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Saturday, September 30, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sanda Weigl: Lost in the Stars — The Music of Kurt Weill
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If anyone has a right to sing this repertoire, it’s Sanda Weigl, a gifted cabaret stylist who’s a relative of Bertolt Brecht.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Serviceable neighborhood Italian at Bar Toto.
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Saturday, September 30, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eyal Moaz & Hans Tannen
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Guitar! But not always sounding like it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza.
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Saturday, September 30, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ekmeles: Homecoming
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
7:30 PM
St. Peter’s Church
346 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$20; $15 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The expert vocal ensemble Ekmeles come home from Europe with two commissions by the Ultima Festival in Oslo — and one of them is a piece by George Lewis setting Nathaniel Mackey! Among the rest of the program, heartbreakingly, is a piece the tragically lost Kaija Saariaho wrote in memory of her mother after the mother died 20-some years ago.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good slice pizza at Stella’s Pizza.
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Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Linked Dance Theatre: The Incomplete Collection
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 & OCTOBER 1, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 29)
7:00 PM
Culture Lab LIC @ The Plaxall Gallery
5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
$40-$90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What seems to be an art gallery exhibition turns out to be a “highly interactive” experience in which was is on display are not artworks but ideas (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seems silly not to cross the street to the Rockaway Brewing Company Long Island City Tap Room. If you want something more solid, take a walk and celebrate that the wonderful Serbian-on-the-Water funspot Anable Basin Sailing Bar & Grill avoided corporate/civic displacement.
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Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Momenta Quartet: Momenta Festival
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 & OCTOBER 1, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 5)
7:00 PM
Broadway Presbyterian Church
601 West 114th Street (entrance on Broadway), Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free (donation to Broadway Community [SATURDAY] and Music For Food [SUNDAY] requested)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The annual four-night festival wherein each member of the Momenta Quartet gets to curate one evening’s performance. World premieres and new-but-not-brand-new pieces (yo Han Lash!), modern classics and should-be-classics, the occasional Standard Rep. This List is especially interested in Saturday night’s program, featuring composers over this and the last several centuries writing works influenced by the music of the past.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sophisticated Chinese at Atlas Kitchen.
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Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
OPERA
Tan Dun: Ghost Opera
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 & OCTOBER 1, 2023
7:00 PM SATURDAY
1:00 PM SUNDAY
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
120 Broadway, Tivoli, Hudson Valley
$49.50
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’ve seen Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera (at Roulette maybe?) — and I can’t remember a thing about it. Which I guess means it’s pretty ghostly! Music performed by Wu Man and the Attacca Quartet, so you know THAT’S in good hands. N.B.: this is instrumental music with movement and visuals; don’t go expecting a trad opera.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sushi at Osaka Tivoli.
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Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 5:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Kinesis Project / Opera on Tap / Anti-Social Music: Capacity, or: the Work of Crackling
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 & OCTOBER 1, 2023
5:00 PM
Locomotive Lawn
Riverside Park South, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
An immersive geologically inspired exploration of the human capacity for joy and grief in relation to the natural process of the earth’s cracking (how do people think of this stuff?). The Anti-Social Music composers are a really good bunch. Go to this.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hmmmm, there’s now an Empellón Taqueria up there.
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Saturday, September 30, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Baroque Incorporated: Eurus — The Turbulent East Wind
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
4:00 PM
House of the Redeemer
7 East 95th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free-$1000
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Italian Baroque concerti implicitly or explicitly evoking wind.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Earl’s Beer and Cheese: your place for beer. And cheese.
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Saturday, September 30, 2023, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 2:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Arts for Art: InGardens
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 & OCTOBER 1, 2023
2:00 PM
Children’s Magical Garden
129 Stanton Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A great line-up of free Free Jazz and related musics.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Slight return of Bereket, and some of the best doner kebab in the City, at Ankara #3.
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Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 2:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kamala Sankaram
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 & OCTOBER 1, 2023
2:00 PM
Plant Family Collection, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Free with Garden admission
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Kamala Sankaram, one of the better (hell, best) composers of vocal music in this City, used some 200 hours of her time as the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Artist in Residence this year to explore the Garden’s vast collection of trees and their caring, and to delve into trees’ cultural significance. The two pieces she’ll be performing (both played each day) are the result. If you aren’t familiar with Sankaram’s work, it fully fits the Alt Classical paradigm of being audience-friendly (in one of the pieces she’ll be accompanied by the guitar player from her Incan surf music band) without being bland or simple-minded (God knows).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Always a great selection at Gold Star Beer Counter.
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Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 12:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Modesto Flako Jimenez: ¡Harken!
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 & OCTOBER 1, 2023 (also on OCTOBER 6)
12:00, 2:00 & 4:00 PM
Soissons Landing, Governors Island, Manhattan
Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having memorably done a piece where drove people around Bushwick in a cab while chatting about the neighborhood’s socioeconomic history, Modesto Flako Jimenez will now drive people around Governors Island in a golf cart while chatting about Juan “Jan” Rodriguez, a free Black or Mulatto (like Jimenez, Dominican) who, trading fur for a Dutch White in 1609, is the first documented non-Indigenous person to have lived in Manattan — arguably, it is believed, on Governors Island.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lots to eat and drink on Governors Island, but let’s go to the almost ridiculously scenic and pleasant — and, oddly, good — Island Oyster one last time.
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Saturday, September 30, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
West Side Fest
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
Various Times
Various locations up and down the West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This festival features free arts activities all day at various spots on the West Side. It gets Listed for two of them. First, at the New York City Aids Memorial, St. Vincent’s Triangle, West Village, at 4:00 PM, a reconstruction by Nick Hallett of a long-lost piece written for outdoor park performance by the composer who most anticipated (inspired?) what to this List’s way of thinking is best about Contemporary Classical music (at least in Brooklyn and Queens) — its freshness, its engagement with the vernacular — the late Arthur Russell. It will be played by such Russell collaborators as David Van Tieghem and Peter Zummo, and such Russell legatees as Lea Bertucci, Nat Baldwin, Shawn O’Sullivan, and Alex Waterman. Second, the hyper-Disco Dragon Sisters at a block party at The Shed, 545 West 30th Street, Hudson Yards, Manhattan starting at 3:00 PM.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In the West Village, Neapolitan pizza from Naples at L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele NYC. At Hudson Yards, all-day Spanish at Spanish Diner.
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Friday, September 29, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Yotoco
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
10:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Yotoco plays Pan-Latin American dance-rock music. Usually, such musical syncretism is a recipe for disaster (or at least anodynity) — but they pull it off.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Colombia in Park Slope. DUH.
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Friday, September 29, 2023, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
MYESHA: Release Control
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
8:30 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$30.71
TICKETS + INFORMATION
MYESHA is what multidisciplinary artist E. Jane calls themself when they feel a song coming on. MYESHA’s Nu R&B is accompanied by visuals created by Myesha’s artist alter-ego.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: An epic burger at Red Hook Tavern.
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Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Philharmonic: The Elements
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 1, 2023
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$52.50-$215.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Elements is a set of concertante violin pieces commissioned by soloist Joshua Bell from five composers. When you’re talking about composers as disparate as Kevin Puts, Edgar Meyer, Jake Heggie, Jennifer Higdon, and Jessie Montgomery, it should go without saying that various pieces are wildly inconsistent. I’ll just be polite and say that Montgomery remains one of the best composers for strings now writing. Closing the concert is Aaron Copland’s Third Symphony, which has always struck me as one of the more underrated pieces in the American mainstream orchestral repertoire, its (to me unimportant) flaws discussed more than its (to me rather magnificent) virtues. And a piece that Jaap van Zweden should be able to conduct pretty well.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can just make it to Kwame Onwuachi’s in-house Afro-Caribbean smash Tatiana (not to be confused with the one in Brighton Beach) for dinner after the evening shows (whether you can get in is another question entirely). Sunday matinée, maybe Épicere Boulud.
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Friday, September 29, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Anna Elder
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
8:00 PM
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20; $15 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pittsburgh vocalist Anna Elder, apparently in a serious mood, brings a program including, among others, such absolute masters as Scelsi, Berio, and Georges Aperghis.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Light Taiwanese at Win Son Bakery.
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Friday, September 29, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Los Aliens
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
We know Ricardo Gallo as an exceptionally incisive jazz pianist and composer. But here he gets on the synth and assembles a sharp band to experiment with the grooves of his native Colombia.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Colombia in Park Slope. DUH.
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Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Celia Duarte & Trio Chapultepec: Reencuentros
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 & 30, 2023
7:30 PM
5 Boroughs Music Festival
FRIDAY: Five Boroughs Brewing Company
215 4th Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
SATURDAY: Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, Queens
$15 suggested
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Boleros: sappy, melodramatic, kind of fantastic.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Friday in Sunset Park, you’re in a brewery and you need ME to tell you what to do? Saturday in Flushing, you’re in the best food neighborhood in the City for God’s sake: make the choice easy on yourself by visiting the shiny new Tangram food court.
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Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Angélica Sanchez
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 & 30, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$33-$44 in person; $22 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Angélica Sanchez is one of those players who plays Out — but lyrically.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, José Andés cocktails and bar snacks at the sky-high Nubeluz. Streaming at home, have an Arizona Statehood: pour 3/4 oz. each of Rye and Dubonnet Rouge, and 1/8 tsp. Gum Syrup, with 1 dash Angostura bitters, into a Collins glass over ice. Stir. Top with ginger ale. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Friday, September 29, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Amplified Ambitions
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
7:00 PM
Spectrum
481 Van Brunt Street, Door 7A, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$15; $10 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A new series with two requirements: that the performances focus on amplified instruments, and that they be ambitious. Beyond that, could be any genre at all.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Barbecue in what for all I know could be your hometown at Hometown Bar-B-Cue.
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Friday, September 29, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ruckus feat. Keir GoGwilt & Sargeant Seedoo
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
7:00 PM
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
120 Broadway, Tivoli, Hudson Valley
$27.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The lively Baroque band Ruckus teams up with violinist Kier GoGwilt (who did such a good job putting together the Ortiz the Musician project a couple of weeks ago) and a purportedly famous dance caller named Sargeant Seedoo. Lest you think a Baroque/square dance mashup is some strikingly new idea, recall that Balanchine did it years ago.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: German (as you might guess) at Jaeger Haus.
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Friday, September 29, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Loraine James / Anysia Kim
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$25.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Do you know Loraine James? She is really GOOD. If Beth Orton, say, was a singer-songwriter who layered electronica onto her folk-pop, James is an electronic musician who expresses herself like a singer-songwriter. You can’t stop listening. Opener Anysia Kim’s beatty tracks move.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best birria in New York City (I’m convinced) at Nene’s Taqueria.
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Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Flatbed Follies
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 27, 29 & 30, 2023
12:00 PM MONDAY
4:30 PM WEDNESDAY
7:00 PM FRIDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
MONDAY: 781 Jennings Street, Charlotte Gardens, Bronx
WEDNESDAY: Johnny Hartman Plaza
Amsterdam Avenue, West 143rd Street & Hamilton Place, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
FRIDAY: Amsterdam Avenue Open Street
Amsterdam Avenue from West 106th Street – West 110th Street, Manhattan Valley, Manhattan
SATURDAY: Tappen Park
Water Street btw. Beach Street & Canal Street, Stapleton, Staten Island
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes it to the street!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Monday in Charlotte Gardens, Jamaican at Back Home #2. Wednesday in Hamilton Heights, ramen, oysters, composed food, and cocktails (not necessarily in that order) at ROKC, a place so nice you'll wish you spent more time in Hamilton Heights (unless you live there, in which case you’ll be glad you do). Friday in Manhattan Valley, terrific báhn mi (and more) at Bánh Vietnamese Shop House. Saturday in Stapleton, staggering Sri Lankan at Lakruwana.
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Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 6:00 PM – Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Catalyst Quartet: Lost in the Galleries
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 & 30, 2023
6:00 PM
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free with museum admission
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Catalyst Quartet lurks among the galleries playing music by marginalized Latinx composers. Good luck finding them! (The Quartet, I mean: marginalized Latinx composers are all too easy to find.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really good bistro at Quatorze.
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Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 5:00 PM – Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE / MUSIC
Downtown Brooklyn Arts Festival
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 & 30, 2023
5:00 PM FRIDAY
11:00 AM SATURDAY
The Plaza
300 Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Listable: LayeRhythm’s incredibly entertaining skipping through various NYC vernacular dance styles at 5:00 PM on FRIDAY; members of The Knights at 1:30 PM on SATURDAY; and then supporting the Mark Morris Dance Company at 2:00 PM on SATURDAY; and List idol Lollise with her Hyper-Afro-Pop at 3:00 PM on SATURDAY.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Peaches tries to take their Southern thing upscale and ends up making it generic at Peaches Prime.
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Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER / DANCE
Jesi Bender: Kinderkrankenhaus
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 – 30, 2023
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Using children incarcerated in a hospital where they are essentially told it’s their fault if they don’t heal themselves to explore neurodiversity, the pathologizing of difference, and the complexity of labels. I think the hospital is a metaphor for gross American HyperCapitalism. But then, I think everything is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ground Zero of the birria craze at the Birria-Landia truck.
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Thursday, September 28, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tim Berne
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
8:00 & 9:30 PM
Lowlands
543 3rd Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tonight the tough in-and-out alto saxophonist Tim Berne plays with a stripped-down quartet.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cool Mexican at Alma Negra.
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Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 8:00 PM – Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Thursday, September 28, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Chelsea Hollow: Cycle of Resistance
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
8:00 PM
Brooklyn Art Haus
24 Marcy Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$23.98
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Songs of resistance gathered and sung by soprano Chelsea Hollow. What’s more, the composers are people like Molly Joyce and Jason Cady: fresh (but potentially resistant).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Birds of a Feather for Sichuan.
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Thursday, September 28, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alfredo Colón: Wilting
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A set of new pieces written by saxophonist Alfredo Colón for his terrific new quintet. Colón has said he likes Free Jazzers Sonny Sharrock, Ornette Coleman, and Pharoah Sanders because of their melodic approach to improvisation. Which is exactly why I like them, too. How’d he leave out Albert Ayler, though?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic New American at As You Are. Streaming at home, have a Santo Libre: pour 1 oz. white Rum into a Highball glass over ice. Add the juice of half a lemon. Top with Sprite. Stir. Throw in 3 mint leaves. Garnish with the rest of the lemon cut into wedges.
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Thursday, September 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kanoa Mendenhall
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$22.50-$33 in person; $22 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Rising bassist Kanoa Mendenhall has played with some really good people. So it should come as no surprise that for this, her first gig as a leader, she’s assembled some really good people to play with her. Such as, by way of example, Kalia Vandever, whom I’ve come to think of as potentially being to trombone what Mendenhall’s sometime boss Joel Ross has become to vibes, and pianist Micah Thomas, one of the clearest thinkers of the upcoming generation.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, José Andrés Mediterranean at Zaytinya. Streaming at home, have a Bamboo: pour 1-1/2 oz. Sherry (your choice of the style: I use Fino usually) and dry Vermouth, with two dashes each of orange bitters and Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Express a lemon twist into the drink and discard (the twist, not the drink). Garnish with an olive.
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Thursday, September 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Samuel Torres Latin Chamber Ensemble feat. The Bergamot Quartet: A Dance for Birds
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
7:30 PM
David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center
61 West 62nd Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The terrific Bogata-to-Astoria percussionist Samuel Torres presents a new long-form piece for his ensemble and the Bergamot Quartet, who are always up for something new.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can whine that Rosa Mexicano isn’t nearly as good as it used to be, and I’ll whine right along with you. But it isn’t affirmatively bad.
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Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Paul Lazar: Cage Shuffle
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 & 29, 2023
7:30 PM
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street, Turtle Bay, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The influence of Japanese culture on John Cage seems so obvious once you think about it that it’s surprising that nobody’s explored in depth — until this season’s John Cage’s Japan series at the Japan Society. It kicks off with he ineffable Paul Lazar’s revival of Cage Shuffle, in which Lazar performs some of the texts in John Cage’s Indeterminacy in random (duh) order, accompanied by choreography co-created by Lazar’s wife, the also-ineffable Annie-B Parson.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Am I going to be predictable and send you for hidden basement izakaya at Sakagura? You bet!
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Thursday, September 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Abyss X: Freedom Doll
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$32.27
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Abyss X may be the best thing to have come out of Crete since Ariadne. She enhances her music with stagecraft like an Electropop David Bowie (no I’m not saying she’s as good as David Bowie). The content is supposed to be something about women and interpersonal personal relationships in the post-internet world, but you’ll have to go to figure it out.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Georgian at Cheeseboat.
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Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / THEATER
Theater Grottesco: Consider This
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 & 29, 2023
7:30 PM
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A history of European theater as clowning.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: April Bloomfield returns with Sailor.
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Thursday, September 28, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 7:00 PM – Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Duologue 2023
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 & 29, 2023
7:00 PM
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$28.52 each night; $44.52 festival pass; $23.18 students/seniors each night; $33.85 students/seniors festival pass
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two nights of performances by duos. Among the music on offer is String Noise (violin-violin) (Thurs.) doing a brand new piece by the involvingly dour Michael Hersch that’s uncharacteristically brief, as well as other stuff including their patented Noise Rock covers; Duo Kayo (viola/cello) (Thurs.), who are new to me but whose program enticingly includes Paul Wiancko, Caroline Shaw, Astor Piazolla, and Édith Piaf; the great classical noise duo Popebama (sax-electronics) (Fri.); and festival organizers Miolina (violin-violin) (Fri.), whose offerings include something by the luminous Alvin Singleton.
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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Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
OPERA
Lisa Despain: The Song of the Nightingale
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 – 30, 2023
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
On Site Opera
Winter Garden
230 Vesey Street, Brookfield Place, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It takes some nerve to set an opera on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale, since there’s already a really good one. Especially when composer Lisa Despain writes like it was 100 years ago. But I love Western classical music from 100 years ago. Including, in fact, Stravinsky’s original Соловей (better known as Le Rossignol).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fuck it, it’s so boring in Brookfield place that I’m going to tell you to take the walk over to Artisano for cheffed-up Peruvian.
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Thursday, September 28, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sara Serpa & André Matos
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sara Serpa, originally from Portugal, is one evocative, atmospheric singer and composer (she is not a singer-songwriter). Her partnership with guitarist André Matos (not THAT one) is sort of special, even if they put it largely on hiatus for a while. I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that List regulars Thomas Morgan and Leslie Mok play bass and drums.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Take a walk over to the best restaurant in New York City, Foxface Natural, where the chef is Portuguese(-American).
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Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 5:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Asi Wind: Inner Circle
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 – OCTOBER 1, 2023 (continuing through JANUARY 7, 2024)
5:00 & 8:00 PM THURSDAY
7:00 & 9:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
4:00 & 7:00 PM SUNDAY
The Gym at Judson
243 Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$110-$265
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’ve been sleeping on this magic show (probably its massive mainstream success shielded it from my view). But contrary to how things might appear, just because people like something doesn’t mean it can’t get Listed.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Red Sauce at Monte’s Trattoria.
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Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 2:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
New Red Order: World’s UnFair
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 – OCTOBER 1, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 15)
2:00 – 9:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
2:00 – 10:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
24-17 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An immersive multimedia carnavalesque bunch of stuff imagining a Post-Colonial future. (On FRIDAY, September 22, and also on October 14, there’ll be after-hours live performances starting at 7 PM by such List-frequenting avant-Indigenous luminaries as KILT [Raven Chacon in a duo with Bob Bellerue], Kite, and White Boy Scream.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Time stands still at the Court Square Diner.
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Thursday, September 28, 2023, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
American Classical Orchestra: La musica notturna di Madrid
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You can guess what one piece on this program is. To be clear, this is string quartet from the ranks of the American Classical Orchestra, with a guitarist: they’re not playing an expansion for string orchestra of Boccherini’s famous guitar quintet. They are playing, however, what are arguably reductions of some Vivaldi string concertos (including a really famous one).
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, let’s accelerate La Hora del Vermut: pour some Vermouth into a tumbler over ice. Garnish with an orange wedge and, if you’re feeling it, a big plump olive.
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Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Dan Weiss
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 – 30, 2023
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dan Weiss is a really good drummer whose musical interests are broad, and who’s not afraid to follow them all within the context of playing jazz. Just about every one of the ensembles he’s assembled for this residency would be an amazing permanent band.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No one better to take over the old Café Loup space than NYC Front of House vet Michael Cechhi-Azzolina with his American Bistro Cecchi’s.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Assembly #9: Nepenthae / Lori Goldston / MV Carbon
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Just look at that bill of performers.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
WERK! The Patio Sessions
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 – OCTOBER 1, 2023
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$25-$117
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Performance by Black/Brown/Queer madcaps. Of especial note are madcap Afrofuturists The Illustrious Blacks on Wednesday and Friday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cheffed up Peruvian at Artesano.
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Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Fall for Dance
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 – 30, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 8)
8:00 PM
New York City Center
131 West 55th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A bunch of stuff of varying degrees of Listability.
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, September 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eric Della Penna: Byzantine Stompers
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Improvisations on compositions derived from recovered shards of Byzantine music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Time to not get into Indian smash Masalawala & Sons again.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Shoko Nagai, Ikue Mori & David Watson / Brandon Lopez & Buz Donald
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
8:00 PM
FourOneOne
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Accordion, electronics, and bagpipe: what’s not to love? Bassist Brandon Lopez plays all over the place — at Sisters, at Roulette, with the Phil — but you know what? There’s a reason for that.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incredibly fun Brazilian at Miss Favela.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Smaïl Kanouté: Never Twenty One
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
8:00 PM
Crossing the Line Festival
Florence Gould Hall, FIAF
55 East 59th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$40; $25 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
French-Malian choreographer/dancer Smaïl Kanouté pays tribute to specific young Black men murdered by gun violence in different places in the world.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pan-Chinese at Hutong.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Rival Consoles
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
8:00 PM
Music Hall of Williamsburg
66 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$31.39
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Electronic musician Rival Consoles seems like he might noodle away into bland pretentiousness like Nils Frahm. But he doesn’t. His music is bright and a pleasure to listen to. Local electronics guy Qasim Naqvi opens: he’s too smart to be pretentious.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nobody would call Gran Torino pretentious.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Wu-Tang Clan / Nas / De La Soul
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
8:00 PM
Barclays Center
620 Atlantic Avenue, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Dynamic pricing so who the fuck knows (but it’ll cost you)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Usual disclaimer: I don’t usually List Oldies Shows — but what fucking oldies. I’d have a hard time deciding whose tee shirt to wear!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Surprisingly good barbecue at Morgan’s Barbecue.
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Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Annie Dorsen: Prometheus Unbound
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 – OCTOBER 1, 2023
7:30 PM
Theater for a New Audience
262 Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$25-$50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Aeschylus’s(?) Prometheus Bound — where the Titan Prometheus brings fire to humans and is punished for it by Zeus — is only the extant beginning of an otherwise lost trilogy telling the full Prometheus myth. Annie Dorsen uses computer technology to simulate the lost closing part, offering a different solution each night.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza at Oma Grassa.
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Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Cirkus Moxie
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
7:30 PM
Brooklyn Art Haus
24 Marcy Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$29.89
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Circus!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great wine and actually good food at Four Horsemen.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Daniel Higgs
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 & 28, 2023
7:00 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$24.21
WEDNESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Daniel Higgs came out of the DC Hardcore scene — but lately he’s been doing things that are bit quieter (what isn’t?), if no less extreme. These shows show the reach of the music Higgs and others have developed out of that scene. Wednesday’s also features NYC percussionist Nava Dunkelman and Chuck Bettis, an ex-DC Hardcore musician who’s since gone full-bore experimental. Wednesday’s pairs Higgs with Bill Nace, who takes guitar very far out.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Brooklyn Red Sauce at Bamonte’s.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano: a tribute to St. GIGA
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 & 28, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$41.20
WEDNESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
A tribute to the legendary experimental ambient/electro-acoustic Japanese radio station from 30 years ago, St. GIGA. Featuring musicians who were played there, and local contemporary musicians who were influenced.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good, fresh Korean at Insa (as always, forego the barbecue and east in the lounge/bar room, which is much nicer than the drab dining room). Maybe don’t tell them you just came from a Japanese music concert.
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Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Caborca: Zoetrope
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 – OCTOBER 1, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 8)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$35.83; $18.50 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A multimedia multigenre fantasia flipping between Puerto Rico and Spanish Harlem.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can now get into Corner Bar. At least sometimes.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 4:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Flatbed Follies
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 27, 29 & 30, 2023
12:00 PM MONDAY
4:30 PM WEDNESDAY
7:00 PM FRIDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
MONDAY: 781 Jennings Street, Charlotte Gardens, Bronx
WEDNESDAY: Johnny Hartman Plaza
Amsterdam Avenue, West 143rd Street & Hamilton Place, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
FRIDAY: Amsterdam Avenue Open Street
Amsterdam Avenue from West 106th Street – West 110th Street, Manhattan Valley, Manhattan
SATURDAY: Tappen Park
Water Street btw. Beach Street & Canal Street, Stapleton, Staten Island
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes it to the street!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Monday in Charlotte Gardens, Jamaican at Back Home #2. Wednesday in Hamilton Heights, ramen, oysters, composed food, and cocktails (not necessarily in that order) at ROKC, a place so nice you'll wish you spent more time in Hamilton Heights (unless you live there, in which case you’ll be glad you do). Friday in Manhattan Valley, terrific báhn mi (and more) at Bánh Vietnamese Shop House. Saturday in Stapleton, staggering Sri Lankan at Lakruwana.
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Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
Normandy Sherwood: Psychic Self-Defense
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 – 30, 2023
8:30 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
11:00 PM FRIDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Soho, Manhattan
$12-$105.25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another instance where, beyond telling you to SEE THIS, the best I can do is quote the promotional materials: “Psychic Self Defense is a show that invites audiences into the guts of the theater. Patrons enter the show through portals draped with fabrics and corridors dimly lit by chandeliers. Are they entering into a séance? After piercing many veils, the audience arrives at what is apparently a tiny, haunted proscenium theater. Anticipation mounts as a grand curtain opens with fanfare… and then another… and then a further curtain… and then the curtains keep opening and closing, revealing and concealing characters, objects and scenes in hypnotic patterns, transporting performers and audience to psychic realms. As this dance of curtains ascends to abstraction, creatures of knots and thread emerge from the shadows, protagonists are absorbed into set dressing and scenic ornaments run rampant. The theater digests and incorporates its prey.” A limited number of special music-enhancing haptic suits will be available, for an extra charge of $28.25-$80.25, at this week’s Wednesday show and Friday late show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Raoul’s luncheonette, Revelie.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 8:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Composers in Play IV: Heart Melodies
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
8:15 PM
Piano Lunaire
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 arts professionals/seniors; free students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A piano recital focusing on young British composers — and good ones: the eloquent Neo-Romanticish Post-Minimalistish Daniel Kildane, the brightly etched Charlotte Bray (meaning her music is brightly etched — not herself), and Hannah Kendall, who takes Modernism and makes something fresh out of it. The pianist, Adam Sherkin (who isn’t British but only Canadian), will also play some of his own music, cuz he should.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: They’ll be giving out wine at the show. But if you want something at least slightly more solid, the broth is particularly rich at E.A.K. Ramen.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nate Wooley: Mutual Aid Music Four Experiments Record Release Show
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Thought-provoking trumpet player Nate Wooley has been playing with this concept for months: he gets together a group of musicians out of a pool of really fabulous local players — tonight’s include Mariel Roberts, Luke Stewart, Josh Modney, gabby fluke-mogul, and others at that incredibly high level — most of whom are given notated compositional cells that they can play at will, with a couple of them improvising freely. Like all such music, results vary — but when it comes together (and with musicians this smart that’s remarkably often) you know you’re hearing something transfixing that will never be heard again. (Well, unless it’s recorded, as we’re celebrating tonight.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, have an Improved Brandy Cocktail: pour 2 oz. Brandy, 1/2 tsp. Maraschino liqueur, 1 tsp. Simle Syrup, and 1/8 tsp. Absinthe (I’d just rinse the glass myself), with 2 dashes of Angostura bitters (really it should be Boker’s — but I’m not assuming you’re as much of a maniac as me) into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Express a lemon peel into the drink, and use the peel as garnish.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Synesethia: Sontag Shogun/Ému/Weird Mirror
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
8:00 PM
Synesthesia
Address provided upon ticketing, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You have to be in the mood for Ambient, I find. If you are, it’s a pleasing sound bath. If you’re not, it sounds like really weak tea (especially compared to the kind of stuff [Switch~ Ensemble] played at ShapeShifter last night), Muzak for people who think they’ve dropped hallucinogens. Some exceptionally able practitioners tonight (Weird Mirror being almost songform Pop) (and all the better for it) — with visuals.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent pizza, great Natural wine at Ops.
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Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
John Zorn: New Masada Quartet
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 – OCTOBER 1, 2023
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Village Vanguard
178 7th Avenue South, West Village, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
John Zorn’s 70th birthday festivities continue with a week at the Vanguard for his Post-Hard-Bop/Klezmer mashup band. Fairly normal music by Zorn’s standards.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really interesting — and really delicious — Unapologetic Southern Indian at Semma.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Haus of Dance
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
7:30 PM
Brooklyn Art Haus
24 Marcy Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$23.98
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mixed dance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great pizza, good wine at Leo.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Open Stage Variety Show
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
7:30 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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Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 7:30 PM – Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jonas Kaufmann: Doppelganger
TUESDAY – THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 – 28, 2023
7:30 PM SATURDAY
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$54-$259
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I was thinking about not Listing this big-time staging in a huge hall of what would ordinarily be a lieder recital. BUT: Jonas Kaufmann: YAWN. Schubert’s Schwanengesang: GREAT. Director Claus Guth in New York City: IT’S ABOUT FUCKING TIME.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It wouldn’t be an Armory show if I didn’t send you to Donahue’s Steak House afterwards: one of those absolutely wonderful places we have here in this City.
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Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Annie Baker: Infinite Life
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 – OCTOBER 1, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 8)
7:00 PM TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Atlantic Theater Company
Linda Gross Theater
366 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$87-$107
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dear God if there must be naturalist mainstream theater in America, let it be Annie Baker: smart, spare, suggestive. And funny as she wants to be.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: We can now go to Fonda for Mexican in Chelsea!
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Larum feat. Taylor Dupree / Lesley Flanigan: Subtonalities / Arovane
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$25.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Experimental and ambient. The duo Larum is joined by electronic composer Taylor Dupree to tease out the experimental-into-Commie-populist composer Cornelius Cardew’s amazingly intricate graphic score Treatise (from when he was still experimental). Leslie Flanigan will provide her sophisticatedly homemade electronics (w/voice). Arovane will sound like he first became famous in Berlin (which he did).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Oaxacan at Claro.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
PC Worship: 100 Year Concert
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
7:00 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$12.88
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Personally, I usually find PC Worship’s amorphous tours of every-kind-of-Noise-Rock-somebody-else-has-already-made a little tiresome. But if they’re putting together a guest list that includes legendary improviser Alex Zhang Hungtai and percussion scintillator Booker Stardrum, I’ll given them another listen.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It remains very big news that Windsor Terrace’s Dog Day Afternoon (located on the very block the movie was filmed on) is now serving their supernal Chicago-Style Hot Dogs at a new Williamsburg bar (H&H Reserve) at reasonable hours!
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Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Dmitri Krymov: Big Trip
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 – OCTOBER 1, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 15)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$45; $40 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance; $35 both shows
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The great Russian theatermaker Dmitri Krymov brings on his all-encompassing gesamtkunstwerk approach to theater where design becomes almost a protagonist, with two shows playing in repertory. The one playing this afternoon recalls a production of Onegin Krymov did in Moscow, examining what it means to be Russian. It shares this run with a piece putting Pushkin together with two vastly different American writers, the pithy Hemingway and the unpithy O’Neill.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: We can still love Russian culture even if we hate what current Russia has become. Nevertheless, after seeing all this Russianness, you’ll probably want to go to the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant for a corrective (not that Krymov is any kind of supporter of the current regime).
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Cooper-Moore, Brian Price & Hans Binter / Trusted Pilot
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
7:00 PM
Soup & Sound
292 Lefferts Boulevard, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A trio led by local Free Jazz hero Cooper-Moore on diddley-bow. And a quartet featuring Shoko Nagai on piano.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Soup will be served. If you want a nightcap after the show, Any Thing will be waiting with its warm welcome and frankly not very good cocktails.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
THE DMG 32nd ANNIVERSARY IN-STORE FREE MUSIC SERIES
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
6:30 PM
Downtown Music Gallery
13 Monroe Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Among this week’s treats, avant-Korean with Yoona Kim, and the perpetually unexpected guitar of Chris Cochrane.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern-Korean-inflected Golden Diner.
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Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 – OCTOBER 1, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM & 8:00 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
$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: Early, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant. Later, meet the Guadalajaran Torta Ahogada — sure to become your new obsession — at Cruz del Sur. (FUN FACT: I believe Cruz del Sur is next door to the apartment Aaron Copland grew up in.)
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Monday, September 25, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tropical Vortex: La Cuneta Son Machin
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
9:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Now here’s something I’ll bet you didn’t know you loved. From Nicaragua: you take Cumbia rhythms, ramp them up, and slather them with marimba. If this doesn’t make you both move and smile, I’ll worry about you.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Jamaican with a side of Trinidadian at Stella’s.
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Monday, September 25, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
[Switch~ Ensemble]: Sounds from the Periphery
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
8:00 PM
ShapeShifter Lab In Person & Live Stream
837 Union Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15 advance; $20 door; $15 students/seniors door; $10 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
[Switch~ Ensemble] doesn’t shy from electronics. This concert features work by composers who make electroacoustic music or music that sounds electroacoustic even when it’s fully acoustic. While it’s always good to experience Heather Stebbins’s enthralling glacial electroacoustic objects (her pieces seem like they’re just there), what’s really exciting on this program is a piece by Fausto Rometelli, an absolutely unique composer who created his own antic, propulsive soundworld, with music that zoomed so fast and so crazily it almost had to stop coming prematurely.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, who’d have thought one of the better and more distinctive Thai restaurants in New York City would be in Park Slope? Bangkok Degree. Streaming at home, have the drink of the Old Italian Men whose ranks Fausto Romitelli never got a chance to join, the Bicicleta: pour 2 oz. each of Campari and Italian white wine into a wine glass. Add ice. Top with soda water. Garnish with an orange wheel.
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Monday, September 25, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Isabel Crespo Pardo: sin rumbo
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Isabel Crespo Pardo is so good right now that we can only consider ourselves lucky to be sharing the same time and space as them. This is a solo piece for their voice, sort of. Sort of because Crespo’s performance is counterpointed by videos made by friends of solitary walks through the friends’ localities.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, a new bar around the corner from Roulette! The Little Pig. Streaming at home, have an El Presidente: pour 1-1/2 oz. Rum, 3/4 oz. each of dry Vermouth and Curaçao, and 1/8 tsp. Grenadine into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Monday, September 25, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Pool 45
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
7:30 PM
Record Shop
360 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$10-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Among the people playing in the several ensembles on this bill — reasons to go to Red Hook (if you’re not there already) — are trumpet player Joe Moffett (a really interesting thinker), bassist Brandon Lopez (the reason he seems to be everywhere is that people want to hear or to play with him), and gayageum star DoYeon Kim (same).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fort Defiance, a great cocktail bar with good food, is back!
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Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
James Alister Sprang: Rest Within the Wake
MONDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 – 30, 2023
7:00 PM
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$38.89-$74
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A technologically sophisticated multi-media exploration of the Caribbean diaspora (but please don’t expect anything direct or concrete or God forbid didactic).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pan-regional Chinese with a focus on Sichuan at Chi.
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Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER / MUSIC / DANCE
nicHi douglas: (pray)
MONDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 – 30, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 28)
7:00 PM
Ars Nova @ Greenwich House
27 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$18-$110
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Go for nicHi douglas’s surreal Afrofuturist take on a Sunday Baptist Church service. But stay for the music by the dream team of Starr Busby and JJJJerome Ellis.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tuscan at the relocated I Sodi — if you can get in to get it.
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Monday, September 25, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dana Lynn & Kyle Sanna
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
7:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trad Irish goes mod, and thinks about the environment.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better-than-Neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
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Monday, September 25, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kyle Flanagan / Tongue Depresser & Austin Larkin / Webb Crawford & Sean Ali
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
7:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Noise. Some louder than other.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Monday, September 25, 2023, 12:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Flatbed Follies
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 27, 29 & 30, 2023
12:00 PM MONDAY
4:30 PM WEDNESDAY
7:00 PM FRIDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
MONDAY: 781 Jennings Street, Charlotte Gardens, Bronx
WEDNESDAY: Johnny Hartman Plaza
Amsterdam Avenue, West 143rd Street & Hamilton Place, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
FRIDAY: Amsterdam Avenue Open Street
Amsterdam Avenue from West 106th Street – West 110th Street, Manhattan Valley, Manhattan
SATURDAY: Tappen Park
Water Street btw. Beach Street & Canal Street, Stapleton, Staten Island
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes it to the street!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Monday in Charlotte Gardens, Jamaican at Back Home #2. Wednesday in Hamilton Heights, ramen, oysters, composed food, and cocktails (not necessarily in that order) at ROKC, a place so nice you'll wish you spent more time in Hamilton Heights (unless you live there, in which case you’ll be glad you do). Friday in Manhattan Valley, terrific báhn mi (and more) at Bánh Vietnamese Shop House. Saturday in Stapleton, staggering Sri Lankan at Lakruwana.
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Monday, September 25, 2023, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 – OCTOBER 1, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 – OCTOBER 1, 2023 (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 (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Oct 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 – OCTOBER 1, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, September 24, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jeff Lederer: Schoenberg on the Beach
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors advance; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A jazz song cycle based on the early vocal music of Schoenberg and Webern. Something will be made of the fact that Pierrot Lunaire premiered the same year Luna Park opened. Wait a minute: that isn’t correct!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, superb Palestinian at AlBadawi. Streaming at home, have a Coney Island: pour 2 oz. Rye and 1/2 oz. each of sweet Vermouth and Crème de Cacao, with 1 dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Sunday, September 24, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mariel Roberts & Tomas Fujiwara / Mazz Swift
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
7:30 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Three of the most interesting musicians in New York City on one bill. Cellist Mariel Roberts and drummer Tomas Fujiwari extend their ongoing improvisatory collaboration. Violinist/vocalist Mazz Swift does one of their engrossing electronics-enhanced vernacularly enriched solo sets.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ham and wine at & Sons.
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Sunday, September 24, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Han Chen: Infinite Staircase
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$29.20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Han Chen plays all of Ligeti’s Piano Études — which this List recently asserted is the greatest solo piano music composed in the second half of the last century, and it sticks by that — along with a set of 18 complementary new pieces Chen commissioned from composers like Jessie Cox, Molly Joyce, Nina Young, and Sugar Vendil in celebration of Ligeti’s centenary.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Keep celebrating at one of the better French bistros in town, Le Crocodile.
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Sunday, September 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Shinya Lin & Leo Chang: Nolja!
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
7:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$15-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist Shinya Lin and multi-instrumentalist Leo Chang bring together a bunch of their friends to play together in various combinations. And happily, one of their friends is the insinuating drummer Lesley Mok.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Sunday, September 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Crystal Palaces
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
7:00 PM
Footlight Underground @ The Windjammer
552 Grandview Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$10-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ambient and instrumental music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The opposite of an ambient music concert: Gottscheer Hall.
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Sunday, September 24, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
sksksks, Brain Dead & PC Music: BOAT YEAH
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
6:00 PM
Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises
Pier 83, West 42nd Street & 12th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$64.38
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Say goodbye again to PC Music, closing up shop 10 years after foisting Hyperpop on an unsuspecting world. This time, on a boat.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: On a boat, you’re kinda stuck. Once you get off the boat, the neighborhood will be closed. Before, the various stands at Gotham West Market.
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Sunday, September 24, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, September 24, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sunday Salon: Piano+
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
4:00 PM
Spectrum
481 Van Brunt Street, Door 7A, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$15; $10 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Spectrum shows off its new Steinway B with composer/pianist Teodora Stepancic playing well with others.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Barbecue in what could be your hometown at Hometown Bar-B-Cue.
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Sunday, September 24, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Composers Concordance: Electric Circus
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
4:00 PM
The Village Trip
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Classical musicians who play electric guitar.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pan-regional Chinese seems like a bad idea. But Uluh makes it work.
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Sunday, September 24, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bang on a Can Music Series: For Living Lovers
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
4:00 PM
The Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Road, Long Island City, Queens
$12; $6 students/seniors; free under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The eloquent guitar/bass duo of Brandon Ross (playing acousitic!) and Stomu Takeishi.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You walk past the classic Bel Aire Diner and you want to go in.
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Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:00 PM – Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 11:59 AM
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Saturday, September 23, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zemog el Gallo Bueno
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
10:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This Art-Roots post-Salsa with all kinds of psych and even experimental influences is exactly what Barbès is good for.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Jamaican with a side of Trinidadian at Stella’s.
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Saturday, September 23, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sky Creature
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
8:00 PM
RiverArts
Purple
52 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester
$30; $15 “youth”
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Majel Connery and Matt Walsh’s band/project Sky Creatures ROCKS. Which isn’t to say that it isn’t at all Alt Classical (only a classically trained musician would be so eager to assert her band ROCKS) (which it does).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bistro at Saint George.
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Saturday, September 23, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Lime Rickey International/Masma Dream World
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$16
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lime Rickey International is the outrageous alter ego of performance artist Leyya Mona Tawil. Shipwrecked in our time from the future, she performs fictional folk dances, creates noise (does she ever), and sings to a homeland that doesn't yet exist. Masma Dream World’s music can get a little therapeutic at times — but the Gabonese half of their Gabonese/Singaporean background keeps things moving.
Their Butoh background keeps things dark.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: More neo-Midwestern food at Ruthie’s Luncheonette.
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Saturday, September 23, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
William Parker: In Search of Enlightenment (LIGHT Ensemble)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
8:00 PM
FourOneOne
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When you’re the best bass player in New York City, maybe anywhere, I don’t know why you have to search for anything. But if William Parker is going there, I’ll follow.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incredibly fun Brazilian at Miss Favela.
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Saturday, September 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Horszowski Trio: Chamber Music by Village Composers
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
7:30 PM
The Village Trip
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Wait. Elliot Carter and Louis Karchin I get. But Shostakovich was a Greenwich Village composer???????????
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The broth is particularly rich at E.A.K. Ramen.
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Saturday, September 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jitr จิตร: extended gong ensemble
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
7:30 PM
CultureHub NYC
47 Great Jones Street, NoHo, Manhattan
Free/Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A networked audiovisual gong performance through live coding. The audience is invited to join in.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Might as well go to Atla for Mezcal/Tequila and Mexican café food.
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Saturday, September 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Joseph Keckler
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
7:30 PM
David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center
61 West 62nd Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
New Opera Cabaret, sort of — and better than that sounds.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can whine that Rosa Mexicano isn’t nearly as good as it used to be, and I’ll whine right along with you. But it isn’t affirmatively bad.
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Saturday, September 23, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER / MUSIC / DANCE
nicHi douglas: (pray)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 28)
7:00 PM
Ars Nova @ Greenwich House
27 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$18-$110
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Go for nicHi douglas’s surreal Afrofuturist take on a Sunday Baptist Church service. But stay for the music by the dream team of Starr Busby and JJJJerome Ellis.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tuscan at the relocated I Sodi — if you can get in to get it.
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Saturday, September 23, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dana Lyn
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
6:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dana Lyn continues her month-long residency with a show by Baby Octopus, her Prog Pop (or something) exploration/celebration of Jay DeFeo’s epic painting/sculpture The Rose.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Not likely, perhaps, but if you’re really lucky Reyes Deli & Grocery will have some of their fabulous weekend tamales and barbacoa left.
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Saturday, September 23, 2023, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Matthew Lutz-Kinnoy: Filling Station
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
2:00 PM
The Kitchen @ Dia Beacon
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, Hudson Valley
Free with Museum Admission
TICKETS + INFORMATION
American-in-Paris multidisciplinary artist Matthew Lutz-Kinnoy is the moving force behind this regeneration of the 1930s progenitor of dance Americana, with choreography by Niall Jones and Raymond Pinto replacing that by Lew Christensen, and music by James Ferraro replacing that by Virgil Thomson (I’d have kept the Thomson — but I’m Old). This new iteration will foreground Queer themes that dared not speak their name in the ‘30s. There’s a related exhibition by Lutz-Kinnoy on view at The Kitchen @ Westbeth (163 Bank Street, West Village, Manhattan) through November 3.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nepalese at Momo Valley.
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Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 2:00 PM – Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Saturday, September 23, 2023, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Juke Box Baby II
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
1:00 PM
Mama Tried
787 Third Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The big news here is Peter Zummo (who was there) playing Arthur Russell’s Dinosaur L, which is something like Disco that’s thinking about Anthony Braxton but still sounding like Disco. There’s also some delighful avant-Pop on this long bill, including Fun Facts (which itself includes percussionist/electrician Matt Evans) and Toebow.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The food at the venue, Mama Tried, is totally edible. The drinks are fine (they make their own vermouth!).
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Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 11:59 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 12:59 AM
MUSIC
Jonas Kaufmann: Doppelganger
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 & 23, 2023 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 28)
8:00 PM FRIDAY
7:00 PM SATURDAY
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$54-$259
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I was thinking about not Listing this big-time staging in a huge hall of what would ordinarily be a lieder recital. BUT: Jonas Kaufmann: YAWN. Schubert’s Schwanengesang: GREAT. Director Claus Guth in New York City: IT’S ABOUT FUCKING TIME.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It wouldn’t be an Armory show if I didn’t send you to Donahue’s Steak House afterwards: one of those absolutely wonderful places we have here in this City.
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Friday, September 22, 2023, 11:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, September 22, 2023, 9:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mali Obomsawin Xtet
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
9:30 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bassist/vocalist/composer Mali Obomsawin eloquently integrates Indigenous American musical and cultural elements into her jazz-pop and expresses and explores Indigenous American concerns. So is it wrong for me to say I find her music kind of catchy?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Taiwanese at 886.
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Friday, September 22, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Michael Bates: Acrobat
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bassist Michael Bates and his crew continue their Chamber Jazz exploration of the music of Shostakovich.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better-than-Neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
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Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Laurie Goldston Group
The Ghost / Laurie Goldston solo
FRIDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 & 24, 2023
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Friday the Seattle experimental cellist Laurie Goldston in a band. Sunday, solo. I have no idea who The Ghost is or are.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Persian tapas at Masquerade.
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Friday, September 22, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, September 22, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jennifer Simone / Emmanuel Michael / Careful in the Sun
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
7:30 PM
Spectrum
481 Van Brunt Street, Door 7A, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Various forms of spacey Pop-adjacent electronics. A very nice night.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I am still so excited about the new Piemontese-leaning Bar Mario that I could burst.
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Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
David Virelles
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 & 23, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$33-$44
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Avant-Cuban jazz pianist David Virelles, always fascinating, does four of his particularly fascinating solo electronics sets.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: José Andés cocktails and bar snacks at the sky-high Nubeluz.
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Friday, September 22, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
People’s Champs feat. Starr Busby: Album Release Show / Pinc Louds
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
7:00 PM
The Sultan Room Rooftop
234 Starr Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$19.57
TICKETS + INFORMATION
People’s Champs’ Art Soul/R&B is just great (as any band having Starr Busby as lead singer is bound to be). Pinc Louds’s Latinx whatchamacallit is literally indescribable.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Souped-up Venezuelan hot dogs at Santa Salsa.
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Friday, September 22, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Loisaida, My Love
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
7:00 PM
The Village Trip
Third Street Music School
170 Forsyth Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Music (mainly) composed by people who lived or worked on the Lower East Side or in the Village, such as Jessie Montgomery, Astor Piazolla, and Carlos Chavez (who knew?).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tibetan at Lhasa.
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Friday, September 22, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The New York All-Star RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers Centennial Celebration
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
7:00 PM
Harlem Jazz Series
Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church
16 Mount Morris Park West, Harlem, Manhattan
$25.47
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sam Rivers was an uncompromising, extremely rigorous Free player who somehow managed to make music that was digestible even by scaredy-cats. When they call this band paying centennial tribute to Rivers “All-Star”, they’re not kidding. But they couldn’t be as great as Rivers was himself.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Underrated pizza at Sottocasa.
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Friday, September 22, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Colleen / Chanel Beads
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$32.96
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A night of Avant-Pop. Colleen started out doing loopy instrumentals, gradually thickened the textures, and then moved very nicely into songs (i.e., the pieces had words — and vocals). On her new album, released the day of this show, she moves back into instrumentals. But I’ll bet that the textures will be richer, and the structures more varied, this time around. Chanel Beads, in their electronic pop (which most decidely is not Electropop), almost approach songform. Almost.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good, fresh Korean at Insa (as always, forego the barbecue and east in the lounge/bar room, which is much nicer than the drab dining room).
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Friday, September 22, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, September 22, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Wanjiru Kamuyu: A disguised welcome…
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 & 23, 2023
7:00 PM
Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Kenyan-in-Paris-by-way-of-New York Wanjiru Kamuyu presents a solo dance exploration of the experience of displacement.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speaking for myself, I am positively jonesing right now for the Tacos de Chiloria and the Tacos Machaco con Huevo at Cielito. I can taste it.
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Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 6:00 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Roderick George: The Missing Fruit
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 & 23, 2023
6:00 PM
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
120 Broadway, Tivoli, Hudson Valley
$50.50-$80
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Roderick George — a terrific dancer turned terrific choreographer — responds to the murder of Black men by the police.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: German (as you might guess) at Jaeger Haus.
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Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 4:00 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Flatbed Follies
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 & 23, 2023
4:00 PM FRIDAY
12:00 & 5:00 PM SATURDAY
FRIDAY: 76-13 Woodside Avenue, Woodside, Queens
12:00 PM SATURDAY: 229 Dyckman Street, Inwood, Manhattan
5:00 PM SATURDAY: 84 West 120th Street, Harlem, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes it to the street!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Friday in Woodside, you’re spoiled for choice of splendid Thai restaurants on those blocks, but Zaab Zaab is probably the current best of them. Saturday in Inwood, you’re virtually around the corner from the best Dominican in New York City at Elsa la Reina del Chicharron. Saturday in Harlem, Ecuadorean/Bengali mashup that somehow works at Archer & Goat.
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Thursday, September 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Razor-N-Tape Presents: Make a Joyful Noise
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
8:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$25.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another of those fun nights where a Nu Jazz ensemble weaves in and out of tracks played by really good DJs. Indeed, this night will be especially fun, as the Afrofuturist slapstick Illustrious Blacks will be on hand in fabulous person.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Oaxacan at Claro.
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Thursday, September 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
John Zorn at 70: Music for Strings
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
8:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$23.25-$33.50; students & Under 25 $18.25-$25.50; seniors $20.25-$28.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Avant-workoholic John Zorn continues his Birthday onslaught, this time, as the title says, with some pieces for strings. Of course, since he’s Zorn, he’s gotten fabulous people to play them.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A fast-casual Global Rice chain might not sound like the most enticing idea. But J.J. Johnson is some kind of culinary genius, and the new branch of Fieldtrip brightens this neighborhood.
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Thursday, September 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Fire Over Heaven
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
8:00 PM
Outpost Artists Resources
1665 Norman Street, Ridgewood, Queens
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The future of this excellent series seemed sketchy, but it’s back. With a bang, as it turns out. Kertenkele, a trio of Joan Sue on voice and electronics, Nick Dunston on bass and electronics, and Cenk Ergün on electronics and electronics; and Peter Kerlin, who can play jazz and psych, but when he’s in charge himself makes really good Art Pop.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: See what’s brewing at the Evil Twin Brewing Ridgewood Taproom.
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Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER / DANCE
William Sydney: Dance Die Crucify
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 23, 2023
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$22
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A play about music with music, they say.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ground-zero birria at the Birria-Landia truck.
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Thursday, September 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tim Berne
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
8:00 & 9:30 PM
Lowlands
543 3rd Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tonight the tough in-and-out alto saxophonist Tim Berne’s combo is joined not only by the ex-Norwegian guitarist Evind Opsvik, about whom we’ve been enthusing around here lately, and Snakeoil saxman Oscar Noriega, but adds the titanic sax of Chris Potter to the mix.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cool Mexican at Alma Negra.
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Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Thursday, September 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jessica Ackerley / Kirin McElwain & Aimee Neimann / Alex Koi & Ben Willis / Keenan Rufflin
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
8:00 PM
Main Drag Music
50 South First Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A big shout-out here to Jessica Ackerley, whose watery yet focused guitar sound is making her a big favorite in these quarters. She’ll have the forward-looking rhythm section of Walter Stinson on bass and Aaron Edgcomb on drums.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Outrageously good pub grub at Meckelburg’s.
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Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Osvaldo Golijov: Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 & 22, 2023
7:30 PM
Broadway Presbyterian Church
601 West 114th Street, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$20; $15 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Isaac the Blind was a Jewish mystic (a crucial Kabbalist), but Osvaldo Golijov put some Klezmer earthiness in his musical interpretation of him. Good idea for the splendid Harlem Chamber Players to get David Krakauer (who originated it) to handle the clarinet part.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I am pleased to report that Symposium — the first Greek restaurant Your Compiler ever ate in, in some distant decade — remains in business some 50-something years later.
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Thursday, September 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
The DynamitExperience: In Lieu of the Option is What?
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 23, 2023
7:30 PM
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$22.40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dance and live jazz consideration of the sociopolical atmosphere that engenders the stripping of choice from women, people of color, and gays. (Unfortunately for the creators, they can barely keep up with events.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very appealing Irish pub grub at Hartley’s.
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Thursday, September 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alexandra Ridout 6tet
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$22.50-$33 in person; $22 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Frankly, I always find there’s something missing from the playing and writing of the highly touted trumpetist Alexandra Ridout: a lack of grit uncomensated for by any particular lyricism. But she gets great people to play with her, so maybe I’m the one who’s missing something.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Italian with a chance of Ashkenazic at Mark’s Off Madison. Streaming at home, have a Hanky Panky: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Gin and sweet Vermouth, 1/4 tsp. Fernet, and 1/8 tsp. orange juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
WERK! The Patio Sessions
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 23, 2023 (series continues through OCTOBER 1)
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$25-$117
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Performance by Black/Brown/Queer madcaps. On Thursday, Pixie Aventura is a drag. Friday and Saturday, The Incredible Drunkertons mine two decades or more of junk culture.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cheffed up Peruvian at Artesano.
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Thursday, September 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Juliana Barwick
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$31.80-$61.62
TICKETS + INFORMATION\
Juliana Barwick’s looped multi-layered mostly vocal ambient music is gorgeous, just gorgeous.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Celebrate Hatch Chili season at Santa Fe BK.
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Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Monica Bill Barnes & Company: Many Happy Returns
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 24, 2022 (also on OCTOBER 11 & 12)
7:30 PM
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A memory play (OK, dance) from someone who’s always used songs and low comedy to tell stories.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great great New Israeli at Miss Ada.
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Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Tjaša Ferme: BIOADAPTED
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 24, 2023
7:30 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
3:00 & 7:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Culture Lab LIC @ The Plaxall Gallery
5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
$33.85; $26.38 students/seniors/artists
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An interactive multi-media exploration of the implications of AI, using reenactments of real interviews, fictional vignettes, and GPT-3-generated material.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seems silly not to cross the street to the Rockaway Brewing Company Long Island City Tap Room. If you want something more solid, take a walk and celebrate that the wonderful Serbian-on-the-Water funspot Anable Basin Sailing Bar & Grill avoided corporate/civic displacement.
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Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Thursday, September 21, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Luciana Souza Trio feat. Chico Pinheiro & Scott Colley
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$42.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I don’t List every Brazilian music show that comes by: it just seems that way. (Anyway, Luciana Souza lives here now). Tonight, the singer/composer performs cycles inspired, respectively, by Leonard Cohen and Emily Dickinson.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 7:00 PM – Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Bijayini Satpathy: ABHIPSAA — A SEEKING
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 & 22, 2023
7:00 PM
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$38.89-$74
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bijayini Satpathy is a famous Odissi dancer. Starting with this piece, she’s an Odissi choreographer, too. Exquisite intensity.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pan-regional Chinese with a focus on Sichuan at Chi.
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Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
M³ Festival
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 23, 2023
7:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (or M³) is an initiative started by Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa to provide a support network for female and non-binary musicmakers, particularly ones who are BIPOC. So here are three nights of music by such musicians — and one look at each night’s line-up should squelch any accusations of tokenism or reverse prejudice (although it won’t cuz the people who make such accusations are morons).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A new bar around the corner from Roulette! The Little Pig.
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Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 5:00 PM – Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Asi Wind: Inner Circle
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 24, 2023 (continuing through JANUARY 7, 2024)
5:00 & 8:00 PM THURSDAY
7:00 & 9:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
4:00 & 7:00 PM SUNDAY
The Gym at Judson
243 Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$110-$265
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’ve been sleeping on this magic show (probably its massive mainstream success shielded it from my view). But contrary to how things might appear, just because people like something doesn’t mean it can’t get Listed.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Red Sauce at Monte’s Trattoria.
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Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 2:00 PM – Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
New Red Order: World’s UnFair
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 24, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 15)
2:00 – 9:00 PM THURSDAY
2:00 – 9:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 – 9:00 PM SUNDAY
24-17 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An immersive multimedia carnavalesque bunch of stuff imagining a Post-Colonial future. (On FRIDAY, September 22, and also on October 14, there’ll be after-hours live performances starting at 7 PM by such List-frequenting avant-Indigenous luminaries as KILT [Raven Chacon in a duo with Bob Bellerue], Kite, and White Boy Scream.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Time stands still at the Court Square Diner.
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Thursday, September 21, 2023, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gwendolyn Toth & Audrey Fernandez Fraser: Found in a Flea Market: The Carlo G Manuscript
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The backstory here is so delicious that it’s worth luxuriating in. The Carlo G Manuscript was, indeed, found in a flea market, outside Vienna. It was purchased for all of €60. When musicologists got their hands on it, they discovered it was a priceless musical document of the Baroque. Here’s why: in most Baroque scores, ornamentation is unannotated — and so is the continuo, the ostinato accompaniment of low and/or plucked instruments that functions as the rhythm section, the bottom, of a current jazz or pop ensemble. So in modern performances/reconstructions of Baroque music, those important elements have been left to guesswork (often educated guesswork, of course) (but sometimes not). The Carlo G Manuscript, however, had those parts filled in! At last we can see how a concentrated dose of them was supposed to be played. But maybe the best part: the surname of the composer/compiler of the manuscript was smudged, so all that could be seen was the first letter. One of the more prominent musicians active at the time and place of the manuscript’s creation was the crazed composer/murderer Carlo Gesualdo. And as much as it seems too good to be true, the consensus appears to be that Gesualdo is indeed the “Carlo G” of this manuscript! This afternoon, the superb harpsichordist Gwendolyn Toth and her student, soprano Audrey Fernandez Fraser, will show what they’ve learned from this priceless €60 document.
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, see if you can find a pre-1996 bottle of Fiorano wine, made in Rome by one of Carlo Gesualdo’s crazed successors as Prince of Venosa.
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Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 12:30 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
OPERA
Lisa Despain: The Song of the Nightingale
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 23, 2023 (also on SEPTEMBER 28 – 30 at another location)
12:30 & 7:00 PM THURSDAY
7:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
On Site Opera
Manhattan West Plaza
395 9th Avenue, Hudson Yards, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It takes some nerve to set an opera on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale, since there’s already a really good one. Especially when composer Lisa Despain writes like it was 100 years ago. But I love Western classical music from 100 years ago. Including, in fact, Stravinsky’s original Соловей (better known as Le Rossignol).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Theoretically boring, in practice delicious, Italian from the oven at Ci Siamo.
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Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Anna Webber
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 23, 2023
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Reeds/flute player Anna Webber is one of the gems of the Brooklyn jazz scene. Another Stone week where just about every show looks great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No one better to take over the old Café Loup space than NYC Front of House vet Michael Cechhi-Azzolina with his American Bistro Cecchi’s.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Shoko Nagai, Ikue Mori & David Watson / Brandon Lopez & Buz Donald
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 (also on SEPTEMBER 27)
8:00 PM
FourOneOne
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Accordion, electronics, and bagpipe: what’s not to love? Bassist Brandon Lopez plays all over the place — at Sisters, at Roulette, with the Phil — but you know what? There’s a reason for that.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incredibly fun Brazilian at Miss Favela.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
False Harmonics: Natural Information Society / Ben Vida feat. Yarn/Wire
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
8:00 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$31.70 advance; $40.96 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lots of colors and textures from the Chicago Scene’s Natural Information Society, with constant forward motion. Oh, and Darius Jones sitting in on alto! Ben Vida is a real sonic explorer (although one who manages to stay accessible to the um non-specialist listener), and the piano/percussion quartet Yarn/Wire is able to go wherever he wants to take them.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: An epic burger at Red Hook Tavern.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Madison Greenstone / Forever 21
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
8:00 PM
FourOneOne
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Madison Greenstone does things on her clarinet you probably haven’t heard before. Forever 21 is a new (to me) trio that gets a strong recommendation because its horn is trumpeter Peter Evans, one of the crucial musicians in right-now New York City.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before, the best fast-casual duck and rice you’ve ever had at Milu. After, maybe some good cocktails, great interior, and snacky seafood at Deux Chats.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Uncommon Women: Celebrating Joan Tower
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
7:30 PM
The Village Trip
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In celebration of the great Joan Tower, a gaggle of pianists perform works for piano(s) by a bunch of great women composers (who do not appear to include Joan Tower). We’ll set aside mention of such notables as Missy Mazzoli, Meredith Monk, Julia Wolfe, and Kitty Brazelton to focus for a moment on one of my favorite recent discoveries, Errollyn Wallen — who at this show is represented by a piece taking off from “Girl from Ipanema”, which shows you why I like her so much.
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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Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Christina Masciotti: No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 23, 2023
7:30 PM
Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre, A.R.T./New York Theaters
502 West 53rd Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$34.12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Christina Masciotti’s plays seem like they’re naturalist — but they’re not. Kitchen sink drama from inside the sink. (And you can ponder the importance of Masciotti’s leaving Reading PA as a setting and moving on to Astoria.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Spicy noodles and stews with variety meats (or not, if you’re a wimp) at Chong Qing Xiao Mian.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nick Dunston: Spider Season
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$22.50-$33 in person; $24 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jazz Gallery is surely right when they claim this must be “the first (and only)” improvising bass-gayageum-trombone/electronics trio “in human history”. But Nick Dunston, DoYeon Kim, and Kalia Vandever could play the theme from Deputy Dawg and I’d be interested. (That was a trick: Deputy Dawg didn’t have a theme).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, José Andrés Mediterranean at Zaytinya. Streaming at home, have a Diamondback: pour 1-1/2 oz. Rye and 3/4 oz. each of Applejack and green Chartreuse into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Caborca: Zoetrope
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 24, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 8)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$35.83; $18.50 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A multimedia multigenre fantasia flipping between Puerto Rico and Spanish Harlem.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can now get into Corner Bar. At least sometimes.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Lewsberg / Ava Mendoza / Donna Allen
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
7:00 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$18.54
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lewsberg live in Rotterdam and sound like they want to be The Velvet Underground. Well, who doesn’t? Ava Mendoza lives here and sounds like she wants to shred so much noise on her guitar you’ll beg her not to stop. I’m not sure which Donna Allen is playing here. None of the ones I’m familiar with make sense.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Stylish Peruvian at Llama Inn.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Josh Quillen & Ain Gordon: Relics and Their Humans
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
7:00 PM
Ain Gordon’s Loft
541 Broadway, Soho, Manhattan
$10 suggested donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having already collaborated on a piece remembering figures from theatermaker Ain Gordon’s boyhood in the New York Avant-Garde, Sö Percussion’s Josh Quillen and Ain Gordon collaborate on a piece remembering Quillen’s Midwestern father’s descent into dementia.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Might as well go to Fanelli’s. I’m sure David Gordon and Valda Setterfield did.
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Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 6:00 PM – Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 130 wit Große Fuge
WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 22, 2023
6:00 & 7:30 PM
The Angel’s Share
The Catacombs, Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$85
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Beethoven’s Late String Quartets are the only music from their period that are sure to get Listed, because they are the only music from their period that sounds absolutely contemporary to us. When they use the style of their time, they sound like pastiche, like someone imitating past styles to make a point. Otherwise, they sound timeless, capable of having been written yesterday. The Calidore String Quartet will play the Op. 130 Quartet with its original intellectually colossal fugal finale, which Beethoven excised out of fear it was ungainly.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The concerts will preceded by one of Death of Classical’s usual deplorable beverage-and-cheese receptions. For better quality, Sea Witch: a good bar, with good pub grub — and a giant aquarium!
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Modular Society: Times Square Live NYMS Showcase
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
5:00 PM
Times Square
200 West 43rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Nostalgia for the future with an outdoor showcase of modular synth music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Virgil’s Real BBQ is better than you’d expect.
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Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
Normandy Sherwood: Psychic Self-Defense
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 – 24, 2023 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 30)
8:30 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
11:00 PM FRIDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Soho, Manhattan
$12-$105.25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another instance where the best I can do is quote the promotional materials: “Psychic Self Defense is a show that invites audiences into the guts of the theater. Patrons enter the show through portals draped with fabrics and corridors dimly lit by chandeliers. Are they entering into a séance? After piercing many veils, the audience arrives at what is apparently a tiny, haunted proscenium theater. Anticipation mounts as a grand curtain opens with fanfare… and then another… and then a further curtain… and then the curtains keep opening and closing, revealing and concealing characters, objects and scenes in hypnotic patterns, transporting performers and audience to psychic realms. As this dance of curtains ascends to abstraction, creatures of knots and thread emerge from the shadows, protagonists are absorbed into set dressing and scenic ornaments run rampant. The theater digests and incorporates its prey.” A limited number of special music-enhancing haptic suits will be available, for an extra charge of $28.25-$80.25, at the Friday late shows and the second and third Wednesday shows.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Raoul’s luncheonette, Revelie.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Breath of Air: Brandon Ross, Charles Burnham & Warren Benbow
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
8:00 PM
FourOneOne
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Guitarist Brandon Ross, violinist Charles Burnham, and drummer Warren Benbow: three musicians with great imagination and unquestionable technical mastery — who are, moreover, a joy to listen to..
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Amazingly good pub grub at Meckelberg’s.
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Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Refuge: A Concert Series to Welcome the World
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 – 23, 2023
8:00 PM
PAC NYC
251 Fulton Street, World Trade Center, Manhattan
$15-$120
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A few random thoughts, not meant to be connected. Art should do things, sure — but it shouldn’t tell you what it’s doing. Art requires ambiguity; things that just tell you what to think are op-ed. There might be such a thing as too much irony — particularly cheap irony — but the absence of irony might be worse. Personal improvement of the audience is not a purpose of art. Elephantine performing arts centers are almost certain to fall into blandness and sanctimony just by virtue of their size and the necessarily large constituencies they must serve/attract. Using progressive arts as a veil to cover up corporate and governmental malfeasance — indeed, the essential repugnant evil of an entire economic system — is disgusting and should not fool anyone. If instead of mouthing pieties while pretending to be making art, and in the bargain providing support to the interests behind the circumstances they are inveighing against, people would work actively to effectuate the overthrow of Global Capitalism, they would be doing a lot more good.
One more thought: it’s one thing to play whatever you want on a stage financed by, and hence bearing the logo of, some business interest. That’s just surviving as an artist under Capitalism. It’s another thing to have those interests (indirectly through their arts minions) dictate content (even though to all appearances the curators have complete independence and the best of intentions, and the content is “oppositional”: that’s the beauty part).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Eat and drink on top of a skyscraper at Manahatta.
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Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Heart of Brick
TUESDAY – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 – 22, 2023
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10-$82
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A celebration of the multi-generational spirit of the Black Queer community. But with dance by Rajah Feather Kelly, visuals by Wu Tsang, and music (performed live) by serpentwithfeet, it won’t be as simple and straightforward as all that.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Burmese at Rangoon.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Live Sound: Michael Foster, Bill Hsu, Richard Kamerman & Sean Meehan / Crystal Peñalosa
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
7:30 PM
Microscope Gallery In Person & Live Stream
525 West 29th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$15 in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Electroacoustic audio-visual, and electronics and voice.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, fun faux Southern at Porchlight. Streaming at home, have an Aviation: pour 2 oz. Gin, 1/4 oz. each of Maraschino liqueur and Crème de Violette, and 1/2 oz. lemon juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Morton Feldman Returns to Eighth Street
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
6:30 PM
New York Studio School
8 West 8th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
New York Studio School, where Morton Feldman (who ran in visual arts circles) was dean from 1969-71, celebrates Feldman with with a concert of works for violin and piano, together and solo (well, some of them were originally written for cello). Doesn’t hurt that the violinist is Miranda Cuckson and the pianist is Conor Hanick.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Boring New American at Loring Place.
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Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Annie Baker: Infinite Life
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 – 24, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 8)
7:00 PM TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Atlantic Theater Company
Linda Gross Theater
366 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$87-$107
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dear God if there must be naturalist mainstream theater in America, let it be Annie Baker: smart, spare, suggestive. And funny as she wants to be.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: We can now go to Fonda for Mexican in Chelsea!
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Natural Wonder Beauty Concept / Pudding Club
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
7:00 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$26.27
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The two members of Natural Wonder Beauty Club make electronic music that’s rather Pop-adjacent on their own. But as a duo, they make squiggly stuff that seems to come out of nowhere (that’s a compliment). Pudding Club lays down what seem to be the backing tracks for skewed Bedroom Pop songs. But what happened to the vocals?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It remains very big news that Windsor Terrace’s Dog Day Afternoon (located on the very block the movie was filmed on) is now serving their supernal Chicago-Style Hot Dogs at a new Williamsburg bar (H&H Reserve) at reasonable hours!
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Joseph Keckler / Sharon Harms: Simic Colors at Salmagundi
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
7:00 PM
The Village Trip
Salmagundi Club
47 5th Avenue, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The big news here is the premiere of a set of settings of poet Charles Simic by Aleksandra Vrebalov — presented, unfortunately, without the presence of the poet. Joseph Keckler, who will sing them, is one characterful charismatic performer.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: OK French at Claudette.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Metadance 1.0
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
7:00 PM
Mama Tried
787 Third Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
Free (tip the bands)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Saxophonist Aaron Burnett leads a Minimalist Techno trio.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The food at the venue, Mama Tried, is totally edible. The drinks are fine (they make their own vermouth!).
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
THE DMG 32nd ANNIVERSARY IN-STORE FREE MUSIC SERIES
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
6:30 PM
Downtown Music Gallery
13 Monroe Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Guitar duos! Appalachian Trance Metal and Lap Guitar from Killick Hinds and Sandy Ewen. Anything Can Happen with Sally Gates and Matt Hollenbeck. And a solo drum set from Devin Gray.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern-Korean-inflected Golden Diner.
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Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 – 24, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM & 8:00 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
$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: Early, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant. Later, meet the Guadalajaran Torta Ahogada — sure to become your new obsession — at Cruz del Sur. (FUN FACT: I believe Cruz del Sur is next door to the apartment Aaron Copland grew up in.)
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Monday, September 18, 2023, 10:30 PM – 11:30 PM
PERFORMANCE
Cirkus Moxie
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
7:30 PM
Brooklyn Art Haus
24 Marcy Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$29.89
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Circus!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great wine and actually good food at Four Horsemen.
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Monday, September 18, 2023, 8:30 PM – 11:39 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Lori Goldston feat. Shoko Nagai & Dave Abromson: Harry Smith Film Rumination
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
8:30 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$22-$52
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Now everybody knows Harry Smith as the compiler of the mind-bending Anthology of American Folk Music. But back in the day he was known as an avant-garde filmmaker who put together a weird folk music anthology as side project. Seattle cellist/composer Lori Goldston celebrates the centennial of Smith’s birth by scoring some of his films. I’m sure Smith would have been as delighted as I am that Goldston has included an accordion.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Roman pinsa at Montesacro.
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Monday, September 18, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
The Flushing Remonstrance: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
8:00 PM
The LetLove Inn
27-20 23rd Avenue, Astoria, Queens
Free (donation requested)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Have you seen the the German Expressionist classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari? It’s kind of unbelievably good. Here it’s presented with live musical accompaniment.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Greek at Telly’s Taverna.
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Monday, September 18, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
So Surreal — Anarchy Under the Arch! Innovators, Radicals, Mavericks and Game-Changers
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
7:30 PM
The Village Trip
Salmagundi Club
47 5th Avenue, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The influence of Dada and Surrealism (more Dada) on Downtown Music. So: Satie, Cage, Ives, William Anderson, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Wolpe, Takehisa Kosugi, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik. It’s a mug’s game to claim something as your favorite music, but . . . .
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I can’t get enough of places like Knickerbocker Bar & Grill. You’ll probably end up getting a steak, which will be neither here nor there — but be sure to precede it with a caviar pie appetizer, and be sure to precede THAT with a Martini.
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Monday, September 18, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, September 18, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, September 18, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Abasement #65
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
7:00 PM
Artists Space
11 Cortland Alley, Tribeca (not really), Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Here, in the basement where No Wave was born, are four performers or units who get written about so much here I don’t need to say more — along with a projectionist and a DJ before, between, and after the sets.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fancy Cantonese that ought to be much better known than it is at August Gatherings.
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Monday, September 18, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tiny Concerts: Chapel of All Saints Organ Inauguration
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
6:00 & 7:00 PM
Trinity Church In Person & Live Stream
89 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan
Free
6:00 PM TICKETS + INFORMATION
7:00 PM TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trinity Church inaugurates its new pipe organ. Today’s shows feature the German Baroque (and you know what THAT means), played by organists Avi Stein and Alcée Chriss with occasional vocal and instrumental accompaniment. About the live stream: don’t even think about listening to a pipe organ through your computer’s speakers.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, some Lyonais Bouchon but not enough at Le Gratin. Streaming at home (and you’d BEST be doing it through an audio system), have a Naughty German: pour 1-3/4 oz. Jägermeister, 1/2 oz. each of Crème de Cassis and (Rich) Simple Syrup, and 3/4 oz. of lemon juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Monday, September 18, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York New Music Ensemble: LIGHT and MATTER
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
7:00 PM
The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
87 Eldridge Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$23.18
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Among the composers being played tonight are Alvin Singleton, whose Expanded Late Minimalism scintillates, and Kaija Saariaho, who until recently was the Greates Living Composer.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You always remember your first time — and for me, Super Taste’s hand-pulled noodles were my first (and still among my best).
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Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 – 24, 2023 (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 (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 – 24, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, September 17, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dan Weiss Trio
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
9:00 & 10:15 PM
LunÀtico
486 Halsey Street, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dan Weiss is one unique jazz drummer. Whether he’s incorporating Metal or incorporating Baroque, he’s never met a structure he can’t fuck with.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You should at least buy some drinks from the venue. But if you want some more interesting and substantial food than LunÀtico serves, get some Southern at Peaches.
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Sunday, September 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Omar Souleyman / Kill Alters
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
8:00 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$35.83 advance; $48.63 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You can’t not dance to the galvanic music of Syrian wedding singer Omar Souleyman. Some can dance to the loony electronics of our own Kill Alters — but not me.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tacos at the San Pedro Inn.
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Sunday, September 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:30 PM
MUSIC
Numinous
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors advance; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Joseph C. Phillips Jr. is a terrific composer; and his Numinous is a terrific ensemble. Phillips puts all the music he loves into his own music — and since that includes Philip Glass and Steve Reich, Kendrik Lamar, Samuel Barber, Björk, Mahler, and Curtis Mayfield, it’s a potent brew. Tonight he’ll lead Numinous in excerpts from the first opera in cycle he’s composing based on The Times’s 1619 Project and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “The Case for Reparations” — sung by ace Phillips interpreter Rebecca L. Hargrove and New Music hearttrhob Ariadne Greif. And also in a bunch of stuff by other composers, including List bud Steven Swartz.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, superb Palestinian at AlBadawi. Streaming at home, have a Metropolitan: pour 2 oz. Cognac, 1 oz. sweet Vermouth, and 1/2 tsp. Simple Syrup, with 2 dashes of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a Martini glass or coupe.
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Sunday, September 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Julia Patinella & NYC Flamenco Chorus
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Julia Pantinella takes time off from exploring her Sicilian roots to go back to her first musical love, Flamenco. With a chorus!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Sunday, September 17, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Selendis Johnson: We Are Greater Than (The Sum [From 1 To Selendis's {=?=} Choice] Of 4n): The Show Series
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
7:30 PM
A Lower East Side Apartment (address available from Instagram @lemwell7 or cpoitier10@gmail.com), Lower East Side, Manhattan
Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Big weekend for emerging vibist/trombonist (two of my fave instruments: how did she know?) Selenis Johnson, who tonight curates a show featuring a buncha Young Jazz Frontierspersons as well as the random electronic sounds of Many Many Girls (this List <3 Kwami Winfield) (and Ani Blech for that matter).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern Romanian at Oti.
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Sunday, September 17, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zoh Amba, Shahzad Ismaily, Jim White & Steve Gunn / Lee Ranaldo & Booker Stardrum
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
7:30 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge @ Littlefield
635 Sackett Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$26.78 advance; $25 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This show — from avant-jazz to avant-avant — seems so unbelievably good that I’m not going to sully it with my usual pronouncements that Lee Ranaldo is a college friend and Booker Stardrum is Dean Drummond’s son.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Slightly Mediterranean-inflected New American out of the big oven at Victor.
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Sunday, September 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
CMS Improvisers Ensemble
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
7:00 PM
Houghton Hall Arts Community
22 East 30th Street, NoMad, Manhattan
$5-$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Selendis Johnson, wearing her trombonist hat, leads a very mixed ensemble of improvisers — including Kwami Winfield wearing her cornetist hat!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: LittleMäd serves Korean-French food so good it gets an umlaut.
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Sunday, September 17, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, September 17, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Modular Society
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
6:00 PM
Trans-Pecos
915 Wyckoff Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Nostalgia for the future with an evening of modular synth music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: All-day Sunday at Rolo’s.
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Sunday, September 17, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Seeking Refuge
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
3:00 PM
The Village Trip
St. John’s in the Village
218 West 11th Street, West Village, Manhattan
$25-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Poet Mascha Kaléko presides in spirit over a vocal/chamber music recital exploring the theme of refugeeism, which of course looms large in Village cultural history. Among the composers are the ascendant Adolphus Hailstork, Victoria Bond, Kitty Brazleton, and Jonathan Dawe. And an off-duty personal fave of mine, Martinů. And the dedicatee of this show, the Post-Neoclassicist Martin Boykan.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: One of the most attractive wine bars in New York, San Tropez West Village.
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Sunday, September 17, 2023, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tiny Concerts: Chapel of All Saints Organ Inauguration
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023 (another program on SEPTEMBER 18)
2:00 & 3:00 PM
Trinity Church In Person & Live Stream
89 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan
Free
2:00 PM TICKETS + INFORMATION
3:00 PM TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trinity Church inaugurates its new pipe organ. Today’s shows feature the Italian Baroque, played by organists Avi Stein and Alcée Chriss with occasional vocal and instrumental accompaniment (tomorrow’s will feature the German Baroque). About the live stream: don’t even think about listening to a pipe organ through your computer’s speakers.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person Italian sandwiches that will make you cry at Pisillo. Streaming at home (you’d BETTER be doing it through a real audio system), have a Bicicleta: pour 2 oz. each of Campari and white Wine (Italian by preference) into a wine glass. Add ice. Top with soda water. Stir (gently). Garnish with an orange wheel.
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Sunday, September 17, 2023, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Dmitri Krymov: Big Trip
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 15)
2:00 PM
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$45; $40 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance; $35 both shows
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The great Russian theatermaker Dmitri Krymov brings on his all-encompassing gesamtkunstwerk approach to theater where design becomes almost a protagonist, with two shows playing in repertory. The one playing this afternoon recalls a production of Onegin Krymov did in Moscow, examining what it means to be Russian. It shares this run with a piece putting Pushkin together with two vastly different American writers, the pithy Hemingway and the unpithy O’Neill.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: After seeing all this Russianness, you’ll probably want to go to the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant to cleanse yourself (not that Krymov is any kind of supporter of the current Russian regime).
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Sunday, September 17, 2023, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sarah Davachi
THURSDAY – FRIDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 15 & 17, 2023
8:00 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
1:00 PM SUNDAY
The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$15 THURSDAY & FRIDAY; $5 students/seniors THURSDAY & FRIDAY; free with museum admission SUNDAY
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Minimalist electronic composer Sarah Davachi presents a different recent electroacoustic chamber piece at each show. Prepare to be mesmerized.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ordinary bistro/brasserie French in a splendid setting in La Grande Boucherie.
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Saturday, September 16, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, September 16, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Modupe Onilu
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
9:00 & 10:15 PM
LunÀtico
486 Halsey Street, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Steel pan!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You should at least buy some drinks from the venue. But if you want some more interesting and substantial food than LunÀtico serves, nice pizza and tapas at Saraghina.
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Saturday, September 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
William Parker: In Search of Enlightenment (LIGHT Ensemble)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023 (also on SEPTEMBER 23)
8:00 PM
FourOneOne
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When you’re the best bass player in New York City, maybe anywhere, I don’t know why you have to search for anything. But if William Parker is going there, I’ll follow.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incredibly fun Brazilian at Miss Favela.
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Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Step Afrika!
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 & 17, 2023
7:30 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$46
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tracing step dancing — that stunning mainstain of HBCU sororities and frats — back to Africa and forward into contemporary dance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Marc Forgione Italian venture at One Fifth looks pretty boring. But I’ll bet there’s no way it’s bad.
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Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
John Zorn: Love Songs
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 & 17, 2023
7:30 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$44.48-$49.48
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
You or I might take it easy when celebrating our 70th birthday. But not avant-workaholic John Zorn. As List readers have seen, he’s all over the place with birthday shows. This one is a sort of cabaret he and the relentlessly eclectic Jesse Harris have written for Petra Haden (an audience-friendly vocalist if ever their was one).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Keep celebrating at one of the better French bistros in New York City, Le Crocodile.
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Saturday, September 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, September 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
Joseph Medeiros: The Odyssey: Book III in Ancient Greek
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 & 17, 2023
7:00 PM SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
Theaterlab
357 West 36th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Joseph Medeiros continues to build up to a 24-hour recitation/performance of the entire Odyssey in untranslated Ancient Greek with this one of Book III. The story is brought to life with a suitcaseful of props, all manipulated by Medeiros (the idea being that the production must require nothing that Medeiros couldn’t carry to somebody’s living room).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good cocktails at Dear Irving on Hudson.
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Saturday, September 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eileen Myles feat. Ryan Sawyer & Steve Gunn / Eli Winter Trio
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$23.69
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Some poetry. Lotsa guitar.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Black Mountain Wine House is almost ludicrously pleasant.
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Saturday, September 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, September 16, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dana Lyn
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
6:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dana Lyn continues her month-long residency with a performance alongside New Hampshire’s Apple Hill String Quartet.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Not likely, perhaps, but if you’re really lucky Reyes Deli & Grocery will have some of their fabulous weekend tamales and barbacoa left.
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Saturday, September 16, 2023, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, September 16, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Goodhaven Jam
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
4:00 PM
Seuffert Bandshell
Forest Park, Woodhaven, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Oneida, with their odd unstable — but usually great — mashup of psychedelic, Krautrock, Minimalism, and Alt Rock. Shelley Hirsch and Ka Baird, from different generations of extreme vocal explorers. For free. In a park. When the weather is perfect.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speaking of perfect, the legendary Neir’s Tavern.
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Saturday, September 16, 2023, 3:15 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 2:00 PM – Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Friday, September 15, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
ESCAPE: Tygapaw / Ariel Zetina / Conor Wrong & New World Dysorder
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
10:00 PM
Paragon
990 Broadway, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
Free-$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Not just dance music, but an exploration of Queerness.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Eat Thai in a movie house (which is apparently A Thing in Thailand) at Mao Mao.
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Friday, September 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, September 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
chiquitamagic / Zack Phillips / Anaïs Maviel
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$15 advance; $20 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Three very different examples of stuff this List just adores. Chiquitamagic does incredibly winning Latinx alt synth-pop. Zach Phillips does skewed Of Montrealish pop that can get too busy — but that’s a risk of the genre, right? Anaïs Maviel’s ritualistic avant-Haitian is, quite simply, riveting.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Winning neighborhood Roman at Camillo.
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Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Heart of Brick
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 – 17, 2023 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 22)
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10-$82
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A celebration of the multi-generational spirit of the Black Queer community. But with dance by Rajah Feather Kelly, visuals by Wu Tsang, and music (performed live) by serpentwithfeet, it won’t be as simple and straightforward as all that.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Burmese at Rangoon.
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Friday, September 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
BINT: Solve et Coagula → عيب, Stage II: تبييض (The Whitening)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @ Center for Performance Research (CPR)
361 Manhattan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Free ($20 requested donation)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mutlidisciplinary artist BINT, who mines and messes with her Arab/South Asian heritages, stages the second of three Sufi-derived pieces mirroring the primary stages of Arabic alchemical transmutation. But the transmutation most of interest to the audience will be BINT’s use of technology to alter sound and visuals.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re just down the street from neo-Cantonese-American hotspot Bonnie’s. If only you could get in.
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Friday, September 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gaye Su Akyol
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
DROM
85 Avenue A, East Village, Manhattan
$70
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Gaye Su Akyol isn’t the second coming of Psychedelic Rock; she’s the second coming of Turkish Psychedelic Rock, which was its own thing. As such, she could never be as impactful here as at home. But I’ll bet she puts on a great show. (And to think you could’ve seen her for free at Bryant Park last week.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wine and pasta from Roberta’s at Foul Witch.
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Friday, September 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
NYC Anarchist Book Fair Music Festival: CA/DE/NA / Eugene Chadbourne & Jim McHugh / Daniel Carter-Andrew Barker-Kyle Motl Trio / Ras Moshe / Samara Lubelski
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
5:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Various kinds of music — all of it at least towards the edge.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza!
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Friday, September 15, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
sinonó / Althea Kilombo
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
7:30 PM
Ki Smith Gallery
170 Forsyth Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$25.63
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sinonó is a rather irresistible collaboration between vocalist Isabel Crespo Pardo, cellist Lester St. Louis, and bassist Henry Fraser, with songforms by Crespo interspersed among free improvisations. Althea Quilombo is ace drummer Tcheser Holmes’s longform piece concerning slavery.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: To be perfectly honest, there’s something a little weird about the reopened Una Pizza Neapolitana.
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Friday, September 15, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ellen Arkbro: Sculptures
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
7:30 PM
Blank Forms @ Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew
520 Clinton Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ellen Arkbro takes her droney organ to church.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza and (if you’re lucky) burgers at Emily.
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Friday, September 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / DANCE
Beyond Borders — Indian Kuchipudi Dance & Western Classical Music
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
7:00 PM
Groupmuse Massivemuse
Christ Church
326 Clinton Street, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Indian classical dance set to Western classical music. Well, in the case of Bach (for solo violin) and Ravel (for violin and cello), that’s straightforwardly true. But Reena Esmail’s piece (in a version for solo cello) is based on a raga.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delightful homey Lebanese at Nabila’s.
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Friday, September 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Pedro Giraudo Tango Trio feat. The Terra String Quartet
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$32.50 advance; $30 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Nuevo Tango.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Friday, September 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, September 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Patricia Brennan Septet
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
7:00 PM
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Vibist Patricia Brennan is a really special player, with a cooly expressive, sharply rhythmic style that lends her distinction as both a composer and an improviser. You can be on the debut album of her septet, which features such other great players as Adam O’Farrill, Jon Irabagon, Mark Shim, and Marcus Gilmore.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Venezuelan at Casa Ora.
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Friday, September 15, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Ana Knežević: Circles of Resonance
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 & 16, 2023
6:00 – 9:00 PM FRIDAY
1:00 – 5:00 PM SATURDAY
CultureHub NYC
47 Great Jones Street, NoHo, Manhattan
Free-$50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two VR pieces, immersing viewers in intense saturated colors, geometric shapes, and sound that is activated by the viewers’ own motions. It all takes about 15 minutes.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Might as well go to Atla for Mezcal/Tequila and Mexican café food.
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Thursday, September 14, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
10:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Their name nods to Soukous and Dada; their various backgrounds harken to classical, jazz, and experimental improvisation; and their sound invokes Free Jazz, Post-Punk, High Life, brass band, symphonic music, and Krautrock. Sound good to you?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better-than-Neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
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Thursday, September 14, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Tatiana Desardouin & Nubian Néné: Les 5 Sens X The Intermission
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
10:00 PM
Crossing the Line Festival
Boom, The Standard, High Line
442 West 13th Street, Meatpacking District, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tatiana Desardouin brings Les 5 Sens, a traveling show she’s been doing providing an immersive experience involving all five senses: there’s live music, dance, food and drinks, and I guess you smell your fellow audience members. Nubian Néné’s intermissions are Waack.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Remember when Meatpacking seemed like a promising dining neighborhood? If so, you’re Old. The newish iteration of Pastis is far from bad, though.
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Thursday, September 14, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Thursday, September 14, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tim Berne
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
8:00 & 9:30 PM
Lowlands
543 3rd Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tonight the tough in-and-out alto saxophonist Tim Berne’s combo is joined by Matt Povolka on trombone.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cool Mexican at Alma Negra.
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Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 8:00 PM – Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sarah Davachi
THURSDAY – FRIDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 15 & 17, 2023
8:00 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
1:00 PM SUNDAY
The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$15 THURSDAY & FRIDAY; $5 students/seniors THURSDAY & FRIDAY; free with museum admission SUNDAY
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Minimalist electronic composer Sarah Davachi presents a different recent electroacoustic chamber piece at each show. Prepare to be mesmerized.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ordinary bistro/brasserie French in a splendid setting in La Grande Boucherie.
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Thursday, September 14, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 8:00 PM – Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Jade Manns: Things in the World
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 & 15, 2023
8:00 PM
Pageant
70 Graham Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jade Manns is very much a leave-it-to-the-viewer-to-make-what-they-will artist, with ambiguity at the center of form. Just what we like around here.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican snacks and mad desserts at Maya’s Snack Bar.
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Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Tjaša Ferme: BIOADAPTED
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 17, 2023 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 24)
7:30 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
3:00 & 7:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Culture Lab LIC @ The Plaxall Gallery
5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
$33.85; $26.38 students/seniors/artists
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An interactive multi-media exploration of the implications of AI, using reenactments of real interviews, fictional vignettes, and GPT-3-generated material.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seems silly not to cross the street to the Rockaway Brewing Company Long Island City Tap Room. If you want something more solid, take a walk and celebrate that the wonderful Serbian-on-the-Water funspot Anable Basin Sailing Bar & Grill avoided corporate/civic displacement.
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Thursday, September 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ortiz the Musician
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
7:30 PM
Church of the Advent Hope In Person & Live Stream
111 East 87th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As I’ve said before, Latin American Baroque is some of the most vivaciously enjoyable music around — until you think about the sociohistorical implications. This piece, interspersing composed sections among improvisations, and experimental passages among passages evoking the Baroque, addresses those issues head on, using an obscure minor musician/conquistador as a handle. To give you a sense of the quality of the project, the composers (who will also be playing) include Vicente Hansen Atria (as far as I’m concerned the new composer of last season) and the wild experimental Mexican trumpet player Wilfrido Terrazas. In addition to them and several others, the players include violinist Miranda Cuckson (always a signifier of quality) and Contemporary/Baroque cellist Coleman Itzkoff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, the opposite of Latin American food at the Heidelberg Restaurant. Streaming at home, have a Paloma: wet the rim of a Collins glass with lime and then rim with salt. Add ice. Pour in 2 oz. Blanco or Reposado Tequila and 1/4-1/2 oz. lime juice. Top with grapefruit soda.
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Thursday, September 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Andy Akiho: Seven Pillars
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
7:30 PM
Tishman Auditorium, New School
63 Fifth Avenue, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sandbox Percussion must be pinching themselves that Andy Akiho wrote such a rigorously structured but fun piece for them.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Strip House certainly has its fans.
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Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Julia Vanderveen: My Grandmother’s Eyepatch
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 & 15, 2023
7:00 PM
Frigid New York
Kraine Theater In Person & SATURDAY Livestream
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$27
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The way to address grief is through clowning.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: And then eat some insects at The Black Ant.
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Thursday, September 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Cría Cuervos
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
7:00 PM
Academy Records Brooklyn Annex
242 Banker Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two cutting-edge (another phrase we have to replace) jazz ensembles, one led by saxophonist Michaël Attias (and featuring series organizer Kenneth Jiménez on bass); the other lead by bassist Brandon Lopez.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best tacos ever offered in New York City, as far as I’m concerned, at the Mexico City-styled Taqueria Ramirez.
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Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Caborca: Zoetrope
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 17, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 8)
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$24.28 THURSDAY – SATURDAY; $35.83 SUNDAY; $18.50 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A multimedia multigenre fantasia flipping between Puerto Rico and Spanish Harlem.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can now get into Corner Bar. At least sometimes.
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Thursday, September 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Anirudh Varma Collective
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
7:00 PM
Brooklyn Raga Massive
Art Cafe & Bar
884 Pacific Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Anirudh Varma Collective’s music is like Call of the Valley plugged in and fusing with now instead of 1967. If you’re into Indian classical, you’ll know that’s high praise indeed.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I mean, Christ, you’re right around the corner from Cruz del Sur. Go, have a Torta Ahogada, and have your life changed.
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Thursday, September 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, September 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Village Trip GuitarFest I – “Bowery Haunt” In Memory of Scott Johnson
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
7:00 PM
The Village Trip
Loft 393
393 Broadway, Tribeca, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lotsa guitar music played by lotsa guitarists. But the highlight is a memorial performance of Bowery Haunt by Scott Johnson, the recently deceased composer whose work anticipated so much of what’s vital about Alt Classical.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Snacky Argentinian/Uruguayan at Mostrador.
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Thursday, September 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Plantasia
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
7:00 PM
Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$48.63
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New Age resuscitation continues apace. This show reimagines material from Plantasia, an album Mort Garson designed to be played to plants (hence the venue). (Garson came to New Age out of Easy Listening: just sayin.) But when the players include DAOUI — a duo of Angel Bat Dawid and Oui Ennui(!!!) — attention must be paid.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Is it idiotic to declare Tacos El Bronco the best taco truck in New York City? It is the best taco truck, though.
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Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 6:00 PM – Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
New Red Order: World’s Unfair
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 17, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 15)
6:00 PM THURSDAY
12:00 – 8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
10:00 – 6:00 PM SUNDAY
24-17 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An immersive multimedia carnavalesque bunch of stuff imagining a Post-Colonial future. (There’ll be nighttime performances on September 22 and October 14; you might want to wait for them.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Time stands still at the Court Square Diner.
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Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 5:30 PM – Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Matthew Lutz-Kinnoy: Filling Station
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 & 15, 2023 (also SEPTEMBER 23 at Dia Beacon)
5:30 PM
The Kitchen @ Horatio Street Gas Station
51-67 8th Avenue, Meatpacking District, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
American-in-Paris multidisciplinary artist Matthew Lutz-Kinnoy is the moving force behind this regeneration of the 1930s progenitor of dance Americana, with choreography by Niall Jones and Raymond Pinto replacing that by Lew Christensen, and music by James Ferraro replacing that by Virgil Thomson (I’d have kept the Thomson — but I’m Old). This new iteration will foreground Queer themes that dared not speak their name in the ‘30s. There’s a related exhibition by Lutz-Kinnoy on view at The Kitchen @ Westbeth (163 Bank Street, West Village, Manhattan) through November 3.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: People think the burgers at Corner Bistro are really good. I never could understand why.
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Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 5:00 PM – Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Asi Wind: Inner Circle
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 17, 2023 (continuing through JANUARY 7, 2024)
5:00 & 8:00 PM THURSDAY
7:00 & 9:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
4:00 & 7:00 PM SUNDAY
The Gym at Judson
243 Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$110-$265
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’ve been sleeping on this magic show (probably its massive mainstream success shielded it from my view). But contrary to how things might appear, just because people like something doesn’t mean it can’t get Listed.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Red Sauce at Monte’s Trattoria.
