Thursday, February 12, 2009

THIS WEEK'S EVENTS in NYC

THIS WEEK'S EVENTS

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2/5-16: Sesame Street Live - Elmo Makes Music: Elmo, Zoe, Big Bird and all their Sesame Street friends are taking to the stage to share their love of music... (read...)

2/12-15: Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects - Joyce SoHo: Approaching Climax, choreographed by Jody Oberfelder, teases the extraordinary out of ordinary encounters... (read...)

2/13: Anita Baker - Radio City Music Hall: Eight-time Grammy-winning singer Anita Baker returns to Radio City Music Hall for a special Valentine's Day weekend performance... (read...)

Through 2/13-15: 13th Annual National Black Fine Art Show - 7 West: This esteemed international art fair is the only fine art fair of its kind in the world, featuring a broad array of artwork by black artists... (read...)

Through 2/13-14: Valentine Nights featuring Bill Charlap & Freddy Cole - Jazz at Lincoln Center: Jazz at Lincoln Center brings pianist Bill Charlap and his trio to The Allen Room to deliver a very special Valentine, enhanced with the romantic backdrop of Manhattan's skyline.... (read...)

Through 2/13-14: Find Love at the Top This Valentine's Day - Top of the Rock: Experience a magical moment with someone special at Top of the Rock Observation Deck this Valentine's Day... (read...)

Through 2/15: Naughty Valentine's Day Wine & Chocolate Bash - Babeland: Babeland SoHo will be hosting an event with erotically themed wines poured by Perfect Palate's sexy sommeliers, and enjoy sensuous Roni Sue truffles while enjoying the talents of singer/songwriter/poet Brown Rane... (read...)

Through 3/1: Garden of Earthly Delights: The performers fly through the air as if they were heavenly bodies released in space in this breathtaking flight of imaginative genius from Martha Clarke... (read...)

Through 3/6: Lincoln Center's American Songbook: Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook returns for its eleventh season celebrating the diversity of American popular song... (read...)


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A World of Dining: Chinese and Thai: New York City is home to many of the finest restaurants in the world, and one of our greatest assets is the plethora of fine eateries serving up Asian cuisine... (read...)

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THIS WEEK'S THEATRE OPENINGS

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Broadway

33 Variations (Previews began 2/9 for a 3/9 opening): Drama. Jane Fonda stars in Moises Kaufman's new play following Katherine Brandt, a woman racing against time to solve the riddle of a composer's 200-year-old obsession... (read...)

The Story of My Life (In previews for a 2/19 opening): This unique two-character new musical is about best friends who change our lives forever, the personal cost of success, and... (read...)


Off-Broadway

Distracted
(In previews for a 3/4 opening; through 5/3): Tony- and Emmy-winning actress Cynthia Nixon stars as a contemporary mom in playwright Lisa Loomer's fast-paced, disarmingly funny look at parenting in the age of the Internet and Ritalin... (read...)

Fresh Kills (Previews begin 2/12 for a 2/15 opening; through 3/1): Thirty-something Eddie is restless, his wife Marie is busy trying to impress the Women's League with her kitchen cabinets, and their six-year-old is off camping with the local cub scouts... (read...)

Soul Samurai
(Previews begin 2/14 for a 2/22 opening; through 3/15): The OBIE Award-winning Ma-Yi Theater Company teams up with the NYIT Award-winning Vampire Cowboys for this story of Dewdrop and her fight through the mean streets of post-apocalyptic Brooklyn... (read...)

That Pretty Pretty or The Rape Play (Previews begin 2/10 for a 2/23 opening; through 3/15): In this funny and disturbing excavation of the dirty corners of imaginations, a pair of radical feminist ex-strippers scour the country on a murderous rampage... (read...)


THIS WEEK'S EXHIBITION OPENINGS

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2/6-8/17: Patron and Painter: Situ Panchen and the Revival of the Encampment Style at the Rubin Museum of Art: A painting tradition established in the traveling courts of the great Tibetan Karmapas, most of what we know of the Encampment Style belongs to its 18th-century revival by the great scholar-painter Situ Panchen Chokyi Jungne... (read...)

2/10-5/10: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Norton Simon Museum at the Frick Collection: A selection of five masterpieces of European painting from the highly acclaimed Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California... (read...)


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