vital, can still kick, can do what it does without being slavishly naturalistic. Barron also directed and stars.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: For the evening shows, Spanish at Salinas. For the matinée, tacos (duh) at Los Tacos No. 1 in the Chelsea Market.
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
O’Neill: Long Day’s Journey into Night
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 – 6, 2022 (continuing through FEBRUARY 20)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Minetta Lane Theater
18 Minetta Lane, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$67-$97
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Nothwithstanding everybody’s belief that I like anything long (Feldman! Bruckner! Wagner! Glass/Wilson!), this List is no fan of the work of Eugene O’Neill. But this shortened version of Long Day’s Journey into Night was directed by Robert O’Hara, one of the most piercing artists now working in American theater, and has a stellar cast. Did I mention that it’s shortened?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Much as I’ve liked the cooking of Chef Michael Toscano in the past, I find the Italian food at his current venture, Da Toscano, rather iffy. But it’s right next door.
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Invocation: Fred Lonberg-Holm / Lucie Vítková / Lulladay (Lelle Dai)
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2022
7:00 PM
IRL
80 Franklin Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
$15 advance; $20 day of
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Durational music performed in an installation created expressly for this show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unutterably charming British-inflected Quebeçois (the farmer and the cowman can be friends!) at Chez Ma Tante.
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Alec Spiegelman feat. Wendy Eisenberg
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2022
7:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15 in person; free-$10 live stream
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Alec Spiegelman has written and played some very nice Future Pop with various groups over the years. Tonight he’s joined by Wendy Eisenberg, a guitarist who’s not afraid to get noisy — but also not afraid not to.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, excellent Mexican (for Park Slope) at Fonda. Streaming at home, have a Snowball: pour 2 oz. Brandy, 1 oz. Simple Syrup, and 1 egg white into a cocktail shaker WITHOUT ICE. Dry shake. Add ice. Shake. Strain into a Collins glass over ice. Top with Ginger Ale. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 4:30 PM
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Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 5:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 6, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
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One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 1:00 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 6, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park
59th Street – 110th Street/Central Park West – 5th Avenue, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
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The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train (see below). The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
