Samantha Elisofon as Sarah Silverstein and Brandon Polansky as David Cohen in KEEP THE CHANGE. (Photographer: Giacomo Belletti.)

Tribeca Film Festival has announced 82 of the 98 feature films that’ll show this year when the festival kicks off April 19. A good $160,000 of prize money will be up for grabs among the 32 films in the competition category, so folks, it’s time to stop worrying about the dopey Oscars and whether Moonlight or La La Land should’ve won.

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THURSDAY

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Villa
March 1-April 1 at Wild Project, 7:30 pm: $35 general admission, $15 advance student tickets, $10 rush 

The Wild Project will be hosting The Play Company’s English-language premiere of Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón’s play Villa. It’s a piece for three actors that places us in a room with three women, who just so happen to be charged with determining the fate of the Villa Grimaldi. The Villa Grimaldi was a significant complex that DINA (the Chilean secret police) used during the Pinochet government to torture and interrogate political prisoners, and was in operation from approximately 1974-1978. What do you do with land that has previously been used for cruelty? The play originally premiered at the actual site of the now-demolished Villa Grimaldi outside the city of Santiago, which will be an interesting thought to keep in mind when you’re sitting in a comfortable East Village theater watching it now. More →

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Vape shops have become so ubiquitous that when Other Music closed, someone took its logo and morphed it into the above. Needless to say, in the past handful of years e-cigs have become a big business, so it’s not surprising that the industry just got its first New York trade show. Vapevent, which launched in Paris in 2013, wafted into New York today and continues at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint through tomorrow.

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