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Friday, April 12, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Terence Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
MONDAY & FRIDAY, APRIL 8 & 12, 2024 (continuing through MAY 2)
7:00 PM MONDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$47-$480
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This is a triumph in all sorts of ways — and a disappointment in just about none. A great piece with an extraordinary libretto.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: P.J. Clarke’s should still be open after this ends.
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Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Jesús I. Valles: BATHHOUSE.PPTX
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 8 & 11 – 14, 2024 (continuing through APRIL 22)
7:00 PM MONDAY & THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$25.50-$42.25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A queer student starts giving a presentation on the history of cleanliness and bathing. Then the bathhouse ghosts show up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Odeon: against all expectations, still pretty good.
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Wed, Apr 10, 2024, 8:30 PM – Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: gabby fluke-mogul
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 10 – 13, 2024
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It was only a matter of time before this questing violinist got a Stone week. Every show looks fabulous, TBH.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No one better to take over the old Café Loup space than NYC Front of House vet Michael Cecchi-Azzolina with his American Bistro Cecchi’s.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gryphon Rue: Plays Giusto Pio’s “Motore Immobile” & “Ananta”
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2024
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors in person
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Giusto Pio was best known in Italy for doing arrangements for a (Prog) pop singer; they even made it to Eurovision. But meanwhile he was a Minimalist composer, managing to skirt the banalities of misnamed “Neo-Classicism” while retaining some of its woozy dreaminess. Gryphon Rue could have been born to interpret this stuff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, excellent cocktails, better food than you’d think, at Grand Army Bar. Streaming at home, have a White Negroni: pour 1 oz. each of Gin, Suze, and Lillet Blanc (I tend to prefer Cocchi Americano myself) into a rocks glass over ice. Stir. Garnish with a grapefruit twist.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mehrnam Rastegari
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2024
9:30 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$32.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mehrnam Rastegari, master of the Iranian string instrument known as the Kamancheh (sort of a smaller, more nasal cello), plays a kind of Iranian folk-pop — and it is GORGEOUS.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Now that Ravagh Grill’s downtown brach has closed, can’t help you with Persian in Noho/East Village. (If anybody knows of anything, let me know.) So sake and izakaya at Decibel.
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Wed, Apr 10, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brooklyn Maqam: Mitra Sumara
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2024
7:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$21.95
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Persian pop.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: There’s really nothing for it but to walk all the way over to Sofreh for some exquisite Persian food.
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Wed, Apr 10, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Leslie Cuyjet: For All Your Life
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 10 – 13, 2024
7:00 PM
Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
$13-$292
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A multi-media exploration of the relationship of the life insurance industry and Blacks. It’s grimmer than you even thought.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Guess what you get at John Brown BBQ?
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bach at One
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2024
1:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel In Person & Live Stream
209 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Can I be honest with you? I love Bach unreservedly, but I’ve never cottoned to his Orchestral Suites, of which we’ll hear the third (with its famous “Air on a G String”) this afternoon: too stately. OTOH, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Handel’s later set of Concerti Grossi, of which we’ll hear the first: tunes that stick to your ribs.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Some of the best Italian heroes in New York are at Pisillo.
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Tue, Apr 9, 2024, 10:00 PM – Wed, Apr 10, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Graham Haynes & Nublu Orchestra: Conduction #16
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9 & 10, 2024
10:00 PM TUESDAY
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY
Nublu 151
151 Avenue C, East Village, Manhattan
$22.66
TUESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
WEDNESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Graham Haynes convenes a stellar set of NYC experimental jazz players and does the Butch Morris thing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Kafana. Bring cash cuz they don’t take plastic. Bring a hunger cuz their Serbian food is HEARTY. Bring a thirst because their appre le lettre Natural wine list is extensive.
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Tue, Apr 9, 2024, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Chekhov x Heidi Schreke: Uncle Vanya
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 9 – 14, 2024 (continuing through JUNE 16)
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, Lincoln Center
150 West 65th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$145-$318
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Vanya, c’est moi (which is why I’m not paying those prices to see this).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bar Boulud.
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Tue, Apr 9, 2024, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ensemble Connect
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2024
7:30 PM
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$41-$47
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Carnegie Hall is pitching its Weimar Republic series as a study of a democracy on the precipice of Fascism. But to shallow aesthetes like Your Compiler, it’s a chance to hear pieces from one of our very favorite periods of European Art Music: the 1920s. So tonight Ensemble Connect gives us Berg’s Lyric Suite, Second Viennese School that’s almost popular; Weill’s String Quartet, a rewarding student piece that doesn’t sound much like the Weill we all love; Schulhoff’s Concertino for Flute, Viola, and Double Bass, Neo-Classicism tinged with Expressionist Late Romanticism; and Gershwin’s Lullaby. LOVE this stuff (even if we’re going to hell in a handbasket).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Burger Joint.
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Tue, Apr 9, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
The Wooster Group: Symphony of Rats
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 9 – 13, 2024 (continuing through MAY 4)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
Performing Garage
33 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan
$39-$79
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A couple of years ago, The Wooster Group asked Richard Foreman (the greatest theater artist I for one have ever experienced) if they could completely reimagine hisSymphony of Rats, a piece they had initially performed under Foreman’s direction in the 1980s, summarized by the auteur as, “a President of the United States is receiving messages by means other than the known senses, and he doesn't know whether to trust them or not”. Foreman told them, “You can do whatever you want! I hope it's completely unrecognizable.” You can see why they chose to redo it now.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: From one garage to another: Antique Garage is so cute that you tend to forget how good the food is. And, it was Mediterranean before everybody and his brother were.
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Tue, Apr 9, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 11:59 PM
OPERA
Heartbeat Opera: Eugene Onegin / The Extinctionist
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 9 – 14, 2024
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on 25th Street), Rose Hill, Manhattan
$40-$96; $10 pay-what-you-want APRIL 4 & 5; $22.50 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Presented in rep: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, which leaches all the irony out of Pushkin’s biting verse novel and devolves it into a romance; Heartbeat Opera will try to remediate things by Queering it. And a new Daniel Schlosberg opera — so far so good — which succumbs to the current need to be topical but looks pretty intelligent about it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vegetarian South Indian at Saravanaa Bhavan.
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Tue, Apr 9, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Sarah Ruhl: Orlando
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 9 – 14, 2024 (continuing through MAY 12)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY & SUNDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
The Pershing Square Signature Theater Center
480 West 42nd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$49
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pretty intriguing for playwright Sarah Ruhl to tackle Virginia Woolf’s gender-bending novel Orlando.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Greek classic Molyvos seems to have settled into its new location.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
andPlay: together, adrift
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2024
7:30 PM
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$27.85; $12.51 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The violin/viola duo introduces new additions to their repertoire.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go for the wine at Place des Fêtes if you must, but stay for the food.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Open Stage Variety Show
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2024
7:00 PM
Voorhees Theater, New York City College of Technology In Person & Live Stream
165 Jay Street, Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn
$17.85 in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus throws open the stage to whatever variety acts dare to appear. I can’t tell you how much fun these can be.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, um distinctive beer at Evil Twin Brewing DUMBO Taproom. Streaming at home, have a Circus Circus: pour 2/3 oz. each of Rye and Montenegro amaro, 1 oz. dry Vermouth, and 1/2 oz. white Crème de Menthe into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Assembly #16: Curated by Lester St. Louis and Luke Stewart
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2024
7:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Luke Stewart himself plays bass with drums and movement. Windscour, trumpeter Joe Moffett playing with Zach Rowden on tapes — and boy do they raise a racket. And wait, is the fabulous percussionist Jessie Cox sitting in?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
DMG FREE WEEKLY IN-STORE MUSIC SERIES
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2024
6:30 PM
Downtown Music Gallery
13 Monroe Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Among other things, a very expanded Beyond Flute ensemble.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern-Korean-inflected Golden Diner.
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Tue, Apr 9, 2024, 8:00 AM – Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSICMUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 9 – 14, 2024 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 8:00 PM TUESDAY – THURSDAY
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM FRIDAY – SUNDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$18; $12; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Early, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant. Later, New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Monday, April 8, 2024, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tropical Vortex: La Cuneta Son Machin
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2024
9:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$21.95
TICKETS + INFORMATION
La Cuneta Son Machin — Nicaraguan marimba for the 21st Century — are kind of a big deal. And so much fun you can’t believe it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better than neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
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Monday, April 8, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Artists Series — Curated by Che Chen
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2024
8:00 PM
Sundownstairs, Sundown Bar
68-38 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$17.18
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Oh man. Dave Sewelson (free baritone sax) and Ava Mendoza (avant-shred guitar). Fusebox Trio, featuring Ras Moshe (free saxophone/flute), Dafna Naphtali (electronics), and Gwen Laster (violin). And History Dog, featuring Shara Lunon (voice/electronics), Chris Williams (trumpet/electronics), Luke Stewart (bass/electronics), and Lesley Mok (drums). Oh man.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re in a bar with a pretty good cocktail program. For something more solid (although don’t disregard the cocktails!), meticulously prepared Mexican at Hellbender Nighttime Cafe.
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Monday, April 8, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Suzanne Bocanegra feat. Lili Taylor: Honor
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2024
7:30 PM
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The “artist lectures” created by visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra should never work. They’re theatricalized talks, using props and other visual media, given by Bocanegra through the medium of an actor who repeats words fed to them through an earpiece by Bocanegra, sitting on the side of the stage. But what they end up doing is mediating the proceedings, so it’s not just a lecture but a meditation on theater and authenticity. To the extent the content matters, this one addresses Bocanegra’s obsession with a 16th Century tapestry in the Met’s collection called Honor. I think Lili Taylor has done more of these than any other actor. The perfectly chosen Geoff Sobelle directs.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Supernal Mixian noodles at South of the Clouds.
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Monday, April 8, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Liza Berkenmeier: Grief Hotel
MONDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 8 – 13, 2024 (continuing through APRIL 20)
7:30 PM MONDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
Clubbed Thumb @ The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$65
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Does Liza Birkenmeier write funnily about unfunny things? Or is it that nothing isn’t potentially funny? This one’s about the commodification of healing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Monday, April 8, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, April 8, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Music Mondays: Bretano Quartet & Hsin-Yun Huang
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2024
7:30 PM
Advent Lutheran Church
2504 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Listed for a new string quintet by James MacMilllan, who writes with freshness and real substance in a rather traditional Common Practice idiom. As for the rest of the program, Haydn string quartets never hurt. Brahms’s string quartets: well, as I said last week, I find them clotted — and I really like Brahms. Also, not to quibble, but the ratio of new stuff to old on this program is backwards.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Korean fried chicken and ramen at Chick Chick.
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Monday, April 8, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Terence Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
MONDAY & FRIDAY, APRIL 8 & 12, 2024 (continuing through MAY 2)
7:00 PM MONDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$47-$480
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This is a triumph in all sorts of ways — and a disappointment in just about none. A great piece with an extraordinary libretto.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: P.J. Clarke’s should still be open after this ends.
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Monday, April 8, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Jesús I. Valles: BATHHOUSE.PPTX
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 8 & 11 – 14, 2024 (continuing through APRIL 22)
7:00 PM MONDAY & THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$25.50-$42.25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A queer student starts giving a presentation on the history of cleanliness and bathing. Then the bathhouse ghosts show up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Odeon: against all expectations, still pretty good.
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Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
James Harrison Monaco: Travels
MONDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 8 – 13, 2024 (continuing through APRIL 20)
7:00 PM MONDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
Ars Nova
511 West 54th Street, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
$54-$64
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The James of James & Jerome puts together a digressively narrative electronic music-theater piece about, well, travels.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good wine, doable food at Ardesia Wine Bar.
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Monday, April 8, 2024, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, April 8, 2024, 1:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Solar Eclipse 2024
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2024
1:30 PM
Pioneer Works @ Historic Chapel, Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
WAIT WAIT the sun is gonna like almost totally disappear? That’s even scarier than the ground suddenly shaking!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Is it idiotic to declare Tacos El Bronco the best taco truck in New York CIty? It is, though.
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Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 8:00 AM – Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 8 – 14, 2024 (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 that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City.
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Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 6:00 AM – Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 8 – 14, 2024 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, April 7, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Patricia Brennan & Adam O’Farrill Duo / Patricia Brennan: SeVeN
SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2024
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors advance; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Patricia Brennan, an eloquent and distinctive vibes player, plays a duo set with the world-beating trumpet player Adam O’Farrill. Then she expands the duo into a septet for more textures.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, superb Palestinian at AlBadawi. Streaming at home, have a Veracruz: pour 1-1/2 oz. Gin, 1/3 oz. Absinthe, 1/2 oz. lemon juice, and 1/3 oz. Simple Syrup, with 1 dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Sunday, April 7, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Soup & Sound
SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2024
7:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Among the splendors of this bill are not just another set Danish Noise Jazzers Tactical Maybe on their whirlwind tour of New York City, but the avant-balloons of Judy Dunaway.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Sunday, April 7, 2024, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sunday in the Atrium
SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2024
3:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$20.60 before 5:00 PM; $25.75 thereafter
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Listed for a set by The Illustrious Blacks. Afro-Futurism isn’t usually so funny.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This List’s choice of the best birria in New York, now available in Park Slope at Nene’s Taqueria.
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Sunday, April 7, 2024, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The MET Orchestra Chamber Ensemble feat. Anthony Roth Constanzo
SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2024
2:00 PM
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$84
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A sort of unbelievable opportunity to hear the great countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo singing Handel and Osvaldo Golijov with the superb musicians of the MET Orchestra in a small venue. As for Elgar’s Piano Quintet, you just have to be in the mood.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent basic Greek at Souvlaki GR.
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Sunday, April 7, 2024, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, April 6, 2024, 10:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nightcap: Craig Taborn
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024
10:30 PM
Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio, David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$43
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist Craig Taborn plays Webern and Ravel with members of the New York Phil, and then geniuses around by himself.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You might just be able to make it into P.J. Clarke’s after this show.
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Sat, Apr 6, 2024, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
M.M. Hanley: The Poisoner
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 6 & 7, 2024 (continuing through APRIL 21)
8:00 SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sort of like an avant-garde version of Chinatown except set in Michigan, recently.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Acclaimed Southern Thai at MayRee.
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Saturday, April 6, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zemog Trio
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$21.95
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sounds like Art-Freak Latinxperimental Zemog is going straight. Not likely.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Jamaican with a side of Trinidadian at Stella’s.
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Saturday, April 6, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ara Dinkjian, Arsen Petrosyan & String Quartet: Masters of Armenian Music
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$31 advance; $36 door; $26 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Oud, oboe great-aunt, and string quartet.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Neighborhood French at French Louie.
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Saturday, April 6, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, April 6, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Maya Beiser: Terry Riley’s In C(ello)
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$35.33
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Terry Riley’s deathless Minimalist classic In C played on looped cello! This should give National Sawdust’s spatial sound system a chance to shine.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good French bistro at Le Crocodile.
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Saturday, April 6, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mexican Institute of Sound / Upright Andy
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024
7:30 PM
Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Wil;iamsburg, Brooklyn
$29.92
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Mexican Institute of Sound is sort of the CDMX version of the Nortec Collective. Meaning superfine Mexican-inflected Techtronica.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best Vietnamese-Mexican food you ever had at Falansai.
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Saturday, April 6, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Columbia Composers Presents: Talea Ensemble
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024
7:00 PM
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Columbia University can field quite a roster. Among the composers to be played by the crack Talea Ensemble are the sprightly, conceptually challenging Jessie Cox and the Pop Art madperson D MR.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Superb Spanish at Casa Dani.
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Saturday, April 6, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, April 6, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Electronics[2]
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024
7:00 PM
NYC Resistor
87 Third Avenue, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$10-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Electronic music by local electricians.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ethiopian at Ghenet.
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Saturday, April 6, 2024, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
First Saturday: Line/Break
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024
5:00 PM
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This installment of the Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturdays party series is mostly concerned with poetry. But it starts with a performance by Ricardo Gallo’s crazed Psych/Electronic Colombian combo Los ALiENS.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Jamaican at The Islands.
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Saturday, April 6, 2024, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Argento New Music Project: Made in America
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024
4:00 PM
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$20; $10 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pieces by Varèse, Ives, and Grant Still. And a new song cycle by Song Sang, who sounds like he was born to write one.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Boring in theory, delicious in practice Italian from the oven at Ci Siamo.
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Friday, April 5, 2024, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gián Pérez
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024
9:00 PM
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It’s hard to keep up with guitarist/noisemaker Gián Pérez. But here he is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Chill Brazilian at Beco.
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Friday, April 5, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
San Fermin
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024
8:00 PM
Racket
431 West 16th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$38.96-$74.67
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A new visit from San Fermin once again raises the question: is this a valid and interesting infusion of classical techniques into chamber pop, or just pretentious? I still can’t decide.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Thai at Ayada.
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Friday, April 5, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mimi Chakarova & Kris Davis: LETTERS
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$35 advance; $30 door; $25 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Immigrant filmmaker Mimi Chakarova made a silent film about the experiences of immigrants. Immigrant genius pianist/composer Kris Davis composed a soundtrack to it, which she plays tonight with a bang-up ensemble.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Neighborhood French at French Louie.
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Friday, April 5, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Raja Feather Kelly & The Feath3r Theory: The Absolute Future
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 5 & 6, 2024
7:30 PM
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$51-$81
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Raja Feather Kelly’s dance-theater pieces are perceptive, humane — and campy as hell. This one’s about a group of friends trying to watch the eclipse — and failing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Americana at the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill. Have a Martini along wita Caviar Pie — and after that stick with the steak if you know what’s good for you.
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Friday, April 5, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ran Blake: Shimmering Shadows
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$32.27
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You can dismiss pianist/composer Ran Blake as one of the guys who tried to desiccate jazz in the late ‘50s/early ‘60s. But you’d be wrong: he has a steel mind and steely fingers; his musical conceptions aren’t overly complicated but rather genuinely complex — and can he create a mood. To celebrate the release of a biography, he performs sets of solos and duos.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Almost sorta Italian at Sungold.
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Friday, April 5, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Chloe George / Tariq Al-Sabir
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024
7:30 PM
Ki Smith Gallery
170 Forsyth Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$20.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Chloe George is an Alt R&B-inflected singer-songbird who’s pleasant-with-a-kick when she’s on and pleasant-but-dippy when she’s off. Tariq Al-Sabir, OTOH, is a real Hope For The Future: a massive musical talent who, when he’s not doing Alt Classical, nails really good spacey Rock-inflected Nu R&B.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Canary Club.
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Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Marga Gomez: Swimming with Lesbians
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 5 – 7, 2024
7:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
The Club at La MaMa
74A East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A one-person show about a Lesbian cruise. Comedy ensues.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican insect cuisine (although they somehow don’t make it to escamoles) at The Black Ant.
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Friday, April 5, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tactical Maybe / TJ Borden & Louise Jensen / Sabrina Salamone, Shogo Yamagishi & James Paul Nadien
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024
7:30 PM
Record Shop
360 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$10-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In case you missed visiting Danes Tactical Maybe last night, here they are again.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Shrimp cocktail, burger at Red Hook Tavern.
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Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:59 PM
OPERA
Alaina Ferris: The Lydian Gale Parr
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 5 – 7, 2024 (continuing through APRIL 20)
7:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
300 PM SUNDAY
The Tank @ The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$33.85-$81.88
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An oratorio, with dance, about a girl who is sent as an emissary from a besieged city with a letter for the attacking general. But in Borgesian/Calvinan fashion, every time she reaches the last place the general was, he has left. I saw a slice of this a few years ago, and it was really good. Can’t help but spot Gelsey Bell among the cast.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Some of the best Sichuan in Brooklyn at Chuan Tian Xia.
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Friday, April 5, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Stephanie Chou: Comfort Girl
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$32.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Saxophonist/singer/composer Stephanie Chou blends Chinese scales into Jazz-Pop in a way that sounds organic, not contrived. Tonight, she and her band do a song cycle about a topic worth returning to.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Admiral Grey: The Human Dream Project
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 5 – 7, 2024 (continuing through APRIL 28)
7:00 PM FRIDAY & SUNDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
The Tank
312 West 36th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$27.84-$53.89
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Based on actual recordings of actual people describing actual dreams. As performed by people and PUPPETS!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: One is suspicious of the Pan-Asian at Hidden Leaf. But one never knows.
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Friday, April 5, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alsarah & the Nubatones
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024
7:00 PM
Artists Space
11 Cortland Alley, Tribeca (not really), Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Originals and Nubian covers for voice and oud.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I guess if you’re in the Alley, you’ve got to go to Au Cheval. Even if it isn’t a patch on the Chicago original, you can still put together a satisfying (if gutbusting) meal if you’re careful. (Hint: fried bologna is your friend.)
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Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 6:00 PM – Sat, Apr 6, 2024, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Molly Lieber & Eleanor : Durational Duet
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 5 & 6, 2024
6:00 PM
The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Let’s let Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith, veteran deconstructors of feminine tropes, describe what they’re about here: “redefin[ing] love beyond heteropatriarchal constraints, based on matriarchal and mammalian notions of the dyad—a pair fitting together toward nourishment and impenetrability”. (Despite the title, the piece seems like it might only last an hour.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Some of the best cocktails in New York — and surprisingly good food — at The Clover Club.
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Friday, April 5, 2024, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 10:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Josh Stinson: Predicate / Sidewalk Philosophy
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024
10:30 PM
IBeam
168 7th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In case you missed bari saxophonist Josh Stinson a few nights ago, he’s back with not one but two great bands. (You might want to check with the venue about the start time, as the way it’s reported on their website makes me suspect a mistake.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hawaiian at Sweet Talk.
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 9:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Laila Adu Trio feat. PUBLIQuartet: “Moonstone and Tar Sands” Album Release
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
9:30 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Leila Adu is a pop singer-songwriter and an Alt Classical composer. She seems to have been separating those activities. Contrary to what you might think, the stuff she does with the PUBLIQuartet falls more on the current pop side.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Yakitori Taisho may not have the absolute best yakitori in New York, but it certainly has some of the latest. (And it’s good: don’t get me wrong.)
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Dripping: Hieroglyphic Being / Poncili Creación / Elori Saxl /Lychee / Relaxer / Baby Leo
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
9:00 PM
Nowadays
56-06 Cooper Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$22.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Electronic music and PUPPETS!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The venue itself has food and drink by The Zumbador.
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Thu, Apr 4, 2024, 8:00 PM – Sat, Apr 6, 2024, 11:59 PM
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ka Baird: “Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos” Release Show
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$35 advance; $30 door; $25 students/seniors; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Vocal explorer Ka Baird is joined by an all-star (for here) backup group for an expanded presentation of the material on her new album. Expect music that is simultaneously restful and extremely challenging.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, neighborhood French at French Louie. Streaming at home, have a Death in the Afternoon: pour 1-1/2 oz. Absinthe into a chilled Champagne flute or Nick and Nora glass. Top with Champagne.
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Camila Meza & Aaron Goldberg
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
8:00 PM
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Camila Meza does Latin-tinged jazz-pop that is enormously appealing. Tonight she’s joined by pianist Aaron Goldberg to explore not only her own repertoire but the broader South American vernacular repertoire.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frog Club. (Oh I crack myself up: you wouldn’t want to go there even if you could — which you can’t.)
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kyle Kidd / Joy Guidry – Marshall Trammell Duo
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
8:00 PM
Sundownstairs, Sundown Bar
68-38 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$14.60 advance; $17.95 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Alt R&Ber Kyle Kidd calls themselves a “visionary vocalist” and you know what? I can only agree. And Joy Guidry is a visionary bassoonist.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re in a bar with a pretty good cocktail program. For something more solid (although don’t disregard the cocktails!), meticulously prepared Mexican at Hellbender Nighttime Cafe.
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Thu, Apr 4, 2024, 8:00 PM – Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Blaze Ferrer: Dick Biter
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, APRIL 4 & 5, 2024
8:00 PM
Pageant
70 Graham Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Punk died. But drag didn’t.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican snacks and mad desserts at Maya’s Snack Bar.
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Concetta Abbate / Sbowe / Erin Rogers
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
8:00 PM
Footlight @ Bridge & Tunnel Brewery
1535 Decatur Street, Ridgewood, Queens
$11.89-$22.45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Violinist Concetta Abbate is a little too Post-Romantic for me — but you might be less of hard case than I am. Cellist Swboe genuinely creates Pop songs that don’t sound like anything else. Saxophonist Erin Rogers is, of course, at the heart of what this List Lists.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You might be able to find something to drink at the Bridge & Tunnel Taproom. For something more solid, there’s pizza and stuff at Pan.
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Loren Connors & Sergio Sorrentino: Solo/Duo/Solo
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two amazing and distinctive guitarists play together and separately.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unexpected but not really incongrouous Japanese-Ashkenazi mash-up at Shalom Japan.
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sarah Hennies
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
8:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$23.25-$33.50; $18.25-$25.50 students/under 25; $20.25-$28.50 seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another evening of the music of Sarah Hennies at Miller Theater this week (although this one you have to pay for!). The unique two-piano/two-percussion quartet Yarn/Wire is back, and pieces will also be played by the redoubtable Mivos Quartet (still breaking in their new cellist). Onetime drummer Hennies’se marvelous music is static on top and propulsive at the bottom — another perfect Alt introduction for people who think they don’t like classical music, or don’t like New classical music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Inventive Chinese at Atlas Kitchen.
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Uptown Mainstream
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
7:30 PM
CuteLab NYC
Address by DM, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Among many other draws, an appearance by Tactical Maybe, a Danish ensemble that has played with NYC musicians. For such an hygge country, they sure like their jazz noisy over there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cool Peruvian at Surfish Bistro.
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Pamela Z & D-Composed
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
7:30 PM
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$34
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pamela Z, a composer/performer whose freewheeling vocal/electronic creations are basically the embodiment of what this List is about, performs her own works solo and other pieces in concert with the Chicago Black chamber ensemble D-Composed. And the composers of those other pieces are Jessie Montgomery, Nathalie Joachim, Tomeka Reid,and Daniel Bernard Romain!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As you may recall, the revivified Old John’s Luncheonette is right across the street.
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Graham Lambkin
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
7:30 & 9:15 PM
Blank Forms
468 Grand Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Poet/multimedia artist Graham Lambkin does ambient-adjacent electroacoustic, and of course he used to be in a Post-Rock band. People eat this stuff up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice homey Nigerian at Buka.
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE / MUSIC
still/moving: S!LENCE / Nida Beans / Passport Rav / Marcel Allen / THE i OF A GENIUS / Kelly Moonstone
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
7:00 PM
Ki Smith Gallery
170 Forsyth Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$25.63
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lotsa Alt Hip-Hop and electronics. I guess the movement will come from the audience.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cocktails and chicken at Double Chicken Please (the backroom please).
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Thu, Apr 4, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Theodora Skipitares: The Four Lives
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 4 – 7, 2027 (continuing through APRIL 21)
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets each show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Theodora Skipitares means PUPPETS! This one takes off from Pythagoras’s assertion that we each experience four different lives: as a mineral, a vegetable, an animal and a human. What’s not being human like?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vegan Soul Food sounds like an absurdity. But people who’ve eaten at Cadence sure don’t think so.
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Thu, Apr 4, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Jesús I. Valles: BATHHOUSE.PPTX
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 1 & 4 – 7, 2024 (continuing through APRIL 22)
7:00 PM MONDAY & THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$25.50-$42.25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A queer student starts giving a presentation on the history of cleanliness and bathing. Then the bathhouse ghosts show up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Odeon: against all expectations, still pretty good.
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Stacey Fraser & Alastair Edmonstone: Sigmund Dreams of the Earth
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
6:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University In Person & Live Stream
1160 Amsterdam Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A voice and piano recital including among its contents songs and solo piano pieces by Missy Mazzoli, Chris Cerrone, Philip Glass, John Luther Adams, and Messiean. So OF COURSE it gets Listed.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, one of the most pleasurable places in New York, the Hungarian Pastry Shop. You WILL leave smiling. Streaming at home, have a Brown Derby: pour 2 Bourbon, 1 oz. grapefruit juice, and 1/2 oz. honey syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a grapefruit twist.
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Thursday, April 4, 2024, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jonathan Salamon: Beyond the Canon: Pachelbel's Keyboard Music on Harpsichord
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An interesting factoid about Pachebel’s Canon is that many of things that are popular about this most popular and wedding-ready of Baroque bonbons weren’t actually written by Pachelbel, but rather inserted into the piece by the 20th Century French conductor Jean-François Paillard, whose 1968 version made the Canon famous. Until he gets to an improvisation on Pachelbel materials at the end, in this recital harpsichordist Jonathan Salamon will stick to what Pachelbel actually composed. Pachelbel’s keyboard works were what the composer was best known for during his lifetime, and this German Mid-Baroque stuff makes for great listening.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I’m not gonna even tell you what El Mil Sabores puts on their Torta Loca sandwich. You have to see it for yourself. Streaming at home, have a Canon: whip 1/2 oz. Cointreau into a foam. Pour 1 oz. Rye and 1/2 oz. each of sweet Vermouth and Ramazzotti Amaro, with 1 dash Angostura (or, if you have some, Bitter Truth Old Time Aromatic) bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled rocks glass, neat. Top with Cointreau foam.
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Wed, Apr 3, 2024, 8:30 PM – Sat, Apr 6, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Adam Rudolph
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 3 – 6, 2024
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Musically omnivorous — indeed voracious — percussionist Adam Rudolph gets a week.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No one better to take over the old Café Loup space than NYC Front of House vet Michael Cecchi-Azzolina with his American Bistro Cecchi’s.
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Wed, Apr 3, 2024, 8:00 PM – Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Chekhov x Heidi Schreke: Uncle Vanya
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 3 – 7, 2024 (continuing through JUNE 16)
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, Lincoln Center
150 West 65th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$145-$318
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Vanya, c’est moi (which is why I’m not paying those prices to see this).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wonder if you can get into Kwame Onwuachi’s Afro-Caribbean smash hit Tatania yet?
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Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Hear in Now Expanded & QWANQWA: Weaving Strands of Sound
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2024
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors advance; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two (mainly) string ensembles, one comprised of NYC improvisatory all-stars schooled in Anthony Braxton and Conduction and the other trad Ethiopian, get together to see what they can make of each other.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, The Little Pig, a cocktail bar right around the corner. Streaming at home, have a Turbo: pour 2 oz. each of white wine and beer into a Collins glass over ice. Stir. Top with lemon-lime soda.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eli Wallace / Kyle Motl / Nick Neuburg & Samantha Kochis / Sabrina Salamone / Anna Abondolo & Kevin Murray
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2024
8:00 PM
Record Shop
360 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Among many other things, Eli Wallace and his prepared piano.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Is Bar Mario Piemontese or Tuscan? Yes.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Josh Sinton: Predicate Quartet
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2024
8:00 & 9:30 PM
Bar Bayeux
1066 Nostrand Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
Free (tip the band)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In case you’re not sufficiently excited by the incredibly able baritone saxophonist/composer Josh Sinton (although believe me, you should be), be aware that his quartet also features Free Jazz hero Sam Newsome on soprano (now THERE’S a front line) and, on drums, Tom Rainey, whose ubiquity on the local scene shouldn’t make you forget how extraordinary he is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good neighborhood Roman at Camillo.
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Wed, Apr 3, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 6, 2024, 11:59 PM
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Wed, Apr 3, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 6, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
The Wooster Group: Symphony of Rats
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 3 – 6, 2024 (continuing through MAY 4)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
Performing Garage
33 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan
$39-$79
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A couple of years ago, The Wooster Group asked Richard Foreman (the greatest theater artist I for one have ever experienced) if they could completely reimagine hisSymphony of Rats, a piece they had initially performed under Foreman’s direction in the 1980s, summarized by the auteur as, “a President of the United States is receiving messages by means other than the known senses, and he doesn't know whether to trust them or not”. Foreman told them, “You can do whatever you want! I hope it's completely unrecognizable.” You can see why they chose to redo it now.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: From one garage to another: Antique Garage is so cute that you tend to forget how good the food is. And, it was Mediterranean before everybody and his brother were.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jordi Savall & Hespèrion XXI: Le Nuove Musiche: The Baroque Revolution in Europe
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2024
7:30 PM
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$109
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jordi Savall takes us back to The Birth Of The Baroque — and who better?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good basic Greek at Souvlaki GR.
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Wed, Apr 3, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 6, 2024, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Nederlands Dans Theater
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 3 – 6, 2027
7:30 PM
New York City Center
131 West 55th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$45-$175
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Nederlands Dans Theater is the gold standard of slick expensive international modern dance — and I don’t even mean that as a putdown. Among the things featured on this program is something by William Forsythe, one of the most piercing minds in dance. And a recent piece by choreographer Sharon Ayal and visual designer Gai Behar, who met at a rave and their work looks like it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You gotta say two things about Quality Bistro: it’ll still be open after the show, and it’s right across the street.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kelly Moran / Peretsky
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2024
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$26.14-$31.14
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Kelly Moran does what the British mistakenly call Neo-Classical: rather pleasant unchallenging Neo-Minimalist (in her case, often on a prepared piano) with strong overtones of Electronica. So why is hers so good and theirs so lame (and let’s not even begin to talk about the Italian)? Score one for our team! Peretsky’s is better, too: there may be something going on here. (Icelanders do this well, too.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Charming Sardinian at D.O.C. Wine Bar.
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Wed, Apr 3, 2024, 7:30 PM – Thu, Apr 4, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Caetano Veloso
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 3 & 4, 2024
7:30 PM
BAM Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$44.50-$145.50
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The farewell tour of Caetano Veloso, theorist of Brazilian Tropicália, someone who’s been one of the great pop musicians in the Western world for 60 years (think Paul McCartney if he didn’t get worse after the ‘60s) (and had a lot more book smarts).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The people beyond the excellent New Israeli Miss Ada expands their proffer at Theodora.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
International Contemporary Ensemble: World Premieres and Recent Works
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2024
7:30 PM
The Chelsea Factory
547 West 26th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$11.50
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What more do you need to know?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Not really Ethopian/Swedish fusion, but Ethiopan/Swedish coexistence, at Marcus Samuelsson’s new Hav & Mar.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
A Night of Synthesis
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2024
7:00 PM
Purgatory
675 Central Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$13.60
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Experimental Electronic Pop, as the promoters say. Including Abbie from Mars, who does boppy Art Pop and, without giving anything away, does she put on a show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Another good slice shop: Crust Pizza.
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Wed, Apr 3, 2024, 8:00 AM – Sat, Apr 6, 2024, 11:59 AM
THEATER
Meta-Phys Ed.: The Banality of Evil
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 3 – 6, 2024
8:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$22-$52
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A neo-noir take on Hannah Arendt’s study of how ordinary normal people become murderous authoritarian/totalitarians (or authoritarian/totalitarian-supporters). Not that that could possibly have any relevance here now.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Having been taken over (and given a Tex-Mex twist) by the people who revived Old John’s Luncheonette, Kellogg’s Diner is actually finally good.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Parker Ramsay & Arnie Tanimoto
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2024
8:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
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Music for harp and viol from the early Baroque to the verge of the Galant.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Southern (U.S., that is)/Korean mash-up at C as in Charlie.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alaara feat. Qasim Naqvi / Chris Williams
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2024
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
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What’s better than a set by Alaara, the newish band of guitarist Grey McMurray, pianist Sonya Belaya, and drummer Nicole Patrick? Alaara with electronics wiz Qasim Naqvi sitting in. What’s better than trumpeter Chris Williams playing with other people? Chris Williams playing a solo set on augmented trumpet.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zoh Amba: Sun Quartet
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2024
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors advance; free live stream
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Saxophonist Zoh Amba is like late Coltrane: Free Jazz so ecstatically exalted it shades into Spiritual. Her records are deep experiences — but her concerts are something else again.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, have an Sunshine (and pretend it’s three months from now): pour 2 oz. white Rum, 1/2 dry vermouth, 1 oz. pineapple juice, and 1/8 tsp. Grenadine into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Anna Webber
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2024
8:00 PM
Lowlands
543 3rd Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn
TBD
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Saxophonist Anna Webber is great — what a fertile, distinctive mind — and what’s more, the rhythm section comprises Eivind Opsvik and Tom Rainey. Think you can do better?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cool Mexican at Alma Negra.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Maxi Hawkeye Canion: “willing to eat stars”
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2024
7:30 PM
Meeting Room, Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Free
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Freewheeling, biting performance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: All the lasagna you want at La Lanterna di Vittorio. More, even.
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Tue, Apr 2, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:59 PM
OPERA
Heartbeat Opera: Eugene Onegin / The Extinctionist
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 2 – 7, 2024 (continuing through APRIL 14)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on 25th Street), Rose Hill, Manhattan
$40-$96; $10 pay-what-you-want APRIL 4 & 5; $22.50 students
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Presented in rep: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, which leaches all the irony out of Pushkin’s biting verse novel and devolves it into a romance; Heartbeat Opera will try to remediate things by Queering it. And a new Daniel Schlosberg opera — so far so good — which succumbs to the current need to be topical but looks pretty intelligent about it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vegetarian South Indian at Saravanaa Bhavan.
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Tue, Apr 2, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Sarah Ruhl: Orlando
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 2 – 7, 2024 (continuing through MAY 12)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY & SUNDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
The Pershing Square Signature Theater Center
480 West 42nd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$49
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Pretty intriguing for playwright Sarah Ruhl to tackle Virginia Woolf’s gender-bending novel Orlando.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Greek classic Molyvos seems to have settled into its new location.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ava Mendoza: First Tuesday
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2024
7:00 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$18.54
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There’s so much good stuff on this bill put together by avant-shredder Ava Mendoza (who won’t be playing). But I’ll just mention the duo of saxophonist Darius Jones (who hasn’t stopped growing) and drummer Tomas Fujiwara.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Stylish Peruvian at Llama Inn.
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Tue, Apr 2, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Eric Tucker: The Assassination of Julius Caesar as told by William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 2 – 7, 2024
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
1:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Bedlam Theater
West End Theater
263 West 86th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$69
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Bedlam Theater mashes up explorations by Shakespeare and Shaw of the ethics of killing an autocratic leader to save democracy, apparently as food for thought for next year.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Jin Ramen for, well, you know.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
DMG FREE WEEKLY IN-STORE MUSIC SERIES
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2024
6:30 PM
Downtown Music Gallery
13 Monroe Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
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Maybe not the starriest bill this series has presented, but still a night of excellent Free Jazz and improvised music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern-Korean-inflected Golden Diner.
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Tue, Apr 2, 2024, 6:15 PM – Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Max Roach 100
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 2 – 7, 2024
6:15 PM TUESDAY
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$27-$82
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One is naturally suspicious of something so backward-looking. But Max Roach was a supremely great musician (it almost seems reductive to call him a drummer). And Rennie Harris and Ronald K. Brown are just the choreographers you’d be interesting in seeing reflect his inspiration.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: How nice that Basque fave Txikito is better than ever.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Center for Psychic Technology: DUO DYNAMICS
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2024
8:00 PM
Trans-Pecos
915 Wyckoff Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$10 advance; $20 door
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And one of the duos is C. Spencer Yeh and Kwami Winfield!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Surprisingly, the Vietnamese café in the same building as Trans-Pecos, Nhà Mìn, has morphed into an excellent full-service restaurant.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Pop-Up Concert: Yarn/Wire — Sarah Hennies: Primers
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2024
6:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free
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The unique two-piano/two-percussion quartet Yarn/Wire presents a long-form piece by onetime drummer Sarah Hennies, whose marvelous music is static on top and propulsive at the bottom. More Hennies here Thursday, too!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This List is on a Hunan kick, and Happy Hunan makes it happy indeed.
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Tue, Apr 2, 2024, 10:00 AM – Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 2 – 7, 2024 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$18; $12; free children under 12
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Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Early, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant. Later, New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Monday, April 1, 2024, 9:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Josephine Foster
MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2024
9:30 PM
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
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Josephine Foster’s songs begin sounding like folk. Then things get weird.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You should STILL go fo chill Brazilian at Beco (they stay open pretty late).
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Monday, April 1, 2024, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
No Land feat. Shahzad Ismaily & Daniel Carter
MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2024
8:30 PM
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
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The multidisciplinary audiovisual artist No Land hooks up with all-around great musician Shahzad Ismaily and Free Jazz hero Daniel Carter for multidisciplinary audiovisual fun.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Chill Brazilian at Beco.
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Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 7:30 PM – Sat, Apr 6, 2024, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Liza Berkenmeier: Grief Hotel
MONDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 1 – 6, 2024 (continuing through APRIL 20)
7:30 PM MONDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
Clubbed Thumb @ The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$65
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Does Liza Birkenmeier write funnily about unfunny things? Or is it that nothing isn’t potentially funny? This one’s about the commodification of healing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Monday, April 1, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, April 1, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Jesús I. Valles: BATHHOUSE.PPTX
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 1 & 4 – 7, 2024 (continuing through APRIL 22)
7:00 PM MONDAY & THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$25.50-$42.25
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A queer student starts giving a presentation on the history of cleanliness and bathing. Then the bathhouse ghosts show up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Odeon: against all expectations, still pretty good.
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Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sat, Apr 6, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
James Harrison Monaco: Travels
MONDAY – SATURDAY, APRIL 1 – 6, 2024 (continuing through APRIL 20)
7:00 PM MONDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
Ars Nova
511 West 54th Street, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
$54-$64
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The James of James & Jerome puts together a digressively narrative electronic music-theater piece about, well, travels.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good wine, doable food at Ardesia Wine Bar.
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Monday, April 1, 2024, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
John Zorn, Christian McBride, Steve Coleman & Ches Smith
MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2024
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors in person
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Every once in a while John Zorn plays something approaching straight-ahead jazz.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent cocktails, better food than you’d think, at Grand Army Bar.
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Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 8:00 AM – Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 1 – 7, 2024 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City.
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Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 6:00 AM – Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 1 – 7, 2024 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
