 | | Best things to do in New York from March 17 - 23, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, March 17 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Saturday from Sat., February 26 until Sun., March 27, 2:00pm, Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., February 25 until Sun., March 27, 8:00pm, Every week Sunday from Sun., February 27 until Sun., March 27, 4:00pm | | Where: | St. Ann's Warehouse | | Price: | $35-$70 | | | Since making her mark on the scene with Frozen—a knockout play about a child killer, his psychiatrist, and the mother of one of his victims—Bryony Lavery has taken some punches. ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., March 16 until Sun., March 20 | | Where: | The Film Society of Lincoln Center | | Price: | $12 | | | Japanese film offers so much more than creepy animated childlike action heroes. There’s also the entire genre of ridiculously gory slasher movies, like those by Takashi Miike. The filmmaker broke ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., March 17 until Sun., March 20 | | Where: | Park Avenue Armory | | Price: | $10-$40 | | | Right when you thought art-fair season was over, it just got even better. The AIPAD Photography Show swoops into the Park Armory with more than 70 of the top international ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, March 18 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., March 18, 9:00pm | | Where: | Terminal 5 | | Price: | sold out | | | We'd be glad to write off Crystal Castles as neon-hoodie-scene succubi, but their second eponymous record was just too sharp, too similar to lucid dreaming. Their newly evolved sonic distortion ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., March 18, 8:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Ballroom | | Price: | $25 | | | Having made pensive indie folk and indie rock for more than two decades, both on his own and in groups Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon, Mark Kozelek now ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., March 18, 7:30pm, Sat., March 19, 7:30pm | | Where: | Bell House | | Price: | $10 | | | Neil Patrick Harris takes a break from his womanizing ways on How I Met Your Mother to star in an “R-rated farce” about those crazy New York parents. In The ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, March 19 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., March 19, 12:30pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | free with $15 museum admission | | | Dir. Fred M. Wilcox (1956). This elaborate, enjoyably hokey transposition of Shakespeare’s Tempest to outer space was the most highly-regarded American sci-fi feature up until 2001—it made Robby the Robot ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., March 19, 8:00pm | | Where: | Brooklyn Center for The Performing Arts | | Price: | $30-$40 | | | Male choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo pride themselves on being a roving university, a group that travels around the globe to teach the culture and history of their native South ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Sat., March 5 until Sat., March 26 | | Where: | Salon | | Price: | free | | | Artist Laurie Simmons has certainly worked with her share of dummies over the years. If you saw Lena Dunham's film Tiny Furniture, you're familiar with the work of Simmons, Dunham's ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, March 20 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Sun., March 13 until Thu., May 5 | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | $15 | | | It's been a while since we last got to venue-hop among downtown black-boxes for a theater festival, so Frigid is back to once again fill the void left by those ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., March 20, 10:30pm | | Where: | (le) Poisson Rouge | | Price: | $20 | | | Seemingly a legend in his own mind already, the fellow does deserve the attention he demands. This is a reprise of his "Things to Ruin: The Songs of Joe Iconis," ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., March 20, 5:00pm | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $8 | | | Dir. Ernst Lubitsch (1932). The last and sauciest of Lubitsch’s Hollywood operettas remade his silent hit, The Marriage Circle, as a vehicle for Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier—a pair of ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, March 21 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., March 21, 8:00pm | | Where: | Bell House | | Price: | free | | | Technology has changed the way we work, communicate, rock out, and even revolt. And slowly but surely, we are saying goodbye to the print books we’ve always known and hello ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., March 21, 6:00pm | | Where: | DCTV | | Price: | free | | | If you like being able to see all varieties of art, dance, theater, and film downtown (and not, say, on Staten Island), now is the time to come out and ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., March 21, 7:30pm | | Where: | Madison Square Garden | | Price: | $135 | | | These two teams have been duking it out since 1946 (they are two of only three teams remaining from the original NBA), and while the Celtics are way ahead in ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, March 22 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., March 10 until Sat., April 16 | | Where: | Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery | | Price: | free | | | Brooklyn-based painter José Parlá has traveled to such far-flung locales as Istanbul, Havana, and Tokyo, and, like most nomads, he has chronicled every part of that journey. Though, unlike us, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Tue., March 22 until Sun., June 12 | | Where: | Public Theater | | Price: | $75 | | | What's in a name? The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures—a prolix heading borrowed from George Bernard Shaw and Mary Baker Eddy—should in ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., March 10 until Sat., March 12, 8:00pm, Daily from Mon., March 14 until Tue., March 15, 8:00pm, Daily from Thu., March 17 until Sat., March 19, 8:00pm, Mon., March 21, 8:00pm, Tue., March 22, 8:00pm, Daily from Thu., March 24 until Sat., March 26, 8:00pm | | Where: | Beacon Theater | | Price: | $65-$750 | | | Ah, springtime... Daylight savings happens, trips are planned to SXSW, and the Allmans play about 5,000 shows at their Gotham homebase. They reclaim the Beacon after the venue stupidly gave ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, March 23 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., March 22, 8:00pm, Wed., March 23, 8:00pm | | Where: | Brooklyn Bowl | | Price: | sold out | | | Anyone's who's ever naively compared Phish's sound to that of the Grateful Dead will find ample evidence in Phish bassist Mike Gordon's solo group. Which isn't to say it's anything ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., March 9 until Sat., May 14 | | Where: | Apexart | | Price: | free | | | We know we're not the only ones who have fantasized about faking our own death and going undercover to the funeral just to see what people would say about us. ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., March 23, 8:00pm | | Where: | Whitney Museum of American Art | | Price: | $12-$18 | | | If you were to visit the White House, you would find the work of the groundbreaking African-American artist and Bronx native Glenn Ligon. The Obamas selected his 1992 work, Black ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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