From June 28th-30th, UCB Theatre is hosting its annual Del Close Improv Marathon, with 420 shows taking place over 56 straight hours. Performances take place at 7 venues across the city, including the East Village's UCB East Theater. A weekend pass costs $30, while tickets for premium shows can be bought in advance on the UCB website.
Named after the Platonic dialogue that discusses Socrates's death and the immortality of the soul, this exhibit showcases 10 artists who paint abstractly to explore what can't be seen.
Latinos NYC presents "Two Poets & the Black Mexican". Poetry Showcase and an Open Mic! Hosted by John CHANCE Acevedo. --Nuyorican Poets Cafe
"Tim Miller and collaborators invite you to attend the world premiere of an ensemble-devised performance at the New Museum. As the culminating event in a weeklong residency conducted by Miller, the ensemble takes the site of the museum as a platform for navigating the treacherous gap between self-representation and the viewer’s gaze." - New Museum
A "whimsical, sensual, sculptural, textural and immersive" exhibition of contemporary painted ceramics. On view through August 4.
"The Gilded Age glitters its brightest, and Wall Street is minting millionaires. A few years after Charles Dow created his average, with New York setting trading volume records, and the latest crash over a decade past, speculation is the in the air like a contagion, and in Bronson Howard's smash comedy, no one is immune." - Metropolitan Playhouse
"The Gilded Age glitters its brightest, and Wall Street is minting millionaires. A few years after Charles Dow created his average, with New York setting trading volume records, and the latest crash over a decade past, speculation is the in the air like a contagion, and in Bronson Howard's smash comedy, no one is immune." - Metropolitan Playhouse
"The Gilded Age glitters its brightest, and Wall Street is minting millionaires. A few years after Charles Dow created his average, with New York setting trading volume records, and the latest crash over a decade past, speculation is the in the air like a contagion, and in Bronson Howard's smash comedy, no one is immune." - Metropolitan Playhouse
"The Gilded Age glitters its brightest, and Wall Street is minting millionaires. A few years after Charles Dow created his average, with New York setting trading volume records, and the latest crash over a decade past, speculation is the in the air like a contagion, and in Bronson Howard's smash comedy, no one is immune." - Metropolitan Playhouse
A multimedia play based on Sontag’s diaries, which date back to her teen years and were edited by her son.
A multimedia play based on Sontag’s diaries, which date back to her teen years and were edited by her son.
"Enthralling, like watching someone howl into a rainstorm." -David Browne, Entertainment Weekly
" sound has been described as a cross between the poetic vocal style and gentle quality of Joanna Newsom and the passion, energy, and directness of Heart, lending hints of songwriting styles similar to Ani Difranco and Laura Marling." - Arlene's Grocery
"Bella's Dream follows the true story of Bella and Raymond Boll, who, heeding the advice of a dream, left Gombin, Poland in 1939, mere weeks before the Nazis invaded. The play juxtaposes scenes from their journey with the present day experiences of their grown son, Ronny, fighting prejudices he thought long gone." - CVS Center
"Bella's Dream follows the true story of Bella and Raymond Boll, who, heeding the advice of a dream, left Gombin, Poland in 1939, mere weeks before the Nazis invaded. The play juxtaposes scenes from their journey with the present day experiences of their grown son, Ronny, fighting prejudices he thought long gone." - CVS Center
"Bella's Dream follows the true story of Bella and Raymond Boll, who, heeding the advice of a dream, left Gombin, Poland in 1939, mere weeks before the Nazis invaded. The play juxtaposes scenes from their journey with the present day experiences of their grown son, Ronny, fighting prejudices he thought long gone." - CVS Center
"In which two Masshole siblings, amid a Hollywood vortex of strip malls and scientologists, square off over how to live like a grown-up." - Clubbed Thumb.
"In which two Masshole siblings, amid a Hollywood vortex of strip malls and scientologists, square off over how to live like a grown-up." - Clubbed Thumb.
"In which two Masshole siblings, amid a Hollywood vortex of strip malls and scientologists, square off over how to live like a grown-up." - Clubbed Thumb.
"In which two Masshole siblings, amid a Hollywood vortex of strip malls and scientologists, square off over how to live like a grown-up." - Clubbed Thumb.
"White Noise depicts a philosophical artist who travels to Detroit for an exhibit, where he is hosted by an aging, bickering couple who are wealthy, stingy and tormented...The play's backdrop, a ten-panel collage, is based on a 13th century Sufi tract, "Conference of Birds" by Attar." - Theater for the New City
"White Noise depicts a philosophical artist who travels to Detroit for an exhibit, where he is hosted by an aging, bickering couple who are wealthy, stingy and tormented...The play's backdrop, a ten-panel collage, is based on a 13th century Sufi tract, "Conference of Birds" by Attar." - Theater for the New City
Tony, a fisherman in a small harbor in Normandy, crosses paths with Angèle, a beautiful but emotionally stunted woman with a dark past. Angèle knows…
Taiwanese-born, Canadian-bred musician Alex Zhang Hungtai refracts popular American music, like blues, rockabilly, soul, and R&B, through his uniquely-fractured sensibility. His latest release, Drifters/Love Is…
Eleanor Friedberger, one-half of the brother-sister duo Fiery Furnaces (RIP?), plays from her newly-released sophomore solo effort, Personal Record. Recommended if you like slyly ironic, confessional 70s-style folk-pop.
"Within a pulsating dance club atmosphere, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim deconstruct the astonishing journey of Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos retracing her meteoric rise to power and subsequent descent into infamy and disgrace at the end of the People Power Revolution. Here Lies Love is a 90-minute theatrical experience. Set within a dance club atmosphere, audiences will stand and move with the actors. Comfortable shoes and clothing are recommended. Dancing is encouraged." - The Public Theater
"Within a pulsating dance club atmosphere, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim deconstruct the astonishing journey of Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos retracing her meteoric rise to power and subsequent descent into infamy and disgrace at the end of the People Power Revolution. Here Lies Love is a 90-minute theatrical experience. Set within a dance club atmosphere, audiences will stand and move with the actors. Comfortable shoes and clothing are recommended. Dancing is encouraged." - The Public Theater
Girls & Boys presents electro superstars Crookers and Fake Blood at Webster Hall.
Two of the city's underground clubbing superstars take over Output's intimate Panther room for this weekly party, featuring an ever-changing roster of guest DJs.
"Louisiana’s own dark star and Orpheus of the underground, Dax Riggs – the fool in your tarot deck – trippin’ over his own tombstone, reaching into the atmosphere and pulling spirits from the air. An alchemy of all roots music, doom metal and glam-punk poetry." - Mercury Lounge
NYC's longest running Friday night dance party and the winner of Paper Magazine's "Best Party" people's choice award in 2010.
NYC's longest running Friday night dance party and the winner of Paper Magazine's "Best Party" people's choice award in 2010.
A "cast of wild characters from the NYC underground" frequent this weekly indie dance, electro house and new wave party in The Studio at Webster Hall.
A "cast of wild characters from the NYC underground" frequent this weekly indie dance, electro house and new wave party in The Studio at Webster Hall.
A "cast of wild characters from the NYC underground" frequent this weekly indie dance, electro house and new wave party in The Studio at Webster Hall.