Abrons Arts Center

The (*) Inn: Do Not Disturb

Target Margin checks in to Yiddish theater revival

Reid Farrington's A Christmas Carol: Your Seasonal Multimedia Fable

Dickens ghosts around the Abrons Arts Center

Pascal Rambert Offers You Some Invective

Jim Fletcher and Kate Moran go at it in Love's End

GLITTER PARADE

Downtown’s finest performers get real with Earl Dax

SEASONAL BLUES

Justin Bond's holiday gift

HAPPY HAUNTING

Steampunks are stylishly spooky

Fitzgerald & Stapleton: Mumblecore Dance

Two Irish choreographers try to conjure the elusive

Fitzgerald & Stapleton: Mumblecore Dance

Dissonant Notes at Jazz Festivals

Tensions between promoters and musicians underscore this year's slate

STRANGE FRUIT

Joey Arias channels Lady Day

A Musical Guide to Japan Benefits and Valiantly Intentioned Fundraising Efforts, Featuring Thrill Jockey and Rebecca Black

​"I've been inspired by Japan for many years and have a true love, appreciation and respect for the Japanese people and their culture," said early American-adopter and purveyor of Japan's Harajuku girl style, Gwen Stefani. "The disaster in Japan is beyond heartbreaking and I want to do anythin ... More >>

Narcissister Keeps Avant-Garde Performance Alive and Spinning

​A four-headed creature -- all masked, by the way -- with arms as legs and vice versa, Narcissister is the strikingly schizo creation of a Brooklyn-based artist/performer who trained at Alvin Ailey's Dance Center. Directed by Rob Roth, Narcissister: This Masquerade -- a one-hour romp at Abron ... More >>

Part of Their World

Mermaid headlines American Realness festival

Holiday Entertainment At Your Local Theater

​I've been rsvping up a storm so I can report to you on various theatrical stocking stuffers to fill your holiday minds with. Here's what I saw: *Three Pianos is a two-hour, intermissionless seriocomedy at NYTW, in which a trio of male musicians make like Victor Borge and deconstruct Schuber ... More >>

A STEAM-POWERED SCARE

Chilling visions of a steampunk past

Life, Death, and Rebirth at the CareFusion and Vision Jazz Festivals

John Jasperse and Nicholas Leichter View Artifice Through Different Lenses

This Weekend! The Hold Steady, Neon indian w/ Moby, Joshua Light Show w/ Silver Apples, Golden Triangles, The National, Crystal Stilts, Dr. Dog, Deer Tick, Postelles, Wild Yaks, And Much Much More

The Hold Steady, our favorite group of "wizened and wistful" meta-rock daddies (or "lowbrow bar rockers," your pick), perform tonight as part of WNYC's "Soundcheck" program" at the Greene Space. Then, abruptly setting aside all wisdom/wistfulness, the night plunges into a DJ-set orgy: Neon Indian ... More >>

Tonight! Joshua Light Show w/ itsnotyouitsme, Venom P. Stinger, Fresh Kills, Massive Attack, Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now!, And Escort

Returning tonight to the Abrons Arts Center is the Joshua Light Show, a/k/a the guy who, during the '60s and '70s, popularized gloopy, Technicolor, acid-brewed concert projections and, oh yeah, worked with Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, the Who, and other sweet dudes. Yes in My Backyard-pick itsnotyouit ... More >>

'Woods+MV & EE with the Joshua Light Show'

STARRY NIGHTS

Celebs show the downtown theater scene some love

Big Art Group Celebrates 10 Years of Multimedia Weird

Walter Dundervill and Jody Oberfelder Probe the Past

This Weekend! Gays Take to the Streets

This weekend's celebration of the Stonewall Riots' 40th anniversary culminates with the Gay Pride Parade, which features Governor Paterson as a Grand Marshal. The Nokia Theatre is hosting a Commemorative Concert and Love Ball to raise funds for Heritage of Pride, who have helped in organizing the ma ... More >>

Pleasantly Unsettling Surprises Abound at Vision Festival

Tonight! Jenny Lewis vs. PJ Harvey, and the Vision Festival Begins

Jenny Lewis in Sweet Temptation (Part 4) Fair-haired girl-next-door Jenny Lewis, the former child actress and Rilo Kiley heartthrob, plays the Music Hall of Williamsburg in support of her latest solo release, Acid Tongue, a sugary country album that's found a place in entrenched Nashville. Lewis g ... More >>

We're All in This Together: A Recipe for Joy?

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