New York Events Date: Wed Oct 2nd - New York Entertainment Guide

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Just Food Altman Building : 6:30 p.m. October 2
There are thousands of amazing restaurants in New York, and it’s almost impossible to try them all, but Just Food, a nonprofit organization that strives to connect local farms with communities in need, is giving you the chance to taste bites from some of the big names in New York’s... More >>
Flatiron	Food and Drink

'Carnegie Hall's Opening Night Gala' w/ the Philadelphia Orchestra+Esperanza Spalding Carnegie Hall : 7:00 p.m. October 2
Esperanza Spalding’s progression from a Post-Bop prodigy with strong Afro-Latin Jazz chops and an impeccable vocal phrasing to the electric bass-wielding Neo-Soul-Fusion songstress of 2012’s Radio Music Society might have been unexpected, but it was certainly not a fruitless... More >>
Flatiron	Music

Parquet Courts+The Beets+Yuppies+Future Punx Music Hall of Williamsburg : 8:30 p.m. October 2
The debut release from Texas transplants Parquet Courts fell under the radar, due in no small part to its exclusive release on cassette. Luckily, New York-based What's Your Rupture re-released the Light Up Gold LP, a refreshingly brisk album of snotty-n-stoned punk with crisp guitar breaks and... More >>
Brooklyn	Music

Twin Peaks The Mercury Lounge : 9:30 p.m. October 2
The way this band captures the reckless and joyful energy of being 19, you could probably guess their age even without looking them on Wiki. Playing a mix of garage rock and dream pop that brims with the scuzzy punk vigor of Iggy and suffers neither from immaturity nor sonic acne scars, the... More >>
Lower East Side	Music

PRELUDE. 13 The CUNY Graduate Center : Daily until October 4
You don't have to be an insider to know what's new in the performing arts. PRELUDE. 13 gives you a sneak peek with tickets to work-in-progress presentations, open rehearsals, and conversations with the artists. The best part? It's all free. The incredible lineup of performers includes Taylor... More >>
Murray Hill	Off-Off-Broadway: Opening, Theater, Festivals

1) All of the Above—The Big Question Answered? Church of St. Paul the Apostle : 8:30 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until October 25
If you've never been inside the magnificent Church of St. Paul the Apostle, the artist collective Openings is giving you a fun incentive to drop by. Their new show, 1) All of the Above—The Big Question Answered?, which will be held at the historic church, features the works of 37 artists... More >>
West 50s	Arts, Art - Galleries

Pippin Music Box Theatre : 2:30 p.m. every Wed., Sat.; 8:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat.; 3:00 p.m. every Sun.
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 >>
West 40s	Theater, Broadway: Now Playing

Regina Carter Birdland : 8:30 p.m. daily until October 5
The reigning queen of jazz violin has carved a niche for herself by blending the traditionalist style of Stephane Grappelli with the avant-garde bravado of Billy Bang and the dazzling technique of Itzhak Perlman. She studied with the latter at one point as a young classical violin student at... More >>
West 40s	Music

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Avi Hoffman's Still Jewish After All These Years The Triad : Daily until October 23
West 70s	Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing

Breakfast With Mugabe Jewel Box Theater : Daily until October 6
Any experienced psychiatrist will expect to encounter a range of patients, some straightforward, some difficult. It seems safe to assume that Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe belongs in the latter category and Fraser Grace’s play imagines the autocrat’s interactions with an analyst... More >>
Garment District	Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing

Final Analysis Jewel Box Theater : Daily until October 5
Running in repertory with Breakfast with Mugabe, Otho Eskin’s play at Pershing Square also centers on a psychoanalyst—in this case Sigmund Freud and his prewar Viennese milieu. In this coffeehouse-set play, he’s joined by Gustav and Alma Mahler. Josef Stalin and a proto-Nazi,... More >>
Garment District	Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing

Fun Home Public Theater : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until November 3
Not long after Alison Bechdel wrote a letter to her parents telling them she was a lesbian, her father, Bruce, was struck and killed by a Sunbeam Bread truck. But, she wonders in her bestselling 2006 graphic memoir, Fun Home, could it have been a suicide? Returning to her childhood, she tells... More >>
Greenwich Village	Theater, Off-Broadway: Opening

Handball Multiple venues : Every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun.
East Village	Recreation

Brooklyn Boulders Brooklyn Boulders : 6:00 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

Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) : 10:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until January 20
At first glance, Dorothea Rockburne’s works look like straightforward lines on a wall, but they are far from simplistic. They are mathematical solutions. Rockburne has said that “drawing is the bones of thought,” and has applied her studies in math and astronomy to her work... More >>
West 50s	Arts, Art - Museums

Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronze Sculpture from the Robert Lehman Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art : 10:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until November 17
East 80s	Arts, Art - Museums

Ashley Bickerton Lehmann Maupin : 10:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. until October 26
A pioneer of the ’80s Neo-Geo movement (short for neo-geometric conceptualism), along with Jeff Koons, Peter Halley, and Meyer Vaisman, Ashley Bickerton suddenly dropped out of the East Village scene in 1993 and moved to Bali, where he remains two decades later. His latest show, and his... More >>
Lower East Side	Arts, Art - Galleries

Robert Motherwell: Early Collages Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum : 10:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun. until January 5
As one of the revolutionaries in the New York art movement of the 1940s, Robert Motherwell started a gang of sorts that included other abstract or “automatic” artists, as he called them, like Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, William Baziotes, and Willem de Kooning. And the leader of... More >>
East 80s	Arts, Art - Museums

Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York Museum of the City of New York : 10:15 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun.
East Harlem	Photography, Arts, Art - Museums

Here Is Where We Jump El Museo Del Barrio : 11:00 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until January 4
It’s been turbulent times at El Museo del Barrio, where they recently cut back on hours and staff and are facing charges of gender discrimination brought by former director Margarita Aguilar. But with their major biennial opening today, all that is put aside to make room for what matters... More >>
East Harlem	Arts, Art - Galleries

Blek le Rat Jonathan LeVine Gallery : 11:00 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until October 5
Born in Paris in 1951, Blek le Rat first discovered graffiti in New York in the early ’70s and, a decade later, became one of the first graffiti artists in Paris. He is also credited as the first to use life-size stencils—his signature stencil being a rat silhouette. As critic Carlo... More >>
Chelsea	Arts, Art - Galleries

Bryant Park Juggling Bryant Park : 12:00 p.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. until October 31
“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 >>
Murray Hill	Recreation

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

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

Once Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre : 7:00 p.m. every Tue., Thu.; 2:00 p.m. every Wed., Sat.; 8:00 p.m. every Fri.; 3:00 p.m. every Sun.
Audiences didn’t fall slowly for New York Theatre Workshop’s adaptation of the much-loved indie film Once. Despite mixed notices, crowds fell quickly, and they fell hard. The Broadway transfer continues this fine romance, as it includes the original cast and songs in this tale of a... More >>
West 40s	Theater, Broadway: Now Playing

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Altman Building : 6:30 p.m. October 2

Carnegie Hall : 7:00 p.m. October 2

Music Hall of Williamsburg : 8:30 p.m. October 2

The Mercury Lounge : 9:30 p.m. October 2

The CUNY Graduate Center : Daily until October 4

Church of St. Paul the Apostle : 8:30 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until October 25

Music Box Theatre : 2:30 p.m. every Wed., Sat.; 8:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat.; 3:00 p.m. every Sun.

Birdland : 8:30 p.m. daily until October 5

The Triad : Daily until October 23

Jewel Box Theater : Daily until October 6

Jewel Box Theater : Daily until October 5

Public Theater : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until November 3

Multiple venues : Every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun.

Brooklyn Boulders : 6:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri.; 8:00 a.m. every Sat., Sun.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) : 10:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until January 20

The Metropolitan Museum of Art : 10:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until November 17

Lehmann Maupin : 10:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. until October 26

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum : 10:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun. until January 5

Museum of the City of New York : 10:15 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun.

El Museo Del Barrio : 11:00 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until January 4

Jonathan LeVine Gallery : 11:00 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until October 5

Bryant Park : 12:00 p.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. until October 31

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.

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.

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

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