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Panic! At the Disco
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With the exclamation point safely placed back in their name, Panic! At the Disco have returned to their noir-esque, weird selves as they prepare to release their latest album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, also complete with an exclamation point. The title, a reference to Hunter S.... More >> |
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| Garment District | Music |
Watain+In Solitude+Tribulation
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For all the hoo-ha about how scary and threatening Scandinavian black metal is, few bands actually cover themselves in animal blood and worship Satan, and even fewer make it to the States to tour. One of the lucky onesif you want to call them thatis Watain, a Swedish group who have... More >> |
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| East Village | Music |
First Date
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Some years ago, composer/lyricist Michael Weiner asked an actress out on a date. She declined (though she later married him) and from this a Broadway musical was born. Weiner has teamed with colleague Alan Zachary and writer Austin Winsberg for this show about all that can go wrong—and... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
Julius Caesar
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Love the antics of the female prisoners in Orange Is the New Black? The people at St. Ann’s Warehouse must agree. For the first production of their season, they’re bringing over from London the highly praised and highly original Donmar Warehouse production of Julius Caesar. Set in a... More >> |
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Avi Hoffman's Still Jewish After All These Years
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| West 70s | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Fun Home
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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 >> |
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| Greenwich Village | Theater, Off-Broadway: Opening |
Handball
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| East Village | Recreation |
Brooklyn Boulders
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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 >> |
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| Brooklyn | Recreation |
1) All of the Above—The Big Question Answered?
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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 >> |
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| West 50s | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself
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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 >> |
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| West 50s | Arts, Art - Museums |
Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronze Sculpture from the Robert Lehman Collection
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| East 80s | Arts, Art - Museums |
Ashley Bickerton
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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 >> |
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| Lower East Side | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Robert Motherwell: Early Collages
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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 >> |
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| East 80s | Arts, Art - Museums |
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York
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| East Harlem | Photography, Arts, Art - Museums |
Here Is Where We Jump
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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 >> |
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| East Harlem | Arts, Art - Galleries |
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 |
Christian Joy
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When not dreaming up wild outfits for Karen O to rock out in (who could forget the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer in her Indian headdress at the Glastonbury festival?), Christian Joy is busy working on her own outlandish art. The talented designer’s latest show at Secret Project Robot is titled... More >> |
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| Williamsburg | Fashion and Style, Arts, Art - Galleries |
Bill W. and Dr. Bob
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Is the 13th step to create a drama about the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous? Perhaps not, but Stephen Bergman and Janet Surrey have received plaudits for this show about a night in 1935 when a stockbroker and a businessman helped talk each other out of taking a drink. Seth Gordon directs a... More >> |
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| Soho | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Fetch Clay, Make Man
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In May 1965, the young heavyweight champ Cassius Clay was nearing one of his most anticipated fights when he invited the washed-up actor Stepin Fetchit into his entourage. But why? Will Power’s new drama, Fetch Clay, Make Man, concerns how this unlikely pair became friends despite their... More >> |
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| East Village | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
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 |
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 |
Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play
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If our current way of life were to be suddenly wiped out, what traditions from the past would survivors hold on to? Playwright Anne Washburn explores this scenario in Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, which imagines that, of all things, Bart Simpson would become a vital part of the new... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Once
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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 >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
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 |
Betrayal
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In a recent interview with The New York Times, real-life married couple Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz seemed as happy as could be: She thinks he’s a great cook, they love to go on luxury vacations, and they relish opportunities to work together. In other words, when they break each... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Opening |
