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    Tuesday, May 21
  • Mademoiselle
    Bam Rose Cinemas

    In Tony Richardson’s Mademoiselle, a stony-jawed Jeanne Moreau tenderly lifts the eggs from a bird’s nest, only to crush them in her fist—just because. And that’s not all. She also flings open floodgates, poisons the water supply, and indulges in large-scale arson. Based on Jean Genet’s short story, the 1966 noir concerns this mysterious sociopath who, like an... Read more about this event >>
  • Taylor Mac
    Joe's Pub

    The joyously flamboyant Brechtian who starred in the Foundry's Good Person of Szechwan (returning to the Public this fall, fwiw) has been workshopping pieces of his forthcoming "24-Hour History of Popular Music," with tonight dedicated to the sounds of the 1780s. Toss your tricorner hat up in the air and expect provocative analyses of the decade's hits, potentially embarrassing (yet... Read more about this event >>
  • Majical Cloudz+Gobby
    The Glasslands Gallery

    With a name like Majical Cloudz, you go in expecting horizon-leveling psychedelic hijinx, cocks on socks, general mayhem. Then you actually get a whiff of what Devon Welsh and Matthew Otto cook up in Montreal, and it's of a distinctly more intimate nature: high-impact atmospheric minimalism married to archly conversational vocals that exist somewhere between Stephen Merritt, Arab Strap, and... Read more about this event >>
  • Chuck Close Photo Maquettes
    Eykyn Maclean

    How does Chuck Close make his paintings look like photos? See for yourself at “Chuck Close Photo Maquettes,” a new exhibition that gives a behind-the-scenes look into his process with a display of more than 20 photo maquettes—primarily large-format Polaroids that he draws a precise grid on to assist in his re-creation of it on canvas. As you read Close’s scribbles... Read more about this event >>
  • Pippin
    Music Box Theatre

    They’ve got magic to do, just for you. Also tumbling, contortion, acrobatics, trapeze, and silk work. In Diane Paulus’s reimagining of Stephen Schwartz’s echt-‘70s musical, young Pippin (Matthew James Thomas) wanders around a medieval French landscape that looks a lot like a circus bigtop, with Patina Miller as ringmaster. Read more about this event >>
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    Wednesday, May 22
  • of Montreal+Wild Moccasins
    Music Hall of Williamsburg

    Once upon a time of Montreal was a psychedelic twee pop band with Beatles-inspired melodies. Over the years, however, frontman Kevin Barnes has repeatedly flipped the script both on the band’s sound—from whimsical vaudeville to coquettish glam funk—and his own identity—Skeletal Lamping saw Barnes as a black she-male named Georgie Fruit. Now pushing their 12th studio... Read more about this event >>
  • Lucien Smith
    Suzanne Geiss Company

    When Mayor Rudy Giuliani took office in 1994, artist Lucien Smith was just five years old. In his latest exhibition, “A Clean Sweep,” the now 24-year-old multimedia innovator and Cooper Union graduate goes in search of remnants of the gritty New York that were lost during the gentrification of the Giuliani era. The show is broken up into three parts: a group of free-standing... Read more about this event >>
  • The Big Knife
    American Airlines Theatre

    Charlie Castle in Clifford Odets’s The Big Knife would seem to have it all—a successful Hollywood acting career, a big house, and a beautiful wife. But all is not well. His wife (Marin Ireland) is threatening to leave him, the almighty studio bosses own him, and a starlet is poised to reveal his most damning secret to the world. Tony nominee Bobby Cannavale (The Mother- f**ker... Read more about this event >>
  • Matilda: The Musical
    Shubert Theatre

    Take a celebrated novel about a tiny tot with telekinesis. Add a cult songwriter and a famously dark playwright. And what do you get? Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s story, one of the most spiky, tender, and delightful children’s entertainments to come along in years—and it should appeal plenty to adults, too. Read more about this event >>
  • Noah Preminger
    Jazz Standard

    The young tenor titan gigged a lot before hitting the studio to cut the new Haymaker, and that preparation shows: There's an easy balance between Preminger's horn and guitarist Ben Monder's unusually fluid attack strategies, and it gives everything else extra poise and additional punch. On stage, they always lean forward. Read more about this event >>
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    Thursday, May 23
  • Friend Roulette+EULA+Matty Fasano
    The Mercury Lounge

    This Brooklyn six-piece make orchestral, sweeping compositions sound as simple as lullabies. Chamber pop riddled with baroque elements and unlikely rhythms, their sonics swing from ghostly croons straight into robotic bleeps. Throughout it all—strings, brass, two drummers and two vocalists—Friend Roulette gamble they can pull off the juxtapositions, and believe it or not, they manage it. Read more about this event >>
  • Medeski, Mali, Mercurio, & Moore
    Le Poisson Rouge

    Medeski Martin & Wood's sci-fi keyboard traditionalist John Medeski, 7 Walkers' gris-gris growler Papa Mali, and Galactic's rhythm section—Robert Mercurio (bass) and Stanton Moore (drums)—are the M&Ms. The promising New Orleans-oriented supergroup is heralding its debut gigs with the slogan "Melts in your mind, not in your hand," so expect the funk to get rather seriously outside. Read more about this event >>
  • El Anatsui
    Brooklyn Museum

    For years, the Nigerian artist El Anatsui was highly regarded for his abstract wood sculptures. But he didn’t really receive the acclaim he deserved in the mainstream until he showed his elegant metal tapestries made from flattened aluminum bottle tops at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Stitched together with copper wire, the impressive works from far away almost look like they're made of... Read more about this event >>
  • The Nance
    Lyceum Theatre

    Nathan Lane may number among the most talented of our stage entertainers, but not perhaps the most masculine. This makes him an ideal star for Douglas Carter Beane’s new play, about the world of 1930s burlesque and the men and women called upon to play gay in service of comedy. Jack O’Brien directs the vaudeville frolics. Read more about this event >>
  • Wayne Horvitz
    The Stone

    The wise keyboardist is also an inviting composer—the variety of groups he's led in the past three decades have all arrived with hip charts in front of them. This East Coast residency finds him grooming a throng of improvisers from his Seattle stomping ground, the Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble, and their YouTube calling cards suggest that they're able to make moments of melody and... Read more about this event >>
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    Friday, May 24
  • Mariah Carey
    Central Park, Rumsey Playfield

    Is it that Mariah Carey's abnormally lucky, or that she's got a career mojo that just won't quit? Neither, I'd argue: Her career longevity is directly connected to her collaborative savvy, ability to nimbly surf pop trends, and the best cosmologists and stylists Daydream royalties can buy. Even with her trademark melisma succumbing to something huskier, Mimi's still capable of convincingly... Read more about this event >>
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    Sunday, May 26
  • Robert Fripp and the Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists
    St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery

    And you thought Amanda Palmer was ambitious. Guitarists versed in meditation and the Fripp's Guitar Craft technique will pay $1000 for the privilege of training with and performing alongside the King Crimson leader during a few East Coast gigs. The fee includes room, board, transportation, and Alexander technique sessions. Fripp says the shows will reflect "a specialized study in the... Read more about this event >>
  • The Shins+Man Man
    Williamsburg Park

    "This song will change your life,” said Natalie Portman's Sam to Zach Braff's Andrew as she played “New Slang” for him in 2004's quintessential indie classic Garden State. A more accurate statement would've been that Sam and Andrew would change the Shins' lives, as a spot on the Grammy-award winning soundtrack helped catapult the dreamy indie group into mainstream success... Read more about this event >>
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