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Monday, October 31, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Elliot Sharp’s Bootstrappers
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2022
8:00 PM
Nublu 151
151 Avenue C, East Village, Manhattan
$22.16
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Avant-guitar legend Elliot Sharp shows his jazzier side.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Kafana. Bring cash cuz they don’t take plastic. Bring a hunger cuz their Serbian food is HEARTY. Bring a thirst cuz their appre le lettre Natural wine list is extensive.
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Monday, October 31, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Veer Quartet: Album Release
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2022
8:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Try to figure out whether questing violinist Sarah Bernstein’s new string quartet is jazz or classical. Then tell me what difference it makes.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thai seafood at Fish Cheeks.
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Monday, October 31, 2022, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellyott: Nosferatu
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2022
6:30 PM
German House
871 U.N. Plaza, Turtle Bay, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Yet another chance to celebrate Haloween with F.W. Murnau’s monumentally creepy silent vampire movie/masterpiece of German Expressionist film Nosferatu with live accompaniment. This time the music’s by Tel Aviv/London DJ/musician Ellyott.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: High-up cocktails and doable food at Ophelia.
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Mon, Oct 31, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Nov 6, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 6, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM MONDAY – SATURDAY
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM SUNDAY
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to 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, Oct 31, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Nov 6, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 6, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, October 30, 2022, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alba Consort: Ancient Strains, Songs Foretold
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2022
3:00 PM
St. John’s in the Village
218 West 11th Street, West Village, Manhattan
$30; $15 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A new setting by non-female Iranian composer Reza Vali of Rumi, Hafez, and Sapehri (those poets’ work — especially that of the two Classics among the three — of course being super-great stuff). The rest of the show is the kind of thing Jordi Savall has been doing so brilliantly: an exploration of the musics being made in the so-called Near East and Maghreb during the period of our Western “Early Music”.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: St. Tropez is one attractive wine bar.
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Saturday, October 29, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 29, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
NuAeen feat. Mojgan Shajarian, Pejman Hadadi & Sourena Sefati: Persian Classical Music
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It is very hard to convey the sheer exquisiteness of Persian classical music. Add the rapturous energy to which it occasionally builds, and you have quite an experience.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Neighborhood French at French Louie.
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Saturday, October 29, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Scene Is Now/Honeychild Coleman
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If this List is predisposed to anything, it’s Marxist avant-jugband: The Scene Is Now. If it’s predisposed to anything else, it’s Afropunk: Honeychild Coleman.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incredibly fun Brazilian at Miss Favela.
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Saturday, October 29, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nathan Schram: NEARSIDED
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$22
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Nathan Schram, the excellent violist of the Attacca Quartet, is a good composer. On his new album, performed tonight, he melds in the kind of Pop influences you’d expect in someone in his early 30s: Radiohead, Kendrick Lamar. He’s joined, not only by the rest of the Quartet (god are they great), but also Caroline Shaw(!) and Becca Stevens.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good French bistro at Le Crocodile.
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Saturday, October 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Vorhees: “Salomé” Live Score
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dana Wachs in Vorhees guise has composed an electro-acoustic score for a 1923 silent film realization of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé. Vorhees isn’t afraid of dissonance, and her score should be almost as intense as Strauss’s — if a good deal less overbearing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Saturday, October 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Look + Listen Farewell Celebration
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022
7:00 PM
Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Look + Listen Festival is packing it in after 20 years of putting on New Music shows in art galleries. As they note, classical music concerts in alternative spaces are common now (although that they weren’t before would have come as news to say Philip Glass). If Miranda Cuckson, Darius Jones (playing Sun Ra!), and Douglas Perkins sound good to you, then you know where to be.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Every time I go to Saint Julivert Fisherie I realize that its vaguely Iberian but fundamentally eclectic seafood is even better than I had remembered.
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Saturday, October 29, 2022, 4:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Brett Miller: Nosferatu
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022
4:30 PM
United Palace
4140 Broadway, Washington Heights, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A second chance this weekend to see a live-music-accompanied showing of F.W. Murnau’s monumentally creepy 1922 silent vampire movie/masterpiece of German Expressionist film, Nosferatu. Tonight’s accompaniment is very interesting: an organ transcription of Aaron Copland’s very early lost-and-found ballet Grogh — which it turns out was inspired by Murnau’s film!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You will be right across the street from the Uptown branch of New York’s second-best (that’s still saying a lot!) Dominican chain, Malecon.
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Saturday, October 29, 2022, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Viv Corringham & Paul Geluso
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022
3:00 PM
Harvestworks Art and Technology Building
Nolan Park Building 10a, Governors Island, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Closing out the Harvestworks/Governors Island season, Viv Corringham improvises vocals, electronically manipulated by Paul Geluso, singing the answers audience members have submitted to questions about sounds they’d miss and things they value.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lots to eat and drink on Governors Island (although less than during high season). I’ll still put in a good word for Island Oyster, which ought to rest on its views and location, but just doesn’t.
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Saturday, October 29, 2022, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
David Geffen Hall Open House Weekend
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29 & 30, 2022
10:00 AM
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
David Geffen Hall opens itself up to the public, in Lincoln Center’s new non-High-Culture-centric multi-culti fashion, for a whole weekend of all-day (and in Saturday’s case all-night) free performances — taking place in various venues throughout the Hall, including ones you might not have heard of yet (wonder what and where the “Music Box” is?). Just to pick out some performances of particular List interest, on Saturday, we have Anthony McGill and Jennifer Koh (it’s doesn’t get any better than that) appropriately opening things up with Steve Reich’s New York Counterpointat 10:00 AM; the Juilliard Orchestra doing Haydn under David Robertson at 12:30 & 2:30 PM; Sõ Percussion doing Julia Wolfe at 3:00 PM; Nona Hendryx at 7:00 PM; competing shows by Justin Vivian Bond, Bora Yoon and R. Luke Dubois (digitally), and Dayramir Gonzalez at 8:00 PM; and the List’s favorite band thingNY at 8:30 PM. Even Sunday’s “Family Day” programming yields Hotel Elefant (playing music by Very Young Composers) at 4:00 PM and the extreme pleasure of Basil Twist (puppets!) at noon and 2:30 PM.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: These two days just cry out for some oysters and a Martini, and then a Cadallac Burger, at P.J. Clarke’s.
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Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 10:30 PM – Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 & 29, 2022 (ongoing)
10:30 PM
Kraine Theater In Person & SATURDAY live stream
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20; $10 students; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Theater for people who think they don’t like theater. Thirty short plays crammed into an hour, semi-improvised, semi-not, non-illusionistic, spur-of-the-moment, real (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I dunno why, but it seems like you’d go to Phebe’s. Streaming at home, pretend it’s still Summer and you’re a moron with a Long Island Iced Tea: pour 1/2 oz. each of Vodka, Gin, white Rum, blanco Tequila, Cointreau, maple syrup, lemon juice, and lime juice into a Highball glass over ice. Sprinkle in some salt. Stir. Top with Coke.
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Friday, October 28, 2022, 9:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Renee Goust: Muertxs
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
9:30 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Renee Goust takes trad Mexican vernacular forms and uses them is support of a fierce queer feminism. This is great stuff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Is it too clichéd to send you to Mexican café Atla?
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Friday, October 28, 2022, 8:30 PM – 11:29 PM
MUSIC
House of Halloween: Shamir
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
8:30 PM
The Broadway
1272 Broadway, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$10 advance: $15 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Shamir started off doing slightly off-kilter Nu R&B — and he was really good. Then he moved on to way off-kilter Alt R&B — and he’s fabulous!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Haitian at Grandchamps.
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Friday, October 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kit Fitzgerald & Peter Gordon feat. Love of Life Orchestra: WONDERFUL WORLD
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$35 advance in person; $40 door in person; $30 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
New Yorkers of a certain age will remember with great fondness the time when Peter Gordon’s idea that you could make Art Dance Music was startlingly new, and Kit Fitzgerald’s video POPPED. The music may not still startle, but that’s not to say it isn’t still great listening. The videos still definitely POP.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, good cocktails and even good food at Grand Army Bar. Streaming at home, have one or more of Audrey Saunders’s deathless Gin Gin Mules: muddle 10 mint leaves, 3/4 oz. lime juice, and 1 oz. Simple Syrup in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Fill with ice. Pour in 1-1/2 oz. gin. Shake. Strain into a Mule cup over ice. Top with ginger beer. Garnish with a mint sprig.
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Friday, October 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sonelius Smith & Adam Kahn feat. Rodney Chapman
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
8:00 PM
Soapbox Gallery In Person & Live Stream
636 Dean Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$25 in person; pay what you can live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Unless you saw him at Barbès last night, Sonelius Smith is probably still the best jazz pianist you’ve never heard of.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, the Midwestern food at Patti Ann’s is tasty enough. Too bad it’s so rich, and the portions are so big, that you can’t actually eat it (or at least come near finishing it). Streaming at home, have a Red Hook: pour 2 oz. Rye and 1/2 oz. each of Punt e Mes (or Cocchi Dopo Teatro) and Maraschino liqueur into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Friday, October 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Hieroglyphic Being
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
8:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$23.69
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jamal Moss (a/k/a Hieroglyphic Being) does’t abstract and art up House as much as, say, Jlin does Footwork. But that leaves a nice fun factor in there.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good, fresh Korean at Insa (as always, forgo the barbecue and east in the lounge/bar room, which is much nicer than the drab dining room).
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Friday, October 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kronos Quartet & Jlin: Phillip Glass: Reimagined at Rockefeller Center
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
Rainbow Room
30 Rockefeller Plaza, Midtown, Manhattan
$70
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Wait, this is something that is actually happening? Art-Footwork genius Jlin joins the Kronos Quartet at the Rainbow Room to “reimagine” Phillip Glass — including by means of new music by Jlin.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette goes Uptown and simplifies out what made it great, but leaves in what makes it good, at Le Rock.
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Friday, October 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
International Contemporary Ensemble & The Rhythm Method: A Pin Drops
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
7:30 PM
The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two great ensembles unite to play pieces ranging from new to brand new.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s nice Fall weather out, so take a stroll down to the best Mexican restaurant in New York that no one knows about Coszcal de Allende. Believe me, you’ll thank me for this.
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Friday, October 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, October 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ekmeles: Tone Colors
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
7:30 PM
Church of the Intercession
550 West 155th Street, Hudson Heights, Manhattan
$20; $15 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The expert and inquisitive vocal ensemble Ekmeles play a bunch of works that explore different intonations and tonalities.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Matt Fischer, one of New York’s best pitmasters, resurfaces at The Porch.
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Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Friday, October 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Flux Theater Ensemble: Metra: A Climate Revolution Play with Songs
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 & 29, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 12)
7:30 PM
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What it sounds like.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: At Wu’s Won Ton King you feel like you’re the king.
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Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Song Cycles
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 & 29, 2022
7:30 PM
Harlem Stage
150 Convent Avenue, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
$25-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Vocal music by three genuinely exciting composer/performers — Tamar-kali, Yaz Lancaster, and Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa – Nzou Mambano — each of whom combines a different traditional or current vernacular style into music that is utterly distinctive.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I have a friend whose taste I respect who practically lives at The Grange.
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Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 5:00 PM – Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Flatbed Follies
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 – 30, 2022
5:00 & 6:00 PM FRIDAY
1:00, 2:00 & 4:00 PM SATURDAY
TBD SUNDAY
FRIDAY: 71st Avenue Plaza, Ridgewood, Queens
SATURDAY 1:00 PM: Grand Concourse btw. East 161st Street & East 162nd Street, Concourse, Bronx
SATURDAY 2:00 & 4:00 PM: 141st Road btw. 224th Street & 225th Street, Laurelton, Queens
SUNDAY: Beach 21st Street & Mott Avenue, Far Rockaway, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes it to the street!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Friday in Ridgewood, light and Asian-inflected at Porcelain. Saturday in Concourse, The Feeding Tree serves outstanding Jamaican — if it survived The Pandemic. Saturday in Laurelton, Caribbean at Breezes Island Grill. . Sunday in Far Rockaway, there was this waterside bar I used to like to go to during Summers home from college. I wonder if it’s still there? I wish I could remember its name.
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Thursday, October 27, 2022, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Spectral: DEBIT/Kamran Sedegi
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2022
9:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$15.45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Listen guys, this is important. DEBIT’s last album, The Long Count — where she took ancient Mayan flutes and used them as the basis for a fascinating soundscape — was one of the very best of the last few years. That she can also do (excellent) noise and (excellent) dance-oriented electronics shows her to be a significant wide-ranging talent: just what we need.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mediterranean-inflected New American out of the big oven at Victor.
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Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Witness Relocation/Dan Safer: The History of Empires
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 – 30, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 6)
8:00 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dance theater based on a text by Charles Mee.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Outstanding Burmese at Little Myanmar.
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Thursday, October 27, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Natalia Lafourcade
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2022
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$30-$159
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Natalia Lafourcade started out as a really good Mexican rock singer-songwriter and then moved into being a really good Mexican pop/trad singer-songwriter. She’ll be doing the first live performances anywhere ever of some new material. And guesting with her will be the great great great (very great) Cuban singer Omara Portuondo. (Too bad Carnegie Hall is such a totally sucky venue for amplified music.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Whoever thought Russian Samovar would become a Young People’s Party Spot? Well, more power to them!
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Thursday, October 27, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Guillermina Quiroga Company feat. Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet: Argentine Tango
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Championship Tango.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Eclectic cuisine at As You Are.
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Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Celeste Lecesne: POOF! (Or What the Fairies Know)
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 – 29, 2022
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$17 advance; $20 door; $17 advance students/seniors; $20 door students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Fairies are not happy about climate change.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at the new Pasquale Jones sibling Bar Pasquale.
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Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE / MUSIC
Unavailable Memory: In Conversation with Cunningham & Cage
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 – 29, 2022
7:30 PM
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dances by Cunningham (danced by, among others, Molissa Fenley and Mac Twining) and piano music by Cage (played by Adam Tendler). This is self-recommending.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m not gonna stop pushing Central Asian powerhouse Farida until each and every one of you has gone there.
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Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shakespeare: Hamlet
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 – 30, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 5)
7:30 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$44-$165
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Thomas Ostermeier’s production of Hamlet, a genuine international sensation, finally lands in New York. Ostermeier has the knack of stripping classic theater works to their essense — and then putting in the kind of contemporary usages that make them speak as of the moment. Consider this a must if you like theater that isn’t dead.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speakeasy izakaya, hiding in back of the much less interesting Walter’s, at Karasu.
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Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Trajal Harrell: Maggie the Cat
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 – 29, 2022
7:30 PM
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trajal Harrell loves the runway — and I love him for it. If you want dance that’s cerebral and fun, look no further. This has something to do with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof— but Harrell can’t fool me, the runway will be in there somehow.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Meatcentric English food at Lord’s.
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Thursday, October 27, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Yuhan Su: Liberated Gesture
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$20-$30; $20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Yuhan Su must really be the up-and-comer she’s reputed to be on vibes if she can get people like Matt Mitchell and Dan Weiss to play with her.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, sky-high cocktails and José Andrés bar snacks at Nubeluz. Streaming at home, have a shot of Soju, chilled and neat.
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Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Split Britches: Last Gasp — A Recalibration
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 – 30, 2022
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Split Britches has been doing (incisive, hilarious) Downtown Performance for a long enough time that it isn’t surprising to see them grapple with mortality. What couldn’t be foreseen was that their initial attempt would be bushwacked by a Pandemic, which forced them to reconceive it as a remote digital presentation. Now they return to a live version — which is not to say they’ve totally ditched the digital stuff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican insect cuisines at The Black Ant.
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Thursday, October 27, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sharmi Basu feat. Jesús Hilario-Reyes: HOWDOIFINDYOU?
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2022
7:00 PM
The Kitchen @ Westbeth
163 Bank Street, West Village, Manhattan
$5-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Working off materials found in the Kitchen archives, sound/performance artist Sharmi Basu (in their Beast Nest guise) places themselves directly in the potentially fraught context of the Kitchen’s artists and activities over decades.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Austrian at Wallsé. For old times’ sake.
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Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sonelius Smith & Adam Kahan: The Eulipion Project
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2022
6:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sonelius Smith is a Hard Bop-into-Nu Thing pianist who played with like everyone in New York in the ‘70s and ‘80s. I had no idea he was still around.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Getting kind of cold to eat outdoors at Runner Up, but they were saying last year how they were gonna upgrade their heating system, so maybe.
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Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Wendy Eisenberg
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 – 29, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Avant-guitar shredder Wendy Eisenberg gets a residency. And you know what? Every night’s line-up looks great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Meow Meow
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Cabaret.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sake and izakaya at Decibel.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Imani Winds feat. Andy Akiho
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2022
7:30 PM
Ecstatic Music
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Andy Akiho, a terrific percussionist as well as a fresh, exciting composer, joins the formidble Imani Winds to premiere a new piece of his. A lot of good other stuff by the Winds as well.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As you may recall, the revivified Old John’s Luncheonette across the street.
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Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Dead Centre: Chekhov’s First Play
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 – 29, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 6)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$46-$65; $25 IBCCES Access Card
TICKETS + INFORMATION
During the Russian Revolution, Chekhov’s sister put many of his manuscripts into a safe deposit box for safekeeping. Among them was Chekhov’s unperformed first play. The box containing the manuscript — missing its title page — was later discovered by Soviet scholars. This prolix work (much too long to perform as written) has come to be known as Platonov (or, more piquantly, the Play Without a Title) (you might have seen versions of it in New York called Wild Honey and The Present). Dead Centre, however, does not present a version of it. They present a fantasia on it, a play impossible to perform.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ardesia Wine Bar, still one of the City’s most pleasant.
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Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 7:30 PM – Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Rhodri Davies
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26 & 27, 2022
7:30 PM
Blank Forms
468 Grand Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two nights of avant-harp with Rhodri Davies. On Wednesday, Davies plays a piece by Fluxus participant Yasunao Tone and is joined by Tone to play pieces by another Fluxus member, Ben Patterson. In the superstar Thursday show, Davies plays a very important piece, Occam I, written for him by electro-acoustic great Èliane Radigue, a piece written for him by Phill NIblock (on electric harp), and a piece written for him by the only composer on these programs under 80, the pipe organ droner Ellen Arkbro.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The newly revived, slightly relocated Nigerian spot Buka is now fully reopened. And boy is it good.
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Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 11:59 PM
OPERA
Object Collection: Automatic Writing
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 – 30, 2022
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Object Collection company, which has never met a text it couldn’t unpack into something truly bizarre (but always telling), takes one of Robert Ashley’s unstaged works and stages it. Automatic Writing — a great great piece — made music, and indeed derived characters, from a tape of the composer free-associating. The stage options are obvious — but you can be sure those aren’t the ones Object Collection will employ. The List Event of the week? The month? The season?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Can you get into Neo-Cantonese-American sensation Bonnie’s yet? Nah. But at least they’re very very nice when they turn you away.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Dance Is Enough
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2022
7:00 PM
Atrium, Ace Hotel Brooklyn
252 Schermerhorn Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mixed dance program
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In case dance isn’t enough, there’s a perfectly nice restaurant in the Ace Hotel.
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Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Bedlam in Repertory: The Winter’s Tale/Hedda Gabler
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 & 26 – 30, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 20)
7:00 PM MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
3:00 & 8:00 PM SATURDAY
1:00 PM SUNDAY
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$40-$115; $10 students/veterans/military rush; MONDAY pay what you can
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bedlam Theater’s direct stripped-down approach to presenting classic theater is very effective. This season they’re doing two in repertory — although one is better as a piece of theater than the other (owing of course to the inferioriity of realist/naturalist psychological narrative as an aesthetic pursuit).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great great Modern Israeli at Miss Ada.
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Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 5:00 PM – Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
David Thomson: VESSEL
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 – 29, 2022
5:00 PM
Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A durational performance-installation coming out of Édouard Glissant’s seminal Poetics of Relations, questioning whether we can even know ourselves through the socio-political scrim in which we operate (I mean OF COURSE we can’t.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fall really is the best time at the wonderful Québécois bistro M. Wells (go while it’s still Goatober there!).
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Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 8:00 PM – Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eric P. Mandat/John McCowen
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A night of extended clarinettechniques.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, superb Palestinian at AlBadawi. At home, have a Bitter Giuseppe: pour 2 oz. Cynar, 1 oz. sweet Vermouth (Carpano Antica Formula by preference), and 1/4 oz. lemon juice, with 6 dashes of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Camille A. Brown & Dancers: The Trilogy
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 – 30, 2022
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$51-$71
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A chance to see all three parts of the trilogy of evening-length dance pieces Camille A. Brown choreographed over the last decade exploring Black identity. The first part is put on Tuesday through Thursday and the second Friday through Sunday. Part three will be given next week at the Apollo (15% discount for Joyce ticketholders).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Upscale Italian from a very established chef at Portale.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
OFFAIR Presents: Richard Reed Parry & Susie Ibarra
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2022
7:30 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$22.66
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Composer/multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire (yawn) and percussionist+ Susie Ibarra (yay) join forces to extend Parry’s heartbeat-driven composition (incorporating heartbeats from actual audience members) from its original orchestral forces to tonight’s ambient electronics.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun barbecue at Pig Beach.
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Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Kate Tarker: Montag
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 – 30, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 13)
7:30 PM
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$35 TUESDAY – SATURDAY; 99¢ SUNDAY
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In what, for playwright Kate Tarker, seems to a pretty restrained show, two women in a basement apartment near an American military base in Germany perform combat drills — armed with wine, potato chips, and a great pair of speakers.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
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Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 11:29 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 – 30, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Advance ticket required: $18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Monday, October 24, 2022, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Blood Orange
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2022
9:00 PM
Brooklyn Steel
319 Frost Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$49.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
How does this List love Blood Orange? The ways cannot be counted. We love him for his smart inventive Nu R&B. We love him for his rock and contemporary classical inflections. We love him cuz this is what we want Pop music to be.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Brooklyn Red Sauce classic (albeit not as good as at Bamonte’s) at Frost.
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Monday, October 24, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Douglas J. Cuomo feat. Nels Cline & The Overlook Quartet: Seven Limbs
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Composer Douglas J. Cuomo’s work is eclectic in the goodsense — and nice to listen to (with the advantages and disadvantages that adjective evokes). This piece for an inventive guitarist and string quartet should be extra nice.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, have a Last Word: pour in 3/4 oz. each of Gin, green Chartreuse, Maraschino liqueur, and lime juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry — but only if you want to.
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Monday, October 24, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Vivier: Siddhartha
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2022
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$18-$39
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This List thinks it’s criminal that we so rarely get to hear live performances of the music of Claude Vivier, one of the great composers of the late 20th Century. This is a form of Spectralism that is almost Mahlerian in its scope and emotional impact: something no one else has done. And the Juilliard Symphony is conducted by David Robertson, one of the best out there! Stravinsky’s glittering orchestral showpiece, The Firebird, should give these student musicians a chance to strut their stuff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: First-rate basic Greek at Souvlaki GR.
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Monday, October 24, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ensemble Connect
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2022
7:30 PM
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$41-$47
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A typically engaging program by the young musicians of Ensemble Connect. A string quartet by Eleanor Alberga, whose Jamaican upbringing tells. A Martinu chamber piece for the intriguing combination of clarinet, horn, cello, and drum that I don’t think I’ve heard before (I mean, the only person who ever heard everything that almost ridiculously prolific composer wrote was Martinu himself). Bach’s Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, which I don’t have to tell you is the one with long harpsichord cadenza. And something by Clara Schumann: if we have to listen to Late Romantic, thank you for making it something we haven’t heard a million times already.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: When were you last at the Burger Joint?
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Monday, October 24, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, October 24, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE / PERFORMANCE
Niall Jones: COMPRESSION
MONDAY – THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 – 28, 2022
7:00 PM
Performance Space New York
150 First Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$15-$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
How much can you take out of performance and still have it be there? Niall Jones’s attempts to find out are conistently fascinating.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Post-Momofuku cuisine at Nudibranch. And if you sit at the bar you can order à la carte.
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Monday, October 24, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Bedlam in Repertory: The Winter’s Tale/Hedda Gabler
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 & 26 – 30, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 20)
7:00 PM MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
3:00 & 8:00 PM SATURDAY
1:00 PM SUNDAY
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$40-$115; $10 students/veterans/military rush; MONDAY pay what you can
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bedlam Theater’s direct stripped-down approach to presenting classic theater is very effective. This season they’re doing two in repertory — although one is better as a piece of theater than the other (owing of course to the inferioriity of realist/naturalist psychological narrative as an aesthetic pursuit).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great great Modern Israeli at Miss Ada.
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Monday, October 24, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dana Lynn & Kyle Sanna
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2022
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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Mon, Oct 24, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 – 30, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to 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, Oct 24, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 – 30, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, October 23, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Wildebeest Wind Quintet
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Wildebeest Wind Quintet initially formed to explore the musics of the unlikely pair of Serge Prokofiev and Alec Wilder. They’ve since expanded their repertoire, but their mix of jazz, classical, and experimental hasn’t gotten any more likely.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Prospect Lefferts Gardens wine/restaurant king André Mack does seafood at Kingfisher.
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Sunday, October 23, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Blood Orange
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022 (also OCTOBER 24)
8:00 PM
Brooklyn Steel
319 Frost Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$49.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
How does this List love Blood Orange? The ways cannot be counted. We love him for his smart inventive Nu R&B. We love him for his rock and contemporary classical inflections. We love him cuz this is what we want Pop music to be.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Brooklyn Red Sauce classic (albeit not as good as at Bamonte’s) at Frost.
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Sunday, October 23, 2022, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bowers Feder Duo: Seventh Annual New American Art Song Concert
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022
5:00 PM
OPERA America’s National Opera Center In Person & Live Stream
330 7th Avenue, Garment District, Manhattan
$20; $15 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Brand new music for voice and guitar — including by such regular List denizens as Jeffrey Young and Victoria Bond.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I am simply incapable of not sending you to the West African steam-table buffet at B&B Restaurant, an astounding value.
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Sunday, October 23, 2022, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Vox Luminis: Bach: The Armstadt Connection
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022
4:00 PM
Music Before 1800
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street, Mornigside Heights, Manhattan
$10-$55; $5 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
More Vox Luminis (while they’re here)! Choral music by various members of the Bach family (including the Big One) — and one piece by Bach idol Buxtehude.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Eritrean at Massawa.
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Sunday, October 23, 2022, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eclectic Series: Miranda Cuckson
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022
4:00 PM
Bargemusic
1 Water Street, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
And sometimes Bargemusic just knocks it out of the park. The probing violinist Miranda Cuckson is one of the best musicians in New York (meaning the world). In this solo recital, she plays Kurtág and others (although Kurtág is enough by himself to get you down there).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Riverside bar-with-food High Tide isn’t firing on all cylindars yet — but you can still stop by for a drink and a snack (and a view!).
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Saturday, October 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sam Amidon & Marc Ribot
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022
8:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20-$25 advance; $25-$30 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Given his taste in collaborators, I wish I liked Sam Amidon’s space-folky Americana more. I certainly couldn’t like Marc Ribot’s guitar more.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speaking of Americana, Shaker food at The Commerce Inn.
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Saturday, October 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
BAD REPUTATION: Pierre de Gaillande Celebrates Brassen’s Birthday
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Back in the ‘50s, Georges Brassen started to take the French chanson tradition and rough it up. In what must count as some kind of minor miracle, Pierre de Gaillande has done what no one has ever really done before: taken French chanson and successfully translated those mordant, biting lyrics into English (think of all the lame, reductiveBrel translations you’ve endured). Should be a great night — in a low key sort of way.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better-than-Neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
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Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Philharmonic: The Sound of Home
THURSDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 22 & 23, 2022
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$28-$146
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Enough with the “Home” stuff already. In any event, if the Phil hooking up with Roomful of Teeth to do a world premiere by The Future Of Classical Music, Teeth bandmember Caroline Shaw, isn’t a major event, I don’t know what is. Also on the bill: Debussy’s Prelude to “The Afternoon of the Faun, one of the most sensuous things in all of music — led hear by one of the least sensuous conductors. And Florence Price’s chef-d’ouevre Fourth Symphony — which shows that your music can be boring and retrograde even if you’re a neglected Early 20th Century Black female composer. (To be clear, I’m not arguing that Price shouldn’t be played. To the contrary, much of what contemporary orchestras play is boring and retrograde, and there’s no reason to exclude this boring and retrograde music on grounds of the composer’s race and sex. But I don’t have to recommend it.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Kwame Onwuachi’s Afro-Caribbean restaurant in the Hall isn’t open yet. But there’s BIGGER news: cocktails at the Hall’s bars will be handled by List bud and Cocktail Genius Don Lee!!!!!!!! I may never remember the second half of a Philharmonic concert again.
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Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 8:00 PM
MUSIC
Ragas Live Festival
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022 (continuing for 24 hours)
8:00 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$35 Saturday or Sunday pass in advance; $40 Saturday or Sunday pass day of; $55 24-hour pass in advance; $60 24-hour pass day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Twenty-four hours of Raga and Raga-inspired music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A really fine burger — and the best shrimp cocktail EVER (unless the rumors I hear about Corner Bar are true) — at Red Hook Tavern.
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Saturday, October 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$36-$101
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Go to hear Thomas Adès’s new symphonic suite from his opera The Exterminating Angel. But stay to hear whether two highly touted commodities on The International Classical Music Market — conductor Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason — really are All That. (The Elgar Cello Concerto is certainly All That — and if I’m saying something good about a piece by Elgar, it must be really special!)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Gallaghers, for what I for one consider the best Old Skool steak in the City — cooked over charcoal!
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Saturday, October 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sun Ra Arkestra
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022
8:00 PM
Nublu 151
151 Avenue C, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$33.19
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Some believe that Sun Ra is dead. And some believe that he and his uncanny synthesis of Big Band and the most avant of gardes have merely passed to an even higher level of abstraction. Either way, Space Is Still The Place.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Kafana. Bring cash cuz they don’t take plastic. Bring a hunger cuz their Serbian food is HEARTY. Bring a thirst cuz their appre le lettre Natural wine list is extensive.
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Saturday, October 22, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Vox Luminis: Sacred Monteverdi
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022
7:30 PM
Church of St. Mary the Virgin
145 West 46th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$30-$45; $22-$34 students & under 25; $25-$38 seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
More Monteverdi! This time sacred motets from the luminous Selva Morale e Spirituale collection. The resplendent yet refined Belgian ensemble Vox Luminis (usually they’re a cappella but for this they’ve brought along some instrumentalists) will make it glow (even through the murk at Smokey Mary).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s pretty hard to avoid the irony of sending you for Kosher French steak at Le Marais. (It’s actually not bad.)
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Saturday, October 22, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eprhaim Asili: Black Screens: Measuring Time
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022
7:30 PM
Microscope Gallery
525 West 29th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tonight Mircroscope’s great performative cinema series dispenses with the cinema, as Ephraim Asili (who started out as a musician before he became a filmmaker) improvises sequenced soundscapes such as he uses to soundtrack his films.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Conceptually boring, very delicious oven-focused Italian at Ci Siamo.
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Saturday, October 22, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
TENET: Polifonía de las Américas
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022
7:00 PM
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Avenue, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$11.90-$53.90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There is all this really great Late Renaissance (and Baroque — but that’s another concert) choral music, written by Peninsular (meaning having come to the Americas from actual Spain) and Colonial/Creole composers, hiding in plain sight in Cathedral libraries in Latin America. Maybe because the composers had to be seriously concerned with audience appeal, their music got a few steps livelier. You will love this stuff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Chino-Latino at the Amsterdam Avenue Flor de Mayo.
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Saturday, October 22, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Cutting Edge Concerts/Keyed Up Music Project: Music by Victoria Bond, David Del Tredici, Robert Helps and Dalit Warshaw
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022
7:00 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Music for piano solo and piano and voice. A world premiere (for piano solo) by Victoria Bond is a big attraction. But Robert Helps helps.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The broth is particularly rich at E.A.K. Ramen.
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Saturday, October 22, 2022, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eclectic Series: Dara & Kyle feat. Mark Pesakov
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022
6:00 PM
Bargemusic
1 Water Street, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sometimes Bargemusic just hits on a perfectly winning program. Like this evening’s, featuring music for piano trio (and constituent combinations therefrom) by Haydn, Nadia Boulanger, George Walker, and Boulanger’s student Astor Piazzolla: composers you want to hear.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The River Café: the tourist trap that isn’t one.
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Saturday, October 22, 2022, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 9
THURSDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 & 22, 2022
7:00 PM THURSDAY
5:00 PM SATURDAY
THURSDAY: St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Avenue, Upper West Side, Manhattan
SATURDAY: All Saints’ Episcopal Church
286-88 Seventh Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15-50 THURSDAY; $25 SATURDAY
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Monteverdi’s posthumous Ninth Book of Madrigals (which may nevertheless have been assembled by the composer before it became posthumous) surveys his career. While the preceding Eighth Book is full of drama, this set hews more to the jewel-like. The splendid ARTEK ensemble will make it sound.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thursday on the Upper West Side, the neighborhood has certainly taken the Mediterranean Dagon to heart. Saturday in Park Slope, another chance not to be able to get into homey Indian sensation Masalawala & Sons.
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Saturday, October 22, 2022, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Fire Over Heaven: Benefit
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022
2:00 PM
Outpost Artists Resources
1665 Norman Street, Ridgewood, Queens
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A marathon six-hour (and counting) assemblage of the stars of the experimental/improv scene (appropriately for a fund-raiser, this particular assemblage skewing a bit toward the listener-friendly side).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: See what’s brewing at Evil Twin.
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Saturday, October 22, 2022, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Flatbed Follies
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022
1:00 PM
Grand Concourse btw. East 161st Street & East 162nd Street, Concourse, Bronx
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes it to the street!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: My Mother’s old hood! (Isn’t there some kind of ball field around there?) My Grandfather used to have a luncheonette in that general area, but THAT’S long gone. In current times, The Feeding Tree serves outstanding Jamaican — if it survived The Pandemic.
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Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 10:30 PM – Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 & 22, 2022 (ongoing)
10:30 PM
Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Theater for people who think they don’t like theater. Thirty short plays crammed into an hour, semi-improvised, semi-not, non-illusionistic, spur-of-the-moment, real (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I dunno why, but it seems like you’d go to Phebe’s.
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Friday, October 21, 2022, 9:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Joseph Keckler
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2022
9:30 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Imagine this: Nu Opera cabaret that isn’t overbearing or precious. I’ll bet even Joseph Keckler doesn’t quite know how he pulls this off.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Taiwanese at 886.
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Friday, October 21, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Lucian Ban & Mat Manieri: Transylvanian Concert
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It’s been a decade since Transylvanian pianist Lucian Ban got together with American violist Mat Manieri to make composed/improvised music (you know: Jazz) that it is highly evocative (although not of anything cheery). Be warned, though: if there’s one thing this music isn’t, it’s fast.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: See if you can get into Indian sensation Masalawala & Sons (and who ever thought there’d be any kind of sensation in Park Slope?).
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Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Aaron Parks Quintet
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 & 22, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & SATURDAY Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40 in person; $20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Composer-pianist Aaron Parks brings on his smart, allusive style of jazz (among the styles he draws on is Indie Rock — an influence that seemed Of The Moment when he started out and now seems Charmingly Period). In case you’re wondering, among the players in his quartet is the sensational trumpeter Adam O’Farrill.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, my beloved Italian-Ashkenazi mash-up Mark’s Off Madison. Streaming at home, a Fernet con Coca Smells Like Teen Spirits: pour 1 cup Coca-Cola and 1/2 cup Fernet into a Collins glass over ice. Garnish with a lemon wedge.
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Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Nora Burns: The Village, a Disco Musical!
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 & 22, 2022
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$28 advance; $32 door; $20 students/seniors advance; $24 students/seniors door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Thornton Wilder goes to a disco — in 1979!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at the new Pasquale Jones sibling Bar Pasquale.
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Friday, October 21, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Niloufar Nourbakhsh: We, the Innumerable
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2022
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The doyenne of the startling group of Iranian female composers we were talking about last week, Niloufar Nourbakhsh has composed an opera concerning an Iranian woman’s fight against political and social oppression — melding Iranian instruments and modes with European opera.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cheffed-up Thai at Kru.
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Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Five Boroughs Music Festival: Five Boroughs Songbook Vol. III
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 – 23, 2022
7:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
FRIDAY: Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, Queens
SATURDAY: Bronx Musical Heritage Center Laboratory
1303 Louis Niñe Boulevard, Charlotte Gardens, Bronx
SUNDAY: The Chapel, Hebrew Union College
1 West 4th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
FRIDAY $25; $15 students/seniors
SATURDAY $15; $10 students/seniors
SUNDAY $25; $15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having brought the third edition of their NYC Alt Classical songbook — songs by New York composers about life in New York — to Brooklyn (it was great!) and Staten Island in April, Five Boroughs Music now hits up Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan. Just to list a few of my very faves on the composers’ roster to give you a taste of what the expect: Angélica Negrón, Majel Connery, Will Healy, Juri Seo, and Aaron Siegel.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thursday 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. Saturday in the Bronx, I honestly can’t help you in and around Charlotte Gardens; if you go and find anything worthwhile, let me know. Sunday in the Village, Urban Italian at Il Buco Alimentari & Vino.
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Friday, October 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Essential Tremors
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2022
7:00 PM
Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Avenue, Maspeth, Queens
$46.10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A long multi-multi-artist show featuring: Alt Hip-Hop! Noise Rock (speaking of which: No Age!)! Noise noise! And more!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Local-grain Italian out of the oven at Faro.
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Friday, October 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
A Memorial Tribute to Ingram Marshall
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2022
7:00 PM
The Greene Space In Person & Live Stream
44 Charlton Street, Soho, Manhattan
$20 in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When you describe Ingram Marshall’s music, you can make it sound like a lot of things — ambient, soundscape, Minimalist, post-Minimalist — but when you hear it, it’s utterly distinctive: calm, uninsistent; but compelling, not fading into the background. Marshall is prototypically West Coast — and although I, for one, wouldn’t want to live there, I love visiting, both physically and aurally. Various NYC Musicians About Town pay tribute — including Timo Andres, who has a lot of Marshall in him even though he’s East Coast through and through.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, is there a more delightful NYC spot that the vaguely Italian(ish) King? Streaming at home, have a Gibson: pour 2 oz. Gin and 1 oz. dry Vermouth into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with as many cocktail onions as you feel like.
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Friday, October 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
Machine Dazzle: Treasure
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2022
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Taylor Mac’s brilliant costumier puts on a musical!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Kenka, an izakaya as colorful as this show.
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Thursday, October 20, 2022, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nightcap: Roomful of Teeth
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022
10:00 PM
Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio, David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Following a performance with the Philharmonic, the spectacular vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth does a set by themselves in the new pocket venue in David Geffen Hall, featuring a brand new piece by Angélica Negrón, as well as pieces by inti figgis-vizueta, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, Missy Mazzoli, and Sarah Kirkland Snider.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: P.J. Clarke’s claims to be open till midnight. Do they mean it? We’ll see.
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Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Kinding Sindaw: Posaka
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 – 23, 2022
8:00 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A ceremonial presentation of indigenous Phillipine culture — with drums and gongs.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sisig at Mama Fina’s — although you’ll have to go before two 8 o’clock shows.
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Thursday, October 20, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Idith Korman: Sound Paintings
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022
7:30 PM
The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
87 Eldridge Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Chamber music (and improvisations) assembled in response to the Abstract Expressionist paintings of Milton Resnick. And among the composers whose work has been assembled are Kaija Saariaho and BFFs Cage and Feldman!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You always remember your first — and for me, Super Taste’s hand-pulled noodles were my first (and still among my best).
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Thursday, October 20, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Ivo van Hove: A Little Life
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 – 22, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 29)
7:30 PM
BAM Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$54-$190
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ivo van Hove takes on Hanya Yanigahara’s international novelistic sensation. Even if you’re one of the many who think van Hove’s getting tired and repetitious, you’ve got to be a little excited about this.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Oma Grassa pizza is on fire (I mean not literally).
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Thursday, October 20, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brandon Ross & Stomu Takeishi: For Living Lovers
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$20-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Acoustic guitar-bass duets by two musicians who are spectacularly good. Dead lovers can presumably go elsewhere.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Infused cocktails that are either too much or just enough, depending on how you like at Apotheke, which just opened a new branch uptown in NoMad.
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Thursday, October 20, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bradley Eros (& co-conspirators): Black Screens: Imageless Films, Performances
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022
7:30 PM
Microscope Gallery
525 West 29th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Of course Microscope’s great performative cinema series would have to get to Bradley Eros, a leading proponent of the form. Live film, music, and . . . olafactory performance?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun faux Southern at Porchlight.
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Thursday, October 20, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
LayeRhythm (On The Move): Sun Kim Dance Theater
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022
7:30 PM
Works and Process
New York Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Vernacular dance styles, choreographed and improvised (excitingly).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Oysters and a Martini, then a Cadillac Burger, at P.J. Clarke’s!
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Thursday, October 20, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Philharmonic: The Sound of Home
THURSDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 22 & 23, 2022
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$28-$146
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Enough with the “Home” stuff already. In any event, if the Phil hooking up with Roomful of Teeth to do a world premiere by The Future Of Classical Music, Teeth bandmember Caroline Shaw, isn’t a major event, I don’t know what is. Also on the bill: Debussy’s Prelude to “The Afternoon of the Faun, one of the most sensuous things in all of music — led hear by one of the least sensuous conductors. And Florence Price’s chef-d’ouevre Fourth Symphony — which shows that your music can be boring and retrograde even if you’re a neglected Early 20th Century Black female composer. (To be clear, I’m not arguing that Price shouldn’t be played. To the contrary, much of what contemporary orchestras play is boring and retrograde, and there’s no reason to exclude this boring and retrograde music on grounds of the composer’s race and sex. But I don’t have to recommend it.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Kwame Onwuachi’s Afro-Caribbean restaurant in the Hall isn’t open yet. But there’s BIGGER news: cocktails at the Hall’s bars will be handled by List bud and Cocktail Genius Don Lee!!!!!!!! I may never remember the second half of a Philharmonic concert again.
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Thursday, October 20, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 9
THURSDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 & 22, 2022
7:00 PM THURSDAY
5:00 PM SATURDAY
THURSDAY: St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Avenue, Upper West Side, Manhattan
SATURDAY: All Saints’ Episcopal Church
286-88 Seventh Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15-50 THURSDAY; $25 SATURDAY
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Monteverdi’s posthumous Ninth Book of Madrigals (which may nevertheless have been assembled by the composer before it became posthumous) surveys his career. While the preceding Eighth Book is full of drama, this set hews more to the jewel-like. The splendid ARTEK ensemble will make it sound.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thursday on the Upper West Side, the neighborhood has certainly taken the Mediterranean Dagon to heart. Saturday in Park Slope, another chance not to be able to get into homey Indian sensation Masalawala & Sons.
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Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
BRIC Jazz Fest
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 – 22, 2022
7:00 PM
BRIC House
647 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$40 per night; $95 three nights
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Three nights of jazz in many styles. I’m sure it’s all very good, but I can’t help pointing out that Thursday night features sets by up-and-coming trombone player Kalia Vandever (watch that name) and up-and-come vibes player Joel Ross.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Rockwell Place is an excellent, though relatively unheralded, cocktail bar.
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Thursday, October 20, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Sugarlife Orchestra
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022
7:00 PM
Mama Tried
787 Third Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Avant-Pop-Rock Cabaret doesn’t even begin to describe Sugarlife.
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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Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Split Britches: Last Gasp — A Recalibration
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 – 23, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 30)
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Split Britches has been doing (incisive, hilarious) Downtown Performance for a long enough time that it isn’t surprising to see them grapple with mortality. What couldn’t be foreseen was that their initial attempt would be bushwacked by a Pandemic, which forced them to reconceive it as a remote digital presentation. Now they return to a live version — which is not to say they’ve totally ditched the digital stuff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican insect cuisines at The Black Ant.
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Thursday, October 20, 2022, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Beau Bree Rhee: Shadow of the Sea
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022
6:00 PM
The Kitchen @ Madison Square Park
Madison Square Park, Madison Square, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Beau Bree Rhee’s reflection on the sea (and its incomprehensible shadow) starts with dancers on the far West (Pier 64) and East (East River Promenade at East 10th Street), whom the audience can join for a walk to the Park for a full performance (RSVP required). The bulk of the peformance then takes place at the Park.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fast casual Chinese with a difference at Milu.
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Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Sae Hashimoto
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 22, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sae Hashimoto completes her ascendance from rising percussionist to risen with a Stone residency. Check Friday’s Archipelago X ensemble with newly minted GeniusIkue Mori and Brian Marsella!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
marion spenser and collaborators: to love the rise/pt.2
WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 21, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
WEDNESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Feminist apocalyptic multimedia dance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, have an Intercontinental: pour in 1 oz. each of Armagnac and Averno Amaro, and 1/2 oz. Maraschino liqueur, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Lauren Sarah Hayes
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2022
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I don’t actually know anything about Lauren Sarah Hayes. But she’s billed as an “Extreme Vocalist from Brazil”, a phrase that has three of my favorite words in it (“from” I can take or leave). (ETA: Oh wait, I just listened to some of her stuff. She’s GREAT! Glitch, noise, snatches of melody [but only snatches]. Also, describing her as a “vocalist” leaves out all the electronics with a chance of piano. Go to this!) (PS: She’s actually Scottish.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Too bad Miss Favela is closed on Wednesdays. Maybe some good cocktails, great interior, and snacky seafood at Deux Chats.
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Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Twyla Tharp: In the Upper Room/Nine Sinatra Songs
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 23, 2022
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
New York City Center
131 West 55th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$45-$170
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Twyla Tharp has long since revealed herself as the Show Biz Wing of the Postmodern Dance Movement, and I for one have a hard time continuing to take her seriously. But these two pieces, from the 1980s, are great: what Tharp is good for. In the Upper Room, set to Philip Glass, is excitement on a stick. Nine Sinatra Songs is not only great fun, but it’s culturally significant: it encapsulates the moment when the Rock Generation was beginning to come to terms with the fact that the mocked, derided Frank Sinatra was in fact a supreme popular artist. The beginning of the end of Rockism!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette goes Uptown and simplifies out what made it great, but leaves in what makes it good, at (speaking of Rockism) Le Rock.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Orchestra of St. Luke’s: Beethoven and Clyne
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2022
8:00 PM
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Anna Clyne is one of those composers who would be genuinely popular if we had a living mainstream Classical Music culture. There is nothing about her wonderful work that couldn’t appeal to a large mainstream audience — if they weren’t too lazy and timid to think for themselves about music, rather than bathing in works that have already been endorsed for them as “great”. She has two fairly new chamber pieces on this program. Fittingly, the other piece is what has to be Beethoven’s single most entertaining score, one that makes you forget all about the legendary grumpy growler — and a huge hit upon its release, although it doesn’t loom large today when we only listen to “masterpieces” — the Septet.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: When were you last at the Burger Joint?
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Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Dead Centre: Chekhov’s First Play
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 23, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 6)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY
8:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$25-$59
TICKETS + INFORMATION
During the Russian Revolution, Chekhov’s sister put many of his manuscripts into a safe deposit box for safekeeping. Among them was Chekhov’s unperformed first play. The box containing the manuscript — missing its title page — was later discovered by Soviet scholars. This prolix work (much too long to perform as written) has come to be known as Platonov (or, more piquantly, the Play Without a Title) (you might have seen versions of it in New York called Wild Honey and The Present). Dead Centre, however, does not present a version of it. They present a fantasia on it, a play impossible to perform.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ardesia Wine Bar, still one of the City’s most pleasant.
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Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
SITI Company: Radio Macbeth
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 22, 2022
7:30 PM
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ann Bogart’s SITI Company prepares to give up the ghost (at the end of this year!) with this portrayal of radio theater company something like Orson Welles’s Mercury Theater on the Air preparing a production of Macbeth while haunted by all prior productions.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Meatcentric English food at Lord’s.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Kate Tarker: Montag
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 23, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 13)
7:30 PM
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In what, for gonzo playwright Kate Tarker, seems to a pretty restrained show, two women in a basement apartment near an American military base in Germany perform combat drills — armed with wine, potato chips, and a great pair of speakers.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
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Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Bedlam in Repertory: The Winter’s Tale/Hedda Gabler
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17 & 19 – 23, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 20)
7:00 PM MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
3:00 & 8:00 PM SATURDAY
1:00 PM SUNDAY
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$40-$115; $10 students/veterans/military rush
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bedlam Theater’s direct stripped-down approach to presenting classic theater is very effective. This season they’re doing two in repertory — although one is better as a piece of theater than the other (owing of course to the inferiority of realist/naturalist psychological narrative as an aesthetic pursuit).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great great Modern Israeli at Miss Ada.
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Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Los Angeles Philharmonic
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25 & 26, 2022
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$30-$159
TUESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
WEDNESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Gabriela Ortiz is the very model of a Contemporary Mexican Composer, and she’ll have new pieces played each night. Tuesday’s concert pairs her new violin concerto (played by María Dueñas) with Mahler’s First Symphony, the kind of piece conductor Gustavo Dudamel has trouble holding together. Wednesday’s concert puts a shorter new piece by Ortiz with a new Violin Concerto (played by the excellent Anne Akiko Meyers) by the older Mexican composer Arturo Márquez, one of those conservative composers whose work is redeemed by the exuberent appeal of the folkloric elements he draws on: the kind of stuff that’s Dudamel’s meat and drink. That concert concludes with Copland’s Third Symphony: also the kind of piece Dudamel has trouble holding together.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unbearbly fun izakaya at Donburiya.
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Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
notAmuse Theater: Dread Fools
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 22, 2022
8:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20-$35
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”Grotesque catharsis without redemption” centering on “the regulation of the human body from creation to genetic manipulation”.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Roman pinsa pizza at Montesacro.
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Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Elevator Repair Service: Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 23, 2022
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
1:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$60-$160
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Elevator Repair Service does their usual meta-text-recreation thing with a debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley in the ‘60s. I remember, when I was in Law School, pulling God and Man at Yaleoff the library shelf to peruse during a study break; I had never read it. I couldn’t believe how repellant it was. Liberals like to present the current version of the Amercian Conservative movement as some kind of aberrational departure from something that used to be reasonable. Don’t be fooled. Those people have been engaged in a bigoted attempt to destroy American democracy for as long as they’ve been a movement.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Fouad Bousouff: Näss
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 23, 2022
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$41-$61
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Contemporary dance, hip-hop, Nouvelle Cirque, and Moroccan stuff (including Gnawa!).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Upscale Italian from a very established chef at Portale.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 7:00 PM – Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Steven Banks: Being Again
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2022
7:00 PM
The Greene Space
44 Charlton Street, Soho, Manhattan
$15
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There aren’t that many classical saxophone players, so to say that Steven Banks is one of the best ones out there understates his considerable — you might even say astonishing — ability. He’s also developing as a composer. Tonight’s show features a new long-form composition. But it also features guided meditation. But then again it still also featuresAndrew Yee on cello.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let’s keep trying to get into the tiny Basque restaurant Haizea.
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Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 23, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Advance ticket required: $18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Owls
MONDAY & TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 & 18, 2022
7:30 PM
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$20
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A real NYC Alt Classical supergroup: violinist Alexi Kenney, violist Ayane Kozasa, and TWO cellists: Gabriel Cabezas and upcoming Kronos memberPaul Wiancko. It doesn’t hurt that Wiancko is also one of the most exciting composers around (and married to the violist, if you care). But not everything they do is Alt Classical (unless you count, say, Couperin as Alt Classical).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m not gonna stop pushing Central Asian powerhouse Farida until each and every one of you has gone there.
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Monday, October 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, October 17, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sāo Paulo Chamber Soloists
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2022
7:00 PM
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The string-orchestra branch of Sāo Paulo Symphony Orhestra plays Villa-Lobos (duh), Clarice Assad, and other composers you’d have heard of if you were from Brazil.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Despite what they claim, Mission Ceviche doesn’t serve the best ceviche in New York City (that’s got to be Caletta 111 in Richmond Hill) But they unquestionably serve the best ceviche within walking distance of the Americas Society.
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Monday, October 17, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Bedlam in Repertory: The Winter’s Tale/Hedda Gabler
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17 & 19 – 23, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 20)
7:00 PM MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
3:00 & 8:00 PM SATURDAY
1:00 PM SUNDAY
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$40-$115; $10 students/veterans/military rush
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Bedlam Theater’s direct stripped-down approach to presenting classic theater is very effective. This season they’re doing two in repertory — although one is better as a piece of theater than the other (owing of course to the inferiority of realist/naturalist psychological narrative as an aesthetic pursuit).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great great Modern Israeli at Miss Ada.
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Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17 – 23, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to 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, Oct 17, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17 – 23, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
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The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, October 16, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
David First and Musicians
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
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David First says his new electro-acoustic piece is inspired the bonkers Fleischer Brothers Popeye cartoon (I mean they all are) where Olive, sleepwalking through a construction site, manages to pass unkowingly from girder to swinging girder, never walking off the end of one into the abyss.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, superb Palestinian at AlBadawi. At home, have a McGavin: pour 1 oz. each of Gin and green Chartreuse and 1/2 oz. Meyer Lemon juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Add 1/2 oz. olive oil, 1/4 oz. Simple Syrup, 1 egg white, and a sprig of basil. Dry shake. Add ice. Shake. A lot. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a few drops of olive oil and a basil sprig.
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Sunday, October 16, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eyibra/Nnux/mediaqueer
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2022
7:30 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$21.63
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Eyibra’s lush electronic music is very compelling. But not as much as Nnux’s, which pop more. Mediaqueer is two fabulous musicians — Darian Donovan Thomas and Phong Tran — droning on fascinatingly on violin and synths.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mediterranean-inflected New American out of the big oven at Victor.
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Sunday, October 16, 2022, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Xavier Foley
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2022
6:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$25
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Xavier Foley is an amazingly fluent contrabass player. So it shouldn’t be surprising that he’s a fluent composer for that instrument — which, as Patrick Susskiindpointed out, doesn’t have a plethora of people composing for it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cheffed-up Thai at Kru.
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Sunday, October 16, 2022, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
ETHEL & Allison Loggins-Hull: Young Composers Festival: Persist
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2022
4:00 PM
Dweck Center, Brooklyn Public Library Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Free
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The free-wheeling ETHEL string quartet and the excellent flautist Allison Loggins-Hull present world premieres by Loggins-Hull herself and a bunch of young composers. And among the young composers is Composer Of The Moment Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great beer — I mean GREAT beer — at Gold Star Beer Counter.
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Sunday, October 16, 2022, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bisi Collective: Autonomous People of Gowanus
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2022
4:00 PM
Mama Tried
787 Third Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Improvisation on constructed instruments and found objects — accompanied by Butoh dance! Good openers, too, in the future-Post-Rock, neo-Krautrock, and Noise Punk genres.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The food at the venue, Mama Tried, is totally edible. The drinks are fine (they make their own vermouth!).
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Sunday, October 16, 2022, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Philharmonic: Returns Home
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 13, 15 & 18, 2022
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$110-$367
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Imagine if David Geffen Hall weren’t a terrible facility with a cold ugly ambience, bad sound, and insufficient amenities. Maybe with this fourth (OK, third-and-a-half) renovation we won’t have to imagine. For List purposes, the big deal is a new sound-and-light composition by Marcus Balter, designed to show off the Hall. We can also look forward to some John Adams, and Tania León’s fabulous Stride. Respighi is barely even music — but it’ll also show off the Hall. If there’s anything to show off.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It looks like Kwame Onwuachi’s Afro-Caribbean restaurant in the Hall isn’t open yet. But there’s BIGGER news: cocktails at the Hall’s bars will be handled by List bud and Cocktail Genius Don Lee!!!!!!!! I may never remember the second half of a Philharmonic concert again.
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Saturday, October 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sāo Paulo Symphony Orchestra: The Amazon Concert
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$18-$109
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Led by the estimable Marin Alsop, the Sāo Paulo Symphony Orchestra pulls out all the stops in a themed multi-media (film by Marcello Dantas) concert celebrating/illustrating/lamenting the Amazon. That means they’ll be playing Philip Glass, of course, and also Villa-Lobos, Clarice Assad, Jobim, and a lot of other composers you’d probably have heard of if you were from Brazil.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seafood at Estatorio Milos.
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Saturday, October 15, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 15, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Broadcast Bash
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022
7:00 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You have to sit through a lot of talking heads and spoken-word shit to get to a live set by Swamp Dogg. But Swamp Dogg’s bent country-leavened Old Skool R&B just might be worth it!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tacos at the San Pedro Inn.
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Saturday, October 15, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 15, 2022, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Michael Hearst: The Unusual, Extraordinary, Curious, and Unconventional Songbook
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022
4:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
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Michael Hearst bills himself as writing children’s music. But what he really writes is semi-classical chamber pop of enormous charm and appeal.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s the weekend: you can be at Reyes Deli & Grocery when they serve their barbacoa and goat stew tacos and their tamales!
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Saturday, October 15, 2022, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Amy & Jennifer Koshbin: Sun Seekers Induction Ceremony
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022
3:00 PM
The Occulus
185 Greenwich Street, World Trade Center, Manhattan
Free
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An immersive SciFi performance piece that invites the audience to leave technology behind and go somatic. I wonder if the irony of putting on such a piece in a cathedral of Capitalist consumption has occurred to anybody.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Eataly is offering special deals at all its restaurants right now.
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Saturday, October 15, 2022, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Emily Johnson: Being Future Being: Land/Celestial
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022
3:00 & 5:00 PM
New York Live Arts (off site)
Location disclosed to ticket purchasers day of show, Lower Manhattan, Manhattan
$10-$20
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Choreographer/dancer Emily Johnson focuses on Indigenous thriving. These are outdoor performances; an indoor piece addressing the same theme will be presented at New York Live Arts next week. Music by fellow Indigene Raven Chacon!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: We don’t know exactly where it’s gonna be, do we?
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Saturday, October 15, 2022, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 15, 2022, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber: Hella Bumpy Brooklyn Conduction
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022
2:00 PM
The Plaza
300 Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Still bouncing back from the sudden loss of their irreplaceable founder Greg Tate (a giant of American culture), the fabulous Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber focuses for the afternoon on the conducted improvising “conduction” technique originated by the also irreplaceable Butch Morris.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Slutty Vegan and line up to eat fake meat with puerile names.
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Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 10:30 PM – Sat, Oct 15, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 & 15, 2022 (ongoing)
10:30 PM
Kraine Theater In Person & SATURDAY Live Stream
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Theater for people who think they don’t like theater. Thirty short plays crammed into an hour, semi-improvised, semi-not, non-illusionistic, spur-of-the-moment, real (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I dunno why, but it seems like you’d go to Phebe’s. Streaming at home on Saturday, have an OG Waldorf (I’ll post a more refined “modern” version some time — but the original is still the greatest): pour 1 oz. each of Rye, sweet Vermouth, and Absinthe, with 2 dashes of orange bitters. into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake (that’s right, shake). Traditionally you’d strain into a rocks glass over crushed ice — but the lazy like me will just use a chilled Martini glass or coupe, neat. You could garnish with an orange twist if you wanted.
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Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Oct 15, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Friday, October 14, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sāo Paulo Symphony Orchestra
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$32-$89
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A glittering program — conducted by Marin Alsop — of some Rimsky (you can probably guess what) and, as you’d expect of a Brazilian orchestra showing the flage in New York CIty, a lot of Villa-Lobos. But it’s Listed in particular for Villa-Lobos’s jaunty, lyrical, immensely entertaining Harmonica Concerto (José Staneck, soloist — the original soloist was John Sebastian’s namesake father!), which never ever gets played here.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s surprising how uncharacteristically early Midtown’s Brazilian restaurants now close (have they forgotten they’re Brazilian?). The best I can do is tell you to walk over to Churrascaria Plataforma (it’ll build up an appetite: you’ll need it!).
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Friday, October 14, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Marissa Tornello: Fruit Scores
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
7:30 AM
The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Believe it or not, a musical exploration of the anatomy of fruit. As they describe the proceedings, “The conductor creates each score in sequence, and conducts a group of musicians, cuing each musician to perform their scores in the same sequence. Every score must be eaten in its entirety by each musician following the performance.”
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: More neo-Midwestern food at Ruthie’s Luncheonette.
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Friday, October 14, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
L’Arpeggiata feat. Philippe Jaroussky: Pasacalle de la Follie
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
7:30 PM
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$99
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The rollicking Baroque ensemble L’Arpeggiata is joined by star counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky for some pure fun.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hunan (with the usual Sichuan thrown in) at Blue Willow.
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Friday, October 14, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Nico Muhly: The Street
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
7:30 & 9:00 PM
The Crypt, Church of the Intercession
550 West 155th Street, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
$85
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A new oratorio by Nico Muhly — libretto by Alice Goodman — concerning The Passion. Featuring Parker Ramsay on harp.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I have it on good authority that the cocktails at The Honey Well are very good. The snacks are, like, there.
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Friday, October 14, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Toebow
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
7:30 PM
David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center
61 West 62nd Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you love Tune-Yards, you’ll like Toebow.
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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Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Split Britches: Last Gasp — A Recalibration
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 – 16, 2022
7:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Split Britches has been doing (incisive, hilarious) Downtown Performance for a long enough time that it isn’t surprising to see them grapple with mortality. What couldn’t be foreseen was that their initial attempt would be bushwacked by a Pandemic, which forced them to reconceive it as a remote digital presentation. Now they return to a live version — which is not to say they’ve totally ditched the digital stuff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican insect cuisine at The Black Ant.
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Friday, October 14, 2022, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Charlotte Mundy
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
6:00 PM
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center In Person & Live Stream
365 Fifth Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Soprano Charlotte Mundy, one of the most valuable players on the NYC Contemporary Classical scene, gives a solo recital (with electronics).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, very nice Shanghainese at Little Alley. Streaming at home, have a Toronto: pour 2 oz. Rye and 1/4 oz. each Fernet Branca and Simple Syrup, with 2 dashes of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe (or into a tumbler over ice). Express an orange twist into the drink and use the twist as garnish.
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Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Ping Chong: Lazarus 1972-2022
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 – 16, 2022
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors advance; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When Ping Chong broke through with Lazarus(about the New Testament resurrected character reappearing in the then-contemporary New York) 50 years ago, nobody was doing the kind of imagistic multi-media theater that he was (at least not nearly as seamlessly and well). Now, the rest of experimental theater has caught up with him, so that while he’s still extraordinary, he’s no longer unique: the fate of an originator. It’ll be more than interesting to see Chong revisit his breakout piece half a century on, bringing it into the present. A must.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Dim Sum (duh) at Dim Sum Palace.
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Thursday, October 13, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Aizuri Quartet
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2022
7:30 PM
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$64-$74
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Aizuris — one really good string quartet — take you from nightfall to morning, by way of Clara Schumann, Bartók (can’t depict night without Bartók), Tanya Tagaq, and Haydn (can’t depict sunrise without Haydn).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Celebrate the completely unexpected resurgence of La Bonne Soup.
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Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 15, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Nora Burns: The Village, a Disco Musical!
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 – 15, 2022
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$28 advance; $20 door; $20 students/seniors advance; $24 students/seniors door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Thornton Wilder goes to a disco — in 1979!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at the new Pasquale Jones sibling Bar Pasquale.
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Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 15, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Gisèle Vienne: CROWD
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 – 15, 2022
7:30 PM
BAM Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$34-$85
TICKETS + INFORMATION
French choreographic sensation Gisèle Vienne takes us to a rave.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Oma Grassa pizza is on fire (I mean not literally).
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Thursday, October 13, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Oct 15, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Jad Atoui
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 – 15, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lots and lots of electronics.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Henry Fraser/Robert Dick
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Young improvising bassist Hentry Fraser. And a solo set by a very long-standing ornament of the New York avant-music scene, flautist Robert Dick.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Red Sauce with a view at Giando on the Water.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sudan Archives
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022
8:00 PM
Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sudan Archives, with her avant-rock-inflected Nu R&B, has just what you want in an um advanced pop musician: she doesn’t sound unrecognizably unlike everything else, but she doesn’t sound like anything else, either. Good songs, good singing and playing (she’s a violinist), good production. I’ll bet she’s good live, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tacos at Torterilleria Los Hermanos.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Locsil/Irasarri
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022
7:30 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$36.05
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I understand that some people think this ambient stuff is boring and pointless. But these twocreators are far from the New Agey end of the genre, and if you pay close attention this music is challenging, not restive. It’s certainly not easy listening.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun barbecue at Pig Beach.
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Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Kate Tarker: Montag
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 – 16, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 13)
7:30 PM
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In what, for playwright Kate Tarker, seems to a pretty restrained show, two women in a basement apartment near an American military base in Germany perform combat drills — armed with wine, potato chips, and a great pair of speakers.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
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Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 15, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jennifer Koh & Devóne Tines: Everything Rises
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 – 15, 2022
7:30 PM
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Violinist Jennifer Koh and vocalist Devóne Tines — two splendid musicians, among the very best now active — have together assembled a multimedia program exploring their experiences as people of color in the classical music industry. Sure, this is based a lot more on direct personal self-expression than this List’s aesthetic is comfortable with — but these are two spendid musicians.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Superstar fried chicken at Pecking House.
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Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 7:30 PM – Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Philharmonic: Returns Home
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 13 & 15, 2022 (also on OCTOBER 18)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$110-$367
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Imagine if David Geffen Hall weren’t a terrible facility with a cold ugly ambience, bad sound, and insufficient amenities. Maybe with this fourth (OK, third-and-a-half) renovation we won’t have to imagine. For List purposes, the big deal is a new sound-and-light composition by Marcus Balter, designed to show off the Hall. We can also look forward to some John Adams, and Tania León’s fabulous Stride. Respighi is barely even music — but it’ll also show off the Hall. If there’s anything to show off.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It looks like Kwame Onwuachi’s Afro-Caribbean restaurant in the Hall isn’t open yet. But there’s BIGGER news: cocktails at the Hall’s bars will be handled by List bud and Cocktail Genius Don Lee!!!!!!!! I may never remember the second half of a Philharmonic concert again.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Al Bilali Soudan
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022
7:00 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$24.10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Desert blues — that keening, driving Taureg electric guitar music of the Western Sahara — is great stuff. And Al Bilali Soudan are the rawest, roughest exponents I for one have ever heard.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Get some supernal Birria from the Birria-Landia truck while it’s still warm enough to eat it in the Macri Triangle.
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Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Bedlam in Repertory: The Winter’s Tale/Hedda Gabler
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10 & 12 – 16, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 20)
7:00 PM MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
3:00 & 8:00 PM SATURDAY
1:00 PM SUNDAY
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$30-$99 through SATURDAY EVENING; $40-$115 SATURDAY MATINÉE & thereafter; $10 students/veterans/military rush
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bedlam Theater’s direct stripped-down approach to presenting classic theater is very effective. This season they’re doing two in repertory — although one is better as a piece of theater than the other (owing of course to the inferioriity of realist/naturalist psychological narrative as an aesthetic pursuit).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great great New Israeli at Miss Ada.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Beau Bree Rhee: Shadow of the Sea
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 (also OCTOBER 20)
6:00 PM
The Kitchen @ Madison Square Park
Madison Square Park, Madison Square, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Beau Bree Rhee’s reflection on the sea (and its incomprehensible shadow) starts with dancers on the far West (Pier 64) and East (East River Promenade at East 10th Street), whom the audience can join for a walk to the Park for a full performance (RSVP required). The bulk of the peformance then takes place at the Park.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fast casual Chinese with a difference at Milu.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
NOVUS NY: Voice of Crumb Part 1
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 (weekly through NOVEMBER 16)
1:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel In Person & Live Stream
209 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The expert NOVUS NY new music ensemble explores the wonderful ouvre of George Crumb, an unclassifiable composer who was always concerned with his music’s sounding — although usually not like anything you’d heard before. Not many composers can pull of the feat of being completely cutting-edge while being just good to listen to. In this show, Crumb’s music is paired with a peice by his student Jennifer Higdon.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, try not to get too upset at the relative absense of Lyonnaise dishes at Daniel Boulud’s supposed Bouchon Le Gratin, and just enjoy how good the few there are, are. Streaming at home, welcome Fall with a Jack Rose: pour 2-1/2 oz. Laird’s Bonded apple brandy, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1/2 oz. Grenadine into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Jaap Blonk: Solo
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jaap Blonk can (and will) make any sound you can imagine — and many you can’t — with his mouth. Let’s just say this: he’s perhaps the only person around who can do Kurt Schwitters’s Ursonateand have it be one of the tamer things in his reportoire.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home (poor thing), have a Dutch Oven: put 2 sugar cubes at the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add 3 drops of Absinthe, 2 dahes of Peychaud’s bitters, 1 dash of orange bitters, and a capful of soda water. Muddle. Pour in 2 oz. Genever. Add ice. Stir. Strain into a tumbler over ice. Express a grapefruit twist into the drink and rub the rim with it.
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Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Billy Hart Quartet
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 – 16, 2022
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Village Vanguard
178 7th Avenue South, West Village, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Billy Hart is one great drummer. And with saxophonist Mark Turner, pianist Ethan Iverson, and bassist Ben Street, he has one great quartet.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Now that the Vin Sur Vignt wine bar has moved to more spacious quarters across the street, it’s less cute. But I’ll bet it’s still pretty good. (And it’s even than closer than before to the Vanguard.)
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Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Elevator Repair Service: Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 – 16, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 23)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
1:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$60-$160
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Elevator Repair Service does their usual meta-text-recreation thing with a debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley in the ‘60s. I remember, when I was in Law School, pulling God and Man at Yaleoff the library shelf to peruse during a study break; I had never read it. I couldn’t believe how repellant it was. Liberals like to present the current version of the Amercian Conservative movement as some kind of aberrational departure from something that used to be reasonable. Don’t be fooled. Those people have been engaged in a bigoted attempt to destroy American democracy for as long as they’ve been a movement.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Show
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2022 (also NOVEMBER 8 & DECEMBER 15)
7:30 PM
Voorhees Theater, New York City College of Technology
165 Jay Street, Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Familt Curkus 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: Speaking of fun, the West African party never stops at Amaranchi.
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Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Victor I. Cazares: american (tele)visions
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 – 16, 2022
7:00 PM TUESDAY – THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
New York Theater Workshop
79 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$65-$75
INFORMATION + TICKETS
More multiverse! This time surrounding an undocumented Mexican family.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pub grub that is far better than it has any right to be at Sidney’s Five.
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Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Oct 15, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Habibi Festival 2022
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 – 15, 2022
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Five nights of great stuff from the Maghreb and the Levant.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sake and izakaya at Decibel.
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Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Gracie Gardner: I’m Revolting
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 – 16, 2022
7:00 PM TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Linda Gross Theater, The Atlantic Theater Company
336 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$25-$97
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Gracie Gardner goes pro with what will undoubtedly be a hilarious look at skin cancer treatment.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Homestyle Palestinian at Qanoon.
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Monday, October 10, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Parker Ramsey & Brandon Patrick George
MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2022
8:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Not only is the flute/harp combination of great appeal sonically, but the repertoire is similarly appealing (and even transcriptions sound great). Here we have Bach, Takemitsu, Lateef, Nico Muhly, de Falla, and Saint-Saëns. Doesn’t that sound nice?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thai seafood at Fish Cheeks.
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Monday, October 10, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, October 10, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Monday, October 10, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, October 10, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Bedlam in Repertory: The Winter’s Tale/Hedda Gabler
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10 & 12 – 16, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 20)
7:00 PM MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
3:00 & 8:00 PM SATURDAY
1:00 PM SUNDAY
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$30-$99 through SATURDAY EVENING; $40-$115 SATURDAY MATINÉE & thereafter; $10 students/veterans/military rush
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bedlam Theater’s direct stripped-down approach to presenting classic theater is very effective. This season they’re doing two in repertory — although one is better as a piece of theater than the other (owing of course to the inferioriity of realist/naturalist psychological narrative as an aesthetic pursuit).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great great New Israeli at Miss Ada.
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Monday, October 10, 2022, 1:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Arts for Art: InGardens
MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2022
1:30 PM
First Street Green Art Park
33 East 1st Street, East Village, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The final afternoon of free Free Jazz. Pride of place must go to super-sax player Darius Jones fronting a rhythm section that includes the great William Parker on bass.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hard to be there and not stroll over to Katz’s Delicatessen.
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Mon, Oct 10, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10 – 16, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Advance ticket required: $18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Mon, Oct 10, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10 – 16, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to 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, Oct 10, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10 – 16, 2022 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free (registration required)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New York Phil hops aboard the walk-around-the-landscaped-space-with-soundtrack train. The highly allusive soundtrack was put together by Ellen Reid, who is one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, October 9, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mariachi Herencia de México feat. Lupita Infante: Herederos
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2022
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you can resist Mariachi music, you’re a very different person from me. The legendary Pedro Infante’s granddaughter guest sings.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Is it too obvious to send you to Mexican café Atla?
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Sunday, October 9, 2022, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bridget Kibbey/Emi Ferguson/Alexi Kenney: Counterpoint in Motion
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2022
5:00 PM
Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church
178 Bennett Avenue, Washington Heights, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The endlessly attractive combination of harp, flute, and violin — and the appealing Baroque-to-now repertoire you’d hope for.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No one has ever left La Cabaña Salvadoreña hungry.
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Saturday, October 8, 2022, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
C’était Bontemps: Off Kilter: Once Upon a Bite
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2022
8:30 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
All-trans themed variety show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It isn’t so much that the drinks come with free pizza at the Alligator Lounge. It’s that the pizza actually isn’t bad.
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Saturday, October 8, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Cordeone
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Portuguese solo accordion!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I wish there were a Portuguese restaurant nearby I could send you to. Absent that, I’m stuck with recommending boring but not unsound neighborhood Italian at Bar Toto.
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Saturday, October 8, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sarah Davachi/Chuck Johnson
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2022
8:00 PM
Ambient Church
Church of the Heavenly Rest
1085 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream: it is not dying.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good tacos at El Paso Taqueria.
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Saturday, October 8, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Black Box Ensemble: Jessie Cox Composer Portrait
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2022
8:00 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$25; $15 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jessie Cox is one of the most exciting (inclusing viscerally exciting) young composers out there. It should give you a feel for his stuff that the two influences he has chosen to accompany a gaggle of his works on this program are Dai Fujikura and George Lewis. Experimental music can be fun.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The broth is particularly rich at E.A.K. Ramen.
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Sat, Oct 8, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Bedlam in Repertory: The Winter’s Tale/Hedda Gabler
THURSDAY & SATURDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6 & 8 – 9, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 20)
7:30 PM
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$30-$99; $10 students/veterans/military rush
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bedlam Theater’s direct stripped-down approach to presenting classic theater is very effective. This season they’re doing two in repertory — although one is better as a piece of theater than the other (owing of course to the inferioriity of realist/naturalist psychological narrative as an aesthetic pursuit).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great great New Israeli at Miss Ada.
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Saturday, October 8, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 8, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Altopalo
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2022
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$23.86
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Altopalo’s chill mashup of fake R&B, guitar-band rock, and glitch is very good listening.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mediterranean-inflected New American out of the big oven at Victor.
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Saturday, October 8, 2022, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jack DeJohnette: 80th Birthday
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2022
4:00 PM
BAM Live @ Fort Greene Park
Fort Greene Park, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jack DeJohnette is one of the great drummers in all Jazz history: of that there’s no doubt. Celebrating his birthday are a quartet led by him (and featuring no less than Don Byron on reeds!!!!); the Zig Zag Power Trio (which features the great Vernon Reid on guitar and a fabulous rhythm section comprising Melvin Gibbs — I’ve lately come to think he’s the best electric bassist now playing — and Reid’s old bandmate Will Calhoun), and a bunch of musicians associated with Brooklyn’s ShapeShifter Lab (a venue that changed my life — but we can talk about that some other time).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Snacky Mexican at Los Dos Hermanos.
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Saturday, October 8, 2022, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sat, Oct 8, 2022, 1:30 PM – Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Arts for Art: InGardens
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8 & 9, 2022
1:30 PM
First Street Green Art Park
33 East 1st Street, East Village, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two more afternoons of Free Jazz. Shout-out to List fave Che Chen at 2:30 PM on Sunday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hard to be there and not stroll over to Katz’s Delicatessen.
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Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 10:30 PM – Sat, Oct 8, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 & 8, 2022 (ongoing)
10:30 PM
Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Theater for people who think they don’t like theater. Thirty short plays crammed into an hour, semi-improvised, semi-not, non-illusionistic, spur-of-the-moment, real (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I dunno why, but it seems like you’d go to Phebe’s.
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Friday, October 7, 2022, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Yotoco
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022
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 adonynity) — but they pull it off.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The band is named after a town in Colombia. So OF CORUSE you’d go to Colombia in Park Slope.
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Friday, October 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Vicky Chow: “Philip Glass Etudes” Album Release
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022
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 at door; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Philip Glass’s études for solo piano — written to improve the composer’s own fluency at the keyboard — have developed legs as concert pieces. Not surprisingly, given their melodic and rhythmic attractions. Vicky Chow is just the pianist to play them — and here she’ll run through the pieces on her new recording of Book 1 (of two).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, great pita, good stuff to put on it at Bedouin Tent. Streaming at home, this seems to call for a (“a”?????? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Martini: pour 2 oz. Gin and 1 oz. dry Vermouth into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a (very) chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist or an olive.
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Friday, October 7, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brooklyn Art Song Society: The World at War: In Memoriam I
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022
7:30 PM
First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn
119 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Songs from the time of World War I by (get ready!) Berg, Ives, Poulenc, Ravel, and Granados. What great artists were active during that terrible time to be alive!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’d think there was only place to eat at this end of Brooklyn Heights. Well, there sort of is: Inga’s Bar.
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Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 8, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
John Escreet
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 & 8, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & SATURDAY Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40 in person; $20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist/composer John Escreet takes the angular style of mid-’60s jazz — Andrew Hill, Wayne Shorter — and makes it new.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, my beloved Italian-Ashkenazi mash-up Mark’s Off Madison. Streaming at home, have a Road Flare: pour 1-1/2 oz. reposado Tequila, 1 oz. grapefruit juice, 1/2 oz. each of lime juice and Simple Syrup, and 1/4 oz. Suze into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lime wheel.
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Friday, October 7, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Maho Ogawa: Japanese Gesture Archive — Tea Ceremony
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022
7:30 PM
The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Japanese Tea Ceremony (like everything else in Japanese culture, highly gestural) abstracted into a series of gestures for dance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Inventive, eclectic, slightly Iberian-leaning seafood at Saint Julivert Fisherie.
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Friday, October 7, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Colors of Raga: Megha Rawoot & Supriyo Dutta
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022
7:00 PM
Brooklyn Raga Massive
Gaia NoMaya
510 Flatbush Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$28.38
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A sitar set and a Hindustani vocal set. And the backroom at Gaia NoMaya is a lovely venue.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You wouldn’t expect a wellness center to have good cocktails — but Gaia NoMaya does. Maybe the food is good, too.
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Friday, October 7, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
ÌFÉ
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022
7:00 PM
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Otura Mun’s ÌFÉ project, which mixes Santerian Afro-Latin and explicitly Yoruba percussive styles into electronic music, is, quite simply, spectacular.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Filipino fusion fave Pig & Khao goes to Midtown with the snackier Piggyback.
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Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 2:00 PM – Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Flatbed Follies
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7 – 9, 2022
2:00 PM FRIDAY
12:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
FRIDAY: Plaza de las Americas, Washington Heights, Manhattan
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Broadway btw. West 40th Street & West 41stth Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
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The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes it to the street for the Indigenous Peoples’ Celebration!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Friday in Washington Heights, wouldn’t you know it, the Uptown Malecon is right across the street. Saturday and Sunday in Midtown, first-rate Sichuan at Szechuan Gourmet.
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Thu, Oct 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Oct 8, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
7NMS: PROPHET: The Order of the Lyricist
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6 – 8, 2022
8:00 PM
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$21
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A multi-media exploration of Black self-expression through lyrics: rap, toasting, song, etc.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: See if you can get into unapologetic Indian sensation Dhamaka.
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Thu, Oct 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Ping Chong: Lazarus 1972-2022
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6 – 9, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors advance; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
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When Ping Chong broke through with Lazarus(about the New Testament resurrected character reappearing in the then-contemporary New York) 50 years ago, nobody was doing the kind of imagistic multi-media theater that he was (at least not nearly as seamlessly and well). Now, the rest of experimental theater has caught up with him, so that while he’s still extraordinary, he’s no longer unique: the fate of an originator. It’ll be more than interesting to see Chong revisit his breakout piece half a century on, bringing it into the present. A must.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Dim Sum (duh) at Dim Sum Palace.
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Thursday, October 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
String Orchestra of Brooklyn: “enfolding” Album Release
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2022
8:00 PM
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street (entrance on Clinton Street), Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
$20 (includes CD); $50 (includes CD & poster); $15 students/seniors (includes CD); $45 students/seniors (includes CD & poster)
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The String Orchestra of Brooklyn plays music from their new album — including something by Composer Of The Moment Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti. But even more exciting is a new cello concerto by serialist-with-a-heart Jeffrey Mumford — played by no less than Mariel Roberts.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’d think there was only place to eat at this end of Brooklyn Heights. Well, there sort of is: Inga’s Bar.
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Thu, Oct 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Oct 8, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ictus at Shift
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6 – 8, 2022
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$15
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The Ictus label, specializing in experimental improvisation, presents a staggering array of experimental improvisers (a different line-up each night).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Southern Italian (quite a bit more generic than when the place opened several years ago) at Barano.
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Thu, Oct 6, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 8, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Nora Burns: The Village, a Disco Musical!
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6 – 8, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 15)
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$28 advance; $20 door; $20 students/seniors advance; $24 students/seniors door
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Thornton Wilder goes to a disco — in 1979!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at the new Pasquale Jones sibling Bar Pasquale.
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Thursday, October 6, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Bedlam in Repertory: The Winter’s Tale/Hedda Gabler
THURSDAY & SATURDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6 & 8 – 9, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 20)
7:30 PM
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$30-$99; $10 students/veterans/military rush
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Bedlam Theater’s direct stripped-down approach to presenting classic theater is very effective. This season they’re doing two in repertory — although one is better as a piece of theater than the other (owing of course to the inferioriity of realist/naturalist psychological narrative as an aesthetic pursuit).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great great New Israeli at Miss Ada.
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Thursday, October 6, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thu, Oct 6, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Gertrude Stein: Four Saints in Three Acts
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 & 6 – 9, 2022
7:00 PM MONDAY & THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Doxsee @ Target Margin Theater
232 52nd Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
$15-$35
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Hot on the heels of his revival of his antic epic one-person performance of The Patsy — as much fun as I’ve ever had in a theater in my life — NYC theater great David Greenspan premieres a one-person performance of Gertrude Stein’s libretto to Four Saints in Three Acts. You won’t walk out humming, as you do from the opera — but I guaranty you you’ll walk out grinning.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bow down before El Rey de Pescado.
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Thursday, October 6, 2022, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mivos Quartet
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2022
6:30 PM
1014
1014 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
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The excellent Mivos Quartet plays pieces that use various means of exploring the West-Eastern Divan, the cultural meeting and synthesis of the Middle East and the West, including incorporation of Middle Eastern musical tropes and forms and simple imaginative expression.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Schaller & Weber offshoot Jeremy’s seeks to ape the great old American cocktail bars of Vienna.
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Thursday, October 6, 2022, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Da Capo Chamber Players: Contrasting Musical Gems of the Early 21st Century
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2022
1:00 PM
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
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Mainly Modern rather than Post-Modern — but for free we’ll take it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Uyghur at Tengri Tagh.
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Wed, Oct 5, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Oct 8, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Sean Ono Lennon
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 – 8, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
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For the first time in memory, the holder of a Stone residency appears with the same band each night. I gather Sean Ono Lennon’s parents also have had careers in the arts.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’ll be nice to go back to the comfortable Emilia-Romagnan food at Da Andrea (do yourself a favor and start with the Tigelle Modenesi con Prosciutto).
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Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
caroline/Claire Rousay
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2022
8:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$22.32
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I haven’t seen it said anywhere, but the British group caroline’s spaced-out Fok-Post-Rock sounds like nothing so much like the folkier tracks on Pink Floyd’s Meddle— but wild and human instead of antiseptic. Claire Rousay’s Emo-Electronica is just wonderful.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Staten Island pizza at Denino’s Greenwich Village.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
EyeHigh/GNR8RZ
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2022
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$15
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You’ll get excited about these two bands when I tell you who’s in them: EyeHigh consists of Matt Mottel, Tcheser Holmes, Aquiles Navarro, and Jim McHugh; GNR8RZ consistis of Simon Hanes, Aliya Ultan, Calvin Weston, and Anthony Coleman. Is that enough for you? And can you imagine what they’ll sound like?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Red Sauce with a view at Giando on the Water.
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Wed, Oct 5, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 8, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Yvonne Reiner: HELLZAPOPPIN’: What About the Bees?
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 – 8, 2022
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$15-$85
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Foundational Post-Modern Choreographer Yvonne Rainer — one of the people who helped save dance from Modernism — presents, at age 87, the last piece she says she will ever make.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent drinks, high-class snacks at The Lobby Bar at the Hotel Chelsea.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wed, Oct 5, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 8, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
DorkyPark: Open for Everything
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 – 8, 2022
7:30 PM
BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$34.50-$94.50
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A dance-theater piece from Berlin about Today’s Roma (the people, not the city).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very appealing Milanese at Saraghina Caffè.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Ana Mazzei & Regina Parra: Ophelia
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2022
6:00 PM
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
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Hamlet’s Ophelia is one of literature’s most famous dishrags. Brazilian multidisciplinary/performance artists Ana Mazzei and Regina Parra examine her status as such — and contemplate means of resistance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As usual, my advice to those looking to eat or drink in that neighborhood is: get out of that neighborhood. Barring that, go UES native at the bar at Daniel.
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Tue, Oct 4, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Victor I. Cazares: american (tele)visions
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 – 9, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
New York Theater Workshop
79 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$75 TUESDAY; $65 WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY
INFORMATION + TICKETS
More multiverse! This time surrounding an undocumented Mexican family.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pub grub that is far better than it has any right to be at Sidney’s Five.
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Tue, Oct 4, 2022, 8:00 PM – Thu, Oct 6, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Fortissimo Mini Piano Festival
TUESDAY – THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 – 6, 2022
8:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$25
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It’s the Festival that’s “mini” — the pianos are full-sized (Margaret Leng Tan isn’t playing). The line-up is definitely maxi: Modern Classical great Taka Kigawa on Tuesday; Ukrainian jazz master Vadim Neselovskyi on Wednesday; and experimental jazz phenom Sylvie Courvoisier on Thursday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thai seafood at Fish Cheeks.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
FUJI||||||||||TA/Alex Zhang Hungtai & Leo Chang
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2022
8:00 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$25.74 advance; $41.12 day of
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FUJI||||||||||TA’s Japanese soundscaping (he says it springs from Imperial court music — but it’s a long spring) is always marvelous to hear. The wild improvisations of Alex Zhang Hungtai and Leo Chang on mulitple acoustic and electronic instruments are, well, wild. (This show also has the distinction of featuring the biggest relative price increase from advance sale to day-of I can ever recall seeing.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tacos at the San Pedro Inn.
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Tue, Oct 4, 2022, 8:00 PM – Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
The Wooster Group feat. Eric Berryman: Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
TUESDAY – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4 – 7, 2022
8:00 PM
Performing Garage
33 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan
$38
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Another of The Wooster Group’s “live record albums”, this time a performance of a collection of examples of the Black American storytelling form called Toasts. Dolemite fans need not hesitate.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: From one garage to another: Antique Garage is so cute that you tend to forget how good the food is. And, it was Mediterranean before everybody and their brother were.
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Tue, Oct 4, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gerald Clayton Trio
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 – 9, 2022
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Village Vanguard
178 7th Avenue South, West Village, Manhattan
$40
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Soulful but not simpy, pianist/composer Gerald Clayton is the real deal. He has an interesting piano/sax/vibes trio concept here. And the sax is new ruling altoist Emmanuel Wilkins! As for the vibes chair, Simon Moullier (on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday) is good — but I’d hold out for the supreme Joel Ross on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Get to Southern Indian sensation Semma before its Michelin star becomes official and all hell breaks loose.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
tombstar [eddy kwon, Isabel Crespo Pardo, Zekkereya El-magharbel & Lesley Mok]
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance in person; $30 door in person; $20 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
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A genuine experimentall/improvisatory supergroup.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home (poor thing), have an Aviation: pour 2 oz. Gin, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, 1/4 oz. Simple Syrup, and 1 teaspoon each of Maraschino liqueur and Crème de Violette 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, October 4, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Partner Look/Zoh Amba, Chris Corsano & Ryan Sawyer
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2022
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$TBD
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Partner Look ring the changes on the kind of inconsequential derivative Pop-Guitar Band Rock that I personally find very attractive — but after you’ve listened you don’t feel like you’ve heard anything (not anything new, anyway). The same could not be said about the gripping Free Jazz/experimental improvistion explorers Zoh Amba, Chris Corsano, and Ryan Sawyer. A bizarre double bill.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza from the money behind Lilia at Fini Pizza.
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Tue, Oct 4, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Elevator Repair Service: Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 – 9, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
1:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$60-$160
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Elevator Repair Service does their usual meta-text-recreation thing with a debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley in the ‘60s. I remember, when I was in Law School, pulling God and Man at Yaleoff the library shelf to peruse during a study break; I had never read it. I couldn’t believe how repellant it was. Liberals like to present the current version of the Amercian Conservative movement as some kind of aberrational departure from something that used to be reasonable. Don’t be fooled. Those people have been engaged in a bigoted attempt to destroy American democracy for as long as they’ve been a movement.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
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Tue, Oct 4, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 8, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tyshawn Sorey: Monocromatic Light (Afterife)
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 – 8, 2022
7:30 PM TUESDAY – THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$49-$104
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Morton Feldman’s influence on Tyshawn Sorey’s composing has always been apparent, but this is Sorey’s express, well not exactly tribute to, but continuation of, Feldman. So expect to be hypnotized. Directed by Peter Sellars!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Back to Donahue’s Steak House (not really a steakhouse) for more Mad Men recreation.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Park Jiha/Time Wharp
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2022
7:00 PM
Blank Forms
468 Grand Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door
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Park Jiha is another of those musicians taking traditional Korean instruments and styles and pushing them into the avant — a constitently compelling and fascinating approach. Time Wharp (a project of Brooklyn’s own Kaye Loggins) dances at the edge of ambient musak — but, happily, avoids falling in: there are beats underneath this music!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The newly revived, slightly relocated Nigerian spot Buka is now fully reopened. And boy is it good.
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Tue, Oct 4, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Gracie Gardner: I’m Revolting
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 – 9, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 16)
7:00 PM TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Linda Gross Theater, The Atlantic Theater Company
336 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$25-$107
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Gracie Gardner goes pro with what will undoubtedly be a hilarious look at skin cancer treatment.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Homestyle Palestinian at Qanoon.
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Tue, Oct 4, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 – 9, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM FRIDAY – SUNDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Advance ticket required: $18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Monday, October 3, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ashkan Behzadi: Love, Crystal and Stone
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2022
8:00 PM
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Pay What You Can
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There are several gorgeous song cycles setting Lorca — and Ashkan Behzadi’s Love, Crystal and Stone is another one, a work of great if illusive beauty: you hear, and you like it, but you can’t hold onto it; it’s always slipping away. Its great proponents the TAK Ensemble celebrate the release of their recording of it (along with an illustrated book that looks like it’s just gorgeous itself).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Place des Fêtes for the wine, but stay for the food.
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Mon, Oct 3, 2022, 8:00 PM – Wed, Oct 5, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Can Yasar: Only Place I Belong in Concert
MONDAY – WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 – 5, 2022
8:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Permit an Old to decry how mushy and sentimental — how nice — the New York Avant-Garde has become. In any event, a concert performance of songs and stories from a musical concerning “a foreigner searching for a home, following his dreams in New York City”.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pinsa and other Roman specialities at Montesacro.
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Monday, October 3, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Music Mondays: Rukus & Emi Ferguson: Fly the Coop!
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2022
7:30 PM
Advent Lutheran Church
2504 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Wild Bach — and some Roscoe Mitchell to prove they mean it — from the great Early Music ensemble Rukus and the equally great flautist Emi Ferguson.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Highly above-average Domincan lunch counter food (with even more than the usual Cuban accents) at Malecon.
