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Friday, March 31, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
BAD REPUTATION: Pierre de Gaillande sings Brassen (en anglais) Album Release
FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Back in the ‘50s, Georges Brassen started to take the French chanson tradition and rough it up. In what must count as some kind of minor miracle, Pierre de Gaillande has done what no one has ever really done before: taken French chanson and successfully translated those mordant, biting lyrics into English (think of all the lame, reductiveBrel translations you’ve endured). Should be a great night — in a low key sort of way.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Decent French at Brasserie Le Mistral.
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Friday, March 31, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
gamin & Ensemble: Korean Music & Beyond
FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Gamin has quietly established herself as one of the most interesting musicians in New York, taking the traditional music and instruments of her native Korea and expanding it with contemporary “modernist” usages. Fascinating, compelling stuff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good cocktails and even good food at Grand Army Bar.
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Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Morgan Bassichis: A Crowded Field
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 31 – APRIL 2, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 8)
8:00 PM
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$21
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What’s so funny about Jewish radicalism?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Austrian at Cafe Katja — and the first week of April they should have some white asparagus!
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Friday, March 31, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Darian Donovan Thomas / Ian Davis: Rock Band / Panther Hollow
FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2023
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another good night at the Owl. Darian Donovan Thomas composes and plays (on many different instruments) droning yet communicative pieces that are good to listen to. The rest of the night has guitars. Panther Hollow does electric-guitar singer-songwriter rock of great charm and appeal. Ian Davis: Rock Band sounds like what it is: guitar-band music written by a Contemporary Classical composer.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Winning neighborhood Roman at Camillo.
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Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Eldorado Ballroom: Autumn Knight & Maren Hassinger: Type of Guest
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 31 & APRIL 1, 2023
7:30 PM
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Multidisciplinary artist Autumn Knight does her multidisciplinary thing. Multidisciplinary vet — you might say “pioneer” — Maren Hassinger installs an installation.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Superstar fried chicken at Pecking House.
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Friday, March 31, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Camila Meza
FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40 in person; $20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Camila Meza’s Latin-tinged jazz-pop is enormously appealing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, In person, José Andrés goes Middle Eastern at Zaytinya. Streaming at home, have a Piscola: pour 2 oz. Chilean Pisco (if you use Peruvian, Chilean Camila Meza will probably never speak to you again) into a Highball glass over ice. Top with Coke. Stir. Garnish with a lime wedge.
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Friday, March 31, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Lavinia Meijer & Nadia Sirota: Shaping the Future
FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$36.05
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Are there any musicians you’d rather spend an evening listening to than violist Nadia Sirota and harpist Lavinia Meijer? Tonight they’re conducting a tour of the contemporary classical of their respective home countries: here and the Netherlands.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good, fresh Korean (Meijer’s birth country) at Insa (as always, forgo the barbecue and east in the lounge/bar room, which is much nicer than the drab dining room).
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Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca: Amanecer
TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 28 –29 & MARCH 31 – APRIL 2, 2023
7:00 & 9:30 PM TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SATURDAY
4:30 & 7:00 PM SUNDAY
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$40 for 4:30 & 7:00 PM shows; $30 for 9:30 PM shows
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I keep saying how strange it is that one of the best Flamenco dance companieis in the world should reside in New York City — but let’s not complain. Noche Flamenca are spectacular in theaters. But they’re overwhelming in a club.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sake and izakaya at Decibel.
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Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
OPERA
O-Lan Jones and Emmett Tinley: ICELAND
MONDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 27 & MARCH 31 – APRIL 2, 2023
7:00 PM MONDAY & FRIDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A music-theater piece interweaving a contempory love story with Icelandic folk mythology.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: There used to be an Icelandic restaurant on the Lower East Side I could send you to after this — but it’s gone. How about the acclaimed Southern Thai at MayRee?
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Thursday, March 30, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Simon Hanes: Tsons of Tsunami
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2023
10:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tredici Bacci capo Simon Hanes brings a skewed pop/Alt Classical sensibility to everything he does. This is his “chill wave surf band” — but a surf band comprising bass, drums, vibraphone, french horn, and baritone guitar.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Yet another chance to fail to get into unapologetic Indian sensation Masalawala & Sons.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Residents
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2023
8:30 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
How would you describe The Residents? Performance collective? Rock band? People without faces? If you go at 6:30, they’ll be screening a movie they made during Lockdown.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ancient Greek: Todd English helps revive the very Old Skool Original Pappas Taverna.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, March 30, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, March 30, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Composer Portrait: Nicole Miller
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2023
8:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$12.50-$33.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
George Lewis, who I sometimes think is now something like The Dean Of American Music, has his International Contemporary Ensemble continue its exploration of the music of the AACM. This is a good thing: these are some of the best, most important American musicians of the last half century (and their work shows that drawing sharp distinctions between genres like jazz and classical is bootless). And they’re players, too: Nicole Mitchell with be there with her peerless flute to help the Ensemble along.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Whiskey at The Hamilton.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The New Series: Spotlight on Composer Reena Esmail
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2023
7:30 PM
Harris Woolfson Orchestral Studio, Juilliard School, Lincoln Center
155 West 65th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Chamber music by Reena Esmail bridging Hindustani and Western classical music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Just look at the menu of Kabab Aur Sharab and tell me you don’t want to be there like NOW.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
SolAr slAsh
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2023
7:30 PM
Hart Bar
538 Hart Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Poetry, performance, and sound. Could be good.
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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Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Beth Gill: Nail Biter
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 31 – APRIL 2, 2022
7:30 PM FRIDAY
5:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Fisher Center, Bard College
60 Manor Avenue, Red Hook, Dutchess County
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Beth Gill’s dances are meticulous, suggestive, evocative. As the title might suggest, this one evokes contemporary angst and anxiety. (As the tile might not suggest, it does so by means of myth, memoir, psychodrama, and horror.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A very long time ago, I spotted Stiller and Meara eating at the Red Hook Diner. Too late for you, though.
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Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Max Keane: Keynote at Necro-Con
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 30 – APRIL 1, 2023
7:30 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:30 PM SATURDAY
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Let’s just quote the promotional materials here: “In this nightmare of a TED Talk from another dimension, a teenage cult figurehead tries her darndest to reprogram the audience’s brains into welcoming a poisonous sea slug’s life-reducing sting.”
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Brazilian at Beco.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eldorado Ballroom: Kelela/Res/keiyaA
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2023
7:30 PM
BAM Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$35-$45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I was beginning to doubt it, but BAM proves it is still the Cool Institution. In the current climate, your Big Arts Institutions want to do Outreach. Now you can do what Lincoln Center is doing, and present a lot of generic “nonclassical” stuff in an anodyne, “uplifting” way — while seemingly abandoning what had been your core mission. Or you can do what BAM has done: get Solange Knowles to program an astonishingly good series for you, with work that challenges rather than affirms — and rather than being generic, that challenges the whole idea of genre, so that the Outreach stuff becomes (as it should be) an extension of your core mission rather than a replacement. Solange’s Eldorado Ballroom series continues on into September, but this opening show has one of those line-ups that make you ask, “is this really happening?” Nu R&B at its finest.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Truly exciting pizza at Oma Grassa.
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Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / THEATER
Phelim McDermot / Improbable & Philip Glass: Tao of Glass
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 30 – APRIL 1, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 8)
7:30 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Phelim McDermott has directed some really terrific Glass opera productions. Here, he takes 10 pieces by Glass and turns them into meditations on Taosim (not a stretch to be sure).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Marc Forgione (feat. father Larry Forgione)’s new Italian venture at One Fifth looks pretty boring. But I’ll bet there’s no way it’s bad.
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Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Zora Howard: Hang Time
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 27 & MARCH 30 – APRIL 2, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 3)
7:00 PM MONDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$20-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Zora Howard — a fierce and perceptive playwright — does for the intererior lives of Black men here what she did for Black women in her celebrated Stew.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Odeon: against all expectations, still pretty good.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
ALBA Consort: La Serenissima: Music from the Republic of Venice (697–1797)
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
We probably all have a good feel for the Venetian Baroque. But what they were listening to in Venice in 697 I couldn’t begin to tell you.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I’m not gonna even tell you what El Mil Sabores puts on their Torta Loca sandwich. You have to see it for yourself. Streaming at home, have a Spritz Veneziano: pour 2-2/3 oz. Prosecco, 1-3/4 oz. Select, and 3/8 oz. soda water into a wine glass over ice. Garnish with an olive.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
NOVUS at One
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2023
1:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel In Person & Live Stream
209 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trinity Church’s crack new music ensemble plays the Terrific Trio of Schoenberg, Jessica Meyer, and Missy Mazzoli.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, some of the best Italian heroes in New York are still at Pisillo. Streaming at home, have a Modern Cocktail: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Scotch, Sloe Gin, and lemon juice, 1/6 oz. Simple Syrup, and 1/8 tsp. Absinthe, with 1 dash of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Apr 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Adam Rudolph
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 29 – APRIL 1, 2023
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
World percussionist Adam Rudolph gets a residency. And if anyone can present something totally different every night, it’s him.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Shoko Nagai: TOKOLA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another, more freewheeling, Silk Road music exploration. Seeing ancient Persian instruments and artwork displayed from Imperial storage in the Palace Museum in Nara, Japan, acccordionist/composer Shoko Nagai wondered what it was like to hear Persian and Middle Eastern music in Japan a thousand and more years ago. The band TOKOLA is an attempt to imagine an answer — in a very broad, suggestive, contemporary sense.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: More neighborhood Italian at Mariella.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
John Luther Adams: Vespers of the Blessed Earth
FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2023
8:00 PM
Philadelphia Orchestra
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$85-$159
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You never know with the Philadelphians: one night they’re playing hours of Rachmaninoff, but on another they’re (locally) premiering a new choral-orchestral piece by John Luther Adams. (And bringing The Crossing with them from Philadelphia as the chorus!) The other piece on Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s program is The Rite of Spring (rather more frenetic than any Adams) — which many of us of a certain age first heard played by this orchestra.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Gallagher’s: the best Old Skool steakhouse in New York.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brian Chase & Anthony Coleman / Tomas Fujiwara / Organs Obsolete
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2023
8:00 PM
Shift
FourOneOne
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What you might expect of a show programmed by drummer/droner Brian Chase. A set by Chase with all-over-the-place avant-pianist Anthony Coleman (in support of their new album). A solo set by another drummer, the stealthy Tomas Fujiwara. And the sleeper of the bill: noise/ambient/with-grooves-sometimes Organs Obsolete.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incredibly fun Brazilian at Miss Favela.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
8 in Show
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2023
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$17 advance; $20 door; $15 students/seniors advance; $17 students/seniors door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Eight choreographers showcase new work.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The new Bowery Congee Dim Sum House for . . . oh, you know.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
James K
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2023
7:30 PM
Sara’s
2 East Broadway, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This List couldn’t love James K’s Art-Electropop more. And her performances are, well, performances.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Forget it, Jake. It’s Noodetown.
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Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 7:30 PM – Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Felipe Lara: Double Concerto
WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY, MARCH 29 – 31, 2023
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
2:00 PM FRIDAY
New York Philharmonic
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$54.50-$232.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Felipe Lara is a very good, very distinctive composer: he writes with a modernist edge, but his music keeps an underlying lilt that bespeaks his Brazilian upbringing (it’s the same thing with Brazilian noise music: nobody else’s lilts). You can really hear it in the terrific Double Concerto he’s composed for (wait for it) the flute of Claire Chase and the double bass (and vocals) of esperanza spalding. The remainder of the program isn’t too shabby, either: Ives’sThe Unanswered Question—a piece for which the adjective “ineffable” could just as well have been invented for — as a curtain-raiser; and Stravinsky’s Petrushka(a ballet about a PUPPET) — complex fun — after intermission. You can now enjoy Susanna Mälkki’s sharp conducting without obsessing whether she’ll be the Phil’s next Music Director.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can just make it to Kwame Onwuachi’s in-house Afro-Caribbean restaurant Tatiana (not to be confused with the one in Brighton Beach) for dinner after the Thursday and Friday shows (IF you can get in!). Friday, maybe Épicere Boulud.
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Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Beckett: Endgame
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 29 – APRIL 2, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 16)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Irish Repertory Theatre
132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$50-$125
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you love Beckett, then Endgame is what you love: as Chekhov’s plays are comedies, Beckett’s are knockabout vaudeville farces — but bleak bleak bleak. It’s no surprise that Bill Irwin is a master of this stuff. John Douglas Thompson is, quite simply, one of the best actors out there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Once-fashionable Greek at Periyali.
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Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Aaron Landsman: Night Keeper
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 27 & 29 – APRIL 2, 2023
7:00 PM
Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A performance piece staged throughout the Chocolate Factory’s stark industrial space, in semi- and total darkness. Aaron Landsman evokes memory and night and the passage of time. Looks kind of special.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speaking for myself, I am positively jonesing right now for the Tacos de Chiloria and the Tacos Machaco con Huevo at Cielito.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mali Obomsawin Sextet
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$25.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bassist/vocalist/composer Mali Obomsawin eloquently integrates Indigenous American musical and cultural elements into her jazz-pop and expresses and explores Indigenous American concerns. So is it wrong for me to say I find her music kind of catchy?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Italian beef as good as in Chicago at Bobbi’s Italian Beef.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jeanine De Bique & Concerto Köln: Mirrors
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2023
7:30 PM
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As you probably know, Baroque opera composers tended to share subject matters and even libretti. So the same stories kept getting retold. In this program, the silvery soprano Jeanine De Bique contrasts famous Handel arias for certain opera characters with ones written by less famous contemporaries for the same characters. Her backup band, Concerto Köln, is top-notch.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good basic Greek at Souvlaki GR.
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Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Yasushi Inoue (adpt. Serge Lamothe): The Hunting Gun
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 28 – APRIL 2, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 15)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$35-$150
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An adaptation of a novella by the great Japanese writher Yasushi Inoue, directed by François Girard, in town for Lohengrin. A man receives letters from three women: his wife, his mistress, and his mistress’s daughter. The letters are recited by a single actress playing all three women in turn. And that actress is pop-star-turned-acclaimed-thespian (and Ring star) Miki Nakatani. Meanwhile, the recipient of the letters spends the show sitting at the back of the stage cleaning his hunting rifle. He’s played by one of the few people on Earth who are so magnetic you can’t take your eyes off them even when they’re doing the most desultory things: Mikhail Baryshnikov.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cookie-cutter American reduction of French bistro at Steak Frites Le Bistro, but with a surprisingly good wine program (although they’re not shy with the mark-ups).
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Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shayok Misha Chowdhury: Public Obscenities
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 28 – APRIL 2, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 9)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$70
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A bilingual play about a Bangla/English translator who perhaps doesn’t see as much as the thinks he does (does anyone?).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Talea Ensemble: Written for Talea
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2023
7:30 PM
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$23.88; $12.51 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The expert Talea Ensemble presents commissioned works by List denizens Tyshawn Sorey and Anthony Cheung, as well as the conventionally Modernist Louis Karchin.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It seems unlikely, but a (very) knowledgeable friend tells me that Chez Zou is actually a good cocktail bar.
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Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Thomas Bradshaw: The Seagull/Woodstock
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 28 – APRIL 2, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 9)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The New Group
The Pershing Square Signature Theater Center
480 West 42nd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$38-$107
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Thomas Bradshaw updates Chekhov’s The Seagull to now, in New York. Parker Posey stars.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let’s how Greek classic Molyvos is in its new location.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2023
7:00 PM
Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Charlotte Adigéry’s Art-Dance Pop was pretty great to begin, but her new collaboration with electro-popper Bolis Pupul may be even better.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best Vietnamese-Mexican food you ever had at Falansai.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Apr 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Sarah Einspanier: Lunch Bunch
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 28 – APRIL 1, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 15)
7:00 PM
PlayCo & Clubbed Thumb
2nd Floor Theater, 122CC
150 First Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$10-$100
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sarah Einspanier’s examination (in the context of an office full of beleagured-by-definition Public Defenders) of whether what you eat is more or less important than basic human connection — I’m opting for the former at present myself, perhaps regrettably — was a huge Off-Off hit the Summer before the Pandemic. In February 2020, this List chirpily reported that it was going to be revived the following month. We know what happened to THAT. Now, three Marches later, here it is again.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Even if you opt for basic human connection, this play will leave you thinking about dinner. Vietnamese at Madam Vo.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 7:00 PM – Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca: Amanecer
TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 28 –29 & MARCH 31 – APRIL 2, 2023
7:00 & 9:30 PM TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SATURDAY
4:30 & 7:00 PM SUNDAY
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$40 for 4:30 & 7:00 PM shows; $30 for 9:30 PM shows
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I keep saying how strange it is that one of the best Flamenco dance companieis in the world should reside in New York City — but let’s not complain. Noche Flamenca are spectacular in theaters. But they’re overwhelming in a club.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sake and izakaya at Decibel.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:29 PM
OPERA
Wagner: Lohengrin
TUESDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 28 & APRIL 1, 2023
6:30 PM TUESDAY
7:00 PM SATURDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$32.50-$392.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Why does Wagner get Listed? Cuz like him or hate him, he had a large hand in inventing the modern avant-garde. Director François Girard did a great job with Parsifal and a terrible job with The Flying Dutchman (and, in another medium, a great job with Glenn Gould). Will he be able to undermine the smarmy misogyny of this work the way he did the vicious misogyny of Parsifal (nevertheless a vastly superior piece — indeed, vastly superior to almost all other operas)? You have to swallow your bitterness at the Met’s abandonment of its Robert Wilson production and go see it to find out. Oh, and the Act 1 Prelude may be the most beautiful thing in all Western music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and Cafe Fiorello are supposed to be open after these shows.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
THEATER
Shakespeare and Others: Pericles
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 29 – APRIL 2, 2023
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$25-$60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A failed narrative (that’s a GOOD thing!) of uncertain provenance: if anything is grist for Target Margin’s mill, Shakespeare’s Pericles is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This List considers Coszcal de Allende to be the best Mexican restaurant in New York. Owing to the usual real estate/rent issues, it’s closing on an uncertain date in the near future. Get over there before it does.
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Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 28 – APRIL 2, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Tuesday-Friday pay what you wish; Saturday & Sunday $18; $12 students 12 and over/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant. After, meet the Guadalajaran Torta Ahogada — sure to become your new obsession — at Cruz del Sur.
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Monday, March 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nate Wooley & Josh Modney: The Music of Christian Wolff
MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2023
8:00 PM
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10.00
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two of the most consistently interesting musicians in town — trumpeter Nate Wooley and violinist Josh Modney — showcase the music of Christian Wolff, the only still-living member of the experimental and hugely influential New York School (sit me down with a beer and I’ll give you my account of how they’ve won out over Uptown and how Satie’s beaten out Schoenberg).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Venezuelan at Casa Ora.
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Monday, March 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet
MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
San Francisco guitarist Bill Orcutt does that Glenn Branca LOUD-guitars-meld-with-early-Minimalism thing, but with more vernacular inflections thrown in. And his quartet includes some wild guitarists: Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish (well, Parish isn’t THAT wild, rather nice, actually — but somebody has to keep things grounded).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice enough bistro at Bacchus.
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Monday, March 27, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Audrey Chen & Nick Klein
MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2023
7:30 PM
Sara’s
2 East Broadway, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Avant-vocalist Audrey Chen with sculptor/sound artist Nick Klein.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: If you don’t love the Cantonese-the-old-way, but cooked to a turn, at Uncle Lou, I don’t think I want to know you.
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Monday, March 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
O-Lan Jones and Emmett Tinley: ICELAND
MONDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 27 & MARCH 31 – APRIL 2, 2023
7:00 PM MONDAY & FRIDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A music-theater piece interweaving a contempory love story with Icelandic folk mythology.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: There used to be an Icelandic restaurant on the Lower East Side I could send you to after this — but it’s gone. How about the acclaimed Southern Thai at MayRee?
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Monday, March 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Aaron Landsman: Night Keeper
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 27 & 29 – APRIL 2, 2023
7:00 PM
Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A performance piece staged throughout the Chocolate Factory’s stark industrial space, in semi- and total darkness. Aaron Landsman evokes memory and night and the passage of time. Looks kind of special.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speaking for myself, I am positively jonesing right now for the Tacos de Chiloria and the Tacos Machaco con Huevo at Cielito.
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Monday, March 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Zora Howard: Hang Time
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 27 & MARCH 30 – APRIL 2, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 3)
7:00 PM MONDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$20-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Zora Howard — a fierce and perceptive playwright — does for the intererior lives of Black men here what she did for Black women in her celebrated Stew.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Odeon: against all expectations, still pretty good.
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Monday, March 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dana Lynn & Kyle Sanna
MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2023
7:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trad Irish goes mod, and thinks about the environment.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better-than-Neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
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Monday, March 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ensemble Connect: space(s)
MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2023
7:00 PM
Resnick Education Wing, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$23
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When Ensemble Connect says this show they are presenting in conjunction with AMOC promotes “close listening”, they don’t only mean you’ll be induced to listen carefully; they mean the sound, silence, and movement will be happening right near you. Soundscapey and quiet composers of varous stripes — and some heavy musical artillery lent by AMOC in the form of violinist Miranda Cuckson and pianist Conor Hanick.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hunanese at Blue Willow.
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Mon, Mar 27, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 27 – APRIL 2, 2023 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Mar 27, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 27 – APRIL 2, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, March 26, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Sasha Velour: Nightgowns
SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2022
9:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$25-$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Drag variety show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Indian at Masala Times.
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Sunday, March 26, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
John Zorn: New Masada Quartet
SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$30 advance in person; $25 door in person; $20 students/seniors in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I know somebody who actively dislikes John Zorn’s new ancient-Hebrew-melody-into-Hard-Bop combo. For the life of me, I can’t imagine why.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, superb Palestinian at AlBadawi. Streaming at home, have a Tubi Tonic: pour 2 oz. Tubi 60 into a Collins glass over ice. Top with tonic water. Garnish with lemon and cucumber slices.
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Sunday, March 26, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, March 26, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
James Blake: CMYK NYC
SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2023
8:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$58.71
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The fact is that James Blake has been getting steadily worse since he exploded on the scene at the beginning of the last decade. But his jittery electro-R&B was so compelling to begin with, he still has a long way left to slide before he merits disregard.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Middle American food boom continues apace at Ruthie’s.
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Sunday, March 26, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
BEAM SPLITTER
SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2023
7:00 PM
Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
BEAM SPLITTER: voice and trombone/analog electronics. Producing sounds you don’t hear every day.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Indonesian at Wayan.
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Sunday, March 26, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ilsusha & Gocha Tsinadze: Tsinadze boys
SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2023
7:00 PM
Mama Tried
787 Third Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Modern Georgian!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The food at the venue, Mama Tried, is totally edible. The drinks are fine (they make their own vermouth!).
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Sunday, March 26, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Matías Lopez “El Mati”
SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2023
7:00 PM
Flamenco Festival
DROM
85 Avenue A, East Village, Manhattan
$30 advance; $35 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There are musicians who claim to “update” flamenco by adding all sorts of extraneous elements — and who come up with syncretic bullshit. And then there’s El Mati. There are electronics, and some pop and even jazz elements. But as soon as he opens up his mouth to sing, you can hear this is the real thing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wine and pasta from Roberta’s at Foul Witch.
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Sunday, March 26, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
PRISM: Premieres
SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2023
3:00 PM
Christ & St. Stephen's Church
120 West 69th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$20 advance, $25 door; $20 students/senior
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The PRISM saxophone quartet presents new stuff (at least new to New York), including a piece by the criminally underplayed (sez me) Roberto Sierra.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pete Wells sure made the Indian kebabs at Kebab Aur Sharab sound good, didn’t he?
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Saturday, March 25, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Lollise
SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023
9:00 PM
BAMcafé
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When this List thinks about it, Lollise, with her Art-Afropop, is one of its very favorite current pop performers. She’s got beats, she’s got textures, she’s got ideas, she’s got style (and let’s not forget about those beats).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Truly exciting pizza at Oma Grassa.
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Saturday, March 25, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, March 25, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Wagner: Lohengrin
TUESDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 21 & 25, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 1)
6:30 PM TUESDAY
7:00 PM SATURDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$32.50-$392.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Why does Wagner get Listed? Cuz like him or hate him, he had a large hand in inventing the modern avant-garde. Director François Girard did a great job with Parsifal and a terrible job with The Flying Dutchman (and, in another medium, a great job with Glenn Gould). Will he be able to undermine the smarmy misogyny of this work the way he did the vicious misogyny of Parsifal (nevertheless a vastly superior piece — indeed, vastly superior to almost all other operas)? You have to swallow your bitterness at the Met’s abandonment of its Robert Wilson production and go see it to find out. Oh, and the Act 1 Prelude may be the most beautiful thing in all Western music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and the remorselessly mediocre Cafe Fiorello swear they’ll be open after this opera ends (if you can stay awake and attentive through a four-and-a-half hour opera after drinks and dinner, you’re a better person than me).
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Saturday, March 25, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Combo Chimbita / Xenia Rubinos
SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023
7:00 PM
Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Nuevo Latinx. Great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Spectacularly good tortillas at Sobre Masa.
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Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Saturday, March 25, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, March 25, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Loren Connors: Concert Celebrating “A Coming To Shore” Exhibition Closing
SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023
6:00 PM
Blank Forms
468 Grand Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Guitaritst Loren Connors’s avant-blues extrapolations are unlike anything else you’ve heard.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The newly revived, slightly relocated Nigerian spot Buka is now fully reopened. And boy is it good.
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Saturday, March 25, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Soh Daiko
SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023
3:00 PM
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
We certainly haven’t been suffering from a Taiko shortage in the Metropolitan Area this month! Soh Daiko is my personal favorite ensemble for this über-intense drum music, which combines wildness with precision in a manner only the Japanese could accomplish. Soh Daiko just presents the elemental thing itself, without the Vegasy accoutrements of another Taiko ensemble that recently played around here. Trust me: nothing could be more exciting or invigorating.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cross the street to Ground Zero of the Unapologetic Indian explosion, Adda Indian Canteen.
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Saturday, March 25, 2023, 12:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Tin Drum feat. Kelly Moran: MEDUSA
SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2022 (also APRIL 1, 8 & 15)
12:00 – 6:00 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Free-$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This looks rather amazing. The first of four Saturdays in which Kelly Moran plays a durational Technofied Post-Minimalist piano piece in the midst of what seems to be a mind-boggling immersive installation by Tin Drum, which Moran’s sounds will activate.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m still bursting with excitement over the new Piemonte-leaning Bar Mario.
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Friday, March 24, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Disco Tehran: Nowrouz Show
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2022
9:00 PM
Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Avenue, Maspeth, Queens
$56.40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This may be a celebration of the Iranian new year, but the main reason to go comes from a beleaguered Tuareg outpost in Niger. The Agadez Tuaregs are generating the best guitar-band music anywhere these days (apparently I’m not the only one who thinks so) — and Etran de l’Air is a particularly (and, for the genre, unusually) exuberant example. And the second reason comes from New York City: the Lucky Chops brass band, which is exuberant to the max.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s kind of trek, but wouldn’t you want to go to the best Persian restaurant in New York before this? Eyval.
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Friday, March 24, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
‘‘Eris Quartet / Wendy Eisenberg
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A new string quartet, the ‘‘Eris, plays four good composers: Jessie Montgomery, Reena Esmail, Shulament Ran, and Franz Joseph Haydn. See how much better it works when you slot an old piece among contemporary stuff than when you force a new piece among a bunch of old stuff? THIS — instead of fixating on music from 200 years ago — is programing that Haydn himself would have understood. Meanwhile, singer-songwriter noiseshedder Wendy Eisenberg shows their quieter side, with a set of songs for voice and classical guitar.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seafood (and wine!) at Kingfisher.
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Friday, March 24, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sanda Weigl: Lost in the Stars — The Music of Kurt Weill
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If anyone has a right to sing this repertoire, it’s Sanda Weigl, a gifted cabaret stylist who’s a relative of Bertolt Brecht.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Serviceable neighborhood Italian at Bar Toto.
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Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Hamid Rahmanian: Song of the North
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 24 – 26, 2023
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$25-$45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Multidisciplinary artist Hamid Rahmanian brings a multimedia presentation — involving some 500 PUPPETS(!) and projected animation — telling a story from the Persian national epic The Book of Kings — an ancient text that is still in conversation with current-day Iranian freedom fighters.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Interesting pan-regional Indian at Baazi.
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Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Friday, March 24, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Exposure
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 24 & 25, 2023
7:30 PM
The Collapsable Hole
155 Bank Street, West Village, Manhattan
Pay What You Can
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Performance pieces exploring the body, presented by Radiohole (a company that never shied from the gross).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very ungross Austrian at Wallse.
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Friday, March 24, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Decoda
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023
7:30 PM
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$25; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Now that I’ve discovered Joseph Jones, I get excited to see him played, as tonight. As I’ve said, he does something I didn’t think could be done: he writes fresh music as if Common Practice were still common practice. Just as sometimes you want to grapple with something gnarly, sometimes you want to hear something comfortable — but new.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As you may recall, the revivified Old John’s Luncheonette across the street.
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Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Braata Productions: The Black that I Am
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 24 – 26, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 2)
7:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Subletseries: Co-Op
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Soho, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 door, $20 student/senior
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Examining issues of blackness, gender, sexuality, and nationalism through the lens of a Caribbean immigrant.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Altro Paradiso: not the best Italian restaurant in New York, far from the worst — but it’s right there.
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Friday, March 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Rob Schwimmer: Once More Without Feeling
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023
7:00 PM
Bargemusic
1 Water Street, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Rob Schwimmer, on theremin, Haken continuum, and boring old piano, plays off-the-cuff selections from a long, very eclectic set of pieces ranging from John Barry and the Beach Boys to Ornette Coleman and Duke Ellington to Rzewski and Stravinsky (not to mention Yma Sumac).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Dominican barbecue at Bark, on the roof of the Time Out Market.
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Friday, March 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mariel Mayz: Cuban Sketches for Piano
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023
7:00 PM
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mariel Mayz brings back her marvelous program of piano music (who knew?) by The Greatest Living Guitar Composer, Leo Brouwer (wait a minute: I just discovered that Brouwer’s second cousin wrote “Babalu”!). (Thanks to subscriber JA for alerting me to this noteworthy FREE event.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Despite what they claim, Mission Ceviche doesn’t serve the best ceviche in New York City (that’s got to be Caletta 111 in Richmond Hill). But they unquestionably serve the best ceviche within walking distance of the Americas Society.
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Friday, March 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
PENDANT / Vitesse X / Chanel Beads
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$19.57
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pop-adjacent electronic music that does indeed pop. PENDANT is like an even poppier Gui Borrato. Do I love it? Do you need to ask? Vitesse X’s music glitters and gleams. Chanel Beads actually do song form. This will be a nice night.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mediterranean-inflected New American out of the big oven at Victor.
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Friday, March 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Antonio Rey
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023
7:00 PM
Flamenco Festival
Instituto Cervantes
211-215 East 49th Street, Turtle Bay, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Antonio Rey is another of the greatest flamenco guitarists now before the public. He shows great typicity, as wine people would say — but with lots of imagination.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wollensky’s Grill: you could do worse.
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Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
O-Lan Jones and Emmett Tinley: ICELAND
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 24 – 26, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 2)
7:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A music-theater piece interweaving a contemporary love story with Icelandic folk mythology.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: There used to be an Icelandic restaurant on the Lower East Side I could send you to after this — but it’s gone. How about the acclaimed Southern Thai at MayRee?
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Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Joan Jonas & Eiko Otake: Drawing in Circles
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 24 & 25, 2023
7:00 PM FRIDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY
Danspace Project @ Castelli Gallery
24 West 40th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Video/peformance artist Joan Jonas and post-Butoh dancer Eiko Otake are very different artists: Jonas contrives to make her deeply considered works seem almost offhand, whereas Otake cultivates a granitic stillness. They bonded over Jonas’s deep affection for and knowledge of Otake’s native culture, and together have created an installation on view at the Castelli Gallery, which this afternoon they will perform in the midst of.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Best Sichuan might not be the very best Sichuan. But it’s very very good Sichuan.
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Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 6:00 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Riley Elton McCarthy: Ivories
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 24 – 26, 2023
6:00 PM FRIDAY – SUNDAY
9:00 PM FRIDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Brick Aux
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This story of lurking family secrets seems kind of narrative and plot-driven for this List. But it’s helping open the Edinburgh Fringe this Summer, so somebody thinks it’s worthwhile.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Free pizza at the Alligator Lounge!
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 11:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
umru
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2023
11:00 PM
Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you can resist umru’s beat-driven Hyperpop, you’re a very different person from me. Artist/designer Elena Fortune’s pop is pretty Hyper, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best Vietnamese-Mexican food you ever had at Falansai.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Elliot Sharp: With String Orchestra
THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2023
9:00 PM
Main Drag Music
50 South First Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Avant-guitar legend Elliot Sharp plays a solo set, and then a piece with a string orchestra.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Oysters and cocktails at Maison Premiere.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ott / Balkan Bump
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2023
8:30 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20 advance; $25 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ott’s psychedelic pop electronica is simply FUN. Will Magid’s use of Balkan melodies in a hip-hop/lite EDM format in Balkan Bump would seem appropriative if the result weren’t so damn appealing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ancient Greek: Todd English helps revive the very Old Skool Original Pappas Taverna.
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Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Alex Aguirre: M3LTDOWN
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 23 – 26, 2023
8:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In a club in 1999, two dimensions are at war — but only one of them knows it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It 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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Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez: The Square: Displacement with no end
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 23 – 25, 2023
8:00 PM
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$21
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez explores the colonial geography faced by — imposed on — his Indigenous Costa Rican ancestors.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ernesto’s for great Basque.
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Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Companhia Nova de Teatro: A Scream in the Dark
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 23 – 26, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 2)
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A multimedia look at repression in Brazil during the military dictatorship.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I had no idea, but the Cloister Cafe now serves Brazilian-Mexican fusion (I can’t even imagine).
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eric Della Penna: Byzantine Stompers
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Improvisations on compositions derived from recovered shards of Byzantine music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better than neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
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Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Sara Baras: Alma
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 23 – 26, 2023
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Flamenco Festival
New York City Center
131 West 55th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$45-$185
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A flamenco hurricane, as the promotional materials have it, or sound and fury signifying, if not nothing, then not much?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You gotta say two things about Quality Bistro: it’ll still be open after the show, and it’s right across the street.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Lawrence Brownlee: Rising
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2023
7:30 PM
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$54-$64
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lawrence Brownlee is a fabulous singer. But he specializes in bel canto, and who wants to listen to that? So it’ll be nice to hear him sing the contemporary material he has commissioned from such excellent composers as Carlos Simon and Joel Thompson, supported on this program of African-American classical song by neglected-by-definition old masters Robert Owens and Margaret Bonds.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Cuban food and a guaranteed good time at Victor’s Café.
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Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
Tarish Pipkins a.k.a. Jeghetto: The Hip Hopera of 5P1N0K10
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 23 – 26, 2023
7:30 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
12:00 PM SUNDAY
The Club, La MaMa
74A East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
PUPPETS! Hip-hop! Pinocchio! PUPPETS!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican insect cuisine at The Black Ant.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Julia Santoli / Mankind / BEAM SPLITTER
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2023
7:30 PM
Sara’s
2 East Broadway, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A good show at what looks to be an exciting new venue. Julia Santoli combines experimental vocalism with theatricality in pieces that reward attention. BEAM SPLITTER combines more of that experimental vocalism with trombone/electronics into sounds you haven’t heard before. I don’t know who or what Mankind is — but isn’t the point of venues like this to introduce you to unfamiliar new stuff?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: If you don’t love the Cantonese-the-old-way, but cooked to a turn, at Uncle Lou, I don’t think I want to know you.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gabriela Smith & Gabriel Cabezas: Regenerative Nature
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Gabriella Smith — composer of the best string quartet so far this century (I swear) — more usually develops highly compelling soundscapes, such as Lost Coast for her voice and electronics and Gabriel Cabezas’s nimble, eloquent cello, pieces of which are being played tonight.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hatch Chili on everything at Santa Fe BK.
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Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Cie L’Oublié(e): Ombres Portées
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 23 – 26, 2023
7:30 THURSDAY & FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Peak Performances
Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University
1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey
$40-$50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
About as nouvelle as Nouvelle Cirque gets — so far away from any notion of cheap showy fun that you have to start thinking about it as dance with acrobatics. Which puts the focus on — God forbid — the thought behind the piece. Will this examination of the ghosts lurking in the shadows of individuals and families be deep and worth attending to, or banal? Only one way to find out: in any event, you’ll get to see some tumbling.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s not that there’s only one good restaurant in Montclair — there are lots — but that there’s only one within walking distance of Montclair State: New American treat Turtle & The Wolf.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Carlos Cotto: Comte des Cierges
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2023
7:30 PM
The Kitchen @ Seward Park Cooperative
397 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Playwright Carlos Cotto has written a piece about the decade he spent as a doorman at the Seward Park Cooperative — and it will be performed there before a live audience, for radio broadcast, by a cast of actors and doormen.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cantonese (including won tons) reigns at Wu’s Won Ton King.
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Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Still House Plants
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, MARCH 23 & 24, 2023
7:30 PM
Blank Forms @ FourOneOne
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 day of
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Still House Plants does the kind of abstracted Art-Rock (where you can discern the pop and R&B influences, but you can’t really hear them) you didn’t think was made anymore. The openers are formidable (and telling): the great jazz-into rock bassist Melvin Gibbs on Thursday; and local Nu-R&B hero Dawuna following avant-guitarist Alan Licht on Friday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Riverside sea food at Sea Wolf Waterfront.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Brecht on Brecht Müller on Müller
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2023
6:30 PM
The Martin Segal Theater Center, CUNY Graduate Center Stream
365 Fifth Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Inspired by George Tabori, the Segal Theater Center (enlisting actors of the stature of Laura Esterman, Tony Torn, and Rolls Andre) adds Heiner Müller to the Brechtian mix and gives us a revue, recitations/theatrical performance with (clubby) music, excerpting the works of two German playwrights with a fucking lot to say.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very nice Shanghainese at Little Alley.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sonelius Smith & Adam Kahan: The Eulipion Project
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2022
6:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sonelius Smith is a Hard Bop-into-Nu Thing pianist who played with like everyone in New York in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Now he’s back.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Did I hear there’s now indoor seating at Runner Up?
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eurasia Consort: Silk Road Journey to the East
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ancient East Asian music on ancient East Asian instruments. Should be fascinating.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I’m not gonna even tell you what El Mil Sabores puts on their Torta Loca sandwich. You have to see it for yourself. Streaming at home, have a Bamboo: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of dry Vermouth, and Fino Sherry into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an olive.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
NOVUS at One
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2023
1:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel In Person & Live Stream
209 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trinity Church’s crack new music ensemble plays Tania León, Christopher Cerrone, Paola Prestini, Kevin Puts, and David Crowell.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, some of the best Italian heroes in New York are still at Pisillo. Streaming at home, have a Modern Cocktail: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Scotch, Sloe Gin, and lemon juice, 1/6 oz. Simple Syrup, and 1/8 tsp. Absinthe, with 1 dash of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Puppetopia
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 22 – 25, 2023
8:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Soho, Manhattan
$10-$65
TICKETS + INFORMATION
PUPPETS! And this year’s edition of HERE’s puppet theater series looks especially good. Closing week features two programs: a collaboration between the brilliant avant-Korean musician gamin and artist/composer Sachiyo Takahashi; and a look at humanity’s garbagification of the Natural World from enormousface.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Raoul’s bistro, for old time’s sake.
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Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Steven Bernstein
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 22 – 25, 2023
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trumpet all around. Check out Steven Bernstein’s neo-Territory Band on Saturday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Stephan Crump / Ken Filiano, Shelley Hirsch & Hans Tammen
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2023
8:00 PM
Shift
FourOneOne
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A set by the distinctive double-bassist Stephan Crum, and then an exploratory trio consisting of vocalist Shelley Hirsch, guitarist/electronics guy Hans Tammen, and bassist Ken Filiano.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican party at Aldama.
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Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 8:00 PM – Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
String Orchestra of Brooklyn: String Theory
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, MARCH 22 & 23, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors; free live stream
WEDNESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
The String Orchestra of Brooklyn goes exploring. Tuesday they play with death-jazz trio Nepenthae (this WILL be loud) and with Kenyan composer/sound artist Nyokabi Kariũki — with SOB member Marija Kovačević stepping out to play some of her Music for Broken Violins (yes, it’s actually played on broken violins) as a curtain raiser. What could top that? Thursday’s collaboration with the fabulous cellist Andrew Yee on Yee, Caroline Shaw, and Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, a new bar around the corner from Roulette! The Little Pig. Streaming at home, have a Martinez: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Gin and sweet Vermouth, and 1 tsp. Maraschino liqueur, with 2 dashes of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ingrid Laubrock: Lilith
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40 in person; $20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ingrid Laubrock, a saxophonist who doesn’t like to repeat herself, brings in a newish sextet — with accordion (of course, the kind you’d expect Laubrock to have)!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person sky-high cocktails and José Andrés bar snacks at Nubeluz. Streaming at home, have a Rock and Rye Collins (essentially a John Collins with Rock and Rye — sort of like using Old Tom Gin in a Tom Collins): pour 1 oz. each of Rock and Rye and lemon juice, and 1/4 oz. Simple Syrup, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a Collins glass over ice. Top with soda water.
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Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shakespeare and Others: Pericles
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 22 – 26, 2023
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$25-$60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A failed narrative (that’s a GOOD thing!) of uncertain provenance: if anything is grist for Target Margin’s mill, Shakespeare’s Pericles is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This List considers Coszcal de Allende to be the best Mexican restaurant in New York. Owing to the usual real estate/rent issues, it’s closing on an uncertain date in the near future. Get over there before it does.
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Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Zora Howard: Hang Time
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 22 – 26, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 3)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$20-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Zora Howard — a fierce and perceptive playwright — does for the intererior lives of Black men here what she did for Black women in her celebrated Stew.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Odeon: against all expectations, still pretty good.
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Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Leegrid Stevens: War Dreamer
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 22 – 25, 2023
7:00 PM
Loading Dock Theatre
The Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street, East Village, Manhattan
$41; $31 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Leegrid Stevens writes suggestive theater pieces, and his Loading Dock Theatre company stages them with much shoestring technical panache (and beautiful acting by Erin Treadway). This one is about conspiracy theories — but the point is, it’ll be an experience.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mainly fish (duh) at Lamia’s Fish Market.
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Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Beckett: Endgame
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 22 – 26, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 16)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Irish Repertory Theatre
132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$50-$125
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you love Beckett, then Endgame is what you love: as Chekhov’s plays are comedies, Beckett’s are knockabout vaudeville farces — but bleak bleak bleak. It’s no surprise that Bill Irwin is a master of this stuff. John Douglas Thompson is, quite simply, one of the best actors out there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Once-fashionable Greek at Periyali.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Lucie Vítková: Pieces from Darkness
TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A multimedia show of solos and collaborations by Lucie Vítková, a master of many disciplines (including accordion playing and tap dancing!). The show starts with an installation on view starting an hour before curtain. Then there’ll be, among other things, a solo performance by Vítková in the guise of a cyborg — and a film of the same thing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, the last days of the residency of Fergus Henderson’s wonderfully elemental English restaurant St. John — the progenitor of nose-to-tail cooking — at As You Are: even if the humdrum menu of the residency is rather a letdown, it’s still worth trying if you’re in the area anyway. Streaming at home, have a Boulevardier: pour 1-1/2 oz. Bourbon and 1 oz. each of sweet Vermouth and Campari 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, Mar 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shayok Misha Chowdhury: Public Obscenities
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 21 – 26, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 9)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A bilingual play about a Bangla/English translator who perhaps doesn’t see as much as the thinks he does (does anyone?).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
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Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Yasushi Inoue (adpt. Serge Lamothe): The Hunting Gun
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 21 – 26, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 15)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$35-$150
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An adaptation of a novella by the great Japanese writher Yasushi Inoue, directed by François Girard, in town for Lohengrin. A man receives letters from three women: his wife, his mistress, and his mistress’s daughter. The letters are recited by a single actress playing all three women in turn. And that actress is pop-star-turned-acclaimed-thespian (and Ring star) Miki Nakatani. Meanwhile, the recipient of the letters spends the show sitting at the back of the stage cleaning his hunting rifle. He’s played by one of the few people on Earth who are so magnetic you can’t take your eyes off them even when they’re doing the most desultory things: Mikhail Baryshnikov.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cookie-cutter American reduction of French bistro at Steak Frites Le Bistro, but with a surprisingly good wine program (although they’re not shy with the mark-ups).
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Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Sarah Einspanier: Lunch Bunch
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 21 – 25, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 15)
7:00 PM
PlayCo & Clubbed Thumb
2nd Floor Theater, 122CC
150 First Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$10-$100
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sarah Einspanier’s examination (in the context of an office full of beleagured-by-definition Public Defenders) of whether what you eat is more or less important than basic human connection — I’m opting for the former at present myself, perhaps regrettably — was a huge Off-Off hit the Summer before the Pandemic. In February 2020, this List chirpily reported that it was going to be revived the following month. We know what happened to THAT. Now, three Marches later, here it is again.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Even if you opt for basic human connection, this play will leave you thinking about dinner. Vietnamese at Madam Vo.
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Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 7:00 PM – Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Rāginī Festival: Baithak Rituals
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 & 22, 2023
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This year’s Rāginī Festival (a project of Brooklyn Raga Massive) explores the Indo-Caribbean diaspora. So here, Tuesday’s program features Inidan music and dance, while Wednesday’s will focus on the music of the Indian community in Surimane.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Being the best Indian spot on 6th Street may not be a super-meaningful distinction — but Malai Marke probably wins that prize.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Moon Hound / Elora / Trash Girl
TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2023
7:00 PM
Sundownstairs, Sundown Bar
68-38 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$12.71
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’m Listing this for Moon Hound, and it’s almost a pure self-indulgence: they do the kind of trippy, druggy, baroque-inflected ‘60s Pop-Rock I couldn’t resist then and can’t resist now. Derivative throw-back? You bet — but I’m a sucker for what it derives from and throws back to. Elora is OK (a little too much singer-songwritery earnestness for me), but Trash Girl’s often quite listenable Bedroom Pop can get a bit twee when she simplifies her usually interesting and compelling arrangements (which makes me worry a little about her live show).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The first thing to remember is that you’re in a bar in the downstairs of an excellent wine shop that takes its cocktails as seriously as the shop takes Natural wine. The second thing to remember is that you’re around the corner from stylish pan-Asian in homey surroundings at Porcelain.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Wagner: Lohengrin
TUESDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 21 & 25, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 1)
6:30 PM TUESDAY
7:00 PM SATURDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$32.50-$392.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Why does Wagner get Listed? Cuz like him or hate him, he had a large hand in inventing the modern avant-garde. Director François Girard did a great job with Parsifal and a terrible job with The Flying Dutchman (and, in another medium, a great job with Glenn Gould). Will he be able to undermine the smarmy misogyny of this work the way he did the vicious misogyny of Parsifal (nevertheless a vastly superior piece — indeed, vastly superior to almost all other operas)? You have to swallow your bitterness at the Met’s abandonment of its Robert Wilson production and go see it to find out. Oh, and the Act 1 Prelude may be the most beautiful thing in all Western music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and the remorselessly mediocre Cafe Fiorello swear they’ll be open after this opera ends (if you can stay awake and attentive through a four-and-a-half hour opera after drinks and dinner, you’re a better person than me).
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Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 21 – 26, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Tuesday-Friday pay what you wish; Saturday & Sunday $18; $12 students 12 and over/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant. After, meet the Guadalajaran Torta Ahogada — sure to become your new obsession — at Cruz del Sur.
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Monday, March 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ljova: Fadolin Trio
MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2023
7:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ljova does more of his fadolin thing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Snacky Israeli at Taïm.
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Monday, March 20, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Harlem Chamber Players: Women of the Movements
MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2023
6:00 PM
The Forum at Columbia University
601 West 125th Street, Manhattanville, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The composers on this program — Caroline Shaw, Ke-Chia Chen, Ellen Taafe Zwillich, and Dorothy Rudd Moore (whose work fully deserves the “rediscovery” it’s now getting) — are so good that any possible charge of tokenism (read the comments on the horrific Slipped Disc site — or rather don’t [I’m certainly not going to link it]) are immediately silenced.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better than neighborhood ramen at Jin Ramen.
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Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 AM
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Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 20 – 21, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, March 19, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Experimental Intermedia
TUESDAY, FRIDAY & SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 17 & 19, 2023
8:00 PM
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TUESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Three different nights of multi-media pieces. The ones on Tuesday and Friday don’t have a live performative component and so strictly speaking fall without the confines of this this List: on Tuesday, Luca Forucci plays a recorded piece he made using as its base improvisations he performed over the course of four days on a church organ in Genoa; on Sunday, Screen Compositions presents a series of collaborations between a staggering array of film artists and an equally staggering array of sound artists. On Friday, suzueri (her mother calls her Elico Suzuki) presents an installation combining toy and full-size pianos, and then a performance on homemade instruments through a light transmission system.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Maybe some good cocktails, great interior, and snacky seafood at Deux Chats.
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Sunday, March 19, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Joseph White: You Against Nature/Aaron Siegel: Your People Saying Hello
SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2023
8:00 PM
thingNY
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15-$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two new brief operas. Guys, Joseph White is funny and tuneful, and THE TIMES IS ON IT! You know what? Aaron Siegel is funny and tuneful, too. ThingNY remains this List’s favorite band.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Brooklyn Red Sauce at Bamonte’s.
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Sunday, March 19, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zosha Warpeha / Ocelot / Ochion Jewell Quartet
SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2023
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Zosha Warpeha brings her Nordic Freak-Folk. Ocelot is a trio featuring the very interesting piano of Cat Toren. Saxophonist Ochion Jewell is one of the most eclectic composer/stylists you could imagine — in a good way (and if you’re gonna form a quartet with your college friends, it’s nice if one of them is Qasim Naqvi).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seafood (and wine!) at Kingfisher.
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Sunday, March 19, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, March 19, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Inna Barmash & Shoko Nigai: Yiddish Songs of Love and Loss
SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2023
6:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Excuse me while I brush a tear from my eye.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better than neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
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Sunday, March 19, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, March 19, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kyo-Shin-An Arts: Shamrock Spring
SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2023
4:00 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The usual seasonal Japanese-avant-Western mashup (if you can call anything featuring Kathleen Supové on piano “usual”).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The broth is particularly rich at E.A.K. Ramen.
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Sunday, March 19, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Apollo’s Fire: Diaspora: Jewish Music of Longing and Celebration
SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2023
3:00 PM
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Early Music from the Jewish Diaspora, both Ashkenazic and Sephardic (not to mention the Italian Baroque). Don’t let the title of this program put you off: this isn’t music that’s Good For You, it’s music that’s Great To Listen To. Sprightly when it’s fast, haunting when it’s slow.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Quatorze remains one of the very best French bistros in New York — even if no one seems to remember.
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Saturday, March 18, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Rubin Kodheli feat. Trevor Dunn & Brian Chase
SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2023
9:00 PM
Main Drag Music
50 South First Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Composer/cellist Rubin Koheli’s music is Post-Minimalist but it’s also jazz (repeat after me: genre is a construct). And he’s got quite the gold-plated rhythm section there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I wonder if the Italian at Aurora Williamsburg is still good. The place is certainly still nice enough.
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Saturday, March 18, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Rafael Riqueni: Flamenco Guitar Master
SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2023
8:00 PM
Flamenco Festival
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$30 advance; $35 door; $25 student/seniors at door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Rafael Riqueni is a very big deal: one of the leading guitarists in flamenco right now, as good as ever after having lost a long chunk of time to health and attendant legal problems. He brings Western classical influences to his music without watering it down: rather, they spice up the harmonies, so unlike anyone else’s. He’s a musician with an absolutely unique, distinctive conception — and his solo recitals tend to blow people away.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Outstanding Palestinian at AlBadawi.
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Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / THEATER
Edward Einhorn & Jenny Lee Mitchell: Cabaret in Captivity
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, MARCH 18 & 19, 2023
8:00 PM SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
Torn Page
435 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
Free-$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Potemkin Village concentration camp of Terezín/Theresienstadt housed many artists and musicians (until they were deported elsewhere for extermination). They created a lot of very attractive music there in the racy 1920s/30s Czech Neoclassical style. And, along similar lines, some very appealing cabaret — the focus of this show. Less appealing is that it was written, knowingly, in the shadow of death — but of course the whole point of cabaret is a dark underbelly.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tapas at Tia Pol.
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Saturday, March 18, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Wagner: Lohengrin
TUESDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 14 & 18, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 1)
6:30 PM TUESDAY
7:00 PM SATURDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$32.50-$392.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Why does Wagner get Listed? Cuz like him or hate him, he had a large hand in inventing the modern avant-garde. Director François Girard did a great job with Parsifal and a terrible job with The Flying Dutchman (and, in another medium, a great job with Glenn Gould). Will he be able to undermine the smarmy misogyny of this work the way he did the vicious misogyny of Parsifal (nevertheless a vastly superior piece — indeed, vastly superior to almost all other operas)? You have to swallow your bitterness at the Met’s abandonment of its Robert Wilson production and go see it to find out. Oh, and the Act 1 Prelude may be the most beautiful thing in all Western music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and the remorselessly mediocre Cafe Fiorello swear they’ll be open after this opera ends (if you can stay awake and attentive through a four-and-a-half hour opera after drinks and dinner, you’re a better person than me).
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Saturday, March 18, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
evil dentist: stuck at the 0ffice
SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2023
6:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @ NYU Brooklyn
370 Jay Street, Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A durational piece, and I quote, “appropriating the banality of office space to reimagine the relationship between artistic practice and community building” (wait WHAT?) — staged in an actual office. The audience is affirmatively encouraged to wander in and out during the piece’s four-hour duration.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The revived Gage & Tollner really is all that.
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Saturday, March 18, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Lucian Ban & Mat Manieri: Transylvanian Concert
SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2022
6:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It’s been a decade since Transylvanian pianist Lucian Ban got together with American violist Mat Manieri to make composed/improvised music (you know: Jazz) that it is highly evocative (although not of anything cheery). Be warned, though: if there’s on this music isn’t, it’s fast.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: See if you can get into Indian sensation Masalawala & Sons (and who ever thought there’d be any kind of sensation in Park Slope?).
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Saturday, March 18, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Michael Hearst: The Unusual, Extraordinary, Curious, and Unconventional Songbook
SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2023
4:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Michael Hearst bills himself as writing children’s music. But what he really writes is semi-classical chamber pop of enormous charm and appeal.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s the weekend: you can be at Reyes Deli & Grocery when they serve their barbacoa and goat stew tacos and their tamales!
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Saturday, March 18, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Joan Jonas & Eiko Otake: Drawing in Circles
SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2023 (also MARCH 24 & 25)
4:00 PM
Danspace Project @ Castelli Gallery
24 West 40th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Video/peformance artist Joan Jonas and post-Butoh dancer Eiko Otake are very different artists: Jonas contrives to make her deeply considered works seem almost offhand, whereas Otake cultivates a granitic stillness. They bonded over Jonas’s deep affection for and knowledge of Otake’s native culture, and together have created an installation on view at the Castelli Gallery, which this afternoon they will perform in the midst of.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Best Sichuan might not be the very best Sichuan. But it’s certainly very good Sichuan.
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Friday, March 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Experimental Intermedia
TUESDAY, FRIDAY & SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 17 & 19, 2023
8:00 PM
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TUESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Three different nights of multi-media pieces. The ones on Tuesday and Friday don’t have a live performative component and so strictly speaking fall without the confines of this this List: on Tuesday, Luca Forucci plays a recorded piece he made using as its base improvisations he performed over the course of four days on a church organ in Genoa; on Sunday, Screen Compositions presents a series of collaborations between a staggering array of film artists and an equally staggering array of sound artists. On Friday, suzueri (her mother calls her Elico Suzuki) presents an installation combining toy and full-size pianos, and then a performance on homemade instruments through a light transmission system.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Maybe some good cocktails, great interior, and snacky seafood at Deux Chats.
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Friday, March 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Thorgy Thor: Queen of the Night
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 2023
8:00 PM
The Greene Space In Person & Live Stream
44 Charlton Street, Soho, Manhattan
$35 in person; $10 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Drag violinist Thorgy Thor — who points out that Mozart and Haydn also knew how to rock a wig — is reason enough to show up. But add guests like the Catalyst Quartet and Harlem Brewing Company founder Celeste Beatty (bringing BEER) . . . .
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Basque at Haizea. Streaming at home, have a Thor’s Forest: muddle 1/4 lemon and 2 sprigs of rosemary at the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add ice. Pour in 1 oz. each of Gin and Brennivin. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a rosemary sprig.
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Friday, March 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
KM Dance Project: Raw Fruit
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 2023
8:00 PM
BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance In Person & Live Stream
2474 Westchester Avenue, Westchester Square, Bronx
$20 in person; free-$20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
From the mind and body of Kesha McKey comes a multidisciplinary examination of the ancestral values at the root of Black culture.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Campy Chino-Latino at Shanghai Red.
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Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
International Contemporary Ensemble: Douglas R. Ewart: Songs and Stories of Hopes, Dreams and Visions
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 17 & 18, 2023
7:30 PM FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
The Chelsea Factory
547 West 26th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$15-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
New International Contemporary Ensemble Artistic Director George Lewis programs a night of compositions by — and featuring — his longtime AACM colleague Douglas Ewart, who will play the soprano saxophone and several instruments of his own devising, including a new one honoring the legacy of George Floyd.
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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Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Friday, March 17, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Braata Productions: The Black that I Am
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 17 – 19, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 2)
7:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Subletseries: Co-Op
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Soho, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 door, $20 student/senior
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Examining issues of blackness, gender, sexuality, and nationalism through the lens of a Caribbean immigrant.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Altro Paradiso: not the best Italian restaurant in New York, far from the worst — but it’s right there.
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Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival: Tribute to Borys Liatoshynsky
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 17-19, 2023
7:00 PM FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$15-$25 per show; $40-$60 3-concert subscription
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The annual festival of Ukrainian New Music is always special — there are a lot of good composers in that country — but this year it must seem especially special. BTW, the closing concert on Sunday doesn’t feature Ukrainian New Music but rather un-new music by festival dedicatee Borys Liatoshynsky and two of his foreign peers, Béla Bartók and Aaron Copland.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As you may recall, the revivified Old John’s Luncheonette across the street.
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Friday, March 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Corsano-Chen Residency Night 1
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 2023
7:00 PM
Sundown Bar
68-38 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$18.07
TICKETS + INFORMATION
They’ve really got a good music program going on at the downstairs Sundown Bar now. This show initiates a residency by two key NYC musicians, sideways drummer Chris Corsano and Maghreb-influenced instrument-smith and soundmaker Che Chen. They’ll play in a trio with clarinetist Patrick Holmes. And it looks like out-there violinist gabby fluke-mogul will show up at some point as well.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The first thing to remember is that you’re in a bar in the downstairs of an excellent wine shop that takes its cocktails as seriously as the shop takes Natural wine. The second thing to remember is that you’re around the corner from stylish pan-Asian in homey surroundings at Porcelain.
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Friday, March 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nu Jazz / Achilles Navarro / Bullshit Jobs
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$25.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Nu Jazz, a collective of NYC electronic musicians and jazz players, have been making interesting, propulsive music for more than 10 years. And now they’ve done something I never really expected of them: made a record. Achilles Navarro is a really good trumpeter. And Bullshit Jobs: I think I’ve seen them. I think I’ve seen them with Nu Jazz. I wish I could remember a thing about it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This List’s choice of the best birria in New York, now available in Park Slope at Nene’s Taqueria.
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Joseph Kubera: At the Piano
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023
8:00 PM
Musical Ecologies
Old Stone House, Washington Park
336 Third Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Cagein pianist Joseph Kubera knows everybody in the Old Skool avant-garde — and plays them all splendidly. I’ve got to be honest with you: I’m not overly familiar with either of the composers on tonight’s program (Daniel Rothman — although he writes the kind of electroacoustic things I tend to like — and Conrad Winslow). Trust Kubera.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: What do you know? An Emmy Squared, with its Detroit-style pizza, has also materialized across the street from Washington Park.
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Peter Evans: Being and Becoming
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trumpeter Peter Evans’s Being and Becoming is really one of the very best small jazz ensembles around right now. Boldly experimental, but capable of great lyricism. And vibraphonist Joel Ross is quite simply a monster.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, remember what I said in the last issue about the residency of Fergus Henderson’s St. John at As You Are? (Although looking at the menu, it is a reduced dumb-downed shadow of the London mothership.) Streaming at home, have a Boulevardier: pour 1-1/2 oz. Bourbon and 1 oz. each of sweet Vermouth and Campari into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Alexandra Tatarsky: Sad Boys in Harpy Land
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 16 – 18, 2023
8:00 PM
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$24.28
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Alexandra Tatarsky is a young Jewish woman who thinks she is a German boy who thinks she is a tree. Anything billed as “equal parts sad clown, demented cabaret, and extended crisis of meaning” is something to go to.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wonder if you can get into Corner Bar yet?
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Yasunao Tone: Concert No. 3
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023
8:00 PM
Artists Space
11 Cortland Alley, Tribeca (not really), Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Complicated sound devices, corrupted sound files, loops, and Annea Lockwood. Onetime Fluxus associate Yasunao Tone has put together quite an evening.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I guess if you’re in the Alley, you’ve got to go to Au Cheval. Even if it isn’t a patch on the Chicago original, you can still put together a satisfying (if gutbusting) meal if you’re careful.
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dana Lyn’s Baby Octopus / Brian Prunka & Friends
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dana Lyn’s Baby Octopus plays stylish eclectic chamber pop-into-jazz-into-classical that’s just a pleasure to hear. Brian Prunka melds Arabic and jazz on his oud.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Winning neighborhood Roman at Camillo.
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Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
EYIBRA: Veles/Тіні
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, MARCH 16 & 17, 2023
8:00 PM
BRIC House
647 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
EYIBRA presents a “contemporary performance and multimedia piece for solo performer, digital avatars, and visual projections” that “combines 3D video technologies with ancient ritual songs, experimental electronic music, movement, and queer techno” to “explore[] queer identity in Ukraine and Lithuania from pagan times up to the present, including during the current war”.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Rockwell Place is an excellent, though relatively unheralded, cocktail bar.
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Fire Over Heaven
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023
8:00 PM
Outpost Artists Resources
1665 Norman Street, Ridgewood, Queens
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sideways drummer Chris Corsano plays a solo set, and singer-songwriter/noise shredder Wendy Eisenberg debuts a new duo with reeds/electronics player Richard Lenz (cutely named the Opinion Havers).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Charming, delightful New American Tavern food at Rolo’s.
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Third Thursday: The Invisible Collage / Echo Moth / Light Crawler
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023
8:00 PM
Main Drag Music
50 South First Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Invisible Collage is really rather special, using found sounds and handmade instruments in an especially interesting and even appealing way. As for Echo Moth, I suppose it’s nice that there are bands that still sound like The Notekillers (whom we encountered in Monday’s newsletter) and the other bands in that No Wave scene (Echo Moth would be on the quiet melodic end); I must admit I really like this stuff. I have no idea what Light Crawler is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I must have walked by Bistro Bacán — which despite its name is snacky Italian — a million times without stopping in. But it looks so appealing.
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sandeep Das & The HUM Enesmble: Delhi to Istanbul
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023
7:30 PM
David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center
61 West 62nd Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Raga meets maqam!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can whine that Rosa Mexicano isn’t nearly as good as it used to be, and I’ll whine right along with you. But it isn’t affirmatively bad.
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
David Kaplan: Moments of Invention
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023
7:30 PM
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$30; $15 student
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist David Kaplan has long made it a practice to incorporate mainstream classical into contemporary classical recitals. Tonight there’s Beethoven (including the “Moonlight” sonata — although Kaplan has the taste not to call it that), L. Couperin, and Brahms and Schumann interspersed among the Cerrone, Cheung, Casarrubios, Saariaho, and Ligeti. Stimulating.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As you may recall, the revivified Old John’s Luncheonette across the street.
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
American Composers Orchestra: Modern Yesterdays
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023
7:30 PM
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$49-$59
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Quite a night from the American Composers Orchestra. D.J. Sparr has orchestrated some pieces by the astonishing guitarist Kaki King — and she’ll be there to play along, no doubt astonishingly. There are newish pieces by Ellen Reid, one of the most sonically intriguing orchestral composers around, and the powerful Carlos Simon. With such company, you can only look forward to a brand new piece by someone named Carlos Bandera, heretofore unknown to me, with pleasant expectation
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern Indian (and a really good beverage program) at Indian Accent.
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
C4 feat. Infinitus: A Parable of Choices
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023
7:30 PM
Church of the Transfiguration (The Little Church around the Corner) In Person & Live Stream
1 East 29th Street, NoMad, Manhattan
$20 advance; $25 door; $10 students; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sneaking their Winter Concert in just under the wire, the Choral Composer/Conductor Collective joins forces with a crack student choral ensemble for a program exploring the nature of decision-making, collaboration, and duplicity. This must be the first time that List bud Brian Mountford shares a bill with David Lang.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Viennese at Koloman (their website calls it French but come on). Streaming at home, have a Bijou: pour 1-1/2 Gin, 1 oz. sweet Vermouth, and 1/4 oz. green Chartreuse, with 2 dashes of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Visionary Sounds: Anna Clyne
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023
7:00 PM
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This appears to be an expansion of a program OSL live-streamed during The Lockdown. It features some new pieces by Anna Clyne — an eloquent and affecting composer writing in a style that grows out of the mainstream — with animated video by Jyll Bradley and by Josh Dorman (this is one of the few kinds of things that might actually have worked better streamed than in person). In addition, Clyne selected accompanying contrapuntal pieces by Bach and Steve Reich (the Reich also getting a Bradley video).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It seems unlikely, but a (very) knowlegeable friend tells me that Chez Zou is actually a good cocktail bar.
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Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Yara Arts Group: Radio 477! Jazz/Kharkiv/1929/Today
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 16 – 19, 2023
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In the late 1920s, the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv went jazz crazy. There was a wildly popular locally produced jazz cabaret/theater piece telling stories of Kharkiv — which Stalin and his cronies eventually shut down. The immigrant Yara Arts Group has actually discovered the score. It would have been interesting if they recreated the show — but instead they have come up with this new piece, paralleling events in Kharkiv in the ‘20s and ‘30s with now. Music by Anthony Coleman.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Obviously you’re going to want to go to the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant, right?
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Pomerium: The Medieval Miracle: Melody Into Harmony
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Medieval/Renaissance vocal ensemble Pomerium traces the birth of polyphony in European music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I’m not gonna even tell you what El Mil Sabores puts on their Torta Loca sandwich. You have to see it for yourself. Streaming at home, have a Cardinale: pour 1 oz. each of Gin, dry Vermouth, and Campari into an Old Fashioned glass over ice. Stir. Garnish with 1/2 orange wheel.
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
NOVUS at One
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023
1:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel In Person & Live Stream
209 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Get this: an excellently staffed piano-and-wind ensemble gives a recital, and they’re not going to play the Mozart or the Beethoven. And just look at what they ARE going to play: Brad Balliett (who’ll also be bassooning) Joan Tower, Valerie Coleman, and (look this one up if you don’t know her) Louise Farrenc. We NEVER get to hear Louise Farrenc!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, some of the best Italian heroes in New York are still at Pisillo. Streaming at home, have a Kir Royale: in a Champagne flute, pour 1/2 oz. Crème de Cassis into 5 oz. Champagne.
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Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 9:30 PM – Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Justin Vivian Bond: London Calling
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 15 – 17, 2023
9:30 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$35-$150
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Justin Vivian Bond channeling Julie London: could this be TOO awesome?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Taiwanese at 886.
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Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Puppetopia
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 15 – 19, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 25)
8:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
11:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Soho, Manhattan
$10-$65
TICKETS + INFORMATION
PUPPETS! And this year’s edition of HERE’s puppet theater series looks especially good. There’s only show on view this week — but it’s a doozy: Deeper Closer Warmer is a collaboration between the fabulous Poncilí Creación and (wait for it) a consort of Daxophones!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Raoul’s bistro, for old time’s sake.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
David First, David Watson & Sam Kulik
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I first heard David First when he was playing guitar in the Post-Punk/No Wave band The Notekillers in the late ‘70s (I don’t know why I enjoy announcing how old I am); since then he’s evolved into one of the most consistently interesting musicians in New York, composing drones of amazing rhythmic complexity — something no one else really does. Here he’s playing with David Watson, surely the world’s leading avant-bagpiper (OK, he might be playing guitar) (but we can hope), and trombonist/mulit-instrumentalist Sam Kulik. This might be the most musically interesting thing you’ll hear this month.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican party at Aldama.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Contemporaneous: Swan Songs
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$30 advance in person; $25 door in person; $20 students/seniors in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Contemporaneous presents a new opera by LA composer Ethan Braun that absorbs all the famous melodramatic endings in opera. Not only that but the singers are Tarik Al-Sabir and the ab fab Lucy Dhegrae.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, a new bar around the corner from Roulette! The Little Pig. Streaming at home, have a Swan: pour 1/2 oz. each of Gin and Cointreau, and 3/8 teaspoon lime juice, with 1 dash of Peychaud’s bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Split Brick Bill: Fran Pardo: Floodpants/Katharine Scarbrough & Tim Girrbach: The Pickle Twins
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 15 – 18, 2023
8:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You can always expect the unexpected . . . .
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It would be nice if you could get into the neo-Cantonese-American sensation Bonnie’s — especially since you get to walk past the Manhattan Special factory on the way.
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Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shakespeare and Others: Pericles
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 15 – 19, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 26)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$25-$60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A failed narrative (that’s a GOOD thing!) of uncertain provenance: if anything is grist for Target Margin’s mill, Shakespeare’s Pericles is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This List considers Coszcal de Allende to be the best Mexican restaurant in New York. Owing to the usual real estate/rent issues, it’s closing on an uncertain date in the near future. Get over there before it does.
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Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Yasushi Inoue (adpt. Serge Lamothe): The Hunting Gun
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 16 – 19, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 15)
7:30 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$35-$150
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An adaptation of a novella by the great Japanese writher Yasushi Inoue, directed by François Girard, in town for Lohengrin. A man receives letters from three women: his wife, his mistress, and his mistress’s daughter. The letters are recited by a single actress playing all three women in turn. And that actress is pop-star-turned-acclaimed-thespian (and Ring star) Miki Nakatani. Meanwhile, the recipient of the letters spends the show sitting at the back of the stage cleaning his hunting rifle. He’s played by one of the few people on Earth who are so magnetic you can’t take your eyes off them even when they’re doing the most desultory things: Mikhail Baryshnikov.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cookie-cutter American reduction of French bistro at Steak Frites Le Bistro, but with a surprisingly good wine program (although they’re not shy with the mark-ups).
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Fast Forward
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$17 advance; $20 door; $15 students/seniors advance; $20 students/seniors door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mixed dance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ms. Yoo for Modern Korean. Cuz I’m an Esther Choi fanboy.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Take Two: Angel Bat Dawid X “Untitled”
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$30.90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Kicking off a series where we first listen to some worthy album on Public Records’ Sound Room’s fabulous sound system — the best of any club in New York, in this List’s estimation — and we then hear some leading contemporary improviser improvise on it. This show’s album is Nas’s great Untitled — an album that was supposed to be called “Nigger” until a then-New York State Assemblyman named Hakeem Jeffries used the investment power of the State Pension Fund to block it, unfortunately. The lead improviser is the deep clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid — and she’s got some pretty stellar accompaniment by people like drummer Tcheser Holmes and members of the art-jazz-funk collective Standing on the Corner.
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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Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Bronx Arts Ensemble String Quartet: American Minimalism
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023
7:00 PM
The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South, Gramercy, Manhattan
Free
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And the American Minimalists the Bronx Arts Ensemble String Quartet are playing are Philip Glass, Caroline Shaw, Angélica Negrón, Brittany Green, and Bronx homie Oliver Caplan. (Hey wait, most of them are Post-Minimalists.) (Or even Post-Post-Minimalists.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Owing to staff changes, the inventive Mexican at Cosme isn’t quite as good as it was upon opening. But it’s still very good.
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Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Sarah Einspanier: Lunch Bunch
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 15 – 18, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 8)
7:00 PM
PlayCo & Clubbed Thumb
2nd Floor Theater, 122CC
150 First Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$10-$100
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sarah Einspanier’s examination (in the context of an office full of Public Defenders) of whether what you eat is more or less important than basic human connection — I’m opting for the former at present myself, perhaps regrettably — was a huge Off-Off hit the Summer before the Pandemic. In February 2020, this List chirpily reported that it was going to be revived the following month. We know what happened to THAT. Now, three Marches later, here it is again.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Even if you opt for basic human connection, this play will leave you thinking about dinner. Vietnamese at Madam Vo.
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Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Leegrid Stevens: War Dreamer
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 15 – 19, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 25)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Loading Dock Theatre
The Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street, East Village, Manhattan
$41; $31 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Leegrid Stevens writes suggestive theater pieces, and his Loading Dock Theatre company stages them with much shoestring technical panache (and beautiful acting by Erin Treadway). This one is about conspiracy theories — but the point is, it’ll be an experience.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mainly fish (duh) at Lamia’s Fish Market.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gauci Music: Improvised Music At The Main Drag
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023
7:00 PM
Main Drag Music
50 South First Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Gauci Music puts on these avant-jazz marathons at the Main Drag every week, but this week once again seems particularly compelling. There’s inside-very outside Darius Jones on alto. And there’s a conduction orchestra featuring some fave NYC improvisers.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Outrageously good pub grub at Meckelburg’s.
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Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Beckett: Endgame
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 15 – 19, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 16)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Irish Repertory Theatre
132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$50-$125
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you love Beckett, then Endgame is what you love: as Chekhov’s plays are comedies, Beckett’s are knockabout vaudeville farces — but bleak bleak bleak. It’s no surprise that Bill Irwin is a master of this stuff. John Douglas Thompson is, quite simply, one of the best actors out there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Once-fashionable Greek at Periyali.
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Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Zora Howard: Hang Time
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 15 – 19, 2023
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$20-$30 WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY; $20-$40 FRIDAY – SUNDAY
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Zora Howard — a fierce and perceptive playwright — does for the interior lives of Black men here what she did for Black women in her celebrated Stew.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Odeon: against all expectations, still pretty good.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ars Longa de la Habana: Gulumbá Gulumbé
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023
7:00 PM
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Avenue, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A Cuban band brings us more Latin American Baroque, this time emphasizing African influences and elements. More vivacious music you will never hear — but watch out for those pesky implications (which bands like Ars Longa de la Habana are specifically credited with overriding).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The neighborhood has certainly taken the Mediterranean Dagon to heart.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bach at One
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023
1:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel In Person & Live Stream
209 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, led by expert visiting choral expert Stefan Parkman, sings not only Bach, but also (among other things) Rautavaara (why isn’t he performed more often?) and a new piece by the Ukrainian composer Anna Kuzina-Rozhdestvenskaya, which reflects what you think it will reflect.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, some of the best Italian heroes in New York are at Pisillo. Streaming at home, have a Jack Rose: pour 2-1/2 oz. Laird’s Bonded apple brandy, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1/2 oz. Grenadine into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Experimental Intermedia
TUESDAY, FRIDAY & SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 17 & 19, 2023
8:00 PM
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TUESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Three different nights of multi-media pieces. The ones on Tuesday and Friday don’t have a live performative component and so strictly speaking fall without the confines of this this List: on Tuesday, Luca Forucci plays a recorded piece he made using as its base improvisations he performed over the course of four days on a church organ in Genoa; on Sunday, Screen Compositions presents a series of collaborations between a staggering array of film artists and an equally staggering array of sound artists. On Friday, suzueri (her mother calls her Elico Suzuki) presents an installation combining toy and full-size pianos, and then a performance on homemade instruments through a light transmission system.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Maybe some good cocktails, great interior, and snacky seafood at Deux Chats.
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Open Stage Variety Show
TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2023
7:30 PM
Voorhees Theater, New York City College of Technology
165 Jay Street, Downtown, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus throws open the stage to whatever variety acts dare to appear. I can’t tell you how much fun these can be.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: West African party spot Amaranchi is fighting for its life. Go while you still can.
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Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Hansol Jung: Wolf Play
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 14 – 19, 2023
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
2:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
MCC Theater
511 West 52nd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$58-$78
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Hansol Jung’s play, a sold-out smash at Soho Rep. last year, is an allusive look at chosen and unchosen families.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The delightful Ardesia wine bar is right across the street.
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Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shayok Misha Chowdhury: Public Obscenities
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 14 – 19, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 9)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$35 TUESDAY – SATURDAY; 99¢ SUNDAY
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A bilingual play about a Bangla/English translator who perhaps doesn’t see as much as the thinks he does (does anyone?).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
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Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Thomas Bradshaw: The Seagull/Woodstock
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 21 – 26, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 9)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The New Group
The Pershing Square Signature Theater Center
480 West 42nd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$69-$97
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Thomas Bradshaw updates Chekhov’s The Seagull to now, in New York. Parker Posey stars.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let’s how Greek classic Molyvos is in its new location.
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Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Água
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 14 – 19, 2023
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
BAM Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$54-$165
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A piece by the late Pina Bausch that has not yet been seen in the United States. This, though — one of her pieces developed in Brazil — is the happy Bausch. (Yes, such a thing exists.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Truly exciting pizza at Oma Grassa.
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kodo
TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2021
7:30 PM
NJPAC
1 Center Street, Newark, New Jersey
$39-$79
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Japanese drum ensemble: galvanic, explosive, staggering.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The power move would be to get dinner at Spanish classic Fornos of Spain near the train station before making your way to the show.
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Wagner: Lohengrin
TUESDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 14 & 18, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 1)
6:30 PM TUESDAY
7:00 PM SATURDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$32.50-$392.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Why does Wagner get Listed? Cuz like him or hate him, he had a large hand in inventing the modern avant-garde. Director François Girard did a great job with Parsifal and a terrible job with The Flying Dutchman (and, in another medium, a great job with Glenn Gould). Will he be able to undermine the smarmy misogyny of this work the way he did the vicious misogyny of Parsifal (nevertheless a vastly superior piece — indeed, vastly superior to almost all other operas)? You have to swallow your bitterness at the Met’s abandonment of its Robert Wilson production and go see it to find out. Oh, and the Act 1 Prelude may be the most beautiful thing in all Western music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and the remorselessly mediocre Cafe Fiorello swear they’ll be open after this opera ends (if you can stay awake and attentive through a four-and-a-half hour opera after drinks and dinner, you’re a better person than me).
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Paola Prestini & Magos Herrera: Con Alma
TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2023
6:00 PM
Death of Classical
United Nations Headquarters
405 East 42nd Street, Turtle Bay, Manhattan
$85
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Paola Prestini is a good composer and Magos Herrera is a good singer, and together they have put together what they describe as a testament to unity and connection.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The pan-African food at Voilà Afrique is stunningly delicious. But to say that on-site seating is limited is probably to overstate how much there is.
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Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 14 – 19, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Tuesday-Friday pay what you wish; Saturday & Sunday $18; $12 students 12 and over/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant. After, meet the Guadalajaran Torta Ahogada — sure to become your new obsession — at Cruz del Sur.
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Monday, March 13, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Davey Williams Memorial Concert
MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Guitarist Davey Williams seemed oddball in his approach, but of course he was serious inside. A Southerner, he started out from blues — his initial mentor was Johnny Shines — but then moved to weird places. But no matter how experimental (and weird) his music was, it was always fundamentally human. Which is why he was so loved, and why his early death in 2019 seemed such a loss. Colleagues from the South and from New York join to pay him tribute.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, the epochal residency of Fergus Henderson’s wonderfully elemental British restaurant St. John — the progenitor of nose-to-tail cooking — at As You Are. Streaming at home, have a Paper Plane: pour 3/4 oz. each of Bourbon, Aperol, Amaro Nonino, and lemon juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Monday, March 13, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
The Civilians: Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2023
7:00 PM
The Greene Space
44 Charlton Street, Hudson Square, Manhattan
$20-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Improv — generated by ChatGPT.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Is there a more delightful NYC spot that the vaguely Italian(ish) King?
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Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 13 – 19, 2023 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 13 – 19, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, March 12, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Varispeed & Peggy Weil: The Blurring Test
SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As its name suggests, the avant-fun vocal ensemble Varispeed was formed to perform experimental classics (is that an oxymoron?) by people like Robert Ashley. This is their first collaboration on a new piece, making music-theater out of media artist Peggy Weil’s Blurring Test project, which turned turned the Turing Test on its head: instead of asking whether a computer could make people think it was human in conversation, it asked whether people conversing with a chatbot could prove they were human.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, good cocktails and even good food at Grand Army Bar. Streaming at home, have an Enigma: pour 1-1/2 oz. Islay Scotch, 2/3 oz. sweet Vermouth, and 1/4 oz. each of Cherry Heering and yellow Chartreuse, with one dash of Peychaud’s bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Express an orange twist into the drink and plop it in as a garnish.
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Sunday, March 12, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, March 12, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, March 12, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ras Moshe: Music Now!
SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2023
3:00 PM
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Saxophonist Ras Moshe is free in more ways than the usual. He assembles a massive list of fellow explorers he’s worked with over the years. And BANG.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Light Taiwanese at Win Son Bakery.
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Sunday, March 12, 2023, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Handel: Solomon
SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2023
2:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$39-$139
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The annual excellently cast concert performances of Handel operas put on by Harry Bicket and The English Concert are always season highlights. You never miss the staging — these Baroque extravaganzas are hard to stage convincingly anyway — but this year’s presentation is an oratorio, so staging isn’t an issue in any event. Listen for one Handel’s Greatest Hits, “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba.” You people who are allergic to da capo arias (you know who you are) can stay home.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Burger Joint.
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Saturday, March 11, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sirius Quartet
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It’s curious that the Sirius Quartet seems to get written about more in the jazz press than the classical, when they’re quite clearly a New Music string quarter. Is it because the members write a lot of the quartet’s material? In any event, they’re quite good.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Yet another chance to fail to get into unapologetic Indian sensation Masalawala & Sons.
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Saturday, March 11, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Esperanza Collado: Things Said Once
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023
8:00 PM
Microscope Gallery In Person & Live Stream
525 West 29th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
More expanded cinema. Here, a Spanish filmmaker/multimedia artist gives a choreographed reading of an essay she wrote in performance using physical objects, film reels, slides, whatever. Mere description doesn’t convey how much fun this kind of thing often is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Conceptually boring, very delicious oven-focused Italian at Ci Siamo.
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Saturday, March 11, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ricardo Romaneiro & NONVISUALS: SUBHAZE: Sacred Geometry
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023
8:00 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A number of people have done that “transforming soundwaves into visuals” thing — but Ricardo Romaneiro, an electroacoustical composer with a theatrical streak who’s just slick enough, and new media jockey NONVISUALS will do it little bit better.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Charming Saridian at D.O.C. Wine Bar.
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Saturday, March 11, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nibal Malshi: Women in the Golden Age of Arab Music
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$30 advance; $35 door; $25 student/seniors at door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Twentieth Century Arab classical music — which I’m not sure, based on the present singer’s recordings, was so strictly differentiated from pop music — is a treasure trove: the music has drive, rhythmic complexity, unexpected harmonics, haunting melodies. You can only suspect that prejudice is the only thing that could have kept it from getting wider attention in this country. Nibal Malshi — raised in Palestine, now resident in Texas — is, as the promotional materials claim, an exquisite singer.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Outstanding Palestinian at AlBadawi.
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Saturday, March 11, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, March 11, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Francesca Harper: ARRAY’s LEAP: The Reckoning
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023
7:30 PM
Works and Process
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$5-$45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Choreographer/director Francesca Harper responds to the killing of seven-year-old Aiyana Mo’Nay Stanley-Jones — she was shot in the head while sleeping at her Grandmother’s house — by Detroit law enforcement. Nona Hendryx’s score should provide the requisite fierceness.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Alsatian at Cafe d’Alsace.
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Saturday, March 11, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Rāginī Festival: Mangrove Songs
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023
7:30 PM
David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center
61 West 62nd Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This year, Brooklyn Raga Massive’s Rāginī Festival focuses on the Indian disapora in the West Indies. Naipul fans need not hesitate.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can whine that Rosa Mexicano isn’t nearly as good as it used to be, and I’ll whine right along with you. But it isn’t affirmatively bad.
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Saturday, March 11, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Adam Tendler: Inheritances
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023
7:30 PM
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$35 in person; $25 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When pianist Adam Tendler unexpectedly inherited some money upon the death of his father, he used it to commission some new pieces. And here’s who he commissioned: Laurie Anderson, Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, Devonté Hynes, inti figgis-vizueta, Pamela Z, Ted Hearne, Angélica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Marcos Balter, Darian Donovan Thomas, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Scott Wollschleger, Mary Prescott, Timo Andres, and John Glover.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, fun South African food and wine at Kaia Wine Bar. Streaming at home, have a Money Tree: rinse a chilled Martini glass or coupe with Japanese or Scotch whisky. Pour in 1-1/2 oz. Cynar and 3/4 oz. each of Fino and Amontillado Sherry, with 1 dash each of Angostura and Peychaud’s bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into the chilled rinsed glass. Express a lemon twist into the drink and discard the rind.
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Saturday, March 11, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sat, Mar 11, 2023, 2:00 PM – Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Orchestra of St. Luke’s: Viajes y Raíces
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, MARCH 11 & 12, 2023
2:00 PM
SATURDAY: Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
1000 Richmond Terrace, Building C, Randall Manor, Staten Island
SUNDAY: Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Orchestra of St. Luke’s tours the five boroughts with a program of string quartets by Tania León, inti figgis-vizueta, and Keyla Orozco.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Saturday in Staten Island, Nurnberger Bierhaus is worth the walk. Sunday in Flushing, a chance to check out the fabulous new Tangram Food Hall!
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Friday, March 10, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Yotoco
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2023
10:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Yotoco plays Pan-Latin American dance-rock music. Usually, such musical syncretism is a recipe for disaster (or at least anodynity) — but they pull it off.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The band is named after a town in Colombia. So OF COURSE you’d go to Colombia in Park Slope.
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Friday, March 10, 2023, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, March 10, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
BINT: Solve et Coagula —> Stage I: (The Blackening)
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2023
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @ MITU580
580 Sackett Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
Free ($10 suggested donation)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mutlidisciplinary artist BINT, who mines and messes with her Arab/South Asian heritages, stages the first of three Sufi-derived pieces mirroring the primary stages of Arabic alchemical transmutation. But the transmutation most of interest to the audience will be BINT’s use of technology to alter sound and visuals.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hard not to send you down the block for vaguely Mediterraneanish food from the big oven at Victor.
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Friday, March 10, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, March 10, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Red Baraat: Festival of Colors
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2023
8:00 PM
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Whyte Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Happy Holi! No better way to celebrate than with Sunny Jain’s Red Baraat — sort of a South Asian Gogol Bordello (albeit without the verbal content). Opener Subh Saran’s fusiony music is neither here nor there — but it’s a holiday, so let’s be charitable.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cheffy Thai at Kru.
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Friday, March 10, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Joanna Mattrey: Arrhythmia
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Violist/composer Joanna Mattrey premieres a new piece for herself, violin, sax, and trumpet (and, as you’ll see if you click the links, not just any violin, sax, and trumpet).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, neighborhood French at French Louie. Streaming at home, have The Line: pour 3/4 oz. each of Gin, sweet Vermouth, and Bénédictine into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Alexandra Tatarsky: Sad Boys in Harpy Land
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 10 – 12, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 18)
8:00 PM
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$24.28
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Alexandra Tatarsky is a young Jewish woman who thinks she is a German boy who thinks he is a tree. Anything billed as “equal parts sad clown, demented cabaret, and extended crisis of meaning” is something to go to.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wonder if you can get into Corner Bar yet?
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Friday, March 10, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Caroline Davis & Dustin Carlson
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2023
7:30 PM
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
TBA
TICKETS + INFORMATION
OK, I just loved Caroline Davis’s last album, for jazz alto sax and string ensemble, a pairing that seemed integral and not tacked-on. And I loved her prior album Alula, making a ‘70s jazz sound, sound fresh. Her duet partner, guitarist Dustin Carlson, writes music that starts out sounding rootsy but gets weird fast.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good Peruvian at Warique Garden.
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Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Keely Garfield Dance: The Invisible Project
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 10 – 12, 2023
7:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Keely Garfield used to call her company Sinister Slapstick — and that ought to give you an idea of what she’s about. Her work is chaotic, hilarious, remarking on the Real World but standing outside it (she’s another artist as to whom incident is more important than structure). So who knew she’s also a Hospital Chaplain? This new piece refers to that. Oh, by the way: Garfield’s dancers are phenomenal.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m sure Garfield would get a kick out of the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill. Have a Martini, then have a Caviar Pie, and after that stick with the steak if you know what’s good for you.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m sure Garfield would get a kick out of the Knicerbocker Bar & Grill. Have a Martini, then have a Caviar Pie, and after that stick with the steak if you know what’s good for you.
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Friday, March 10, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Celebrating Fred Lerdahl’s 80th Birthday
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2023
7:00 PM
Here and Now Series
Bargemusic
1 Water Street, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Fred Lerdahl’s music is more High Modernist than what usually gets Listed. But as someone once said, sometimes you just want to dive into a gnarly score.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Dominican barbecue at Bark, on the roof of the Time Out Market.
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Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Yara Arts Group: Radio 477! Jazz/Kharkiv/1929/Today
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 10 – 12, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 19)
7:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In the late 1920s, the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv went jazz crazy. There was a wildly popular locally produced jazz cabaret/theater piece telling stories of Kharkiv — which Stalin and his cronies eventually shut down. The immigrant Yara Arts Group has actually discovered the score. It would have been interesting if they recreated the show — but instead they have come up with this new piece, paralleling events in Kharkiv in the ‘20s and ‘30s with now. Music by Anthony Coleman.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Obviously you’re going to want to go to the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant, right?
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Friday, March 10, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gabriel Zucker: Experimental + Improvised Music
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2023
7:00 PM
Spectrum
481 Van Brunt Street, Door 7A, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$15; $10 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
These vanguard variety shows that the excellent pianist-composer Gabriel Zucker puts together are always interesting and often great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I am so excited about the new Piemontese-leaning Bar Mario that I could burst.
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Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 6:00 PM – Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Justin Vivian Bond: London Calling
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 10 – 12, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 17)
6:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Justin Vivian Bond channeling Julie London: could this be TOO awesome?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Taiwanese at 886.
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Friday, March 10, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Wagner: Lohengrin
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 1)
6:00 PM
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$32.50-$392.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Why does Wagner get Listed? Cuz like him or hate him, he had a large hand in inventing the modern avant-garde. Director François Girard did a great job with Parsifal and a terrible job with The Flying Dutchman (and, in another medium, a great job with Glenn Gould). Will he be able to undermine the smarmy misogyny of this work the way he did the vicious misogyny of Parsifal (nevertheless a vastly superior piece — indeed, vastly superior to almost all other operas)? You have to swallow your bitterness at the Met’s abandonment of its Robert Wilson production and go see it to find out. Oh, and the Act 1 Prelude may be the most beautiful thing in all Western music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and Cafe Fiorello are supposed to be open after this show.
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Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Theater No Theater: Han!
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 9 – 12, 2023
THURSDAY – FRIDAY 8:00 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 3:00 PM
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A post-Grotowski imagistic non-linear exploration of the Korean concept of han, which is some combination of being resigned, pissed off, and hopeful about how much life sucks.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Udon and things at the newly-expanded Raku (Koreans have reason to be REALLY pissed off about Japan).
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Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Diana Lobontiu: My Cousin Nelu Is Not Gay
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 9 – 12, 2023
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In this play he is. And Romanian (as in life).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza at Mo’s General.
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Thursday, March 9, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Interpretations: Dan Joseph / Michael Byron
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20; $15 door students/seniors; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
New and recent works by these two composers who don’t sound anything like each other. Dan Joseph came out of the D.C. Hardcore scene, where he drummed — and doesn’t sound like he didn’t. Michael Byron, also a virtuoso trumpet-player, writes in a scintillating Minimalist-Post-Minimalist (West Coast branch) mode. Good stuff here.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, a new bar around the corner from Roulette! The Little Pig. Streaming at home, have a Chapala (which sort of tastes the way Michael Byron’s music sounds): pour 1-1/2 oz. Tequila Blanco, 1/2 oz. each of orange juice and lemon juice, 1/4 oz. Grenadine, and 1/8 teaspoon orange blossom water into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with an orange wedge.
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Thursday, March 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Maurya Kerr: black calls to dark calls to deep underneath
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2023
7:30 PM
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$35-$50; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bay Area’s Maurya Kerr — a good poet as well as a good choreographer — makes her New York choreographic debut with a new piece about Black and Brown people claiming their right to both wonderment and the quotidian.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lovely neighborhood Italian at Sfoglia.
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Thursday, March 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Hildegard Commission Concert
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Showcasing newly commissioned pieces by the five finalists in this year’s search for outstanding young composers who are female or other marginalized genders (or abbesses?). This year, the finalists — DM R, Andrea Guterres, Hannah Ishizaki, Yaz Lancaster, and Kelley Sheehan — were each charged with setting or using as inspiration the poetry of Cavafy.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Israeli at K’Far.
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Thursday, March 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ryley Walker-J.R. Bohanon-Ryan Sawyer Trio / Jeff Tobias
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2023
7:30 PM
Sundown Bar
68-38 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$14.85
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ryley Walker is a folkie singer-songwriter who is also, through some miracle of music, an excellent exploratory guitarist; J.R. Bohannon is a guitarist who sort of takes Americana to the fringe; and Ryan Sawyer is just the guy to drum with them.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The first thing to remember is that you’re in a bar in the downstairs of an excellent wine shop that takes its cocktails as seriously as the shop takes Natural wine. The second thing to remember is that you’re around the corner from stylish pan-Asian in homey surroundings at Porcelain.
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Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Mar 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alvin Lucier: So You . . . (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice)
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 10 & 11, 2023
7:30 PM FRIDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
Blank Forms @ Amant
306 Maujer Street, Bushwick (unless it’s East Williamsburg), Brooklyn
$8
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
As far as I know, Alvin Lucier — a composer mostly interested in sound-as-sound — wrote only one major narrative piece. And this is it. So if you’re wondering what a narrative piece by Lucier might be like, grap this chance to hear Lucier’s take on H.D.’s (feminist) take on the Orpheus myth, performed (for the first time since Lucier’s deaath) by the people it was written for: cellist Charles Curtis, clarinetist Anthony Burr, and vocal explorer Jessika Kenney.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Odd Pan-Latino/Asian fusion at Aura Cocina.
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Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Mar 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Jordan Demetrius Lloyd: Blackbare in the Basement
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 9 – 11, 2023
7:30 PM
Danspace Project
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jordan Demetrius Lloyd’s dance pieces tend to be narrative (or at least narrative-ish), but not in an insulting or aesthetically belittling way. Eclectic. Engaging. The kind of thing you just like.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pan-regional Chinese seems like a bad idea. But Uluh makes it work.
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Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Thursday, March 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kevin Laskey: The Snow, Like Me
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$20-$30 in person; $20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A jazz deconstruction of English Baroque. Followers of the local Early Music scene will be interested to know that the vocalist for this song cycle is Molly Netter; Alt Classicists will want to know that Eleanore Oppenheim plays bass. Kevin Laskey composes and leads (and plays drums and electronics).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, José Andrés goes Middle Eastern at Zaytinya. Streaming at home, have a Pink Gin: pour 2 oz. Gin (Plymouth by very strong preference), with 4 dashes of Angotstura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
HEATER
Leegrid Stevens: War Dreamer
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 9 – 12, 2023 (continuing through MARCH 25)
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Loading Dock Theatre
The Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street, East Village, Manhattan
$41; $31 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Leegrid Stevens writes suggestive theater pieces, and his Loading Dock Theatre company stages them with much shoestring technical panache (and beautiful acting by Erin Treadway). This one is about conspiracy theories — but the point is, it’ll be an experience.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mainly fish (duh) at Lamia’s Fish Market.
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Thursday, March 9, 2023, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Rafa Prendergast and Shelby Yamin: Dueling Violins
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dueling Baroque violinists.
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 Improved Cat and Fiddle: pour 1-1/2 oz. Rye, 1/2 oz. Cointreau, and 1 tsp. each of Absinthe and Dubonnet Blanc into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 9:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Machine Dazzle: Treasure and Other Delights
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2023
9:30 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Genius designer Machine Dazzle puts together a synth-rock examination of their relationship with their mother.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Only the fantasamagorical izakaya Kenka could follow this show.
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Wed, Mar 8, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Mar 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Jon Irabagon
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 8 – 11, 2023
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As good as Jon Irabagon is on saxophone, even more impressive is the list of excellent players he got to play with him over the course of this residency.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Michaël Attias / Chris Pitsiokos-Joe Morris-Kevin Murray
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2023
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Questing saxophonist Michaël Attias plays on his own. And then a trio including guitarist Joe Morris, making it worthwhile by definition.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Maybe some good cocktails, great interior, and snacky seafood at Deux Chats.
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
