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Thursday, February 29, 2024, 9:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zoh Amba – Gían Pérez – Caroline Morton – Marc Edwards
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2024
9:30 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The great guitar-bass-drums trio of Gían Pérez, Caroline Morton, and Marc Edwards is made even greater by the addition of the extraordinary saxophonist Zoh Amba.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Thursday, February 29, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, February 29, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tim Berne
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2024
8:00 PM
Lowlands
543 3rd Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The tough in-and-out alto saxophonist Tim Berne continues his regular shows at Lowlands with the usual rotating bunch of excellent collaborators.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cool Mexican at Alma Negra.
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Thu, Feb 29, 2024, 8:00 PM – Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Theater Uzume: The Tiger’s Bride
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 29 – MARCH 3, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 10)
8:00 PM
the cell theatre
338 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$95 for 1-$600 for 4
TICKETS + INFORMATION
”Immersive” theater is getting old — theater for people who don’t have the patience to sit and think — but this piece about Bluebeard could be pretty good (even if Bartók is bound to smoke it).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Qanoon for really wonderful home-style Palestinian.
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Thu, Feb 29, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sat, Mar 2, 2024, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Sacha Yanow: UNCLE!
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29 – MARCH 2, 2024
7:30 PM
The Kitchen @ Westbeth
163B Bank Street, West Village, Manhattan
$5-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sacha Yanow explores intergenerational loneliness in a piece drawing on Jewish and Queer performance traditions (wait there’s a difference?).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Austrian at Wallsé. For old times’ sake.
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Thursday, February 29, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, February 29, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Locomotive: Curry and Jazz
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2024
7:30 PM
Ki Smith Gallery
170 Forsyth Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$25.63
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You can dance and you can think. (And you can marvel at what a good trumpet player Adam O’Farrill is.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Canary Club.
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Thursday, February 29, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Choir Invisible
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2024
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$28-$39 in person; $22 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The great band formed by drummer Vinnie Sperrazza, bassist Chris Tordini, and saxophonist (and, here, vocalist) Charlotte Greve is made even greater by a guest apperance by the spectacular vocalist Fay Victor.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Italian-Ashkenazi mashup at Mark Strausman’s Mark’s Off Madison. Streaming at home, have a Choir Master: rinse a chilled Martini glass or coupe with Absinthe. Pour 2-1/2 oz. Amontillado Sherry, 1/4 oz. green Chartreuse, and 1/2 oz. Kirsch, with 2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into the rinsed glass.
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Thu, Feb 29, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Talking Band: Existentialism
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 & 29 – MARCH 3, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 10)
7:00 PM MONDAY & THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$40; $35 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The brilliant director Anne Bogart got some of her earliest recognition years ago for work done with the trenchant Downtown theater company Talking Band. So it only makes sense for her to reunite with the company, in celebration of its 50th anniversary, for a piece focusing on the passage of time.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Acclaimed Southern Thai at MayRee.
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Thursday, February 29, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Daymé Arocena
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2024
7:00 & 9:30 PM
The Sultan Room
234 Starr Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$37.19
EARLY SHOW TICKETS + INFORMATION
LATE SHOW TICKETS + INFORMATION
Cuban vocalist Daymé Arocena is a force of nature. She’s not Aretha, of course — but that’s the kind of effect she has. On the new album she’s featuring in tonight’s program, she goes pop. But I wouldn’t worry: in places like Cuba, genre distinctions don’t bear much weight — and in any event, it seems like Arocena can sing anything.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Natural wine and light food at The Ten Bells.
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Thursday, February 29, 2024, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
In Nomine: Baroque music from across Europe
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2024
6:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University In Person & Live Stream
1160 Amsterdam Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Now THIS is more like it.
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 a Lion’s Tail: pour 2 oz. Bourbon, 3/4 oz. Allspice Dram, 1/2 oz. lime juice, and 1 tbs. rich (2:1 sugar:water) Simple Syrup, with 1 dash Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Thursday, February 29, 2024, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Amelia Sie & Friends: Italian Virtuosity from the 1600–1800s
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2024
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
More of that “firey” technique-oriented strain of Italian Baroque violin music that I don’t like that much. But I guess a certain kind of listener enjoys shredding, vulgar as it may seem.
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 an Americano: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Campari and sweet Vermouth into an Old Fashioned glass over ice. Top with soda water. Garnish with an orange wedge.
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Wed, Feb 28, 2024, 8:30 PM – Sat, Mar 2, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Simon Hanes
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 2, 2024
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Here on this List guitarist Simon Hanes is mainly known as the motive force behind our beloved finta-Italopop band Tredici Bacci. But he is oh so much more, in oh so many styles.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: 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 28, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
We Wiggle Dolls: A Puppet Slam
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2024
8:00 PM
Rubulad
Supersecret address that everybody knows, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$30.90-$36.18
TICKETS + INFORMATION
PUPPETS!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really good Nigerian at Hill’s Kitchen.
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
CLAK / Stimmerman
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2024
8:00 PM
TV Eye
1647 Weirfield Street, Ridgewood, Queens
$15.65 advance; $15.00 (plus possible undisclosed fee) door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The last time I talked to experimental percussionist Aaron Edgcomb, he expressed surprise that I had heard of his Post-Rock band CLAK. Why would I not have heard of CLAK?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delightful Italianish American at Rolo’s — if you can get in.
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Wed, Feb 28, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
David Herskovits: Remember This Trick
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 & 28 – MARCH 3, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 17)
7:30 PM MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$28.75-$83.59
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A sort of avant-Purimspiel (even if the run concludes a week before actual Purim) exploring the usual Purim themes of anti-Semitism and survival — although, this being Target Margin, it’s bound to be in a very indirectly suggestive and entertaining manner. (The initiating creator emphasizes that this work was formulated two years ago and does not purport to reflect, much less address, current events and concerns [like what happens when the oppressed become oppressors?].)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The tacos are really good at Ricos Tacos.
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
BCMC / Leila Bordreuil & Lee Ranaldo
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2024
7:00 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$18.54
TICKETS + INFORMATION
BCMC creates Rock/Post-Rock sounds that can honestly be called “exotic”. The dynamic duo of Leila Bordreuil (cello) and Lee Ranaldo (guitar) make noise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It STILL remains very big news that Windsor Terrace’s Dog Day Afternoon (located on the very block the movie was filmed on) is now serving their supernal Chicago-Style Hot Dogs at a new Williamsburg bar (H&H Reserve) at reasonable hours!
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Wed, Feb 28, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shakespeare: Pericles
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 3, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 24)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Fiasco Theater
Classic Stage Company
136 East 13th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$87-$132
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Fiasco Theater’s stripped-down approach has proven quite effective with respect to Shakespeare plays that don’t make a lot of sense — of which Pericles is very much one.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Foxface Natural is the best restaurant in New York City.
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alyssa Regent: Mors osculi
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2024
7:00 PM
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A brand new song cycle from Alyssa Regent, an incisive, evocative young electro-acoustic composer. It’s nice that the singer is Charlotte Mundy.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s nice to have Café Boulud back.
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Wed, Feb 28, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Eric Tucker: The Assassination of Julius Caesar as told by William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 3, 2024 (continuing through APRIL 7)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
1:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Bedlam Theater
West End Theater
263 West 86th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$69
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bedlam Theater mashes up explorations by Shakespeare and Shaw of the ethics of killing an autocratic leader to save democracy, apparently as food for thought for next year.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Jin Ramen for, well, you know.
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Wed, Feb 28, 2024, 6:00 PM – Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Jean Butler: What We Hold
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 3, 2024
6:00 & 9:30 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
4:00 & 7:00 PM SATURDAY
4:00 & 6:30 PM SUNDAY
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$25-$71
TICKETS + INFORMATION
All of Irish dance history, is all.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Itameshi goes pan-Asian at Sesamo.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Contemporaneous: Songs at Night
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2024
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
Contemporaneous is understandably pushing the world premiere on this program of an orchestral song cycle by Lila Meretzky setting the Yiddish poetry of Anna Margolin (and sung, no less, by Lucy Dhegrae and Milena Gligić). But it’s hard not to also get excited by a piece extracted as a standalone from one of his epic works-in-progress by Dylan Mattingly, who has to be the most fun Maximalist around. Not to mention something by Shelley Washington.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic New American at As You Are. Streaming at home, have an 8 Amaro Sazerac (created by subscriber MS!!!!): rinse a chilled Old Fashioned glass with green Chartreuse. Pour 1/4 oz. each of 1⁄4 oz Amaro Meletti, Aperol, Amaro dell’Erborista, Ramazzotti, Campari, Amaro Sibilla, CioCiaro, and Amaro Montenegro, with 4 dashes Peychaud’s bitters and 2 dashes Bitterman’s Orange Citrate Cream, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into the rinsed glass. (FREE OFFER: I will make this cocktail for any subscriber who can discern the reasoning behind its recommendation to accompany this concert.)
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brooklyn Maqam Hang: Dolunay
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2024
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dolunay takes Turkish trad/contemporary to the City. And trust me, it’s great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tue, Feb 27, 2024, 7:30 PM – Wed, Feb 28, 2024, 11:59 PM
DANCE
New York City Ballet: Innovators & Icons
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 & 28, 2024
7:30 PM
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$52-$230
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A new piece by Alexei Ratmansky about current events in his native Ukraine set to Mahler: things are looking pretty grim in here. A Balanchine classic, one of his towering achievements (and even in a way a summum), reflecting the experience of war but abstractly. And a Robbins piece: we don’t talk about Jerry.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A Cadillac Burger at P.J. Clarke's, preceded by oysters and a Martini.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Banne Synge, Scorzia & Colm Keady-Tabbal: AMN’T — music for organ, voices, and electronics
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2024
7:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University In Person & Live Stream
1160 Amsterdam Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Neo-Medieval: the real Goth.
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 a Chrysanthemum: pour 2 oz. dry Vermouth, 1 oz. Bénédictine, and 1/4 oz. Abinsthe into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bonzo 2: Liz Durette / Asher White / Anastasia Coope
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2024
7:00 PM
Trans-Pecos
915 Wyckoff Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$15.77
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Liz Durette started out kind of doing jazz, but has moved more into experimental electronics. She says the music on her new album is supposed to invoke the French Baroque, but I’m still waiting to hear it. I find the Electropop of Asher White consistently winning because it’s twee on purpose. Anastasia Coope is a rare Psych-Folk singer-songwriter whose songs are actually good — maybe because she’s sure to let them space out.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza and Natural wine at Decades Pizza.
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Tue, Feb 27, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Puppetopia
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 – MARCH 3, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 10)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
8:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM FRIDAY – SUNDAY
10:00 PM FRIDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Soho, Manhattan
$39.50-$105.25 single show; $115.25 festival pass
TICKETS + INFORMATION
PUPPETS!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Raoul’s luncheonette, Revelie.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Santiago Leisbon Trio
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2024
7:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Santiago Leisbon is another of those pianist/composers who don’t make any fuss about whether there’s a difference between jazz and Contemporary Classical.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Serviceable neighborhood Italian at Bar Toto.
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Tue, Feb 27, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins: Appropriate
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 – MARCH 3, 2024 (resuming MARCH 25)
7:00 PM TUESDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
2nd Stage @ The Hayes Theater
240 West 44th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$115-$199.50; $40 limited availability under 30 years; $25 student rush
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The author of the best American play so far this Century comes up with a family drama that you can bet isn’t going to be just a family drama. Wonder if the title has a long “a” or a short one?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Westway Diner. Cuz it’s still there.
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Tue, Feb 27, 2024, 10:00 AM – Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 – MARCH 3, 2024 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:30 PM MONDAY – FRIDAY
10:00 AM – 4:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$18 SATURDAY & SUNDAY; $12 students/seniors SATURDAY & SUNDAY; pay what you wish weekdays through THURSDAY; 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: The best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant.
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Monday, February 26, 2024, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sara Cabral
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2024
9:00 & 10:15 PM
LunÀtico
486 Halsey Street, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Modern Samba, melded with jazz, avant-garde, and classical in that Brazilian manner.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You should at least buy some drinks from the venue. But if you want some more interesting and substantial food than LunÀtico serves, nice pizza and tapas at Saraghina.
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Monday, February 26, 2024, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tropical Vortex: Turbo Sonidero
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2024
9:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Spicing Mexican Cumbia up with hip-hop and electronics.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: And over to Fonda for better-than-neighborhood Mexican.
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Monday, February 26, 2024, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Sasha Velour: Nightgowns
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2024
9:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$35.02-$78.08
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Drag variety show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Indian at Masala Times.
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Monday, February 26, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alaara: Tarkovsky: of its own accord
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2024
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 advance; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Maybe you can take or leave longform improvisations inspired by Tarkovsky. But maybe you’ll decide to take them when you find out the improvisers are Sonya Belaya (piano/synths), Grey McMurray (guitar), and Nicole Patrick (drums).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, good cocktails and even good food at Grand Army Bar. Streaming at home, have a Maiden Voyage: pour 1-/2 oz. Rhum Barbancourt, 1 oz. Cardamaro, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1/2 oz. maple syrup, with 2 dashes Peychaud bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an orange slice.
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Monday, February 26, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Striped Light: Julia Santoli / Jordan Topiel Paul / T.J. Borden
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2024
8:00 PM
Secret Location (DM for address), Long Island City, Queens
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Julia Santoli does some of her interesting vocal-electronics/theatrical explorations. Jordan Topiel Paul bangs on his snare drum — but not always slowly. Experimental cellist T.J. Borden embarks on Life After Mivos.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Take the interesting walk (you’ll see what I mean when you do it) into the past at Brooks 1890 (where the ambiance is a lot more interesting than the food).
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Monday, February 26, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, February 26, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Double Bill: Tomas Fujiwara: 7 Poets Trio / Tomeka Reid Quartet
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2024
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$39-$50 in person; $22 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Essentially a night of cellist Tomeka Reid and drumer Tomas Fujiwara playing together. In Fujiwara’s 7 Poets Trio, they’re joined by vibraphonist Patrica Brennan for fascinating music. And Reid’s quartet includes Mary Halverson on guitar!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, José Andrés goes Middle Eastern at Zaytinya. Streaming at home, have a Poet’s Dream: pour 3/4 oz. each of Gin and dry Vermouth and 1/2 oz. Bénédictine into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Monday, February 26, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, February 26, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
David Herskovits: Remember This Trick
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 & 28 – MARCH 3, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 17)
7:30 PM MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$28.75-$83.59
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A sort of avant-Purimspiel (even if the run concludes a week before actual Purim) exploring the usual Purim themes of anti-Semitism and survival — although, this being Target Margin, it’s bound to be in a very indirectly suggestive and entertaining manner. (The initiating creator emphasizes that this work was formulated two years ago and does not purport to reflect, much less address, current events and concerns [like what happens when the oppressed become oppressors?].)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The tacos are really good at Ricos Tacos.
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Mon, Feb 26, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sat, Mar 2, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Joey Merlo: On Set With Theda Bara
MONDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26 – MARCH 2, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 9)
7:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$27-$91
TICKETS + INFORMATION
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: When this piece played here a year ago as part of last year’s Exponential Festival, I remarked that Kellogg’s Diner would be great if only it were any good. Well guess what: having been taken over (and given a Tex-Mex twist) by the people who revived Old John’s Luncheonette, it is.
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Monday, February 26, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brackish x Heavy Florals: Darlin / Kat “Mia Maxima” da Silva / Isa Crespo Pardo & Anna Abondolo
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2024
7:00 PM
St. Lydia's
304 Bond Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$15-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
List All-Stars go exploring.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Black Mountain Wine House is almost ludicrously pleasant.
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Monday, February 26, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Talking Band: Existentialism
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 & 29 – MARCH 3, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 10)
7:00 PM MONDAY & THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$40; $35 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The brilliant director Anne Bogart got some of her earliest recognition years ago for work done with the trenchant Downtown theater company Talking Band. So it only makes sense for her to reunite with the company, in celebration of its 50th anniversary, for a piece focusing on the passage of time.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Acclaimed Southern Thai at MayRee.
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Mon, Feb 26, 2024, 8:00 AM – Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 – MARCH 3, 2024 (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.
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Mon, Feb 26, 2024, 6:00 AM – Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 – MARCH 3, 2024 (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.)
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Sunday, February 25, 2024, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, February 25, 2024, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Sasha Velour: Nightgowns
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024 (also on FEBRUARY 26)
9:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$35.02-$78.08
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Drag variety show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Indian at Masala Times.
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Sunday, February 25, 2024, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Joseph Keckler feat. Grace Bergere
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024
8:30 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20 advance; $25 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Joseph Keckler’s cabaret opera should never work. But it somehow does. For this show, he’s joined by Grace Bergere, who is one of those Rockish singer-songwriters who still somehow manages to be kind of good (in her case because she’s as interested in creating dark compelling textures as she is in wallowing in whatever her immediate problems might be).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Sunday, February 25, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Da Capo Chamber Players: Joan Tower at 85!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024
8:00 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$33.85; $17.85 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In a healthy American classical music culture, Joan Tower would be as well-known and loved as Aaron Copland: her music has the same craft and direct appeal. But we don’t live in such a culture, so we’re stuck with specialist shows like this.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The broth is particularly rich at E.A.K. Ramen.
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Sunday, February 25, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Shekwoaga: At Sisters
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Michael Shekwoaga Ode is a very eloquent drummer who clearly loves the late-’60s spiritualized Free Jazz of Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders even more than this List does. Tonight he concludes a monthlong residency.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Sunday, February 25, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
SydeBoob Duo: soft bodies // hard music
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024
7:30 PM
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$17.85
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Billing themselves as “a voice and flute duo for the 21st century”, visiting Yinzers Anna Elder (voice) and Sarah Steranka (flute) perform, among other things, pieces by Ursula Mamlok, one of the most engaging of Gnarly High Modernists, Cristóbal Halffter, one of the most engaging of the OG electro-acousticians, and our own inti figgis-vizueta, master of liminality.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wonderful Venezuelan at Casa Ora.
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Sunday, February 25, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alkemie feat. Amanda Gookin: A Worthy Mirror
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$32.27
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A bunch of really great female-identifying contemporary classical composers set medieval texts by trobairitz, the female-identifying equivalent of troubadours. Funny how the men got remembered and the women didn’t.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Charming Sardinian at D.O.C. Wine Bar.
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Sunday, February 25, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Trio
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$33-$44 person; $22 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, and Dafnis Prieto playing together? This is actually HAPPENING?????????
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, fancy Austrian at Koloman. Streaming at home, have a Brandy Alexander: pour 1 oz. each of Brandy, dark Crème de Cacao, and cream into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake hard. Strain into a chilled Nick and Nora glass. Garnish with nutmeg.
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Sunday, February 25, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Pharmakon
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024
7:00 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$18.54
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There’s dark apocalyptic noise music. And then there’s Pharmakon.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It STILL remains very big news that Windsor Terrace’s Dog Day Afternoon (located on the very block the movie was filmed on) is now serving their supernal Chicago-Style Hot Dogs at a new Williamsburg bar (H&H Reserve) at reasonable hours!
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Sunday, February 25, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Artifact
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024
7:00 PM
Sleepwalk
251 Bushwick Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$13.60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Kicking off a new experimental music series with various ensembles including people like Cecilia Lopez and Nava Dunkelman.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Anti-social ramen at Ichiran.
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Sunday, February 25, 2024, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Miles in the Sky 3
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024
6:00 PM
Main Drag Music
50 South First Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Hans Tammen continues to curate a multi-artist exploration of Miles Davis — mainly the spacey ‘60s-into-’70s Miles
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Oysters and cocktails at Maison Premiere.
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Sunday, February 25, 2024, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
CONTOUR / Donna Allen / Rubber Inferno / char jeré
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024
5:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Is this Contour who makes really good spacey Nu R&B/Pop? It’s certainly char jeré who makes electronic music that’s a different kind of spacey.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unexpected but not really incongrouous Japanese-Ashkenazi mash-up at Shalom Japan.
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Sunday, February 25, 2024, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Unheard: Kalia Vandever feat. Rafiq Bhatia & Darian Donovan Thomas
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024
5:00 PM
Pique-Nique
Location provided upon ticketing, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
$24.72-$33.99
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The beginning of series curated by trombonist Kalia Vandever, who is one of the people really moving jazz forward into realms that don’t sound like what you’ve heard before (in her case, uniquely restful, like post-post-Bop without edges, or Ambient Minimalism with a pulse). For this first edition, she couldn’t have chosen better co-explorers than guitarist Rafiq Bhatia and violinist Darian Donovan Thomas.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sorta lightish, sorta delicious Radio Star.
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Sunday, February 25, 2024, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, February 24, 2024, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zemog el Gallo Bueno
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024
10:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This Art-Roots post-Salsa with all kinds of psych and even experimental influences is exactly what Barbès is good for.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Jamaican with a chance of Trinidadian at Stella’s.
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Saturday, February 24, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
New York City Ballet: New Combinations
THURSDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 & 24, 2024
7:30 PM TUESDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$52-$230
TICKETS + INFORMATION
On the inner edge of Listability, but no worse for that. Justin Peck setting Nico Muhly seems right for here. Tiler Peck (no relation) is a technically spectacular dancer — Fitzgerald to Sara Mearns’s Holiday, Sutherland to Sara Mearns’s Callas — but you wonder what kind of choreographer she’ll be; setting Poulenc is one sure way to This List’s heart, though. Alexei Ratmansky’s Odesa is definitely not the kind of thing we List here (as much as we enjoy Ratmansky’s work in our personal capacity) — but Jewish gangsters in Odessa is a theme we can certainly get behind (wish the gang rape were presented more critically, though; Ratmansky’s done better in other pieces).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seems like a good night (or afternoon) for Bar Boulud.
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Saturday, February 24, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
New Combinations
TUESDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 & 24, 2024
7:30 PM TUESDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$52-$230
TICKETS + INFORMATION
On the inner edge of Listability, but no worse for that. Justin Peck setting Nico Muhly seems right for here. Tiler Peck (no relation) is a technically spectacular dancer — Fitzgerald to Sara Mearns’s Holiday, Sutherland to Sara Mearns’s Callas — but you wonder what kind of choreographer she’ll be; setting Poulenc is one sure way to This List’s heart, though. Alexei Ratmansky’s Odesa is definitely not the kind of thing we List here (as much as we enjoy Ratmansky’s work in our personal capacity) — but Jewish gangsters in Odessa is a theme we can certainly get behind (wish the gang rape were presented more critically, though; Ratmansky’s done better in other pieces).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seems like a good night for Bar Boulud.
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Saturday, February 24, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Composers in Play VIII: Accumulation of Purpose
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024
8:00 PM
Piano Lunaire
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 arts professionals/seniors; free students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I won’t say this is the best program Piano Lunaire has put together — but it’s certainly the one most to this List’s taste. Christopher Cerrone, Han Lash, David T. Little, and Julia Perry? Come on. And new (to me anyway) stuff to explore.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: They’ll be giving out beer and wine at the show. But if you want something at least slightly more solid, the broth is particularly rich at E.A.K. Ramen.
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Saturday, February 24, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, February 24, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Carl Stone: Re:gendo
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024
8:00 PM
Ambient Church @ A Big Church in Clinton Hill
Location given upon ticketing (but if you know Clinton Hill, you can figure it out), Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This List just loves Carl Stone: playful, happy to engage with pop culture, tickling his listeners when not challenging them, possibly inventing sampling along the way.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza and (if you’re lucky) burgers at Emily.
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Saturday, February 24, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Qubit: Varpcast (a radio play)
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024
7:30 PM
Center for Performance Research (CPR)
361 Manhattan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This looks really good. An assemblage of samples from 20th Century radio dramas from Iceland and New Zealand revealing global events of that remote Century as experienced in those “remote island nations”. But it’s whacky!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’ll STILL bet now you can get into neo-Cantonese-American hotspot Bonnie’s.
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Saturday, February 24, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Eric Tucker: The Assassination of Julius Caesar as told by William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24 & 25, 2024 (continuing through APRIL 7)
7:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Bedlam Theater
West End Theater
263 West 86th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$69
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bedlam Theater mashes up explorations by Shakespeare and Shaw of the ethics of killing an autocratic leader to save democracy, apparently as food for thought for next year.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Jin Ramen for, well, you know.
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Saturday, February 24, 2024, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tony Malaby
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024
6:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Saxophonist Tony Malaby, a key New York City player, concludes his month-long residency with a rather sensational rhythm section.
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 24, 2024, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Instrumental Underground
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024
6:00 PM
IBeam
168 7th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$15; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The pick of this week’s Instrumental Underground series at iBeam. To give you a taste of what’s in store, one of tonight’s ensembles comprises Patrick Golden on drums, Matt Hollenberg on guitar, Sana Nagano on violin, and Ken Filiano on bass: imagination, taste, and stylistic daring.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hawaiian at Sweet Talk.
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Saturday, February 24, 2024, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, February 24, 2024, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Harlem Chamber Players: Black History Month Concert
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024
4:00 PM
Dweck Center, Brooklyn Public Library Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Would you sit through Florence Price to hear Carlos Simon and Trevor Weston? With players this splendid, maybe you would. Also, something by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, whose classical work (he also did jazz and pop) weds Neo-Classical clarity with Neo-Romantic pathos and is ripe for a revival.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great beer — I mean GREAT beer — at Gold Star Beer Counter.
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Friday, February 23, 2024, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Pan-Pot
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024
10:00 PM
Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Avenue, Maspeth, Queens
$25.50; $19.32 each group of 4
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Stylisticly wide-ranging Berlin Techno supergroup.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: ECB for burgers and now, oddly, Red Sauce.
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Friday, February 23, 2024, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tredici Baci
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024
9:00 & 10:15 PM
LunÀtico
486 Halsey Street, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This List’s fave finta Italo-Pop band croons on.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You should at least buy some drinks from the venue. But if you want some more interesting and substantial food than LunÀtico serves, nice pizza and tapas at Saraghina.
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Friday, February 23, 2024, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Abbie from Mars / Kate Mohanty / Toby Goodshank/ Itch Princess
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024
9:00 PM
Hart Bar
538 Hart Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Abbie from Mars — she may or may not actually be from Mars — is just who you’re looking for when you want some alt pop leavened with noise tap dancing. And Kate Mohanty is who you’re looking for if you want some very Out solo saxophone.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I very strongly recommend the cocktails at the venue, the Hart Bar. For something more solid, cool VIetnamese at Little Mo.
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Friday, February 23, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Catherine Sikora & Susan Alcorn
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024
8:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Saxophonist Catherine Sikora and peddle steel player Susan Alcorn get together to celebrate the release of their new album — which was recorded the first time they ever played together, at this venue a couple of years ago. Spacey and vivid.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Southern (U.S., that is)/Korean mash-up at C as in Charlie.
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Friday, February 23, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mehrnam Rastegari
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$21.95
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mehrnam Rastegari, master of the Iranian string instrument known as the Kamancheh (sort of a smaller, more nasal cello), plays a kind of Iranian folk-pop — and it is GORGEOUS.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very hard not to tell you to hike the half hour across 6th Avenue to Sofreh for excellent Persian.
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Friday, February 23, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Night at the Museum
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024
8:00 PM
MoMA PS1
20-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
$22.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In a week of shows seemingly assembled from Listings here, this one is truly epic (and looks like fun on a stick). Leila Bordreuil! Che Chen and Talice Lee! Das Audit! and that’s just the start!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fab Québécois at M. Wells.
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Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
DANCE
New York City Ballet: Innovators & Icons
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 25, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 28)
8:00 PM FRIDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$52-$230
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A new piece by Alexei Ratmansky about current events in his native Ukraine set to Mahler: things are looking pretty grim in here. A Balanchine classic, one of his towering achievements (and even in a way a summum), reflecting the experience of war but abstractly. And a Robbins piece: we don’t talk about Jerry.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A Cadillac Burger at P.J. Clarke's, preceded by oysters and a Martini.
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Friday, February 23, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tony Malaby, Mat Maneri & James Paul Nadien / Kaelen Ghandhi, Teté Leguía & Kevin Murray
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024
8:00 PM
Record Shop
360 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Free and experimental jazz of a very high order.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s burgers and shrimp cocktails at Red Hook Tavern.
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Friday, February 23, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, February 23, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:30 PM
MUSIC
Patrick Golden - Ryan Siegel - Gían Pérez
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024
8:00 PM
Freddy's Bar
627 Fifth Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Betcha thought we were going to get through the week without a Gían Pérez Listing, didn’t you?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You're in one of the most convivial bars in Brooklyn, for God's sake. (If you don't fancy Freddy's entirely edible pub grub, grab a slice at Luigi's beforehand.)
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Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
David Virelles
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 & 24, 2024
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$33-$44
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist David Virelles is a unique and fascinating musician who takes almost ritualistic Cuban traditions and injects them into the most modern Modernism — never moreso than in his solo electronic sets, as he’ll be playing in these shows.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: José Andés cocktails and bar snacks at the sky-high Nubeluz.
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Friday, February 23, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Aki Ondo
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024
7:30 & 9:00 PM
Blank Forms
468 Grand Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Aki Onda continues their longrunning “Cassette Memories” project in what is promised to be a particularly Spartan configuration, assembling cassettes from their collection into a found soundscape.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza and (if you’re lucky) burgers at Emily.
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Friday, February 23, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bruce Brubaker: Eno Piano
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$38.45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bruce Brubaker adopts Eno’s music for performance on solo piano. Of course, you could argue that what makes Eno’s music so special are the textures, not the underlying structures. But let’s give this a chance, shall we?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good French bistro at Le Crocodile.
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Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Isabelle Smith: Stories to Get Us Through the Night
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 25, 2024
7:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
5:30 PM SUNDAY
Brick Aux
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$22-$52
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A play about stories. And the end of the world. The audience somehow uses candlelight to determine plot points.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Free pizza at the Alligator Lounge!
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Friday, February 23, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Timo Andres
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024
7:30 PM
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$39-$49
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Timo Andres is not only a really fine composer, but also a really fine pianist. He brings to this wonderful recital not only a brand new piece by himself, but a new piece by Gabriella Smith as well. And less new pieces by Ellington and Strayhorn (a really gorgeous one) and Ellington alone, Robin Holcomb, Copland, Rzewski, and (of course) Philip Glass (so-called genre distinctions, of course, need not apply). I mean, really, what’s not to love here?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best Old Skool Steakhouse in New York is now Gallaghers.
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Friday, February 23, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Hauschka / Christopher Tignor
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024
7:30 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$32.96 advance; $30 plus undisclosed fee day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There are are all sorts of Europeans doing a sort of Ambient Minimalism that verges on Muzak. Why is Hauschka’s actually good? Maybe it’s a streak of underlying sharpness, as opposed to the competition’s fuzziness. Certainly the others wouldn’t pair on a bill with Christopher Tignor, whose slowmoving drones can be actually challenging.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Chinese-Southern American mashup at Figure EIght.
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Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
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Thursday, February 22, 2024, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, February 22, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tim Berne
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2024
8:00 PM
Lowlands
543 3rd Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The tough in-and-out alto saxophonist Tim Berne continues his regular shows at Lowlands with the usual rotating bunch of excellent collaborators.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cool Mexican at Alma Negra.
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Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 8:00 PM – Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Killian Delice: Star Spangled Banger
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22 & 23, 2024
8:00 PM
Pageant
70 Graham Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10.29-$30.87
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Land of the FREEEEEEEEEE.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican snacks and mad desserts at Maya’s Snack Bar.
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Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 8:00 PM – Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Theater Uzume: The Tiger’s Bride
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 24, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 9)
8:00 PM
the cell theatre
338 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$95 for 1-$600 for 4
TICKETS + INFORMATION
”Immersive” theater is getting old — theater for people who don’t have the patience to sit and think — but this piece about Bluebeard could be pretty good (even if Bartók is bound to smoke it).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Qanoon for really wonderful home-style Palestinian.
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Thursday, February 22, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sanda Weigl: Lost in the Stars — The Music of Kurt Weill
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2024
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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Thursday, February 22, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Composer Portrait: Amy Williams
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2024
8:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$23.25-$33.50; $20.25-$28.50 seniors; $18.25-$25.50 students/under 25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What I wrote about Amy Williams five years ago remains true today: Amy Williams is a composer I've been kind of crazy for lately. Her work is kinetic, but also pays attention to such trad concerns as harmony and development. For tonight’s showcase of chamber music for strings sometimes with piano, Williams — an excellent pianist — has the inestimable advantage of being joined by the peerless JACK Quartet.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: J.J. Johnson — an amazing chef — provides fast casual rice at Fieldtrip.
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Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Ivo Dimchev: METCH
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 25, 2024
7:30 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
The Club at La MaMa
74A East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having moved here from Bulgaria, performer/musician/dancer Ivo Dimchev has already made himself an invaluable part of the NYC scene. This show comprising Music/Exhibition/Texts/Choreography revisiting/reconfiguring some of Dimchev’s previous work is a good place to start.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican insect cuisine (although they somehow don’t make it to escamoles) at The Black Ant.
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Thursday, February 22, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
New York City Ballet: New Combinations
THURSDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 & 24, 2024
7:30 PM TUESDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$52-$230
TICKETS + INFORMATION
On the inner edge of Listability, but no worse for that. Justin Peck setting Nico Muhly seems right for here. Tiler Peck (no relation) is a technically spectacular dancer — Fitzgerald to Sara Mearns’s Holiday, Sutherland to Sara Mearns’s Callas — but you wonder what kind of choreographer she’ll be; setting Poulenc is one sure way to This List’s heart, though. Alexei Ratmansky’s Odesa is definitely not the kind of thing we List here (as much as we enjoy Ratmansky’s work in our personal capacity) — but Jewish gangsters in Odessa is a theme we can certainly get behind (wish the gang rape were presented more critically, though; Ratmansky’s done better in other pieces).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seems like a good night (or afternoon) for Bar Boulud.
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Thursday, February 22, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Magic Music
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2024
7:30 PM
Nublu Classic
62 Avenue C, East Village, Manhattan
$22.66
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Don’t tell anyone, but Free Jazz legend Daniel Carter and legend-and-a-half William Parker are going to be there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Serbian MEAT at Kafana. (NB: cash only.)
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Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Sacha Yanow: UNCLE!
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 24, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 2)
7:30 PM
The Kitchen @ Westbeth
163B Bank Street, West Village, Manhattan
$5-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sacha Yanow explores intergenerational loneliness in a piece drawing on Jewish and Queer performance traditions (wait there’s a difference?).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Austrian at Wallsé. For old times’ sake.
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Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 11:59 PM
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Thursday, February 22, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sunset Community Garden Fundraiser
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2024
7:00 PM
Sundownstairs, Sundown Bar
68-38 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$17.30-$29.13
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If there’s one thing this List can get behind, it’s Che Chen, Ryan Sawyer, and Patrick Holmes playing together. If there’s another, it’s Local Youth playing Cumbia. And if there’s a third, it’s community gardens!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re in a bar with a pretty good cocktail program. For something more solid, more than cachapas at Cachapas y Mas.
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Thursday, February 22, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Noise x Movement: Qiujiang Levi Lu/Lucie Vítková feat. Leo Chang/Kwami Winfield
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2024
7:00 PM
Center for Performance Research (CPR)
361 Manhattan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Free-$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This List on a plate.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’ll bet now you can get into neo-Cantonese-American hotspot Bonnie’s.
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Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
OPERA
Bach / Geoffrey McDonald: The Immersive Coffee Cantata Experience
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 25, 2024
7:00 PM
On Site Opera
The Lost Draft
398 Broome Street, Nolita, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
How many Bach pieces can be justly called “delightful”? The secular Coffee Cantata is one, playfully recounting familial conflict over the then-new-to-Europe stimulant (the fuel for virtually all subsequent classical music). Don’t worry: this performance, with the music arranged and the libretto translated by Geoffrey McDonald, appears to be “immersive” only insofar as it’s presented in a coffee shop (come to think of it, the original performance in the 1730s was, too) and you drink coffee while watching it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Egyptian at Zooba.
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Thursday, February 22, 2024, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nicole Brancato & Greg Hammontree: Improvisation & Classical Music
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2024
6:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University In Person & Live Stream
1160 Amsterdam Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A trumpeter and a pianist blend Debussy with Coltrane, Davis/Evans, Mary Lou Williams, like that. Not play them next to each other, but mash them up. I’m sure Debussy wouldn’t have minded.
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 a Lion’s Tail: pour 2 oz. Bourbon, 3/4 oz. Allspice Dram, 1/2 oz. lime juice, and 1 tbs. rich (2:1 sugar:water) Simple Syrup, with 1 dash Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Thursday, February 22, 2024, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Present Sounds: Qasim Naqvi
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2024
6:00 PM
Light and Sound Design
Street address provided upon ticketing, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Solo electronics from the always-interesting Qasim Naqvi. Preceded by a listening party on a really good sound system.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I think Mystica is the best cheffed-up Mexican restaurant in New York right now.
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Thursday, February 22, 2024, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Abendmusik: Living Dangerously — Strings on Fire in 17th Century Italy
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2024
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
If you wanna know the God’s honest truth, this List, for all its Baroquemania, isn’t particularly fond of the “firey” technique-oriented strain of Italian Baroque violin music: it’s really not that different from the Romantic rot of a Paganini. But here it is, anyway.
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 an Americano: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Campari and sweet Vermouth into an Old Fashioned glass over ice. Top with soda water. Garnish with an orange wedge.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Seabrook String Society feat. Erica Dicker & Henry Fraser
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2024
9:00 & 10:15 PM
LunÀtico
486 Halsey Street, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Three of the most interesting string players in New York get together to make what will undoubtedly be interesting string music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You should at least buy some drinks from the venue. But if you want some more interesting and substantial food than LunÀtico serves, get some Southern at Peaches.
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Wed, Feb 21, 2024, 8:30 PM – Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Aliya Ultan
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – 24, 2024
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the most out there of all the out-there cellists out there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No one better to take over the old Café Loup space than NYC Front of House vet Michael Cechhi-Azzolina with his neo-Bar & Grill (Michael told me he can’t abide the descriptor “American Bistro”) Cecchi’s.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2024
8:00 PM
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$64
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jessie Montgomery is, in this List’s estimation, the best Western classical composer for string instruments around right now. So a new solo violin piece from her is something to be excited about. STUPID DEFINITIVE HYPERBOLIC ASSERTION ALERT: Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp is the best piece of Western classical chamber music written in the 20th Century. Reis’s reduction of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony for piano quartet is, dare I say, not as good as the original (although it does make it easier to hear how strange this music must have sounded when it was new).
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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Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Savannah Harris: Dual # 1
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2024
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ace drummer Savannah Harris curates a night in which she plays with saxophonist Zoh Amba (which can’t be bad) and Princeton astrophysics grad student Aden brings us the music of the spheres on electronics. And more that Harris hasn’t told us about yet.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Axine M: Adriana
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2024
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Downtown, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Music artist Axine M. equates the cultural imposition of female beauty standards with body horror. Right?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: American classic Gage & Tollner has (predictably) been making itself more limited and less interesting since its revival — but it’s still good. Don’t forget the Sunken Harbor Club Tiki Bar upstairs.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Festival of Song: All Together Now
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2024
8:00 PM
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$24-$74
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Vocal music from the Renaissance to now (or at least recently).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As you may recall, the revivified Old John’s Luncheonette is right across the street.
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Wed, Feb 21, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
David Herskovits: Remember This Trick
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 & 21 – 25, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 17)
7:30 PM MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$28.75-$83.59
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A sort of avant-Purimspiel (even if the run concludes a week before actual Purim) exploring the usual Purim themes of anti-Semitism and survival — although, this being Target Margin, it’s bound to be in a very indirectly suggestive and entertaining manner. (The initiating creator emphasizes that this work was formulated two years ago and does not purport to reflect, much less address, current events and concerns [like what happens when the oppressed become oppressors?].)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The tacos are really good at Ricos Tacos.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ingrid Laubrock: Lilith
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2024
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$28-$39 in person; $22 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ingrid Laubrock, a saxophonist who tempers rigor with a kind of humor, leads a bunch of next-gen jazzers on a vocal/instrumental investigation of Adam’s first wife.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, José Andrés goes Middle Eastern at Zaytinya. Streaming at home, have a 19th Century: pour 1-1/2 oz. Bourbon and 1/2 oz. each of white Crème de Cacao, Lillet Rouge, 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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Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Raven Chacon: Round, Scream Out of Each Window / For Zitkála Šá
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2024
7:00 PM
Swiss Institute
38 St. Marks Place, East Village, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Haunting soundscapes from Raven Chacon, supported here by such List luminaries as Isabel Crespo Pardo, Bob Bellerue, and Kite.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s cold outside. Go to Vaselka (if you can overcome your shame at being an American).
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Wed, Feb 21, 2024, 6:00 PM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Jean Butler: What We Hold
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – 25, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 3)
6:00 & 9:30 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
4:00 & 7:00 PM SATURDAY
4:00 & 6:30 PM SUNDAY
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$25-$71
TICKETS + INFORMATION
All of Irish dance history, is all.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Itameshi goes pan-Asian at Sesamo.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sam Weinberg Residency feat. Kim Rosenfield, Theo Ellin Balew & C. Spencer Yeh
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2024
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$10-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Free/Noise Jazz saxophonist Sam Weinberg curates a night of Noise (if not always jazz).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Twyla Tharp
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – 25, 2024
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10-$91
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You can kvetch that Twyla Tharp has gone showbiz, betraying her Judson School roots. But with that goes a pretty high entertainment Q — if you’re in the right mood and not annoyed. I sure wasn’t in the right mood the last couple of times I saw her, though.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Burmese at Rangoon.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
New Combinations
TUESDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 & 24, 2024
7:30 PM TUESDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$52-$230
TICKETS + INFORMATION
On the inner edge of Listability, but no worse for that. Justin Peck setting Nico Muhly seems right for here. Tiler Peck (no relation) is a technically spectacular dancer — Fitzgerald to Sara Mearns’s Holiday, Sutherland to Sara Mearns’s Callas — but you wonder what kind of choreographer she’ll be; setting Poulenc is one sure way to This List’s heart, though. Alexei Ratmansky’s Odesa is definitely not the kind of thing we List here (as much as we enjoy Ratmansky’s work in our personal capacity) — but Jewish gangsters in Odessa is a theme we can certainly get behind (wish the gang rape were presented more critically, though; Ratmansky’s done better in other pieces).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seems like a good night for Bar Boulud.
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Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Paco de Lucía Legacy
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – 24, 2024
Various Times
Various Venues, Manhattan
Various
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When I first encountered guitarist Paco de Lucía in the 1970s, I couldn’t stand his music (at least that I heard). He was mainly known in the United States for participation in Jazz-Rock Fusion bands, and he seemed as barrenly technique-driven as everybody else in the decadent period of that movement. He was promoted here as having come out of Flamenco — but who knew then that Flamenco was anything other a showbizzy form of canned folclórico? After I grew up, I learned the truth about Flamenco — and discovered the sensational string of albums de Lucía made with Camerón de la Isla in Spain at the same time de Lucía was doing that barren fusion stuff in the States. This wasn’t fusion, but an opening up of a great musical form to influences and inflections that nourished it. So simultaneously, de Lucía was helping create some of the most soulful music on the planet and some of the most soulless. Unfortunately (if predictably), this festival seems to concentrate on de Lucía’s fusion activities. Is it a coincidence that the one show that focuses on straightforward Flamenco (at the Cervantes Institute on Friday) is sold out?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: These show are all over the place — but in Manhattan, so be careful.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ensemble Connect
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2024
7:30 PM
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$41-$47
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ensemble Connect does one of their typically piquant programs, combining inti figgis-vizueta, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Tania León with Beethoven. (The difference between a program like this and the ones where a new piece is tacked onto a bunch of Standard Rep is that here it’s Beethoven that’s tacked onto the contemporary stuff that’s the focus of the show, conveying the perhaps misleading impression that classical music has a pulse.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hunanese at Blue Willow.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Viola Yip
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2024
7:30 PM
Carnegie Hill Concerts
Church of the Advent Hope
111 East 87th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Viola Yip comes from Berlin with a piece in which she is clad in a body instrument triggered by her movements.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ramen at Naruto.
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Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shayok Misha Chowdhury: Public Obscenities
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – 25, 2024
7:00 PM TUESDAY
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Theater for a New Audience
262 Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$97-$132
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: Good cocktails at The Rockwell Place.
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Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shakespeare: Pericles
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – 25, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 24)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Fiasco Theater
Classic Stage Company
136 East 13th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$77-$132
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Fiasco Theater’s stripped-down approach has proven quite effective with respect to Shakespeare plays that don’t make a lot of sense — of which Pericles is very much one.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: From Wednesday on, Foxface Natural is the best restaurant in New York City. Tuesday, there are ten million Dominican lunch counters (open till late, of course) in New York City. Gena's Grill is one of the better ones.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Christopher Morrongiello: Renaissance Lute
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2024
7:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University In Person & Live Stream
1160 Amsterdam Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’m sure it’s possible to resist Renaissance lute music, which can be stately or playful but never loses its grace. But why would you?
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 a Renaissance: pour 1-1/2 oz. Cognac, 1/2 oz. sweet Vermouth, and 1/4 oz. Limoncello, with 2 dashes peach bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dweller 5
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – 25, 2024
Various Times
MoMA PS1
20-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
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 PS1, Old Skool Red Sauce at its (sadly infrequent) best at Manducatis. 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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Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins: Appropriate
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – 25, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 3 & resuming MARCH 25)
7:00 PM TUESDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
2nd Stage @ The Hayes Theater
240 West 44th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$115-$199.50; $40 limited availability under 30 years; $25 student rush
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The author of the best American play so far this Century comes up with a family drama that you can bet isn’t going to be just a family drama. Wonder if the title has a long “a” or a short one?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Westway Diner. Cuz it’s still there.
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Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Phillip Howze: Self Portraits (Deluxe)
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – 24, 2024
7:00 PM
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$28.75-$48.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An impressionistic nonlinear exploration of Blackness in Amerika (oops, America).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Outrageously good pub grub at Meckelberg’s.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
DMG FREE WEEKLY IN-STORE MUSIC SERIES
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2024
6:30 PM
Downtown Music Gallery
13 Monroe Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
More of the usual excellent Free Jazz and experimental stuff, featuring contributions from, among others, such List faves as Zoh Amba, Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson, Gían Pérez, and Marc Edwards.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern-Korean-inflected Golden Diner.
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Monday, February 19, 2024, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tropical Vortex: Yotoco
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2024
9:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
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. For this show, they’ll be joined by a bunch of friends.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The band is named after a town in Colombia. So OF COURSE you’d go to Colombia in Park Slope.
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Monday, February 19, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
David Herskovits: Remember This Trick
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 & 21 – 25, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 17)
7:30 PM MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$28.75-$83.59
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A sort of avant-Purimspiel (even if the run concludes a week before actual Purim) exploring the usual Purim themes of anti-Semitism and survival — although, this being Target Margin, it’s bound to be in a very indirectly suggestive and entertaining manner. (The initiating creator emphasizes that this work was formulated two years ago and does not purport to reflect, much less address, current events and concerns [like what happens when the oppressed become oppressors?].)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The tacos are really good at Ricos Tacos.
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Monday, February 19, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sagome
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2024
7:30 PM
Sundownstairs, Sundown Bar
68-38 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
London’s experimental music collective/label Sagome decamps to Ridgewood, presenting a bill that includes List perennial C. Spencer Yeh doing his extended violin/electronics/whatever thing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re in a bar with a pretty good cocktail program. For something more solid, Nepalese-New York fusion (cuz why not?) at While in Kathmandu.
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Mon, Feb 19, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Joey Merlo: On Set With Theda Bara
MONDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19 – 24, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 9)
7:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$27-$91
TICKETS + INFORMATION
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: When this piece played here a year ago as part of last year’s Exponential Festival, I remarked that Kellogg’s Diner would be great if only it were any good. Well guess what: having been taken over (and given a Tex-Mex twist) by the people who revived Old John’s Luncheonette, it is.
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Mon, Feb 19, 2024, 10:00 AM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 – 26, 2024 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:30 PM MONDAY – FRIDAY
10:00 AM – 4:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$18 SATURDAY & SUNDAY; $12 students/seniors SATURDAY & SUNDAY; pay what you wish weekdays; 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: The best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant.
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Mon, Feb 19, 2024, 8:00 AM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 – 25, 2024 (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.
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Mon, Feb 19, 2024, 6:00 AM – Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 – 25, 2024 (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 4, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Shekwoaga: At Sisters
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2024
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Michael Shekwoaga Ode is a very eloquent drummer who clearly loves the late-’60s spiritualized Free Jazz of Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders even more than this List does. Tonight he begins a monthlong residency.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Sunday, February 4, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Los Aliens
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2024
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$21.95
TICKETS + INFORMATION
We know Ricardo Gallo as an incisive jazz pianist and composer. But here he gets on the synth and assembles a sharp band to go crazy and experiment with the grooves of his native Colombia.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Colombia in Park Slope. DUH.
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Sunday, February 4, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Art of Not Falling: Arnold Schoenberg at 150
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2024
8:00 PM
Paulson Center, NYU
181 Mercer Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Solo piano pieces and the über-haunting long-form song piece The Book of the Hanging Gardens, from the period when Schoenberg was transitioning from hyper-Romantic expressionism to atonality (which he persuasively argued was the real hyper-Romanticism).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Regional hamburgers (have the Oklahoma Onion Burger!) at Hamburger America.
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Sunday, February 4, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Daisy Press & Terra String Quartet: After Scott Johnson
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2024
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A performance of the guitar Post-Minimalist Scott Johnson’s last piece, by the the terrific singer Daisy Press and the terrific Terra String Quartet. There’ll also be some video footage of the lamented Johnson himself — including him playing a portion of his Greated Hit, John Somebody.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, superb Palestinian at AlBadawi. Streaming at home, have a Magic Hour (from our own Clover Club): pour 1-1/2 oz. Lillet Rosé, 1/2 oz. grapefruit, 1/4 oz. Simple Syrup, and 1 tsp. yellow Chartreuse into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Champagne flute. Top with sparkling wine. Garnish with a grapefruit twist.
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Sunday, February 4, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Readyforradio / Time Trout / Eighty Pound Pug / Heldin
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2024
7:30 PM
Hart Bar
538 Hart Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’m Listing this mainly for Time Trout, whose vocal-based non-not-Pop improvisations are something new under the sun.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I very strongly recommend the cocktails at the venue, the Hart Bar. For something more solid, cool VIetnamese at Little Mo.
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Sunday, February 4, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Pinc Louds
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2024
7:00 PM
DROM
85 Avenue A, East Village, Manhattan
$18 advance; $20 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Here’s the deal: if you sit through what could even be an interesting onstage conversation about Naturally Occurring Musical Communities, you get to hear set of Pinc Loud’s indescribable Pan-Latinx whatchamacallit.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very spicy Thai at Somtum Der.
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Sunday, February 4, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Petite Noir
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2024
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Do we like Petite Noir’s Afro-New Wave Alt R&B here at The List? Are you kidding?
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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Sunday, February 4, 2024, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, February 4, 2024, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
New Combinations
THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2 & 4, 2024 (continuing through FEBRUARY 24)
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$52-$230
TICKETS + INFORMATION
On the inner edge of Listability, but no worse for that. Justin Peck setting Nico Muhly seems right for here. Tiler Peck (no relation) is a technically spectacular dancer — Fitzgerald to Sara Mearns’s Holiday, Sutherland to Sara Mearns’s Callas — but you wonder what kind of choreographer she’ll be; setting Poulenc is one sure way to This List’s heart, though. Alexei Ratmansky’s Odesa is definitely not the kind of thing we List here (as much as we enjoy Ratmansky’s work in our personal capacity) — but Jewish gangsters in Odessa is a theme we can certainly get behind (wish the gang rape were presented more critically, though; Ratmansky’s done better in other pieces).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seems like a good night (or afternoon) for Bar Boulud.
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Sunday, February 4, 2024, 11:00 AM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Douglas Cuomo: Seven Limbs
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2024
11:00 AM
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle, Midtown, Manhattan
$30.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Last time The Overlook string quartet played this ecstatic piece by the eclectic composer Douglas Cuomo in this town, they were accompanied by an improvising guitarist as called for by the score. But if you’ve got Joe Lovano on hand, it’s no surprise you might swap in an improvising saxophonist.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The strangely overlooked Robert is right in the Museum.
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Saturday, February 3, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Endless Life Music Series: Gabriel Zucker
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2024
8:00 PM
Endless Life Brewery
585 Franklin Avenue, Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It’s a good thing Gabriel Zucker is such a fluent, surprising, broadranging pianist/composer. Otherwise, I’d feel conflicted about recommending him as the son of college friends. Believe me: he’s something really special.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Of course you’ll be drinking in the taproom you’re in. To eat, very appealing New American at Mayfield.
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Saturday, February 3, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, February 3, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / DANCE
Alvin Singleton: Argoru I-IX
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2024
8:00 PM
The Chelsea Factory
547 West 26th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There’s no reason for Alvin Singleton not to be played as much as, say, John Adams. There used to be one — a very bad one — but as Singleton wryly notes, over the last few years he’s suddenly gotten played more than ever. Tonight’s show — where a set of solo instrumental pieces by Singleton gets choreographed by a bunch of choreographers including Caili Quan and John Heginbotham — should put to rest any possible claim of tokenism or undeserved promotion (MORONS).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Not really Ethopian/Swedish fusion, but Ethiopan/Swedish coexistence, at Marcus Samuelsson’s new Hav & Mar.
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Saturday, February 3, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Peter Evans: Being and Becoming
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2024
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$25.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trumpeter Peter Evans has rejiggered Being and Becoming, one of the best, most distinctive jazz units playing around New York City. Spirtual jazz resurgent Michael Shekwoaga Ode is now holding the drum seat — a perfect fit for this group. And for tonight, at least, vibes ace Joel Ross will be replaced by Craig Taborn on keyboards: one of the few players extant who wouldn’t make you miss Joel Ross. One expects that this band’s unique compound of roiling excitement around a serene core will remain intact.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Black Mountain Wine House, a wine bar of almost stunning coziness.
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Saturday, February 3, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gerry Hemingway feat. Earl Howard
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2024
7:00 PM
Soup & Sound
292 Lefferts Boulevard, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Drummer Gerry Hemingway is one of the great improvisatory musicians of our time. One feels for electronicist Earl Howard (no slouch himself) for having to keep up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Soup will be served. If you want a nightcap after the show, Any Thing will be waiting with its warm welcome and frankly not very good cocktails.
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Saturday, February 3, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
GLYKTRONIKA
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2024
7:00 PM
Trans-Pecos
915 Wyckoff Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$19.64
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Klezmer goes electronic. I mean, why not?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Surprisingly, the Vietnamese café in the same building as Trans-Pecos, Nhà Mìn, has morphed into an excellent full-service restaurant.
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Saturday, February 3, 2024, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Julian Crouch & Saskia Lane: BIRDHEART
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2024
6:00 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10.79 - $56.83
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Everything double-bassist Saskia Lane touches turns to fun. And everything puppeteer Julian Crouch touches turns to magic.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hatch Chili on everything at Santa Fe BK.
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Saturday, February 3, 2024, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tony Malaby
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2024
6:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Saxophonist Tony Malaby, a key New York City player, gets a month-long residency. Tonight he fronts a trio with frequent collaborator Ben Monder on guitar.
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 3, 2024, 5:30 PM – Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Martha Friedman & Susan Marshall: Two Person Operating System Type 2
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3 & 4, 2024
5:30 PM
The Kitchen @ Westbeth
163 Bank Street, West Village, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In general, Susan Marshall’s choreography takes human situations and circumstances and abstracts them. Here, working in tandem with sculptor Martha Friedman, Marshall seems be taking mechanical situations and circumstances and abstracting them.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Negronis for everbody at Dante West Village.
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Saturday, February 3, 2024, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ursula Oppens: Ursula & Friends
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2024
3:00 PM
Ecstatic Festival
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$34; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Legendary pianist Ursula Oppens invites a bunch of other pianists to celebrate her 80th Birthday with a relay through the kind of repertoire she’s has been favoring us with for decades, including pieces by (inexhaustively — but know that it’s all good) Carter, Nancarrow, Tower, Wuorinen, and Michael Stephen Brown, whose lack of vast renown as a composer mystifies me (even if he didn’t write “Walk Away Renée”).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As you may recall, the revivified Old John’s Luncheonette is right across the street.
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Friday, February 2, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Object Collection: Mutual Obliteration (1)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2024
8:00 PM
The Collapsable Hole
155 Bank Street, West Village, Manhattan
$5
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The insane performance company Object Collection inaugurates what is hoped to be a series of music salons, featuring themselves and their equally unhinged friends.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Austrian at Wallse.
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Friday, February 2, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Aliya Ultan / Charlie Burnham Trio
FRIDAY, FEBUARY 2, 2024
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
String night. Rogue cellist Aliya Ultan. And Harmolodic violin titan Charlie Burnham playing with (wait for it) the ace Harmolodic rhythm section of Brandon Ross on guitar and Pheeroan akLaff on drums: giants walk the Prospect Lefferts Gardens earth.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ham and wine at & Sons.
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Friday, February 2, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Hiromichi Sakamoto / Kato Hideki & Zeena Parkins
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2024
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @ Brooklyn Music School
126 St. Felix Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$16
TICKETS + INFORMATION
We certainly have our share of Cellists On The Edge here in New York City, but Tokyo/Yokohama’s Hiromichi Sakamoto might outdo them all. Sometimes he does something that sounds like playing a cello — but then the saw or something comes out. Bassist Kato Hideki and harpist Zeena Parkins have been exploring the edges of sound together for decades.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Undersung Turkish at Deniz.
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Friday, February 2, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
PRESENTNESS Trio
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2024
8:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This is the first time John King (tonight on viola) has played together with Laura Ortman (on her violin) and Lester St. Louis (on his cello). You’ll want to be there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Southern (U.S., that is)/Korean mash-up at C as in Charlie.
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Friday, February 2, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Third Street Live Sounds: The Harlem Chamber Players
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2024
7:00 PM
Anna Maria Kellen Concert Hall, Third Street Music School Settlement
235 East 11th Street, East Village, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Would you sit through Florence Price to hear Carlos Simon and Trevor Weston? With players this splendid, maybe you would. Also, something by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, whose classical work (he also did jazz and pop) weds Neo-Classical clarity with Neo-Romantic pathos and is ripe for a revival.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Have I mentioned that Foxface Natural is the best current restaurant in New York City?
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Friday, February 2, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Hans Tammen: Dark Circuit Orchestra Plays Niblock & Cardew
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2024
7:00 PM
Black Box, Hunter College
695 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Drones, mainly.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A restaurant that neither Niblock nor Cardew would have been caught dead in, the newly revived Café Boulud.
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Thu, Feb 1, 2024, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Great Jones Rep: Aristotle Thinks Again
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 29 & FEBRUARY 1 – 4, 2024
8:00 PM MONDAY & THURSDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 ten tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Let’s face it: when you have a non-linear exploration of the lasting cultural effects of Greek tragedy in an apocalyptic world, Charles Mee is exactly the guy you’d want to provide the text.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Acclaimed Southern Thai at MayRee.
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Thu, Feb 1, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Andros Zins-Browne: duel H
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 – 3, 2024
7:30 PM
Danspace Project
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Andros Zins-Browne tackles weighty humanistic subject matters with a light touch and a vigorous movement vocabulary. What more do you want?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pan-regional Chinese seems like a bad idea. But Uluh makes it work.
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Thu, Feb 1, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Nora Burns: Candied Camera LIVE!
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 – 4, 2024
7:30 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Nora Burns revives a public access cable variety show she did back in the day. And she hasn’t gotten any less funny.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican insect cuisines at The Black Ant.
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Thursday, February 1, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Puppet BloK
MONDAY & THURSDAY, JANUARY 29 & FEBRUARY 1, 2024
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$20.50 advance; $21 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
PUPPETS!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Expect the wurst at Loreley Biergarten.
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Thu, Feb 1, 2024, 7:30 PM – Fri, Feb 2, 2024, 11:59 PM
DANCE
New Combinations
THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2 & 4, 2024 (continuing through FEBRUARY 24)
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$52-$230
TICKETS + INFORMATION
On the inner edge of Listability, but no worse for that. Justin Peck setting Nico Muhly seems right for here. Tiler Peck (no relation) is a technically spectacular dancer — Fitzgerald to Sara Mearns’s Holiday, Sutherland to Sara Mearns’s Callas — but you wonder what kind of choreographer she’ll be; setting Poulenc is one sure way to This List’s heart, though. Alexei Ratmansky’s Odesa is definitely not the kind of thing we List here (as much as we enjoy Ratmansky’s work in our personal capacity) — but Jewish gangsters in Odessa is a theme we can certainly get behind (wish the gang rape were presented more critically, though; Ratmansky’s done better in other pieces).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seems like a good night (or afternoon) for Bar Boulud.
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Thursday, February 1, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mike McGinnis + 9: Concert Release for Outing
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2024
7:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$21.95
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Clarinetist/saxophonist Mike McGinnis is a really good poly-stylistic jazz-based composer; his Angsudden Song Cycle of several years ago is a particular personal favorite that I keep returning to. You never know exactly what he's going to sound like — but you know that it will be piquant and surprising while remaining resolutely listenable, with no pandering. Tonight he celebrates the release of a new album with a little big band. The presence of Caroline Davis on alto can’t hurt.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Jamaican with a chance of Trinidadian at Stella’s.
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Thursday, February 1, 2024, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Yifei Xu: The Other End . . .
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2024
6:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University In Person & Live Stream
1160 Amsterdam Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Music for piano and electronics.
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 a Lion’s Tail: pour 2 oz. Bourbon, 3/4 oz. Allspice Dram, 1/2 oz. lime juice, and 1 tbs. rich (2:1 sugar:water) Simple Syrup, with 1 dash Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shaker. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Thursday, February 1, 2024, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Silentwoods Collective: Playing with Fire
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2024
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
Italian Early Baroque concerti.
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 an Americano: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Campari and sweet Vermouth into an Old Fashioned glass over ice. Top with soda water. Garnish with an orange wedge.
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Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 8:30 PM – Sat, Feb 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Brandon Lopez
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 3, 2024
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Not that chances to hear the spectacular bassist Brandon Lopez are so rare in New York City. But this weeklong residency, with a different ensemble each night, will allow us to do a concentrating exploration of Lopez’s considerable gifts.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No one better to take over the old Café Loup space than NYC Front of House vet Michael Cechhi-Azzolina with his neo-Bar & Grill (Michael told me he can’t abide the descriptor “American Bistro”) Cecchi’s.
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Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 8:00 PM – Sat, Feb 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
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Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 8:00 PM – Sat, Feb 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Yuki Kawahisa: ten dreams of metamorphoses or me talk dirty someday
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 3, 2024
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
Exponential Festival
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$22-$52
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Yuki Kawahisa has shown herself to be a pretty phenomenal actor over the last decade or so in New York City. This is an autobiographical performance piece.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Roman pinsa at Montesacro.
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Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 11:59 PM
OPERA
Heather Christian: Terce: A Practical Breviary
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 4, 2024
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
9:00 AM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
PROTOTYPE Festival
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$40-$155
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Heather Christian presents a new feminine Mass, springing from the ideas of female Medieval mystics like Hildegard (duh) and Julian of Norwich and (NOT Medieval) Robin Wall Kimmerer), sung by a community chorus of caregivers and makers. As usual with Christian, the music will be eclectic — but instead of her frequent country-folk overtones, this time the inflections will come from Gospel and Neo-Soul. And, of course, Medieval Organum. The power move is to go to the 9:00 AM performance on Saturday — the actual Terce.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sleek Milanese at Saraghina Caffèe.
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Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 8:00 PM – Sat, Feb 3, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
The Wooster Group feat. Eric Berryman: Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 3, 2024
8:00 PM
Performing Garage
33 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan
$39-$59
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another of The Wooster Group’s “live record albums”, this time a performance of a collection of examples of the Black American storytelling form called Toasts. Dolemite fans need not hesitate.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: From one garage to another: Antique Garage is so cute that you tend to forget how good the food is. And, it was Mediterranean before everybody and his brother were.
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Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 8:00 PM – Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Vijay Iyer
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 4, 2024
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Village Vanguard
178 7th Avenue South, West Village, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the most interesting minds in current music. How interesting? Look at who he gets to play in his rhythm section.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speaking of interesting, really interesting — and really delicious — Unapologetic Southern Indian at Semma.
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Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins: Appropriate
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 4, 2024 (continuing through MARCH 3)
7:00 PM TUESDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
2nd Stage @ The Hayes Theater
240 West 44th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$115-$199.50; $40 limited availability under 30 years; $25 student rush
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The author of the best American play so far this Century comes up with a family drama that you can bet isn’t going to be just a family drama. Wonder if the title has a long “a” or a short one?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Westway Diner. Cuz it’s still there.
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Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shayok Misha Chowdhury: Public Obscenities
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 4, 2024 (continuing through FEBRUARY 18)
7:00 PM TUESDAY
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Theater for a New Audience
262 Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$97-$132
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: Good cocktails at The Rockwell Place.
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Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Arlekin Players Theater: Our Class
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 4, 2024 (continuing through FEBRUARY 11)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
7:30 PM SATURDAY
Under the Radar
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$68.50-$138.50
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In 1941 Poland, a bunch of Polish kids and a bunch of Jewish kids are lifelong friends — until they aren’t.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can now get Cruz del Sur’s beyond-fabulous Guadalajaran Tortas Ahogadas in Park Slope near BAM!
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Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Mabou Mines: SUITE / Space
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 4, 2024
7:00 & 9:00 PM
Mabou Mines @ 122 CC
150 First Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$22; $17 students/seniors
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Nu theater by nu people.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hearth's Variety Burger: the opposite of Superiority Burger.
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Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 10:00 AM – Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 4, 2024 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:30 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
10:00 AM – 4:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$18 SATURDAY & SUNDAY; $12 students/seniors SATURDAY & SUNDAY; pay what you wish weekdays; 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: The best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant.
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Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Arts for Art / FourOneOne: OUT MUSIC FESTIVAL: The Future Is Pissed!
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 4, 2024
7:30 PM
Theater for the New City In Person & Live Stream
155 1st Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$27.73 per night in person; $6.62 per night live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An outrageously good Free Jazz festival.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Suspend your disbelief of Superiority Burger.
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Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 8:00 AM – Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 4, 2024 (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.
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Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 6:00 AM – Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 4, 2024 (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.
