 | | Best things to do in New York from March 31 - April 6, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, March 31 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., March 31, 6:30pm, Thu., March 31, 9:30pm | | Where: | BAM | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Arnaud Desplechin (2008). Deft and playful, Arnaud Desplechin’s comic, ultimately touching family melodrama, is a heady plum pudding of a movie—studded with outsized performances and drenched in cinematic brio. ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., March 31, 7:00pm | | Where: | Webster Hall | | Price: | $25/$30 DAY OF SHOW | | | This Canadian emo-folk crooner--also known to Alexisonfire fans as that band's frontman, Dallas Green--has a new one due out this summer, and early signs suggest that the dude's making a ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., March 31, 6:00pm | | Where: | 92Y Tribeca | | Price: | $6 | | | If a smile makes you beautiful, then an evening with the Gorgeous Ladies of Comedy (G.L.O.C.) should make you simply radiant. Founded by funnylady Glennis McMurray, G.L.O.C. is a new ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, April 01 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 13 until Sun., June 12, 11:00am | | Where: | Japan Society | | Price: | free | | | Who would want to kill Hello Kitty? Certainly not us. But for many Japanese artists, their country’s obsession with all things childish and cute (or kawaii) can be stifling. Using ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., April 1, 8:00pm, Sat., April 2, 8:00pm, Wed., April 6, 8:00pm | | Where: | Terminal 5 | | Price: | $28-$32 | | | Increasingly enormous Australian band Cut Copy live somewhere between the endless sweatstorm of dance music, the cuddly neon warmth of contemporary indie pop, and the nostalgic pulse of '80s new ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., March 24 until Sun., May 1, 7:30pm, Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., March 26 until Sun., May 1, 2:00pm, Every week Sunday from Sun., March 27 until Sun., May 1, 7:00pm | | Where: | Playwrights Horizons | | Price: | $55 | | | David Greenspan is not an artist who is good at staying put—or moving in reverse. He continues to excel as an actor, and nearly every year seems to bring another ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, April 02 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., April 2, 8:00pm | | Where: | Madison Square Garden | | Price: | sold out | | | After a decade of creating dance floor-ready electro-punk, LCD Soundsystem are playing a series of concerts dubbed "the Long Goodbye," and they're not kidding: after playing four shows at Terminal ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 13 until Sun., April 10, 8:00pm, Every week Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., January 15 until Sun., April 10, 2:00pm, Sat., January 15, 8:00pm, Every week Tuesday from Tue., January 18 until Sun., April 10, 7:00pm | | Where: | Manhattan Theatre Club | | Price: | $80 | | | At the Passover seder, one asks, “Why is this night different from all other nights?” That won’t be difficult to answer at Matthew Lopez’s singular play, staged by MTC. It ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., April 2, 3:00pm | | Where: | MoMA PS1 | | Price: | free | | | Talk about embracing one’s flaws—MOMA PS1 presents An Afternoon of Failure, where shortcomings are highlighted in both literary and musical form. The festivities are in honor of the release of ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, April 03 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., February 18 until Sun., April 3, 8:00pm, Every week Saturday from Sat., February 19 until Sun., April 3, 3:00pm, Every week Sunday from Sun., February 20 until Sun., April 3, 2:00pm, Every week Sunday from Sun., February 20 until Sun., April 3, 7:00pm, Every week Tuesday from Tue., February 22 until Sun., April 3, 7:00pm | | Where: | New York Theatre Workshop | | Price: | $70 | | | How did Peter Pan learn to fly? How did Captain Hook lose his hand? Find out the answers when Obie winner Alex Timbers (director of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) and ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., April 3, 12:00pm | | Where: | Brooklyn Bowl | | Price: | free | | | Finally, a flea market for people who like to rock! The first-ever Brooklyn Springtime Guitar Show is the one-day dream event for musicians desiring every piece of gear imaginable at ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., February 19 until Mon., August 29 | | Where: | MOMA | | Price: | free-$20 | | | There have been countless times that we’ve strolled through MOMA, come upon an arousing piece, and dug in our bag looking for a pen to make a note for later ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, April 04 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Saturday from Sat., March 19 until Sun., May 29, 2:00pm, Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Tue., March 15 until Sun., May 29, 8:00pm | | Where: | Schoenfeld Theater | | Price: | $67-$132 | | | Last time we saw Chris Rock, he was right here in our newsroom playing a Village Voice reporter in Julie Delpy's upcoming film 2 Days in New York. Now the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., April 4, 7:30pm | | Where: | Bowery Ballroom | | Price: | $25-$75 | | | At press time, the House Republican plan to cut all federal funding for Planned Parenthood is losing traction: Senator Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, just voiced his opposition, and other ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., April 4, 6:30pm, Mon., April 4, 10:05pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi (1936). The great Japanese director followed his tough-minded Osaka Elegy with an equally forceful but more subtle analysis of female subjugation—the story of sister geishas, one traditional ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, April 05 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., April 5, 9:30pm | | Where: | Joe's Pub | | Price: | $15 | | | Fresh from her turn as Miss Hathaway, a saucy red-haired secretary in a 1960s ad firm, the quick-fire comic Angela Di Carlo headlines at Joe's Pub back by her band, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., April 5, 9:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Ballroom | | Price: | $18 | | | At one recent show during Justin Vivian Bond's long run at Joe's Pub, the venerable performance artist explained that in order to preserve sperm before beginning estrogen treatment, V (Bond's ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., April 5, 2:50pm, Tue., April 5, 6:30pm, Tue., April 5, 10:10pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Mikio Naruse (1951). Mikio Naruse’s first masterpiece is an unvarnished, understated depiction of a love match gone stale; the great Setuko Hara gives a superbly modulated performance as a ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, April 06 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Tue., April 5 until Fri., April 8, 8:30pm | | Where: | Feinstein's at the Regency | | Price: | $71.86-$88.19 | | | What's this? A contingent of early r&b crooners at the soigne East Side room? Why not? Here's hoping some of the early hits will be included, not just fare considered ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., April 6 until Tue., April 12 | | Where: | Walter Reade Theater | | Price: | $8–$12 | | | From a Congolese symphony orchestra who struggles on through war and strife to getting a rare look into one of Africa’s most isolated tribes, the Mursi, the 18th edition of ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., March 26, 7:30pm, Wed., April 6, 7:30pm | | Where: | Madison Square Garden | | Price: | $54-$154 | | | "Two Legends. One Stage," reads the poster, and who are we to disagree? Last year, Stewart released the fifth volume in his Great American Songbook series, and Nicks has a ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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