-
Thursday, November 30, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eric Della Penna: Byzantine Stompers
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$21.95
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Improvisations on compositions derived from recovered shards of Byzantine music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Time to not get into Indian smash Masalawala & Sons again.
-
Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Dec 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Rachel Lin: Dear John
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 2, 2023
7:30 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
Brick Aux
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$18-$22
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Family drama. On a formerly important social media platform called Facebook.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: An old cheese shop lets its products strut on the plate at Pecoraro Latteria.
-
Thursday, November 30, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bridget Kibbey: Crossing the Ocean Record Release Party
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$29.20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
New York City’s go-to harpist with a program that mixes old and new European and Latinx music, including Bach, Debussy, Jacob do Bandolim, Katí Agócs. And the really good percussionist/composer Samuel Torres, who will guest (along, one presumes, with his ace ensemble).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern Mexican on the roof at elNico.
-
Thursday, November 30, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Thursday, November 30, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Colors of Raga: Jay Gandhi & Abhik Mukherjee
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2023
7:00 PM
Fotografiska
281 Park Avenue South, Gramercy, Manhattan
$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Hindustani duets for bansuri flute and sitar.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: English steak at Hawksmoor.
-
Thursday, November 30, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Éliane Radigue: Occam
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2023
7:00 & 9:00 PM
Blank Forms
468 Grand Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
7:00 PM TICKETS + INFORMATION
9:00 PM TICKETS + INFORMATION
The great French electronic composer Éliane Radigue has of late taken to writing enthralling acoustic music, prominent among which is the Occam series. Questing local trumpeter Nate Wooley and frequent Radigue collaborator Enrico M. on percussion will play different Occam pieces at each show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The newly revived, slightly relocated Nigerian spot Buka is now fully reopened. And boy is it good.
-
Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Asi Wind: Inner Circle
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 3, 2023 (continuing through JANUARY 14, 2024)
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SUNDAY
9:30 PM FRIDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY
The Gym at Judson
243 Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$110-$265
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’d been sleeping on this magic show (probably its massive mainstream success shielded it from my view). But contrary to how things might appear, just because people like something doesn’t mean it can’t get Listed.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Manhattan Red Sauce at Monte’s Trattoria.
-
Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Ashley Chen: Unisson, Rush, Distances & more
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 3, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 10)
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; 10 $10 tickets per show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Cunningham alum Ashley Chen — now resident in Paris — brings two programs of his work, one this week and one next.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vegan Soul Food sounds like an absurdity. But people who’ve eaten at Cadence sure don’t think so.
-
Thursday, November 30, 2023, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Koester & Figg: Two Families, Four Hands
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pieces by the various Bachs and the various Couperins for (or at least played on) two harpsichords.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I’m not gonna even tell you what El Mil Sabores puts on their Torta Loca sandwich. You have to see it for yourself. Streaming at home, have a Doctor: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of dark Rum and Swedish Punsch, and 3/4 oz. lime juice, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lime twist.
-
Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 4:30 AM – Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Lightscape
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 3, 2024 (continuing through JANUARY 1, 2024)
4:30 – 8:15 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Avenue, across the street from Crown Heights, Brooklyn
THURSDAY: $29.34 adult; $16.42 children 3-12; free babies 0-2
FRIDAY & SATURDAY $44.87 adult; $23.67 children 3-12; free babies 0-2
SUNDAY $39.69 adult; $21.60 children 3-12; free babies 0-2
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Because this is Brooklyn, what you’d normally expect to be a corny set of light sculptures strewn throughout the Garden actually turns out to be kind of great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fine fine New Orleans at Lowerline.
-
Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Dec 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Wayne Horvitz
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 2, 2023
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Composer-keyboardist Wayne Horvitz is another musician with the stylistic breadth to take full advantage of a weeklong residency. And, ho-hum, another artist who elides any perceived distinctions between jazz, pop, and classical.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No one better to take over the old Café Loup space than NYC Front of House vet Michael Cechhi-Azzolina with his American Bistro Cecchi’s.
-
Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Dec 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Emily Allan & Leah Hennnessey: Slash
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 2, 2023
8:00 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20-$50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Let’s let the promotional materials speak: “Betty and Veronica have tried everything to cure their crippling depression and existential despair. Everything, that is, except acting out homoerotic fanfiction.“ Lennon x McCartney, Sontag x Paglia, Trotsky x Stalin, Spock x Kirk . . . the possibilities are apparently endless.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Roman pinsa at Montesacro.
-
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Becca Blackwell & Amanda Duarte: Snatch Adams and Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 3, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 10)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$37.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There are two kinds of people: people who are unexcited by the thought of a talk show hosted by a 6-foot-high vagina and a giant taint, and people who read this List.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
-
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Pina Bausch / Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo: The Rite of Spring / common ground[s]
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 & DECEMBER 1 – 3, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 14)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$40-$125
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pina Bausch’s galvanic setting of the Rite — something that will not be forgotten by anyone who’s seen it — becomes even more galvanic in this adaptation by fabulous dancers from Africa.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent classic French at Sel et Poivre.
-
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bergamot Quartet feat. Darian Donovan Thomas: Extended Fall 2023
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2023
7:30 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bergamot Quartet continues their collaboration with poly-stylistic violinst Darian Donovan Thomas, and I hope they keep playing together like forever.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
-
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brooklyn Raga Masive: Quadrature
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2023
7:30 PM
Littlefield
635 Sackett Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$25.35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Raga Psych Jazz-Rock. Can you tell this List is getting excited?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best birria in a croweded field at Nenes Taqueria.
-
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Cirkus Moxie
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2023 (also on DECEMBER 20)
7:30 PM
Brooklyn Art Haus
24 Marcy Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$29.89
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Circus!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great wine and actually good food at Four Horsemen.
-
Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Dec 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Leslie Cuyjet: With Marion
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 2, 2023
7:00 PM
The Kitchen @ Westbeth
163 Bank Street, West Village, Manhattan
$5-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dancer Leslie Cuyjet's choreography gets better and better: she's one of those people who've mastered the art of being both abstract and analytic on the on hand and emotionally piercing on the other. Take this piece, a study of Cuyjet’s great aunt Marion, a pioneer in dance education for people of color (her students included Judith Jamison), which involves both personal memories and research.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Austrian at Wallsé. For old times’ sake.
-
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Philip Glass Ensemble: Koyaanisqatsi
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2023
7:00 PM
The Town Hall
123 West 43rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$38-$114
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What’s better than Godfrey Reggio’s phantasmagorical film Koyaanisqatsi? How about Koyaanisqatsi with Philip Glass’s score played live by his Ensemble?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good tacos at Los Tacos No. 1.
-
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Galle: Cineclub Amora
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2023
7:00 PM
Performance Space New York
150 1st Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$16.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A film screening, so not really Listable. But the film is by Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, artists/musicians whose work, redolent of their Andean heritage, this List strongly endorses. And the film is screened in the middle of an immersive performance piece. So it’s Listable after all.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Get your momo working at Lhasa.
-
Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins: Appropriate
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 3, 2023 (continuing through FEBRUARY 11, 2024)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY & SUNDAY
2:0 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
2nd Stage @ The Hayes Theater
240 West 44th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$115-$199.50; $40 limited availability under 30 years; $25 student rush
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The author of the best American play so far this Century comes up with a family drama that you can bet isn’t going to be just a family drama.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Westway Diner. Cuz it’s still there.
-
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
MUSIC
Shobbos Ranks: dub klezmer
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2023
10:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$21.95
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I prefer Punk Klezmer to Dub Klezmer myself. But let a hundred flowers bloom.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Neighborhood Italian at Mariella.
-
Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 8:00 PM – Fri, Dec 1, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
LCD Sound System: Tri-Boro Tour 2023 Residency
TUESDAY – FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28 – DECEMBER 1, 2023 (subsequent dates in Queens)
8:00 PM
Terminal 5
610 West 56th Street, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
Dynamic Pricing: I honestly have no idea
TICKETS + INFORMATION
LCD Sound System — still kind of cool, if not absolutely encapsulating the moment as in their heyday — does what is now its annual Fall extended residency.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good wine, wine-friendly snacks at Ardesia.
-
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Morgan Guerin: Tales of the Facade
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $35 door; $20 students/seniors; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You never know what instrument Morgan Guerin will be playing. Tonight it’s reeds and electronics, as he leads a sextet in an extended piece with voices — and one of the voices is J. Hoard’s.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic New American at As You Are. At home, have a Behind the Façade: pour 1-1/2 oz. Armagnac and 1/2 oz. each of apricot liqueur, Bonal, and lemon juice, with 1 dash of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a Highball glass over ice. Top with Ginger Ale. Garnish with a lemon twist (spiral cut if you have the patience).
-
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
TUESDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 & DECEMBER 2, 2023
7:30 PM TUESDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$35-$400
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Anthony Davis’s account of Malcolm X is a fabulous opera by anyone’s standards. The music is alternately roiling and swinging, and it cuts deep. And how lucky for Davis that one of the great American writers is his cousin, happy to supply a libretto. This production is directed by Robert O’Hara: perhaps the best possible choice.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and Cafe Fiorello will be open after before and after both these shows — but only Clarke’s is worth patronizing.
-
Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Crypt Lab Series: Sybarite5
TUESDAY – THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28 – 30, 2023
7:30 & 9:00 PM
The Crypt Sessions
The Crypt, Church of the Intercession
550 West 155th Street, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
$70
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Like their model Kronos, I find string quintet (standard quartet plus contrabass) Sybarite5 eclectic to a fault — not every kind of music needs to be adapted to the Western string format. But if they wanna do new pieces by people like David T. Little, Kamala Sankaram (how have I not noticed till now that all the vowels in her name are the same?), Laura Kaminsky, and Curtis Stewart, I’ma wanna listen. (A different program each night.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: There’s a wine-and-cheese reception starting an hour before each show — but I never tire of complaining that, for the high price charged for these concerts, the abominable quality of the wine and the cheese is deplorable. In any event, good burgers at At The Wallace — but most exciting of all, I’ve heard it reported on good authority that the fried cheese curds are as good as in Wisconsin.
-
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Piano Dialogues: Adam Tendler & Conor Hanick
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2023
7:30 PM
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$34
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two fine pianists play two-piano pieces by two Queer Minimalists who were, now that I think of it, similar in the way they roughed up the style: Steve Martland and the titanic Julius Eastman.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As you may recall, the revivified Old John’s Luncheonette is right across the street.
-
Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Dec 2, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Okwui Okpokwasili: adaku, part 1: the road opens
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 – DECEMBER 2, 2023
7:30 PM
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
NOTE TO LINCOLN CENTER: It’s entirely possible to diversify your offerings without abandoning your mission. Okwui Okpokwasili’s dance-theater is awesome.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A welcome return to substantive Korean food at Mokbar successor Gahm.
-
Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Dancing with Glass: The Piano Etudes
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28 – DECEMBER 3, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 10)
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Dance Reflections
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10-$91
TICKETS + INFORMATION
We had a chance to hear Philip Glass’s Piano Etudes a couple of weeks ago. Now we can see them. Choreographers include Justin Peck, Chanon Judson of Urban Bush Women, Bobbi Jene Smith, and Lucinda Childs, who was choreographing Glass before Justin Peck was born.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: How nice that Basque fave Txikito is not only back open, but better than ever.
-
Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 11:59 PM
-
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Open Stage Variety Show
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2023
7:30 PM
Voorhees Theater, New York City College of Technology In Person & Live Stream
165 Jay Street, Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn
$17.85 in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus throws open the stage to whatever variety acts dare to appear. I can’t tell you how much fun these shows can be.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, um distinctive beer at Evil Twin Brewing DUMBO Taproom. Streaming at home, have a Circus Circus: pour 2/3 oz. each of Rye and Montenegro amaro, 1 oz. dry Vermouth, and 1/2 oz. white Crème de Menthe into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice.
-
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
DMG FREE WEEKLY IN-STORE MUSIC SERIES
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2023
6:30 PM
Downtown Music Gallery
13 Monroe Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Beyond Flute ensemble doesn’t actually go much beyond flutes. Maybe beyond your expectations of flutes.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern-Korean-inflected Golden Diner.
-
Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28 – DECEMBER 3, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant.
-
Monday, November 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Catán: Florencia en el Amazonas
MONDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27 & DECEMBER 2, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 14)
8:00 PM MONDAY
1:00 PM SATURDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$37-$400
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Zachary Woolfe complains in the The Times that Florencia en el Amazonas has Puccini’s melodies and harmonies without Puccini’s dramatic/emotional thrust. Well, the reason I can enjoy Florencia and can’t abide Puccini is precisely that lack of infantilizing emotional manipulation and constant overwrought melodramaticization. For once, you can enjoy those melodies and harmonies (advanced when Puccinni employed them, retrogressive when Catán did, sure) without feeling overborne and without feeling that the whole enterprise is basically stupid. Hear for yourself.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Spend a lot of money on very good fancy Italian food at The Leopard at des Artistes.
-
Monday, November 27, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Suzanne Bocanegra feat. Paul Lazar: When a Priest Marries a Witch
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2023
7:30 PM
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$41
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The “artist lectures” created by visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra should never work. They’re theatricalized talks, using props and other visual media, given by Bocanegra through the medium of an actor who repeats words fed to them through an earpiece by Bocanegra, sitting on the side of the stage. What’s weird is that they turn out to be fascinating, compelling: a seemingly bad idea gone right. Bocanegra continues her retrospective of these pieces at Skirball this season with one of the first ones (maybe the very first?) and one of the very best, performed by the estimable Paul Lazar. It can only be a coincidence that the title evokes Ladurie.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Keep it American (you’ll know after you see this show) at the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill.
-
Monday, November 27, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Cecilia Lopez, Nate Wooley & Chris Corsano
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2023
7:30 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Solo, duo, trio. First, sound explorer Cecilia Lopez does a set by her self. Then, questing trumpeter Nate Wooley does a set with the always interesting drummer Chris Corsano. Then, the three play as a trio.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
-
Monday, November 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dana Lynn & Kyle Sanna
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2023
7:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$21.84
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trad Irish goes mod, and thinks about the environment.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better-than-Neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
-
Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Deepali Gupta: United States v. Gupta
MONDAY & TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27 & 28, 2023
7:00 PM
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Local theatermaker Deepali Gupta (you — by which I mean I — have seen her with Target Margin) is the daughter of Rajat Gupta, the McKinsey CEO who was convicted of insider trading and jailed. She’s made a musical about it. And plays the part of herself.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The excellent Bati Ethiopian Kitchen has moved from Forot Greene to . . . right around here!
-
Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27 – DECEMBER 3, 2023 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
-
Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27 – DECEMBER 3, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
-
Sunday, November 26, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Fall Lines: Lea Bertucci: Of Shadow and Substance Album Release Show / sinonó / Cole Blouin
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2023
7:30 PM
All Street Gallery
119 Hester Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$20.20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A welter of interesting sound. Lea Bertucci drones on fascinatingly with a new album. Sononó is of course Isabel Crespo Pardo’s trio with cellist Lester St. Louis and bassist Henry Fraser. Meanwhile, sound artist Cole Blouin will activate a sound installation.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A friendly reminder that it’s now conceivable that you might get into Corner Bar.
-
Sunday, November 26, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson Big Band / Sam Kochis-Kevin Murray / Hans Young Binter Trio
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2023
7:30 PM
Record Shop
360 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’m beginning to think vibraphonist Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson can do anything.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fort Defiance, a great cocktail bar with good food, is back!
-
Sunday, November 26, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Craig Harris: Brown Butterfly
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$32.27
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Trombonist/composer Craig Harris and his ensemble play his Brown Butterfly, an extended meditation on Muhammad Ali (I don't have to insert a hyperlink for Ali, do I?).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hatch chili on everything at Santa Fe BK.
-
Saturday, November 25, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zemog el Gallo Bueno
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2023
10:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This Art-Roots post-Salsa with all kinds of psych and even experimental influences is exactly what Barbès is good for.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Jamaican with a chance of Trinidadian at Stella’s.
-
Saturday, November 25, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Allison Miller: Rivers in Our Veins
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A long-form multimedia piece (on ecological themes, as you’d expect from the title) by drummer Allison Miller, featuring improvised video, tap dance, “modern” dance, and a small mixed ensemble.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, neighborhood French at French Louie. Streaming at home, have a Black River: pour 1 oz. each of overproof white Rum, lightly aged blended Rum, and Montenegro amaro into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Nick and Nora glass.
-
Saturday, November 25, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Catán: Florencia en el Amazonas
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 14)
8:00 PM
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$37-$400
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Zachary Woolfe complains in the The Times that Florencia en el Amazonas has Puccini’s melodies and harmonies without Puccini’s dramatic/emotional thrust. Well, the reason I can enjoy Florencia and can’t abide Puccini is precisely that lack of infantilizing emotional manipulation and constant overwrought melodramaticization. For once, you can enjoy those melodies and harmonies (advanced when Puccinni employed them, retrogressive when Catán did, sure) without feeling overborne and without feeling that the whole enterprise is basically stupid. Hear for yourself.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Spend a lot of money on very good fancy Italian food at The Leopard at des Artistes.
-
Saturday, November 25, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Peter Evans
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$38.50-$49.50 in person; $22 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Excitement-in-stasis, calm-in-roiling intensity: trumpeter Peter Evans does them both. How major a player is he? Well, the bass and drums in this quartet are played by Harish Raghavan and Tyshawn Sorey(!).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Italian with a chance of Ashkenazi at Mark’s Off Madison. Streaming at home, have a Horn of Plenty: pour 3 oz. Champagne, 1/3 oz. each Grand Marnier and Campari, and 1/4 oz. Grenadine into a chilled Champagne flute. Garnish with half an orange wedge and a cocktail cherry.
-
Saturday, November 25, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ulcerate / Altars/ Titans to Tachyons
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2023
6:30 PM
Saint Vitus
1120 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
$38.76
TICKETS + INFORMATION
We’re here for the Titans, jazz(+) guitarist Sally Gates’s metal band.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Taiwan on at Wenwen.
-
Friday, November 24, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Shoko Nagai: TOKALA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Seeing ancient Persian instruments and artwork displayed from Imperial storage in the Palace Museum in Nara, Japan, accordionist/composer Shoko Nagai wondered what it must have been like to hear Persian and Middle Eastern music, transported via the Silk Road, in Japan a thousand and more years ago. The band TOKALA is an attempt to imagine an answer — in a very broad, suggestive, contemporary sense.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Neighborhood Italian at Mariella.
-
Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ligeti: Atmosphères / Perry: Stabat Mater / Holst: The Planets
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 & 24 – 25, 2023
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
New York Philharmonic
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$91-$275
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The stunningly cosmic Atmosphères was the first Ligeti many of us heard, in its memorable place on the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey. You can see how in theory Holst’s The Planets could be thought to go with it, given the two pieces’ emphasis on tone color and the connotations Kubrick bestowed on the Ligeti — even though the best you can say for The Planets, as for most British holdover Late Romantic, is that it’s nice to bathe in if you’re in the mood to overlook how fundamentally stupid it is (which is why all those ‘70s Prog Rockers adapted it). As for Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater (which I guess they figured they might as well play since they already had a chorus around for The Planets): grab every chance you can to hear the music of this scandalously overlooked (for the usual reasons) composer, whose transition from sprightly Neoclassical to a still-sprightly form of Modernism this excellent piece is the fulcrum of. And the lush (I mean her voice; I have no idea what her drinking habits are) mezzo J’Nai Bridges will handle to solo vocal part!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Long-standing neighborhood French at Le Boite en Bois.
-
Friday, November 24, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 2)
8:00 PM
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$35-$400
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Anthony Davis’s account of Malcolm X is a fabulous opera by anyone’s standards. The music is alternately roiling and swinging, and it cuts deep. And how lucky for Davis that one of the great American writers is his cousin, happy to supply a libretto. This production is directed by Robert O’Hara: perhaps the best possible choice.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and Cafe Fiorello will be open after before and after both these shows — but only Clarke’s is worth patronizing.
-
Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Nov 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Ivo Dimchev: In Hell with Jesus / Top 40
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 – 26, 2023
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; 10 $10 tickets per show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bulgaria’s favorite Queer singer-songwriter — I am NOT making this up — concocts an antic musical that appears to address the fact that everybody dies (although not everybody has the same idea about what happens then). This is kind of a Major Event.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vegan Soul Food sounds like an absurdity. But people who’ve eaten at Cadence sure don’t think so.
-
Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Becca Blackwell & Amanda Duarte: Snatch Adams and Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month
TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21 – 22 & 24 – 26, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 10)
7:30 PM
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$37.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There are two kinds of people: people who are unexcited by the thought of a talk show hosted by a 6-foot-high vagina and a giant taint, and people who read this List.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
-
Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
-
Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Nov 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Asi Wind: Inner Circle
MONDAY – TUESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 – 21 & 24 – 26, 2023 (continuing through JANUARY 7, 2024)
7:00 PM MONDAY – TUESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY
9:30 PM FRIDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Gym at Judson
243 Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$110-$265
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’d been sleeping on this magic show (probably its massive mainstream success shielded it from my view). But contrary to how things might appear, just because people like something doesn’t mean it can’t get Listed.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Manhattan Red Sauce at Monte’s Trattoria.
-
Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 4:30 PM – Sun, Nov 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Lightscape
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 & 24 – 26, 2024 (continuing through JANUARY 1, 2024)
4:30 – 8:15 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Avenue, across the street from Crown Heights, Brooklyn
$44.87 adult; $23.67 children 3-12; free babies 0-2
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Because this is Brooklyn, what you’d normally expect to be a corny set of light sculptures strewn throughout the Garden actually turns out to be kind of great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fine fine New Orleans at Lowerline.
-
Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Nov 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21 – 22 & 24 – 26, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant.
-
Wednesday, November 22, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Saha Gnawa: Maalem Hassan Benjaafar & Innov Gnawa feat. Daniel Freedman, Amino Belyamani & Jason Lindner
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2023
9:00 & 10:15 PM
LunÀtico
486 Halsey Street, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I was staying once in the Medina of Marakkesh, hanging out on the rooftop of my hotel. Some Gnawi were visiting another guest, and they played their sintars late into the night, inviting me to join their party. I didn’t know anything about Northwestern African desert music back then; and I was entranced by that percussive droning music that sounded Blusey (and that, as it turned out, was also developed by Africans in slavery). Now you can be entranced, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You should at least buy some drinks from the venue. But if you want some more interesting and substantial food than LunÀtico serves, nice pizza and tapas at Saraghina.
-
Wednesday, November 22, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Wednesday, November 22, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ligeti: Atmosphères / Perry: Stabat Mater / Holst: The Planets
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 & 24 – 25, 2023
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
New York Philharmonic
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$91-$275
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The stunningly cosmic Atmosphères was the first Ligeti many of us heard, in its memorable place on the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey. You can see how in theory Holst’s The Planets could be thought to go with it, given the two pieces’ emphasis on tone color and the connotations Kubrick bestowed on the Ligeti — even though the best you can say for The Planets, as for most British holdover Late Romantic, is that it’s nice to bathe in if you’re in the mood to overlook how fundamentally stupid it is (which is why all those ‘70s Prog Rockers adapted it). As for Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater (which I guess they figured they might as well play since they already had a chorus around for The Planets): grab every chance you can to hear the music of this scandalously overlooked (for the usual reasons) composer, whose transition from sprightly Neoclassical to a still-sprightly form of Modernism this excellent piece is the fulcrum of. And the lush (I mean her voice; I have no idea what her drinking habits are) mezzo J’Nai Bridges will handle to solo vocal part!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Long-standing neighborhood French at Le Boite en Bois.
-
Wednesday, November 22, 2023, 4:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Lightscape
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 & 24 – 26, 2024 (continuing through JANUARY 1, 2024)
4:30 – 8:15 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Avenue, across the street from Crown Heights, Brooklyn
$44.87 adult; $23.67 children 3-12; free babies 0-2
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Because this is Brooklyn, what you’d normally expect to be a corny set of light sculptures strewn throughout the Garden actually turns out to be kind of great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fine fine New Orleans at Lowerline.
-
Tuesday, November 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jan Esbra & Noah Rott / Connor Evans / Nate from Floral
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2023
8:00 PM
Wonderville
1186 Broadway, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
These are all people whose electronic music can seem, depending on your mood, evanescent to the point of barely being there, or utterly transportive. Check your mood, and if you’re feeling right, GO.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before the show, grab some outstanding tacos (the tortas/cemitas are good, too) at Santa Ana Deli & Grocery.
-
Tuesday, November 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dan & Dave: Mess: experiment/D. Treut/Jolie
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2023
8:00 PM
Sleepwalk
251 Bushwick Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$14.75 advance; $15 day of (watch out for hidden fees on that “day of” price)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Making the world safe for percussion-based music that elides any purported difference between classical and jazz (and, let’s hope, pop).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Anti-social ramen at Ichiran.
-
Tuesday, November 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mexico Now: Antonio Sanchez & Bad Hombre: SHIFT
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2023
8:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$38.94-$57.48 advance; $35-50 day of (watch out for undisclosed fees on those day-of prices)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Antonio Sanchez: trained pianist, famous jazz drummer, composer of the soundtrack of Birdman yada yada yada. Bad Hombre is his political drums & electronics project — and despite the participation of some Highly Questionable Mainstream North American Pop-Rock Artists on its albums, it’s good.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Now that Tuscan charmer I Sodi has moved into a bigger new location, think it’ll be easier to get into? Me neither.
-
Tuesday, November 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brooklyn Maqam Hang: Hadi Eldebek & Friends
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2023
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Oud.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
-
Tue, Nov 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – Wed, Nov 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Becca Blackwell & Amanda Duarte: Snatch Adams and Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month
TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21 – 22 & 24 – 26, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 10)
7:30 PM
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$37.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There are two kinds of people: people who are unexcited by the thought of a talk show hosted by a 6-foot-high vagina and a giant taint, and people who read this List.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
-
Tue, Nov 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – Wed, Nov 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
-
Tuesday, November 21, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Pop-Up Concert: Russell Greenberg
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2023
6:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Get up on stage to watch ace percussionist Russell Greenberg up close. We’ll give a special shout-out to a new piece by Wandelweiserer Eva-Marie Houben, cuz (a) she’s great and (b) she doesn’t get played enough around here.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A fast-casual Global Rice chain might not sound like the most enticing idea. But J.J. Johnson is some kind of culinary genius, and the new branch of Fieldtrip brightens this neighborhood.
-
Monday, November 20, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Assembly #11: Julia Santoli/The Ghost/Nate Wooley: Mutual Aid Music
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2023
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Julia Santoli’s theatrical/conceptual vocal explorations. Michael Foster’s Queer Free Jazz trio The Ghost. And it wouldn’t be an Assembly without trumpeter Nate Wooley combining notated and unnotated music in his amazing ensemble.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
-
Monday, November 20, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Philip Glass: Selections from the Piano Etudes
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2023
8:00 PM
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$5-$125
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you didn’t make it to the multi-pianist performance of Philip Glass’s complete Piano Etudes last night, you can see an incomplete performance tonight.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Another chance not to get into Kwame Onwuachi’s Afro-Caribbean smash hit Tatania, one of the hottest restaurants in New York (for all the good that does us).
-
Monday, November 20, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Vicky Chow: Plays the Piano Music of Michael J. Schumacher
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $35 door; $20 students/seniors; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Composer Michael J. Schumacher differs from most of the others in Brooklyn — and from the deeply held beliefs of This List — by respecting boundaries and refusing to transgress them rather than denying they exist in the first place. So in this recital, he as creator has conceived of and treated the notated and semi-notated solo piano pieces that Vicky Chow will play differently from the piano/electronics pieces he will play with Chow. He once said he thinks that way because the circumstances and audiences for the different kinds of performances are different. I wonder what he thinks will change during intermission?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, eclectic New American at As You Are. At home, have an Across the Border: pour 3 oz. Mezcal, 1 oz. Averna amaro, 1-1/2 oz. grapefruit juice, and 2/3 oz. lime juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a Collins glass over ice. Top with Ginger Beer and stir. Garnish with a lime wedge.
-
Monday, November 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Cuddle Magic
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2023
7:00 PM
The Sultan Room
234 Starr Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$20.81
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I am surprised — and delighted — to learn that avant-Popsters Cuddle Magic are still making music together. Enjoy!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really great Nigerian at Hill’s Kitchen.
-
Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – Tue, Nov 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Asi Wind: Inner Circle
MONDAY – TUESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 – 21 & 24 – 26, 2023 (continuing through JANUARY 7, 2024)
7:00 PM MONDAY – TUESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY
9:30 PM FRIDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Gym at Judson
243 Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$110-$265
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’d been sleeping on this magic show (probably its massive mainstream success shielded it from my view). But contrary to how things might appear, just because people like something doesn’t mean it can’t get Listed.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Manhattan Red Sauce at Monte’s Trattoria.
-
Monday, November 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Deepali Gupta: United States v. Gupta
MONDAY & SATURDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 & 25 – 26, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 28)
7:00 PM MONDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Local theatermaker Deepali Gupta (you — by which I mean I — have seen her with Target Margin) is the daughter of Rajat Gupta, the McKinsey CEO who was convicted of insider trading and jailed. She’s made a musical about it. And plays the part of herself.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The excellent Bati Ethiopian Kitchen has moved from Forot Greene to . . . right around here!
-
Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Nov 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 – 26, 2023 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
-
Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Nov 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 – 26, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
-
Sunday, November 19, 2023, 11:30 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Sunday, November 19, 2023, 11:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Combo Chimbita
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023
11:00 PM
Baby’s All Right
146 Broadway, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$31.83
TICKETS + INFORMATION
NYC’s own Combo Chimbita’s psyched-up Cumbia is so much fun (and so conscious and political) you stop worrying about things like authenticity.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Somewhat overrated New American at Meadowsweet.
-
Sunday, November 19, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sara Cabral
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023
9:00 & 10:15 PM
LunÀtico
486 Halsey Street, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Modern Samba, melded with jazz, avant-garde, and classical in that Brazilian manner.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You should at least buy some drinks from the venue. But if you want some more interesting and substantial food than LunÀtico serves, nice pizza and tapas at Saraghina.
-
Sunday, November 19, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Outlier: Zeena Parkins-Brandon Lopez-Cecilia Lopez Trio / Sam Newsome Trio
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A trio comprising harpist Zeena Parkins, bassist Brandon Lopez, and multidisciplinary artist/electronicist Cecilia Lopez could not present a more interesting prospect. Local Free Jazz hero Sam Newsome is just good to hear.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unexpected but not really incongruous Japanese-Ashkenazi mash-up at Shalom Japan.
-
Sunday, November 19, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Terry Riley: The 19th Annual NYC In C
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023
8:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$26.78-$51.09 advance; $25-$45 day of (watch out for undisclosed fees on the day-of tickets)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dueling Founding Minimalists tonight, as LPR presents its annual “Everybody In New York Gets Together To Play Terry Riley’s In C” show. It never gets old.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nikkei smash Llama San is still sensational — and now that the fever has broken, you can actually get in.
-
Sunday, November 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alex Koi / Catherine Brookman / Arone Dyer
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023
7:30 PM
C’mon Everybody
325 Franklin Avenue, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$12.36 advance; $15 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Three musicians whose avant-Pop is sufficiently avant that you can’t tell it isn’t Alt Classical (which is as it should be).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza at Speedy Romeo.
-
Sunday, November 19, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sō Laboratories: Bergamot Quartet & Friends
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023
7:00 PM
20 Grand Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$15 suggested donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bergamot Quartet are great enough by themselves. Can’t wait to see what friends they bring.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Stylish Cambodian at Lula Mae.
-
Sunday, November 19, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Darian Donovan Thomas / Miserable Chillers / Turbo World / Anna Altman
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023
7:00 PM
Sundownstairs, Sundown Bar
68-38 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$14.04
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Darian Donovan Thomas composes and plays (on many different instruments) droning yet communicative pieces that are good to listen to. The rest of the acts play familiar pop styles with varying degrees of freshness. I vote for the Prog-Electropop of Turbo World.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re in a bar with a pretty good cocktail program. For something more solid, Nepalese-New York fusion (cuz why not?) at While in Kathmandu.
-
Sunday, November 19, 2023, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Katie Hyun & Bridget Kibbey: Baroque Two Ways
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023
5:00 PM
Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church
178 Bennett Avenue, Washington Heights, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Baroque music on violin and harp — played on both period and modern instruments.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unserious but fun local bar Monkey Room.
-
Sunday, November 19, 2023, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Cassatt Quartet feat. Dov Scheindlin
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023
5:00 PM
Hudson View Gardens
116 Pinehurst Avenue, Washington Heights, Manhattan
$15; $12 children over 8 (presumably they suggest no donation for children under 8 rather than $20)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Last week the Cassatts played Ossining, where one of them lives. Dare we guess that another of them lives in this lovely coop? They reprise Victoria Bond’s really good quartet Blue and Green Music. And also one of those early Beethoven quartets where he still sounds like Haydn. If we have to endure some Florence Price for that, well, you can gaze out at the Hudson.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pub grub in the charming Le Chéile.
-
Sunday, November 19, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Catán: Florencia en el Amazonas
THURSDAY & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 & 19, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 14)
8:00 PM THURSDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$37-$400
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The opera I ever saw by Daniel Catán was Rappaccini’s Daughter at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I was surprised. Here was this contemporary composer (he had just recently died) who wrote beautifully in a gorgeous Common-Practice ideom that could be appreciated by just about anyone and who was, moreover, one of those born opera composers, able to use music to express things in an unhackeyed way and also able to keep things moving. And then I saw this magical work. People are going to be surprised at how much they end up enjoying this Magical Realist opera. And this is one piece that will benefit from a well-funded Met production — and Mary Zimmerman is just the director to helm it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Spend a lot of money on very good fancy Italian food at The Leopard at des Artistes.
-
Sunday, November 19, 2023, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Saturday, November 18, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ghost Train Orchestra: Plays Moondog
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$35 advance; $40 door; $30 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An all-star (well, stars on The List) (and be warned: not nearly as starry as on the album of which this concert is an offshoot) band plays big band arrangements of the wonderful music of Moondog, maybe the most Inside Outsider artist in the history of Western classical music (I mean, he hung with Mitropoulis; he recorded with Julie Andrews).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, neighborhood French at French Louie. Streaming at home, have a Midnight Moon: pour 1/2 oz. each of Cognac, Amaretto, and white Crème de Cacao into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Top with Champagne.
-
Saturday, November 18, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
DakhaBrakha
WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 & 18, 2023
8:00 PM
WEDNESDAY: City Winery
25 11th Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
SATURDAY: Peak Performances
Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University
1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey
WEDNESDAY: $40-$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
SATURDAY: $45-$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
DhakaBrakha’s theatrical, punked-out trad Ukrainian is terrific, just terrific.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wednesday in Chelsea, Thai at Ayada. Saturday in Montclair, it’s not that there’s only one good restaurant there — there are lots — but that there’s only one within walking distance of Montclair State: New American treat Turtle & The Wolf.
-
Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
-
Saturday, November 18, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
El Khat
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$32.27
TICKETS + INFORMATION
El Khat plays exciting junkyard versions of trad Yemeni music. And boy is it great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Israeli at K’Far.
-
Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Deepali Gupta: United States v. Gupta
MONDAY & SATURDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 & 25 – 26, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 28)
7:00 PM MONDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Local theatermaker Deepali Gupta (you — by which I mean I — have seen her with Target Margin) is the daughter of Rajat Gupta, the McKinsey CEO who was convicted of insider trading and jailed. She’s made a musical about it. And plays the part of herself.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The excellent Bati Ethiopian Kitchen has moved from Forot Greene to . . . right around here!
-
Saturday, November 18, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
A Matta Prayer
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2023
7:00 PM
The Great Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Amidst an installation by Jacolby Satterwhite (who’s pretty great himself) multidisciplinary musical performances will occur. Tonight is a double bill. I always found Lafawandah’s devotional Arabic Electropop insipid. But then she dropped a track called “The Dawn of Everything” that roughens up the edges a bit, and actually does everything she’s always claimed: this music is cosmic. Electronic popster Nightfeelings is banal.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Truly good bistro at Quatorze.
-
Saturday, November 18, 2023, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
TUESDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 & 18, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 2)
7:30 PM TUESDAY
1:00 PM SATURDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$35-$400
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Anthony Davis’s account of Malcolm X is a fabulous opera by anyone’s standards. The music is alternately roiling and swinging, and it cuts deep. And how lucky for Davis that one of the great American writers is his cousin, happy to supply a libretto. This production is directed by Robert O’Hara: perhaps the best possible choice.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and Cafe Fiorello will be open after before and after both these shows — but only Clarke’s is worth patronizing.
-
Friday, November 17, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Marina Rosenfeld: Greatest Hits
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
9:00 PM
Sara’s
2 East Broadway, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Electronic conceptualist Marina Rosenfeld celebrates the release of a new recording of her quasi-retrospective piece Greatest Hits (recorded live at PS1 a couple of years ago) with a performance, accompanied by not one but two fabulous percussionists, Greg Fox and Eli Keszler.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Interesting and delicious Hakka food at Hakka Cuisine.
-
Friday, November 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mary Prescott: Lucent Ground
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors advance; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mary Prescott is a multidisciplinary artist whose music-with-other-inputs pieces please, challenge, and fascinate. This one takes off from Asian folkloric sonic and mythological elements to create what she promises will be wonder.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, superb Palestinian at AlBadawi. Streaming at home, have a Sabai Sabai: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Mekhong (you have to first get some Mekhong) and lemon juice, and 1/2 oz. Simple Syrup, with 2 Thai basil leaves, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice.
-
Friday, November 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Yasunao Tone / Marcia Bassett & Bob Bellerue
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @ Brooklyn Music School
126 St. Felix Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$21
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Fluxus member Yasunao Tone plays a solo set (if he keeps up his recent practice, on MP3). Experimental musicians Marcia Bassett and Bob Bellerue play a duo set (on guitar, piano, and electronics).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Undersung Turkish at Deniz.
-
Friday, November 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Telos Consort
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
8:00 PM
ShapeShifter Lab
837 Union Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$25; $15 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
New works — including by ensemble members.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Who’d have thought one of the better and more distinctive Thai restaurants in New York City would be in Park Slope? Bangkok Degree.
-
Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Choral Society: Angel of Many Signs
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 & 18, 2023
7:30 PM FRIDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John Jay College In Person & FRIDAY Live Stream
524 West 59th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
$33.77-$55.09 in person; $10 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Kevin Siegfried likes to write contemporary arrangements of austere Shaker music, and the cantata Angel of Lightis his big piece along those lines. There’ll also be some contemporary arrangements of Hildegard, all undergirded by the Bergamot Quartet and electronics by Raquel Acevedo Klein, with accompanying visuals.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Italian wine and food at Masseria del Vini.
-
Friday, November 17, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Juilliard415: Invention of the Orchestra
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
7:30 PM
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
1941 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$32.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Late 17th Century Baroque from Italy, Germany, and France. Again, I guess it’s possible to dislike this stuff — but why?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Longstanding neighborhood French at La Boite en Bois.
-
Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Dimitri Chamblas & Kim Gordon: TAKEMEHOME
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 & 18, 2023
7:30 PM
Dance Reflections
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$46
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Nine dancers and five electric guitarists under a giant zeppelin.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lotsa beer at Peculiar Pub.
-
Friday, November 17, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Pentacle Presents: Fall Further XII
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
7:30 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$17.10 advance; $18 door; $14 advance students/seniors; $15 door students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
More mixed dance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: OK neo-Red Sauce at Sauce.
-
Friday, November 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Modular Society: Low Status Sound
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
7:00 PM
Trans-Pecos
915 Wyckoff Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Nostalgia for the future with an evening of modular synth music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nepalese-New York fusion at While in Kathmandu.
-
Friday, November 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kathleen Supové: Confinement / Escape
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
7:00 PM
Old Stone House, Washington Park
336 Third Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In the first half of the show, Exploding Pianist Kathleen Supové uses some of her personal favorite objects as graphic scores which she plays on the piano. In the second half, she accepts objects from audience members and makes similar use of them. I have no idea what this will sound like.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: What do you know? An Emmy Squared, with its Detroit-style pizza, has materialized across the street from Washington Park.
-
Friday, November 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Jody Sperling / Time Lapse Dance: Arbor
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
7:00 PM
New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Post-Modern Modernist Jody Sperling presents an evening of dances on ecological themes.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mediterranean at Boulud Sud.
-
Friday, November 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Friday, November 17, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Arts for Arts: Family Gathering
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
6:00 PM
Flamboyan Theater, The Clemente
114 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$60-$100
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I don’t usually List fundraisers priced substantially higher than what the producing organization usually charges. Not that I begrudge NFPs’ attempts to raise money, God knows. But the value in the higher prices usually lies in supporting the organization rather than in the show itself, and I don’t feel it’s This List’s place to recommend that. Free Jazz stalwarts Arts for Arts, however, usually charge such low prices — often nothing — that even when they hike the ticket prices up for a fundraiser, the $60 minimum entry fee is actually worth it in itself, considering the stellar array of Free Jazz players they’ve assembled.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Argentine at Balaverna.
-
Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 5:30 PM – Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Lightscape
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17 – 19, 2024 (continuing through JANUARY 1, 2024)
5:30 – 8:15 PM FRIDAY
5:15 - 8:15 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Avenue, across the street from Crown Heights, Brooklyn
$29.34 adult; $16.42 children 3-12; free babies 0-2
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Because this is Brooklyn, what you’d normally expect to be a corny set of light sculptures strewn throughout the Garden actually turns out to be kind of great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fine fine New Orleans at Lowerline.
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Razor-N-Tape Presents: Make a Joyful Noise
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023
8:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$25.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another of those fun nights where a Nu Jazz ensemble weaves in and out of tracks played by really good DJs. Indeed, this night will be especially fun, as the Afrofuturist slapstick Illustrious Blacks will be on hand in fabulous person.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Oaxacan at Claro.
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Fire Over Heaven
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023
8:00 PM
Outpost Artists Resources
1665 Norman Street, Ridgewood, Queens
$17.18
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Guitar genius (which does not mean he’s a technician or a shredder) Che Chen — who programs this series. Multidisciplinary artist Victoria Keddie — who will probably be wearing her sound artist hat.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Charming, delightful Italian-accented New American Tavern food at Rolo’s.
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Yellow Swans/ Masma Dream World / Carlos Gifoni / NIKA (Zola Jesus)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023
8:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$38.94 advance; $35 day of (watch out for undisclosed fees on that day-of price)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Noise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Now that Tuscan charmer I Sodi has moved into a bigger new location, think it’ll be easier to get into? Me neither.
-
Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Eric Dyer: Faust (The Broken Show)
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 19, 2023
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
Brick Theater
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$22-$52
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Eric Dyer of Radiohole does a manic one-person take on the Faust legend, drawing on all the sources you’d expect.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go down the block to H&H Reserve for some great Dog Day Afternoon Chicago hot dogs and non-Chicago Frito Pie.
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Lucie Vítková: OPERA: SITE
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors advance; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A new opera by Lucie Vitková developed from sound samples taken throughout New York City and using newly devised instruments.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, good cocktails and even good food at Grand Army Bar. Streaming at home, have a New York Sour: pour 2 oz. Rye, 1 oz. lemon juice, and 1/2 oz. Simple Syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice. Top with a float of red wine (Bordeaux being my preference in this drink, although I know others who prefer Burgundy).
-
Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE / PERFORMANCE
Tess Dworman: EVERYTHING MUST GO
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 18, 2023
8:00 PM
Pageant
70 Graham Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tess Dworman, whose work is always biting and frequently funny, takes on Capitalsim. I’m with her, although depressingly Capitalism always seems to win these skirmishes.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican snacks and mad desserts at Maya’s Snack Bar.
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Catán: Florencia en el Amazonas
THURSDAY & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 & 19, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 14)
8:00 PM THURSDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$37-$400
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The opera I ever saw by Daniel Catán was Rappaccini’s Daughter at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I was surprised. Here was this contemporary composer (he had just recently died) who wrote beautifully in a gorgeous Common-Practice ideom that could be appreciated by just about anyone and who was, moreover, one of those born opera composers, able to use music to express things in an unhackeyed way and also able to keep things moving. And then I saw this magical work. People are going to be surprised at how much they end up enjoying this Magical Realist opera. And this is one piece that will benefit from a well-funded Met production — and Mary Zimmerman is just the director to helm it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Spend a lot of money on very good fancy Italian food at The Leopard at des Artistes.
-
Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
LCD Sound System: Tri-Boro Tour 2023 Residency
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 19, 2023 (subsequent dates in Manhattan & Queens)
8:00 PM
Brooklyn Steel
319 Frost Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Dynamic Pricing: I honestly have no idea
TICKETS + INFORMATION
LCD Sound System — still kind of cool, if not absolutely encapsulating the moment as in their heyday — does what is now its annual Fall extended residency.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: James Murphy would want you to go spend more money on him at his (great) wine bar The Four Horsemen.
-
Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Ivo Dimchev: In Hell with Jesus / Top 40
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 19, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 26)
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; 10 $10 tickets per show
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bulgaria’s favorite Queer singer-songwriter — I am NOT making this up — concocts an antic musical that appears to address the fact that everybody dies (although not everybody has the same idea about what happens then). This is kind of a Major Event.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vegan Soul Food sounds like an absurdity. But people who’ve eaten at Cadence sure don’t think so.
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
John Zorn at 70: Barbara Hannigan & John Zorn
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023
8:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$23.25-$33.50; students & Under 25 $18.25-$25.50; seniors $20.25-$28.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Possibly the starriest attack in avant-workoholic John Zorn’s Birthday onslaught. To call Barbara Hannigan a major singer/artist would be to understate things, and she’s backed in this program of Zorn’s vocal music by a stunning array of vanguard players.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A fast-casual Global Rice chain might not sound like the most enticing idea. But J.J. Johnson is some kind of culinary genius, and the new branch of Fieldtrip brightens this neighborhood.
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Mosaic Composers Collective: Sculpting the Self: Sexuality and Liberation
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$26.14
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Do I want music to “explore sexual health”? Do I really? Remember when art used to be art and not a fucking PSA?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good French bistro at Le Crocodile.
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Futuros: Walter Aparicio/Raquel Acevedo Klein/Pauchi Sasaki
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023
7:30 PM
David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center
61 West 62nd Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This series of Latine art music concludes. Raquel Acevedo Klein is of course a familiar figure on the NYC Alt Classical scene with her vocal music. Pauchi Sasaki does interdisciplinary multimedia works (the first piece of hers I saw/heard was a composition for two electronic dresses) that are a lot more consonant than you think they’re going to be (take that as you will). Walter Aparicio will give a brief recital of Latine solo piano pieces.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can whine that Rosa Mexicano isn’t nearly as good as it used to be, and I’ll whine right along with you. But it isn’t affirmatively bad.
-
Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Akram Khan: The Jungle Book
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 18, 2023
7:30 PM
Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center
10 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$5-$125
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Akram Khan started as a Kathak dancer and then began to incorporate European Modern-into-Post-Modern and a lot other stuff as well. Maybe too much stuff? I always wish I liked his work more. Lately he’s been tinkering with classics, which creates its own kind of interest. So this reimagination by this Bangladeshi-British artist of a Colonialist interpretation of India is compelling at least in theory.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun Cuban at Guantanamera.
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
I Gemelli: A Room of Mirrors: Music by d’India, Marini, Frescobaldi, Calestani & Gregori
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023
7:30 PM
Boston Early Music Festival
Morgan Library
225 Madison Avenue, Murray Hill, Manhattan
$56.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Early Italian Baroque vocal music: I guess it’s possible not to enjoy anything — but in this case it’s kind of a stretch.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: TV (television, not transvestite) ramen at Momosan.
-
Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
La MaMa Puppet Festival
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 18, 2023
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$10-$30; students/seniors $10-$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
PUPPETS! And you know what? It all looks GREAT!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican insect cuisine at The Black Ant.
-
Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Deepali Gupta: United States v. Gupta
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 & 16 – 19, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 28)
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Local theatermaker Deepali Gupta (you — by which I mean I — have seen her with Target Margin) is the daughter of Rajat Gupta, the McKinsey CEO who was convicted of insider trading and jailed. She’s made a musical about it. And plays the part of herself.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The excellent Bati Ethiopian Kitchen has moved from Forot Greene to . . . right around here!
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
NOVUS NY: Renewal: Transcendence
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023
6:30 PM
Trinity Church
89 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A performance of Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps, one of the best pieces of Western chamber music written in the last century — maybe the best. A piece so moving, so utterly affecting, so shot full of mystery that even people who think they don’t like new music (and this piece is so new it was written in a Nazi P.O.W. camp 80 years ago) surprise themselves by loving it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Daniel Boulud’s purported Lyonnais Bouchon Le Gratin is more boring than it should be — but better than it could have been.
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Visveshwar Nagarajan, Sanjay Sharma & Bala Skandan: Carnatic Music
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023
6:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University In Person & Live Stream
1160 Amsterdam Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Intense and exquisite.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, one of the most pleasurable places in New York, the Hungarian Pastry Shop. You WILL leave smiling. Streaming at home, have a Bengal Tiger: pour 1-1/2 oz. Brandy, 1/2 oz. each of Maraschino liqueur and Cointreau, and 1 oz. pineapple juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 5:15 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Tomomi Adachi: Noh-opera / Noh-tation: Decoding John Cage's Unrealized Project
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023
5:15 & 7:30 PM
John Cage’s Japan
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street, Turtle Bay, Manhattan
$40 5:15 PM; $32 persons with disability 5:15 PM; $42 7:30; $34 persons with disability 7:30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
So John Cage had conceived of this Noh-Opera (subtitled The Complete Musical Works of Marcel Duchamp) to be staged in Japan. But he never actually wrote (or — this is Cage — “wrote”) it. Now, composer/performer/sound artist Tomomi Adachi hasn't “realized” Cage’s piece but written his own imagination of what a Cage Noh-Opera could be like. Sung by Gelsey Bell, acted by Noh actor Wakako Matsuda, played by wind soloists from the International Contemporary Ensemble.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Red Sauce at Pietro’s (you’re sort of obligated to order the Shells a la Nat).
-
Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 5:00 PM – Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
-
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Night Music: Telemann the Godfather
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Philadelphia’s Night Music ensemble gets up early to play chamber music by Telemann, his godson C.P.E. Bach, and Emanuel Bach’s galant contemporary Janitsch.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I’m not gonna even tell you what El Mil Sabores puts on their Torta Loca sandwich. You have to see it for yourself. Streaming at home, the classic Philadelphia cocktail is a Clover Club, but there’s NOW WAY I’m gonna tell you to make something that needs raspberry syrup. So have a Campden: pour 2 oz. Gin and 1/3 oz. each Cointreau and Kina l’Aéro d’Or into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Nick and Nora glass. Garnish with an orange twist.
-
Wed, Nov 15, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Nicole Mitchell/Kalia Vandever
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 – 18, 2023
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A split week, Wednesday and Thursday seeing the great AACM flautist Nicole Mitchell duetting with, respectively, Fay Victor on voice and Craig Taborn on piano. Then, Friday and Saturday, two nights of the truly exciting trombonist Kalia Vandever, one of the freshest musicians in jazz, duetting with vibesmaster Joel Ross the first night and playing with her great band tilt (also featuring Isabel Crespo Pardo on voice and Carmen Rothwell on bass) the second.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No one better to take over the old Café Loup space than NYC Front of House vet Michael Cechhi-Azzolina with his American Bistro Cecchi’s.
-
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sarah Belle Reid & David Rosenboom
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two multi-instrumentalists play off each other: not so much electroacoustic as electronic and acoustic.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, have a Postcard Home: Rim a chilled Martini glass or coupe with salt. Pour 1-1/2 oz. Mezcal, 1 oz. lemon juice, and 1/2 oz. each of Simple Syrup and Rabarbaro into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into the rimmed glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.
-
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Aine Nakamura & Bent Duo: boundtogether
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
Brick Aux
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Performance artists Aine Nakamura and Bent Duo collaborate on an evening-length work. Whether they’re physically bound or only metaphorically remains to be seen — but with these people, anything is possible.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Free pizza at the Alligator Lounge!
-
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
DakhaBrakha
WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 & 18, 2023
8:00 PM
WEDNESDAY: City Winery
25 11th Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
SATURDAY: Peak Performances
Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University
1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey
WEDNESDAY: $40-$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
SATURDAY: $45-$55
TICKETS + INFORMATION
DhakaBrakha’s theatrical, punked-out trad Ukrainian is terrific, just terrific.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wednesday in Chelsea, Thai at Ayada. Saturday in Montclair, it’s not that there’s only one good restaurant there — there are lots — but that there’s only one within walking distance of Montclair State: New American treat Turtle & The Wolf.
-
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Cirkus Moxie
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 29)
7:30 PM
Brooklyn Art Haus
24 Marcy Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$29.89
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Circus!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great wine and actually good food at Four Horsemen.
-
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Magos Herrera
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$44.28-$62.29
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Eloquent singer-songwriter Magos Herrera plays her recent album, featuring her new chamber-jazz-pop compositions and Latin-American standards. She’s backed by her trio and the PUBLIQuartet.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern Mexican on the roof at elNico.
-
Wed, Nov 15, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Becca Blackwell & Amanda Duarte: Snatch Adams and Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15 – 19, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 3)
7:30 PM
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$37.50 WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY; 99¢ SUNDAY
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There are two kinds of people: people who are unexcited by the thought of a talk show hosted by a 6-foot-high vagina and a giant taint, and people who read this List.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
-
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Lasse Marhaug / Eternities / Neuter
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2023
7:00 PM
Artists Space
11 Cortland Alley, Tribeca (not really), Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Noisy Norwegian Lasse Marhaug plays his hit How to Avoid Ants, among other things. In case you’re wondering, Eternities is a project of NYC sonic explorer Bob Bellerue.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I guess if you’re in the Alley, you’ve got to go to Au Cheval. Even if it isn’t a patch on the Chicago original, you can still put together a satisfying (if gutbusting) meal if you’re careful. (Hint: fried bologna is your friend.)
-
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gabriel Zucker-Aaron Edgcomb / Miriam Elhajli / Charlotte Jacobs / Claire Dickson
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2023
7:00 PM (bet it’s really 8:00 PM)
Sundownstairs, Sundown Bar
68-38 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$14.40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The excellent pianist-composer Gabriel Zucker playing with ace percussionist Aaron Edgcomb is an enticing prospect. But Claire Dickson’s and Charlotte Jacobs’s Art Pop styles are mighty appealing as well. As for Miriam Elhajli, well, a lot of people like folkie songwriters more than I do.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re in a bar with a pretty good cocktail program. For something more solid, more than cachapas at Cachapas y Mas.
-
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Angel Dimayuga: Living Room Concept
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2023
7:00 PM
Performance Space New York
150 1st Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$27.25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Angel Dimayuga — a genius chef — simulates a living room in which her friends will give various kinds of performances (including a soundscape by Miho Hatori).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Some of Dimayuga’s food will be served. For a nightcap, maybe go to Please Don’t Tell? Haven’t been in years myself.
-
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alfredo Colón Quartet
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2023
5:00 PM
Hudson Eats Jazz
The Jazz Gallery @ Hudson Eats, Brookfield Place
230 Vesey Street, Brookfield Place, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Saxophonist Alfredo Colón says he likes Free Jazzers Sonny Sharrock, Ornette Coleman, and Pharoah Sanders because of their melodic approach to improvisation. Which is exactly why I them, too. How’d he leave out Albert Ayler, though?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I guess the point is you’re supposed to munch out and drink during the show with stuff from the (mediocre) Hudson Eats food court.
-
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Shara Lunon: Bitter Fruits
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors advance; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Shara Lunon’s song cycle explores marginalization and oppression and the survival tactics that have been devised in response — with the help of Chris Williams, Kalia Vandever, Lester St. Louis, 13th Law, Lesley Mok, and a gigantic braided wig that functions as a light-reactive synthesizer.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, a new bar around the corner from Roulette! The Little Pig. Streaming at home, have a Metropolitan: pour 2 oz. Brandy, 1 oz. sweet Vermouth, and and 1/2 tsp. Simple Syrup, with 2 dashes Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a Martini glass or coupe.
-
Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Geoff Sobelle: FOOD
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 – 18, 2023
7:30 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$44.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Cracked theater artist Geoff Sobelle examines why we eat, what we eat, and who pays. This is formatted as a dinner party (if you’re lucky you’ll be able to grab a seat at the table) — but unlike a similarly formatted piece by Radiohole a few years ago, there will be no actual food served (Radiohole being Radiohole, you can imagine what the food was like).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Esther Choi returns to substantive Korean cooking at Gahm.
-
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
-
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
TUESDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 & 18, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 2)
7:30 PM TUESDAY
1:00 PM SATURDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$35-$400
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Anthony Davis’s account of Malcolm X is a fabulous opera by anyone’s standards. The music is alternately roiling and swinging, and it cuts deep. And how lucky for Davis that one of the great American writers is his cousin, happy to supply a libretto. This production is directed by Robert O’Hara: perhaps the best possible choice.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and Cafe Fiorello will be open after before and after both these shows — but only Clarke’s is worth patronizing.
-
Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 7:15 PM – Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Steve Cossen: Artificial Flavors
TUESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 – 18, 2023
7:15 PM TUESDAY – FRIDAY
2:15 PM SATURDAY
59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$27-$44
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Civilians use AI to explore AI.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You could do a lot worse in this neighborhood than the Sicilian food at Piccola Cucina Uptown.
-
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alix Tucou: Technology and Bones: Music on Canvas
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2023
7:00 PM
ShapeShifter Lab In Person
837 Union Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
More trombone and electronics — this time bass trombone.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Who’d have thought one of the better and more distinctive Thai restaurants in New York City would be in Park Slope? Bangkok Degree.
-
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Erin Landers: of body of body of
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2023
7:00 PM
Spark Theatre Festival
28th Street Theater (TADA!)
15 West 28th Street, NoMad, Manhattan
$20 advance; $25 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I guess that it isn’t surprising, giving what’s happening to the Earth and all, that we see a lot of choreographic works invoking watery environments. This one has the inestimable advantage of a score by Nordic Avant-Folk Freak Zosha Warpeha.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Austrian at Koloman.
-
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
THE DMG 32nd ANNIVERSARY IN-STORE FREE MUSIC SERIES
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2023
6:30 PM
Downtown Music Gallery
13 Monroe Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The mysterious saxophonist Camila N continues her takeover of New York City. Meanwhile the Patrick Golden Group features alto sax, two guitars, and drums — and the two guitars played by Sally Gates and Matt Hollenberg!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern-Korean-inflected Golden Diner.
-
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 12:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Music Middays: Rubén Rengel & Ahmed Alom
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2023
12:00 PM
Advent Lutheran Church
2504 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Music for violin and piano by Stravinsky (doesn’t matter which piece it is: they’re all great!), Eleanor Alberga (if you don’t yet know her spritely atonal-then-not music, you’ll thank me for this recommendation), and unnamed Latin-American composers.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Korean fried chicken and ramen at Chick Chick.
-
Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 – 19, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant.
-
Monday, November 13, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Duo Lumière: Persistence of Vision — Experimental Films with Live Accompaniment
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2023
9:00 PM
The LetLove Inn
27-20 23rd Avenue, Astoria, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Live keyboard/electronics and guitar/electronics scores for experimental shorts by such as Stan Brakhage and Kenneth Anger (heroes of This List if anyone is).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Greek at Telly’s Taverna.
-
Monday, November 13, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Monday, November 13, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Monday, November 13, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Disfigured Rivers Vol. 3
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2023
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A showcase put together by people from Berlin of vanguard musicians local to here (like Nate Wooley).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
-
Monday, November 13, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
Vjoltron
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2023
8:00 PM
Wonderville
1186 Broadway, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$5-$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Performative video, audio/video.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Before the show, grab some outstanding tacos (the tortas/cemitas are good, too) at Santa Ana Deli & Grocery.
-
Monday, November 13, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Special book Launch: Brooke Wentz’s Transfigured New York: Interviews with Experimental Artists & Musicians, 1980-90
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$16-$30 advance; $20-$35 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A panel discussion of the subject matter of Brooke Wentze’s admittedly fascinating-seeming new book about the Downtown performing arts scene in the ‘80s isn’t something we’d List, as we deal with performance around here (although we are pretty curious to see whether the book will address the circumstance that vanguard artists, unlike say laborers, actually did receive the benefits of trickle-down economics in the decade that saw the establishment of the corporatized avant-garde). But live performances by such period avant-luminaries as Elliott Sharp, Shelley Hirsch, Fast Forward, and Don Byron? That’s This List’s meat and drink!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Eclectic New American at As You Are.
-
Monday, November 13, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Tomonari Nishikawa: Two Performances
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2023
7:30 PM
Microscope Gallery In Person & Live Stream
525 West 29th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10; $8 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Performative cinema.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun fake Southern at Porchlight.
-
Monday, November 13, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Deepali Gupta: United States v. Gupta
MONDAY & THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 & 16 – 19, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 28)
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Local theatermaker Deepali Gupta (you — by which I mean I — have seen her with Target Margin) is the daughter of Rajat Gupta, the McKinsey CEO who was convicted of insider trading and jailed. She’s made a musical about it. And plays the part of herself.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The excellent Bati Ethiopian Kitchen has moved from Forot Greene to . . . right around here!
-
Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMA BIENNIAL 2023
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 – 19, 2023
Various Times
Performa Hub & Various Locations
408-412 Broadway, Chinatown, Manhattan & Various Locations
Various prices (including free)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The biannual assemblage of performance pieces from around the world, many of them really good and some of the great — and most of them in any event a trip.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: For the shows at the Performa Hub, a serious take on Cantonese at August Gatherings.
-
Monday, November 13, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Moody Monday: Infinite River/Macomb County Brutes/Rebecca Odes & Alan Licht
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2023
6:30 PM
Bowery Electric
327 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$12.43
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Infinite River plays spacey Americana — and it includes the leader of This List’s beloved Neo-Psychedelic Dream Pop unit His Name Is Alive. And we’ve been following guitarist Alan Licht around here for decades; this is a duo with Rebecca Odes, a visual artist who also finds time to do Indie Bedroom Rock. Wonder what Macomb County Brutes is?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: High octane Thai at Fish Cheeks.
-
Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 6:00 PM – Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 – 19, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
-
Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 – 19, 2023 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
-
Sunday, November 12, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Eric Wubbels: if and only if Release Party
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2023
8:00 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20 (includes copy of CD)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Not your parents’ piano trio, as Eric Wubbels shows of an extended piece in which his choppy distortion-prone piano is contrasted with the resonant purely tuned strings of Josh Modney (violin) and Mariel Roberts (cello).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The North of China is the focus at Auntie Guan’s Kitchen 108.
-
Sunday, November 12, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kwami Winfield / Under the Arms of Each Other / Gian Perez - Caroline Morton - Mark Edwards
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2023
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$10-$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Kwami Winfield goes from Noise to Hyperpop to experimental, and This List just loves her to pieces. She’ll be playing not only a solo set, but as part of the ensemble Under the Arms of Each Other — playing trumpet of all things, alongside another List fave, vibraphonist Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson, playing trombone of all things.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
-
Sunday, November 12, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Maria Faust: Solo Saxophone
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2023
8:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Saxophonist Maria Faust plays (and writes) in many different ways. But she’s not eclectic — more like endlessly curious.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: High-octane Thai at Fish Cheeks.
-
Sunday, November 12, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Julia Santoli
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2023
7:00 PM
The Intima
16-15 Weirfield Street, Ridgewood, Queens
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Julia Santoli’s theatrical/conceptual vocal explorations.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sunday night at Rolo’s!
-
Sunday, November 12, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Sunday, November 12, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Piano+
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023
4:00 PM
Spectrum
481 Van Brunt Street, Door 7A, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$15; $10 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Spectrum shows off its new Steinway B with composer/pianist Teodora Stepancic playing well with others.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Barbecue in what for all I know is your hometown at Hometown Bar-B-Cue.
-
Sunday, November 12, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Festival of Song: In Her Own Words
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023
3:00 PM
The Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$25; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This program features, as the promotional materials put it, “singer-songwriters who emerged from the classical tradition” — exactly what we’re about here at The List. Especially when the singer-songwriters are Molly Joyce, Lucy Dhegrae, and (a wild card) (in more ways than one) Dicky Dutton. Kudos to the normally staid NYFOS for putting this great show on.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Valencian-leaning Spanish at La Nacional.
-
Sunday, November 12, 2023, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Second Sunday
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2023
1:00 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Amidst all the open studios and presentations and whatnot, a set by the fascinating microtonal Jessica Pavone String Ensemble at 1:00 PM and the bland electronics of Gobby at 5:00 PM. I’d go early.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great burger at the Red Hook Tavern.
-
Saturday, November 11, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Starfruit / More Ease & Kaho Matsui / toso toso / Porcelain Vivisection
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2023
8:00 PM
Brothers Wash & Dry
5420 Nurge Avenue, Maspeth, Queens
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
To some it’s kind of a big deal when Starfruit bring their overstuffed Art Pop up from Texas. But I’m really telling you to go to this to see Isabel Crespo Pardo’s electronic avant-groove band toso toso. They’re terrific! (Also, best venue address EVER.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Burgers and Red Sauce (don’t ask me why) at ECB.
-
Saturday, November 11, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Jean Carla Rodea: All Your Sojourns Have Led To This (Omen)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2023
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @ The Mark O’Donnell Theater, Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center
160 Schermerhorn Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In formulating her presentations, interdisciplinary artist Jean Carla Rodea looks to archival research for ideas and basic materials. The present piece — now a composition for voice, guitar, electronics, and video — has been developed, through several very different iterations performed in various places, over the course of a year. This is the culmination.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: American classic Gage & Tollner and/or the Sunken Harbor Club Tiki Bar upstairs afterwards.
-
Saturday, November 11, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
TUESDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 & 11, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 2)
7:30 PM TUESDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$35-$400
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Anthony Davis’s account of Malcolm X is a fabulous opera by anyone’s standards. The music is alternately roiling and swinging, and it cuts deep. And how lucky for Davis that one of the great American writers is his cousin, happy to supply a libretto. This production is directed by Robert O’Hara: perhaps the best possible choice.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and Cafe Fiorello will be open after this show — but only Clarke’s is worth patronizing.
-
Saturday, November 11, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dana Lyn: Mother Octopus
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Art pop. Or something.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Serviceable pizza at Crosta.
-
Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Seongbukdong Beedoolkee: MEDEA on Media
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 & 12, 2023
7:30 PM SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$46
TICKETS + INFORMATION
From out of South Korea comes the Seongbukdong Beedoolkee company, using the Medea myth as a platform for a multivariagated absurdist take on the media.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lotsa beer at Peculiar Pub.
-
Saturday, November 11, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
A Matta Prayer
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2023
7:00 PM
The Great Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Amidst an installation by Jacolby Satterwhite (who’s pretty great himself) multidisciplinary musical performances will occur. Tonight it’s the unfortunately rather dull singer-songwriter/cellist Kelsey Lu.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Truly good bistro at Quatorze.
-
Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
ARTEK Ensemble: Byrd 1589: Songs of Sundrie Natures II
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 & 12, 2023
7:00 PM SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Avenue, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$18.50-$55
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Byrd quatercentenary death bash continues with a program of the great composer’s lute and part songs, secular and sacred.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Folks in the neighborhood really like Italian standby Celeste.
-
Saturday, November 11, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jane Boxall: Replaying the Tape
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2023
7:00 PM
MATA @ Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$23.41; $7.37 children/students/low income
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Percussionist Jane Boxall imagines what life would exist if evolutionary forces had gone differently.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The so-called Shaker food at The Commerce Inn is divisive: some people consider it stodgy, crude, bland, and heavy; whereas others find it deeply, elementally satisfying. If you know me at all, you know where I stand.
-
Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 12:00 PM – Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Freak World Fest
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 & 12, 2023
12:00 PM
Hart Bar
538 Hart Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$17 per day; $28.50 both days
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two days of outsider music, free from 12:00-4:00 PM, ticketed thereafter. It wouldn’t be an outsider music festival if List diety Kwami Winfield didn’t show up, this time in Soless Dialtone guise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let’s do that cool Thai-in-a-cinema thing again at Mao Mao.
-
Friday, November 10, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Unheard-of Ensemble: Unheard-of // Dialogues
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2023
8:00 PM
Alchemical Studios
50 West 17th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Multimedia pieces — from Ohio.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Portale for cheffed-up Italian.
-
Friday, November 10, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Camila N. & Angelica Sanchez
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2023
8:00 PM
IBeam
168 7th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’m not familiar with saxophonist Camila N. But Angelica Sanchez is one eloquent, personal pianist.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hawaiian at Sweet Talk.
-
Friday, November 10, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Michael Bates: Acrobat
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2023
8:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bassist Michael Bates and his crew continue their Chamber Jazz exploration of the music of Shostakovich.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Once good Cuban, now good Dominican, at El Viejo Yayo 2.
-
Friday, November 10, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Oneida / Weak Signal
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2023
8:00 PM
The Broadway
1272 Broadway, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$20.09
TICKETS + INFORMATION
So Oneida, whose music is an unstable mashup of psychedelic, Krautrock, Minimalism, and Alt Rock, is going through a song-form Punk period. Which is fine with me.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Haitian at Grandchamps.
-
Fri, Nov 10, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jaleel Shaw & Kris Davis
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 & 11, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$33.50-$44.50 in person; $22 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jaleel Shaw is a really good sax player, no question about it. But pianist Kris Davis has one of the best minds and some of the best fingers in current jazz.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, fancy Austrian at Koloman. Streaming at home, have a Toronto: pour 2 oz. Rye and 1/4 oz. each of Fernet and Simple Syrup, with 2 dashes Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Express an orange peel into the drink and use the peel as garnish.
-
Friday, November 10, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Friday, November 10, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bruised Peach Music Festival
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2023
6:30 PM
Rubulad
Supersecret address listed on Eventbrite page, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$18.07
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A long night of indie pop and experimental music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really good Nigerian at Hill’s Kitchen.
-
Friday, November 10, 2023, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Julia Patinella
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
10:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If I told you someone started out as a trained Flamenco singer and then decided to explore her own Sicilian musical roots, you’d be intrigued right? The instrumental line-up of her quartet suggests that tonight Julia Pantinella will do both.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better than neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sanda Weigel: Gypsy in a Tree
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
8:30 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There are "can a White man sing the blues?" issues with non-Gypsy performers of Gypsy music. But Romanian former child rock star Sanda Weigl's take on Balkan Gypsy music is good the way the early Stones were good: the rhythms, while losing all subtlety, become harder hitting — and the ironic self-awareness Q is through the ceiling. Meaning, it's not anything like as good as the The Real Thing, but it has its strong compensations.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Falafel and its friends at Taim Mediterranean Kitchen.
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Joe Fiedler: Solo
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
8:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Astonishing trombone. Just astonishing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Southern (U.S., that is)/Korean mash-up at C as in Charlie.
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Horsegirl / Autobahn / Glue Pot
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
8:00 PM
Stone Circle Theater
59-14 70th Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$17.84
TICKETS + INFORMATION
So Horsegirl is the good Chicago Pop Punk band. OK!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Appealing Cuban at Benny’s Cuban Café.
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Laurel Halo feat. Leila Bordreuil: Atlas Live / Hiro Kone
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
8:00 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$32.96 advance; $30 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Electronic musician Laurel Halo’s very good new album almost veers into Chamber Pop. Which makes the noisy droney cellist Leila Bordreuil an odd choice as a collaborator for this live realization — but an interesting one. No one could accuse local electronics hero Hiro Kone of veering into Chamber Pop, that’s for sure.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Now that Tuscan charmer I Sodi has moved into a bigger new location, think it’ll be easier to get into? Me neither.
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Pinc Louds / Starfruit / Kolb / Birthday Ass
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
8:00 PM
Purgatory
675 Central Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$13.60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Skewed Art Pop to the max. Pinc Louds’s Latinx whatchamacallit is literally ineffable: I couldn’t begin to describe it (although I’ll tell you what: the promotional materials’ attempt with “Tropical Punk” is not on point). I vacillate between thinking Starfruit is amazingly clever and secretly Prog. I have no idea what Birthday Ass might be — but I can’t help thinking it’s directed at me.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Another good slice shop: Crust Pizza.
-
Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Eric Dyer: Faust (The Broken Show)
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 12, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 19)
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
Brick Theater
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$22-$52
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Eric Dyer of Radiohole does a manic one-person take on the Faust legend, drawing on all the sources you’d expect.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go down the block to H&H Reserve for some great Dog Day Afternoon Chicago hot dogs and non-Chicago Frito Pie.
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The MET Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
7:30 PM
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$84
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An appealing program from The MET Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, including a new piece from the Neo-Romantic Mexican composer Santos Cota, whose work you’ll wonder why you aren’t more familiar with; Gabriela Lena Frank’s wonderful Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, which for some reason I rarely get to hear played in full; Strauss’s early Wind Serenade, which is only slightly overblown; and the suite from the original chamber version of Appalachian Spring, which some of us prefer to Copland’s later orchestral expansion.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hunanese at Blue Willow.
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Melissa Almaguer: Angel of Air / Angel of Water
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$23-$33.50 in person; $22 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A tap performance coming out of Alice Coltrane.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Italian-Ashkenazi mashup at Mark Strausman’s Mark’s Off Madison. Streaming at home, have a Last Word: pour 3/4 oz. of Gin, green Chartreuse, Maraschino liquer, and lime juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
-
Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / DANCE
Samita Sinha: Tremor
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 11, 2023
7:30 PM
Danspace Project
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Samita Sinha does vocalizations that abstract Indian traditions — in reaction to a sonic environment created (live) by Ash Fure. Meanwhile, the fantastic dancer/choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili moves.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Foxface Natural is the best restaurant in New York.
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Anti-Social Music: Ghost Ensemble
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
7:30 PM
The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20; $15 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
To give you an idea of the range here, among the composers the Ghost Ensemble (which includes an accordion!) plays tonight are the very different Miya Masaoka (sound as sound), Sky Macklay (perky!), and James Ilgenfritz (gnarly).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good Latin-themed cocktails and totally fine food at Leyenda.
-
Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE / PERFORMANCE
Michelle Ellsworth: Evidence of Labor and the Post-Verbal Social Network
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 11, 2023
7:30 PM
Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Michelle Ellsworth puts the allegory back into algorithms. (In one feature that will definitely be of interest to List readers, audience members who like the idea of going to this show about the difficulty and necessity (vel non) of labor, but who don’t actually want to bother going, can buy a ticket and let someone else go for them; the ticket purchaser will receive evidence of having attended and will have full authority to claim they were there.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice family Brazilian at Beija Flor.
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Futuros: stefa marin alarcon / LOPEZLOPEZ / Isabel Crespo Pardo
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
7:30 PM
David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center
61 West 62nd Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This is where this series of Latine art music really kicks into high gear. Stefa marin alarcon does great Punk/Hip Hop. LOPEZLOPEZ are of course bassist Brandon Lopez and multidisciplinary artist/electronicist Cecelia Lopez, who don’t think as one only because they have the same last name. And vocalist Isabel Crespo Pardo is an experimental artist with truly broad appeal; wouldn’t it be great if they somehow became popular like, say, Laurie Anderson?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can whine that Rosa Mexicano isn’t nearly as good as it used to be, and I’ll whine right along with you. But it isn’t affirmatively bad.
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
American Composers Orchestra: The Quest: Epic Journeys
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
7:30 PM
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$49-$59
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Among the gems on the American Composers Orchestra’s program are world premieres by George Lewis (can we call him The Dean Of American Composers?), the great Argentine jazz composer Guillermo Klein, and the electroacoustic specialist Nina C. Young, who’ll be playing along on electronics.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern Indian (and a really good beverage program) at Indian Accent.
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Wildebeest: Plays Wilder and More
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
7:30 PM
IBeam
168 7th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If you want to hear Alec Wilder and Guy Kluscevsek on the same program — which actually isn’t a strange pairing at all, when you think about it — this wind quintet has got you covered.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hawaiian at Sweet Talk.
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
An experimental evening: CHOP / Taking Time / Porcelain Vivisection / Pleasure a Factory
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
7:30 PM
Hart Bar
538 Hart Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Just what it says.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I very strongly recommend the cocktails at the venue, the Hart Bar. For something more solid, cool VIetnamese at Little Mo.
-
Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Pam Tanowitz & David Lang: Song of Songs
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 11, 2023
7:30 PM
New York City Center
131 West 55th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$45-$145
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pam Tanowitz — a choreographer who’s on a roll if anyone is — enlists David Lang to write a score for an interpretation of The Song of Songs, a book so blatantly erotic you can only be grateful it somehow made it into the Bible.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You gotta say two things about Quality Bistro: it’ll still be open after the show, and it’s right across the street.
-
Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Arts for Art: Pianos & Poets: Peace & Defiance
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 11, 2023
7:00 PM
Flamboyan Theater, The Clemente In Person
114 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$25 per night in person; $60 three-night pass in person; $7 per night live strea; $20 all three nights live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lots of pianos, a few poets — and one viola, for some reason. Three of the pianos belong to Matthew Shipp and festival honorees Dave Burrell and Cooper-Moore (not generally a pianist) (but he can do anything), to give you an idea of the quality of these proceedings.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good Haitian and (usually) great music at Rebel.
-
Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Deepali Gupta: United States v. Gupta
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 12, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 28)
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Local theatermaker Deepali Gupta (you — by which I mean I — have seen her with Target Margin) is the daughter of Rajat Gupta, the McKinsey CEO who was convicted of insider trading and jailed. She’s made a musical about it. And plays the part of herself.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The excellent Bati Ethiopian Kitchen has moved from Forot Greene to . . . right around here!
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The New Consort: Begotten, Not Made
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
6:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University In Person & Live Stream
1160 Amsterdam Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Choral music by William Byrd and Salamone Rossi, but also Judith Weir and Reena Esmail — and a new (staged, I think) piece by the mellifluous Hope Littwin.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, one of the most pleasurable places in New York, the Hungarian Pastry Shop. You WILL leave smiling. Streaming at home, have a Lion’s Tail: pour 2 oz. Bourbon, 3/4 oz. Allspice Dram, 1/2 oz. lime juice, and 1 tbs. rich (2:1 sugar:water) Simple Syrup, with 1 dash Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shaker. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
-
Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 6:00 PM – Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Durations Festival
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 12, 2023
6:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$118.45 festival pass; $15.45-$25.75 per night at Public Records; $45.06 at Pioneer Works
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This is supposed to be an exploration of time in music — but these artists don’t interact with time the way say Morton Feldman does. These guys’ music might endure, but it moves. And so, often, will you. Tim Hecker does a special show at Pioneer Works on Friday; the rest is at Public Records.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: At Public Records, seafood at Littleneck. At Pioneer Works, cocktails and food to absorb them at Fort Defiance.
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dialogues No. 12: Ferdinand / Vicky Chow / James Moore
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
6:00 PM
Bargemusic
1 Water Street, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
At last, Ferdinand comes to Brooklyn. Wait, are we supposed to know who Ferdinand is? No such questions about pianist Vicky Chow and guitarist James Moore — the latter of whom will be playing some music by the pioneering electronic musician Laurie Spiegel, which the band Moore’s in, Dither, has been doing to great effect of late.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You didn’t know you needed Dominican barbecue, but you do: Bark Barbecue.
-
Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 6:00 PM – Fri, Nov 10, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
C4: The Seventh Self
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 & 10, 2023
6:00 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY
THURSDAY: Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center
111 Amsterdam Avenue, Upper West Side, Manhattan
FRIDAY: The Church of St. Luke in the Fields In Person & Live Stream
487 Hudson Street, West Village, Manhattan
THURSDAY: Free; FRIDAY: $12.71-$44.82; live stream by donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The crack Choral Composer/Conductor Collective presents a concert of compositions by its members responding to objects in the sprawling collection of the Library for the Performing Arts.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thursday at Lincoln Center would be a perfect time to eat in Kwame Onwuachi’s Afro-Caribbean smash hit Tatiana — if only you could get in. In person Friday in the West Village, Japanese cocktails and snacks at Katana Kitten. Streaming at home on Friday, have a Seven and Seven: pour Seagram’s 7 Crown Whiskey into a Highball glass over ice. Top with 7-Up. Garnish with a lemon wedge.
-
Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 5:00 PM – Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Asi Wind: Inner Circle
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 12, 2023 (continuing through JANUARY 7, 2024)
5:00 & 8:00 PM THURSDAY
7:00 & 9:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
4:00 & 7:00 PM SUNDAY
The Gym at Judson
243 Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$110-$265
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’d been sleeping on this magic show (probably its massive mainstream success shielded it from my view). But contrary to how things might appear, just because people like something doesn’t mean it can’t get Listed.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Manhattan Red Sauce at Monte’s Trattoria.
-
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Roberts & Sykes Duo: A Conversation with Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
TBH, Bach’s Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord are not my favorite Bach: they seem kind of thin to me compared to, say, the solo Sonatas and Partitas. Which means I just think they’re really good instead of titanically great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I’m not gonna even tell you what El Mil Sabores puts on their Torta Loca sandwich. You have to see it for yourself. Streaming at home, have a Bachlyn, I mean Brooklyn (same word): pour 2 oz. Rye, 1 oz. dry Vermouth, and 1/4 oz. each Maraschino liqueur and Amer Picon (since you don’t have Amer Picon, use instead Golden Moon Amer dit Picon, Bigalet China-China, or Amaro Ciociaro) into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
-
Wed, Nov 8, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Vadim Neselovskyi
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 – 11, 2023
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Vadim Neselovskyi, a composer/pianist whose work denies the so-called classical/jazz distinction, gets his week. Some stuff is explicitly Ukraine-directed — but you can be sure it all is implicitly.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No one better to take over the old Café Loup space than NYC Front of House vet Michael Cechhi-Azzolina with his American Bistro Cecchi’s.
-
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gryphon Rue: Elastic Dance / Playing the Beetles
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors advance; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I can imagine some stick-in-the-mud fuddie duddies finding Gryphon Rue’s trippy pop-Ambient-Minimalism insubstantial. I can only tell them to lighten up. One one of these pieces Rue will be joined by Ka Baird and Qasim Naqvi: is that good enough for you?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, a new bar around the corner from Roulette! The Little Pig. Streaming at home, have a Vieux Carré: pour 3/4 oz. each of Rye, Cognac, and sweet Vermouth and 1/2 oz. Bénédictine, with 2 dashes each of Angostura and Peychaud’s bitters,into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
-
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
MUSIC
Fusilier / Lollise / Gushes
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2023
8:00 PM
C’mon Everybody
325 Franklin Avenue, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$12.36
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I love Lollise’s Art Afro-Pop too much not to track her every move. Headliner Fusilier’s music can be kind of draggy, but does he do a number on “Dancing in the Street”.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really great tortillas, with good things on them, at For All Good Things.
-
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2023
7:30 PM
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$41-$47
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Listed for a cello sonata by Leo Brouwer, whose work in an approachable but non-retro style ought to be even better known than it is. I mean, don’t get me wrong, Bach and Britten are OK, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Burger Joint.
-
Wed, Nov 8, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Kyle Marshall Choreography
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 – 12, 2023
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10-$62
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Joyce pivots from last week’s dark dark Butoh to the exciting uplifting Kyle Marshall. With Marshall you can take the quality of the choreography (and the dancing) for granted, so let me talk about the music he’s setting. One piece has sound contrived live by ace explorer Cal Fish (Jk: THIS). The next takes off from the spiritually transcendent conscious jazz of Alice Coltrane, a past artist who’s especially relevant NOW if anyone is. But Marshall has saved the best for last: an appreciation by List fave Kwami Winfield of the Black roots of Rock and Roll (an African-American music form stolen by Whites so basely and completely that that it’s now treated as a “breakthrough” when a Black American succeeds in playing so-called “Rock” music for a White audience).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great homestyle Palestinian at Qanoon.
-
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Raymond Pinto: the zebra goes wild where the sidewalk ends
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2023
7:30 PM
Center for Performance Research (CPR)
361 Manhattan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Free-$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Multimedia dance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re just down the street from neo-Cantonese-American hotspot Bonnie’s. If only you could get in.
-
Wed, Nov 8, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Becca Blackwell & Amanda Duarte: Snatch Adams and Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 – 12, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 3)
7:30 PM
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$37.50; 99¢ Sunday
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There are two kinds of people: people who are unexcited by the thought of a talk show hosted by a 6-foot-high vagina and a giant taint, and people who read this List.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
-
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Cirkus Moxie
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 29)
7:30 PM
Brooklyn Art Haus
24 Marcy Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$29.89
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Circus!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great wine and actually good food at Four Horsemen.
-
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brooklyn Maqam: Huda Asfour
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2023
7:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Huda Asfour is one fine oud player — and she really brings Arabic classical music into the present.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let’s fail to get into Indian sensation Masalawala & Sons again!
-
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Ladybug Transistor
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$25.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
By all rights I should love The Ladybug Transistor’s painstaking recreation of 1966-68 Psychedelic Pop (one of my fave styles) (also many of their albums are named after streets in Prospect Park South!). What’s my problem? I think it’s that they don’t sing so good.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Café Mars: Italian in space.
-
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Wed, Nov 8, 2023, 7:00 PM – Fri, Nov 10, 2023, 11:59 PM
-
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
-
Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 8:00 PM – Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sampha: Lahai Tour / Ruthven
TUESDAY – THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7 – 9, 2022
8:00 PM
Webster Hall
125 East 11th Street, NoHo, Manhattan
Secondary market: buy at “market” prices if you’re an idiot (also: let’s fucking smash Capitalism once and for all, OK?)
TUESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
WEDNESDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
A night of mellow Nu R&B from London from Sampha and Ruthven. People are making a big deal about how Sampha’s new album is about his new fatherhood; here at The List we don’t know nuthin bout birthin babies. We think the music’s very nice and the lyrics/concepts are lame.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tex-Mex (with the accent on Tex) at Yellow Rose.
-
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Artist Spotlight: Pierre-Laurent Aimard
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2023
7:30 PM
New York Philharmonic
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$39-$73
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A solo piano recital featuring (lots of) Ligeti, and (some) Beethoven, Chopin, and Debussy (all short pieces). Go and you’ll hear how it all makes sense. Pierre-Laurent Aimard almost always does.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Long-standing neighborhood French at Le Boite en Bois.
-
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
TUESDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 & 11, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 2)
7:30 PM TUESDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$35-$400
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Anthony Davis’s account of Malcolm X is a fabulous opera by anyone’s standards. The music is alternately roiling and swinging, and it cuts deep. And how lucky for Davis that one of the great American writers is his cousin, happy to supply a libretto. This production is directed by Robert O’Hara: perhaps the best possible choice.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and Cafe Fiorello will be open after this show — but only Clarke’s is worth patronizing.
-
Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
-
Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Geoff Sobelle: FOOD
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 – 12, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 18)
7:30 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$44.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Cracked theater artist Geoff Sobelle examines why we eat, what we eat, and who pays. This is formatted as a dinner party (if you’re lucky you’ll be able to grab a seat at the table) — but unlike a similarly formatted piece by Radiohole a few years ago, there will be no actual food served (Radiohole being Radiohole, you can imagine what the food was like).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Esther Choi returns to substantive Korean cooking at Gahm.
-
Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 7:15 PM – Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Steve Cossen: Artificial Flavors
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 – 12, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 18)
7:15 PM TUESDAY – THURSDAY & SATURDAY
8:15 PM FRIDAY
2:15 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$27-$44
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Civilians use AI to explore AI.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You could do a lot worse in this neighborhood than the Sicilian food at Piccola Cucina Uptown.
-
Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
La MaMa Puppet Festival
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 – 12, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 18)
7:00 & 8:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
7:00 & 8:30 PM THURSDAY
7:00, 8:30 & 9:00 PM FRIDAY
2:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00 & 8:30 PM SATURDAY
12:00, 2:00 & 4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$10-$30; students/seniors $10-$25; $175 all 8 shows; $120 5-show package; $75 3-show package; $50 2-show package
TICKETS + INFORMATION
PUPPETS! And you know what? It all looks GREAT!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican insect cuisine at The Black Ant.
-
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Xylouris White
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$30.90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Xylouris White is the unexpected combination of a Cretan lutenist and a Rock/Post-Rock drummer. There’s no particular reason it would work — but it does.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Chicago Italian Beef sandwiches at Bobbi’s Italian Beef.
-
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Orchestra Now: Exodus: Jewish Composers in Exile
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2023
7:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$15.50-$59.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As I said a couple of weeks ago, now is absolutely not the time for Holocaust-mongering. But after decades of inexcusable conduct by the Zionists, it’s good for the world to have a reminder that My People are capable of good. Also proof that while Wagner may have been right about Mendelssohn, he was wrong about Jews.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good basic Greek at Souvlaki GR.
-
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
THE DMG 32nd ANNIVERSARY IN-STORE FREE MUSIC SERIES
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2023
6:30 PM
Downtown Music Gallery
13 Monroe Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Among other things, Current List Hero Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson — someone whose love of music and community (not to mention her energy) seems boundless — plays trombone instead of her usual vibes!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern-Korean-inflected Golden Diner.
-
Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 6:00 PM – Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMA BIENNIAL 2023
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 – 12, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 19)
Various Times
Performa Hub & Various Locations
408-412 Broadway, Chinatown, Manhattan & Various Locations
Various prices (including free)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The biannual assemblage of performance pieces from around the world, many of them really good and some of the great — and most of them in any event a trip.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: For the shows at the Performa Hub, a serious take on Cantonese at August Gatherings.
-
Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 2:00 PM – Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 11:59 PM
