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Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
The Institute of Useless Activity: THIS and THAT
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 3, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 17)
8:30 PM
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Soho, Manhattan
$20; first 10 tickets to each show $10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having had a massive hit (for this kind of thing) at the tiny Chocolate Factory in LIC, The Institute of Useless Activity brings their cosmic stageshow to HERE. It’s hard to describe beyond saying that it’s two guys using technology and stagecraft to mess with your head. And the first half or so of its hour-long run time is just magic. After that, when it devolves into a long series of hand-shadow puppets, things get old — at least if you’re as jaded as I am (or maybe that should be, as weed-averse). But people LOVE this — and that first half is pure magic.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at Piccolo Cucina Osteria.
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Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Rebekah Heller
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 3, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bassoonist Rebekah Heller — a fabulous musician — gets the week-long spotlight for different ensembles and contexts.
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, Nov 30, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Curated by Julia Santoli
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2022
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Exploratory vocal artist Julia Santoli puts together a roster including herself (thankfully) and exploratory others: Brandon Lopez and Cecilia Lopez from here, and the very multi-media Lorenz Lindner from Leipzig.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Maybe some good cocktails, great interior, and snacky seafood at Deux Chats.
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Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Torn Out Theater: Peep/Show the Body
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 4, 2022
8:00 PM
SMUSH Gallery In Person & Live Stream (Live Stream every night; FRIDAY Live Stream ONLY)
340 Summit Avenue, Journal Square, Jersey City, New Jersey
$3-$500 (sliding scale: you get the same seats for $3 as for $500); $40 total Champagne Room for up to 4 people
TICKETS + INFORMATION
”Part memoirish performance art, part sleazy dance show, part bitingly sarcastic monologue, part chronic illness outreach, this new, original work is interactive when you want it to be, surreal, irreverent, wise, and intentionally crass,” they say. And it somehow has something to do with The Pandemic.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, hot dogs topped with an awesome Greek meat sauce that is somehow called chili at Boulevard Drinks. Streaming at home, have a Peep Show (duh): pour 1/3 oz. each of Dubonnet Rouge, Brandy, and Absinthe, and 3/4 oz. lime juice, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Remix <—> Culture: Tanfis
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2022
7:30 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$36.05
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trad music of the Levant and the Maghreb as filtered through contemporary electronics.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good, fresh Korean at Insa (as always, forego the barbecue and eat in the lounge/bar room, which is much nicer than the drab dining room).
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Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
ONEOFUS: Dick Rivington & The Cat
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 4, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 18)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$26
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser, legends in their own right, finally get to continue their program of bringing the Christmas Panto tradition to their Lower East Side neighborhood. These shows are uproriously funny, incredibly fun, totally endearing — and, in the end, rather uplifting. (Oh no they’re not!) (Oh yes they are!)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wednesday through Friday, OF COURSE you’re going to Ernesto’s for great Basque. Saturday and Sunday, daytime Malaysian at Kopitiam.
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Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 8:00 PM – Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
LCD Sound System
TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 – 30 & DECEMBER 2 – 4, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 17)
8:00 PM
Brooklyn Steel
319 Frost Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Dynamic Pricing: I honestly have no idea
TICKETS + INFORMATION
LCD Sound System — still somewhat cool, if not absolutely encapsulating the moment as in their heyday — make another attempt at a late Fall month-long residency, after last year’s failed for reasons you may remember.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: James Murphy would want you to go spend more money on him at his (great) wine bar The Four Horsemen.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Webber/Morris Big Band: Pulse
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 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
Saxophonist/flautists Anna Webber and Angela Morris’s Big Band is one of the joys of the Brooklyn music scene. You just have to put out of your mind all preconceptions about what such a musical aggregation would sound like.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, a new bar around the corner from Roulette! The Little Pig. Streaming at home, have an American Trilogy: muddle a brown sugar cube and 2 dashes of orange bitters at the bottom of an Old Fashioned glass. Pour in 1 oz. each of Rye and Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy. Add ice. Stir. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Gina Moxley: The Patient Gloria
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 4, 2022
7:30 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
St. Ann’s Warehouse
45 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
$49-$64
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In 1964, an American patient found her therapy sessions being aired, without her consent, as documentaries (you can still see them on YouTube). This satirical fantasia is a comic revenge fantasy. This Irish production got goodnotices at the Edinburgh Fringe — but to me it seems to mainly raise the question why people think that using Punk Rock in current theater productions makes them any more relevant or of the moment than using Rudy Vallée-style crooning would have made a theatrical production in the Punk ‘70s.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Everyday but Thursday, world-renowned ramen at Tsuta (their website doesn’t tell you, but their Brooklyn location is at 22 Old Fulton Street). Otherwise, Vietnamese bistro at Em Vietnamese Bistro.
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Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – Thu, Dec 1, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Penny Arcade: The Art of Becoming
TUESDAY – THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 1, 2022
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Instead of portraying other people, in this show performance legend Penny Arcade portrays herself — from 1967 through 1973.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Kenka, an izakaya as colorful as Penny Arcade.
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Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 12:00 PM – Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Julian Rosefeldt: EUPHORIA
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 4, 2022 (continuing through JANUARY 8)
1200 – 8:00 PM TUESDAY – THURSDAY
12:00 – 10:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
11:00 – 7:00 PM SUNDAY
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$18
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A film installation (you enter when you want; an entire loop takes about 2 hours) involving chorus, a phalanx of famous jazz drummers, and philosophical and social ruminations — in surround.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Back to Donahue’s Steak House (not really a steakhouse) for more Mad Men larping. If you go early, you might want to skip a Martini — unimaginable as that might be at Donahue’s.
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Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 4, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Monday, November 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Kevin Puts: The Hours
MONDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28 & DECEMBER 1 & 4, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 15)
8:00 PM MONDAY
7:00 PM THURSDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$49.50-$497.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Kevin Puts had a tremendous success ten years ago with Silent Night, an opera about the World War I Christmas Truce. If it was too conventional for me, what do I know, I’m only The Compiler? So now The Met has commissioned him to write an opera of the movie of Michael Cunningham’s novel (taking off from Mrs. Dalloway). And instead of the star trio of Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, we get the opera equivalent: Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, and Kelli O’Hara. OK, I have a bad feeling about this. But what do I know? I’m only The Compiler.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and Cafe Fiorello are supposed to be open after the evening shows (although of the two only P.J. Clarke’s is actually good). The Sunday matinée poses no problem.
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Monday, November 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, November 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kirk Knuffke Trio
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 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
You’d think playing jazz in-and-out would be easy, but then why are so few people really good at it? Cornestist Kirk Knuffke is a treat: in what has to be the perfect description of his playing, one critic said, “he is tuneful even when there is no tune” — and that’s it exactly. The rhythm section comprises bassist Mike Bisio and, as Bisio’s presence might lead you to hope, pianist Matthew Shipp, more outside than inside to be sure, but one of the great musicians in all of jazz. (That’s right: NO DRUMS.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, have a Storm King (a drink that originated at the nearby Grand Army Bar, as it happens): pour 2 oz. blended Scotch, 1/2 oz. Nocino (meaning, walnut liqueur), and 1/4 oz. Bénédictine, with 3 dashes of Angotastura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Monday, November 28, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Crypt Mixtape: Jiji
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2022
8:00 PM
The Crypt, Church of the Intercession
550 West 155th Street, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
$85
TICKETS + INFORMATION
JIJI is a stunningly good classical guitarist. But what’s really great about her is the reach of her repertoire (she plays electric, too). (She’ll be playing the same program — but a couple of pieces longer — for a much lower ticket price at the Tenri Cultural Institute on Friday and for free at the East Meadow Public Library in Nassau County on Sunday afternoon.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I will repeat my usual complaint that the high cost of these concerts includes insultingly bad wine and cheese. I have it on good authority, though, that the cocktails nearby at The Honey Well are very good. The snacks are, like, there.
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Monday, November 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, November 28, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dana Lynn & Kyle Sanna
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 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, Nov 28, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28 – DECEMBER 4, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
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, Nov 28, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28 – DECEMBER 4, 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, November 27, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
John Zorn: New Masada Quartet
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$35 advance; $40 door; $30 students/seniors at door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
John Zorn’s dynamite Klezmer/ancient Jewish-goes-hard-bop band.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Superb Palestinian at AlBadawi.
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Sunday, November 27, 2022, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, November 26, 2022, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
LCD Sound System
MONDAY – TUESDAY & SATURDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21 – 22 & 26 – 27, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 17)
8:00 PM
Brooklyn Steel
319 Frost Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Dynamic Pricing: I honestly have no idea
TICKETS + INFORMATION
LCD Sound System — still somewhat cool, if not absolutely encapsulating the moment as in their heyday — make another attempt at a late Fall month-long residency, after last year’s failed for reasons you may remember.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: James Murphy would want you to go spend more money on him at his (great) wine bar The Four Horsemen.
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Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 2:00 PM – Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Friday, November 25, 2022, 10:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dezron Douglas: “Atalaya” Album Release
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2022
10:30 PM & 12:00 AM
Smalls
183 West 10th Street, West Village, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bassist Dezron Douglas was one of the jazz musicians of The Lockdown. At 10:30, he leads a quartet. At midnight, he presides over a (separately ticketed) open jam session.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Highly suspect coastal Italian at Saint Theo’s.
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Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 10:30 PM – Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25 & 26, 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, November 25, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Kevin Puts: The Hours
TUESDAY & FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 & 25, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 15)
8:00 PM
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$49.50-$497.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Kevin Puts had a tremendous success ten years ago with Silent Night, an opera about the World War I Christmas Truce. If it was too conventional for me, what do I know, I’m only The Compiler? So now The Met has commissioned him to write an opera of the movie of Michael Cunningham’s novel (taking off from Mrs. Dalloway). And instead of the star trio of Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, we get the opera equivalent: Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, and Kelli O’Hara. OK, I have a bad feeling about this. But what do I know? I’m only The Compiler.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and Cafe Fiorello are supposed to be open after this.
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Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Philharmonic: Vikingur Ólafsson Plays Ravel
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 & 25 – 26, 2022
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$63.50-$192.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’m Listing this for Guillaume Connesson’s Céléphaïs, from Les Cités de Lovecraft: Connesson is one of those imaginative contemporary tonal composers, working well within existing systems (in his case the French orchestral style showcased in the remainder of the program) but freshly, whose lack of renown (he’s stuck here with a short opener) makes you wonder anew at the calcification of the mainstream classical audience. Guest conductor Stéphane Dèneve is a longtime champion. But of course the real draw here is the concerto: if there’s a currently active pianist I’d rather hear play Ravel’s glittering jazzy piece (melting into Mozart in the Adagio assai) than Vikingur Ólafsson, I can’t think of them. There’s some Roussel: you never get to hear Roussel, so that’s welcome. Ravel’s Daphnis e Chloé Suite No. 2 — a stereo demonstration piece back when people used to demonstrate stereos — should show off the new hall’s overly clear and rather brittle sonics, which in a way sound more like those of a stereo system than a concert hall.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Kwame Onwuachi’s in-house Afro-Caribbean restaurant Tatiana (not to be confused with the one in Brighton Beach) isn’t open late enough for post-concert dining — a scandal if you ask me (maybe you can eat and drink and then concentrate hard on music for two hours, but I sure can’t) (to me, this is emblematic of Lincoln Center’s inability to conceive of the classical music segment of its audience as comprising anything other than the suburban and the decrepit). For an urbane experience, go to Bar Boulud after the show and eat and drink to your heart’s content.
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Friday, November 25, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
ESG & Sister Nancy
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2022
7:30 PM
Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I don’t like to List oldies shows. But Post-Punk Funk Queens ESG playing with Dancehall Queen Sister Nancy is too great to resist.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Peter’s Crunchy Red Tacos: not just a truck, but a scene.
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Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Streb: Falling Forward, Again
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25 – 27, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 18)
7:30 PM FRIDAY
5:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
SLAM
51 North 1st Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$25-$50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Elizabeth Streb’s highly highly physical dance gets old once you’ve seen it a few times. But the first time: boy is it something.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to the new Williamsburg Roberta’s and remember if you can when Roberta’s used to be cool — and extraordinarily good.
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Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Gina Moxley: The Patient Gloria
TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 – 23 & 25 – 27, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 4)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
St. Ann’s Warehouse
45 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
$49-$64
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In 1964, an American patient found her therapy sessions being aired, without her consent, as documentaries (you can still see them on YouTube). This satirical fantasia is a comic revenge fantasy. This Irish production got good notices at the Edinburgh Fringe — but to me it seems to mainly raise the question why people think that using Punk Rock in current theater productions makes them any more relevant or of the moment than using Rudy Vallée-style crooning would have made a theatrical production in the Punk ‘70s.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vietnamese bistro at Em Vietnamese Bistro.
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Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Suzan–Lori Parks: Plays for the Plague Year
TUESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 & 25 – 27, 2022
7:00 PM TUESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY
1:00 PM SUNDAY
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$36-$60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
During The Lockdown, the great playwright Suzan-Lori Parks resolved to write a play every day. She performs a distilliation of them — accompanying herself on guitar.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Yakitori Taisho may not have the absolute best yakitori in New York, but it certainly has some of the latest. (And it’s good: don’t get me wrong.)
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Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 4:30 PM – Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Lightscape
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 & 25 – 27, 2022 (continuing through JANUARY 8, 2023)
4:30 – 8:45 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Avenue, across the street from Crown Heights, Brooklyn
$40 adult; $20 children 3-12; free babies 0-2
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Because this is Brooklyn, what you’d normally expect to be a corny set of light sculptures strewn throughout the Garden actually turns out to be kind of cool.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Guadalajaran Tortas Ahogadas are unbelievably good at Cruz del Sur.
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Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 – 23 & 25 – 27, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:30 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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Thursday, November 24, 2022, 10:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Frank Lacy: Quartet & Jam Session
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2022
10:30 PM & 12:00 AM
Smalls
183 West 10th Street, West Village, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Frank Lacy is one of the best in-and-out players on one of the best in-and-out instruments: the trombone. At 10:30, he leads a quartet. At midnight, he presides over a (separately ticketed) open jam session.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fairly deracinated fairly overrated tacos at Empellón Taqueria.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Anthony Parasole: Full EFX
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2022
10:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
Free-$25.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
With this new project, Anthony Parasole has taken his Techno style and made it more textured, stranger, more psychedelic — more interesting.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun barbecue at Pig Beach.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Philharmonic: Vikingur Ólafsson Plays Ravel
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 & 25 – 26, 2022
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$63.50-$192.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’m Listing this for Guillaume Connesson’s Céléphaïs, from Les Cités de Lovecraft: Connesson is one of those imaginative contemporary tonal composers, working well within existing systems (in his case the French orchestral style showcased in the remainder of the program) but freshly, whose lack of renown (he’s stuck here with a short opener) makes you wonder anew at the calcification of the mainstream classical audience. Guest conductor Stéphane Dèneve is a longtime champion. But of course the real draw here is the concerto: if there’s a currently active pianist I’d rather hear play Ravel’s glittering jazzy piece (melting into Mozart in the Adagio assai) than Vikingur Ólafsson, I can’t think of them. There’s some Roussel: you never get to hear Roussel, so that’s welcome. Ravel’s Daphnis e Chloé Suite No. 2 — a stereo demonstration piece back when people used to demonstrate stereos — should show off the new hall’s overly clear and rather brittle sonics, which in a way sound more like those of a stereo system than a concert hall.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Kwame Onwuachi’s in-house Afro-Caribbean restaurant Tatiana (not to be confused with the one in Brighton Beach) isn’t open late enough for post-concert dining — a scandal if you ask me (maybe you can eat and drink and then concentrate hard on music for two hours, but I sure can’t) (to me, this is emblematic of Lincoln Center’s inability to conceive of the classical music segment of its audience as comprising anything other than the suburban and the decrepit). For an urbane experience, go to Bar Boulud after the show and eat and drink to your heart’s content.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022, 4:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Lightscape
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 & 25 – 27, 2022 (continuing through JANUARY 8, 2023)
4:30 – 8:45 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Avenue, across the street from Crown Heights, Brooklyn
$40 adult; $20 children 3-12; free babies 0-2
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Because this is Brooklyn, what you’d normally expect to be a corny set of light sculptures strewn throughout the Garden actually turns out to be kind of cool.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Guadalajaran Tortas Ahogadas are unbelievably good at Cruz del Sur.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alfredo Colón: Blood Burden
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 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 long-form piece by saxophonist Alfredo Colón meditating on the relationship between Dominican folkloric practices and the legacy of Spanish colonialism — a musically fruitful idea that’s thought-provoking, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nothing for it but to walk up Flatbush to El Gran Castillo de Jagua, whose name may be Cuban but whose food is Dominican to the bone. Streaming at home, have a Santo Libre: pour 1 oz. white Rum into a Highball glass over ice. Add the juice of half a lemon. Top with Sprite. Stir. Throw in 3 mint leaves. Garnish with the rest of the lemon cut into wedges.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Kevin Puts: The Hours
TUESDAY & FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 & 25, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 15)
8:00 PM
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$49.50-$497.50
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Kevin Puts had a tremendous success ten years ago with Silent Night, an opera about the World War I Christmas Truce. If it was too conventional for me, what do I know, I’m only The Compiler? So now The Met has commissioned him to write an opera of the movie of Michael Cunningham’s novel (taking off from Mrs. Dalloway). And instead of the star trio of Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, we get the opera equivalent: Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, and Kelli O’Hara. OK, I have a bad feeling about this. But what do I know? I’m only The Compiler.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and Cafe Fiorello are supposed to be open after this.
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Tue, Nov 22, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jason Moran: Bandwagon
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 – 27, 2022
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Village Vanguard
178 7th Avenue South, West Village, Manhattan
$40
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Pianist Jason Moran sounds like he has the entire history of jazz in his head and under his fingers. This is a week’s stand with his longstanding trio Bandwagon (astonishingly, they’re even playing Thursday night). Sunday afternoon (at 3 PM), Moran is playing a solo set.
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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Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tue, Nov 22, 2022, 7:30 PM – Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Gina Moxley: The Patient Gloria
TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 – 23 & 25 – 27, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 4)
7:30 PM TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
St. Ann’s Warehouse
45 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
$49-$64
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In 1964, an American patient found her therapy sessions being aired, without her consent, as documentaries (you can still see them on YouTube). This satirical fantasia is a comic revenge fantasy. This Irish production got good notices at the Edinburgh Fringe — but to me it seems to mainly raise the question why people think that using Punk Rock in current theater productions makes them any more relevant or of the moment than using Rudy Vallée-style crooning would have made a theatrical production in the Punk ‘70s.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vietnamese bistro at Em Vietnamese Bistro.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ljova: Fadolin Trio
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2022
7:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
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Ljova does more of his fadolin thing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Snacky Israeli at Taïm.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Suzan–Lori Parks: Plays for the Plague Year
TUESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 & 25 – 27, 2022
7:00 PM TUESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY
1:00 PM SUNDAY
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$36-$60
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During The Lockdown, the great playwright Suzan-Lori Parks resolved to write a play every day. She performs a distilliation of them — accompanying herself on guitar.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Yakitori Taisho may not have the absolute best yakitori in New York, but it certainly has some of the latest. (And it’s good: don’t get me wrong.)
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Tue, Nov 22, 2022, 10:00 AM – Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 – 23 & 25 – 27, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:30 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
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Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Monday, November 21, 2022, 9:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PPERFORMANCE
Sam Reece & Becky Chicoine: The 1953 Thanksgiving Special!
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2022
9:30 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
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Every year two Broadway legends rise from the grave to present a Thanksgiving special, with appearances by their dead friends and colleagues.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Taiwanese at 886.
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Monday, November 21, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, November 21, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Mon, Nov 21, 2022, 8:00 PM – Tue, Nov 22, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
LCD Sound System
MONDAY – TUESDAY & SATURDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21 – 22 & 26 – 27, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 17)
8:00 PM
Brooklyn Steel
319 Frost Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Dynamic Pricing: I honestly have no idea
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LCD Sound System — still somewhat cool, if not absolutely encapsulating the moment as in their heyday — make another attempt at a late Fall month-long residency, after last year’s failed for reasons you may remember.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: James Murphy would want you to go spend more money on him at his (great) wine bar The Four Horsemen.
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Monday, November 21, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Yuko Fujiyama feat. Tetsu Nagasawa, Sylvie Courvoisier, Ned Rothenberg, Do Yeon Kim, Satoshi Takeishi, Shoko Nagai & Others: Contemporary East II
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 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
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Pianist Yuko Fujiyama moved to New York to be Cecil Taylor. This band arises from her feeling that East Asian expression is rarely showcased in Jazz. This time her band includes, in addition to such local Out Jazz luminaries as Sylvie Courvoisier and Ned Rothenberg, avant-Korean zither player DoYeon.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic Mediterraneanish Americanish at As You Are. Streaming at home, have a Bamboo: pour 1-1/2 oz. each dry Vermouth and Sherry (your choice; I like Fino), with 2 dashes each of orange bitters and Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktal shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an olive and a lemon twist.
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Monday, November 21, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Music Mondays: Musicians from The MET Orchestra & Jennifer Johnson Cano: Music of Kevin Puts
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2022
7:30 PM
Advent Lutheran Church
2504 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
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In direct run-up to the premiere of his new opera on Tuesday, Kevin Puts leads members of The MET Orchestra and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano in some selections from that opera and other of his vocal and instrumental music. There’s also a piece by Mozart, another musician who’s had some success writing operas.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Way way above-average Dominican at Malecon, which serves its supernal chivo guisado as a special on Mondays.
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Monday, November 21, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, November 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mexico NOW: Mexamorphosis
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2022
7:00 PM
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
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Mexamorphosis explores Mexico’s musical diversity, as well as Mexican music’s connections with other musical traditions.
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, November 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Neil Rolnick: Lockdown & Loss: Music for Piano & Electronics
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2022
7:00 PM
Arete @ Mis-En_Place
341 Calyer Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
$10
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Music reflecting the isolation of Lockdown and the loss of a spouse to cancer. Neil Rolnick — typically a composer of sound constructs involving various vernacular elements — is often pretty cheery. But not tonight. He has great interpreters in Kathleen Supové and Geoffrey Burleson.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Rib-sticking Polish at Karczma.
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Mon, Nov 21, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21 – 27, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
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One of the first shows during Quarantine that you could actually Go Out! to 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, Nov 21, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21 – 27, 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 aroundk 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, November 20, 2022, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Fennesz & Charles Atlas: Closing Performance
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2022
8:30 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$35.83 in advance; $40.96 day of
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Austrian pop-inflected electronic musician/guitarist Fennesz (making the most of his visit to New York) collaborates with video artist Charles Atlas on an audio-video show for the first time since 2009.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Korean-inflected pub grub at Good Fork Pub.
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Sunday, November 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sunny Jain: Wild Wild East
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
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Sikh Spaghetti Western soundtrack music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better-than-Neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
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Sunday, November 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Yuko Fujiyama feat. Jen Shyu, Graham, Reggie Nicholson & Others: Contemporary East I
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 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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Pianist Yuko Fujiyama moved to New York to be Cecil Taylor. This band arises from her feeling that East Asian expression is rarely showcased in Jazz. The named members make this some band. It’s been a while since I for one have heard Jen Shyu sing jazz.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, superb Palestinian at AlBadawi. Streaming at home, have a Japanese Cocktail: pour 2 oz. Cognac and 1/2 oz. Orgeat, with 3 dashes of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktal shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Sunday, November 20, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mantua Singers: Music of Salamone Rossi
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2022
8:00 PM
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$40; $20 students
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The competition for Greatest Jewish Composer Of The Italian Baroque isn’t thick on the ground, but Salamone Rossi seems like the clear frontrunner.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Not that Jews ate pastrami in 16-17th Century Mantua, but Pastrami Queen.
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Sunday, November 20, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
HELIX! New Music Ensemble: Courtney Bryan’s “Yet Unheard”
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2022
7:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$12.47-$24.93
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Rutgers’s excellent student New Music ensemble premieres a work by alum Courtney Bryan (who doesn’t shy from jazz and African-American vernacular music), as well as other women of color including Leila Adu, Tania León, and Liza Lim. Also a passel of student works.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Chinese street food at Munchiez.
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Sunday, November 20, 2022, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sara Serpa
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2022
6:00 PM
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
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Critic Tim Page has asked whether Sibelius’s music would still seem so icy if we didn’t know the composer was Finnish. Would singer-songwriter Sara Serpa’s music seem so haunting (and haunted) if you didn’t know Serpa was Portuguese? I vote yes.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sel et Poivre: the very picture of nice neighborhood French.
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Sunday, November 20, 2022, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Miguel Zenón: El Arte del Bolero
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2022
5:00 PM
Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church
178 Bennett Avenue, Washington Heights, Manhattan
Free
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The great alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón traces the history and spread of Cuban Bolero throughout Latin America to New York.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No one has ever left La Cabaña Salvadoreña hungry.
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Sunday, November 20, 2022, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2022
3:00 PM
Caramoor
149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, Westchester
$40-$75; $20-$75 children (whatever they are)
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Onetime countertenor-of-the-moment Iestyn Davies (things change fast in the countertenor world) is joined by current lutenist-of-the-moment Thomas Dunford for an incredibly attractive program of Rennaisance lute songs.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really all I know that’s good near there is Bedford Post Inn. If any of you know anywhere else good, please let me know.
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Sunday, November 20, 2022, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, November 19, 2022, 10:59 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 & 19, 2022 (ongoing)
10:30 PM
Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20; $10 students
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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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Saturday, November 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Stephanie Blythe & The Bard Vocal Arts Program: Berlin Im Licht: A German Cabaret
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022
8:00 PM
Fisher Center, Bard College In Person & Live Stream
60 Manor Avenue, Red Hook, Dutchess County
$29.50-$79.50 in person; Pay What You Will Live Stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Do you find the prospect of Stephanie Blythe singing Weimar Cabaret irresistible? Me too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Old American at Stissing House. Streaming at home, a Kaiser Cup Cocktail takes some slicing — but we’re trying to be historically accurate here: cut a strawberry in half. Dice 1/4 of an apple, 1/4 of a peach, and 3 slices of an orange. Put into a chilled Champagne flute. Pour on 1/3 oz. Gin, 1/6 oz. Cointreau, and 1/8 teaspoon Grenadine. Let sit for a few minutes. Top with cold Champagne.
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Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Palavar Strings: Zodiac Suite
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 & 20, 2022
8:00 PM SATURDAY
7:00 PM SUNDAY
SATURDAY: Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
SUNDAY: Carroll Hall
2 Vandervoort Place, Bushwick, Brooklyn
Free-$100 SATURDAY
$25 SUNDAY
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Palavar Strings have put together a nifty program. Mary Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suitewas one of the forgotten masterpieces of American music, until it was recently remembered. Jessie Montgomery’s Strumis, as I never tire of telling you, one of the very best pieces of writing for strings of the last decade. And it’s always nice to have a chance to hear some Lili Boulanger.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Saturday, I’m still loving neo-Shaker The Commerce Inn (and the colder it gets the righter that food feels). Sunday, I’m also still loving Eyval, which has to be the best Persian restaurant in New York like EVER.
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Saturday, November 19, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
C4: Connecting the Dots
THURSDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 & 19, 2020
8:00 PM
THURSDAY: Church of the Transfiguration
1 East 29th Street, NoMad, Manhattan
SATURDAY: St. Peter’s Church — Chelsea & Live Stream
346 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$20
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C4 — the Choral Composer/Conductor Collective — specializes in dispatching material so hard, so complex, so exact, that you’d think it couldn’t be done — but they can. Let’s let them describe the program of these shows: “works that range from Ramayana monkey chants to Andrews Sisters-style swing to homages to William Byrd”. (If you’re trying to decide which night to go, let me remind you that Thursday night’s venue, The Little Church Around The Corner, has to be about the prettiest church in New York City.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thursday, French-Korean mashup at LittleMäd. Saturday,in person, upscale Italian at Portale. Streaming at home on Saturday, have a Dot Cocktail: pour 1 oz. Gin, 1/2 oz. each Fino Sherry and Apricot liqueur, and 1/4 oz. Curaçao into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Saturday, November 19, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Orlando Consort: 1521: Josquin’s World
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 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
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The splendid Orlando Consort, in its last New York City appearance ever, pays tribute to that greatest of composers of Rennaisance polyphony, Josquin des Prez, placing his great great music in the context of what else was going on at the time.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pioneering (the uncharitable would say superseded) Piemontese at Barbetta.
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Saturday, November 19, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Jacob Isolini: The Ballad of a Laborer
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022
7:30 PM
Microscope Gallery
525 West 29th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$9
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Jason Isolini created an online piece concerning a site within the Brooklyn Navy Yard — only to eventually find that even Google access to material about the site is limited. So you can go to Microscope Gallery tonight and view some sort of guide to his original conception. Or you can join me in working for the violent overthrow of Capitalism. (Or, of course, you can do both.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Spanish at Casa Dani.
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Saturday, November 19, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Wet Ink Ensemble: Fall Premieres
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022
7:30 PM
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$20 suggested (pay what you can); students free
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Premieres indeed: by Rick Burkhardt, Alex Mincek, Mariel Roberts, and Sam Pluta! A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Theoretically boring, practically delicious Italian from the oven at Ci Siamo.
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Saturday, November 19, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / DANCE
Seth Parker Woods & Roderick George: Difficult Grace
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022
7:30 PM
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhahttan
$25-$50; $25 40 and under
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Seth Parker Woods is a fabulous cellist: you don’t hear playing with this charisma and instensity very often. Tonight, aided by dancer Roderick George, he conducts a multi-media exploration of the Great Migration and related topics.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: More-than-just-neighborhood Italian at Sfoglia.
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Saturday, November 19, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Joāo Carlos Martins & NOVUS NY
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022
7:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$18-$84
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Joāo Carlos Martins, who a very long time ago was a hot young Bach pianist, returns to Carnegie Hall 60 years after his debut there, with the expert NOVUS NY ensemble in tow, to play some Bach and Bach’s Brazilian superfan, Villa-Lobos (together with other music from Martins’s native Brazil).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Party on at Russian Samovar.
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Saturday, November 19, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Outline: Fall
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022
7:00 PM
Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Avenue, Maspeth, Queens
$40.95 advance; $51.25 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Any festival that has electronics-with-a-soul guy Helado Negro, avant-art-jazz-funk collective Standing on the Corner, and electronic Pow Wow sensation Joe Rainey has got to be worth your most serious consideration.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Expect the würst at Gottscheer Hall.
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Saturday, November 19, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
TENET Vocal Artists: Sound the Trumpet
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022
7:00 PM
St. Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson Street, West Village, Manhattan
$11.90-$53.90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Vocal music by Henry Purcell (who couldn’t write a bad tune on a bet) and instrumental music (for trumpet, natch) by his contemporaries.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Solid Piemontese — including the best Vitello Tonnato I’ve ever had in New York — at Osteria Carlino.
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Friday, November 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
God Is My Go-Pilot
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2022
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Ticket price TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You can only find it heartening that Post-Punk Queercore band God Is My Co-Pilot are still at it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Persian tapas (I’m pretty sure that in Iran they call them something other than “tapas”) at Masquerade.
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Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
LCD Sound System
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 & 19, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 17)
8:00 PM
Brooklyn Steel
319 Frost Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Dynamic Pricing: I honestly have no idea
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LCD Sound System — still somewhat cool, if not absolutely encapsulating the moment as in their heyday — make another attempt at a late Fall month-long residency, after last year’s failed for reasons you may remember.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: James Murphy would want you to go spend more money on him at his (great) wine bar The Four Horsemen.
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Friday, November 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Laurie Anderson: Live Solo Performance
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2022
8:00 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$30
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I believe you’ve heard of Laurie Anderson.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A really fine burger — and the best shrimp cocktail EVER — at Red Hook Tavern.
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Friday, November 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
C. Spencer Yeh & Kwami Winfield/Thomas Dimuzio & Bob Bellerue
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
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Hohum. Another great-looking Shift of musical exploration by names familiar to anyone who’s perused this List before.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good cocktails, great interior, and snacky seafood at Deux Chats.
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Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Was Me, Is Me
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 & 19, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 4)
8:00 PM
The Muse
350 Moffat Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$30 advance; $40 door
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Women’s life experiences, explored through circus/physical theater.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Witching Hour: an actually good bar.
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Friday, November 18, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zakir Hussain & Niladri Kumar
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2022
7:30 PM
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$35-$85
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Zakir Hussain is, of course, an unbelievable tabla player (unbelievable the same way Tito Puente was on timbales: you literally can’t believe what you are seeing and hearing). Niladri Kumar is a modernist sitar player — some will find him too modernist — who has the fire to match Hussain.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Meatcentric English food at Lord’s.
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Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Streb: Falling Forward, Again
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18 – 20, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 18)
7:30 PM FRIDAY
5:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
SLAM
51 North 1st Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$25-$50
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Elizabeth Streb’s highly highly physical dance gets old once you’ve seen it a few times. But the first time: boy is it something.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to the new Williamsburg Roberta’s and remember when Roberta’s used to be cool — and extraordinarily good.
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Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
OPERA
National Changgeuk Company of Korea: Trojan Women
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 & 19, 2022
7:30 PM
BAM Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$44-$115
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Using the traditional Korean drum-accompanied story-song form pansori, augmented with K-Pop, to present Euripides.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Oma Grassa pizza is on fire (I mean not literally).
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Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:59 PM
OPERA
Cavalli: La Calisto
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18 – 20, 2022
7:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
2:30 PM SUNDAY
Mannes Opera
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$21.50; $8 seniors
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Cavalli’s great Baroque opera (why isn’t this wonderful Venetian-in-Austria composer more famous????) (then again he’s doing better than Cesti) about sexual hijinks among the Roman gods, culminating in the transformation of the titular nymph, who crosses Juno by succumbing after great effort to Jove’s advances, into a bear — and her subsequent translation to the heavens as a familiar constellation. Great great stuff — tuneful, funny, ultimately moving.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: See if you can get into the smash hit bistroette Corner Bar.
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Friday, November 18, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, November 18, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brooklyn Raga Massive: Colors of Raga: Priya Purushothaman feat. Vivek Pandya & Suhail Yusuf Khan
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2022
7:30 PM
Gaia NoMaya
510 Flatbush Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$28.16
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A Hindustani vocal recital.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You wouldn’t think that a wellness center would have decent cocktails, but this venue, Gaia NoMaya, does. Who knows, maybe the food is good, too?
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Friday, November 18, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Fennesz/Eli Winter
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$37.70
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Fennesz: interesting distinctive electronic musian/guitarist with pop influences, or maker of muzak? Both? Depends on your mood? Eli Winter: does the world need another spacy country/folk-inflected guitar picker? I have an answer to that one.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun barbecue at Pig Beach.
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Friday, November 18, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Camille Norment & Craig Taborn
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2022
7:00 & 9:00 PM
Veterans Room, Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$45
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Multimedia artist Camille Norment, who turns psychoacoustic phenomena into poitics, creates a piece where all-around jazz piano genius Craig Taborn supplies some of the acoustic material.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You know where I’m going to send you, right?
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Friday, November 18, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE / PERFORMANCE
Cat Mahari: Blk Ark: The Impossible Manifestation
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2022
7:00 PM
CultureHub NYC
47 Great Jones Street, NoHo, Manhattan
Free
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A piece rooted in Yoruba ritual conceptually, but rooted in Hip Hop Wild Style physically.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Might as well go to Atla for Mezcal/Tequila and Mexican café food.
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Friday, November 18, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company: Once Upon El Barrio
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18 – 20, 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 performance
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An historical dance drama inspired by the writings of Piri “Down These Mean Streets” Thomas.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Some friends just went to MayRee and kind of went nuts about the Southern Thai food.
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Thursday, November 17, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
C4: Connecting the Dots
THURSDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 & 19, 2020
8:00 PM
THURSDAY: Church of the Transfiguration
1 East 29th Street, NoMad, Manhattan
SATURDAY: St. Peter’s Church — Chelsea
346 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$20
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C4 — the Choral Composer/Conductor Collective — specializes in dispatching material so hard, so complex, so exact, that you’d think it couldn’t be done — but they can. Let’s let them describe the program of these shows: “works that range from Ramayana monkey chants to Andrews Sisters-style swing to homages to William Byrd”. (If you’re trying to decide which night to go, let me remind you that Thursday night’s venue, The Little Church Around The Corner, has to be about the prettiest church in New York City.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thursday, French-Korean mashup at LittleMäd. Saturday, upscale Italian at Portale.
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Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
The Million Underscores: THE PASSERBY, or not_even_anything
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 & 17 – 20, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 21)
8:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20-$40
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The Million Underscores present a non-narrative, silent series of abstract tableaus inspired by Oskar Schlemmer (but not, curiously, his Triadic Ballet).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very nice Guatemalan at Claudia’s.
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Thursday, November 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
LayeRhythm (On The Move): The Hood Lockers
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2022
7:30 PM
Works and Process
The Gibey
280 Broadway, Civic Center, Manhattan
$15
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Vernacular dance styles, choreographed and improvised (excitingly).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cantonese like you want it at Uncle Lou.
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Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Thursday, November 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Michael Gordon: Travel Guide to Nicaragua
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2022
7:30 PM
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$54-$64
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A long-form piece by Bang On A CannerMichael Gordon tracing his family’s journey from Poland to Nicaragua, from his grandparents’ making the move to his childhood self’s growing up in the jungle there. If that’s not enough, it’s performed by the sensational cellist Maya Beiser and the sharp vocal ensemble The Crossing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This show will let you out early enough to get to the new Uptown watered-down Frenchette, Le Rock.
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Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez: The Circle or Prophetic Dream
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 – 19, 2022
7:30 PM
Danspace Project
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20
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A study of how bodies and sounds coexist in space, given special interest by two facts about the choreographer, Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez: he’s visually impaired, and his work is informed by his descent from Indigenous people of the Central American Atlantic Coast.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No meat at B&H Dairy.
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Thursday, November 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Charlotte Mundy feat. Ellery Trafford: The Empress Negligee and Leopard Queen Dream/Ensemble Pamplemousse
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2022
7:30 PM
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Pay what you can
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Charlotte Mundy on voice and electronics, joined by percussionist Ellery Trafford, presents the premiere of a new piece with an intriguing title (and other stuff as well). The wildly experimental — and wildly FUN — Ensemble Pamplemousse fill out the bill for a night of sonic FUN (am I getting my point across?).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very satisfying Peruvian at Warrique Garden.
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Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Jennifer Tipton: Our Days and Nights
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 – 19, 2022
7:30 PM
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$25
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You could call this a light show. But it’s a light show designed by Jennifer Tipton!
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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Thursday, November 17, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
David Watson & Bob Bellerue/Marcia Bassett & Thomas Dimuzio/Mercury Symbol/Neuter
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2022
7:00 PM
Trans-Pecos
915 Wyckoff Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$10
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A night of sonic exploration.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before the show, gorge on Bosnian at Bosna Express.
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Thursday, November 17, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
ARTEK: Masters of Violin: Corelli & Geminiani
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2022
7:00 PM
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Avenue, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$15-$50
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Corelli’s violin and trio sonatas are foundational, laying out the Baroque sonata style. And master Baroque violinist Enrico Gatti has found some “new” ones! Also music by Corelli’s student Geminiani, whom the British revere for bringing this music to England (something that nobody else much cares about).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: People in the neighborhood really like Italian standby Celeste.
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Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 6:30 PM – Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
ANCE
Monica Mirabile: all things under dog, where two things are always true
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 – 19, 2022
6:30 & 8:30 PM
Performance Space New York
150 First Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$15-$25
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I’m going to quote the promotional materials at length, cuz I don’t know what they mean: “In all things under dog, where two things are always true, Monica Mirabile looks at the ‘mafia’ as an outlaw ecosystem rising from a lack of resources to cultivate a support structure. Working on a therapeutic level within this architecture, Mirabile builds out a collapsing of time from the combined personal histories of the performers and herself—working through questions of grief, trauma, support, and ultimately resilience in family systems and the society they are influenced by. all things under dog travels through symbolic representations of a house—with five distinct rooms dividing The Keith Haring Theatre — and a black hole. Heightening the intimacy of the work, the audience, viewing the piece in small groups, move through the rooms with the performance.“ I do understand that the score includes sounds by Eartheater — and I’m sure down with that.
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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Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
OPERA
Lori Laitman: UNCOVERED
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 19, 2022
8:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY
Subletseries: Co-op
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Soho, Manhattan
$35
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Seeking stability and serenity, a young lesbian defies her family and joins the Hasidim, entering into an arranged marriage. Seven children later, she wants out.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Altro Paradiso: not the best Italian restaurant in New York — and the people who run it have got to paying more attention to their smash hit Corner Bar right now — but it’s far from the worst. And it’s right there.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Isabel Crespo Pardo: 6
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 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; $25 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
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Isabel Crespo Pardo, an experimental and highly eclectic vocalist who’s been going from strength to strength, has put together six artists in various media to participate in and create a durational work over the course of five weeks based on their interactions and artistic explorations. Perhaps thankfully, only this one night will be given in public.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, good cocktails and even good food at Grand Army Bar. Streaming at home, kick back with a Chilcano: pour 2 oz. Pisco and 1/4 oz. lime juice into a Highball glass over ice. Top with ginger beer. Stir. Garnish with a broad smile over how easy this delicious drink is to make.
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Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 8:00 PM – Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alvvays
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16 & 17, 2022
8:00 PM
WEDNESDAY: Kings Theater
1027 Flatbush Avenue, Flatbush, Brooklyn
THURSDAY: Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$40-$138 WEDNESDAY; $30 THURSDAY
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Toronto (but in their hearts they’re from Nova Scotia) Alt Pop-Rock band Alvvays always had good words and good tunes. But on their new album, they’ve added some noise to the mix — just what they needed, if you ask me.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wednesday, Jamaican at Fisherman’s Cove. Thursday, Cantonese at the slightly surreal OG Congee Village.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Tatyana Tenebaum: Garment of the Interior
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2022
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @ Brooklyn Music School
126 St. Felix Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$10 suggested donation
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Tatyana Tenenbaum constructs these abstract dance rituals having roots in ancient Ashkenazi practice. Compelling.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mediocre food that makes you wonder why you aren’t eating at home, and too-fruity cocktails, at Endswell.
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Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Gina Moxley: The Patient Gloria
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 20, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 4)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
St. Ann’s Warehouse
45 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
$49-$64
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In 1964, an American patient found her therapy sessions being aired, without her consent, as documentaries (you can still see them on YouTube). This satirical fantasia is a comic revenge fantasy. This Irish production got good notices at the Edinburgh Fringe — but to me it seems to mainly raise the question why people think that using Punk Rock in theater productions now makes them any more relevant or of the moment than using Rudy Vallée-style crooning would have made a theatrical production in the Punk ‘70s.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vietnamese bistro at Em Vietnamese Bistro.
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Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE / PERFORMANCE
Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks: My Diary: Secret Journey to Tipping Utopia (“Adding Fuel to the Fire”)
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 19, 2022
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$18 advance; $21 door; $15 students/seniors
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Whether they last a day or (like this one) an hour and a half, the works of dance/performance mainstay Yoshiko Chuma — an artist like no other — are epic. Not epic like David Lean — epic as in portentious and sweeping — but epic in scope and inclusivity. Another word might be “baggy” — but me, I like baggy. “Tipping utopia” isn’t the place where restaurant back-of-house workers dream of getting; “tipping” appears to be a verb here rather than gerund. I.e., how can we tilt toward a perfect supportive community rather than enmiring ourselves in war and selfish interpersonal conflict?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The new Bowery Congee Village Dim Sum House for . . . oh, you know.
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Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Radical Acts
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 19, 2022
7:30 PM
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$15
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A performance festival. You could almost pick any night at random. Or look at the rundown and pick what intrigues you.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Rochester vernacular cooking kicked up a notch technically at Brooklyn Hots.
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Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Catherine Christer Hennix: Kamigaku Ensemble
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 20, 2022
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
6:30 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Blank Forms
468 Grand Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$35 advance; $40 day of
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Swedish sonic explorer Catherine Christer Hennix presents her just-intonation-vacations-in-Japan Kamigaku Ensemble: herself on Japanese mouth organ, some electronics, and a bunch of trumpets. It’s worth noting that the trumpets include Amir ElSaffir, whose Jazz Maqam is some of the most interesting music around, and Ellen Arkbro, who usually drones on organ.
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, Nov 16, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Philharmonic: Trifonov and Babayan Play Bartók
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 19, 2022
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
11:00 AM FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$54.50-$197.50
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Anyone would agree that the orchestral version of Bartók’s explosive music for two pianos and percussion isn’t quite as great as the chamber version — but then again, that’s like saying that the movie version of Goldfinger isn’t quite as good as the book. Daniil Trifonov and Sergei Babayan are certainly two explosive pianists. Conductor Hannu Lintu (another Music Director tryout, one imagines) also brings two pieces from his Finnish home: typically transfixing Saariaho and Sibelius’s ultra-concentrated final Seventh Symphony (the rest — 30 long years — was silence). Opening up the show is Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments — a piece by one of my favorite composers in memory of one of my other favorite composers for one of my favorite instrumental configurations that I still can’t figure out why I don’t like (wait: I think I get it! I always expect it to be neo-Classical — my favorite Stravinsky — but it’s not quite there yet).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Kwame Onwuachi’s in-house Afro-Caribbean restaurant Tatiana (not to be confused with the one in Brighton Beach) isn’t open late enough for post-concert dining — a scandal if you ask me (maybe you can eat and drink beforehand and then concentrate hard on music for two hours, but I sure can’t) (to me, this is emblematic of Lincoln Center’s inability to conceive of the classical music segment of its audience as comprising anything other than the suburban and the decrepit). For an urbane experience, go to Bar Boulud after the show and eat and drink to your heart’s content.
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Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Bedlam in Repertory: The Winter’s Tale/Hedda Gabler
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 & 16 – 20, 2022
7:00 PM 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, Nov 16, 2022, 4:30 PM – Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Lightscape
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 20, 2022 (continuing through JANUARY 8, 2023)
4:30 – 8:45 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Avenue, across the street from Crown Heights, Brooklyn
$40 adult; $20 children 3-12; free babies 0-2
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Because this is Brooklyn, what you’d normally expect to be a corny set of light sculptures strewn throughout the Garden actually turns out to be kind of great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Guadalajaran Tortas Ahogadas are unbelievably good at Cruz del Sur.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
MUSIC
Fire Over Heaven
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2022
8:00 PM
Outpost Artists Resources
1665 Norman Street, Ridgewood, Queens
$15
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Two intriguing duos: altered woodwind player (the sound is altered, not the player) Lea Bertucci and renegade pop Minimalist Ben Vida; and electronic avant-Korean player Leo Chang and trumpeter Chris Williams.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Charming, delightful New American Tavern food at Rolo’s.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
NOVUS NY: Voice of Crumb Part 2
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2022
1:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel In Person & Live Stream
209 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan
Free
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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 Bartók (the fizzing Divertimento) — another composer who managed to sound unique while always sounding.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, some of the best Italian heroes in New York are at Pisillo. Streaming at home, have 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, November 15, 2022, 11:59 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sylvie Courvoisier feat. Christian Fennsz, Wadada Leo Smith, Nate Wooley, Drew Gress & Kenny Wollesen: Chimeara
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 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
Improvising pianist Sylvie Courvoisier is always interesting, but this is something else again. A band including pop-inflected guitarist/electonics guy Christian Fennesz (usually he’s just “Fennesz”, but I guess when he plays Jazz he uses his first name), two highly exploratory trumpeters — one of them (Wadada Leo Smith) a stone legend who is one of the great musicians in the world today, the other (Nate Wooley) merely one of the very best in New York (which actually isn’t that different from saying “the world”) — and a rhythm section composed of such stylish and versatile players as basist Drew Gress and drummer Kenny Wollesen. Who can even guess what this’ll sound like?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, have a Morning Glory: pour 1 oz. each of Rye and Cognac, 1 teaspoon each of Curaçao and Simple Syrup, and 1/4 teaspoon Absinth, with 2 dashes of Peychaud’s bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice. Top with club soda. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bartees Strange
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 & 16, 2022
8:00 PM
TUESDAY: Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
WEDNESDAY: Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$25
TUESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
WEDNESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bartees Strange does the rap-rock thing fabulously. And he doesn’t stop at rap and rock, either.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tuesday, tacos at Torterilleria Los Hermanos. Wednesday, double chicken, please, at Double Chicken Please.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Paul Moravec: A Nation of Others
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2022
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$37-$109
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Paul Moravec is part of a cohort of American composers, active around the cusp of the Century, who are undeservedly going by the wayside. This is very attractive tonal music, good to listen to and not at all hackneyed, even if it doesn’t have the vernacular/pop spark we now look for. This new vocal piece explores the immigrant experience at Ellis Island in 1921.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Donburiya and have yourself a blast.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Magdalena Bay
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2022
8:00 PM
Webster Hall
125 East 11th Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$25 advance; $30 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two Prog Rockers go high-style Electropop. It should happen to all Prog Rockers.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tex-Mex (with the accent on Tex) at Yellow Rose.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Hyd/umru
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2022
8:00 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$20 advance; $25 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Hyperpop night. Hyd is a former Sophie collaborator who also is put out by PC Music; if her slow dreamy pop is a little more straightforward than that might make you expect, it’s still excellent listening. Umru’s beaty Ethiopian Hyperpop — also on PC Music — is a lot faster.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tacos at the San Pedro Inn.
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Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Kate Tarker: Montag
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15 – 20, 2022
7:30 PM
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$55
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. So this turns out to be like an Enda Walsh play: you are thrust into a situation where the characters engage in seemingly inexplicable behavioral patters, and you then spend the rest of the play figuring out why they do what they do. The very final payoff here may be a shade too obvious, too straightforward — but this is a good, invigorating piece of work.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Dream Music Puppetry: Puppet Parlor
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2022
7:00 PM
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Soho, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Puppets!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sicilian at Piccolo Cucina Osteria.
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Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Suzan–Lori Parks: Plays for the Plague Year
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15 – 20, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 27)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
1:00 PM SATURDAY
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$36-$60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
During The Lockdown, the great playwright Suzan-Lori Parks resolved to write a play every day. She performs a distilliation of them — accompanying herself on guitar.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Yakitori Taisho may not have the absolute best yakitori in New York, but it certainly has some of the latest. (And it’s good: don’t get me wrong.)
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Fresh Squeezed Opera: 2022 Showcase: i just want to have a good f*cking day
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2022
7:00 PM
Pangea NYC
178 2nd Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This year Fresh Squeezed Opara’s showcase of new works for voices and chamber ensemble is funny.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: There’s a $20 minimum on top of the entrance fee — but drink it, don’t eat it. Then, go around the corner to John’s of 12th Street for some classic Red Sauce (including plant-based for those who care).
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Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 6:30 PM – Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Manos Tsangaris: Love and Diversity
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 & 16, 2022
6:30 – 8:00 PM
Amor Loco
134 West 46th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$20; $30 with drink voucher; $10 seniors; $20 seniors with drink voucher
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Here’s the deal: you show up at the Amor Loco Mexican restaurant any time between 6:30 and 8:00. Maybe you have a drink. The expert Talea Ensemble will then have you walked around, in staggered groups, to various sites in the neighborhood, where you will encounter musicians (with lighting effects etc.) playing the wild beaty composer/sound artist Manos Tsangaris’s piece.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better-than-decent Midtown Indian at Ustav.
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Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVMBER 15 – 20, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Matt Mitchell
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 19, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist Matt Mitchell plays around New York so much you might wonder why anyone would get excited about this residency. But this fascinating musician is such an excellent collaborator that it will be a very good thing to see him stretch out his ideas over the course of a week in a series of contexts of his own devising and leadership.
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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Monday, November 14, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
The Million Underscores: THE PASSERBY, or not_even_anything
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 & 17 – 20, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 21)
8:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Million Underscores present a non-narrative, silent series of abstract tableaus inspired by Oskar Schlemmer (but not, curiously, his Triadic Ballet).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very nice Guatemalan at Claudia’s.
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Monday, November 14, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Ephrat Asherie Dance feat. NYC Club Legends: UNDERSCORED
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2022
7:30 PM
Works and Process
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$5-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
New York club dancing, as transmitting down through succeeding generations from Paradise Garage to now. (Maybe it’s cuz, I just had a Birthday, but I find the fact that there are generations since Paradise Garage kind of disquieting.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Light Viennese at Café Sabarsky.
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Monday, November 14, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mivos Quartet: Kanter/I Creation Prize Concert
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2022
7:30 PM
1 Rivington
1 Rivington Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$16.89; $11.64 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Mivos Quartet’s program is for commissioning under-recognized emerging and midcareer composers. So I suppose I’m excused for not ever having heard, or heard of, Marguerite Brown and Jonah Luojo Lao Haven. The senior “established” composer on the program, Jeffrey Mumford, him I’ve heard: High Modernism with heart and soul. How does he do it?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Rustic Italian at Peasant: some love it.
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Monday, November 14, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Bedlam in Repertory: The Winter’s Tale/Hedda Gabler
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 & 16 – 20, 2022
7:00 PM 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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Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 – 20, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
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, Nov 14, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 – 20, 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, November 13, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
William Hooker: The Silver Fleece
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 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 student/seniors at door in person
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The great Free Jazz drummer William Hooker has been playing this long-form ensemble piece around. He is never not worth listening to.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, first-rate Ethiopian at Ghenet. Streaming at home, have a Swiss Cartel: pour 1 oz. each of Reposado Tequila, sweet Vermouth, and Gran Classico into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Sunday, November 13, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Ephrat Asherie Dance feat. NYC Club Legends: UNDERSCORED
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2022 (also NOVEMBER 14)
7:30 PM
Works and Process
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$5-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
New York club dancing, as transmitting down through succeeding generations from Paradise Garage to now. (Maybe it’s cuz I just had a Birthday, but I find the fact that there are succeeding generations kind of disquieting.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Light Viennese at Café Sabarsky.
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Sunday, November 13, 2022, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, November 13, 2022, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Rizzoli Music Aperativo: Sky Creature feat. Jeff Dolven
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2022
5:00 PM
Rizzoli Bookstore
1133 Broadway, NoMad, Manhattan
$22.35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Majel Connery and Matt Walsh’s Sky Creature, which splits the difference (there IS no difference) between Alt Classical, Alt Rock, and DOR, is joined by poet Jeff Dolven, whose verse Connery has often set. Dolven will be reading from a series of poems featuring grammatical rulese and their violation — a subject this List is quite anamored of.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Bombay Sandwich Co. and have an Aloo Grilled Cheese sandwich. If you’ve ever wondered what a samosa would be like if it were a grilled cheese sandwich, here’s your chance to find out!
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Sunday, November 13, 2022, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Yacouba Sissoko & SIYA: Magic Mali Music
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2022
4:00 PM
Dweck Center, Brooklyn Public Library Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Malian kora-led story songs: great stuff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great beer — I mean GREAT beer — at Gold Star Beer Counter.
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Sunday, November 13, 2022, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE / MUSIC
Kinesis Project/Opera on Tap/Anti-Social Music: Capacity, or: the Work of Crackling
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2022
3:00 PM
Gaelic Field
Inwood Hill Park, Inwood, Manhattan
Free
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
An immersive geologically inspired exploration of the human capacity for joy and grief in relation to the natural process of the earth’s crackling. The Anti-Social Music composers are a really good bunch. And just a chance to tramp around Inwood Hill Park (this performance involves a lot of tramping around on the part of the audience) is inducement enough. (If you’re interested, there’s a Geography Tour Audience Meeting beforehand, at 2:00 PM at Beak Street & Payson Avenue.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As far as I’m concerned, Elsa la Reina del Chicharron has the best Dominican food in New York. One of my absolute personal favorite places.
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Sunday, November 13, 2022, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, November 12, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Layth Sidiq Ensemble: Maqam Mosaic
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$30 advance; $35 door; $25 student/seniors at door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pan-Arabic Maqam: music of great beauty and intricacy.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Outstanding Palestinian at AlBadawi.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, November 12, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zoe Keating
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022
8:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$33
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It’s easy to be snobby about cellist/composer Zoe Keating, dismissing her ambient scores as Fake Classical Modern Mood Music. But her music is perfectly good. It might sum her up to observe that her music works better as choreographic accompaniment than as concert music. But really, it’s fine to sit and listen to, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speaking of Americana, Shaker food at The Commerce Inn.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Dirt Whisperers/John King & Abe Speller
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A night of avant-Roots Music? The Dirt Whisperers sound on paper like blues-rock retread — but in practice they infuse the music with a fresh energy and flow. Avant-guitar mainstay John King shows his jazz/funk side in a duo with journeyman drummer (in the best sense) Abe Speller, who has a cocktail jazz trio but has played with Sonny Sharrock.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Amazingly good pub grub at Meckelberg’s.
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Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Neil Greenberg: Betsy
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12 & 13, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 20)
8:00 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
Meta-dance — with music by Zeena Parkins and James Lo!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Outstanding Burmese at Little Myanmar.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sharon Isbin & Pacifica Quartet
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022
7:30 PM
92nd Street Y In Person & Live Stream
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$25-$60 in person; $30 age 40 and under in person; $25 live stream if money, sound quality, and immediacy mean nothing to you
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Any chance to hear the fabulous guitarist Sharon Isbin and the fabulous Pacifica Quartet play Leo Brouwer — the best composer for guitar now practicing — is worth serious consideration. A new piece for guitar and string quartet by Joseph Schwantner, sure. And course we all adore Piazzolla. Boccherini’s guitar quintets are some of the most entertaining music around — and the Fandango is his greatest hit. Turina’s La Oración del Torero is always good to hear (even when played by a string quartet instead of the originally intended lute quartet). Vivaldi on modern instruments . . well, you’ll just have to decide whether you’re man or woman enough.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, god Italian at Sfoglia. Streaming at home, have an Old Pal: pour 2 oz. Rye and 1 oz. each of dry Vermouth and Campari into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 10:30 PM – Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
NY Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 & 12, 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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Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
The Million Underscores: THE PASSERBY, or not_even_anything
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 – 13, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 21)
8:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Million Underscores present a non-narrative, silent series of abstract tableaus inspired by Oskar Schlemmer (but not, curiously, his Triadic Ballet).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very nice Guatemalan at Claudia’s.
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Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
The American Vicarious: Debate: Baldwin v. Buckley
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 & 12, 2022
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
Queens Theater
14 United Nations Avenue S, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A barebones reenactment of a famous mid-1960s debate between The Forces Of Good and The Forces Of Evil (I read The New Criterion and it makes me want to vomit how those people are still licking the deceased ass of a theocratic bigot).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best Red Sauce in New York at Park Side. Then, cross the street for the best Italian ices in New York at The Lemon Ice King of Corona.
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Friday, November 11, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Joanna Mattrey feat. Billy Martin: Chanting
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 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 student/seniors at door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Questing violinist Joanna Mattrey creates a multi-media piece (with a rather famous percussionist playing along) that seeks to directly involve the audience in its invocation of spiritual, cognitive, and natural forces. (A little different from the set she played with Tredici Bacci at Barbès last night.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, neighborhood French at French Louie. Streaming at home, have a Palpable Apathy: pour 1 oz. each of Rye, sweet Vermouth, and Braulio, with 1 dash of lemon bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Thumbscrew
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 & 12, 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
The Thumbscew trio has been together 10 years! Three master musicians — guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Michael Formanec, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara — who met on a session and decided to keep working together. There music is multivalent and endlessly inventive. Fujiwara has been switching to vibes sometimes lately, which permits them to explore lighter textures.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, my beloved Mark’s Off Madison for Italian with some Ashkenazic thrown in. Streaming at home, have a Mela d’Alba: pour 2 oz. Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy and 1 oz. each of sweet Vermouth and Campari into an Old Fashioned glass over ice. Stir. Express a lemon twist into the drink and then use it as garnish.
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Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Serge Aimé Coulibaly & Faso Danse Théâtre: Wakatt
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 & 12, 2022
7:30 PM
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Socially conscious dance from Burkina Faso (by way of Belgium), set to Afro-jazz from Côte d’Ivoire (by way of France).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The new upscale Ukrainian spot Slava looks kind of douchey to me — and God that menu is limited. But you can go and have a good cry over Pegu Club’s not being there any more.
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Friday, November 11, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
PUBLIQuartet: What Is American
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
After several Pandemic-induced delays, the PUBLIQuartet finally gets to play their thought-provoking last album live in its entirety. It explores America and American identity in music. Some of the selections are too Americana/folky for my taste — but then, in a project like this, they’d have to be. OTOH, if I told you a program included Dvorák’s American QuartetAND Roscoe Mitchell AND Fats Waller AND Vijay Iyer AND Ornette Coleman AND Tina Turner AND Alice Coltrane AND Betty Davis AND Ida Cox, you’ be pretty excited to hear it, right?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cheffed-up Thai at Kru.
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Friday, November 11, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jean-Bernard Cerin & Melissa Joseph: Lisette
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022
7:00 PM
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Haitian baritone Jean-Bernard Cerin displays the fruits of his deep research by exploring, in a set of performances along with Haitian soprano Melissa Joseph, the development of Baroque and Classical music in the Afro-Caribbean — in particular by tracing the spread of a Haitian air called “Lisette Quitté la Plaine”.
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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Thursday, November 10, 2022, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tredici Bacci
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2022
10:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This List’s absolute unquestionable fave finta Italo-Pop band.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Supra-neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
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Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Thursday, November 10, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Robin Holcomb: One Way or Another/Sara Schoenbeck & Wayne Horvitz: Duets for Bassoon and Piano
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $15 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
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I was wondering what Robin Holcomb, whose music is sort of fokie and sort of Alt Classical but always rather gorgeous, is doing these days. And then, a few weeks ago, a new album appeared! She’ll play it tonight. Her husband, Wayne Horvitz, whose music is sort of classical and sort of pop/rock, will play duets he composed for piano and bassoon with bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, good cocktails and even good food at Grand Army Bar. Streaming at home, have a Drunk Uncle: pour 1-1/2 oz. Islay Scotch and 3/4 oz. each of Vermouth Biano (or Blanc) and Cynar into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a grapefruit twist.
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Thursday, November 10, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Samora Pinderhughes: On Living
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2022
7:00 PM
The Kitchen @ Westbeth
163 Bank Street, West Village, Manhattan
$5-$25
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In conjunction with (indeed within) an exhibition he has up at The Kitchen @ Westbeth, multidisciplinary artist/musical performer Samora Pinderhughes gives the first of a three-show series of thematically related concerts. I should be enthusiastic about a performer/artist who seamlessly interweaves visuals in various media and vernacular-inflected music. But I find the music to be so much droopy draggy singer-songwriter “self-expression”. Oh well.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Know anyone who’s been to the new Barbuto yet?
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Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE / PERFORMANCE
Femmes Du Feu Creations: In the Fire
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 – 13, 2022
7:30 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Peak Performances
Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University
1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey
$40-$50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A dance/aerial circus piece about the experiences of creator Holly Treddenick’s father as a firefighter.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Too bad you can’t walk to the new Montclair branch of Nami Nori from MSU. But you sure can walk to New American treat Turtle & The Wolf.
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Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Vanessa Anspaugh: Mourning After Mornings
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 – 12, 2022
7:30 PM
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$30-$40; $24 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Not sure I want to be contemplating death at this exact moment. But if you do, here’s your chance.
MAKE A NIGHT IN IT: The Lobby Bar at the Hotel Chelsea will make it a night and a half.
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Thursday, November 10, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Ben Neill: Fantini Futuro
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2022
7:00 PM
Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral
261 Mott Street, Nolita, Manhattan
$33.46; $22.86 students/seniors
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A fantasia — it has its subject time-travelling in from the 17th Century — on the life and music of the early Baroque trumpeter/composer Girolamo Fantini, whose music you’ve probably heard (if only while on hold) even if you don’t know it. Composer Ben Neill plays on his electro-acoustic Mutantrumpet (whatever that is), along with a counter-tenor with the astonishingly apt name Ryland Angel (I guess they couldn’t have a castrato time-travel in from the 17th Century) and the formidable Gwendolyn Toth on Old Saint Pat’s grand old 19th-Century pipe organ, as well as its less grand, but a little bit older, positive organ. Since this show is a benefit for the pipe organ’s restoration, one can’t help but wonder how it’ll sound.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let’s go to the newly revived former dive bar Milady’s to see what the great barkeep Julie Reiner is now doing with it.
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Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jazz Libre 2022
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 – 12, 2022
7:00 PM
The Clemente In Person & Live Stream
114 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$38.77 in person; $10 live stream
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Latin-inflected free jazz. Great stuff both nights!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, good Haitian and (usually) great music at Rebel. Streaming at home, have a Cuba Libre (duh): pour 1/2 oz. lime juice into a Highball glass. Add ice. Pour in 2 oz. white Rum. Top with Coke (special prize if it’s Mexican Coke). Stir. You can throw in a lime wedge if you want. I always do.
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Thursday, November 10, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Thank God for Abortion: They Live
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2022
7:00 PM
Octopus
Performance Space New York
150 1st Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An abortion variety show. I can’t help but wonder whether putting it the way the presenter’s name does is the best approach politically or even morally, though.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Homestyle Vietnamese at Madame Vo.
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Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 7:00 PM – Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Wed, Nov 9, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Anthony Coleman
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 12, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
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Pianist/composer Anthony Coleman has range, that’s for sure, and it’ll be on full display in this week’s residency, ranging from experimental improv to dabbling in the the music of Ukraine to misunderstanding the American songbook.
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, November 9, 2022, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Odeya Nini: “ODE” Album Release!
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2022
8:30 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$23.05
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Odeya Nini is another of those post-Monk (Meredith, not Thelonius) vocal artists who create sonic vistas from abstract vocalizations. Now being now, there’s less esthetic distance and more “healing”. She gets extra points for liking Stan Brakhage.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The broth is particularly rich at E.A.K. Ramen.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Seymour Glass/Rump State
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2022
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
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A strange night. Rump State self-identify as Metal, but to me their rhythm is too random for that (that’s a good thing): I call it Noise. Seymour Glass is just strange.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good cocktails, great interior, and snacky seafood at Deux Chats.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Owls
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2022
8:00 PM
The Crypt Sessions
The Crypt, Church of the Intercession
550 West 155th Street, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
$85
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The Owls are just a sensational chamber ensemble, composed of violin, viola, and two cellos. And not just any violin, viola, and two cellos: Alexi Kenney, Ayane Kozasa, Gabriel Cabezas, and Paul Wiancko. They play old music, new music, kinda new music — and they radiate fun and exploration.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As always, this show is preceded by a wine and cheese reception — but the wine and the cheese they serve are deplorable. But you have R.O.K.C. nearby for ramen, oysters, snacks, and cocktails. I love this place.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
TAK Ensemble: TERRAIN
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2022
8:00 PM
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Pay what you can
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The incisive vocal-instrumental TAK Ensemble presents world premieres by gnarly (but political) Modernist Lewis Nielson and more List-friendly sonic explorer Golnaz Shariatzadeh, and new-but-not-brand-new pieces by List regualars Hannah Kendall and Bethany Younge.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Another nudge: go to Central Asian powerhouse Farida.
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Wed, Nov 9, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Radical Acts
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 13, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 19)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$15
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A performance festival. You could almost pick any night at random. Or look at the rundown and pick what intrigues you.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Rochester vernacular cooking kicked up a notch technically at Brooklyn Hots.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Voices of Ascension: From Adversity to Triumph: Presitni, Bassi & Haydn
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2022
7:30 PM
Church of the Ascension
Fifth Avenue & West 10th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$10-$95
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The expert Voices of Ascension chorus sings major works by, among others, Paola Prestini and Haydn (the Lord Nelson Mass) and smaller pieces by, among others, David Lang, Chen Yi, and (be warned) Richard Rodgers (if, as seems likely, it’s “You’ll Never Walk Alone”, be prepared to run out screaming).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to popular Lite French Claudette and walk out wondering where the food food was.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Handel: Atalanta
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2022
7:30 PM
Juilliard Opera In Person & Live Stream
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, The Juilliard School
155 West 65th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$40 in person; free live stream
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You know, I don’t think I ever remember seeing Handel’s Atalanta’s being staged anywhere. Handel’s operas have an entertainment value — and tune Q — that goes through the roof. This one’s a very elaborated version of the mythic tale of Atalanta — not as runner, but as huntress (Greek mythology is confusing). In any event, a splendid time is guaranteed for all. The able Gary Thor Wedow conducts.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, The Leopard at Des Artistes — which is featuring an awful lot of Northern Italian dishes these days for an historically Southern Italian restaurant — is very very good. And nosebleedingly expensive. Streaming at home, have a Hunter: pour 1-1/4 oz. Bourbon, 1/4 oz. Cherry Heering, and 1/2 teaspoon Maraschino liqueur, with 2 dashes of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a Nick and Nora glass. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brooklyn Maqam Presents: MEHRNAM RASTEGARI: A Night of Iranian Folk Music
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2022
7:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
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Mehrnam Rastegari, mistress of the Iranian string instrument known as the Kamancheh (sort of a smaller, more nasal cello), plays a kind of Iranian folk-pop. And boy is it GORGEOUS.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very hard not to tell you to hike the half hour across 6th Avenue to Sofreh for excellent Persian.
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Wed, Nov 9, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Bedlam in Repertory: The Winter’s Tale/Hedda Gabler
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 13, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 20)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
3:00 & 8:00 PM SATURDAY
1:00 PM SUNDAY
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$40-$115 THURSDAY – SATURDAY; $10 students/veterans/military rush THURSDAY – SATURDAY; pay what you can WEDNESDAY
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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 Modern Israeli at Miss Ada.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Riley Walker-JR Bohannon-Kid Millions Trio/Wendy Eisenberg
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2022
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Ticket price TBD
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Lotsa guitar.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unexpected but not really incongrouous Japanese-Ashkenazi mash-up at Shalom Japan.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kelly Moran: Solo Piano Works
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 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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Kelly Moran leaves home the electronics and the visuals and the piano preparations and just sits down at a plain old unprepared piano. She may cite Cage and Glass as influences, but she writes melodies — and her rhythms POP.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic cuisine at As You Are. IStreaming at home, have a Tradewinds Negroni: pour 1 oz. sweet Vermouth and 3/4 oz. each of Cointreau and Angostura bitters (be brave) into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Open Stage Variety Show
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2022 (also DECEMBER 15)
7:30 PM
Voorhees Theater, New York City College of Technology
165 Jay Street, Downtown, Brooklyn
$15
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The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus throws open the stage to whatever variety acts dare to appear. I can’t tell you how much fun these can be.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speaking of fun, the West African party never stops at Amaranchi.
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Tue, Nov 8, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Kate Tarker: Montag
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 – 13, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 20)
7:30 PM
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$35 TUESDAY – SATURDAY; 99¢ SUNDAY
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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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Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças: Encantado
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 & 9, 2022
7:30 PM
BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$34-$95
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Having looked at the inevitability of societal conflict in Montclair last week, Lia Rodriguez comes to Brooklyn with a piece about concerted action in support of freedom. Colorful, visceral dance from a Rio favela.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Speakeasy izakaya, hidding in back of the much less interesting Walter’s, at Karasu.
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Tue, Nov 8, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Suzan–Lori Parks: Plays for the Plague Year
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 – 13, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 27)
7:00 PM TUESDAY – SUNDAY
1:00 PM SATURDAY
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$36-$60
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During The Lockdown, the great playwright Suzan-Lori Parks resolved to write a play every day. She performs a distilliation of them — accompanying herself on guitar.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Yakitori Taisho may not have the absolute best yakitori in New York, but it certainly has some of the latest. (And it’s good: don’t get me wrong.)
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Tue, Nov 8, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 – 13, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:00 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, November 7, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Myra Melford: Fire and Water
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 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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Composer/pianist Myra Melford’s music kind of sounds like Cy Twombly’s paintings look, so it only makes sense that she would write a set of pieces inspired by his work. What you might not be expecting is the spectacular band she has assembled: Mary Halvorson on quitar, Ingrid Laubrock on sax, Tomeka Reid on cello, and Lesley Mok on drums.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, toast my birthday with a French 75: pour 2 oz. Gin, 1/2 oz. lemon juice, and 1 teaspoon Simple Syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a Champagne flute over ice. Top with Champagen. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Mon, Nov 7, 2022, 7:30 PM – Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Dmitris Pappaioannou: Traverse Orientation
MONDAY – FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 – 11, 2022
7:30 PM
BAM Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$44-$150
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Dimitris Papaioannou creates these mass body sculptures, where masses of dancers coagulate into representational forms. It’s undeniably impressive — but after a while you (or at least I) sometimes begin to wonder where the point is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Oma Grassa pizza is on fire (I mean not literally).
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Mon, Nov 7, 2022, 8:00 AM – Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 – 13, 2022 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
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, Nov 7, 2022, 6:00 AM – Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: SOUNDWALK
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 – 13, 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, November 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, November 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
NUMYN/Liz Hogg
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2022
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Ticket price TBD
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NUMYN is interesting: the music is almost kind of trippy hoppy, but it’s also kind of bedroom pop. In any event, it’s trippy. Guitarist Liz Hogg’s music gets trippy, too — but cheerfully so.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza from the money behind Lilia at Fini Pizza.
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Sunday, November 6, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
MV Carbon feat. Scott Kierman: “Liquiddd Changesss” Album Release
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 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
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Multidisciplinary artist and inveterate sound manipulator MV Carbon celebrates the release of her new album (Charlemagne Palestine colaborated on the album — but he’s not here tonight), with Scott Kiernan helping to manipulate the sound. He’ll be manipulating his own sound, too, in a separate solo set.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, in the absense of Charlemagne Palestine, superb Palestinian at AlBadawi. Streaming at home, in the absense of Charlemagne Palestine from this show, have a Charlemagne Cocktail: put a sugar cube doused with 4 dashes of Angostura bitters in the bottom of a chilled Champagne flute. Top with Champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Sunday, November 6, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Pentacle Presents: Fall FurtherXI
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2022
7:00 PM
Dixon Place In Person & Live Stream
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$15 advance; $18 door; $12 advance students/seniors; $15door students/seniors; $10 suggested live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
More mixed dance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, OK neo-Red Sauce at Sauce. Streaming at home, have a Brown Derby: pour 1-1/2 oz. Bourbon and 3/4 oz. each grapefruit juice and honey syrup (2:1 honey:water) into an ice filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a grapefruit twist.
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Sunday, November 6, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
MUSIC
Talujon: Plays Peter Kotik’s “The Plains at Gordium”
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2022
4:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As New Music ensemble Talujon notes, performances of the compelling works of the post-modern stalwart Petr Kotik are strangely rare — especially by people other than Kotik’s own S.E.M. Ensemble. So this is a very welcome chance to hear Kotik interpreted from the outside.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican party at Aldama.
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Sunday, November 6, 2022, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
DURATIONS: Valentino Mora/RAMZI/Special Guest
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2022
1:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$26.17
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ambient with various inflections.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Believe it or not, Clover Club will be open both before and after this show: not only one of the best cocktail bars in New York City, but some of the best food at a cocktail bar.
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Saturday, November 5, 2022, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sakina Abdou/Brandon Lopez
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2022
9:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Ticket price TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you’re looking for something new under the sun, French saxophonist Sakina Abdou is it: a free/experimental player who really doesn’t sound like anyone or anything else. New York bassist/composer Brandon Lopez you know.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Persian tapas at Masquerade.
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Saturday, November 5, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Leila Adu/Ali Dineen
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2022
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two singer-songwriters who work the non-frontier between Pop and Alt Classical. Leila Adu (who is also a composer) is more musically advanced — but Ali Dineen has better words (and is funnier).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Not Just Ham at & Sons Ham Bar (the proprietor used to be Beverage Director at per se).
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Saturday, November 5, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Joe Hisaishi: Music Future Vol. 9
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2022
7:30 PM
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$68-$108
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Snobbish as it may be, I’m wary of composers mainly known for film scores — even if the films are as great as the Studio Ghibli movies Joe Hisaishi is famous for scoring. But I’m not wary at all of Nadia Sirota playing Nico Muhly (half this program). Nor of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, members of which assist in the back-up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Donburiya and have yourself a blast.
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Saturday, November 5, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Angelica Sanchez
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40 in person; $20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Angelica Sanchez is a pianist/composer with a very personal style. Look for ace trumpet player Adam O’Farrill in her quartet.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, hand rolls at KazuNori. Streaming at home, have a Beatriz: pour 1-1/2 oz. Sotol, 1 oz. Cocchi Americano, and 1/4 oz. Saint-Germain, with 2 dasesh of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Saturday, November 5, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Les Ballet Afrik: New York Is Burning
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2022
7:30 PM
Works and Process
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$5-$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Omari Wiles and company mash up ballroom, Voguing, and African dance styles — all in tribute to Paris Is Burning.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: South African food and wine party at Kaia Wine Bar.
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Saturday, November 5, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jazz Libre 2022
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2022 (also NOVEMBER 10-12)
7:00 PM
The Clemente In Person & Live Stream
114 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$38.77 in person; $10 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Latin-inflected free jazz. Tonight’s (great) line-up features bands led by drummer Francesco Mora Catlett (a propitious surname for a drummer), bassist William Parker, and percussionist Roman Diaz.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, good Haitian and (usually) great music at Rebel. Streaming at home, have a Cuba Libre (duh): pour 1/2 oz. lime juice into a Highball glass. Add ice. Pour in 2 oz. white Rum. Top with Coke (special prize if it’s Mexican Coke). Stir. You can throw in a lime wedge if you want. I always do.
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Saturday, November 5, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, November 5, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jessie Cox & The Sun Ra Arkestra
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2022
7:00 PM
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The prospect of the exciting composer/percussionist Jessie Cox composing for and playing with the Sun Ra Arkestra is too unbelievablly enticing to bear.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I haven’t nudged you about Central Asian powerhouse Farida for something like a week.
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Saturday, November 5, 2022, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, November 5, 2022, 11:00 AM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Parallel Exit: Sunset Circus
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5 & 6, 2022
11:00 AM & 2:00 PM
Clark Studio Theater, Samuel B. & David Rose Building, Lincoln Center
165 West 65th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Pay What You Choose
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A new circus show — close up!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Does Charles Pan-Fried Chicken have the best fried chicken in New York? (You’ll have to find a place to eat it, though.)
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Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 10:30 PM – Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Friday, November 4, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Cantata Profana: NUVA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2022
8:00 PM
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$35; $15 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Cantata Profana, who for ten years have done some of the best programming in New York (and some of the best program notes as well), start off their last season with a typical mix of very old and very new music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Spanish at Casa Dani.
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Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Camille A. Brown & Dancers: The Trilogy: ink
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4 & 5, 2022
8:00 PM
Apollo Theater
253 West 125th Street, Harlem, Manhattan
$39.35-$87.20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Camille A. Brown presents the culminating part of her trilogy exploring Black identity. She is saying this might be the last time she dances with her company.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m sorry: I just can’t resist the quality and value of Manna’s Soul Food steam table buffet. It’s like being set loose in a candy store.
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Friday, November 4, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bard Conservatory Orchestra: Uncaged
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2022
8:00 PM
Fisher Center, Bard College In Person & Live Stream
60 Manor Avenue, Red Hook, Dutchess County
$15-$20 in person; Pay What You Will Live Stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Cage fan (and Bard Conservatory Dean) Tan Dun presents a program honoring Cage in his centennial year. It’s sort of a Greatest Hits compilation, including as it does the Third Construction, Atlas Eclipticalis, and Cage’s No. 1-With-A-Bullet Super Smash, 4’33’’.Tan couldn’t resist throwing in one of his own percussion concertos as well.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Old American at Stissing House. Streaming at home, have a Ching Ching: pour 1 oz. each of white Rum, white Crème de Menthe, and orange juice, and 1/4 oz. Simple Syrup, with 1 dash of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Friday, November 4, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Bergsonist: As If Reality?
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2022
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @ Center for Performance Research (CPR)
361 Manhattan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Free ($10 suggested donation)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Multi-media artist/musician/designer Selwa Abd, in her Bergsonist guise, presents a new iteration of a piece she’s been doing around (you may recall having read about it here), this time with 360º footage shot over the Summer in Morroco.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re just down the street from neo-Cantonese-American hotspot Bonnie’s. If only you could get in.
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Friday, November 4, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Matt Mitchell & Tim Berne
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$30-$40 in person; $20 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pianist Matt Mitchell, a provactive musical thinker, is a frequent collaborator with post-avant-gutbucket alto saxist Tim Berne — but usually it’s Berne who’s in the lead role. Tonight, Berne is accompanying Mitchell.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, José Andés Mediterranean at Zaytinya. Streaming at home, have a Vieux Carré: pour 3/4 oz. each of Rye, Cognac, and sweet Vermouth, and 1/2 oz. Bénédictine, with 2 dashes each of Angostura and Peychaud’s bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice. Garnish with a cocktail cherry (some people use a lemon twist, but we know better than that).
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Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Andrea Kleine: The End Is Not What We Thought It Would Be
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4 & 5, 2022
7:00 PM
Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I don’t, as a rule, List non-live non-interactive pieces (you know: films). But this seems “performative” enough — it’s being screened twice, and not streamed (I mean, I’m sure it’ll be screened more widely and made remotely available soon) (but as you’ll see, it’s very tied to this venue) — to make it. Besides, it’s sort List central. During The Lockdown, performance artist/choreographer/novelist Andrea Kleine was supposed to performing at the Chocolate Factory. But of course, she couldn’t. So instead she and her boo, percussionist Bobby Previte, moved into the Chocolate Factory for two weeks, and she made this film of their life there, performing on stage each night for no one.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fall really is the best time at the wonderful Québécois bistro M. Wells.
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Friday, November 4, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Here and Now: Jed Distler
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2022
7:00 PM
Bargemusic
1 Water Street, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Frederic Rzewski’s music seems even better and better in (sadly) retrospect. The able pianist (and excellent record reviewer!) Jed Distler plays a good deal of it — and a lot of Jed Distler as well.
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 snack (and a view!).
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Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Nov 6, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER / MUSIC
Suzan–Lori Parks: Plays for the Plague Year
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4 – 6, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 27)
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$36-$60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
During The Lockdown, the great playwright Suzan-Lori Parks resolved to write a play every day. She performs a distilliation of them — accompanying herself on guitar.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Yakitori Taisho may not have the absolute best yakitori in New York, but it certainly has some of the latest. (And it’s good: don’t get me wrong.)
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Friday, November 4, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / DANCE / PERFORMANCE
Fellows and Residents of the American Academy in Rome: Salone
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2022
7:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I always find these institutional self-celebrations kind of creepy, as if I’m crashing a party. But you can’t argue with the line-up of fellows and residents the American Academy in Rome has put together, including such Listworthy luminaries as Colin and Erin Gee, John Jesurun, Molissa Fenley, and . . . Basil Twist!!!!!!!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hi Fi in style at The Bar at Café Kitsuné.
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Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 11:59 PM
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Thursday, November 3, 2022, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, November 3, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nazary/Fraser/Ángeles Trio: Album Release Show
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Drummer Jason Nazary and bassist Henry Fraser (from here) got together with flautist Camillo Ángeles (from Mexico City) — there’s also electronics involved — to record an album last year; tomorrow it’s out. They don’t so much ignore stylistic boundaries as render them irrelevant.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Falafel and stuff at Taïm Mediterranean Kitchen.
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Thu, Nov 3, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Nov 6, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Witness Relocation/Dan Safer: The History of Empires
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 – 6, 2022
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SUNDAY
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, November 3, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Interpretations: Scott Robinson & Wadada Leo Smith
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2022
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20; $15 students/seniors at door in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Wadada Leo Smith is one of the great musicians on this planet; tonight he presents compositions for solo piano (played by the fabulous Erika Dohi) and guitar (played by Jordan Dodson). Scott Robinson will play his own long-form composition, based on calculus, on sax and other stuff — jointed by avant-guitar legend Elliot Sharp.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, good cocktails and even good food at Grand Army Bar. Streaming at home, it’s the season for it, so keep making Audrey Saunders’s deathless Gin Gin Mule: 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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Thursday, November 3, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jennifer Koh: Alone Together
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2022
8:00 PM
The Crypt Sessions
The Crypt, Church of the Intercession
550 West 155th Street, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
$85
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Violinist Jennifer Koh is quite simply one of the crucial musicians of our time. Tonight’s solo recital comprises pieces written for her during The Quarantine by the kind of people we talk about all the time here, people like inti figgis-vizueta, Angélica Negrón, Rafiq Bhatia, and Missy Mazzoli.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As always, this show is preceded by a wine and cheese reception — but the wine and the cheese they serve are beneath contempt. R.O.K.C. for ramen, oysters, snacks, and cocktails. I love this place.
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Thursday, November 3, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Composer Portrait: Luca Francesconi
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2022
8:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$20-$30; $17-$25 seniors; $15-$22 students & under 25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
God does this List love the music of Luca Francesconi. A student of Stockhausen and Berio, he was incorporating pop and vernacular elements into European avant-garde classsical before proto-Alt Classical was a twinkle in Bang on a Can’s eye. Lockdown-delayed local premieres of two major works tonight, played by Ensemble Signal.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This List is on a Hunan kick, and Happy Hunan makes it happy.
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Thu, Nov 3, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
ZviDance: MIGRATIONS
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 – 5, 2022
7:30 THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$25; $18 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Choreographer, legendary dance teacher, and famously great guy Zvi Gotheiner rebounds from a stroke with this new piece using bird migration as a lens to consider human migration.
MAKE A NIGHT IN IT: The Lobby Bar at the Hotel Chelsea will make it a night and a half.
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Thursday, November 3, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Colin Stetson feat. Elori Saxl
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2022
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$30.25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Reeds player Colin Stetson has an edgy agressive sound. Tonight it’ll complemented by the calmer electronics of Elori Saxl.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good French bistro at Le Crocodile.
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Thu, Nov 3, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 6, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças: Fúria
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 – 6, 2022
7:30 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Peak Performances
Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University
1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey
$40-$50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lia Rodriguez finally brings her visceral, colorful dance to the New York area from a Rio favela. This piece is about the Black experience in Brazil (you can see where the title comes from). She’ll be doing a somewhat cheerier piece at BAM next week.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Too bad you can’t walk to the new Montclair branch of Nami Nori from MSU. But you sure can walk to New American treat Turtle & The Wolf.
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Thu, Nov 3, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Dance Bloc NYC
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 – 5, 2022
7:30 PM THURSDAY
7:00 & 9:00 PM FRIDAY
3:00, 7:00 & 9:00 PM SATURDAY
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$18 advance; $21 door; $15 advance students/seniors; $17 door students/seniors; $28 two-show package; $60 festival pass
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A mixed set of new dance pieces, different ones at every show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ms. Yoo for Modern Korean. Cuz I’m an Esther Choi fanboy.
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Thu, Nov 3, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 11:59 PM
OPERA
The Syndicate: True Voyage
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 – 5, 2022
7:30 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:30 PM SATURDAY
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An improvised sci-fi opera about a scientist making unexpected contact with another planet. And the scientist is sung by Raquel Acevedo Klein!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very nice Guatemalan at Claudia’s.
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Thursday, November 3, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:56 PM
MUSIC
Davóne Tines: Recital No. 1: MASS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2022
7:30 PM
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$49-$59
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Name a currently active singer more gripping than Davóne Tines. Trick question: there aren’t any. Now name composers whose music you’d rather hear than Bach, Julius Eastman, Tyshawn Sorey, and Caroline Shaw. Another trick question!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Gabriel’s lost a lot of its charm when it moved to its new Central Park South location. But they can still fix a proper Martini, I’ll tell you that.
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Thu, Nov 3, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Mina Nishimura: Mapping a Forest while Searching for an Opposite Term of Exorcist
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 – 5, 2022
7:30 PM
Danspace Project
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As dance historian Juliette Crump taught us (I’d link her great essay but it isn’t available for free anywhere), Butoh, for all its seeming nihilism and negativity, is rooted in Buddhist doctrines of compassion. And choregrapher (as well as being a remarkable dancer) Mina Nishimura has, as this piece will show, moved from post-Butoh to specifically addressing Buddhist concepts. One thing’s almost certain: it won’t make her work any less peculiar (and understand, I mean that in the most positive way possible).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Continue to show the flag at Veselka: maybe if enough people go they’ll revert to being open all night.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Either/OR: Intimacy of Detail: The Music of Chiyoko Szlavnics
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2022
9:00 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20; $10 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Chiyoko Szlavnics is less spare than a Wandelweiser, and more spare than anybody else. Another fascinating and compelling soundworld you can enter tonight.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The broth is particularly rich at E.A.K. Ramen.
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Wed, Nov 2, 2022, 8:30 PM – Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Lisa Bielawa
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 – 5, 2022
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This is very special. Lisa Bielawa is one of the best composers around, composing fluently, especially for the voice: her own (which is wonderful) and others’. You’d be hard-pressed to pick the best night of this residency. Another example of all the appealing, engaging Contemporary Classical fun that scaredy cats are missing out on.
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, November 2, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nava Dunkelman & Chuck Bettis/Human Rites
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2022
8:00 PM
Shift
411 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Nava, one of the percussion-banging Dunkelman sisters, is joined by electronics/vocals guy Chuck Bettis, ex- of the DC hardcore scene and still devoted to noise, if in different forms. Human Rites is a trio featuring violinist Jason Kao Hwang, who is always worth hearing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Outrageously good pub grub at Meckelburg’s.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Andy Statman Trio
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2022
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Andy Statman, a Klezmer musician playing avant-jazz (and Klezmer).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern Mexican at Fonda.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Argento New Music Project: Ancient Structures & Inexorable Lust: Georg Friedrich Haas, inspired by Josquin des Prez and Sappho
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2022
8:00 PM
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Maybe Georg Friedrich Haas goes beyond microtonality into minimicrotonality. His work is extreme — but what you might not expect is that it’s extremely moving. Tonight’s pieces take their respective inspirations from Josquin (as well it might) and Sappho. Anyone who’s heard any of Argento Ensemble’s astonishing performances of Haas’s in vain knows that they are insanely well-attuned guides to this incredibly compelling soundworld.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Theoretically boring, in practice delicious, Italian from the oven at Ci Siamo.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mali Obomsawin 6tet: “Sweet Tooth” Album Release
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2022
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$20-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bassist/vocalist/composer Mali Obomsawin makes such productive use of her Indigenous (Odanak First Nation) musical traditions that you might wonder how much of her music’s great appeal comes from her individually and how much comes from this unfamilar (to non-Indigenes) musical inflection. But the more you listen, the more you notice the quality of the songs, and hear her individual voice in the music. And it sure has great appeal.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sky-high cocktails and José Andrés bar snacks at Nubeluz.
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Wed, Nov 2, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 6, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Dead Centre: Chekhov’s First Play
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 – 6, 2022
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
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, Nov 2, 2022, 7:00 PM – Sun, Nov 6, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Bedlam in Repertory: The Winter’s Tale/Hedda Gabler
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 – 6, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 20)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
3:00 & 8:00 PM SATURDAY
1:00 & 7:30 PM SUNDAY
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$40-$115 WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY; $10 students/veterans/military rush WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY; pay what you can SUNDAY
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, Nov 2, 2022, 4:30 PM – Sun, Nov 6, 2022, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Lightscape
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 4, 2022 (continuing through JANUARY 8, 2023)
4:30 – 8:45 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Avenue, across the street from Crown Heights, Brooklyn
$45 adult; $24 children 3-12; free babies 0-2
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Because this is Brooklyn, what you’d normally expect to be a corny set of light sculptures strewn throughout the Garden actually turns out to be kind of great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Guadalajaran Tortas Ahogadas are unbelievably good at Cruz del Sur.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
ChamberQUEER
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2022
1:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel In Person & Live Stream
209 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
They’re here, they’re queer, they play chamber music. No, really, Andrew Yee and his associates would be great, probing musicians, playing music that’s both challenging and enjoyable, even if they were straight.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, some of the best Italian heroes in New York are at Pisillo. Streaming at home, have 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, November 1, 2022, 9:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Oneida
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2022
9:30 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$21.94
TICKETS + INFORMATION
So Oneida, with their odd unstable mashup of psychedelic, Krautrock, Minimalism, and Alt Rock, are great, right? Their previous album, Romance, might have been their best — which is not something a lot of 20-year-old bands can say. Their new album, Success, is a somewhat surprising and theoretically disappointing turn to straightahead Alt Rock. But you know what? It’s pretty good listening.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Peruvian at Llama Inn.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jennifer Choi, James Moore & Kathleen Supové: Topiary
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 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
Violinist Jennifer Choi, guitarist James Moore, and pianist Kathleen Supové are certainly a Terrific Trio. They convene for a program of composed music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, have a Martinez: pour 2 oz. Gin (Old Tom Gin if you want to go all Jerry Thomas on yourself), 3/4 oz. sweet Vermouth, and 1/4 oz. Maraschino liqueur, with 1 dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
False Harmonics #13: Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch: Inner Spaces/Amirtha Kidambi & Matteo Liberatore
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2022
8:00 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$25.58 advance; $30.71 day of
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One of the best editions of this series yet! Jazz-Iraqi Maqam trumpeter Amir El-Saffar will make his fascinating music even more fascinating by teaming up with sound artist Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch. The duo of Amirtha Kidambi on vocals and electronics and Matteo Liberatore on guitar are simply transfixting.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A really fine burger — and some the best shrimp cocktails EVER — at Red Hook Tavern.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2022, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Steve Reich: A Celebration
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2022
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$44-$101
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A celebration of a classical composer that isn’t tied to a round-number birthday: now that’s radical. But then so is pioneering Minimalist (he balks at the label but he’s stuck with it) Steve Reich, who has certainly outridden the initial haters. Tonight, the Colin Currie Group (a percussion ensemble beloved by Reich) and Synergy Vocals will perform the U.S. premiere of a new work that everyone is saying is utterly unlike anything else Reich has written (quite an accomplishment for an 86-year-old) and two older works that are among the best of the late 20th Century: Music for 18 Musiciansand Tehillim.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Keep the party going at Russian Samovar.
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Tue, Nov 1, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Stephanie Batten Bland: Embarqued: Stories of Soil
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 – 5, 2022
7:30 PM
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$35
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Stephanie Batten Bland — always interesting, always provocative — addresses historical memory and its present and future impact in connection with race issues in America.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Superstar fried chicken at Pecking House.
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Tue, Nov 1, 2022, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Shakespeare: Hamlet
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 – 5, 2022
7:30 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$44-$165
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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, hidding in back of the much less interesting Walter’s, at Karasu.
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Tue, Nov 1, 2022, 10:00 AM – Sun, Nov 6, 2022, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 – 6, 2022 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM 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
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Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: New Orleans at Lowerline.
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Tue, Nov 1, 2022, 7:30 AM – Sun, Nov 6, 2022, 11:59 AM
THEATER
Kate Tarker: Montag
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 – 6, 2022 (continuing through NOVEMBER 13)
7:30 PM
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$35 TUESDAY – SATURDAY; 99¢ SUNDAY
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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!
