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Sunday, July 31, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
Sons of Kemet / Makaya McCraven / L’Rain
SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2022
6:00 PM
Summerstage
Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sons of Kemet: great Nu Jazz from London. Makaya McCraven: great Nu Jazz from LA. L’Rain: great Nu R&B from Brooklyn. Great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bet you’ve figured out the specialty at Mission Ceviche.
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Sunday, July 31, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
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Sunday, July 31, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
Max Johnson
SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2022
6:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20 in person; free-$10 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Max Johnson, a bassist/composer with an intricate and expansive conception, presents a new quartet.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, a perfect chance to try for the weekend barbacoa and tamales before the show at Reyes Deli & Grocery. Streaming at home, have a Walk in the Woods: pour 1 oz. each of amber Rum, Vermouth Blanc, and Limoncello into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a (big) lemon peel.
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Sunday, July 31, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
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Sunday, July 31, 2022, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
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Saturday, July 30, 2022, 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
LiveCode.NYC: Algoclub: Dark Mode
SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2022
9:30 PM
Pink Flamingos: Clubs in Flux
the cell theatre
338 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$15-$20 suggested donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Coders put live dance music into algorithmic feedback loops with visuals suggesting classic dance clubs of the past. You can dance, or you can have your mind blown.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: And before that, you can go to another classic revival and have more fun eating good Spanish food than you thought possible at El Quijote.
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Saturday, July 30, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Saturday, July 30, 2022, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
MUSIC
Marcus Gilmore & David Virelles
SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$25-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Drummer Marcus Gilmore and pianist David Virelles: two forward-thinking players who, while not wandering too far out of the mainstream, don’t sound like anyone else.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hand rolls at KazuNori.
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Sat, Jul 30, 2022, 5:00 PM – Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 6:00 PM
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Saturday, July 30, 2022, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
PERFORMANCE
Flux Factory: Dirty Time on Governors Island
SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2022
1:00 PM
Colonel’s Row Building 404A, Governors Island, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
They mean actual literal dirt. Multimedia artists Walker Tufts and Heather Kaplow lead a number of activities focussing on and interacting with it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lots to eat and drink on Governors Island. It’s worth noting that douchey Riviera Maya transplant Gitano Island has opened for the season. I myself have taken to walking over to the wonderful Neo-Red Sauce spot Cafe Spaghetti in Carroll Gardens/Columbia Waterfront from the Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 Ferry Landing after a day on Governers Island.
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Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Jul 30, 2022, 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra feat. Jeanine De Bique
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JULY 29 & 30, 2022
7:30 PM
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
1941 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Choose What You Pay $5-$85
TICKETS + INFORMATION
We’re going to forget our commitment to formally inventive living art for a moment (it’s very hot out!) and deign to recommend a concert that’s simply lovely. You get Barber’s lovely voice-and-orchestra piece Knoxville: Summer of 1915. You get George Walker’s lovely string orchestra piece Lyric for Strings. You get Copland’s lovely concert suite from Appalachian Spring. And you get some Mozart opera arias that, in this context, are only lovely. The exciting soprano Jeanine De Bique sings. You won’t be challenged, you won’t be surprised, you won’t be deeply affected, your horizons won’t expand. You might even get a little bored. But you’ll be pleasantly bathed in loveliness.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good basic bistro at Bar Boulud.
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Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 6:00 PM
OPERA
Kirsten Volness: Letters That You Will Not Get: Women’s Voices from the Great War
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 29 – 31, 2022 (continuing through AUGUST 7)
7:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
The American Opera Project
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$30; $15 students/seniors/working artists
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Settings of letters to soldiers in World War I from women on both sides, showing the women’s experience of the Great War. Kirsten Volness is a composer of great freshness and appeal.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great great New Israeli at Miss Ada.
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Friday, July 29, 2022, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
MUSIC
Nir Felder
FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$25-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Guitarist Nir Felder doesn’t play fusion, but you can clearly tell that he’s a jazz musician who grew up listening to rock and pop: the rhythms chug more than swing, and there’s a strong strain of melody beneath the edge. His nonpareil rhythm section comprises bassist Ben Street and the fascinating drummer Dan Weiss (also deeply rooted in rock).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Infused cocktails that are either too much or just enough, depending on how you like at Apotheke, which just opened a new branch uptown in NoMad.
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Friday, July 29, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Jul 30, 2022, 8:30 PM
DANCE
Kensaku Shinahora: Good Bye
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JULY 29 & 30, 2022
7:30 PM
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An autobiographical solo dance piece arising from the cultural shift Kensaku Shinamora experienced when he moved from Japan to the U.S., focusing on sexuality, objectification, intimacy, dominance, and boundaries.
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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Friday, July 29, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Jul 30, 2022, 4:00 PM
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Friday, July 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Friday, July 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
OPERA
Caturla: Manita en el suelo
FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2022
7:00 PM
Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A phantasmagorical 1934 Cuban puppet opera with a libretto by Alejo Carpentier!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Homey Mexican at Tequilita.
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Friday, July 29, 2022, 6:00 PM – 6:59 PM
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Thursday, July 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Tomas Fujiwara & DoYean Kim / Mary Halvorson: Clone Decay
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2022
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Well this is kind of amazing. Master drummer Tomas Fujiwara in a new collaboration with an expert avant-Korean zither player. And Mary Halvorson’s band includes (beside herself on world’s best guitar) Kalia Vendever on up-and-coming trombone and Weston Olencki on already-there trombone and electronics!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Camillo is the Roman trattoria you wish you had in your neighborhood — but unless you live in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, you don’t.
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Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 9:00 PM
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Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 6:00 PM
OPERA
JL Marlor: The Final Veil
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 28 – 31, 2022
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
the cell theatre
338 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$45-$75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Here’s a good one: a Jewish dancer ordered to strip before entering the gas chambers at Auschwitz performed a distracting striptease which enabled her to sieze a guard’s gun and do some damage before she herself was shot. Sounds like an opera plot all right.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I'm going to keep sending you to Qanoon: their home-style Palestinian is SO good.
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Thursday, July 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Thursday, July 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
L’Rain / Kahiem Rivera / Joy Morales / Lipsweat: An Abortion Access Fundraiser
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2022
7:00 PM
The Sultan Room
234 Starr Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$19.57
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’m not gonna tell you what causes to support. But I’m sure as shit gonna tell you to go hear local Nu R&B sensation L’Rain (while giving money to a cause I support).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thai snacks at Tong.
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Thursday, July 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Carabou / Ela Minus
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2022
7:00 PM
Summerstage
Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Caribou’s pop/psych/electronica is really great. But maybe even better is Ela Minus’s enraged feminist punk/electronica.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A legendary burger at JG Melon.
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Thursday, July 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
The Knights: Toward the Sea
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2022
7:00 PM
Eclectic Series
Bargemusic
1 Water Street, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The centerpiece of this show is the reliably enthralling pairing of Takemitsu’s evocative flute-viola-harp trio Toward the Sea (nice to hear on the actual water!) and the work that directly inspired it, Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp (which your compiler has personally decided is the single greatest chamber piece of the 20th Century) (the world cares). Lots of other good stuff, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: After listening to the water music on an actual barge on the actual water, you can eat (very well) on an actual barge on the actual water at River Café.
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Thursday, July 28, 2022, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
MUSIC
Ned Rothenberg: TablaTun
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2022
6:30 PM
Cherry Esplanade, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Avenue, across the street from Prospect Heights & Crown Heights, Brooklyn
$18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
More Hindustani fusion from the highly distinctive, compellingly quietistic reeds player Ned Rothenberg — this time also appropriately incorporating bird song.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Burmese at Rangoon.
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Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Jul 30, 2022, 9:30 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Peter Evans
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, JULY 27 – 30, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The questing trumpeter Peter Evans gets the Stone Residency treatment, with a different format each night.
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, July 27, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Wednesday, July 27, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Tim Berne feat. Aurora Nealand
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20 in person; free-$10 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Alto saxophonist Tim Berne hews to the avant side of avant-gutbucket — but gutbucket is still there. Tonight, he and his terrific rhythm section is joined by (mostly) accordionist Aurora Nealand.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, the self-explanatory Colombia in Park Slope. Streaming at home, have a Billionaire: pour 2 oz. Bourbon, 1 oz. lemon juice, 1/2 oz. each of Grenadine and Simple Syrup, and 1/4 oz. Absinthe into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon wheel.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Wednesday, July 27, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
Attacca Quartet
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2022
6:00 PM
Carnegie Hall Citywide
Madison Square Park, Madison Square, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The excellent Attacca Quartet closes out their Madison Square Park Summer Season with more Caroline Shaw (as if all the Shaw they did last week weren’t great enough) and two other composers named Shostakovich and Philip Glass.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I know I must sound like a broken record, but you really ought to go to Mark’s Off Madison for Mark Straussman’s delightful Italian-with-some-Askenazic-ringers food.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM
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Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 5:00 PM
THEATER / MUSIC
Grace Gulu & Baba Israel: Cannabis! A Viper Vaudeville
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 26 – 31, 2022
8:30 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$35-$75; $10 first 10 tickets each night
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I could give a shit myself, but if you’re interested in a social history of marijuana set to song, here you go.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Super Burmese at Little Myanmar.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
Elevator Repair Service: Seagull
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 26 – JULY 31, 2022
8:00 PM TUESDAY & THURSDAY – SATURDAY
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$50-$60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Elevator Repair Service does their stripped-down meta-theater thing to Chekhov’s The Seagull, which with its pitiless sardonic treatment of arts and artists is ripe for it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re not going anywhere after a three-hour play in today’s dessicated New York. But you’re not going to be alert for three hours if you eat before. Maybe a Sicilian snack at Pane Pasta.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Dodi / Dave Ruder / Jessica Pavone
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2022
8:00 PM
Rubulad
Secret address provided upon ticket purchase, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dave Ruder plays guitar and clarinet and other stuff, writes songs and composes compositions, doesn’t see any more difference between pop and classical than say I do. He’ll play with a quartet. Jessica Pavone plays microtonal viola, writes songs and composes compositions and improvises, doesn’t see any more difference between pop, jazz, and classical than say I do. She’ll do a solo set. If I were cool, I’d know who Dodi is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before the show, good Mexican at Palomas BK.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Avner Dorman: Nigunim
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2022
7:30 PM
Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A little Easy Listening for this List, but Avner Dorman’s treatment of old Chasidic melody has gotten a great reception worldwide in both its original sonata form and the concerto form being played tonight. Violinist Lara St. John and The Knights should do it justice. As for the rest, well I’ll admit that I personally really enjoy Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony if you promise not to tell anyone.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You will be let out into Manhattan’s worst neighborhood for dining and drinking. I throw up my hands.
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Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 7:00 PM
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Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 11:00 PM
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Monday, July 25, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
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Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 7:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 25 – 31, 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, Jul 25, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC/PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 25 – 31, 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, July 24, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Marilyn Lerner & Frank London: Neshona
SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2022
8:00 PM
Soapbox Gallery In Person & Live Stream
636 Dean Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$25 in person; pay what you can live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Avant-Klezmer to the max.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I see people eating in the newly-transplanted-to-Prospect Heights New American No. 7. Is it open yet? Streaming at home, have a Cel-Ray Collins: muddle a finely chopped celery stalk, 1/2 lime (cut into wedges), and 2 teaspoons sugar in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add ice. Pour in 1-3/4 oz. Gin. Shake. Strain into a Collins glass over ice. Top with Cel-Ray Soda (I still call it tonic — so shoot me). Add 1 dash of celery bitters. Garnish with a celery stalk.
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Sunday, July 24, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Paradise Laboratory: Hyo Jee Kang: LOOKING-MIND
SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2022
7:00 PM
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This looks really cool: pianist Hyo Jee Kang plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations while hooked up to a device that measures her brain activity and projects a graphic realization in real time as she plays.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The so-called Shaker food at The Commerce Inn is divisive: some people consider it stodgy, crude, bland, and heavy; whereas others find it deeply, elementally satisfying. If you know me at all, you know where I stand.
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Sunday, July 24, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
Black Midi
SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2022
6:00 PM
Summerstage
Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Imagine: a contemporary guitar rock band playing intricate music that gets better and better with each album. It’s like somebody forgot to tell them that kind of music is over. The only caveat is that Black Midi’s last couple of albums have been lifted by arrangements featuring extraneous instruments, and you have to wonder how it will come across played live by the band.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Can you guess what the specialty is at Mission Ceviche?
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Sunday, July 24, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
MUSIC
Michael Gordon: Field of Vision
SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2022
4:00 PM
Caramoor
149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, Westchester
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A new site-specific percussion piece by Michael Gordon for an army of percussionists. Twenty of them form a spatial chain of moving sound; another 20 pop in and out of view in the garden and field. All play on newly created instruments.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bedford Post Inn is STILL the only good place I know up there.
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Saturday, July 23, 2022, 10:30 PM – 11:30 PM
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Saturday, July 23, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
THEATER
Paul William Levine: baby powder
SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2022
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$18 advance; $21 door; $15 advance students/seniors; $18 door students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In the future, two gay men who are obsessed with Katy Perry, who died after becoming President of Earth, embark on an intergallactic quest for an unreleased Perry track news of which has suffered. I have a particular fanboy friend whom I think should see this.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Japanese-Italian mash-up that somehow isn’t as contrived as it seems at Kimika.
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Saturday, July 23, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Crystal Palaces
SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2022
7:00 PM
Footlight Underground @ The Windjammer
552 Grandview Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$10-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ambient and instrumental music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The opposite of an ambient music concert: Gottscheer Hall.
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Saturday, July 23, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Paradise Laboratory: Jay Afrisando: DERELICT PORTENT / gamin / Okvan Pramudya
SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2022
7:00 PM
CRS (Center for Remembering and Sharing)
143 Fourth Avenue, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The main thing on the bill is Jay Afrisando’s multimedia multisensory exploration of the human/tech interface. Also avant-Indonesian percussion by Okvan Pramudya and avant-Korean winds by the incomperable gamin.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thai dishes you probably haven’t seen before at Soothr.
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Saturday, July 23, 2022, 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Friday, July 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
The Linda Lindas
FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2022
8:00 PM
Music Hall of Williamsburg
66 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20 advance; $22 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Teen Punk sensations who are sweeping the nation, The Linda Lindas!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sardinian at D.O.C. Wine Bar.
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Friday, July 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Fri, Jul 22, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Jul 23, 2022, 10:00 PM
MUSIC
Jaleel Shaw
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JULY 22 & 23, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & SATURDAY Live Streams
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$25-$35 in person; $20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Altoist Jaleel Shaw is one of those solid in-the-tradition players who make music that is simply a pleasure to listen to.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, infused cocktails that, depending on what you like, are either too much or just enough at Apotheke (which just opened a new branch uptown in NoMad). Streaming at home, we’ll keep it simpler, with an Old Pal: pour 1 oz. each of Rye, dry Vermouth, and Campari 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, July 22, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Claire Rousay / Matchless
FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2022
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$28.47
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Claire Rousay does emo electronica (but in a good way). Matchless does what I guess you could call chamber electronica. A great show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Oaxacan food at Claro is really good — and the backyard garden is a wonderful place to eat.
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Friday, July 22, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Here and Now: Nadia Shpachenko: GOAT
FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2022
7:00 PM
Bargemusic
1 Water Street, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist Nadia Shpachenko commissioned ten composers to capture aspects of the game of soccer. And two of them are Christopher Cerrone and Pamela Z!.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Formal New American treat The River Café: the tourist trap that isn’t one.
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Fri, Jul 22, 2022, 4:00 PM – Sat, Jul 23, 2022, 5:00 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Flatbed Follies
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JULY 22 & 23, 2022
4:00 & 8:00 PM FRIDAY
1:30 & 4:30 PM SATURDAY
FRIDAY: Minthorne Open Street, Tomkinsville, Staten Island
SATURDAY: West 12th Street & Stillwell Avenue, Coney Island, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes it to the street!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Friday, wouldn’t you know it, the Flagship Brewerey Taproom is right there. Saturday, beer and clams at Ruby’s Bar & Grill.
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Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Jul 24, 2022, 6:00 PM
OPERA
JL Marlor: The Final Veil
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 21 – 24, 2022 (continuing through JULY 31)
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
the cell theatre
338 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$45-$75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Here’s a good one: a Jewish dancer ordered to strip before entering the gas chambers at Auschwitz performed a distracting striptease which enabled her to sieze a guard’s gun and do some damage before she herself was shot. Sounds like an opera plot all right.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I'm going to keep sending you to Qanoon: their home-style Palestinian is SO good.
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Thursday, July 21, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
PERFORMANCE
Jay Delíse: MAKE (f)ART
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2022
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$18 advance; $21 door; $15 advance students/seniors; $18 door students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A clown show about making theater.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lombardi’s isn’t the best pizza in New York — but it’s the oldest.
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Thursday, July 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Thursday, July 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Caroline Shaw, Angélica Negrón & Raquel Acevedo Klein
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2022
7:00 PM
Caramoor
149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, Westchester
$40-$65; 50% off children
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Three provocative but highly listenable vocalist/instrumentist/improvisers combine.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really all I know that’s good near there is Bedford Post Inn. If any of you know anywhere else good, please let me know.
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Thursday, July 21, 2022, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Aaron Siegel: Watching Birds at the End of the World
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2022
6:00 & 7:30 PM
The Angel’s Share
The Catacombs, Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$125
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Aaron Siegel is the very picture of the kind of serious fun composer this List champions. His chamber operas are always great listening: funny, friendly but biting, extremely well crafted without wearing the craft on their sleeves. So here’s a song cycle written for superstar countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, accompanied by percussionist Sae Hashimoto on vibes. I mean . . . . (The rather extreme ticket price also gets you a pre-show whiskey tasting that’s lame but unlimited. There’s a dress rehearsal the night before [WEDNESDAY, JULY 20] for “only” $60 that also gets you the unlimited whiskey but is subject to the usual interruptions, repetitions, and imperfections of a rehearsal.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sea Witch: a good bar, with good pub grub — and a giant aquarium!
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Wed, Jul 20, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Jul 23, 2022, 9:30 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Ava Mendoza
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, JULY 20 – 23, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Avant-shredder Ava Mendoza gets the Stone Residency treatment, with a different format each night.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wed, Jul 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Jul 24, 2022, 3:00 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
Sarah Sanders: Ashkenazi Seance
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, JULY 20 – 24, 2022
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sarah Sanders can’t decide what to do with a family heirloom, so she turns to her dead Latvian ancestors for advice. Sanders’s explorations of her Ashkenazic roots are always compelling (at least for her lansmen).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: We Ashkenazim LOVE American Cantonese: Bonnie’s.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Ned Rothenberg feat. Jerome Harris & Samir Chattegee: Sync
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2022
8:00 PM
Soapbox Gallery In Person & Live Stream
636 Dean Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$25 in person; pay what you can live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ned Rothenberg, a unique, serene stylist on reeds, teams up with Jerome Harris on acoustic guitar and Samir Chattegee on tablas for what should be a transfixing evening.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, the Midwestern food at Patti Ann’s is tasty enough. Too bad it’s so rich, and the portions are so big, that you can’t actually eat (or at least come near finishing) it. Streaming at home, have a Nimbu Pani Mint Julep: make a syrup from 1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup sugar, 3/4 teaspoon Indian black rock salt (you’ve been wondering what to do with that), and 1/2 bunch of mints (discard the mints after boiling). Pour 1-1/2 oz. lime juice and the chilled syrup into a Julep cup. Muddle some mint in it. Fill cup halfway with crushed ice. Pour in 2 oz. Bourbon. Top with soda water. Garnish with a mint sprig.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
Attacca Quartet
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2022
6:00 PM
Carnegie Hall Citywide
Madison Square Park, Madison Square, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The excellent Attacca Quartet plays what looks like it’s going to be an all-Caroline Shaw show!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The best-listening (classical) music of the 21st Century.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I know I must sound like a broken record, but you really ought to go to Mark’s Off Madison for Mark Straussman’s delightful Italian-with-some-Askenazic-ringers food.
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Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sun, Jul 24, 2022, 5:00 PM
THEATER / MUSIC
Grace Gulu & Baba Israel: Cannabis! A Viper Vaudeville
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 19 – 24, 2022 (continuing through JULY 31)
8:30 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Hudson Square, Manhattan
$35-$75; $10 first 10 tickets each night
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I could give a shit myself, but if you’re interested in a social history of marijuana set to song, here you go.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at Piccolo Cucina Osteria.
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Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Jul 24, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
Elevator Repair Service: Seagull
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 19 – JULY 24, 2022 (continuing through JULY 31)
8:00 PM TUESDAY & THURSDAY – SATURDAY
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$50-$60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Elevator Repair Service does their stripped-down meta-theater thing to Chekhov’s The Seagull, which with its pitiless sardonic treatment of arts and artists is ripe for it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re not going anywhere after a three-hour play in today’s dessicated New York. But you’re not going to be alert for three hours if you eat before. Maybe a Sicilian snack at Pane Pasta.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Toro y Moi
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2022
7:00 PM
The Brooklyn Mirage at Avant Gardner
140 Stewart Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$74.68
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This List loves itself some Toro y Moi, who started out Chillwave and has branched out from there. His new album trends psych-funk — which is just the way this List, for one, likes it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Housemade mead at Honey’s.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
The Linda Lindas
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2022
6:00 PM
Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Teen Punk sensations sweeping the nation, The Linda Lindas!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Soba at Cocoron.
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Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Jul 24, 2022, 7:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 19 – 24, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 8:30 PM TUESDAY & THURSDAY
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Advance ticket required: $18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Jul 24, 2022, 11:00 PM
MUSIC
Guillermo Klein Quartet
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 18 – 24, 2022
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Village Vanguard
178 7th Avenue South, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist Guillermo Klein is one of the best, most distinctive composer/arrangers in all of jazz (and lately going deeper and deeper into his Argentine roots). Why isn’t he a household name? I have no idea.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Distinctive, delicious Southern Indian food at Semma.
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Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Jul 24, 2022, 7:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 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"), still there. 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, Jul 18, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Jul 24, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 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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Sunday, July 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Celebrating Greg Tate: More Than Posthuman: Rise of the Burnt Sugar Arkestra Mojosexual Cotillion
SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022
7:30 PM
Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The late Greg Tate couldn’t possibly have been as great a bandleader as he was a cultural critic — his critical accomplishments were on such a supremely high level it would have been freakish for him to have been that good at something else as well. But you know what? He came close!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to P.J. Clarke’s, have some Littlenecks and a Martini, and then a Cadillac burger — and try not to get too bummed that Greg Tate was taken from us way too early.
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Sunday, July 17, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
THEATER
Camilo Quiroz-Vázquez & Ellpetha Tsivicos: “Quince” en la Plaza
SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022
5:00 PM
Hearst Plaza, Lincoln Center, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One Whale’s Tale’s immersive presentation of what becomes a coming-out party in more ways than one. It’s followed by a Silent Disco on Josie Robertson Plaza; I don’t know about you, but to me those things always look like the end of Blow Up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Yet again, you can’t do better than to get some supernal fried chicken at the UWS branch of Charles Pan-Fried Chicken and take it to the Park to eat.
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Saturday, July 16, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Liturgy / John Wiese / Victoria Shen
SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2022
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @ First Unitarian Congregational Society
116 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sound with variant gradients of noise, at various levels of abstraction. Liturgy — BK’s favorite philosophy-based experimental black metal band — you must know. John Weise brings the noise from LA, but of a much more abstract kind. Victoria Shen (from SF) is the quietist — but don’t get me wrong, it’s still noise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It is so nice that there’s now a place in Brooklyn Heights that can be recommended without qualification: the absolutely wonderful Inga’s Bar.
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Saturday, July 16, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Crossing Boundaries Vol. 18: FREEDOM
SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2022
7:00 PM
OPERA America’s National Opera Center
330 7th Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It was a great idea to have avant-Korean instrumentalist gamin program a concert series (of female-identifying performers): she’s quietly established herself as one of the more consistently interesting performers on the New York scene. So of course for this one, featuring solo sets, she went and rounded up a great bunch of people you just want to hear: Ultimate List Fave Gelsey Bell, drummer Lesley Mok, pianist/accordionist Shoko Nagai, violinist Layale Chaker, and saxophonist Ayumi Ishito!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Betcha think I don’t have the gall to repeat for the umpteenth time my recommendation/insistence that you avail yourself of the fabulous value of the West African steam-table buffet at B&B Restaurant. WRONG!
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Saturday, July 16, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Anteloper
SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2022
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$26.17
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jazz+ trumpeter+ Jaimie Branch and drummer+ Jason Nazary plunge headlong Into The Void.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Somewhat Mediterranean-inflected (but not as much as they want you to think) New American out of the big oven at Victor.
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Saturday, July 16, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
Rita Indiana
SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2022
6:00 PM
Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Rita Indiana is simply one of the best pop artists in the world: queer, punk, Latinx, dancey, as eclectic and theatrical as David Bowie but A LOT more fierce and, underneath, genuine.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Once again, you can’t do better than to get some supernal fried chicken at the UWS branch of Charles Pan-Fried Chicken and take it to the Park to eat.
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Saturday, July 16, 2022, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
MUSIC
Curtis Stewart
SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2022
1:00 & 3:00 PM
Rites of Summer Music Festival
Nolan Park, Governors Island, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Violinist Curtis Stewart of the PUBLIQuartet plays a characteristically compelling and wide-ranging solo set, including pieces by Alice Coltrane, Brahms, Ellington, Purcell, Kendrick Lamar/Thundercat, and Bach.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lots to eat and drink on Governors Island. I guess it’s worth noting that the douchey Costa Maya mockup Gitano Island has opened for the Summer. I myself have made it a habit this year, after a day on the Island, to walk over to the wonderful Cafe Spaghetti (in Carroll Gardens/Columbia Waterfront) from the Brooklyn Bridge Park Atlantic Avenue Ferry Landing.
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Friday, July 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Dawn Upshaw & Brentano Quartet: Dido Reimagined
FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2022
8:00 PM
Caramoor
149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, Westchester
$40-$85; 50% off children
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dawn Upshaw and the Brentano Quartet bring back their program of English Rennaisance-into-Baroque vocal and instrumental music, culminating in one of the best and most moving songs in all of English music, Purcell’s “Dido’s Lament” — and then Melinda Wagner’s new take on that subject.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bedford Post Inn is STILL the only good place I know up there.
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Friday, July 15, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Bing & Ruth / LEYA
FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2022
7:30 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$17-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Miminalistish-ambientish project Bing & Ruth is almost as good as real music. Drone pop-rock duo LEYA kind of is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Is it still impossible to get into British seafood sensation Dame? Let me check. Yes, it is.
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Fri, Jul 15, 2022, 12:00 PM – Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 3:00 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Flatbed Follies
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 15 – 17, 2022
12:00 PM FRIDAY
3:00 & 6:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
FRIDAY: Beach 20th Street/Beach 21st Street Plaza, Far Rockaway, Queens
SATURDAY : Banker’s Anchor
North 15th Street btw. Banker Street & Nassau Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
SUNDAY: Frederick Douglass Boulevard btw. East 116th Street & East 117th Street, Harlem, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes it to the street!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Friday in Far Rockaway, walk down to the boardwalk for Jamaican at the Dred Surfer Grill. Saturday in Williamsburg early on, some of the best neo-deli in the City at Frankel’s; later, beer and sausage at Spritzenhaus33. Sunday in Harlem, Somali at Safari.
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Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 9:00 PM – Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 6:00 PM
OPERA
JL Marlor: The Final Veil
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 14 – 17, 2022 (continuing through JULY 31)
9:00 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
the cell theatre
338 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$45-$75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Here’s a good one: a Jewish dancer ordered to strip before entering the gas chambers at Auschwitz performed a distracting striptease which enabled her to seize a guard’s gun and do some damage before she herself was shot. Sounds like an opera plot all right.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I'm going to keep sending you to Qanoon: their home-style Palestinian is SO good.
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Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 5:00 PM
THEATER/MUSIC
Grace Gulu & Baba Israel: Cannabis! A Viper Vaudeville
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 14 – 17, 2022 (continuing through JULY 31)
8:30 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Hudson Square, Manhattan
$35-$75; $10 first 10 tickets each night
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I could give a shit myself, but if you’re interested in a social history of marijuana set to song, here you go.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at Piccolo Cucina Osteria.
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Thursday, July 14, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
PERFORMANCE
Kronos Quartet & Sam Green: A Thousand Thoughts/Roomful of Teeth
THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2022
7:30 PM
Celebrate Brooklyn
Lena Horn Bandshell, Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You want to dismiss the Kronos Quartet as relics. But while their World Music tendencies used to seem hippyish and appropriative, they now seem right on point. And rather than remaining stuck in their era like a Classic Rock band, they instead keep it fresh with pieces from current composers. (I do wish their string sound weren’t so wirey, though.) Tonight they participate in one of filmmaker Sam Green’s “live documentaries”, with music played by the Quartet providing a key “live” component of this documentary account of their career. If that sounds too self-congratulatory to you (as it does to me), there’s always the opening act, that peerless vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pasta Louise, hélas.
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Thursday, July 14, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 6:00 PM
THEATER
Monika Dudárov Hunken: Mt. Rushmore
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 14 – 17, 2022
THURSDAY – SATURDAY 7:30 PM
SUNDAY 5:00 PM
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$30; $15 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Don’t know why you’d want to revisit the Reagan years, except to remind yourself that even when you think things couldn’t get any worse, they actually could. Throwback punk score, if that helps.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great great New Israeli at Miss Ada.
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Thursday, July 14, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Imani Winds: A Woman’s Perspective
THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2022
7:00 PM
Caramoor
149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, Westchester
$40-$65; 50% off children
TICKETS + INFORMATION
And two of the women are Nathalie Joachim and Reena Esmail!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really all I know that’s good near there is Bedford Post Inn. If any of you know anywhere else good, please let me know.
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Thursday, July 14, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Sofia Kourtesis
THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2022
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$33.99
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Peru-by-way-of-Berlin electronic dance/pop artist Sofia Kourtesis is just terrific: intricate, catchy, distinctive.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Oaxacan food at Claro is really good — and the backyard garden is a wonderful place to eat.
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Thursday, July 14, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
Zabelê
THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2022
6:00 PM
Brasil Summerfest
DUMBO Archway
Water Street btw. Anchorage Place & Adams Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Zabelê, who’s made some kicking records over the last several years, pays tribute to her parents, whose Novos Baianos band were MPB leaders in the ‘70s.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vietnamese (as you might guess) at Em Vietnamese Bistro.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM
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Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 9:30 PM
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Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 8:00 PM – Fri, Jul 15, 2022, 8:59 PM
PERFORMANCE/MUSIC
John-Philip Faienza, Braulio Cruz, & Teri Madonna: Flow My Tears (Everybody Dance)
WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY, JULY 13 – 15, 2022
8:00 PM
The Exponential Festival
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The title comes less from Dowland than from Philip K. Dick (who himself took it from Dowland), I’m sorry to say. But the theme is Dowland’s: despair. Although the subtitle, borrowed from Madonna, might suggest a way out. Featuring surprise musical guests!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pinsa, Rome’s gift to the pizza world, at Montesacro.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Summer Evenings III
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2022
7:30 PM
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
1941 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Play chamber music for winds by Poulenc, Françaix, Ligeti, Reicha, and (minor) Beethoven, and this List will tell people to be there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Get some supernal fried chicken at Charles Pan-Fried Chicken and take it into the Park to eat. Who knows: now that Charles has reopened a mothership in Harlem, maybe the line at this UWS outpost will have died down?
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Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 8:30 PM
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Justin Hicks
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2022
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Musical theater performer Justin Hicks does just what we need at this moment: his stuff is formally inventive but warm and communicative. He forges a bond with his audience — which is nice after two years of being cooped up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Chiotosmirniotakia
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2022
7:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15 in person; free-$10 live stream
5:00 PM TICKETS + INFORMATION
7:00 PM TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dance music from Chios.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, no, Medusa Greek Taverna isn’t particularly great. But it’s there. Streaming at home, have a Mastic Martini: pour 1 oz. each of Gin, dry Vermouth, and Mastiha into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with some Mastic tree sap (which of course you have).
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
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Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 2:00 PM – Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 3:00 PM
THEATER
Moliere: Dom Juan
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 13 – 17, 2022
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY
7:30 PM THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY
SummerScape
Fisher Center, Bard College
60 Manor Avenue, Red Hook, New York
$45-$65
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When you hear that the great director Ashley Tata is helming a production of a new translation of Moliere’s Dom Juan, with music by Paul Pinto no less, you really do think you’ve got to get on up to Red Hook (the Upstate one, I hasten to specify). Expect to be amused but also kind of jolted.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A very long time ago, I saw Stiller and Meara eating at the Red Hook Diner. I was awestruck. Even if they looked like everybody’s parents.
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Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
Elevator Repair Service: Seagull
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 12– JULY 17, 2022 (continuing through JULY 31)
8:00 PM TUESDAY & THURSDAY – SATURDAY
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$50-$60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Elevator Repair Service does their stripped-down meta-theater thing to Chekhov’s The Seagull, which with its pitiless sardonic treatment of arts and artists is ripe for it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re not going anywhere after a three-hour play in today’s dessicated New York. But you’re not going to be alert for three hours if you eat before. Maybe a Sicilian snack at Pane Pasta.
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Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 7:00 PM
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Monday, July 11, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
PERFORMANCE
Barbara Lattanzi: A Teakettle’s Thermal Beings
MONDAY, JULY 11, 2022
7:30 PM
Microscope Gallery
525 West 29th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A performative expanded cinema piece in which Barbara Lattanzi performs a visual non-computerized computation to create an image of a teakettle with boiling water transforming from liquid to gas. Also, a couple of imageless videos.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun faux Southern at Porchlight.
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Monday, July 11, 2022, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Jenny Sheinman & Friends
MONDAY, JULY 11, 2022
5:00 & 7:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20 in person; free-$10 live stream
5:00 PM TICKETS + INFORMATION
7:00 PM TICKETS + INFORMATION
You might think violinist Jenny Scheinman is too rootsy for this List, but she has that saving pinch of the avant: like sometime collaborator Bill Frisells’s, hers is a skewed Americana. Of course she has a great band.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, the self-explanatory Colombia in Park Slope. Streaming at home, have a Billionaire: pour 2 oz. Bourbon, 1 oz. lemon juice, 1/2 oz. each of Grenadine and Simple Syrup, and 1/4 oz. Absinthe into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon wheel.
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Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 7:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 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, Jul 11, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 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, July 10, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
MUSIC
Michael Winograd: Early Bird Special
SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2022
6:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$25 in person; free-$50 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If the (excellent) clarinetist Michael Winograd is the star and motive force of this nightlong Klezmer extravaganza, the fact remains that opener Alicia Svigals, fiddling tonight along with tsimbl (that’s cimbalon to you) master Pete Rushefsky, is (I never tire of saying this) one of the great musicians in the world. Jenny Luna’s old Sephardic songs also appeal.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, a perfect chance before the show to vie for the weekend barbacoa and tamales at Reyes Deli & Grocery. Streaming at home, have a Brooklyn: pour 2 oz. Rye, 1 oz. dry Vermouth, and 1/4 oz. each of Maraschino liqueur and Golden Moon Amer dit Picon (or Bigalet China-China or CioCiaro) into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Sunday, July 10, 2022, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
MUSIC
DURATIONS: Kara-Lis Coverdale / Celer / C. Lavendar
SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2022
1:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$26.17
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In the world of experimental electronic music, Montreal’s Kara-Lis Coverdale is something special. Her textures are gorgeous (may have something to do with her being an organist — indeed a church organist — aside from being an electritian). Her forms (a) exist and (b) even have an underlying rigor. Ambient music that isn’t boring: if she had a band, she could call it Better Than Eno.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Oaxacan food at Claro is really good — and the backyard garden is a wonderful place to eat.
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Friday, July 8, 2022, 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM
THEATER / MUSIC
Eszter Balint: I Hate Memory
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 2022
9:30 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Actress singer-songwriter Eszter “Stranger than Paradise” Balint gives a concert version of a musical she’s developing about her late-20th Century NYC heyday — with songs she wrote with Stew!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Taiwanese at 886.
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Friday, July 8, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Kronos Quartet
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 2022
8:00 PM
Caramoor
149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, Westchester
$55; $25 children
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You want to dismiss the Kronos Quartet as relics. But while their World Music tendencies used to seem hippyish and appropriative, they now seem right on point. And a program like this, featuring along with the usual Kronos stuff such up-to-date faves as inti-figis vizueta, Missy Mazzoli, and Nicole Lizée (whom this Listener wishes would get played more in New York), shows they’re keeping it fresh. I do wish their string sound weren’t so wirey, though.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really all I know that’s good near Caramoor is Bedford Post Inn. If any of you knows anywhere else good, please let me know.
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Fri, Jul 8, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Jul 9, 2022, 8:30 PM
MUSIC
Kamratōn
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JULY 8 & 9, 2022
7:30 PM
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Admission unspecified (which usually means $10 or $20 at the door)
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Pittsburgh Invasion of East Williamsburg continues with this show by an ensemble whose home-city activities I follow longingly from Brooklyn (OK: we do have some good music here in Brooklyn, too). They’ll be doing stuff by the kind of composers we favor here at the List (as well as some people I’ve never heard of but would be happy to get to know aurally if Kamratōn has decided to play them): another show I want you all to go to for me while I’m laid up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Taiwanese Wave pioneer Win Son has suffered the fate of many influential New York restaurants: the dispersal of its original kitchen staff, and the achievements of its successors, have rendered it not quite up to its rather stunning salad days. Which isn’t to say it still isn’t well worth eating at.
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Friday, July 8, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Public Memory / Christopher Tignor / koleżanka
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 2022
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Public Memory and his glossy pop-goes-the-Kraut may be the headliner, but we’re excited about violinist/composer Christopher Tignor, whose glacial pieces get a lot further (if much more slowly). Koleżanka, meanwhile, is a genuinely good Pop singer-songwriter: surprise!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vaguely Mediterranean New America delicious out of the big oven at Victor.
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Friday, July 8, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Thu, Jul 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 3:00 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
John-Philip Faienza, Braulio Cruz, & Teri Madonna: Flow My Tears (Everybody Dance)
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 7 – 10, 2022 (continuing through JULY 15)
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
The Exponential Festival
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The title comes less from Dowland than from Philip K. Dick (who himself took it from Dowland), I’m sorry to say. But the theme is Dowland’s: despair. Although the subtitle, borrowed from Madonna, might suggest a way out. Featuring surprise musical guests!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pinsa, Rome’s gift to the pizza world, at Montesacro.
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Thursday, July 7, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
DANCE
Hot! Dance Mix
THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2022
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$18 advance; $21 door; $15 advance students/seniors; $18 door students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mixed dance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Wave Little Italy at Gelso & Grand.
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Thursday, July 7, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MUSIC
SydeBoob Duo
THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2022
7:30 PM
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Admission unspecified (which usually means $10 or $20 at the door)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Billing themselves as “a voice and flute duo for the 21st century”, visiting Yinzers Anna Elder (voice) and Sarah Steranka (flute) perform a program of List faves and nothing but List faves: Kate Soper, Brian Riordan, Marcos Balter, Eve Beglarian, Rebecca Saunders, and Kaija Saariaho. Another one I want you all to go to for me.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: And then go and have some of the wonderful Venezuelan food at Casa Ora for me, while you’re at it.
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Thursday, July 7, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Drew McDowall / Dreamcrusher / Tval
THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2022
7:00 PM
Pioneer Works @ Red Hook Labs
135 Imlay Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$20 advance; $25 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In conjunction with an exhibition of works by the British Industrial legend Genesis P-Orridge (in their Breyer P-Orridge partnership), a concert featuring their old collaborator Drew McDowall (who’s rather more psychedelically inclined than P-Orridge), BK nosiemaster Dreamcrusher, and Tval, whom I don’t really know. So shoot me.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You couldn’t hope for a more fun bar than Brooklyn Ice House.
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Thu, Jul 7, 2022, 4:00 PM – Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 6:00 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Flatbed Follies
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 7 – 10, 2022
4:00 PM THURSDAY
7:00 PM FRIDAY
2:30 AM & 5:30 PM SATURDAY
1:30 & 5:00 PM SUNDAY
THURSDAY: Parkside Plaza
Ocean Avenue & Parkside Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
FRIDAY: Amsterdam Avenue btw. 110th Street & 111th Street, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
SATURDAY: 31st Avenue btw. 34th & 35th Streets, Astoria, Queens
SUNDAY: Newkirk Open Street
Newkirk Avenue btw. Westminster Road & Argyle Road, Ditmas Park, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes it to the street!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thursday in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, some of the best jerk in town that isn’t made on the sidewalk at Peppa’s. Friday in Morningside Heights, if you’re on that block and you don’t go to the ever-wonderful Hungarian Pastry Shop, an angel will die. Saturday in Astoria, very good (if still somewhat overrated) Oaxacan at Ruta Oaxaca. Sunday in Ditmas Park, Northern Thai (Issan: all the rage) at Courthaiyou.
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Wednesday, July 6, 2022, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
MUSIC
Sarah Cabral
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2022
9:00 PM
Brasil Summerfest
The Atlantic BKLN
333 Atlantic Avenue, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Expat Sarah Cabral is a typical Brazilian popular musician in that she might be called a jazz singer, except she’s clearly conversant with the avant-garde and classical and likes melodies that must be considered pop. I don’t know how anyone can resist this stuff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cross the street to Sottocasa for nice pizza.
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Wed, Jul 6, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Jul 9, 2022, 9:30 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Sylvie Courvoisier
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, JULY 6 – 9, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sylvie Courvoisier is a crystalline stylist with a probing improvisatory mind. As is often the case with these Stone residencies, each night’s accompanying lineup is so promising it’s hard to pick a date. One does notice, though, that Wadada Leo Smith is playing on Saturday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wednesday, July 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
WSABI/Tigue/Lollise
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2022
8:00 PM
TV Eye
1647 Weirfield Street, Ridgewood, Queens
$18
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Well THIS is quite a show. The theatrical art-pop of WSABI, the thrillingly exciting Indie Classical (don’t tell anyone) percussion of Tigue, and the transplanted stripped-down arted-up Afropop of Lollise (trust me, you’re gonna love her). In what is going to be a running thread in this edition of The List, I’m cooped up at home with the pathetic remnant of The Plague, but I want each and every one of you to go to this show in my stead.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’d love to go to Nepalese/NYC fusion spot While in Kathmandu, too.
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Wednesday, July 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
The Andy Statman Trio
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20 in person; free-$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If Frank London is an avant-jazz musician playing Klezmer, Andy Statman is a Klezmer musician playing avant-jazz (and Klezmer).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Modern Mexican at Fonda. At home, have a surprisingly palatable Yellow Plum: pour 1-1/2 oz. Slivovitz, 1/2 oz. each orange and lemon juice, and 1/3 oz. each of Maraschino liqueur and Simple Syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Wed, Jul 6, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Jul 9, 2022, 8:30 PM
THEATER
Robert Quillan Camp: White on White
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, JULY 6 – 9, 2022 (continuing through JULY 16)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM FRIDAY
Hoi Polloi
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A peak into a White anti-racist affinity group.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I think I love the Rochester food at Brooklyn Hots even more than the Santa Fe food at Santa Fe BK.
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Wednesday, July 6, 2022, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
MUSIC
Concert in the Catacombs: eddy kwon
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2022
6:30 PM
The Catacombs, Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Eddy kwon is one of the more winning performers on the NYC avant-vocal scene (and let’s not forget their violin). See them and be won over.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Have some yummy stick-to-your-ribs Slovakian food at Korzo and pretend it’s not 100 Fucking Degrees out.
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Wed, Jul 6, 2022, 2:00 PM – Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 3:00 PM
THEATER
Moliere: Dom Juan
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 6 – 10, 2022 (continuing through JULY 17)
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY
7:30 PM THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY
SummerScape
Fisher Center, Bard College
60 Manor Avenue, Red Hook, New York
$45-$65
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When you hear that the great director Ashley Tata is helming a production of a new translation of Moliere’s Dom Juan, with music by Paul Pinto no less, you really do think you’ve got to get on up to Red Hook (the Upstate one, I hasten to specify). Expect to be amused but also kind of jolted.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A very long time ago, I saw Stiller and Meara eating at the Red Hook Diner. I was awestruck. Even if they looked like everybody’s parents.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MUSIC
Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars
TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15 in person; free-$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trumpeter Frank London’s — he’s a great great musician — throwback to the drunken reprobate roots of Klezmer.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, celebrate recent events (not that I know that the owners agree) at Colombia in Park Slope. At home, have a Slivovitz — you know the early Klezmerim did.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Mon, Jul 4, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 6:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 4 – 10, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY
10:00 AM – 8:30 PM TUESDAY & THURSDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Advance ticket required: $18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Mon, Jul 4, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 7:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 4 – 10, 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, Jul 4, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 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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Friday, July 1, 2022, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM
MUSIC
NECHTO for Ukraine
FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2022
10:00 PM
Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Avenue, Maspeth, Queens
$51.25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Ukrainian NECHTO label’s next rave wasn’t able to proceed in Kyiv as planned. But it can go forward in Maspeth. Ukrainian electronic music artists and DJs and local allies. Net proceeds go to a Ukrainian support charity.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Venezuelan at Gonzo’s.
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Fri, Jul 1, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Jul 3, 2022, 3:00 PM
DANCE
Pam Tanowitz & David Lang: Song of Songs
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 1 – 3, 2022
8:00 PM FRIDAY
5:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
SummerScape
Fisher Center, Bard College
60 Manor Avenue, Red Hook, New York
$25-$95
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pam Tanowitz — a choreographer who’s on a roll if anyone is — enlists David Lang to write a score for an interpretation of The Song of Songs, a book so blatantly erotic you can only be grateful it somehow made it into the Bible. Almost worth the schlep.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Once you’ve schlepped as far as Red Hook (the Upstate one: even more of schlep than the one in Brooklyn), you might as well keep schlepping to Pine Plains for Old American (lot of that going around these days) at Stissing House — from one of the chefs behind King!
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Fri, Jul 1, 2022, 5:00 PM – Sun, Jul 3, 2022, 3:00 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Flatbed Follies
MONDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, JUNE 27 & JULY 1 – 3, 2022
11:30 AM & 1:30 PM MONDAY
5:00 PM FRIDAY
1:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
MONDAY: West 182nd Street, Washington Heights, Manhattan
FRIDAY: Lowery Plaza & Bliss Plaza
Queens Boulevard btw. 40th Street & 46th Street, Sunnyside, Queens
SATURDAY: Avenue C Plaza, Kensington, Brooklyn
SUNDAY: Diversity Plaza, Flushing, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes it to the street!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Monday, La Casa del Mofongo is one house I’d like to live in. Friday, you will NOT leave hungry from Romanian Garden. Saturday, I’m once again going to walk you over to the delicious Austrian at Werkstaat. Sunday, you can walk over and worship at the alter of the Arepa Lady from Colombia.
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Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Jul 2, 2022, 9:29 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Simon Hanes
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, JUNE 30 – JULY 2, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Here on this List guitarist Simon Hanes is mainly known as the motive force behind our beloved finta-Italopop band Tredici Bacci. But he is oh so much more.
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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Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Jul 2, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
Bread and Puppet Theater & The Boxcutter Collective: The Divinity Supply Company
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, JUNE 30 – JULY 2, 2022
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 day of; $20 students/seniors in advance; $25 students/seniors day of; $10 first 10 tickets for each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Boxcutter Collective, Bread and Puppet Theater’s New York auxiliary, reeks of New York City the way the parent company reeks of Vermont. This piece deals with humanity’s (pathetic) need for gods.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican insect cuisine (and they don’t even make it to escamoles) at The Black Ant.
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Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Jul 2, 2022, 8:29 PM
THEATER
Robert Quillan Camp: White on White
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, JUNE 30 – JULY 2, 2022 (continuing through JULY 9)
7:30 PM
Hoi Polloi
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A peak into a White anti-racist affinity group.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I think I love the Rochester food at Brooklyn Hots even more than the Santa Fe food at Santa Fe BK.
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Wed, Jun 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Jul 2, 2022, 8:00 PM
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Wed, Jun 29, 2022, 2:00 PM – Sun, Jul 3, 2022, 4:00 PM
THEATER
Moliere: Dom Juan
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, JUNE 29 – JULY 3, 2022 (continuing through JULY 17)
2:00 PM WEDNESDAY
7:30 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
1:00 & 7:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
SummerScape
Fisher Center, Bard College
60 Manor Avenue, Red Hook, New York
$45-$65
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When you hear that the great director Ashley Tata is helming a production of a new translation of Moliere’s Dom Juan, with music by Paul Pinto no less, you really do think you’ve got to get on up to Red Hook (the Upstate one, I hasten to specify). Expect to be amused but also kind of jolted.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A very long time ago, I saw Stiller and Meara eating at the Red Hook Diner. I was awestruck. Even if they looked like everybody’s parents.
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Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Jul 3, 2022, 11:00 PM
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Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Jul 3, 2022, 3:00 PM
THEATER
Chekhov/Igor Golyak: The Orchard
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JUNE 28 – JULY 3, 2022
7:00 PM TUESDAY – THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Arlekin Players In Person & Online
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$39-$125 in person; $29 online; $49-$149 in person & online bundle
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Igor Golyak’s Arlekin Players provided some of the best online theater during The Lockdown, making imaginative use of the medium in its presentations rather than just transmitting transcribed performances. Now it’s doing its new adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard both ways, in person and via a technologically mediated stream. You can see either or both. Either way, with Mikhail Baryshnikov himself playing Firs, this might be the first production in history where the family servant is the most charismatic person on stage.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, although the characters in the play wouldn’t lower themselves, treat yourself to some absolutely delicious Central Asian food at Farida. Streaming at home, there’s nothing for it but an ice-cold straight-out-of-the-freezer Vodka.
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Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 5:00 PM – Sun, Jul 3, 2022, 9:00 PM
THEATER
Beckett: Cascando
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JUNE 28– JULY 3, 2022
5:00, 6:30 & 8:30 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:30 & 8:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Pan Pan Theater
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$35
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Make a spectacle of yourself by putting on a (supplied) black cloak and a pair of (supplied) headphones and being guiding around the Village in an immersive audio-visual experience of Samuel Beckett’s radio play.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian sandwiches, pastas, and snacks at Pane Pasta.
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Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Jul 3, 2022, 7:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, JUNE 28 – JULY 3, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY
10:00 AM – 8:30 PM TUESDAY & THURSDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Advance ticket required: $18; $12 students/seniors; 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: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Jul 2, 2022, 8:59 PM
THEATER
Angela Hanks: Bodies They Ritual
MONDAY – SATURDAY, JUNE 27 – JULY 2, 2022
8:00 PM
Summerworks
Clubbed Thumb
The Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street, East Village, Manhattan
$25-$60; $20 student
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Either a cheap shot at bougies trying to co-opt Southwestern mysticism, or a perceptive exploration of the interaction between bougies and Southwestern mysticism. We’ll see.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Solid underrated seafood at Lamia’s Fish Market.
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Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Jul 3, 2022, 7:00 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JUNE 27 – JULY 3, 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
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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, Jun 27, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Jul 3, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, JUNE 27 – JULY 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.
