Nightlife
- Diddy Dirty Money
- Hammerstein Ballroom
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Diddy gets off Twitter long enough to join lovely lady vocalists Dawn Richard and Kalenna Harper in a dance-ready tour, featuring songs off the debut Last Train to Paris . More »
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Nightlife
- The Bad Plus
- Village Vanguard
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The jazz trio plays six nights. More »
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Classical
- Avi Scher & Dancers
- Citigroup Theater, The Ailey Stu
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Prolific young choreographer Scher presents an evening of new works, including the world premiere of DreamScapes, with a score by Matt McBane and Timo Andres. More »
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Reading
- Pen World Voices Festival of International Literature
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Salman Rushdie, Malcolm Gladwell, Wallace Shawn, Deborah Eisenberg, and others assemble for opening night of the PEN World Voices Festival. More »
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Nightlife
 Big K.R.I.T.- Southpaw
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The Adele-sampling Mississippian is signed to Def Jam, but he self-released his latest, the 21-track Return of 4Eva, with guest spots from Bun B, Ludacris, Chamillionaire, and David Banner. With Freddie Gibbs. More »
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Nightlife
- Battles
- (Le) Poisson Rouge
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The sophomore album Gloss Drop by this avant-rock indie "supergroup" (now less Tyondai Braxton) is out this June, and features Gary Numan, Blonde Redhead's Kazu Makino, Boredoms' Yamantaka Eye, and D.J. Matias Aguayo. More »
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Nightlife
- Melba Moore
- Café Carlyle
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Forever Moore is the debut engagement of the Tony winner and four-time Grammy nominee (including Best New Artist in 1971). She'll both dip into the Great American Songbook and play her own R&B hits. More »
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Classical
- Lostwax
- Merce Cunningham Studio
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The troupe known for its multimedia dance-theater works performs in the New York premiere of Blinking . More »
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Art
- Henry Wessel
- Pace/MacGill
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Vintage gelatin silver prints convey the essence of the American West. More »
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Nightlife
- Lupe Fiasco
- Roseland Ballroom
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The Grammy-nominated rapper has had a tumultuous affair with the music industry, as evidenced by his long-delayed third album Lasers , his most personal to date. More »
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Theater
- The House of Blue Leaves
- Walter Kerr Theatre
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John Guare's 1971 satire of celebrity, religion, and American aspirations, which centers on the Pope's New York City visit in October 1965. More »
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Classical
- Jenny Lin
- (Le) Poisson Rouge
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The acclaimed pianist plays an intimate concert celebrating the release of her CD of Federico Mompou's Musica Callada ( Silent Music ). More »
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Art
- Nicholas Vreeland
- Leica
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This exhibition follows the journey of photographer and Buddhist monk Vreeland as he accompanies his teacher, Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, on his return to his eastern Tibet birthplace. More »
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Classical
- Siti Company
- Dance Theater Workshop
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The New York premiere of Anne Bogart and Charles Mee's "collage of America today" Under Construction . More »
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Kids
- Earth Day Flags and Flowers
- Wave Hill
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Brooklyn artist Miwa Koizumi leads a weekend of recycling-inspired art-making workshops. More »
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Kids
- The Muppets Take Manhattan
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Kermit and Miss Piggy are Broadway bound in Frank Oz's 1984 film, screened drive-in style by the Tribeca Film Festival. More »
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Art
- Drawing and Its Double
- The Drawing Center
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Nearly 60 rarely exhibited engraved metal printing plates dating from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. More »
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Reading
- Eliza Griswold, Ben Downing, and Leslie C. Chang
- National Arts Club
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An evening of poetry. More »
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Classical
- Juilliard Opera
- Peter Jay Sharp Theater
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Tomer Zvulun directs a double bill of Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi in the season-ending performance, featuring singers from Juilliard's vocal-arts institute. More »
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Art
- The Washington Haggadah: Medieval Jewish Art in Context
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Just in time for Passover, the Library of Congress has loaned the Met this highly detailed, fifteenth-century illuminated Hebrew manuscript. More »
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