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'The Scratcher Sessions'
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The Voice staff's home away from home features solid singer-songwriter acts every Sunday. Solo acts and duos only; seek thy massive klezmer dance parties elsewhere. More >> |
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| East Village | Music |
Rock of Ages
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Rock of Ages, the celebrated hymn based on First Corinthians, will not appear in this Broadway musical. Instead expect the hits of Foreigner, Styx, Pat Benatar, and Journey. The nominal plot centers on a romance conducted in the unsalubrious environs of the Sunset Strip circa 1987. More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
Handball
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| East Village | Recreation |
The Smoke Big Band
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The sensuous Smoke Jazz space is enlivened weekly by one of the best in-house acts in town: the Smoke Big Band, a reliable troupe with their own exuberant takes on Basie, Ellington, and more. Dine in with style. More >> |
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| West 100s | Music |
Bird Walks
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Bird watching once conjured up images of tramping around in tweeds and breaking for tea and crumpets, but birding is surprisingly popular for a sport that became fashionable in Victorian England. In the late 1980s it was estimated more than 61 million people in North America regularly spent... More >> |
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| Bronx | Recreation, Free Events |
'Scott Siegel's Broadway Ballyhoo'
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Once upon a time, you could find a Manhattan cabaret late show just about every night. Now, if it’s not Friday or Saturday, you’re mostly out of luck, but every Thursday this ubiquitous impresario invites various performers to get up and do what they do so well at an hour that at... More >> |
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| East 60s | Music |
'The Freedom Party' w/ DJ Herbert Holler+DJ Cosi
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Marc Smooth, Cosi, and Herbert Holler play a mix of soul, funk, hip-hop, New Jack Swing, r&b, and all things smooth to a wonderfully diverse crowd of dancers. What used to be a strictly "grown" event has slowly become home to scenesters on their night off from Williamsburg as well. (Or, as the... More >> |
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| Greenwich Village | Music |
'Jazz Night'
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This weekly jazz jam at the newly expanded Spike Hill bar in Williamsburg is as raucous as anything else on its stretch of Bedford. But the rotating cast of players is solid, the veggie burger is hot, and really, doesn't that newest Beacon's Closet discovery deserve to be aired out somewhere classy? More >> |
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| Brooklyn | Music |
Matilda: The Musical
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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... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
Peter and the Starcatcher
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Most boys have to grow up and most Broadway shows have to close. But just as Peter Pan managed to maintain eternal youth, this play, a prequel to J.M. Barrie’s story, has found a way to continue on, just down the block from Broadway at New World Stages. Alex Timbers and Roger Rees remount... More >> |
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| West 50s | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Pippin
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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... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
The Awesome '80s Prom
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Though I was born too late to enjoy an '80s prom myself, I may once have actively requested Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" at a junior high semiformal. Conversely, this interactive show aims to give nostalgia musicals a good name when it invites audiences to drink, dance, and vote for... More >> |
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| East Village | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Bird-watching walks
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More than 235 species of birds can be found in Central Park over the course of the year, ranging from natives like the blue jay to more exotic migrating visitors like the great blue heron. With thousands of green spots and lots of water, Central Park is a great place to watch birds. There are... More >> |
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| West 100s | Recreation |
Slavic Soul Party!
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Slavic Soul Party are Eastern Europe's answer to the funk (and "Grunt") of the J.B.'s or, more recently, the Budos Band. On their recordings, and every Tuesday at Barbès, the 10-person brass ensemble pins Gypsy melodies against the sort of jazzy r&b horn collages you hear in movies... More >> |
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| Park Slope | Music |
Kinky Boots
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Some of us have quite enough trouble simply walking in six-inch stilettos. But to sing and dance and act in them? Really, someone should hand out honorary Tonys to the Kinky Boots cast just for trying. This new tuner draws its inspiration from a recent British film, itself based... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
Chicha Libre
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In addition to being a popular alcoholic beverage, "chicha" also signifies the psychedelic style of cumbia fermented in Peru's Amazonian rainforests during the '70s. This terrific Brooklyn combo features One Ring Zero accordion wizard Josh Camp and members of Las Rubias del Norte. They open a... More >> |
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| Park Slope | Music |
The Mystic Circus Side Show
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| Flatiron | Music |
The Master Builder
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In Henrik Ibsen’s 1892 drama The Master Builder, Halvard Solness is an architect who believes he has a God-given power to will professional success to come to him. His new project is to build a dream home for his wife, who is perpetually grieving the death of their twins in a fire. But... More >> |
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| Fort Greene | Theater |
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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You know who Tom Petty is. What you might not know is that he made appearances on both The Simpsons and King of the Hill. Having penned and performed countless breakthrough singles, Petty could have called it quits a long time ago if it weren’t for his dedication to proving rock &... More >> |
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| West 70s | Music |
Reasons to Be Happy
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Reasons to Be Happy may be the name of writer-director Neil LaBute’s latest play, but it seems that his characters are having a hard time coming up with any. Steph and Greg are thinking about getting back together after their bad break-up three years earlier, but there is a major catch:... More >> |
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| West Village | Theater |
Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)
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No one really believed Richard Foreman when he said in 2009 that Idiot Savant would be his last play, did they? The 75-year-old avant-garde auteur is now back at the Public Theater with Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance). As with any Foreman piece, don’t expect a straightforward... More >> |
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| Greenwich Village | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Macbeth
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A highlight of last summer’s Lincoln Center Festival, the National Theatre of Scotland’s Macbeth starring Scottish actor Alan Cumming as a mental patient who channels just about every single character in the play is back for a limited engagement on Broadway. Staged by Tony... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
The Nance
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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... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
'Gotta Have Pop!'
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| Greenwich Village | Music |
Bryant Park Juggling
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“The little trick of getting three objects to dance around in your hands has always managed to keep a small sense of magic,” says instruction book Juggling for the Complete Klutz. As we could all use some magic in our lives, get out today and have some fun with the Bryant Park... More >> |
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| Murray Hill | Recreation |
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