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Saturday, April 30, 2022, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
MUSIC
Dayna Stephens & Custom Deluxe
SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
Jazz Gallery
1160 Broadway (entrance on 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$20-$35 in person
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dayna Stephens is a little mainstream for what we do here, but he’s such a solid soulful saxman that it’s hard not to give him a nod. Tonight he revives the Art Blakey tradition of finding the best young players/composers he can and letting them rip (under his experienced tutelage).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Korean offal barbecue at Jongro Gopchang.
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Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, May 1, 2022, 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Outline: Spring
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 30 & MAY 1, 2022
7:00 PM
Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Avenue, Maspeth, Queens
$40 per night; $65 both nights
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If the Long Play festival comprises most of the music this List exists to cover, this Outline festival includes the rest: experimental pop that often sounds an awful lot like contemporary classical.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A festival this good deserves the good times of Gottscheer Hall, run by members of a community of ethnic Bavarians who made their way to Slovenia before mid-20th Century events drove them the Ridgewood.
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Saturday, April 30, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
Sanda Weigl
SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2022
6:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20 in person; free-$10 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sanda Weigl concludes a month-long Saturday evening residency, each week featuring a different format for her cabaret/(faux) Roma mashup.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, if they haven’t run out, you can get the weekend barbacoa and tamales at Reyes Deli & Grocery. Streaming at home, have a Gypsy: pour 2 oz. Vodka and 1 oz. Bénédictine, with 1 dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Saturday, April 30, 2022, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
MUSIC
Piano Dialogues: Phyllis Chen
SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2022
2:00 PM
Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$25; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you can think of a better way to spend a weekend afternoon indoors than a toy-instruments recital, let me know about it. (Well, other than that.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Snacky Mexican at El Mitote.
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Saturday, April 30, 2022, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
THEATER
Target Margin Theater: One Night
TUESDAY – THURSDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 26 – 28 & 30, 2022 (continuing through MAY 28)
7:00 PM TUESDAY & THURSDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$59-$129
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Target Margin culminates its several-years-going exploration of the Thousand Nights and One Night with a nine-hour extravaganza (also available for viewing in two parts, for the faint of heart). The earlier (shorter) excerpts were imaginative, insightful, and incredibly fun. I personally am looking forward to this more than I can say.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I see us having some nice Cantonese at Lucky Eight.
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Friday, April 29, 2022, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
MUSIC
Soulseek: Boo Lean / Relaxer / Sister Zo / SYANIDE
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2022
9:00 PM
IRL
80 Franklin Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
$15-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
More beats.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As far as I’m concerned, Taqueria Ramirez not only has the best tacos in New York; they have the best tacos ever in New York. Mexico City-style, if you’re wondering.
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Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 9:30 PM
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Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sun, May 1, 2022, 5:00 PM
DANCE
John Scott Dance: Cloud Study
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 29 – MAY 1, 2022
8:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa Moves!
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 day of; $20 students/seniors advance; $25 students/seniors day of; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This Dublin-based dance company brings a dreamy cloud-invoking piece to New York. And one of the dancers is that incredibly magnetic Mufutau Yusef, whom you may remember from last week’s solo piece at the Irish Arts Center!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Vaselka and show the flag.
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Friday, April 29, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Friday, April 29, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Frank London’s ¡No Pasaran!
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15 in person; free-$10 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trumpeter Frank London forms a brass trio with percussion, and continues to ignore boundaries between world, folk, jazz, and chamber.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, might as well go (if you can) to what is by far the best restaurant in Park Slope, Runner Up. Streaming at home, have a Sol y Sambra: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Brandy (Spanish Brandy by preference) and Anisette into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Brandy snifter.
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Friday, April 29, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
DANCE
Tatyana Tenenbaum: For Selma
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2020
8:00 PM
The 14th Street Y
344 East 14th Street, East Village, Manhattan
Free ($10 suggested donation)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A solo for voice, movement, memory, and textile, incorporating songs as well as movement by Tatyana Tenebaum and snippets of interviews with her grandmother.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Überhearty Albanian at Dua Kafe.
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Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 8:30 PM
OPERA
Du Yun & International Contemporary Ensemble: Zolle / A Cockroach’s Tarentella
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 29 & 30, 2022
7:30 PM
Skirball Center, NYU
566 LaGuardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Du Yun makes contemporary classical music without worrying if it incorporates contemporary vernacular. So it comes as no surprise that tonight’s staged performances of two of her pieces involve Satomi Matsuzaki of Deerhoof. This would be unmissable if it didn’t conflict with Bang on a Can’s Long Play festival. What to do?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to The Knickerbocker Bar & Grill. Have a Martini. Then have a Caviar Pie appetizer. After that, you’re on your own.
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Friday, April 29, 2022, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
MUSIC
Milena Casado
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
Jazz Gallery
1160 Broadway (entrance on 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$20-$35 in person
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Not only is Milena Casado a good flugelhorn player and composer, but her sextet includes such List regulars as saxplayer+ Morgan Guerin, bassist Nick Dunston, and one of the very best musicians in all of contemporary jazz, pianist Kris Davis.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thin-crust Roman-style pizza at Marta.
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Friday, April 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Son Lux
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2022
7:00 PM
Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Composer Ryan Lott’s band project Son Lux is one of the best of the pop/classical units. I always thought I disliked the music of opener Emily Wells, but she’s been getting pretty beaty lately and it helps.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vietnamese sensation Falansai is one of the best restaurants in Brooklyn right now. And you can pass by the Joyva factory going between there an Elsewhere, giving you a chance to genuflect to them around the season at which they excel.
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Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, May 1, 2022, 3:00 PM
DANCE
Valetango Company: Confianza
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 29 – MAY 1, 2022
7:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa Moves!
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 day of; $20 students/seniors advance; $25 students/seniors day of; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Exploratory contemporary tango.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Easy call: hardcore Argentinian at Buenos Aires..
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Friday, April 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Sarah Galdes / Gabriel Zucker / Carmen Rothwell / Almog Shavrit, David Leon & Stephen Boeghold
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2022
7:00 PM
Spectrum
481 Van Brunt Street, Door 7A, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$15; $10 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Experimental and improvised music. (Pianist/composer Gabriel Zucker is kind of brilliant.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The venue is sort of around the corner (WARNING: its location is confusing) from Hometown BBQ!
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Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, May 1, 2022, 11:00 PM
MUSIC
Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 29 – MAY 1, 2022
Various Times
Various Places
Brooklyn
$95 daily passes; $195-$350 three-day festival passes; subsidized tickets available
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A mind-boggling assemblage of shows all over Brooklyn of exactly the kind of music this List was created to cover. You can’t possibly miss this.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s all over Brooklyn!
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Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 9:00 PM
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Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 9:00 PM
DANCE
Jennifer Nugent: up against
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 28 – 30, 2022
8:00 PM
Gibney In Person & FRIDAY Live Stream
280 Broadway (entrance on Chambers Street), Civic Center, Manhattan
$15-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jennifer Nugent is a fabulous dancer with a questing, questioning mind. Here she explores the nature and conditions of performance themselves.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Chinatown Cantonese like you’ve always loved it at Uncle Lou. Streaming at home, have a tarted-up Whiskey Daisy: pour 1 oz. each of Bourbon and Rye, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1/2 oz. each of Simple Syrup and Orgeat into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Thursday, April 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 9:00 PM
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Thursday, April 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Thursday, April 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 4:00 PM
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Thursday, April 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
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Thursday, April 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 8:30 PM
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Thursday, April 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Thursday, April 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 8:00 PM
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Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 8:00 PM
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Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 8:00 PM
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Thursday, April 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Tall Juan
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2022
7:00 PM
The Sultan Room
234 Starr Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$19.08
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This List just adores Tall Juan, who started out as punk rockabilly and then began to explore — in an arty abstract way — his Latin roots (he’s from BA: God help us when he takes on Tango) and other people’s African roots. Tonight he plays solo with taped backup.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You just KNOW I’m going to send you down the block for hyperloaded Venezuelan hot dogs at Santa Salsa.
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Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 6:30 PM – Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 9:30 PM
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Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 4:00 PM – Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 5:00 PM
DANCE/PERFORMANCE
Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener: RETROFIT: a new age
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 28 – 30, 2022
4:00, 5:00 & 6:00 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
2:00, 3:00 & 4:00 PM SATURDAY
Danspace Project
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$15 advance; $25 door; $15 wheelchair; $20 students/seniors; $10 children 12 or under
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An immersive dance-performance installation. Note that the times Listed are misleading: you can come when you want until closing (8:00 PM Thursday & Friday, 6:00 PM Saturday) and you’ll be admitted as a walk-in who can stay as long as he or she wants.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Old Skool Red Sauce at John’s of 12th Street.
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Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 9:30 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Jeremiah Cymerman
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 27 – 30, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In a City full of interesting musicians, clarinetist Jeremiah Cymerman still stands out (and I’ve heard other musicians speak of him in hushed tones). Here’s his shot at the usual Stone four-night stand of various contexts and ensembles.
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, April 27, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Marisa Tornello feat. Ezra Gans, Magnus Løvseth, Shara Lunon & Julián Muro: Shatter
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; live stream free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A musical/performance piece exploring disassociation and subsequent attempts to re-coalesce into a community. Not that we all would know anything about THAT.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, plausible if rather boring bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, have a Greenpoint: pour 2 oz. Rye and 1/2 oz. each of sweet Vermouth and yellow Chartreuse, with 1 dash of orange bitters and 1 dash of Angostura 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, April 27, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 3:00 PM
THEATER
Mind the Art Entertainment: ACEDIA: An Apocalypse Trilogy
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 27 – 30, 2022
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$25 per show; $75 full trilogy
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A cherry, phantasmagorical three-play exploration of the times before, during, and after the Apocalypse. You can see the plays separately during the week, or all together on Saturday or Sunday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good pizza and good wine at Leo.
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Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, May 1, 2022, 10:00 PM
MUSIC
Jonathan Blake & Pentad
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 26 – MAY 1, 2022
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Village Vanguard
178 7th Avenue South, West Village, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Not only is Jonathan Blake an excellent, distinctive drummer, but his band here is beyond fabulous, containing some of the leading musicians of the current jazz generation: Immanuel Wilkins, Joel Ross, David Virelles, and Ben Street. Almost hard to believe, actually.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Distinctive and incredibly flavorful Southern Indian at Semma.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Cleek Schrey & Yasunao Tone: Anagram
TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; live stream free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This intriguing program had its inception when the question arose in Cleek Schrey’s mind: what if you played the venerable multidisciplinary Fluxus artist Yasunao Tone’s Anagram for Strings on daxophone? Well you might ask. This show includes a realization of the piece for daxophones (one played by Tone himself), violin (C. Spencer Yeh!), and voice (Gelsey Bell!!!!!!). Also, a new string quartet by Schrey (played by an equally starry ensemble) and some electronic rumblings by Tone.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic food at As You Are. Streaming at home, have a Bamboo: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Sherry (it’s fun exploring different types in this) and dry Vermouth, with 2 dashes each of orange bitters and Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Express a lemon peel into the drink, and garnish with an olive.
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Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 3:00 PM
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Jessie Cox feat. Laura Cocks & String Noise Sounds
TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2022
7:30 PM
Carnegie Hill Concerts In Person & Live Stream
Church of the Advent Hope
111 East 87th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jessie Cox, an exciting composer/percussionist, in two settings: a duo with the adventurous flautist Laura Cocks (no relation), and helping expand the punk chamber sounds of violin duo String Noise, along with Cocks, pianist Sam Yulsman, and New York’s furthest-out bassoonist, Joy Guidry.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, ramen at Naruto. At home, have a Little Drummer Boy: pour 2-1/2 oz. aged Rum, 3/4 oz. sweet Vermouth, and 2 teaspoons Maple Syrup, with 4 dashes of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
Barry Conners: The Patsy
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 26 – 30, 2022
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Transport Group
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$55-$65
TICKETS + INFORMATION
David Greenspan, the titanic imp of Downtown theater, breathes upon this antique comedy of manners and transforms it into one of the funniest and most exhilarating one-person shows you’ve ever seen. SEE THIS!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A show this great deserves one of the best restaurants in New York: Basque sensation Ernesto’s (they have an all-day café if you go to the Saturday matinée). On Sunday, when Ernesto’s is closed (sigh), walk over to Golden Diner for Korean-Middle American mash-up.
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Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, May 1, 2022, 3:00 PM
MUSIC / THEATER
Heather Christian: Oratorio for Living Things
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 26 – MAY 1, 2022 (continuing through MAY 15)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Ars Nova @ Greenwich House
27 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$35-$65
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Country-folk-blues singer-songwriter Heather Christian presents a big long-form piece about what it means to be alive and our relationship with time (exactly the things I try hard not to think about).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Emmett’s on Grove and its Midwestern tavern-style pizza is all the rage. (I’m a New York/naples pizza loyalist myself.)
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Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 7:00 PM – Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 8:00 PM
THEATER
Target Margin Theater: One Night
TUESDAY – THURSDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 26 – 28 & 30, 2022 (continuing through MAY 28)
7:00 PM TUESDAY & THURSDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$59-$129
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Target Margin culminates its several-years-going exploration of the Thousand Nights and One Night with a nine-hour extravaganza (also available for viewing in two parts, for the faint of heart). The earlier (shorter) excerpts were imaginative, insightful, and incredibly fun. I personally am looking forward to this more than I can say.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I see us having some nice Cantonese at Lucky Eight.
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Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, May 1, 2022, 4:30 PM
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Monday, April 25, 2022, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
MUSIC
New York Philharmonic Nightcap: Nico Muhly
MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2022
9:00 PM
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Juilliard School, Lincoln Center
165 West 65th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As a lead-in the world premiere of his new double-piano concerto at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, Nico Muhly curates an evening of music, including some world premieres composed by himself, to be played on piano by himself and by a sterling full-time pro pianist, Conor Hanick.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before the show, grab some oysters and a Cadillac burger (and a Martini whydoncha) at P.J. Clarke’s. Here’s a list of all the places anywhere near the Kaplan Penthouse on the Upper West Side that will be open after the show: .
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Monday, April 25, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Monday, April 25, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Monday, April 25, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, May 1, 2022, 7:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 25 – MAY 1, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, May 1, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 25 – MAY 1, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park
59th Street – 110th Street/Central Park West – 5th Avenue, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, April 24, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Go: Organic Orchestra & Brooklyn Raga Massive: RAGMALA
SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Relatively straight Indian classical meets improvisational world/jazz fusion.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Superb Palestinian at alBadawi.
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Sunday, April 24, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Roopa Mahadevan: Roopa in Flux
SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2022
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Place, NoHo, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Carnatic singer Roopa Mahadevan’s Roopa in Flux project is crossover in the good sense: it seeks to expand means of expression by traversing boundaries, not to make everything sound like “exotic” MOR that could be played on a cruise ship.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Again you’ll have to go before the show in this pathetic City we now inhabit, but it seems like a good time to try the Indian hot chicken sandwich sensation Rowdy Rooster (from the unapologetic Dhamaka etc. team).
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Sunday, April 24, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
MUSIC
Five Boroughs Music Festival: Five Boroughs Songbook Vol. 3
THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 21 & 24, 2022
7:00 PM THURSDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
THURSDAY: Central Branch, Brooklyn Public Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
SUNDAY: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
309 St. Pauls Avenue, Stapleton Heights, Staten Island
THURSDAY free
SUNDAY $25; $15 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It looks this Contemporary/Alt Classical song recital could’ve been programed by me. Just to list a few of my very faves on the composers’ roster to give you a taste of what the expect: Angélica Negrón, Majel Connery, Will Healy, Juri Seo, and Aaron Siegel. Will be GREAT. (And another great show for people who think they don’t like classical music at all, or who like classical music but think they don’t like new classical music.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thursday, the new Prospect Heights hotspot is Midwestern charmer Patti Ann’s. Sunday, stuff yourself at the fabulous Sri Lankan weekend buffet at Lakruana.
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Sunday, April 24, 2022, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
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Sunday, April 24, 2022, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
MUSIC
Parlando: Spring Forward
SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2022
2:00 PM
Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$25-$35; $15 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Aaron Copland once famously said (unless it was Virgil Thompson) that American music was music written by an American. So this program’s attempt to discover what makes music American might be misdirected. In any event, it’ll take us from inti figgis-vizueta to Copland himself (his canonical Appalachian Spring in its original chamber orchestration). Love ‘em both — even if I don’t see much connection.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: What could be more American than a pastrami on rye with some garlic fries on the side at Pastrami Queen?
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Saturday, April 23, 2022, 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM
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Saturday, April 23, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Pedrito Martinez: Afro-Cuban Rhythms
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
OK, Pedrito Martinez can get a little MOR for this List. But the guy is just a monster percussionist, and when he stops trying to be crowd-friendly and goes full-out Afro-Cuban he is hot as hell.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Keep the party going at Grand Army Bar.
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Saturday, April 23, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Joyce DiDonato: EDEN
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 2022
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$16-$105
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One of those concept-concert extravaganzas that Yankee Diva Joyce DiDonato likes to put together, this time with staging and an actor and all. The program is supposed to celebrate nature, with music from the Baroque till now played by the Baroque Il Pomo d’Oro ensemble. But the main question this raises for me is, which will sound more bizarre played on Baroque period instruments: Ives or Mahler?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Izakaya Donburiya.
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Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 3:00 PM
DANCE
Gala Flamenca
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 23 & 24, 2022
8:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Flamenco Festival
New York City Center
131 West 55th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$35-$150
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A good cross-section of contemporary big-deal flamenco.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let’s see what the current state of play is at the nice bistro Benoit.
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Saturday, April 23, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Saturday, April 23, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
TENET Vocal Artists: Thomas Tomkins @ 450
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 2022
7:00 PM
St. Thomas Church
1 West 53rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$10-$55
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This show examines the life and works of the great English Madrigalist (even though he was actually Welsh) and composer of church and keyboard music Thomas Tomkins (who you might say insisted on remaining Tudor, musically speaking, even though he lived into the Stuart period). What with his living through the English Civil War, the Plague, and whatnot, the life was almost as exciting as the music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Here’s your chance to go to the splendid Italian café Lodi.
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Saturday, April 23, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
Sanda Weigl
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 2022
6:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20 in person; free-$10 live stream
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Sanda Weigl continues a month-long Saturday evening residency, each week featuring a different format for her cabaret/(faux) Roma mashup.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, if they haven’t run out, you can get the weekend barbacoa and tamales at Reyes Deli & Grocery. Streaming at home, have a Gypsy: pour 2 oz. Vodka and 1 oz. Bénédictine, with 1 dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Saturday, April 23, 2022, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
THEATER
Target Margin Theater: One Night
TUESDAY – THURSDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 19 – 21 & 23, 2022 (continuing through MAY 28)
7:00 PM TUESDAY & THURSDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$49-$119
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Target Margin culminates its several-years-going exploration of the Thousand Nights and One Night with a nine-hour extravaganza (also available for viewing in two parts, for the faint of heart). The earlier (shorter) excerpts were imaginative, insightful, and incredibly fun. I personally am looking forward to this more than I can say.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I see us having some nice Cantonese at Lucky Eight.
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Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 12:00 PM – Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 4:00 PM
MUSIC
Earth Day Weekend Celebration
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 23 & 24, 2022
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
New York Botanical Garden
2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx Park, Bronx
$30; $28 students/seniors; $15 children 2-12; free children under 2
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In the Native Plant Garden, Contemporaneous plays Mandinkan Griot music and pieces by such as List über-fave Eve Beglarian. Meanwhile, over on Daffodil Hill are acts like the spacey guitar-bass duo Endless Field and catchy singer-songwriter Ali Dineen, who astonished Your Compiler one groggy Saturday morning by selling him produce at the GAP Greenmarket after he’d seen her do a show the night before.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Walk over to Italian-American paradise (now there are some Bosnian and other ringers) Arthur Avenue and go wherever appeals.
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Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 5:00 PM
DANCE
Pele Bauch / Marina Celander
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 22 – 24, 2022
8:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa Moves!
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 day of; $20 students/seniors advance; $25 students/seniors day of; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
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Two dances with narrative strands. Pele Bauch explores her life as a Native Hawaiian living in New York who bears the name of a major Hawaiian diety. Marina Celander brings out humanity’s disconnect from nature (a seemingly inexaustible topic).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Vaselka and show the flag.
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Friday, April 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 4:00 PM
DANCE
New York City Ballet: Visionary Voices
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 22 – 24, 2022 (continuing through MAY 1)
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
David H. Koch Theater
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$38-$205
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A really great program of new stuff by City Ballet. Another chance to see Justin Peck’s piece to Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices: whatever your qualms about the choreography (which is kind of schematically obvious), any chance to hear that music is welcome. Another chance to see Jamar Roberts’s piece to Wayne Shorter’s Eamanon (in this case the choreography is better than the music — to my taste, anyway). And two by Pam Tanowitz: a piece she did to more Shaw in which City Ballet dancers will be joined by guests from the Dance Theatre of Harlem; and a new piece to Ted Hearne’s wonderful Law of Mosaics.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice bistro-y French at Bar Boulud.
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Friday, April 22, 2022, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
MUSIC
Kengchakaj: Atta-Anatta
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1160 Broadway (entrance on 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$15-$25 in person; $20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An exploration of Thai and other South Asian musics through piano, electronics, and electronic-generated visuals.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It must seem like I’m getting kickbacks from Italian-Ashkenazic treat Mark’s Off Madison, but really it’s just that I really like their food and want them to do well.
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Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 8:30 PM
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Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 3:00 PM
DANCE
Gerald Casel Dance: Not About Race Dance
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 22 – 24, 2022
7:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa Moves!
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 day of; $20 students/seniors advance; $25 students/seniors day of; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
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An exploration of the racial politics of U.S. Post-Modern dance — and it’s about time.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hardcore Argentinian at Buenos Aires.
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Friday, April 22, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE/ DANCE
New York Arab Festival 2022
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2022
6:00 PM
Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Free-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Cutting edge (or nearly so) Arab dance and performance, and splendid Maqām music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I continue to think the historically informed Spanish/Moorish/Jewish food at La Vara is some of the best in Brooklyn (which is to say, in New York City) — even if the menu has gotten less conceptually specific now that it’s the last remaining of the owners’ Spanish restaurants (although menu item Judias a la Plancha does sound like what the Spanish Inquisition would do if they found any stay-behinds after The Expulsion).
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Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 3:00 PM
DANCE
Mufutau Yusuf: Òwe
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 21 – 24, 2022
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$25-$49
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In his NYC solo debut as a choreographer/dancer, the magnetic incandescent Mufutau Yusuf evokes his ancestral homeland Nigeria.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The amazing thing about rejuvenated Pueblan standby Tulcingo del Valle isn’t that they have Barbacoa de Cabeza on the menu; it’s that they actually have it in the restaurant when you order it. (Also, they now have a bar!)
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Thursday, April 21, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Thursday, April 21, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Composer Profile: Thomas Meadowcroft
THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2022
8:00 PM
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$20-$30; $17-$25 seniors; $15-$22 students and under 25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Australian-in-Berlin composer Thomas Meadowcroft is REALLY good, his glistening work sometimes almost shading into post-rock. Tonight he presents two world premieres. The unique piano/percussion quartet Yarn/Wire are old hands at playing Meadowcroft’s music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sichuan dry hotpot at 108 Food Dried Hot Pot is really good (and really fun).
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Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 9:00 PM
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Thursday, April 21, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 8:30 PM
PERFORMANCE
Shamel Pitts / TRIBE: BLACK HOLE: Trilogy and Triathlon
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 21 – 23, 2022
7:30 PM
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$25; $20 students/seniors
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A kaleidoscopic exploration of Black experience (or, more accurately, of universal experience from a Black perspective), with Afrofuturistic overtones cuz, really, you have to this season.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I can’t help it. I have to keep sending you to the new iteration of El Quixote. As I never tire of saying, it’s a blast.
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Thursday, April 21, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 4:00 PM
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Thursday, April 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Five Boroughs Music Festival: Five Boroughs Songbook Vol. 3
THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 21 & 24, 2022
7:00 PM THURSDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
THURSDAY: Central Branch, Brooklyn Public Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
SUNDAY: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
309 St. Pauls Avenue, Stapleton Heights, Staten Island
THURSDAY free
SUNDAY $25; $15 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It looks this Contemporary/Alt Classical song recital could’ve been programed by me. Just to list a few of my very faves on the composers’ roster to give you a taste of what the expect: Angélica Negrón, Majel Connery, Will Healy, Juri Seo, and Aaron Siegel. Will be GREAT. (And another great show for people who think they don’t like classical music at all, or who like classical music but think they don’t like new classical music.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thursday, the new Prospect Heights hotspot is Midwestern charmer Patti Ann’s. Sunday, stuff yourself at the fabulous Sri Lankan weekend buffet at Lakruana.
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Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 9:30 PM
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Sydney Spann: Cow, Cow, Cow, Rabbit, Recalcitrance, Bunny, Dog, Dog, Dog
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2020
8:00 PM
CPR — Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Free ($10 suggested donation)
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Sydney Spann, a really fascinating (and surprisingly listenable) sound artist, creates an installation where baby monitors are used to diffuse her usual manipulated field recordings throughout the various cells of the space, with the audience being left to figure out how it all relates. Gee, do you think this has anything to do with Spann’s years as a child care provider (which left her with the firm belief that the bourgeois nuclear family is a contested space)?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This venue is like a block away from neo-Cantonese/American supernova Bonnie’s. So I can’t help but send you there — even though the chances of getting in are like nill.
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Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 9:00 PM
MUSIC
jazzwerkstatt Festival
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 20 & 21, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 per night advance in person; $30 per night door in person; live stream free
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The Berlin jazz scene pays New York a visit.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, plausible if rather boring bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, have an Ohio from Buck & Breck: pour 1 oz. Rye, 1/2 oz. sweet Vermouth, and 1/4 teaspoon each of Bigallet China-China and Curaçao, and 1 dash of Angostura bitters into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a Julep tin over ice. Top with Champagne. Express an orange peel into the drink and disgard the the rind.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Ryan Sawyer, Darius Jones & Shazad Ismaily Trio/Max Jaffe & Chris Williams Duo/Ava Mendoza
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2022
8:00 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20.71
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A night of intriguing combinations of experimental musicians of different disciplines. (OK, Ava Mendoza playing solo guitar isn’t a “combination” — but she contains multitudes.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before the show, grab some good pizza at Mo’s General.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Takács Quartet feat. Julien Labro
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2022
7:30 PM
92nd Street Y In Person & Online
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$20-$40; $20 under 35
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Don’t know about this one, actually. In theory, put a bandoneon playing with a string quartet onstage and this Tango fanatic will be there — especially when the string quartet is of the stupendous quality of the Takács. But I don’t find Bryce Dessner to be much of a composer, and Clarice Assad seems to alternate between writing music of charm, appeal, and some astringency and writing mush. At least they’ll be doing the Ravel quartet (without the bandoneon).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Italian fave Sfoglia, somehow still good.
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Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 6:30 PM
THEATER
Mind the Art Entertainment: ACEDIA: An Apocalypse Trilogy
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 20 – 24, 2022 (continuing through APRIL 30)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
5:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$25 per show; $75 full trilogy
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A cherry, phantasmagorical three-play exploration of the times before, during, and after the Apocalypse. You can see the plays separately during the week, or all together on Saturday or Sunday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good pizza and good wine at Leo.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Susie Ibarra feat. Claire Chase, Talking Gong & The Harvard New Music Ensemble
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2022
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Place, NoHo, Manhattan
$20 advance; $24 door
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Susie Ibarra is not only a sensationally good percussionist; she’s also an extremely interesting musical thinker, making much use of the music of her ancestral Philippines. Tonight the signal flautist Claire Chase curates a program of Ibarra’s new works, played by Ibarra’s great Talking Gong Trio (including Chase) and Chase’s students in the Harvard New Music Ensemble.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’ll have to go before the show, but it seems only right to go to the NYC branch of Mama Fina’s House of Filipino Sissig — unbelievably the only East Village Philippine restaurant that appears to have made it through The Pandemic.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Ryley Walker, Mark Morgan & Chris Corsano/Zoh Amba, gabby fluke-mogul & Luke Stewart
TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2022
8:00 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$18.45
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Ryley Walker is an odd case: a folkyish singer-songwriter (often a quite good one, actually) (if you can imagine such a thing) who doubles as a rather amazing experimental guitarist. The people he’s playing with tonight create little doubt that we’ll be hearing his experimental side. Meanwhile, saxophonist Zoh Amba has been making a lot of noise on the local jazz scene since she moved here just in time for The Pandemic — and her accompanists are nonpareil.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Is it warm enough for the Birri-Landia truck yet?
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Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 11:00 PM
MUSIC
Aaron Parks: Little Big
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 19 – 23, 2022
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Village Vanguard
178 7th Avenue South, West Village, Manhattan
$40
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Just like it says in the Vanguard’s promotional materials, Aaron Parks is a forward-looking jazz pianist/composer who isn’t afraid of songform. He also isn’t afraid of the grunge style that his native Seattle contributed to rock music — although that now seems a lot less forward-looking than when Parks was starting out.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Distinctive and incredibly flavorful Southern Indian at Semma.
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Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 3:00 PM
MUSIC / THEATER
Heather Christian: Oratorio for Living Things
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 19 – 24, 2022 (continuing through MAY 15)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Ars Nova @ Greenwich House
27 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$35-$65
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Country-folk-blues singer-songwriter Heather Christian presents a big long-form piece about what it means to be alive and our relationship with time (exactly the things I try hard not to think about).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Emmett’s on Grove and its Midwestern tavern-style pizza is all the rage. (I’m a New York/naples pizza loyalist myself.)
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Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
Barry Conners: The Patsy
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 19 – 24, 2022 (continuing through APRIL 30)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Transport Group
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$55-$65
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David Greenspan, the titanic imp of Downtown theater, breathes upon this antique comedy of manners and transforms it into one of the funniest and most exhilarating one-person shows you’ve ever seen. I saw him do an excerpt a few weeks ago, and I couldn’t believe how much fun it was.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A show this great deserves one of the best restaurants in New York: Basque sensation Ernesto’s (they have an all-day café if you go to the Saturday matinée). On Sunday, when Ernesto’s is closed (sigh), walk over to Golden Diner for Korean-Middle American mash-up.
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Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 7:00 PM – Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 8:00 PM
THEATER
Target Margin Theater: One Night
TUESDAY – THURSDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 19 – 21 & 23, 2022 (continuing through MAY 28)
7:00 PM TUESDAY & THURSDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$49-$119
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Target Margin culminates its several-years-going exploration of the Thousand Nights and One Night with a nine-hour extravaganza (also available for viewing in two parts, for the faint of heart). The earlier (shorter) excerpts were imaginative, insightful, and incredibly fun. I personally am looking forward to this more than I can say.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I see us having some nice Cantonese at Lucky Eight.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Nova Twins
TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2022
7:00 PM
Baby’s All Right
146 Broadway, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Nova Twins mix Punk with a dollop of Grime — and boy do they sound good. Great show, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexico City style at Aldama.
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Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 4:30 PM
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Monday, April 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Ustovolskaya: Piano Sonata No. 4
MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2022
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$16.50-$110
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Galina Ustvolskaya used to be one of the most puzzlingly overlooked composers of the 20th Century, but she’s finally coming into her own (not that she’s around to enjoy it — if in fact she’d care). Her work has immense pounding granitic power, but with a deep core of underlying spirituality. It is like nothing else. And Yefim Bronfman is just the Major Piano Star to play it. Which means he might not be the guy to play Chopin, also on the program (although this is BIG Chopin). As for the Beethoven, this will be one way to play him. But go for the Ustvolskaya.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: If Ustvolskaya were alive and attending this recital (and if I were her, I’d sure want to hear Yefim Bronfman play my work in Carnegie Hall), I have no doubt she’d go to famous dissident hangout Russian Samovar afterwards.
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Monday, April 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Jane Antonia Cornish: Sierra
MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; live stream free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jane Antonia Cornish’s Sierra is a gorgeous (if thin) celebration of nature and its calming/stimulating effects on us humans. Vicky Chow is just the pianist to play it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic food at As You Are. Streaming at home, have a Deep Cleanse: muddle 3 cucumber slices and 1/2 oz. Simple Syrup at the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add ice. Pour in 1-1/2 oz. Gin, 2 oz. aloe vera juice (for once, it doesn’t have to be fresh), an 1 squeeze of lime juice. Shake. Strain into a Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with another cucumber slice.
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Monday, April 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Monday, April 18, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
PUBLIQuartet / Big Dog Little Dog: Music of Jessie Montgomery
MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2021
7:30 PM
Music Mondays
Advent Lutheran Church
2504 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There is no hotter composer around than Jessie Montgomery, whose music is vivacious and bracing (and who understands strings inside out). Here it’s played — with a ringer by Astor Piazzolla and a group improvisation — by her old band, the excellent PUBLIQuartet, and her current (intermittent: being the hottest composer around takes up a lot of her time) band, Big Dog Little Dog (a duo with ace of bass Eleanore Oppenheim). A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good Kosher barbecue (now THERE are three words you don’t expect to see in conjunction with each other) at Izzy’s Smokehouse.
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Monday, April 18, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Mon, Apr 18, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 7:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 18 – 24, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Apr 18, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 18 – 24, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park
59th Street – 110th Street/Central Park West – 5th Avenue, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 11:00 PM – Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 12:00 AM
MUSIC
Growth in Decay: Ben Hixon / Stonie Blue / Earth Boys / Saliyah / J. Harcrow
SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2022
11:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Electronic dance-oriented music from Austin
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good cocktails in onetime bordello Barely Disfigured.
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Saturday, April 16, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
Sanda Weigl
SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2022
6:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20 in person; free-$10 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sanda Weigl starts a month-long Saturday evening residency, each week featuring a different format for her cabaret/(faux) Roma mashup.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, if they haven’t run out, you can get the weekend barbacoa and tamales at Reyes Deli & Grocery. Streaming at home, have a Gypsy: pour 2 oz. Vodka and 1 oz. Bénédictine, with 1 dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Saturday, April 16, 2022, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
MUSIC
PUBLIQuartet feat. Bob Stewart
SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2022
2:00 PM
Wave Hill
4900 Independence Avenue, Riverdale, Bronx
$30; $14 children 8-18
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Did you know that the great jazz tuba player Bob Stewart is the father of one of the violinists in PUBLIQuartet? Neither did I. But this afternoon, they’ll play together. They’ll play Jessie Montgomery (who left the quartet to spend more time being one of the hottest composers around), Vijay Iyer, Rhiannon Giddens, and arrangements of Gaye and Ellington.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You just KNOW I’m gonna send you to Liebman’s Deli, right?
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Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 9:00 PM – Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 10:00 PM
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Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 4:00 PM
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Friday, April 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Immanuel Wilkins
FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; live stream free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Alto saxophonist/composer Immanuel Wilkins, that great hope of mainstream jazz, presents a new extended piece. Tina Brooks fans should not hesitate (nor should anyone else).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nearby Mexican El Zasón appears to have dumbed down its menu somewhat before I had a chance to get there: the story of my life. Streaming at home, make like you’re at Gage & Tollner and have a Turf Club: pour 2-1/2 oz. Gin, 1 oz. dry Vermouth, 1/2 teaspoon Maraschino liqueur, and 1/4 teaspoon Absinthe into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Friday, April 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Wendy Eisenberg: Eye Music
THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; live stream free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Exploratory guitarist/singer-songwriter Wendy Eisenberg underwent eye surgery, and was surprised at the changes in perception that came with restored vision. This new extended piece for a new mixed-ensemble (translation: band) ensued.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic food at As You Are. Streaming at home, have a Glad Eye: pour 1-1/2 oz. Absinthe and 1 oz. each of Crème de Menthe and chilled water into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a whole star anise in the unlikely event you happen to have one.
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Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 5:00 PM
DANCE
Johnnie Cruise Mercer / Jesse Zarritt
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 15 – 17, 2022
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa Moves!
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 day of; $20 students/seniors advance; $25 students/seniors day of; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Johnnie Cruise Mercer is just great: he does pieces that are specifically personal but backed by generalized philosophical analysis. AND, he’s fun to watch! Don’t know Jesse Zaritt, but his proposed use of bodybuilding rituals to examine African-American Ashkenazi(!!!!!!) life could not be of more interest to, at least, me.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Vaselka and show the flag.
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Friday, April 15, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
PinkNoise / ASM: lo spazio inverso
FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2022
7:30 PM
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
58 Seventh Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20; $10 students; free YouTube live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Just look at the list of composers being performed by PinkNoise and associates: Salvatore Sciarrino, Jessie Cox (who will also be playing), Clara Ionnotta, Catherine Lamb, and Johnna Wu!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, you wouldn’t expect to find really first-rate ramen (much less Fukuoka-style Tonkotsu) on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope — but at Ramen Danbo, you will! Streaming at home, have an Erin (which is what I’m going to do as soon as I finish writing this List): pour 2 oz. Rye, 1/2 oz. each of sweet Vermouth, Golden Moon Amer dit Picon (or Bigallet China-China), and Suze, and 3/4 teaspoon Allspice/Pimento Dram, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with an orange twist and a lemon twist.
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Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 4:00 PM
DANCE
Eiko Otake: The Duet Project: Distance Is Malleable
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 15 – 17, 2022
7:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Skirball Center, NYU
566 LaGuardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Glacial yet illuminated by a cool blue flame: that’s the work of post-Butoh great Eiko Otake. Here she presents a series of duets with a set of intriguing collaborators from different fields, ranging from toy piano mistress Margaret Leng Tan to painter/rapper DonChristian Jones.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cuban (duh) at Cuba.
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Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 8:30 PM
DANCE
Fresh Tracks: New Works
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 15 & 16, 2022
7:30 PM
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
New works by a diverse group of choreographers.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I can’t help it. I have to keep sending you to the new iteration of El Quijote. As I never tire of saying, it’s a blast.
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Thursday, April 14, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
David Linton: Citharodeo
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2022
8:00 PM
Musical Ecologies
Old Stone House, Washington Park
336 3rd Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Exploratory musical conceptualist/recovered percussionist/List college friend David Linton presents a new work for electric guitar. Linton couldn’t fail to provoke if he wanted to (which he doesn’t).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As we wait for the Dhamaka team to open their Massalawalla on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, Colombia in Park Slope remains by far my favorite place on that stretch, so as repetitive as it seems I’ma keep sending you there.
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Thursday, April 14, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
OPERA
Tygapaw: Devil Woman (Obeah Woman) Part 1: Dem Nuh Like We An We Nuh Like Dem
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2022
8:00 PM
Chocolate Factory Theater
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
Free ($10 suggested donation)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Fierce Jamaican trans electronic dance music artist Tygapaw unveils the first part of (what I think is) their first opera, featuring various Jamaican musics refracted through the Techno idiom. Certainly up there for Event Of The Week.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Look, the Sinaloan taqueria/cocktail bar Cielito is full of more deliciousness and more fun than one place should be able to hold. Also, you can see its external blue lights from blocks away.
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Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 9:00 PM
DANCE
MICHIYAYA Dance: you have to look through this to see me
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 14 – 16, 2022
8:00 PM
Gibney In Person & FRIDAY Live Stream
280 Broadway (entrance on Chambers Street), Civic Center, Manhattan
$15-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Expressly queer/femme exploration of sensual interpersonal relations (without the heteronormative baggage).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Japanese-inflected Cantonese at Cha Kee. But when have I ever let that stop me? Streaming at home, have a Pink Lady: pour 1-1/2 oz. Gin and 1/4 oz. each of Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy, Grenadine, and lemon juice, with 1 egg white, into a cocktail shaker WITHOUT ice. Dry shake. Add ice. Shake. Strain into a chilled Nick and Nora glass. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Thursday, April 14, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
HUMANN RESONANCE: Jason Lindner x Currency Audio / Yuka C. Honda / Bookworms
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2022
8:00 PM
C’Mon Everybody
325 Franklin Avenue, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$18.45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An evening of interesting and even catchy electronic pop-oriented music (which is quite different from synth-pop, as I’m sure you understand).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: What I am convinced to a moral certainty is the best Cuban food in New York City at Pilar Cuban Eatery.
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Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 7:30 PM – Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Alarm Will Sound: Ten Thousand Birds
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, APRIL 14 & 15, 2022
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As I’m sure I’ve already said ten thousand times, one of my biggest thrills during The Lockdown was seeing my living room and dining room windows appear in the video that Alarm Will Sound made of one of their signature pieces, John Adams’s Ten Thousand Birds, played remotely for remote consumption. That was a radically compressed version. Now we can hear the more expansive complete version in person, the way it was meant to be experienced — albeit not out in nature, as it was also meant to be experienced. Instead, we get one of those great nights where a performance spreads around the Armory’s vast Drill Hall. Can’t wait.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It wouldn’t be an Armory show if I didn’t send you to Donahue’s Steak House afterwards: one of those absolutely wonderful places we have here in this City.
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Thursday, April 14, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 8:00 PM
DANCE
Tiffany Mills Company: Homing
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 14 – 16, 2022
7:00 PM
La MaMa Moves!
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 day of; $20 students/seniors advance; $25 students/seniors day of; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In the wake of the Lockdown, Tiffany Mills looks at people’s relationships to the places they live. There will be a lot of pop culture references.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hardcore Argentinian at Buenos Aires.
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Thursday, April 14, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
The American Opera Project: The AOP Mixtape #1 — No More!
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2022
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Place, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A bunch of brand new vocal works, sung and played by a bunch of solid List faves.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This show deserves the fabulous Shanghainese at CheLi.
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Thursday, April 14, 2022, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
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Wed, Apr 13, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 9:30 PM
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Wed, Apr 13, 2022, 8:00 PM – Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 9:00 PM
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Wed, Apr 13, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 6:30 PM
THEATER
Mind the Art Entertainment: ACEDIA: An Apocalypse Trilogy
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 13 – 17, 2022 (continuing through APRIL 30)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
5:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$25 per show; $75 full trilogy
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A cherry, phantasmagorical three-play exploration of the times before, during, and after the Apocalypse. You can see the plays separately during the week, or all together on Saturday or Sunday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good pizza a good wine at Leo.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
PERFORMANCE
Maurice Lemaître: Films Imaginaires
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2022
7:30 PM
Microscope Gallery
525 West 29th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lettrist icon Maurice Lemaître was one of the progenitors of performative cinema. This program brings his work to us. Attempting to recreate Lemaître’s pieces by following his instructions for performance as closely as possible, the gallery will present works requiring the intervention/participation of the viewers in the abstracted films being show — including in associated performance pieces. You’ve got to see it to know what it’s like.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Spanish at Casa Dani.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 3:00 PM
MUSIC / THEATER
Heather Christian: Oratorio for Living Things
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 12 – 17, 2022 (continuing through MAY 15)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Ars Nova @ Greenwich House
27 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$35-$65
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Country-folk-blues singer-songwriter Heather Christian presents a big long-form piece about what it means to be alive and our relationship with time (exactly the things I try hard not to think about).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Emmett’s on Grove and its Midwestern tavern-style pizza is all the rage. (I’m a New York/naples pizza loyalist myself.)
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Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
Barry Conners: The Patsy
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 12 – 17, 2022 (continuing through APRIL 30)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Transport Group
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$55-$65
TICKETS + INFORMATION
David Greenspan, the titanic imp of Downtown theater, breathes upon this antique comedy of manners and transforms it into one of the funniest and most exhilarating one-person shows you’ve ever seen. I saw him do an excerpt a few weeks ago, and I couldn’t believe how much fun it was.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A show this great deserves one of the best restaurants in New York: Basque sensation Ernesto’s (they have an all-day café if you go to the Saturday matinée). On Sunday, when Ernesto’s is closed (sigh), walk over to Golden Diner for Korean-Middle American mash-up.
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Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 4:30 PM
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Monday, April 11, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 7:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 11 – 17, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 11 – 17, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park
59th Street – 110th Street/Central Park West – 5th Avenue, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, April 10, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
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Saturday, April 9, 2022, 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM
MUSIC
Nappy Nina
SATURDAY, APRIL 9 2022
9:30 PM
BAM Café
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Alt rapper Nappy Nina should be as great here in Brooklyn as she was two nights ago in Rockaway Beach.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before the show, Bed-Stuy pizzeria Saraghina’s new full-service Sicilian Caffé in Fort Greene. After, keep the party going at The Rockwell Place.
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Sat, Apr 9, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 10:00 PM
DANCE
Bill Young / Colleen Thomas & Co.: LIT (No. 21): alt performance
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 9 & 10, 2022
8:00 PM SATURDAY
9:00 PM SUNDAY
100 Grand
100 Grand Street, Soho, Manhattan
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A really stellar bunch of NYC dancers doing intense, physical dance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I know my recommendations can seem to get repetitious. But if you’re up the block from the delightful French café La Mercerie, why would you not go there?
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Saturday, April 9, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Ekmeles: Works from UNM Robb Composers’ Symposium
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2022
7:30 PM
St. Peter’s Church
346 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$15-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The amazing vocal ensemble Ekmeles (with some help from trombone- and bass-playing friends) reprises material they performed at a New Music symposium in New Mexico earlier this week, by members of the ensemble and others — very much including Anthony Braxton.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Truly excellent Palestinian at Qanoon.
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Saturday, April 9, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
Sanda Weigl
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2022
6:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20 in person; free-$10 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sanda Weigl starts a month-long Saturday evening residency, each week featuring a different format for her cabaret/(faux) Roma mashup.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, if they haven’t run out, you can get the weekend barbacoa and tamales at Reyes Deli & Grocery. Streaming at home, have a Gypsy: pour 2 oz. Vodka and 1 oz. Bénédictine, with 1 dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Friday, April 8, 2022, 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM
MUSIC
maassai &Jwords and Friends
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2022
9:30 PM
BAM Café
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Maassai is a Brooklyn producer/DJ/musician with really clever beats. Jwords is from Jersey, but no harm in that.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speakeasy Izakaya at Karasu hidden in the back of Walter’s.
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Fri, Apr 8, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 9:00 PM
DANCE
Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith: Gloria
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 8 – 10, 2022
8:00 PM
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$20; $16 students/seniors; $10 student rush
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Explicitly feminist dance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I can’t help it. I have to keep sending you to the new iteration of El Quixote. As I never tire of saying, it’s a blast.
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Fri, Apr 8, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Apr 9, 2022, 9:00 PM
DANCE
Kyle Marshall Choreography
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 8 & 9, 2022
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
The Joyce at The Chelsea Factory
547 West 26th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$20-$45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The exciting uplifting Kyle Marshall does what I, for one, have already seen to be a great piece rooted in Afrofuturism and free jazz, and what looks to be another great piece fusing Black church traditions with club music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Your doctor won’t appreciate the recommendation, but the pimento cheese-stuffed Juicy Lucy burger at Whitmans is quite delicious.
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Fri, Apr 8, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 9, 2022, 8:30 PM
DANCE
Candoco Dance Company
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 8 & 9, 2022
7:30 PM
BAM Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$20-55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having a dance company integrating disabled and non-disabled dancers seems like an earnest point-making gesture. But the reviews say Candoco is for real. To prove it, they’re restaging Trisha Brown’s Laurie Anderson/Robert Rauschenberg collaboration, Set and Reset — one of the signal Post-Modern Goes Glitzy productions of the ‘80s. There’s also a new piece made on the company by Yasmeen Godder.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speakeasy Izakaya at Karasu hidden in the back of Walter’s.
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Fri, Apr 8, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 9, 2022, 8:30 PM
DANCE
New Chamber Ballet: Munu Munu
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 8 & 9, 2022
7:30 PM
Mark Morris Dance Center
3 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$38
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bright contemporary ballet set to Medieval vocal music and Toby Twining.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The cocktails at The Rockwell Place are so good that you won’t care how good the bar snacks and pub grub are or aren’t (they’re fine).
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Thu, Apr 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 5:00 PM
THEATER
David Cerda: The Drag Seed
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 4 & 7 – 10, 2022
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 day of; $20 students/seniors advance; $25 students/seniors day of; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Carson wants to win the drag pageant at their very progressive school — and will do whatever is necessary to do so.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Vaselka and show the flag.
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Thu, Apr 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – Fri, Apr 8, 2022, 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Andy Akiho: Seven Pillars
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, APRIL 7 & 8, 2022
8:00 PM
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS & INFORMATION
Andy Akiho is a thrilling and seductive composer who understands percussion from the inside out. We finally get to hear the full long-form piece he composed for Sandbox Percussion, after being enticed by Sandbox’s performances of wonderful movements over the last several years.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speaking of things that are wonderful, I am delighted to send you back to Farida for the finest Central Asian in Manhattan.
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Thu, Apr 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Apr 9, 2022, 9:00 PM
PERFORMANCE / DANCE
zavé martohardjono: TERRITORY: The Island Remembers
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 7 – 9, 2022
8:00 PM
Gibney In Person & FRIDAY Live Stream
280 Broadway (entrance on Chambers Street), Civic Center, Manhattan
$15-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Putting the Trans in transdisciplinary, this transplanted Indonesian explores colonialism and its cultural and ecological consequences. Looks spectacular. There’s an also spectacular-looking installation associated with it that’s available for experiencing between 12 and 3 PM.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, it seems overly obvious to send you to conscious Cantonese throwback (in the best way possible) Uncle Lou. But when have I ever let that stop me? Streaming at home, have a Bijen Sour: pour 2 oz. Genever and 3/4 oz. each of lemon juice and Honey Syrup (1/2 oz. honey dissolved in 1/4 oz. hot water) into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Nick and Nora glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Thursday, April 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Composer Portrait: Matana Roberts
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2022
8:00 PM
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$20-$30; $17-$25 seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Is there a more fascinating composer/player in the field roughly denominated jazz than Matana Roberts? And does it show how meaningless genre distinctions are that among the 12 improvising musicians playing Roberts’s long-form multimedia piece about Sandra Bland are members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, of which Roberts is a member?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You choose your ingredients from a multitudinous list and have a dry Sichuan hot pot that’s seriously delicious at 108 Food Dried Hot Pot.
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Thursday, April 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Fire Over Heaven
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2022
8:00 PM
Outpost Artists Resources
1665 Norman Street, Ridgewood, Queens
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The usual well-curated assortment of fascinating noise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: See what’s brewing at Evil Twin.
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Thursday, April 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Lido Pimienta / Combo Chimbita
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2022
8:00 PM
Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lido Pimienta is a major artist of the Americas, taking Colombian vernacular music and Arting it up smartly. NYC’s own Combo Chimbita’s psyched-up cumbia is so much fun (and so conscious and political) you stop worrying about things like authenticity.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’ma keep sending you to back-to-where-it-once-belonged revision of onetime Vietnamese sensation Bunker.
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Thursday, April 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Nappy Nina
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2022
8:00 PM
The Rockaway Hotel
108-10 Rockaway Beach Drive, Rockaway Bech, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Alt rapper Nappy Nina is great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wouldn’t you know, there’s an excellent restaurant right in The Rockaway Hotel, called Margie’s.
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Thursday, April 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Interpretations: Karen Power / Stewart Saunders Smith
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; $15 student seniors in person; live stream free
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A concert exploring the relationship between composers and interpreters. Here, the interpreters include Irish pollinators and Arctic ice (to the extent ice can be said to “interpret”) in Karen Power’s case; and a battery of percussion is Stewart Saunders Smith’s.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nearby Mexican El Zasón appears to have dumbed down its menu somewhat before I had a chance to get there: the story of my life. Streaming at home, have an Alaska: pour 2-1/4 oz. Old Tom Gin and 1/4 oz. yellow Chartreuse, with 1 dash of Angostura 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, Apr 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 4:00 PM
OPERA
Kamala Sankaram: The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 7 – 10, 2022
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
New Camerata Opera
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$35-$60
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The only opera that Kamala Sankaram has written so far that wasn’t absolutely great was merely excellent. I don’t think she’s going to start getting worse now. There’s cabaret — with aerialists! — before and after!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Japanese-Italian fusion is actually good at Kimika.
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Thursday, April 7, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
New York Baroque Incorporated: Double Trouble
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2022
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$35
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Double concertos by Bach (one for two harpsichords and his masterpiece for two violins) and Vivaldi (for two cellos) — and more.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good bistro at Le Crocodile.
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Thursday, April 7, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
David Rosenboom: The Infinity of Things that Don’t Exist
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2022
7:30 PM
Blank Forms
468 Grand Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
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An evolving piece in which David Rosenboom accompanies analogue electroacoustic sounds with video.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: There’s always something interesting happening at Art Cafe + Bar.
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Thu, Apr 7, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Apr 9, 2022, 8:00 PM
DANCE
Niall Noel Jones: Dark De Luxe: A Mess for Body, Shadow and Other Rogue Im/materials
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 7 – 9, 2022
7:00 PM
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
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Niall Noel Jones is multi-disciplinary but rooted in dance. His works are conceptually complex but maintain a vivid physicality.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Locanda Vini e Olii used to skew Piemontese but now it leans more Tuscan. It’s still fine, though.
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Thu, Apr 7, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 3:00 PM
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Thu, Apr 7, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Apr 9, 2022, 8:00 PM
OPERA
Heartbeat Opera: Quando
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 7 – 9, 2022
7:00 PM
McKittrick Hotel
530 West 27th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$40
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Film! Live performance! Recompositions of Gluck and Verdi! A satire of sex and activism! (Wait, the people who created the intense Mass Incarceration production of Fidelio are satirizing activism????)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Get the fuck off that horrible block and walk over to Casa Dani for excellent Spanish.
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Thu, Apr 7, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Apr 9, 2022, 8:00 PM
MUSIC / DANCE / PERFORMANCE
Word, Sound, Power 2022
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 7 – 9, 2022
7:00 PM
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$25
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Hip-hop. Dance. Spoken world.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Persian food at Sofreh is just as jewel-like as always (even if its new sort-of-spinoff in Bushwick, Eyval, is that bit better).
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
MUSIC
Cuarteto Guataca: Son Cubano y Salsa para Bailar
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2022
9:00 PM
The Atlantic
333 Atlantic Avenue, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$15
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So I was walking up Flatbush Avenue last Fall and came upon this trio playing mellow, swaying, absolutely irresistible Son Montuno on a traffic island. They turned out to be three-quarters of the Cuarteto Guataca. I’m a fan! This was definitely and by far the best music I’ve ever heard on a traffic island on Flatbush Avenue.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Soul food and some Caribbean stuff at The Soul Spot.
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Wed, Apr 6, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Apr 9, 2022, 9:30 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Fay Victor
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 6 – 9, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
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There isn’t any vocal artist on the scene today more versatile, more challenging, or more strong than Fay Victor. If anyone can support a four-day residency with a different ensemble/format each night, it’s her.
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, April 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
De Capo Chamber Players: Bridging Cultures
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2022
8:00 PM
Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$20; $10 students
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As I was leaving my row for intermission at Zankel Hall last week after hearing an excellent new piece by Hannah Kendall, I found myself stepping over Kendall herself. “This is what’s great about New Music concerts,” I thought to myself. “You don’t get to step over Brahms at the Philharmonic.” Now we get another new piece by this fresh voice who doesn’t avoid narrative, thematic (in the musical sense) density, or her Caribbean background. Also, among others, Eric Moe (whose lively music I for one am always very happy to hear) and George Walker, whose stuff just gets even better the more you hear it — and we’re thankfully getting to hear it a lot these days.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’ll have to go before the show (I hate to do that), but the self-explanatory Pastrami Queen.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
The Andy Statman Trio
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20 in person; free-$10 live stream
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More Klezmer-into-Coleman from Andy Statman.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, the self-explanatory Colombia in Park Slope, cuz it’s just so good. Streaming at home, have a Cel-Ray Collins: finely chop a celery stalk. Muddle at the bottom of a cocktail shaker with 1/2 lime cut into wedges and 2 teaspoons sugar. Pour in 1-134 oz. Gin. Add ice. Shake. Strain into a Collins glass over ice. Top with Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray. Add a dash of celery bitters (or absent that, Angostura). Garnish with another (unchopped) celery stalk.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Sara Serpa: Intimate Strangers
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; live stream free
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Sara Serpa, a melodically and conceptually fascinating singer-songwriter originally from Portugal, teams up with the Nigerian author Emmanuel Iduma to produce a song cycle for voices and electronics (Qasim Naqvi!) taking off from Iduma’s book reflecting on his travel from Lagos up the coast of Africa.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic food at As You Are. Streaming at home, have a Chapman (non-virgin version duh): pour 2 oz. each of orange soda, lemon-lime soda, and gin, and 1/4 oz. Grenadine, with 1 dash of Angostura bitters, into a Collins glass over ice. Garnish with orange, lemon, and cucumber slices.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM
MUSIC
Victoria Bond: From the Atlas of Imaginary Places
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2022
4:45 PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
33-50 82nd Street, Jackson Heights, Queens
Free
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So I was chatting with composer Victoria Bond last summer, and she blew my mind by mentioning that she had sung on an old favorite album of mine, Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies’ The American Metaphysical Circus from 1969 (I guess Victoria was a Field Hippy). So I took it out and played for the first time in a few decades. And there was a 20-something Victoria jokingly pretending to be an elderly inmate of a retirement home. That joke may be several decades less funny now, but Bond is far from retired — as this world premiere, played by Percussia, shows. Also on the program are pieces by Dennis Tobenski and Alexis Lamb.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Well, gosh, you’ll be in one of the two greatest food neighborhoods in New York City (the other being Flushing). Why not have a stick-to-your-ribs Colombian meat plate at La Boina Roja?
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Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Shai Maestro Quartet / Kneebody
TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2022
8:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20 advance; $25 day of
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Sure, pianist Shai Maestro and his quartet are fine. But this gets Listed for the utterly original stylings of Kneebody, who never fail to surprise (and delight).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Who knows? Maybe we can get into British seafood sensation Dame (a restaurant so successful that it doesn’t have to open on weekends).
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Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Tue, Apr 5, 2022, 7:30 PM – Wed, Apr 6, 2022, 8:30 PM
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Tue, Apr 5, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 3:00 PM
DANCE
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 5 – 10, 2022
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$51-$71
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That one of the very best, most provocative, most sheerly thrilling dance companies in New York is flamenco might seem an oddity, but that’s why we all live here. If you’ve seen Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca before, you’ll know you want to see them again. If you’ve never seen them, you MUST.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: OF COURSE you’re going to go around the corner for some paella at Socarrat.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Tue, Apr 5, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
Claudia Rankine: Help
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 5 – 10, 2022
7:00 PM TUESDAY – THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
The Shed
545 West 30th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$29-$72
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”What are White people thinking?” asks the brilliant poet/playwright Claudia Rankine in this piece based on actual interactions she had with Whites in transitional spaces like airports. The creative team on this piece is pretty brilliant, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Faux-Southern food and drink at Porchlight.
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Tue, Apr 5, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 3:00 PM
MUSIC / THEATER
Heather Christian: Oratorio for Living Things
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 5 – 10, 2022 (continuing through APRIL 17)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Ars Nova @ Greenwich House
27 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$35-$65
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Country-folk-blues singer-songwriter Heather Christian presents a big long-form piece about what it means to be alive and our relationship with time (exactly the things I try hard not to think about).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Emmett’s on Grove and its Midwestern tavern-style pizza is all the rage.
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Tue, Apr 5, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
Barry Conners: The Patsy
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 5 – 10, 2022 (continuing through APRIL 30)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Transport Group
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$55-$65
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David Greenspan, the titanic imp of Downtown theater, breathes upon this antique comedy of manners and transforms it into one of the funniest and most exhilarating one-person shows you’ve ever seen. I saw him do an excerpt a few weeks ago, and I couldn’t believe how much fun it was.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A show this great deserves one of the best restaurants in New York: Basque sensation Ernesto’s (they have an all-day café if you go to the Saturday matinée). On Sunday, when Ernesto’s is closed (sigh), walk over to Golden Diner for Korean-Middle American mash-up.
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Tue, Apr 5, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 4:30 PM
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Monday, April 4, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
THEATER
David Cerda: The Drag Seed
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 4 & 7 – 10, 2022
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 day of; $20 students/seniors advance; $25 students/seniors day of; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
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Carson wants to win the drag pageant at their very progressive school — and will do whatever is necessary to do so.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Vaselka and show the flag.
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Monday, April 4, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Monday, April 4, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Luis Macías & Optipus: Graphic Film Score: Instructions for performers and instruments of light and sound
MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2022
7:30 PM
Microscope Gallery
525 West 29th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$15
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Expanded filmmaker Luis Macías has created a “score” for a visual filmic presentation to be realized live and accompanied by sonics, in this case provided by synthesizer, harp, prepared guitar, and bicycle.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Simple but delicious Italian food from a huge oven at Ci Siamo.
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Monday, April 4, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Monday, April 4, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Monday, April 4, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 4 – 10, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
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One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Apr 4, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 4 – 10, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park
59th Street – 110th Street/Central Park West – 5th Avenue, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, April 3, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Sonya Belaya & ДАЧА: New Childhood
SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance; $25 door; free live stream
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Various personal vicissitudes (including the disappearance of Sonya Belaya’s mother in totalitarian Russia) filtered through the lens of improvisation, jazz, Russian folk, and Soviet music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Splendid Palestinian at AlBadawi.
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Sunday, April 3, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber: Cosmic Riddem, Esoteric Rambunction &, Eclectic Blue Cheer–Conduction No. 5
SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2022
7:30 PM
Afrofuturism
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$20-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
See this titanic band (and guests), taking off from Electric Miles and running as fast and far as they can, and mourn for its recently deceased founder, the great great Greg Tate.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m liking the looks of Sicilian spot Norma — even if they forgot to put any segundi on their menu.
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Sunday, April 3, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Sunday, April 3, 2022, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
MUSIC
Dawn Upshaw & Brentano Quartet: Dido Reimagined
SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2022
3:00 PM
92nd Street Y In Person & Live Stream
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$20-$45 in person; $20 live stream
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Dawn Upshaw, whose soprano tone is still sweet, sings Renaissance and early Baroque English songs — an incredibly fertile repertoire — and the Brentano quartet does string quartet arrangements of English viol consorts (another fertile repertoire). It all leads up to Purcell’s ineffable “Dido’s Lament” (up there with “Waterloo Sunset” as the most beautiful song in English) and then Melissa Wagner’s new reinterpretation of the Dido story.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, fun South African wine and food at Kaia. Streaming at home, not to rub Dido’s face in it, but have a Rome with a View: pour 1 oz. each of Campari, dry Vermouth, and lime juice, and 3/4 oz. Simple Syrup, into a Collins glass over ice. Top with club soda. Garnish with an orange slice.
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Saturday, April 2, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Saturday, April 2, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Devonté Hynes: Selected Classical Works
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2022
8:00 PM
BAM Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$35-$95
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Well. Devonté Hynes, in his Blood Orange guise, is one of the leading figures of post-Prince New Wave R&B, just fabulous. But he’s also composed contemporary classical pieces of enormous appeal, which will be performed tonight by such major artists as Adam Tendler, Third Coast Percussion, and The String Orchestra of Brooklyn.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speakeasy Izakaya at Karasu hidden in the back of Walter’s.
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Saturday, April 2, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Ambient Church: Fennesz
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2022
8:00 PM
St. George’s Episcopal Church
4 Rutherford Place, Stuyvesant Square, Manhattan
$45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You might not think the ambient crowd had the energy, but Fennesz is actually controversial. Some think he isn’t ambient enough: there are almost tunes sometimes.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Am I the only person I know who doesn’t love the tapas at Casa Mono? You know, I think I might be.
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Saturday, April 2, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
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Friday, April 1, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Friday, April 1, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Benefit for Ukraine Relief
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
For the benefit of the people of Ukraine, Meredith Monk (and John Hollenbeck) on video, and John Zorn’s Cobra, Fred Hersch, and Vadim Neselovskyi (who obviously has a personal stake here) in person.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic food at As You Are. Streaming at home, get some Honey Pepper Horilka.
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Friday, April 1, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Brooklyn Art Song Society: New Voices Festival: Confessions I
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2022
7:30 PM
First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn
119 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When a song recital features pieces by Eve Beglarian (a world premiere), Missy Mazzoli, Shawn Jaeger, Carlos Simon, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Nina C. Young, and Reinaldo Moya (another world premiere), is there any question it gets the highest List recommendation?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Inga’s Bar really wants to be everybody’s favorite Brooklyn Heights neighborhood spot.
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Friday, April 1, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Friday, April 1, 2022, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
MUSIC
GEORGE
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
Jazz Gallery
1160 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$25-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A new quartet formed during The Quarantine by the incredibly interesting drummer John Hollenbeck, featuring Brooklyn sax goddess Anna Webber. They rehearsed remotely, and only met as a unit in the beginning of this year. To say that one is intrigued would be quite the understatement.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mod Korean at Atoboy.
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Friday, April 1, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
International Contemporary Ensemble feat. Chris Williams & Jessie Cox: Spectrum@7
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2021
7:00 PM
Spectrum
481 Van Brunt Street, Door 7A, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Solos and duos.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re within crawling distance of the Hometown BBQ mothership.
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Friday, April 1, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Fri, Apr 1, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Apr 2, 2022, 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Ata Kek
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 1 & 2, 2022
7:00 PM FRIDAY
7:30 PM SATURDAY
FRIDAY: Market Hotel
1140 Myrtle Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
SATURDAY: (Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20 FRIDAY; $20 advance/$25 day of SATURDAY
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Apparently no one listens to Ata Kek’s left-field rap/funk/highlife amalgam in Kek’s native Ghana. But they sure listen to it here. If you can resist this music, you’re a better person than me. Actually, you aren’t.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Friday, cool Thai at Mao Mao. Saturday, Shaker throw-back at Commerce Inn.
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Fri, Apr 1, 2022, 2:00 PM – Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 6:00 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
The Builders Association: I Agree to the Terms
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 1 – 3, 2022
2:00 & 5:00 PM
Skirball Center Online
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In an immersive online experience, presumably privileged audience members (cuz who else would pay to do this in their free time?) will train with actual oppressed Amazon employees and then compete for meaningless boring repetitive low-paying jobs.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Everclear.
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Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 5:00 PM
THEATER
David Cerda: The Drag Seed
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 31 – APRIL 3, 2022 (continuing through APRIL 10)
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 day of; $20 students/seniors advance; $25 students/seniors day of; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Carson wants to win the drag pageant at their very progressive school — and will do whatever is necessary to do so.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Vaselka and show the flag.
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Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Apr 2, 2022, 8:00 PM
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Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 8:00 PM
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Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 8:00 PM
THEATER
Jeton Neziraj: Balkan Bordello
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 31 – APRIL 3, 2022 (continuing through APRIL 10)
7:00 PM
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
Pay what you can Thursday; thereafter: $25 advance; $30 day of; $20 students/seniors advance; $25 students/seniors day of; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Oresteia — in Belgrade.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hardcore Argentinian at Buenos Aires.
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Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Apr 2, 2022, 9:30 PM
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Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER / MUSIC / DANCE
David Byrne: American Utopia
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 30 – APRIL 3, 2022
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
5:00 & 9:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
St. James Theater
246 West 44th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$59-$179
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If a collaboration between David Byrne and Annie-B Parson were put on at BAM, I wouldn't think twice about Listing it (although I'd still feel constrained to make a comment about Boomer Nostalgia moving on to the Pop Avant-Garde). So I'm not gonna demerit this cuz it's on Broadway. AM I?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Maybe the sushi at Sushi Lab is overelaborate and tries too hard. But it's there.
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Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Apr 2, 2022, 9:00 PM
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Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 6:00 PM
THEATER
The Civilians: what you are now
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 30 – APRIL 3, 2022
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Ensemble Studio Theatre
545 West 52nd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$20-40; $25 students/seniors
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What if our memories aren’t fixed, but change every time we remember the past? (Wait you mean it isn’t that way for everybody?)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ardesia Wine Bar is even closer to Ensemble Studio Theatre than to the Irish Arts Center.
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Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 3:00 PM
THEATER
Barry Conners: The Patsy
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 30 – APRIL 3, 2022 (continuing through APRIL 30)
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Transport Group
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$55-$65
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David Greenspan, the titanic imp of Downtown theater, breathes upon this antique comedy of manners and transforms it into one of the funniest and most exhilarating one-person shows you’ve ever seen. I saw him do an excerpt a few weeks ago, and I couldn’t believe it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A show this great deserves one of the best restaurants in New York: Basque sensation Ernesto’s (they have an all-day café if you go to a matinée).
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Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 2, 2022, 8:30 PM
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Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 3:00 PM
MUSIC / THEATER
Heather Christian: Oratorio for Living Things
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 29 – APRIL 3, 2022 (continuing through APRIL 17)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Ars Nova @ Greenwich House
27 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$35-$65
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Country-folk-blues singer-songwriter Heather Christian presents a big long-form piece about what it means to be alive and our relationship with time (exactly the things I try hard not to think about).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Emmett’s on Grove and its Midwestern tavern-style pizza is all the rage.
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Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
Claudia Rankine: Help
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 29 – APRIL 3, 2022 (continuing through APRIL 10)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
The Shed
545 West 30th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$29-$72
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”What are White people thinking?” asks the brilliant poet/playwright Claudia Rankine in this piece based on actual interactions she had with Whites in transitional spaces like airports. The creative team on this piece is pretty brilliant, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Faux-Southern food and drink at Porchlight.
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Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 4:30 PM
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Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 5:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 28 – APRIL 3, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
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One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Apr 3, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 28 – APRIL 3, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park
59th Street – 110th Street/Central Park West – 5th Avenue, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
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The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
