FRIDAY Improvement (Don Leaves Linda) February 7-9 and 13-16 at The Kitchen, 8 pm: $25 One of the most common ways people encounter opera is…
Responses To The Inauguration Anniversary, And More Shows To See
WEDNESDAY Citizens United II: What Happened? Wednesday, January 17 at Ars Nova, 8 pm: $15 If you couldn’t tell from the title alone, this is…
Performance Picks: Conspiracy Puppets, Thomas Paine, Synth Improv
THURSDAY Thomas Paine In Violence Now through November 18 at HERE Arts Center, 8:30 pm: $25 While Paul Pinto may be known by some for…
Bejeweled Opera, Empowering Blurred Lines, and More Performance Picks
WEDNESDAY Masterpiece Classic: Women in Art Wednesday, February 8 at UCB Chelsea, 8 pm: $7 It is generally agreed upon that art is Good. However,…
Performance Picks: Fainting Clowns, Doom Spirituals, and So Much More
WEDNESDAY Portrait of myself as my father Continues through September 17 at BAM Fisher, 7:30 pm: $25. Choreographer Nora Chipaumire, born in Zimbabwe and based in…
Performance Picks: Big Comedy, Garbage Theory, Punk Opera, Trump
WEDNESDAY Sam’s BIG Day At The Annoyance, 367 Bedford Ave, Williamsburg. 9:30pm. $5. More info here. You’ve seen him in serial “gay teen drama” Lake…
The Ghosts of Clinton Hall: Riots, Fire, and Scandal On Astor Place
This week and next, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. In 2012, when attendees of an anarchist book…
Vaginal Davis Returns to New York, Taking on Sculpture and Mozart
Vaginal Davis is undeniably one of the most prolific artists to come out of the ’70s punk scene. The black, inter-sex born, self-declared outsider artist…
M. Lamar’s Black Radical Impulse Brings Together Metal and Devil-Worshipping Blues
It’s an interesting experience being in a public place with M. Lamar. Even in Bushwick, you can feel every eye in the room traveling back…
‘Whiskey Pants’ Operetta Envisions a Perma-Sloshed Williamsburg
Frigid Festival quickly approacheth. Starting February 18, the Kraine Theater and UNDER St. Marks will be hosting three full weeks chock full of against-the-grain theatre.…