 | | Best things to do in New York from April 7 - 13, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, April 07 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Tue., April 5 until Fri., April 8, 8:30pm, Sat., April 9, 8:00pm, Sat., April 9, 10:30pm, Tue., April 12, 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 | Thu., April 7, 7:30pm | | Where: | Laurie Beechman Theatre | | Price: | $15 | | | We’ve all heard the similarities between Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” track and that of mother figure Madonna’s “Express Yourself,” so it’s no coincidence that comedian Nadya Ginsburg does the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., April 7, 9:00pm | | Where: | The Delancey | | Price: | $10 | | | Earl Dax's performance art party celebrates its second anniversary, with DJ Amber Martin, Glenn Marla, Gio Black Peter, Max Steele, and Philly-based performer Needles Jones. Penny Arcade hosts. More>> | | | | | | | Friday, April 08 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., April 8, 8:00pm | | Where: | Knitting Factory | | Price: | $20 | | | Even before Don Van Vliet died in December, Gary Lucas, a guitarist in Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band, was touring with his Captain Beefheart Symposium. As Lucas told the Wall Street ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., April 8, 1:30pm, Fri., April 8, 4:30pm, Fri., April 8, 7:30pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Akira Kurosawa (1951). Setsuko Hara is cast against type as Nastasia in Kurosawa’s forceful and surprisingly faithful adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novel—transposed to a postwar Hokkaido so snow-covered the actors ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., April 8, 8:00pm, Sat., April 9, 8:00pm, Sun., April 10, 6:00pm | | Where: | Brooklyn Arts Exchange | | Price: | $7-$12 | | | Six years ago, Dan Fishback protested the Gay Pride Parade: “Beyond the corporatization of the event, the very notion of gay pride felt unbelievably stupid. I’d always hated the term,” ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, April 09 | | | | | | | 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 9, 2:00pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | free with $15 museum admission | | | Dir. Ousmane Sembène (1964). Ousmane Sembène’s 1964 short feature—usually regarded as the founding work of black African cinema—is a great movie. Stunningly spare and conceptually elegant, it exposes colonial psychology ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., April 9, 7:00pm | | Where: | Warsaw | | Price: | $25 | | | A good decade and a half since their last release, the Dead Milkmen are just now tiring of the whole “Anonymous” brand of band-livin’. The result: new album The King ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, April 10 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., April 10, 1:00pm | | Where: | Bell House | | Price: | $45-$50 | | | Vegetarians stay clear of the Bell House today—the “second-and-a-half annual” (they obviously couldn’t wait any longer) Brooklyn Beefsteak is back. Prepare for a day of serious gorging on stacks and ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., April 10, 4:00pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | free with $15 museum admission | | | Dir. Ousmane Sembène (2001). The thoroughly modern heroine of Ousmane Sembène’s penultimate feature is a cheerful, competent, glamorous, and tough business woman. In socialist realism, Kiné would be termed a ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Sunday from Sun., April 10 until Sat., April 16, 3:00pm, Sat., April 16, 2:00pm, Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Tue., April 5 until Sat., April 16, 7:30pm | | Where: | BAM Harvey Theater | | Price: | $25-$70 | | | Poor King Duncan has had dismal luck this season. First he's stabbed with a samurai sword in Ping Chong's Throne of Blood, then knifed by John Douglas Thompson during Theatre ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, April 11 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., April 7 until Thu., April 14 | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $7–$9 | | | Following the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, the film series United We Stand: South African Cinema During Apartheid at Anthology Film Archives gives a rare glimpse into ... More>> | | |
| | | | | 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 11, 7:00pm | | Where: | Webster Hall | | Price: | $27-$32 | | | It's Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall's MO to be a one woman Lilith Fair, crafting bracing, empowering singles ("Suddenly I See") that define her hear-me-roar femininity. 2010's Tiger Suit took that ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, April 12 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., April 12, 9:00pm | | Where: | Knitting Factory | | Price: | $13-$15 | | | Formed in 1995, the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. [Underground Freak-Out] lineup of this venerable Japanese psychedelic collective manifests itself as a quartet led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto. Meditative, trippy, trancelike, and ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., April 12, 7:00pm | | Where: | Carnegie Hall | | Price: | $200 | | | Four decades after he first played Carnegie Hall (at age 22), folk legend James Taylor leads a gala celebration of the music venue's 120-year history. The hefty price tag may ... 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>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, April 13 | | | | | | | Time | Wed., April 13, 7:30pm, Wed., April 13, 9:30pm | | Where: | Jazz Standard | | Price: | $20 | | | The jazz bassist is a cagey composer, but he yields to other writers for the bulk of the new Action-Refraction. Tonight offers an improv session that underscores melody while connecting ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., April 13 until Sun., May 22, 8:00pm, Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., April 16 until Sun., May 22, 2:00pm | | Where: | Classic Stage Company | | Price: | $70 | | | Is honesty always the best policy? What about when there’s sex involved? In David Ives’s new play The School for Lies, the always-truthful Frank falls for a gossiping society woman. ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., April 13, 8:00pm | | Where: | Radio City Music Hall | | Price: | $54 | | | After taking a whopping 30-month break between albums, TV on the Radio have finally returned with Nine Types of Light—in all likelihood the fourth record from the critically acclaimed, perpetually ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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