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Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Quintet
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 5, 2023
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Village Vanguard
178 7th Avenue South, West Village, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pretty fly for some White guys.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really interesting — and really delicious — Southern Indian at Semma.
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Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shayok Misha Chowdhury: Public Obscenities
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 5, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 26)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$35 TUESDAY – SATURDAY; 99¢ SUNDAY
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A bilingual play about a Bangla/English translator who perhaps doesn’t see as much as the thinks he does (does anyone?).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
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Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Hansol Jung: Wolf Play
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 5, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 19)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
2:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
MCC Theater
511 West 52nd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$58-$78
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Hansol Jung’s play, a sold-out smash at Soho Rep. last year, is an allusive look at chosen and unchosen families.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The delightful Ardesia wine bar is right across the street.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Voices of Ascension & 5 Boroughs Music Festival: Circle in Motion
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2023
7:30 PM
Voices of the New Winter Festival
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Choral music by a great chorus. A new piece by the scarily talented Raquel Acevedo Klein and, um, lots of other stuff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice enough bistro at Bacchus.
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Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Thu, Mar 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Naomi Tanner: Return
TUESDAY – THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 2, 2023
7:30 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$25-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
So much vanguard performance is therapeutic these days (as if you attend to art for personal improvement, for God’s sake) that it’s good to see a solo dance piece taking therapy on.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It would be nice if you could get into the neo-Cantonese-American sensation Bonnie’s — especially since you get to walk past the Manhattan Special factory on the way.
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Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Thomas Bradshaw: The Seagull/Woodstock
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 5, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 26)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The New Group
The Pershing Square Signature Theater Center
480 West 42nd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$38-$67
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Thomas Bradshaw updates Chekhov’s The Seagull to now, in New York. Parker Posey stars.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let’s how Greek classic Molyvos is in its new location.
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Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Bathsheva Dance Company: Hora
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 5, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 12)
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10-$71
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The great Bathsheva Dance Company brings a piece by former honcho Ohad Naharin. Intellectual AND visceral.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bistro that’s been there forever (the restaurant, not the food) at Le Singe Vert.
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Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Mark O’Halloran: Conversations After Sex
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 5, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 11)
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$41-$65; $25 accessibility cardholder
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The latest play from Emma O’Halloran’s uncle got golden reviews in Ireland. But maybe not as golden as the accolades showered on the lead actor, Kate Stanley Brennan.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Itameshi goes pan-Asian at Sesamo.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
BlackBox Ensemble: spiritual music by living composers
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2023
7:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University In Person & Live Stream
1160 Amsterdam Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
And the living composers are Jessie Cox, inti figgis-vizueta, and George Lewis!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, one of the most pleasurable places in New York, the Hungarian Pastry Shop. You WILL leave smiling. Streaming at home, have what I cannot resist Listing for live streams from places like here and St. Thomas and the other St. Paul’s, an Episcopal: 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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Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 5, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Tuesday-Friday pay what you wish; Saturday & Sunday $18; $12 students 12 and over/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant. After, meet the Guadalajaran Torta Ahogada — sure to become your new obsession — at Cruz del Sur.
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Monday, February 27, 2023, 10:30 PM – 11:30 PM
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Monday, February 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sam Weinberg Trio / Ka Baird & Shelley Hersch Duo / James Emerick
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2023
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$10-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You might call it avant-jazz. You might call it experimental improvisation. You might call it electronic. What you won’t call it is ordinary.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Monday, February 27, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shakespeare and Others: Pericles
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 & MARCH 1 – 5, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 26)
7:30 PM MONDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$25-$60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A failed narrative (that’s a GOOD thing!) of uncertain provenance: if anything is grist for Target Margin’s mill, Shakespeare’s Pericles is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This List considers Coszcal de Allende to be the best Mexican restaurant in New York. Owing to the usual real estate/rent issues, it’s closing on an uncertain date in the near future. Get over there before it does.
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Monday, February 27, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, February 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kinan Azmeh & Kyle Sanna
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2023
7:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh (he’s also an excellent composer) and guitarist Kyle Sanna are two of the better players around town — and they make beautiful music together.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better than neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
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Mon, Feb 27, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 – MARCH 5, 2023 (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 that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (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 27, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 – MARCH 5, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. 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 26, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Sasha Velour: Nightgowns
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2022
9:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$25-$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Drag variety show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Indian at Masala Times.
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Sunday, February 26, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Benefit for Disaster Aid in Türkiye/Syria
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You might not have expected it, but John Zorn turns out to be kind of a mensch. When there’s a need for relief, he’ll organize a major benefit. Like this one, featuring a stunning lineup that includes Zorn in a trio with Laurie Anderson and Sean Ono Lennon; Sara Serpa’s mellifluously engrossing three-voice/piano/electronics ensemble; the great band led by Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas; and the abstractly bluesy Margaret Glaspy singing with ace guitarist Julian Lage.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Superb Palestinian at AlBadawi.
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Sunday, February 26, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Caroline Shaw: To the Hands
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2023
8:00 PM
Downtown Voices
Compline by Candlelight
St. Paul’s Chapel In Person & Live Stream
209 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Make no mistake: this is an actual religious service. But if you can get past all the displays of subservience to an imagined omnipotent overlord, it’s a rather beautiful one — featuring an expertly performed vocal piece by the ineffable Caroline Shaw.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Le Gratin, helas! Streaming at home, time for another Episcopal: 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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Sunday, February 26, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, February 26, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Autumn Knight: Nothing #26
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2023
3:00 PM
The Lantern, Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 West 129th Street, Manhattanville, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Multidisciplinary artist Autumn Knight does a performance piece in conjunction with their ongoing exhibition, not about nothing, but about doing nothing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Dinosaur Barbecue.
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Saturday, February 25, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Martin Vejarano: Chia’s Dance Party
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2023
10:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Colombian marching band music: you might not expect it to be so percussive.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You know where we’re going, right?
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Saturday, February 25, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sanda Weigl: Lost in the Stars — The Music of Kurt Weill
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If anyone has a right to sing this repertoire, it’s Sanda Weigl, a gifted cabaret stylist who’s a relative of Bertolt Brecht.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Serviceable neighborhood Italian at Bar Toto.
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Saturday, February 25, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Janelle Lawrence & Sugar Vendil: BĀS: The Harmony Between Me and You
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 23 & 25, 2023
10:00 AM TUESDAY (REALLY?????????)
7:30 PM THURSDAY & SATURDAY
1:00 PM THURSDAY
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A multidisciplinary piece exploring racial tensions between African- and Asian-Americans.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very appealing Irish pub grub at Hartley’s.
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Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shakespeare and Others: Pericles
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25 & 26, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 26)
7:30 PM SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$25-$60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A failed narrative (that’s a GOOD thing!) of uncertain provenance: if anything is grist for Target Margin’s mill, Shakespeare’s Pericles is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This List considers Coszcal de Allende to be the best Mexican restaurant in New York. Owing to the usual real estate/rent issues, it’s closing on an uncertain date in the near future. Get over there before it does.
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Saturday, February 25, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Orlando de Lassus: Lagrime di San Pietro
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2023
7:00 PM
TENET Vocal Artists
St. Paul’s Chapel In Person & Live Stream
209 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan
$11.90-$53.90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Why is Orlando di Lassus such a particular favorite of this List? Probably it’s because he does all that florid Late Renaissaince stuff but, unlike with his peers Palestrina and Victoria, there’s always a strain of Franco-Flemish austerity underlying it: you might say his music is somehow florid without being really sensuous. (Which makes it seem peculiar, in a way, that, unlike his two peers, he is better known for secular music than sacred.) The Lagrime di San Pietro — 20 sacred madrigals and a motet — is his crowning acheivement, his last work (completed just weeks before he died), one of those late pieces where you can hear a master reviewing and synthesizing his entire œuvre. It leans heavily into his austere side — something that the excellent TENET Vocal Artists will temper somewhat in this performance by the controversial expedient of having brass accompany the vocal parts (nice to hear on occasion, but I prefer it straight myself).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wonder of if the new iteration of Manahatta is better than the mediocre original one. It certainly is high up.
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Saturday, February 25, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ras Moshe-Josh Sinton Duo/Cory Bracken
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2023
7:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Free reed-wind player Ras Moshe is a force; baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton should count himself fortunate to get to play with him. Composer/purcussionist Cory Bracken opens!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unexpected but not unapt Japanese-Ashkenazi mash-up at Shalom Japan.
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Saturday, February 25, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Anthony Coleman: Residency
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2023
6:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Anthony Coleman, a jazz avant-gardist who is also committed to his Jewish musical roots, continues a month-long residency with a rather special collaboration with vanguard violinist gabby fluke-mogul.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Not likely, perhaps, but if you’re really lucky Reyes Deli & Grocery will have some of their fabulous weekend tamales and barbacoa left.
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Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 10:30 PM – Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24 & 25, 2023 (ongoing)
10:30 PM
Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Theater for people who think they don’t like theater. Thirty short plays crammed into an hour, semi-improvised, semi-not, non-illusionistic, spur-of-the-moment, real (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I dunno why, but it seems like you’d go to Phebe’s.
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Friday, February 24, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Simon Hanes: Tsons of Tsunami
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tredici Bacci capo Simon Hanes brings a skewed pop/Alt Classical sensibility to everything he does. This is his “chill wave surf band” — but a surf band comprising bass, drums, vibraphone, french horn, and baritone guitar.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Yet another chance to fail to get into unapologetic Indian sensation Masalawala & Sons.
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Friday, February 24, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Marc Ribot: The Jazz-Bins
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
8:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$25-$45 advance; $30-$45 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The name of the band makes this sound like Marc Ribot’s jazz move, and in a fusiony way maybe it is. But really, it’s just another platform for Ribot to flex his multifarious avant-guitar chops.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Shaker food at The Commerce Inn.
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Friday, February 24, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Faten Kanaan / JJJJJerome Ellis
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
8:00 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In theory, Faten Kanaan’s Early Music/Mimimalism mash-up should be right up this List’s alley; in practice, it’s too Easy Listening/New Age mushy for us. JJJJJerome Ellis improvising on hammered dulcimer, tenor sax, piano, electronics, and voice, on the other hand . . . .
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good French bistro at Le Crocodile.
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Friday, February 24, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Beethoven: Last Three Piano Sonatas
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$121-$199
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This is beyond the usual scope of this List. But sometimes an out-of-bounds show is so special we have to forgo our parameters and make sure you know about it. Since she recorded these great pieces and played them in New York almost 15 years ago, Mitsuko Uchida has blossomed from an able and interesting Beethoven interpreter to one of the all-time greats (just listen to her recent recording of the Diabelli Variations [an even later piece than these final sonatas], which stands as one of the three or four best ever released [I’d say it’s just the best, frankly]). Late Beethoven — I’m tossing hyperbole around like confetti, but this music and this interpreter deserve it — remains perhaps the most visionary music in the entire European tradition (so it’s not so unListable after all), and Uchida has the temperament, intellect, and skill set (meaning she’s NOT a virtuoso) to do it up right.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Gallagher’s: the best Old Skool steakhouse in New York. (Beethoven would have LOVED it!)
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Friday, February 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brandon Lopez & Friends
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
7:00 & 9:00 PM
Shift In Person & Live Stream
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15 for both sets; $5 Live Stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Questing bassist Brandon Lopez begins a Friday-night residency lasting till the end of the month. Each week, he plays a set with his trio and then a later set is played by musicians he admires and has collaborated with. This week it’s by a powerhouse trio consisting of saxperson Darius Jones, bassist (for tonight) Shahzad Ismaily, and drummer Ryan Sawyer.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, maybe some good cocktails, great interior, and snacky seafood at Deux Chats. Streaming at home, have a Jack Rose: pour 2-1/ oz. Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1/2 oz. Grenadine into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Friday, February 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Clarice Jensen & Christopher Tignor
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$25.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Cellist Clarice Jensen’s playing and writing is rather motoric, whereas violinist Christopher Tignor is one of those musicians who seem to stop time. This partnership should be interesting.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Korean at Insa (as always, stay out of the ugly noisy dining room and opt for the plush bar/lounge).
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Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 5:30 PM – Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
AFROPUNK: Black HERstory Live
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24 & 25, 2023
5:30 PM
FRIDAY: Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
1941 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
SATURDAY: David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$45-$142
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It shouldn’t be surprising that when AFROPUNK partners with Lincoln Center it comes up with a much more MOR-ish program than it does at its galvanic festival. But it’s still AFROPUNK.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Oysters, Martini, Cadillac burger at P.J. Clarke’s.
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Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Theater No Theater: Han!
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 26, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 5)
THURSDAY – SATURDAY 8:00 PM
SUNDAY 4:00 PM
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A post-Grotowski imagistic non-linear exploration of the Korean concept of han, which is some combination of being resigned, pissed off, and hopeful about how much life sucks.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Udon and things at the newly-expanded Raku (Koreans have reason to be REALLY pissed off at Japan).
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Thursday, February 23, 2023, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Sounding Limits: Pascale Criton, Silvia Tarozzi & Judith Hamaan
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2023
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @ Dweck Center, Brooklyn Public Library Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A delayed (guess why?) East Coast premiere — indeed, this crucial composer’s first in-person presentation of her work in New York City — of the extremely microtonal composer Pascale Criton’s extremely mircrotonal piece for violin and cello.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A new bistro from the Olmsted folks: Petite Patate.
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Thursday, February 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, February 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eunbi Kim & Xuan: it feels like a dream
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2023
7:30 PM
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist Eunbi Kim (with a visual assist from Xuan) puts together a program exploring family and identify. How good for List-eners that she does it in part by way of pieces by Angélica Negrón and Daniel Bernard Roumain.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cookie-cutter American reduction of French bistro at Steak Frites Le Bistro, but with a surprisingly good wine program (although they’re not shy with the mark-ups).
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Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Nora Burns: The Village, a Disco Musical!
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 & 24, 2023
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$28 advance; $32 door; $22 students/seniors advance; $25 students/seniors door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Thornton Wilder goes to a disco — in 1979!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at Pasquale Jones sibling Bar Pasquale.
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Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
Koryu Nishikawa V, Tom Lee & Yukio Tsuji: AKUTAGAWA
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 25, 2023
7:30 PM
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street, Turtle Bay, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The life and work of the great early 20th Century Japanese fiction writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa examined through PUPPETS.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can make it to the excellent izakaya Aburiya Kinnosuke — but you’ll have to hustle.
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Thursday, February 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Akai Solo / Quelle Chris / Cleo Reed
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2023
7:30 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$28.84
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Some of the best Indie Rap there is right now.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mediterranean-inflected New American out of the big oven at Victor.
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Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Eva Doumbia: Autophagies (Self-Eaters)
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 26, 2023
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
12:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Invisible Dog seems to be carving out a sub-specialty in food-related performance, and this List says: yes. In this piece, the cultural implications and importance of the Senegalese peanut stew mafé (which isn’t a traditional dish, since the peanut was introduced to West Africa — get ready for this — until after the Second World War), while the noted Afro-French chef Alexandre Bella Ola prepares some mafé for the audience’s eventual delectation.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Some of the best cocktails in New York at The Clover Club.
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Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Benoit Solès: La Machine du Turing
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 26, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 5)
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another rehearsal of the implications of the life of Alan Turing, who can be said to have both saved England from the Nazis (by breaking a seemingly unbreakable Nazi code) and invented the computer (unless Ada Lovelace did) — yet was hounded and even tortured by the British government for being a gay man.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Now I have another friend raving about the Southern Thai at MayRee.
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Thursday, February 23, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
SydeBoob Duo
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2023
7:00 PM
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Billing themselves as “a voice and flute duo for the 21st century”, visiting Yinzers Anna Elder (voice) and Sarah Steranka (flute) perform a program that’s chockful of interest (including Cage’s Song Books!).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wonderful Venezuelan at Casa Ora.
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Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Nia Calloway: Homebody: A Ritual Party
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 25, 2023
7:00 PM
Subletseries: Co-Op
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Soho, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Multidisciplinary performance artist Nia Calloway examines what “home” means in a Black body — in her case, one that had been subject to an eating disorder.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: LA-style Mexican at Lupe’s East L.A. Kitchen.
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Thursday, February 23, 2023, 1:15 PM – 1:59 PM
MUSIC
Relic: Winter Oasis
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
German Baroque: from where they know about cold gloomy winters.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I’m not gonna even tell you what El Mil Sabores puts on their Torta Loca sandwich. You have to see it for yourself. Streaming at home, have a Schnaps.
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Thursday, February 23, 2023, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Janelle Lawrence & Sugar Vendil: BĀS: The Harmony Between Me and You
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 23 & 25, 2023
10:00 AM TUESDAY (REALLY?????????)
7:30 PM THURSDAY & SATURDAY
1:00 PM THURSDAY
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A multidisciplinary piece exploring racial tensions between African- and Asian-Americans.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very appealing Irish pub grub at Hartley’s.
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Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 11:30 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: DITHER
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 25, 2023
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The fantastic guitar quartet DITHER — they can be noisy, they can be less noisy, they can even be delicate — has a great program going every night of this residency. But mention must be made of the opening show, where they (and the composer) reimagine Laurie Spiegel’s classic of electronic music, The Expanding Universe; Friday’s show, where they’re joined by the spellbinding vocalist Amirtha Kidambi; and Thursday’s show, where they’re joined by International Avant-Guitar Icon (and List college friend) Lee Ranaldo (drone drummer Brian Chase appropriately sitting in on those last two).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 8:30 PM – 11:30 PM
THEATER / MUSIC
AnomalousCo: (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 26, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 26)
8:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
Subletseries: Co-Op
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Soho, Manhattan
$10-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A sort of cabaret about women in wartime.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Altro Paradiso: not the best Italian restaurant in New York, far from the worst — but it’s right there.
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Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New Ear Festival 2023
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 26, 2023
8:00 PM
Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$20 per night
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A truly impressive — even amazing — line-up of exploratory music. It would be invidious to single out performers among such riches, but here are some personal favorites just to give you a taste of what’s being offered here (with the understanding that there’s lots more each night and it all looks kind of great): Dreamcrusher and King Vision Ultra’s sublime noise/hip-hop project Centernnial Gardens on Wednesday; Luke Stewart’s Assassinations for Free Jazz Ensemble, featuring Irreversible Entanglements and a Last Poet, on Thursday; Tongues in Trees, the great Indie/Indian band of Samita Sinha, Sunny Jain, and Grey Mcmurray on Friday; Techno-Mayan sensation Debit on Saturday; and multimedia drone legend Phill Niblock on Sunday. Just wow.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Indonesian at Wayan.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Rising Sun Performance Company: Untitled Calamity Jane Play / PROUD
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 & 22 – 26, 2023
7:00 PM MONDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 SATURDAY
3:00 SUNDAY
14th Street Y
344 East 14th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $15 student, military & veterans; $12 seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Rising Sun Performance Company presents two plays in repertory. Kati Frazier’s Untitlted Calamity Jane Play examines an historical figure subject to so many contradictory characterizations as to render her unknowable — or fodder for self-serving mythmaking. Judd Lear Silverman’s PROUD takes off from an actual event, where a pride of peacocks were somehow loose on the Schuykill Expressway in Philadelphia for three days — and believe it or not, gets weirder from there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Heartier than hearty Albanian at Dua Cafe.
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Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Mark O’Halloran: Conversations After Sex
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 26, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 11)
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
$25-$65
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The latest play from Emma O’Halloran’s uncle got golden reviews in Ireland. But maybe not as golden as the accolades showered on the lead actor, Kate Stanley Brennan.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Itameshi goes pan-Asian at Sesamo.
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Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Dean Moss: Your marks and surface
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 25, 2023
7:30 PM
Danspace Project
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dean Moss usually does complicated multivalent pieces — but this Lockdown project promises to be simpler. WARNING: he likes audience pariticipation.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pan-regional Chinese seems like a bad idea. But Uluh makes it work.
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Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Beckett: Endgame
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 26, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 9)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Irish Repertory Theatre
132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$50-$125
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you love Beckett, then Endgame is what you love: as Chekhov’s plays are comedies, Beckett’s are knockabout vaudeville farces — but bleak bleak bleak. It’s no surprise that Bill Irwin is a master of this stuff. John Douglas Thompson is, quite simply, one of the best actors out there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Once-fashionable Greek at Periyali.
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Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 6:30 PM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dweller Festival 2023
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 26, 2023
Various Times
Various Locations Including:
Bossa Nova Civic Club
1271 Myrtle Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
Nowadays
56-06 Cooper Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
Paragon
990 Broadway, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
BASEMENT
52-19 Flushing Avenue, Maspeth, Queens
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
Various Prices
INFORMATION + TICKETS
Black electronic music — and lots of it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: For Bossa Nova Civic Club, charming and interesting (and delicious!) Italian-Colombian mashup at Maite. For Nowadays, The Tap Room at Bridge and Tunnel Brewery. For Paragon, fun Vietnamese at Little Mo. For BASEMENT, (very) basic Venezuelan at Los Roques. For Public Records, authentic Chicago Italian beef sandwiches at Bobbi’s Italian Beef.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tom Chiu & Fast Forward
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2023
8:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Violinist Tom Chiu is a daring musician. But musical madman Fast Forward makes him look almost straitlaced.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Southern (U.S., that is)/Korean mash-up at C as in Charlie.
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Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Joel Ross: Good Vibes
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – 27, 2023
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Village Vanguard
178 7th Avenue South, West Village, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Not just good vibes: the BEST vibes.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really interesting — and really delicious — Southern Indian at Semma.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sarah Hennies: The Reinvention of Romance
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2023
7:30 PM
Blank Forms
468 Grand Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sarah Hennies’s music is fascinating and compelling: harmonies that shouldn’t work but do, rhythms that come across as simple but are actually complexly stacked and interlaced; the music seems static but it moves. (It was perfect for The Lockdown.) This is a piece for cello and percussion that was very persuasively recorded by Two-Way Street and indeed released toward the beginning of The Lockdown (and a big turntable hit here at Chez List). Tonight it’s played by cellist Judith Hamann and the composer, an able percussionist who started out as a rock-band drummer.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The newly revived, slightly relocated Nigerian spot Buka is now fully reopened. And boy is it good.
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Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Hansol Jung: Wolf Play
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – 26, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 19)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
2:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
MCC Theater
511 West 52nd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$58-$78
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Hansol Jung’s play, a sold-out smash at Soho Rep. last year, is an allusive look at chosen and unchosen families.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The delightful Ardesia wine bar is right across the street.
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Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Thomas Bradshaw: The Seagull/Woodstock
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – 26, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 26)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The New Group
The Pershing Square Signature Theater Center
480 West 42nd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$38-$67
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Thomas Bradshaw updates Chekhov’s The Seagull to now, in New York. Parker Posey stars.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let’s how Greek classic Molyvos is in its new location.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ensemble Connect
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2023
7:30 PM
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$47
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A somewhat scattered chamber music program whose parts are all good. A brand new piece by Michi Wiancko — reason enough to go by itself. Something by the reliable Jennifer Higdon. Mozart’s supernal Quintet for Piano and Winds. And Schumann’s Piano Quintet — quite possibly the single best chamber piece of the High Romantic.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Gabriel’s lost a lot of its charm when it moved to its new Central Park South location. But they can still fix a proper Martini, I’ll tell you that.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jordan Bartow: Universal spirituality through cello music
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2023
7:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University In Person & Live Stream
1160 Amsterdam Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What the rather anodyne title given this program doesn’t tell you is that Jordan Bartow will be playing solo cello music by the invigorating composer Dai Fujikura, who learned European High Modernism before becoming acquainted, as an adult, with the traditional music of his native Japan — giving his subsequent output both a tension and a freshness that make for that invigoration I mentioned a few lines ago.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, one of the most pleasurable places in New York, the Hungarian Pastry Shop. You WILL leave smiling. Streaming at home, have what I cannot resist Listing for live streams from places like here and St. Thomas, an Episcopal: 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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Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Janelle Lawrence & Sugar Vendil: BĀS: The Harmony Between Me and You
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 23 & 25, 2023
10:00 AM TUESDAY (REALLY?????????)
7:30 PM THURSDAY & SATURDAY
1:00 PM THURSDAY
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A multidisciplinary piece exploring racial tensions between African- and Asian-Americans.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very appealing Irish pub grub at Hartley’s.
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Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – 26, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Tuesday-Friday pay what you wish; Saturday & Sunday $18; $12 students 12 and over/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant. After, meet the Guadalajaran Torta Ahogada — sure to become your new obsession — at Cruz del Sur.
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Monday, February 20, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Assembly #3: Ryan Sawyer, Ka Baird & C. Spencer Yeh / Miho Hatori / Achilles Navarro / Nate Wooley: Mutual Aid Music
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2023
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Wait is this actually real?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Monday, February 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Rising Sun Performance Company: Untitled Calamity Jane Play / PROUD
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 & 22 – 26, 2023
7:00 PM MONDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 SATURDAY
3:00 SUNDAY
14th Street Y
344 East 14th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $15 student, military & veterans; $12 seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Rising Sun Performance Company presents two plays in repertory. Kati Frazier’s Untitlted Calamity Jane Play examines an historical figure subject to so many contradictory characterizations as to render her unknowable — or fodder for self-serving mythmaking. Judd Lear Silverman’s PROUD takes off from an actual event, where a pride of peacocks were somehow loose on the Schuykill Expressway in Philadelphia for three days — and believe it or not, gets weirder from there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Heartier than hearty Albanian at Dua Cafe.
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Mon, Feb 20, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – 26, 2023 (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 that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (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 20, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – 26, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. 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 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Wet Ink feat. Ingrid Laubrock: Winter Chamber Concert
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2023
7:30 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Free ($20 suggested)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ingrid Laubrock gets to show that she’s not only an excellent sax player, but also a composer of chamber music worthy of a place on a program with people like Josh Modney (another player/composer who doesn’t quite see any distinction between classical and jazz), Eric Wubbels, and Jo Kondo. (She’ll also show she’s an excellent sax player.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The broth is particularly rich at E.A.K. Ramen.
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Sunday, February 19, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sylvan Winds: Plugged In
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2023
6:00 PM
OPERA America’s National Opera Center In Person & Live Stream
330 7th Avenue, Garment District, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors advane
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Wind instruments and electronics.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Stylish Hong Kong dim sum at Hey Yuet.
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Sunday, February 19, 2023, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tribeca New Music: Politics and Premieres
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2023
5:00 PM
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$30; $20 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
New music on political themes, the themes including Trump and the composers including ShoutHouse’s Will Healy.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The menu of José Andrés’s Spanish grillhouse Leña contracted over The Lockdown. But that’s life.
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Sunday, February 19, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Blue Heron: Un Petrarchino cantato: Petrarch’s Canzoniere in Song
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2023
4:00 PM
Music Before 1800
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street, Mornigside Heights, Manhattan
$10-$55; $5 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The fantastic Renaissance vocal ensemble Blue Heron present an afternoon of Petrarch settings.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Eritrean at Massawa.
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Sunday, February 19, 2023, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Wagner: Lohengrin
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 1)
2:00 PM
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$32.50-$392.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Why does Wagner get Listed? Cuz like him or hate him, he had a large hand in inventing the modern avant-garde. Director François Girard did a great job with Parsifal and a terrible job with The Flying Dutchman (and, in another medium, a great job with Glenn Gould). Will he be able to undermine the smarmy misogyny of this work the way he did the vicious misogyny of Parsifal (nevertheless a vastly superior piece — indeed, vastly superior to almost all other operas)? You have to swallow your bitterness at the Met’s abandonment of its Robert Wilson production and go see it to find out. Oh, and the Act 1 Prelude may be the most beautiful thing in all Western music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A Sunday matinée doesn’t present the problems — especially in this neighborhood — of an evening performance of a work of four-and-a-half-hours’ duration (including the Met’s interminable intermissions). So Detroit-style pizza at the Emmy Squared branch that has materialized near Lincoln Center.
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Sunday, February 19, 2023, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Janelle Lawrence & Sugar Vendil: BĀS: The Harmony Between Me and You
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 25)
2:00 PM
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A multidisciplinary piece exploring racial tensions between African- and Asian-Americans.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very appealing Irish pub grub at Hartley’s.
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Saturday, February 18, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, February 18, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, February 18, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / THEATER
Edward Einhorn & Jenny Lee Mitchell: Cabaret in Captivity
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2023
8:00 PM
New Yiddish Rep
315 West 39th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Free-$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Potemkin Village concentration camp of Terezín/Theresienstadt housed many artists and musicians (until they were deported elsewhere for extermination). They created a lot of very attractive music there in the racy 1920s/30s Czech Neoclassical style. And, along similar lines, some very appealing cabaret — the focus of this show. Less appealing is that it was written, knowingly, in the shadow of death — but of course the whole point of cabaret is a dark underbelly.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m afraid I’m going to hector you about the Central Asian at Farida again.
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Saturday, February 18, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Lucian Ban & Mat Manieri: Transylvanian Concert
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It’s been a decade since Transylvanian pianist Lucian Ban got together with American violist Mat Manieri to make composed/improvised music (you know: Jazz) that it is highly evocative (although not of anything cheery). Be warned, though: if there’s on this music isn’t, it’s fast.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better-than-neighborhood Mexican at Fonda (not surprisingly, since it’s now branched into so many other neighborhoods).
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Saturday, February 18, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eli Fola: Soundscapes
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Live sax, techno/house tracks, West African groove.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hatch Chili on everything at Santa Fe BK.
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Saturday, February 18, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Khotin
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$25.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Khotin’s electronic pop is chill. But not TOO chill.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Korean at Insa (as always, stay out of the ugly noisy dining room and opt for the plush bar/lounge).
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Saturday, February 18, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Anthony Coleman: Residency
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2023
6:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Anthony Coleman, a jazz avant-gardist who is also committed to his Jewish musical roots, continues a month-long residency with a duo set with retrograde trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Not likely, perhaps, but if you’re really lucky Reyes Deli & Grocery will have some of their fabulous weekend tamales and barbacoa left.
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Fri, Feb 17, 2023, 10:30 PM – Sat, Feb 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 & 18, 2023 (ongoing)
10:30 PM
Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Theater for people who think they don’t like theater. Thirty short plays crammed into an hour, semi-improvised, semi-not, non-illusionistic, spur-of-the-moment, real (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I dunno why, but it seems like you’d go to Phebe’s.
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Friday, February 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tomas Ulrich: Music for Solo Cello
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2023
8:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Questing cellist Tomas Ulrich takes his cello from Bach to right now, with some interesting stops along the way.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Southern (U.S., that is)/Korean mash-up at C as in Charlie.
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Friday, February 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Serge Modular 50th Anniversary: Thomas Ankersmit/Dani Dobkin
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2023
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @ Brooklyn Music School
126 St. Felix Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Serge Tcherepnin’s Serge Modular Sythesizer was the first designed not to simulate existing instruments but to create previously unheard sounds. Fifty years later, it still can.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mediocre food that makes you wonder why you aren’t eating at home, and too-fruity cocktails, at Endswell.
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Friday, February 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Lisel/ Elori Saxl / Lea Bertucci
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$20.60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lisel is the ambient-dream-pop-gets-less-poppy-(AND BETTER)-as-it-goes-along (her new album is really very good) persona of ace soprano Eliza Bagg. Elori Saxl does flowing electro-acoustic music (although one expects that live it’ll be purely electro). Lea Bertucci brings in some noise (although of the droning rather than the raucous variety). This is a really good show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good, fresh Korean at Insa (as always, forego the barbecue and east in the lounge/bar room, which is much nicer than the drab dining room).
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Fri, Feb 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Nia Calloway: Homebody: A Ritual Party
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 – 19, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 25)
7:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Subletseries: Co-Op
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Soho, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Multidisciplinary performance artist Nia Calloway examines what “home” means in a Black body — in her case, one that had been subject to an eating disorder.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: LA-style Mexican at Lupe’s East L.A. Kitchen.
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Friday, February 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brandon Lopez & Friends
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2023
7:00 & 9:00 PM
Shift In Person & Live Stream
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15 for both sets; $5 Live Stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Questing bassist Brandon Lopez begins a Friday-night residency lasting till the end of the month. Each week, he plays a set with his trio and then a later set is played by musicians he admires and has collaborated with. This week it’s by a trio led by reeds player Michael Foster.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, riverside sea food at Sea Wolf Waterfront. Streaming at home, have a Jack Rose: pour 2-1/ oz. Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1/2 oz. Grenadine into an ice-filled cockail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Friday, February 17, 2023, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER / MUSIC
AnomalousCo: (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 – 19, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 26)
8:30 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
Subletseries: Co-Op
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Soho, Manhattan
$10-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A sort of cabaret about women in wartime.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Altro Paradiso: not the best Italian restaurant in New York, far from the worst — but it’s right there.
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Thursday, February 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Marcia Bassett: Imagined Symmetries
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2023
8:00 PM
Musical Ecologies
Old Stone House, Washington Park
336 Third Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Marcia Bassett is a true sonic explorer, specializing in analogue synth and handmade instruments and stuff, but tonight focusing on a piece of ‘70s sound-producing kit called the Buchla Music Easel. (I know what you’re thinking: Buchla Music Easel again?) She’ll be joined in tonight’s explorations by Buchla specialist Ted Gordon.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New American at Stone Park Cafe.
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Thursday, February 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
James Fei & John Bischcoff/Keith Fullerton Whitman
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2023
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lotsa electronic music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Diner isn’t what it was. But what is?
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Thursday, February 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Fire Over Heaven
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2023
8:00 PM
Outpost Artists Resources
1665 Norman Street, Ridgewood, Queens
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Any chance to hear the fearless vocalist Charmaine Lee is worth taking.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Charming, delightful New American Tavern food at Rolo’s.
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Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Feb 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER / DANCE
Gestating Baby Volume 3: Harold Lehmann/Aya Jane Saotome
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 – 18, 2023
8:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two playwrights each presents a short piece. Harold Lehmann presents “a meditation on the life and philosophy of Baruch Spinoza in weather reports, dance moves, and Pizza” (I’ve thought about Spinoza a lot myself — but never in connection with pizza). Aya Jane Saotome presents a dance-theater piece about the everyday, including toilet paper shortages (that’s so 2021!).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Have the great pizza at Mo’s General. Maybe Spinoza will be there.
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Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Puppet Slam 2023
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 – 19, 2023
8:00 THURSDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance; also special packages for puppet theater series
TICKETS + INFORMATION
PUPPETS!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican insect cuisine at The Black Ant.
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Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 7:30 PM – Fri, Feb 17, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Nora Burns: The Village, a Disco Musical!
MONDAY & THURSDAY – FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 & 16 – 17, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 24)
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$28 advance; $32 door; $22 students/seniors advance; $25 students/seniors door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Thornton Wilder goes to a disco — in 1979!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at Pasquale Jones sibling Bar Pasquale.
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Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Thomas Adès: In Seven Days
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 – 18, 2023
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
New York Philharmonic
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$38.50-$144.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This is getting Listed for Thomas Adès’s concerto for piano and moving images In Seven Days, a really good, even cosmic piece — especially with Kiril Gerstein as soloist. Tal Rosner’s moving images should be more effective than ever with David Geffen Hall’s new enhanced video capabilities. But let’s not fail to give a mention to a rare airing of a piece by Grażyna Bacewicz, one of those mid-20th Century Boulanger-student Neoclassicists (although Bacewicz also has appealing Neoromantic tendencies) who wrote attractive music that is a pleasure to hear. Ruth Reinhardt — who’s making the Bacewicz Overture a calling card, and good for her — conducts (although we no longer have to treat it as a Music Directorship audition).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can make it to Kwame Onwuachi’s in-house Afro-Caribbean restaurant Tatiana (not to be confused with the one in Brighton Beach) for dinner after the Thursday concert; after the Friday and Saturday you can get bar snacks there.
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Thursday, February 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
John Giorno Octopus Series
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2023
7:00 PM
Performance Space New York
150 1st Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This night of mixed performance was put together by the staff and crew of PSNY themselves.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: World-beating spicy fried chicken sandwiches at Rowdy Rooster. (They close when sold out, so to be safe go before the show.)
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Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Feb 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Justin Vivian Bond: Delivers a Julie Valentine
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 – 18, 2023
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Justin Vivian Bond channeling Julie London: could this be TOO awesome?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Taiwanese at 886.
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Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
The Czechoslovakian-American Marionette Theater: Audience
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 – 19, 2023
THURSDAY – SATURDAY 7:00 PM
SUNDAY 2:00 PM
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance; also special packages for puppet theater series
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Puppets! And not just puppets, but Czech puppets! And not just Czech puppets, but Czech puppets doing Václav Havel!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Way overperforming pub grub at Sidney’s Five.
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Thursday, February 16, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zosha Warpeha & Carlo Costa: Soundscapes of Nordic Folk Music
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2023
6:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University In Person & Live Stream
1160 Amsterdam Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You think you know a lot about the NYC performance scene (enough, say, to charge people for a newsletter about it). But then you find out, say, that without your knowledge, St. Paul’s Chapel uptown at Columbia has been putting on this free music series that’s really excellent. I guess it’s fitting that my first Listing for this series is of the bearer of the single most consistently misspelled (but in different ways) name in List history: Minimalist-cum-Norwegian-freak-folk violinist Zosha Warpeha (this time I got it right!).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, one of the most pleasurable places in New York, the Hungarian Pastry Shop. You WILL leave smiling. Streaming at home, have what I cannot resist Listing for live streams from places like here and St. Thomas, an Episcopal: pour 1-1/2 oz. green Chartruese 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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Thursday, February 16, 2023, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Caroline Nicolas: The Expressive Cello
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Baroque solo cello music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I’m not gonna even tell you what El Mil Sabores puts on their Torta Loca sandwich. You have to see it for yourself. Streaming at home, have a Limoncello Negroni: pour 1-1/2 oz. Gin and 3/4 oz. each of sweet Vermouth, Campari, and Limoncello into a rocks glass over ice. Stir. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Feb 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Jen Shyu
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15 – 18, 2023
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It is a sign of the scope of accomplishment of Jen Shyu, as interesting a thinker theatrically as musically, and someone unwilling to leave her Taiwanese musical roots behind while also unwilling to be tethered to the past, that she has assembled such a wide-ranging and truly stellar aggregation of musicians to play with her in her residency.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Rising Sun Performance Company: Untitled Calamity Jane Play/PROUD
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13 & 15 – 19, 2023
7:00 PM MONDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 SATURDAY
3:00 SUNDAY
14th Street Y
344 East 14th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $15 student, military & veterans; $12 seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Rising Sun Performance Company presents two plays in repertory. Kati Frazier’s Untitlted Calamity Jane Play examines an historical figure subject to so many contradictory characterizations as to render her unknowable — or fodder for self-serving mythmaking. Judd Lear Silverman’s PROUD takes off from an actual event, where a pride of peacocks were somehow loose on the Schuykill Expressway in Philadelphia for three days — and believe it or not, gets weirder from there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Heartier than hearty Albanian at Dua Cafe.
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Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shayok Misha Chowdhury: Public Obscenities
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 – 19, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 26)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A bilingual play about a Bangla/English translator who perhaps doesn’t see as much as the thinks he does (does anyone?).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Will Liverman
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2023
7:30 PM
Alice Tully Hall
1941 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$30-$75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Baritone Will Liverman is having A Moment, and why shouldn’t he be? Dramatically cogent; varied, controlled tone; good ideas — like this program focusing on neglected-almost-by-definition African-American composers.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: An American Martini and some American oysters and an American Cadillac Burger at P.J. Clarke’s (do I repeat myself? I am small, I contain solitudes).
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Beckett: Endgame
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 – 19, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 9)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Irish Repertory Theatre
132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$50-$95
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you love Beckett, then Endgame is what you love: as Chekhov’s plays are comedies, Beckett’s are knockabout vaudeville farces — but bleak bleak bleak. It’s no surprise that Bill Irwin is a master of this stuff. John Douglas Thompson is, quite simply, one of the best actors out there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Once-fashionable Greek at Periyali.
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Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Hansol Jung: Wolf Play
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14 – 19, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 19)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
2:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
MCC Theater
511 West 52nd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$58-$78
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Hansol Jung’s play, a sold-out smash at Soho Rep. last year, is an allusive look at chosen and unchosen families.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The delightful Ardesia wine bar is right across the street.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Open Stage Variety Show
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2023
7:30 PM
Voorhees Theater, New York City College of Technology
165 Jay Street, Downtown, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus throws open the stage to whatever variety acts dare to appear. I can’t tell you how much fun these can be.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: West African party spot Amaranchi is fighting for its life. Go while you still can.
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Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shayok Misha Chowdhury: Public Obscenities
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – 26, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 26)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A bilingual play about a Bangla/English translator who perhaps doesn’t see as much as the thinks he does (does anyone?).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – 7:30 PM
MUSIC
Voices of Ascension & 5 Boroughs Music Festival: Love, Loneliness, and Lamentation
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2023
7:30 PM
Voices of the New Winter Festival
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Choral music by a great chorus. A Valentine’s Day program featuring a new piece by Max Vinetz and un-new pieces by Monteverdi, Barber, Arvo Pärt, and David Ludwig.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice enough bistro at Bacchus.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
CupcakKe
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2023
7:00 PM
Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you must go out on Valentine’s Day, let it be for cupcakKe, who takes no shit whatsoever from love.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: All the mead you want at the Valentine’s Day-appropriate Honey’s.
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Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Wakka Wakka: The Immortal Jellyfish Girl
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14 – 19, 2023
7:00 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$40-$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mass extinction! PUPPETS!!!!
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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Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tredici Baci/Italian Surf Academy
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2023
7:00 PM
The Sultan Room
234 Starr Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$19.57
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another surprisingly plausible way to spend Valentine’s Day out (if you must). Tredici Baci’s finta ’60s Italian movie music spells Romance with a capital “R”. Guitarist Maco Cappelli’s Italian Surf Academy is like a date in the Italian part of Mars.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really great Nigerian at Hill’s Kitchen — and they won’t be serving a stupid rip-off dumbed-down prix fixe tonight, either.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gary Lucas/Stew Cutler
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2023
6:30 PM
Downtown Music Gallery
13 Monroe Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Solo guitar on Valentine’s Day. Are they making a point? Stew Cutler plays bluesy roots music, with a progressive slant. Gary Lucas, a guitar genius, plays anything.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Even on this worst possible night to eat out, the Modern-Korean-inflected Golden Diner should be pretty tolerable.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ekmeles: Stimmung Is for Lovers
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2023
6:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This is probably more than you want to know, but I have very successfully used Stockhausen’s Stimmung as make-out music. So I can only say I think Ekmeles are right.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: If you drink enough whiskey at The Hamilton you can forget it’s Valentine’s Day.
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Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14 – 19, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Tuesday-Friday pay what you wish; Saturday & Sunday $18; $12 students 12 and over/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant. After, meet the Guadalajaran Torta Ahogada — sure to become your new obsession — at Cruz del Sur.
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Monday, February 13, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, February 13, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Nora Burns: The Village, a Disco Musical!
MONDAY & THURSDAY – FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 & 16 – 17, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 24)
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$28 advance; $32 door; $22 students/seniors advance; $25 students/seniors door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Thornton Wilder goes to a disco — in 1979!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at Pasquale Jones sibling Bar Pasquale.
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Monday, February 13, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Eva Alt: Steps and Words
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2023
7:30 PM
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You will not be surprised to learn that a piece with this name is a multimedia solo dance performance incorporating spoken word. Eva Alt is not uncritical of the dance world, and her perspective is an interesting one.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m sounding the downhill alarm for Spanish funspot El Quijote. But see what you think.
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Monday, February 13, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
YES: Miatta Kawinzi/Africanus Okokon
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2023
7:30 PM
Microscope Gallery
525 West 29th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$9
TICKETS + INFORMATION
More performative cinema — this stuff is GREAT — at Microscope. Tonight, expect a shared interest in using analogue technology and deconstructing colonialism.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Conceptually boring, very delicious oven-focused Italian at Ci Siamo.
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Monday, February 13, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Rising Sun Performance Company: Untitled Calamity Jane Play/PROUD
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13 & 15 – 19, 2023
7:00 PM MONDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 SATURDAY
3:00 SUNDAY
14th Street Y
344 East 14th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $15 student, military & veterans; $12 seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Rising Sun Performance Company presents two plays in repertory. Kati Frazier’s Untitlted Calamity Jane Play examines an historical figure subject to so many contradictory characterizations as to render her unknowable — or fodder for self-serving mythmaking. Judd Lear Silverman’s PROUD takes off from an actual event, where a pride of peacocks were somehow loose on the Schuykill Expressway in Philadelphia for three days — and believe it or not, gets weirder from there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Heartier than hearty Albanian at Dua Cafe.
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Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13 – 19, 2023 (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 that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (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 13, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13 – 19, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. 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 12, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, February 12, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, February 12, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Super Bolus 6
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2023
4:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Free
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You can watch The Game. Or you can go to Gold Bolus Recordings’ annual (when there’s not a Lockdown) celebration of the community it documents — which is also the community this List writes about. Think of people who get Listed ALL the time, and most of them will be there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza!
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Sunday, February 12, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bach Collegium Japan feat. Roderick Williams
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2023
3:00 PM
92nd Street Y In Person & Live Stream
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$35-$50 in person; $25 live stream
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Remember when period-instrument bands were with some justification ragged on for imprecise ensemble and iffy intonation? Well, you just have to hear the Bach Collegium Japan to know what amazing precision can now be achieved (which isn’t, I hasten to add, at the expense of passion and expressiveness). This afternoon they’re joined by the fabulous baritone Roderick Williams, who’s going to sing Bach’s almost painfully resigned Ich habe genug. There’s some Telemann (more popular than Bach during their lifetimes — which goes to show you), too — and you don’t get to hear Janitsch every day.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, lovely neighborhood Italian at Sfoglia. Streaming at home, have a Cantarita: rim a Collins glass with salt. Pour in 1-1/2 oz. Tequila and 1/2 oz. each of orange, lemon, and lime juice over ice. Top with grapefruit soda. Garnish with your choice of an orange, lemon, or lime wedge.
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Saturday, February 11, 2023, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Elliott Sharp feat. “Special Guest Chanteuse from Paris”/ Zafer Tawil
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2023
8:30 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you aren’t terminally intrigued by the prospect of avant-guitar hero Elliott Sharp playing with a “chanteuse from Paris” you’re a very different person from me. Zafer Tawil is a master of the oud and more.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Maybe some good cocktails, great interior, and snacky seafood at Deux Chats.
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Saturday, February 11, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
String Orchestra of Brooklyn: Janáček, Rota, Thomson, Amrine & Lanzilotti
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2023
8:00 PM
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street (entrance on Clinton Street), Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
$15; $10 students/seniors
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Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti is The Composer Of The Moment. Plus, extremely attractive (and rarely heard) pieces by Nino Rota and Virgil Thomson. Most of us have probably heard Kate Amrine play trumpet around town — but I for one have never heard any of her compositions. Janáček’s great The Kreutzer Sonata string quartet doesn’t need to be expanded to orchestral size.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Annual Game Festival at Henry’s End (if you forgo the turtle soup you’ll be very sorry).
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Saturday, February 11, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tall Juan
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2023
8:00 PM
Baby’s All Right
146 Broadway, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Free
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If you’ve got a hankering for Punk Rockabilly gone Pan-South American, have I got a guy for you.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Italisanish French and Frenchish Italian at Francie.
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Saturday, February 11, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, February 11, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, February 11, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Anthony Coleman: Residency
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2023
6:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
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Anthony Coleman, a jazz avant-gardist who is also committed to his Jewish musical roots, continues a month-long residency with a duo set with no less than Brian Chase on drums.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Not likely, perhaps, but if you’re really lucky Reyes Deli & Grocery will have some of their fabulous weekend tamales and barbacoa left.
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Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 10:30 AM – Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Metropolis Ensemble: Biophony SoundGarden
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11 & 12, 2023
10:30 & 11:30 AM & 1:30 & 2:30 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Avenue, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
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For February, the Metropolis Ensemble moves this phantasmagorical program indoors to the already eye-popping confines of the Steinhardt Conservatory, where Ricardo Romeneiro — just the right person — has created a sound-and-lightscape.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’ll have to wait on line to get into Tom’s Restaurant — but the pancakes will be worth it!
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Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 10:30 PM – Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10 & 11, 2022 (ongoing)
10:30 PM
Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20; $10 students
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Theater for people who think they don’t like theater. Thirty short plays crammed into an hour, semi-improvised, semi-not, non-illusionistic, spur-of-the-moment, real (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I dunno why, but it seems like you’d go to Phebe’s.
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Friday, February 10, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Samora Pinderhughes and Friends: The Healing Project
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023
9:00 PM
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$44-$54
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I keep Listing Samora Pinderhughes even though I personally find his music to be so much mush because people I respect like him: this show was co-produced by Vijay Iyer. As befits Carnegie Fucking Hall, this is an especially large-scale piece, with lots of musicians (really good ones!) and visual elements and collaborators, and it deals with the immediately pertinent topic of domestic policing, incarceration, detention, and violence. I’m sure that many will enjoy it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best Old Skool Steakhouse in New York is now Gallaghers.
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Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Rising Sun Performance Company: Untitled Calamity Jane Play/PROUD
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10 – 12, 2023
8:00 PM FRIDAY
5:00 & 8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 & 7:00 PM SUNDAY
14th Steet Y
344 East 14th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $15 student, military & veterans; $12 seniors
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The Rising Sun Performance Company presents two plays in repertory. Kati Frazier’s Untitlted Calamity Jane Play examines an historical figure subject to so many contradictory characterizations as to render her unknowable — or fodder for self-serving mythmaking. Judd Lear Silverman’s PROUD takes off from an actual event, where a pride of peacocks were somehow loose on the Schuykill Expressway in Philadelphia for three days — and believe it or not, gets weirder from there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Heartier than hearty Albanian at Dua Cafe.
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Friday, February 10, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Allie Pinel: Karaoke means joy
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10 & 11, 2023
8:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
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People regather after Lockdown at a gay bar for Karaoke. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION WARNING.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Brooklyn Red Sauce at Bamonte’s.
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Friday, February 10, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brooklyn Raga Massive: Colors of Raga: Sangeetha Swaminathan
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023
7:30 PM
Gaia NoMaya
510 Flatbush Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Garden, Brooklyn
$25
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Carnatic vocalism with Sangeetha Swaminathan. I really can’t overemphasize how totally wonderful these Colors of Raga shows at Gaia NoMaya are.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Guatemalan at Ix.
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Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
OPERA / DANCE
Carolyn Chen: How to Fall Apart
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10 & 11, 2023
7:30 PM
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$25
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AMOC presents Carolyn Chen’s new dance opera about disintegration.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Superb Spanish at Casa Dani.
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Friday, February 10, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, February 10, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brandon Lopez & Friends
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023
7:00 & 9:00 PM
Shift In Person & Live Stream
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15 for both sets; $5 Live Stream
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Questing bassist Brandon Lopez begins a Friday-night residency lasting till the end of the month. Each week, he plays a set with his trio and then a later set is played by musicians he admires and has collaborated with. This week it’s by the duo of microtonal-as-she-wants-to-be violist Jessica Pavone and bassist Tristan Kasten-Krause.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Mexican party at Aldama. Streaming at home, you know what? A Manhattan: pour 2 oz. Rye and 1 oz. sweet Vermouth, 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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Friday, February 10, 2023, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thu, Feb 9, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Vernon Reid, Greg Tate’s Burnt Sugar The Arkestra
Chamber & Special Guests: Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris Conduction®
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9 – 11, 2023
8:00 PM
JAM Performance Festival
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$5-$15
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In conjunction with its Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces exhibition, MoMA puts on performances by people who played at that pioneering 1970/80s Black Art gallery. Tonight’s show honors a major player there: the late Butch Morris, whose Conduction was a method for conducting avant-jazz improvisations. This requires master musicians — but that won’t be a problem these nights.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Olmsted goes Midtown at Five Acres.
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Thursday, February 9, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Interpretations: Tyshawn Sorey/Adam Rudolph
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 in person; $15 students/seniors in person; free live stream
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Composer/percussionists Tyshawn Sorery and Adam Rudolph perform a set of duet improvisations, and then take turns leading and playing with an all-star enemble of local percussionists (although no one’s as big a star as the leaders).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, a new bar around the corner from Roulette! The Little Pig. Streaming at home, have a Steel Drum: pour 1 oz. white Rum, 1/2 oz. each of whiite Overproof Rum, Maraschino liqueur, and lime juice, 1/4 teaspoon Absinthe, and 1 dash of orange bitters into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lime wheel on the rim.
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Thursday, February 9, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Linda Mary Montano feat. Laurie Berg, Kim Brandt, Yanira Castro & Tatyana Tenenbaum: An Interactive Life And Maybe No Art Experience
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2023
8:00 PM
Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
$15
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Performance Art legend Linda Mary Montano has masterminded an interactive exploration of the Seven Chakras. Interspersed with a showing of a video by Montano are audience “interactions” staged by local dancer/multidisciplinary artist Laurie Berg, Kim Brandt, Yanira Castro, and Tatyana Tenenbaum.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speaking for myself, I am positively jonesing right now for the Tacos de Chiloria and the Tacos Machaco con Huevo at Cielito.
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Thursday, February 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sara Nagano: Smashing Humans
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$20-$30 in person; $20 live stream
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Prog Jazz from Brooklyn violinist Sara Nagano.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, beloved (by me) Italian-Ashkenazi mashup at Mark Strausman’s Mark’s Off Madison (you’ll want the brisket — but the new mixed grill looks mighty good) (oh wait: and the duetto of venison!). Streaming at home, have a Whiskey Smash: put 8 spearmint leaves and 1/4 lemon, cut into 3 pieces at the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Muddle. Add ice. Pour in 2 oz. Bourbon and 1 oz. Simple Syrup. Shake. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over cracked ice. Garnish with a spearmint sprig.
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Thu, Feb 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Solo Duo Dance Festival 2023
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9 & 10, 2023
7:30 PM THURSDAY
7:00 & 9:00 PM FRIDAY
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$20 advance; $20 door; $15 students/seniors
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Exactly what it sounds like. Thirty-three companies fielding the dancers; a different program for each show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Somewhat overrated Thai at Thai Diner.
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Thu, Feb 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
OPERA / DANCE
Ellis Ludwig-Leone: The Night Falls
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 – 12, 2023
7:30 THURSDAY & FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Peak Performances
Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University
1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey
$40-$50
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Ellis “San Fermin” Ludwig-Leone composes a dance-centered music-theater piece on a text by the peerlessly creepy Karen Russell with choreography by Troy Schumacher. Russell and Shumacher are golden (as is soprano Eliza Bagg) — but I keep finding myself unable to decide whether Ludwig-Leone’s pop-meliflous Alt Classical and classically inflected Chamber Pop are exquisite or too precious.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s not that there’s only one good restaurant in Montclair — there are lots — but that there’s only one within walking distance of Montclair State: New American treat Turtle & The Wolf.
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Thursday, February 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sunny Jain: Dholusion
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2023
7:30 PM
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater, Symphony Space
2537 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$20-$30
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Sikh percussionist Sunny Jain is joined by Inidan classical dancer Yamini Kalluri and the very New York trumpet of Adam O’Farrill. Who knows what this will be like?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Interesting pan-regional Indian at Baazi.
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Thu, Feb 9, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
The Czechoslovakian-American Marionette Theater: Audience
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 – 12, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 19)
THURSDAY – SATURDAY 7:00 PM
SUNDAY 2:00 PM
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance; also special packages for puppet theater series
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Puppets! And not just puppets, but Czech puppets! And not just Czech puppets, but Czech puppets doing Václav Havel!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Way overperforming pub grub at Sidney’s Five.
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Thursday, February 9, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, February 9, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Joseph Keckler
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2023
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
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Joseph Keckler’s cabaret opera should never work. But it somehow does.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Thursday, February 9, 2023, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Melissa Fogarty: Love on the Brink
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
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Melissa Fogarty sings French Baroque cantatas — some of the most sheerly exquisite music ever made.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I’m not gonna even tell you what El Mil Sabores puts on their Torta Loca sandwich. You have to see it for yourself. Streaming at home, have a Rib Tickler Spritz: pour 2 oz. dry Vermouth, 3/4 oz. of Suze; and 1/2 oz. each of St-Germain, lemon juice, and Simple Syrup into a wine glass over ice. Top with soda water. Garnish with half a grapefruit wheel.
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Wed, Feb 8, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Immanuel Wilkins
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 – 11, 2023
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30
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Alto player Immanuel Wilkins is a great stylist and a great composer. Of all the great ensembles he’s assembled for this residency, maybe the best is the first, featuring Jen Shyu on vocals, Bill Frisell on guitar, and Susie Ibarra on drums!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Matthew Shipp, Rob Brown & Whit Dickey/Marco Cappelli, Elliott Sharp & JT Lewis
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2023
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist Matthew Shipp is cerebral inasmuch as you can perceive the thought that goes into what he plays — but while you wouldn’t call his playing raucous, it goes places. He and longtime collaborators Rob Brown (on alto) and Whit Dickey (on drums) fit each other like gloves. Guitarists Mario Cappelli and Elliot Sharp are raucous in their own different ways (at least when Cappelli isn’t playing Renaissance music) — and so is drummer JT Lewis.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incredibly fun Brazilian at Miss Favela.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Satellite: Austin Sley Julian & Julia Santoli
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2023
8:00 PM
Bar Laika
224 Greene Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A collaboration between two exploratory sound artists who also employ visuals.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good food, good wine at Place des Fêtes.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Phillip Glass: Symphony No. 12 “Lodger”
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2023
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$56-$56
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Quite the program from Dennis Russell Davies and the Filharmonie Brno (an excellent band). Phillip Glass completes his cycle of symphonies based on David Bowie’s (and Brian Eno’s) Berlin Triilogy with the last and least of the albums that comprise the trilogy, Lodger (unlike the previous two symphonies in the cycle, this one doesn’t take off from music in the album — understandably, since Lodger hews much more strictly to pop songform than the prior two installments of the trilogy — but rather resets lyrics from the album to new Glass music). So this symphony features a singer: Angélique Kidjo is neither here nore there (no, actually she’s “there”) — but Glass and Bowie, right?! The rest of program is music from the Brno orchestra’s fertile homeland: the great Janáček’s very famous Taras Bulba, and the good Martinu’s (I love much of his music myself — but I’m not making any great claims) virtually unknown (Martinu wrote A LOT of music, so MOST of it’s virtually unknown) Thunderbolt P-47.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unlikely (but deserving) hotspot Russian Samovar (I feel constrained to observe that this onetime dissident den has no connection to the depredations visited by what was then the Soviet Union on what was then Czechoslovakia).
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
SUSS/Cunningham Trio/Office Culture
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2023
7:30 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$23.69
TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUSS’s ambient country is a lot more ambient than country. The Cunningham Trio are from the Chicago jazz scene. Office Culture tries to be Steely Dan, but unsurprisingly fails.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mediterranean-inflected New American out of the big oven at Victor.
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Wed, Feb 8, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sean Shibe
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2023
7:30 PM
92nd Street Y In Person & Live Stream
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$35-$50 in person; $25 age 40 and under in person; $25 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Aside from the usual and semi-usual suspects, the much hyped, err praised, guitarist Sean Shibe plays Adès, Birtwhistle, and Poulenc(?).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, fun South African food and wine at Kaia Wine Bar. Streaming at home, have a San Martin: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Gin and sweet Vermouth, and 1 tsp. yellow Chartruese into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
El Mundo: Archivo de Guatemala
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2023
7:30 PM
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$67-$77
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’m especially regretful about missing this initially, since if there’s one thing we love here at The List, it’s Latin American Baroque, the alternately stately and rolicking European music enlivened by indigenous rhythms. El Mundo is a really good band.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Gabriel’s lost a lot of its charm when it moved to its new Central Park South location. But they can still fix a proper Martini, I’ll tell you that.
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Wed, Feb 8, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Beckett: Endgame
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8 – 12, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 12)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Irish Repertory Theatre
132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$44-$65 Wednesday; $50-$95 thereafter
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you love Beckett, then Endgame is what you love: as Chekhov’s plays are comedies, Beckett’s are knockabout vaudeville farces — but bleak bleak bleak. It’s no surprise that Bill Irwin is a master of this stuff. John Douglas Thompson is, quite simply, one of the best actors out there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Once-fashionable Greek at Periyali.
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Tue, Feb 7, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Hansol Jung: Wolf Play
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 – 12, 2022 (continuing through MARCH 5)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
2:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
MCC Theater
511 West 52nd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$58-$78
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Hansol Jung’s play, a sold-out smash at Soho Rep. last year, is an allusive look at chosen and unchosen families.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The delightful Ardesia wine bar is right across the street.
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Tue, Feb 7, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Rennie Harris: Rome & Jewels
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 – 11, 2023
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10-$71
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bringing Hip-Hop into mainstream Modern dance might no longer seem as (or at all) radical as it did when Rennie Harris started out 30 years ago — but Harris is still great. A piece like the 20-some-year-old one being revived here — one of Harris’s greatest hits, a Hip-Hop retelling of Romeo and Juliet — sure seems better now than, say, Gerald Arpino’s Trinity did 20 years on. (Because Hip-Hop and Hip-Hop culture are smarter and better than Rock and Rock culture? I didn’t say it.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: How nice that Basque fave Txikito is open again.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Justin Peck: Copland Dance Episodes
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2023
7:30 PM
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$38-$208
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Choreographer Justin Peck has been in the doldrums lately. But there’s every reason to believe he’ll be energized by the opportunity to present his first full-length ballet — especially because one of his very best prior pieces, Rodeo, was also set to Copland, whose open American style suits Peck to a “T”.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seems like a good night for Bar Boulud.
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Tue, Feb 7, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Wakka Wakka: The Immortal Jellyfish Girl
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 – 12, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 19)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$40-$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mass extinction! PUPPETS!!!!
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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Tue, Feb 7, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 – 12, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Tuesday-Friday pay what you wish; Saturday & Sunday $18; $12 students 12 and over/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant. After, meet the Guadalajaran Torta Ahogada — sure to become your new obsession — at Cruz del Sur.
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Monday, February 6, 2023, 8:30 PM – 10:59 PM
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Mon, Feb 6, 2023, 8:00 PM – Wed, Feb 8, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Joey Merlo: On Set With Theda Bara
MONDAY – WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 – 8, 2023
8:00 PM
Exponential Festival
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20-$40
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In this one-man show, the fabulous David Greenspan plays a genderqueer teen who’s gone missing, his gay detective father — and the apparition of Theda Bara. If anyone could pull that off, it’s David Greenspan.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Kellogg’s Diner would be great if only it were any good.
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Monday, February 6, 2023, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Monday, February 6, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ilsusha & Gocha Tsinadze
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2023
7:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Moderen Georgian!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I only wish there were some Georgian restaurant nearby to send you to. So I’ll ask you to try Mikhuy Peruvian and let me know how it is.
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Mon, Feb 6, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6 – 12, 2023 (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 that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (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 6, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6 – 12, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. 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 5, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Maya Carney/Libero Canto/Frank London’s ¡No Pasarán!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2023
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The big deal is the great avant-Klezmer trumpet player Frank London’s world-leaning brass-with-percussion quartet. But modal Hungarian vocal music from Libero Canto has its decided appeal. And jazz singer Maya Carney is a force of nature.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Winning neighborhood Roman at Camillo.
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Sunday, February 5, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Les Délices
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2023
4:00 PM
Music Before 1800
Corpus Christi Church In Person & Live Stream
529 West 121st Street, Mornigside Heights, Manhattan
$10-$55 in person; $15 live stream; $5 students in person & live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The oboe-led Baroque ensemble Les Délices is always a thought-provoking delight; add in the raucous flautist Emi Ferguson as a guest artist and things can only get better. They’ll be playing music inspired by the French and Haitian revolutions.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Eritrean at Massawa. Streaming at home, have a Césars Punch: Pour 2 oz. each of Haitian Rhum and lime juice, 1 oz. Grenadine, and 1/3 oz. Simple Syrup, with 1 dash of Peychaud’s bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Strain into a Highball glass over ice. Garnish with an orange wedge.
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Saturday, February 4, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sun Ra Arkestra
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2023
8:00 PM
White Eagle Hall
337 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Sun Ra Arkestra isn’t a ghost band if Sun Ra is still present on another plane. You might want to make a priority of seeing them while 98-year-old terrestrial bandleader/alto saxman Marshall Allen in still on ours, though. Sonic Youth’s drummer Steve Shelley will play a DJ set.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Guyanese at Nicole’s.
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Saturday, February 4, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Vijay Iyer Trio
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2023
8:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$30-$50; seniors $25-$43; students & under 25 $22-$38
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When your rhythm section is Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh, it’s got to be that you have one of the finest minds in music. And yes, pianist Vijay Iyer does.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Whiskey and lots of it at The Hamilton.
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Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mixology
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4 & 5, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 student/seniors at door in person; $40 both shows; free live stream
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
A weekend of intriguing audiovideo collaborations. Saturday we get this List’s beloved conceptual Art Pop goddess Bergsonist collaborating with Downtown avant-icon Miho Hatori (ex of Chibo Matto). Sunday, we get electronic musician Qasim Naqvi collaborating with his new love, a modular synthesizer. We also get the MIROVAYA LINAYA project of film artist Julia Pello and the tastefully named electronic musician Heinrich Mueller (who won’t actually be in attendence). A video installation by Peter Burr will be on dispay before each show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, outstanding Palestinian at AlBadawi. Streaming at home, have the cocktail whose revival spurred the mixology craze, the Aviation: pour 2 oz. Gin, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, 1/4 oz. Simple Syrup, and one teaspoon each of Crème de Violette and Maraschino liqueur into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Saturday, February 4, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, February 4, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2023
7:30 PM
92nd Street Y In Person & Live Stream
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$35-$50 in person; $25 age 40 and under in person; $25 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Have I listened to Caroline and the Sōs’ Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part every day since it’s come out? I really might have. (Am I listening to it right now? No, actually I’m listening to Evergreen.) This music is haunting, enlivening, oddly comforting while being full of surprises. You can’t tell if it’s classical or if it’s pop — and I mean that as the highest of praise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, lovely neighborhood Italian at Sfoglia. Streaming at home, have a Zirbenz Spritz: pour 1 oz. each of Gin, Capelletti, and Zirbenz into a Collins glass over ice. Stir. Top with soda water. Garnish with a lemon wheel and a pine sprig if you have one.
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Saturday, February 4, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Stine Janvin & Cory Arcangel feat. String Noise: Identity Pitches
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2023
7:30 PM
Flamboyan Theater, The Clemente
114 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Music and visuals mapped from traditional knitting patterns of Norway, where composer/performers/multitaskers Cory Arcangel and Stine Janvin come from.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good Haitian and (usually) great music at Rebel.
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Saturday, February 4, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Anthony Coleman: Residency
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2023
6:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Anthony Coleman, a jazz avant-gardist who is also committed to his Jewish musical roots, kicks off a month-long residency with a solo recital.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Not likely, perhaps, but if you’re really lucky Reyes Deli & Grocery will have some of their fabulous weekend tamales and barbacoa left.
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Saturday, February 4, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bowers Fader Duo: New American Art Song Concert
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2023
3:00 PM
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Brand new music (well, it was brand new last Fall, when this program premiered) for voice and guitar — including by such regular List denizens as Jeffrey Young and Victoria Bond.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good Peruvian at Warique Garden.
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Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 11:00 AM – Sun, Feb 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Theaster Gates & The Black Monks
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4 & 5, 2023
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
New Museum
235 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$18; $15 seniors & disabled; $12 students; free 18 and under
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Visual artist Theaster Gates also makes music — good, hypnotic music, refracting Black music of the American South through the lens of Asian monastic practices — and in conjunction with his exhibition at the New Museum, his Black Monks project will perform it on a Hammond organ they will activate, played through seven Leslies.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Congee Dim Sum House is RIGHT THERE.
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Fri, Feb 3, 2023, 10:30 PM – Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 & 4, 2023 (ongoing)
10:30 PM
Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Theater for people who think they don’t like theater. Thirty short plays crammed into an hour, semi-improvised, semi-not, non-illusionistic, spur-of-the-moment, real (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I dunno why, but it seems like you’d go to Phebe’s.
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Friday, February 3, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Yotoco
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2023
10:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Yotoco plays Pan-Latin American dance-rock music. Usually, such musical syncretism is a recipe for disaster (or at least anodynity) — but they pull it off.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The band is named after a town in Colombia. So OF CORUSE you’d go to Colombia in Park Slope.
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Friday, February 3, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Wendy Eisenberg feat. Ryan Sawyer & Lester St. Louis: Studies in Loyalty
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Guitarist/leader Wendy Eisenberg, cellist Lester St. Louis, and drummer Ryan Sawyer: three musicians who know how to take improvisations to unexpected places.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, a new bar around the corner from Roulette! The Little Pig. Streaming at home, have a Modern Cocktail: pour 1-1/2 tspns. lemon juice and 1 tsp. sugar into cocktail shaker and stir. Add ice. Pour in 1-1/2 oz. each of blended Scotch and Sloe Gin and 1/4 tsp. Absinthe, with 1 dash of orange bitters. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Fri, Feb 3, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Justin Peck: Copland Dance Episodes
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 & 4, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 7)
8:00 PM
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$38-$208
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Choreographer Justin Peck has been in the doldrums lately. But there’s every reason to believe he’ll be energized by the opportunity to present his first full-length ballet — especially because one of his very best prior pieces, Rodeo, was also set to Copland, whose open American style suits Peck to a “T”.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seems like a good night for Bar Boulud.
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Friday, February 3, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / DANCE / PERFORMANCE
Audiofemme Presents the Agenda: LEYA x Omri Drumlevich/MIXTAPES/Medusa
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2023
8:00 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Exploratory pop-adjacent music (and visuals). Droning harp/violin duo LEYA are joined by Gaga dancer Omri Drumlevich. Kayla Farrish and Alex MacKinnon’s MIXTAPES explores the various layers of African-American music (our country’s crowning glory) through music and dance. Medusa presents interactive queer revenge-pop.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hatch Chili on everything at Santa Fe BK.
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Fri, Feb 3, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Fri, Feb 3, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ethan Iverson: 50th Birthday Celebration
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 & 4, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & SATURDAY Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40 in person; $20 live stream
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
The precise and funny pianist Ethan Iverson celebrates his 50th birthday with a trio on Friday and a septet on Saturday. And you KNOW he’s not going to celebrate a day this big with anything less than fabulous players!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Italian-Ashkenazi mashup at Mark Strausman’s Mark’s Off Madison (you’ll want the brisket — but the new mixed grill looks mighty good) (oh wait: and the duetto of venison!). Streaming at home, celebrate along with Ethan with a Fitty-Fitty: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Gin and dry Vermouth, with 2 dashes 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 3, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Alva Rogers: Topsy Turvy
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 & 4, 2023
7:30 PM
JAM Performance Festival
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$5-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In conjunction with its Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces exhibition, MoMA puts on performances by people who played at that pioneering 1970/80s Black Art gallery. Tonight vocalist/dramatist Alva Rogers teases out the implications of Topsy Turvy dolls, fusing white girls upside from black girls (or mammies), crafted by slaves under duress for the use of their owner’s children. It only heats things up that the musical back-up is provided by guitarist Brandon Ross (on banjo!) and violinist Jason K. Hwang. Also: PUPPETS!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: What would King be like if it were more boring and in Midtown? Jupiter provides an answer.
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Fri, Feb 3, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Friday, February 3, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Liptalk/Seven/Ex Wiish/Dorothy Carlos
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$23.69
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A mind-expanding night of eclectic improvisation, Alt Pop, and soundscaping.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good, fresh Korean at Insa (as always, forego the barbecue and east in the lounge/bar room, which is much nicer than the drab dining room).
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Friday, February 3, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Marshall Allen & NYC All-Stars
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2023
7:00 & 9:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$28.16
7:00 PM TICKETS + INFORMATION
9:00 PM TICKETS + INFORMATION
If I’m half as incisive and radical at 98 as Sun Ra’s saxman Marshall Allen . . . . well, forget it: I won’t be. And when they say “All-Stars” they MEAN all-stars!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Maybe some good cocktails, great interior, and snacky seafood at Deux Chats.
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Thursday, February 2, 2023, 9:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Joey Arias: Strange Résumé
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, JANUARY 31 & FEBRUARY 2, 2023
9:30 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A meeting of Beethoven and Paganini with African beats? Can we leave Paganini out?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Kenka, an izakaya as colorful as this show.
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Thursday, February 2, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zahra Alzubaidi/Leila Adu
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2023
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sublime Iraqi vocal music from Zahra Alzubaidi. Leila Adu, meanwhile, is a pop singer who’s a classical composer.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seafood (and wine!) at Kingfisher.
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Thursday, February 2, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Widening the Embrace: A Reduced Carbon Footprint Concert, CA-NY
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The formidable trio of Ingrid Laubrock on sax, Patricia Brennan on vibes, and Fay Victor on vocals perform in New York. Michael Dessen on trombone, Joshua White on piano, Mark Dresser on bass, and Gerald Cleaver on drums perform in California. (East Coast roolz!) And through the magic of technology, they all play together!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic cuisine at As You Are. Streaming at home, have a Between the Sheets: pour 1 oz. each of Cognac and white Rum, and 3/4 oz. each of Curaçao and lemon juice, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Thursday, February 2, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Laurie Anderson & Tiokasin Ghosthorse: The Wisdom of the Natural World
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Indigenous musician/activist Tiokasin Ghosthorse joins the very non-indigenous performance legend Laurie Anderson for an evening of music and conversation relating to the restoration of the natural world. I worry about that conversation, though. Speaking for myself, I go to performances to learn indirectly (if at all).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cheffed-up Thai at Kru.
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Thu, Feb 2, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE / THEATER
Cosimo Pori & Travis Amiel: Das Sofortvergnügen
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 – 4, 2023
7:30 PM
Life World
Address provided upon ticketing, Brooklyn
$15 advance; $20 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A dance-theater spectacle about insatiable desires and impatience (two things that go together).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I may be wrong, but I’m thinking you might be near the Modern Peruvian at Surfish Bistro.
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Thu, Feb 2, 2023, 7:30 PM – Fri, Feb 3, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Nora Burns: The Village, a Disco Musical!
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 & 3, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 24)
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$28 advance; $32 door; $22 students/seniors advance; $25 students/seniors door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Thornton Wilder goes to a disco — in 1979!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at Pasquale Jones sibling Bar Pasquale.
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Thursday, February 2, 2023, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gaia Saetermoe-Howard, Sarah Stone & Kevin C. Devine: Folk Dialogues
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Folk-inspired Baroque music from South America and Norther Europe. Great stuff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I’m not gonna even tell you what El Mil Sabores puts on their Torta Loca sandwich. You have to see it for yourself. Streaming at home, have a Wild Heart: pour 1-1/4 oz. each of Aperol and Vermouth Blanc, and 3/4 oz. lemon juice, with 2 dashes of Angostura bitters, into a ice-filed cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice. Garnish with an orange wheel.
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Thu, Feb 2, 2023, 12:00 PM – Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
S.J. Norman & Joseph M. Pierce: Knowledge of Wounds
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 – 4, 2023
12:00 – 6:00 PM
Performance Space New York
150 1st Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An immersive audiovisual installation of Indigiqueer knowledge, culture, and ritual.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Rowdy Rooster: putting the heat in hot fried chicken.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
The Czechoslovakian-American Marionette Theater: Audience
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2 – 5, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 19)
THURSDAY – SATURDAY 7:00 PM
SUNDAY 2:00 PM
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance; also special packages for puppet theater series
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Puppets! And not just puppets, but Czech puppets! And not just Czech puppets, but Czech puppets doing Václav Havel!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Way overperforming pub grub at Sidney’s Five.
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Wed, Feb 1, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Nava Dunkelman
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 – 4, 2023
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Dunkelman perucssionist who isn’t Shayna gets a Stone residency. That must have been one noisy house when they were growing up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mark Morgan / Excavation
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2023
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Excavation, an experimental supergroup featuring Chris Cochrane, a guitarist who will never ever ever do what you expect.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Diner isn’t what it was. But what is?
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Thee Reps/Warhepa-Shenker-Philips
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2023
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Thee Reps is a great Krautrock/Mimimalism/Post-Rock-derived band (not that those three things are all that different) peopled by NYC Alt Classical stalwarts. Warhepa-Shenker-Philips features the Mimimalism-derived Norwegian Psych-Folk of Zosha Warhepa.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ian Douglas-Moore, Eric Wong & Dominic Coles/Seth Cluett
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2023
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Electronics (and guitar).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican party at Aldama.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Andy Statman Trio
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès In Person
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Andy Statman, a Klezmer musician playing avant-jazz (and Klezmer).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Modern Mexican at Fonda.
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Wed, Feb 1, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Joey Merlo: On Set With Theda Bara
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 – 4, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 8)
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
Exponential Festival
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20-$40
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In this one-man show, the fabulous David Greenspan plays a genderqueer teen who’s gone missing, his gay detective father — and the apparition of Theda Bara. If anyone could pull that off, it’s David Greenspan.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Kellogg’s Diner would be great if only it were any good.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy: “Nakshatra” Album Release
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$25
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These two superb violinists create a lush, transporting South Indian fusion.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good French bistro at Le Crocodile.
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Wed, Feb 1, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Beckett: Endgame
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 – 5, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 12)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Irish Repertory Theatre
132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$44-$65 Wednesday; $50-$95 thereafter
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If you love Beckett, then Endgame is what you love: as Chekhov’s plays are comedies, Beckett’s are knockabout vaudeville farces — but bleak bleak bleak. It’s no surprise that Bill Irwin is a master of this stuff. John Douglas Thompson is, quite simply, one of the best actors out there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Once-fashionable Greek at Periyali.
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Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
John Cowherd: The Mercy Project
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 5, 2023
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Village Vanguard
178 7th Avenue South, West Village, Manhattan
$40
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It’s been almost 10 years since pianist/composer John Cowherd — best known for his work with Brian Blade (who drums here) — released his own album as a leader, Mercy. It is somewhat astonishing that an album that good — that clear, that melodic, that harmonically inventive — was never followed up. But now Cowherd is touring it again. I hear saxophonist Chris Potter has been tearing it up on this tour.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really delicious — and really interesting — Southern Indian at Semma.
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Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Lightning Rod Special: The Appointment
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 4, 2023
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
WP Theater
2162 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$49
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A funny musical look at the abortion debates (if you can imagine such a thing). Anyone who saw Lightning Rod Special’s Underground Railroad Game (a funny if not musical look at toxic race relations in America) will know what to expect.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fancy French at Essential by Christophe.
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Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 5, 2023, 9:58 PM
THEATER
Hansol Jung: Wolf Play
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 5, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 5)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
2:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
MCC Theater
511 West 52nd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$58-$78
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Hansol Jung’s play, a sold-out smash at Soho Rep. last year, is an allusive look at chosen and unchosen families.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The delightful Ardesia wine bar is right across the street.
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Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Cullberg
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 4, 2023
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$26-$61
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The leading Swedish modern dance company Cullberg does a piece created on them remotely from Austin during Lockdown by Post-Modern heroine Deborah Hay.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bistro that’s been there forever (the restaurant, not the food) at Le Singe Vert.
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Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Wakka Wakka: The Immortal Jellyfish Girl
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 5, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 12)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$40-$55
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Mass extinction! PUPPETS!!!!
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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Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 7:00 PM – Wed, Feb 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Hahn Rowe: Something about the Weather
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31 & FEBRUARY 1, 2023
7:00 PM
The Lantern, Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 West 129th Street, Manhattanville, Manhattan
Free
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If sonic explorer Hahn Rowe asks whether his new piece is “An expedition in the wilderness? A cooking show gone awry? A negotiation of inclement conditions?”, who are we to question more?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: People are loving Oliva Tapas off the new Manhattanville Market.
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Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Feb 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 5, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Tuesday-Friday pay what you wish; Saturday & Sunday $18; $12 students 12 and over/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s. After, meet the Guadalajaran Torta Ahogada — sure to become your new obsession — at Cruz del Sur.
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Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Feb 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 5, 2023 (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 that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (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 30, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Feb 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 5, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
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What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. 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.
