New York Events Date: Thu May 2nd - New York Entertainment Guide

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Too $hort+Greedy Stage 48 : 6:00 p.m. May 2
When Too $hort, the Oakland legend who started hustling tapes way back in 1983, first performed in New York City, he was almost booed off the stage. Things done changed, of course, and these days $hort classics like “Burn Rubber” and “Blow the Whistle” get play on the... More >>
West 40s	Music

Johnny Marr and the Healers+Alamar Irving Plaza : 7:00 p.m. May 2
Thursday, May 2 Johnny Marr @ Irving Plaza With the release of Johnny Marr’s first true solo album, The Messenger, the alt-rock guitar icon sounds as though he’s finally rediscovered his interest in the jangly, dynamic passion plays he pioneered with the Smiths. And while the record... More >>
East Village	Music

Jack Ferver Abrons Arts Center : 8:00 p.m. May 2
Experimental choreographer-performer Jack Ferver loves to make movies his own. His past works have been inspired by films such as Return to Oz, Cleopatra, and Black Swan (for that one, he camped it up as Mila Kunis). His latest piece, All of a Sudden, is based on the film Suddenly, Last Summer... More >>
Lower East Side	Theater

Tera Melos+TTNG Knitting Factory Brooklyn : 9:00 p.m. May 2
Math rock with prog overtones is this Sacramento trio's forte, and they succeed where many of their contemporaries don't in part because they figured out that ever-shifting time signatures and sublime dynamics mean nothing if the tunes aren't there. On one release after another, its melodic... More >>
Williamsburg	Music

Fred Falke+Foals+Chrome Sparks+Jorge Bonjour Output : 10:00 p.m. May 2
The BMF of the “Alan Braxe and Friends” featured in the classic french house album The Upper Cuts, Fred Falke’s most known filter art is with his other half. In addition to original work, the duo are deft remixers, accentuating a song’s strengths and turning them into... More >>
Brooklyn	Music

Ideas City New Museum of Contemporary Art : 10:00 a.m. every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until May 4
New Yorkers love to find things to complain about, but how often do we provide real solutions? For the next four days, the New Museum turns New York City into Ideas City, a biennial festival of conferences, workshops, and more than 100 independent projects and public events where ideas and... More >>
East Village	Music, Festivals, Arts, Art - Museums

Kinky Boots Al Hirschfeld Theatre : 3:00 p.m. every Sun.; 7:00 p.m. every Tue., Thu.; 2:00 p.m. every Wed., Sat.; 8:00 p.m. every Wed., Fri., Sat.
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 >>
West 40s	Theater, Broadway: Now Playing

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Hit the Wall Barrow Street Theatre : 7:30 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until July 7; 2:30 p.m. every Sat., Sun. until July 7
In the early morning of June 28, 1969, what was going to be just another police raid on the underground gay bar the Stonewall Inn turned into the pivotal event for the modern gay-rights movement. Ike Holter's new play, which James Hannaham called "an explosive extravaganza" in his Voice review,... More >>
West Village	Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing

Here Lies Love Public Theater : Every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 19
If the shoe-obsessed Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos were able to attend David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s new musical about her life titled Here Lies Love, she’d probably wear fancy high heels for the occasion. But, for the rest of us, comfortable footwear will be more practical as... More >>
Greenwich Village	Theater

Brooklyn Boulders Brooklyn Boulders : 7:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri.; 8:00 a.m. every Sat., Sun.
Have you ever stared longingly at the Brooklyn Bridge and thought, I wish I could climb that? Brooklyn Boulders, an 18,000-square-foot refuge for the urban climber located near the Gowanus, is happy to give you a shot. In addition to providing massive synthetic boulders, 360-degree climbing... More >>
Brooklyn	Recreation

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity The Metropolitan Museum of Art : 9:30 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 9
Claude Monet may be best known as a master of Impressionism, but he could also be considered as one of the first style bloggers ever. Really! His paintings, such as Women in the Garden and Luncheon on the Grass, documented a revolutionary time for clothing. The Metropolitan Museum of... More >>
East 80s	Arts, Art - Museums

Lloyd Ziff Danziger Gallery : 10:00 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until May 4
In Patti Smith’s National Book Award–winning memoir, Just Kids, the singer-songwriter wrote about her time living with Robert Mapplethorpe in Clinton Hill, where the two young bohemians experimented with various forms of artistic expression. Photographer Lloyd Ziff, a Pratt student... More >>
West Village	Photography, Arts, Art - Galleries

Harvey Kurtzman Society of Illustrators : 10:00 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. until May 11; 12:00 p.m. every Sat.
If you’ve laughed anytime in the past 50 years, you owe Harvey Kurtzman some thanks. Triple-threat Kurtzman (writer, editor, cartoonist) and publisher William Gaines created Mad magazine in 1952, and Kurtzman’s bloody-knuckle satire inspired everyone from R. Crumb to Terry Gilliam... More >>
East 60s	Arts

PEN World Voices Festival Multiple venues : 10:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 5
Though bibliophiles are known for preferring wintry stay-at-home-and-read weather, the spring marks one event they’re excited for: the return of the PEN World Voices Festival. It’s an entire week of readings, panel discussions, and parties all over town with a range of authors from... More >>
East Village	Literary Events, Talks

El Anatsui Brooklyn Museum : 11:00 a.m. every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until August 4
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.... More >>
Prospect Heights	Arts, Art - Museums

Jay DeFeo A Retrospective Whitney Museum Of American Art : 11:00 a.m. every Wed., Thu., Sat., Sun. until June 2; 1:00 p.m. every Fri. until June 2
In 1958, the late artist Jay DeFeo went to work on a new project guided only by, what she called, “an idea that had a center to it.” Eight years and 2,300 pounds later, her enormous painting The Rose, one of her most famous works, was finished. After being forklifted out of her San... More >>
East 80s	Arts, Art - Museums

Food Book Fair Multiple venues : 12:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 5
Though eating is vital to human existence, cookbooks no longer represent the zenith of culinary literature. The Food Book Fair wants to prove, celebrate, and savor the fact that cooking has become so much more than just a joy, or a recipe to be followed. (Sorry, Julia.) Held in three locations... More >>
East Village	Literary Events, Food & Drink

New York African Film Festival Film Society of Lincoln Center - Walter Reade Theater : 12:00 p.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 31
For its 20th anniversary, the New York African Film Festival, which kicked off April 3, looks back at the contributions of the late Senegalese writer-filmmaker Ousmane Sembène (a/k/a the father of African cinema) while also showcasing the work of contemporary African directors who have... More >>
West 60s	Film - Picks

Buyer & Cellar Rattlestick Playwrights Theater : 7:00 p.m. every Mon., Wed., Thu. until May 4; 8:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat. until May 4; 3:00 p.m. every Sat., Sun. until May 4
Following a long-running TV show and some successful stage stints, actor Michael Urie no longer needs to suffer demeaning day jobs. But perhaps he can draw on earlier experience to enact a struggling thesp. In Jonathan Tolins’s comedy, Urie plays Alex More, an unlucky actor employed by a... More >>
West Village	Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing

Finks Ensemble Studio Theater : 2:00 p.m. every Sat. until May 5; 7:00 p.m. every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 5; 5:00 p.m. every Sun. until May 5
Joe Gilford: Are you now or have you ever been a playwright? Indeed, he has and in his latest script—produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre and directed by Giovanna Sardelli—he offers a fictional retelling of his parents, Jack Gilford and Madeline Lee Gilford, who were both... More >>
West 50s	Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing

The Last Will June Havoc Theatre : 8:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat. until May 5; 2:00 p.m. every Sat., Sun. until May 5; 7:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu. until May 5
How might you feel if upon reading your husband’s final testament, you learned he’d left you his second best bed? Playwright Robert Brustein will likely answer this question in the ultimate entry in his William Shakespeare trilogy, which shows Will’s retirement and growing... More >>
West 40s	Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing

Macbeth Ethel Barrymore Theater : 3:00 p.m. every Sun. until June 30; 7:00 p.m. every Mon., Tue., Thu. until June 30; 8:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat. until June 30
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 >>
West 40s	Theater, Broadway: Now Playing

Matilda: The Musical Shubert Theatre : 8:00 p.m. every Wed., Fri., Sat.; 2:00 p.m. every Wed., Sat.; 7:00 p.m. every Tue., Thu.; 3:00 p.m. every Sun.
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 >>
West 40s	Theater, Broadway: Now Playing

East Side Stories Metropolitan Playhouse : 7:00 p.m. daily until May 5; 1:00 p.m. every Sat., Sun. until May 5
You only have to check the price tags  at the John Varvatos boutique where  CBGB’s once was to know that things aren’t what they used to be in the East  Village. To explore the area’s rich history and gentrified present, the Obie-winning Metropolitan... More >>
East Village	Theater, Off-Off-Broadway: Opening

Nice Work If You Can Get It Imperial Theatre : 7:00 p.m. every Tue., Thu. until June 15; 8:00 p.m. every Wed., Fri., Sat. until June 15; 2:00 p.m. every Wed., Sat. until June 15; 3:00 p.m. every Sun. until June 15
Who doesn’t like a Gershwin tune? The producers of the new musical Nice Work If You Can Get It are betting no one. Taking all the favorite Gershwin classics (including “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off,” “I’ve Got a Crush on You,” and “Someone to... More >>
West 40s	Theater, Broadway: Now Playing

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Stage 48 : 6:00 p.m. May 2

Irving Plaza : 7:00 p.m. May 2

Abrons Arts Center : 8:00 p.m. May 2

Knitting Factory Brooklyn : 9:00 p.m. May 2

Output : 10:00 p.m. May 2

New Museum of Contemporary Art : 10:00 a.m. every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until May 4

Al Hirschfeld Theatre : 3:00 p.m. every Sun.; 7:00 p.m. every Tue., Thu.; 2:00 p.m. every Wed., Sat.; 8:00 p.m. every Wed., Fri., Sat.

Barrow Street Theatre : 7:30 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until July 7; 2:30 p.m. every Sat., Sun. until July 7

Public Theater : Every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 19

Brooklyn Boulders : 7:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri.; 8:00 a.m. every Sat., Sun.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art : 9:30 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 9

Danziger Gallery : 10:00 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until May 4

Society of Illustrators : 10:00 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. until May 11; 12:00 p.m. every Sat.

Multiple venues : 10:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 5

Brooklyn Museum : 11:00 a.m. every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until August 4

Whitney Museum Of American Art : 11:00 a.m. every Wed., Thu., Sat., Sun. until June 2; 1:00 p.m. every Fri. until June 2

Multiple venues : 12:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 5

Film Society of Lincoln Center - Walter Reade Theater : 12:00 p.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 31

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater : 7:00 p.m. every Mon., Wed., Thu. until May 4; 8:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat. until May 4; 3:00 p.m. every Sat., Sun. until May 4

Ensemble Studio Theater : 2:00 p.m. every Sat. until May 5; 7:00 p.m. every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 5; 5:00 p.m. every Sun. until May 5

June Havoc Theatre : 8:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat. until May 5; 2:00 p.m. every Sat., Sun. until May 5; 7:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu. until May 5

Ethel Barrymore Theater : 3:00 p.m. every Sun. until June 30; 7:00 p.m. every Mon., Tue., Thu. until June 30; 8:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat. until June 30

Shubert Theatre : 8:00 p.m. every Wed., Fri., Sat.; 2:00 p.m. every Wed., Sat.; 7:00 p.m. every Tue., Thu.; 3:00 p.m. every Sun.

Metropolitan Playhouse : 7:00 p.m. daily until May 5; 1:00 p.m. every Sat., Sun. until May 5

Imperial Theatre : 7:00 p.m. every Tue., Thu. until June 15; 8:00 p.m. every Wed., Fri., Sat. until June 15; 2:00 p.m. every Wed., Sat. until June 15; 3:00 p.m. every Sun. until June 15

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