Kids
- Dumbo Arts Festival
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More than 500 visual artists, along with scores of musicians, dancers, authors, storytellers, circus performers, and other creative folk, present their work at this annual street celebration. More »
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Kids
- Super Sonic Kindie Music Fest
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Elizabeth Mitchell, Jon Samson, the New Raspberry Bandits, and Karen K and the Jitterbugs perform at a waterfront community garden. More »
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Classical
- BalaSole
- Citigroup Theater, The Ailey Stu
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Roberto Villanueva's company of dancer-choreographers, known for its diversity of styles and dancer types, performs solo and ensemble works. More »
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Reading
- Seamus Heaney
- 92nd Street Y
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Poet Atsuro Riley introduces the Irish Nobel laureate, who opens the Y's 73rd season by reading from his most recent collection of poems, Human Chain . More »
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Reading
- John Lithgow
- Barnes & Noble
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The Emmy- and Oscar-winning actor talks about his life, career, and new book In Drama: An Actor's Education . More »
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Nightlife
- Swans
- Music Hall of Williamsburg
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After thirteen years, cult hero Michael Gira (the Angels of Light, the World of Skin) has revived his dark, loud, postpunk project, with the album My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky , trading on the slow build. More »
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Nightlife
- Totally J/K
- UCB East
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A new venue and new permanent weekly time slot for Joe Mande (Look at This Fucking Hipster) and Noah Garfinkel's (Best Week Ever) variety show. More »
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Nightlife
- The Rapture
- Webster Hall
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After five years' dormancy, the dance-punk pioneers--led by the distinguishing yelp of Luke Jenner--have reemerged with the pleasantly disco-skewing In the Grace of Your Love. More »
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Classical
- Sherlock, Jr.
- Baryshnikov Arts Center
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Pianist Stephen Prutsman and the Afiara String Quartet perform the New York premiere of Prutsman's piano-and-string-quartet score for this Buster Keaton movie, at a live screening. More »
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Kids
- Stone Soup
- Museum of Jewish Heritage
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A special Rosh Hashanah retelling of the classic story, followed by holiday songs and crafts. More »
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Classical
- So Percussion
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The always inventive ensemble celebrates its latest recording, of Steve Mackey's Is It Time (written for the group), with a performance of the work. More »
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Nightlife
- Lindsey Buckingham
- The Town Hall
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The Fleetwood Mac singer and guitarist recently put out his first non-major-label release, the solo album Seeds We Sow . More »
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Classical
- Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca
- Joyce Theater
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Barrio and her company perform flamenco in classic form on an exuberant program of music, dance, and song featuring a New York premiere. More »
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Theater
- Cymbeline
- Barrow Street Theatre
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Fiasco Theater's acclaimed production of Shakespeare's romance, which played a sold-out two-week run in January, returns for an extended engagement. More »
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Art
- Do Ho Suh
- Lehmann Maupin
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Suh's room-filling sculpture of a Korean house crashing into a Providence, Rhode Island, redbrick apartment building mesmerizes and amazes with its mind-boggling verisimilitude. More »
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Nightlife
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
- Bowery Ballroom
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This Detroit duo party-rocks hard enough to make their NASCAR namesake proud. More »
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Nightlife
- Red Bull Music Academy
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Legendary rap albums, performed in the borough that birthed them. More »
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Nightlife
- Louis Katz
- One and One
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He looks harmless, but beware of gut-busting when Katz--who this year released his debut album, If These Balls Could Talk , on Comedy Central Records--hosts this night of comedy in the LES. Recent drop-ins include Jim Gaffigan. More »
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Art
- Charles Dickens at 200
- The Morgan Library and Museum
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Manuscripts of novels and stories, letters, books, photos, illustrations, and caricatures celebrate the bicentennial of the great writer's birth. More »
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Reading
- Monique Truong
- Greenlight Bookstore
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The Vietnam-born author of The Book of Salt and Watermark reads from and discusses her novel about a woman's search for identity ( Bitter in the Mouth ) with graphic-novel memoirist GB Tran ( Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey ). More »
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Art
- Subculture: Visions of Sound
- The Morgan
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The symbiosis between underground U.K. bass music and the visual arts is explored in this exhibit. More »
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