tuesday
tues thru thurs (12-5pm): ozone socks sample sale: womens and mens single socks are just $2, and pairs are $4 at the ozone socks sample sale. 307 7th ave, suite 1603 (chelsea). >>
tues (various times): free outdoor movies (weather permitting):
mamma mia! at seaside wildlife nature park (staten island) >>
space jam 2 at arlington park (jersey city) >>
sun ra: a joyful noise at nowadays (ridgewood) >>
tues 6-11pm: my big fat gay jewish christmas spectacular: happy holi-gays! jingle all the way to this ‘christmas in july’ variety show, a night of comedy, drag, and music to benefit the ali forney center, an organization that provides assistance to lbtq+ homeless youth. the evening will culminate in a performance by l train brass band, a 25-piece brass collective. 3 dollar bill (east williamsburg), $20 adv, $30 day of. >>
tues 7pm (monthly): we love a theme: a storytelling show: a lineup of comedians tell funny, heartwarming, and cringe-inducing tales at tonight’s ‘bffs’-themed edition of bailey swilley’s monthly storytelling show. pete’s candy store (williamsburg), free ($5 suggested donation). >>
tues 7pm (tuesdays thru 8/16): live at the gantries: the annual waterfront concert series returns to gantry plaza state park (lic), offering audiences views of the manhattan skyline and sounds from a diverse array of queens-based artists. tonight: arabic music and dance ensemble zikrayat with belly dancer shari kamilah. presented by kupferberg center for the arts. free. >>
tues 7:30pm (+ 8/2): naumburg orchestral concert series: the 117th season of live, outdoor classical music concerts at central park’s historic naumburg bandshell continues with the knights orchestral collective, who’ll play a program of works by avner dorman and felix mendelssohn featuring violin soloist lara st. john. free admission. >>
tues 8pm (monthly): sounds great! comedy show: hosts nora jefferies and paige smith-hogan rehash all the moments that have prompted them to say ‘sounds great’–whether sincerely or sarcastically–at this comedy show featuring alison leiby (oh god, a show about abortion), dash turner (rutherford falls), kari burt (paper planes comedy), art cai, and matt albino. our wicked lady (bushwick), free. >>
tues 8pm: rooftop films: neptune frost: rooftop films presents saul williams’ and anisia uzeyman’s afrofuturist sci-fi punk movie-musical neptune frost, with pre-show music by kofi hunter trio and an afterparty. the old american can factory (gowanus), $16. >>
tues 8:30pm (weekly): i made you a playlist: stand-up meets after-party at this weekly comedy show and dance party hosted by kelly bachman. tonight’s show features martin urbano, jess fuchs, danish maqbool, brooke finegold, and lorena russi. the three diamond door (bushwick), free admission. >>
tues 9pm (monthly): sweet comedy show: summer sweets: seth herzog’s long-running live comedy show returns with guests joel kim booster (fire island), janeane garofalo (wet hot american summer), heidi gardner (snl), nimesh patel (snl), and mark normand (netflix). chelsea music hall, $15. >>
sponsored
It may be hot outside, but New Ohio Theatre in the West Village is ice cold. It’s week 4 of our Obie award-winning Ice Factory Festival, called “the coolest of the summer theatre festivals” by Time Out NY.
Up next, July 27-30, ACHERON: THE RIVER OF TRAGEDY, a surreal dance theatre meditation on identity and migration at the Mexico-US border. Leonardo dreams of crossing the Acheron River to live his dream. But his desires are thwarted when a mysterious immigration agent prevents his crossing and becomes, at different times, his friend, enemy, and even his victim. A surreal dance theatre meditation on identity and migration at the Mexico-US border. Performed in Spanish with English supertitles.
Check out the website for our full lineup: a dance theatre work exploring the dark side of girl’s gymnastic culture; a sharp political satire about radical nationalism in the Philippines; and a salty operatic monologue about one woman’s dead-end life.
Now through August 20!
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wednesday
weds thru 8/21: hip to hip theatre company’s shakespeare in the parks: hip to hip theatre company’s 15th annual outdoor shakespeare season brings o.g. rom-com much ado about nothing and swashbuckling adventure epic pericles to parks in the bronx, brooklyn, queens, staten island, southampton, and jersey city. free admission. >>
weds + thurs: summer for the city at lincoln center: lincoln center’s free programming this week includes a meditation and sound bath with live chamber music (weds 6pm), a korean indie music night featuring jannabi and byebyesea (weds 7:30pm), a tango/electrotango music and dance party with bands la guardia imperial and dock suds (thurs 6pm), and brown butterfly, a multimedia symphony dedicated to muhammad ali, created and performed by jazz multi-instrumentalist craig harris and his septet (thurs 7:30pm). >>
weds (various times): free outdoor movies (weather permitting):
brave at samuel n. bennerson 2nd playground (uws) >>
casablanca at parklife (gowanus). note: food/drink purchase required. >>
dog at garfield lawn in prospect park >>
me to play at hearst plaza (lincoln center) >>
singin’ in the rain at pier i in riverside park south (uws) >>
sponsored: weds 6pm: carnegie hall citywide: the broadway sinfonietta: experience everything that makes new york city so vibrant as we highlight sounds from across the country and around the globe right here in our neighborhoods. tonight, grammy award-winning attacca quartet performs an instrumental concert inspired by artist cristina iglesias’ landscape and memory exhibition at madison square park. free. >>
weds 6pm (wednesdays thru 8/3): free outdoor concert series at hudson yards: up-and-coming artists take the stage at hudson yards’ public square + gardens for ten weeks of live, outdoor concerts programmed by the bowery presents. tonight: michelle. >>
weds 7pm: science + literature panel: investigating disease and access: what does the world’s richest country do when an infectious disease disproportionately affects a marginalized community? predictably, disturbingly, not enough. during a conversation about her new book, the kissing bug: a true story of a family, an insect, and a nation’s neglect of a deadly disease, journalist daisy hernández will delve into the devastating impact of chagas, a.k.a. ‘kissing bug disease,’ on the latinx community (including members of her own family) and the legacy of racism in national and global healthcare. hernández will be joined in conversation by amnh division of invertebrate zoology curator jessica l. ware. american museum of natural history’s kaufmann theater (uws), free (rsvp). >>
weds 7pm: food porn: how photography changed the way we eat: from the camera tricks that make food look extra-delicious to the rising demand for insta-worthy eats, masters of social gastronomy sarah lohman and jonathan soma take on the history and science behind food photography during a presentation at caveat (les). $10 adv, $15 door. >>
weds 7pm (wednesdays thru 8/3): sunset wednesdays at wave hill: riverdale’s 28-acre public garden, located on the hudson river with sweeping views of the new jersey palisades, sets the scene for this series of outdoor concerts. tonight: the brass queens, an 8-piece, all-female new orleans-style brass band. note: folding chairs are permitted, but picnic blankets are not. free with regular garden admission ($12 general, $8 students/seniors). >>
weds 7:30pm: bad behavior: comedians share personal stories of a questionable social faux pas and get judged by a panel of etiquette ‘experts’ at this morally subjective comedy show. featuring sterling mulbry (reductress), heather cook (the hard times), blair peyton (amazon), and emily draper (ucb). fiction bar/cafe (williamsburg), free. >>
weds 7:30pm (weekly): ambush comedy show – with free beer: josh johnson, lucas connolly, and brittany cardwell serve up slices of standup at two boots pizza (williamsburg), where they’ll be joined by j.f. harris (comedy central), ian fidance (seth meyers), april boddie (adult swim), john f. o’donnell (redacted tonight), and mary santora (sirius xm). bonus: free beer from 7:30-8pm. free admission (rsvp to enter the pizza raffle). >>
weds 7:30pm (weekly): we have fun: a stand-up show: hosts zach sims and dan wilbur bring the fun-ny to young ethel’s (park slope), with stand-up by comedians josh gondelman (desus + mero), khalid rahmaan (conan), wendy steiner (vulture), eman el-husseini (npr), and erik angel. free admission. >>
weds 8pm (weekly): savage comedy show: lizzie martinez and melissa rocha’s stand-up show comes roaring back with sets by brittany carney (comedy central), nonye brown-west (npr), zilla vodnas (the new york times), otto fernandez (vulture), and honey pluton. bonus: rsvp for a chance to win free drinks. logan’s run (park slope), free. >>
weds 8pm (weekly): good girl comedy show: good girls laura merli (reductress), molly brenner (molly brenner: i’m coming), and guest host davidson boswell bring their standup show back to friends and lovers (crown heights), with performers shalewa sharpe (hbo), shane torres (comedy central), martin urbano (kimmel), shosh brodman, and conor janda. $5. >>
thursday
thurs thru 8/21 (thursdays-sundays at 6:30pm): hudson classical theater company: macbeth: hudson classical theater company presents an intimate outdoor production of shakespeare’s macbeth at soldiers’ and sailors’ monument in riverside park (uws). pay-what-you-can admission. >>
thurs thru 7/31 (7:30pm): taken by artificial surprise: artist, magician, and researcher jeanette andrews explores the relationship between magic and machine learning in an interactive performance combining historic parlor magic and magic developed with the help of artificial intelligence. culture lab lic at the plaxall gallery, $1. >>
thurs (various times): free outdoor movies (weather permitting):
a bug’s life at vesuvio playground (south village) >>
clue at fort greene park >>
drumline at herbert von king park (bed-stuy) >>
even mice belong in heaven at hamilton park (jersey city) >>
godzilla at hearst plaza (lincoln center) >>
how stella got her groove back at brooklyn bridge park pier 1 harbor view lawn>>
the secret life of pets at schmul park (staten island) >>
sing 2 at bayswater park (queens)>>
thurs 5:30pm: strong like a mama: moms: relax, connect, and revel in your badassery at heymama’s seventh annual ‘strong like a mama’ event, an evening of mindfulness sessions, workouts, panel discussions, and mingling at harbor nyc (hell’s kitchen). $20. >>
thurs 5pm: sunset salsa on the flatiron plaza: let the beat move your feet as you pick up salsa moves and dance to live music by benny lopez latin jazz ensemble at flatiron north public plaza. free. >>
thurs 6-8pm (thursdays thru 9/1): live at the archway: for 13 nights this summer, you can catch live, outdoor performances and a local artist’s solo show at the public plaza underneath the manhattan bridge in dumbo. tonight: music by yuniel jiménez band and visual art by marney fuller. rain or shine. free admission. >>
thurs 6-9pm (+ 8/4): uptown bounce: museum of the city of new york and el museo del barrio’s annual summer block party series returns to east harlem with three themed nights featuring dj sets, live performances, artmaking activities, local eats available for purchase, and free museum admission. tonight’s theme: ‘afrobeats.’ >>
thurs 6:30pm: art in the garden series at brooklyn botanic garden: brooklyn botanic garden’s bouquet of live outdoor performances continues with a concert by david rothenberg and his band tablatun, who’ll combine hindustani drumming, electronics, clarinet, and live and recorded birdsong to create a ‘multicultural, interspecies sonic feast.’ included with regular admission ($18 general, $12 students/seniors, free community tickets available). >>
thurs 6:30pm (thursdays thru 8/11): summer music in bushwick inlet park series: bop along to live music and watch the sun setting over the east river at bushwick inlet park’s summer music series. tonight: old time string band the down hill strugglers. bushwick inlet park (williamsburg), free. >>
thurs 7pm: crime/scene: bone-chilling novels for hot summer days: the center for fiction (fort greene) hosts a night of literary thrills and chills, featuring authors ed lin (death doesn’t forget), megan miranda (such a quiet place), dwyer murphy (an honest living), and kathy reichs (cold, cold bones), who’ll discuss and read excerpts from their latest crime novels. $10 ticket includes a $10 bookstore voucher, redeemable toward the featured books. >>
thurs 7pm (thursdays thru 8/10): st. ann’s warehouse: get back! summer concerts: world-class musicians bring live music to brooklyn bridge park for the third iteration of st. ann’s warehouse’s outdoor concert series. tonight: duendita + nicole misha. empire fulton ferry lawn, next to jane’s carousel, free. >>
thurs 7pm (thursdays thru 7/28): river + blues festival: sit back and enjoy the view and sounds of the annual river + blues concert series, returning for a month of sunset waterfront performances at robert f. wagner, junior park (battery park city). tonight: soul/country singer-songwriter maggie rose and grammy-winning blues musician cedric burnside. free admission. >>
thurs 7pm (thursdays thru 8/4): astoria waterfront concert series: bring a blanket or chair and your dancing shoes for an evening of live music on the astoria park great lawn. tonight: dancin’ machine (disco). free. >>
thurs 7pm: summerstage: caribou: the beloved summer performing arts festival continues with a concert featuring caribou, ela minus, and toribio at central park’s rumsey playfield. free. >>
sponsored: thurs 8pm (monthly): pop! a pop culture bingo party: beyoncé edition: get your game on at this fun night of bingo, with themed mini-games and pop-culture trivia challenges in-between rounds. hosted by pop-culture obsessive bobby hankinson with bacast‘s mary dorn at parklife (gowanus). free admission, food/drink purchase required. >>
thurs 8pm (weekly): tip top tits comedy show: it’s comedy or bust at janet hyde and mary cella’s stand-up show, returning tonight with andrew durso (patriot act), leclerc andre (fallon), ashlynn salzano (that time of the week), stewart fullerton (that time of the week), and tyrone thornhill on hand to rack up the laughs. bonus: $3 pbrs. outdoors at tip-top bar + grill in clinton hill (inside if raining), free admission. >>
thurs 9:15pm: shouting at the screen: watch a blaxploitation film accompanied by drinking games and mst3k-style commentary from hosts wyatt cenac (problem areas) and donwill (adulting with michelle buteau and jordan carlos) at nitehawk cinema (prospect park). $16. >>
thurs 10pm: hannah pilkes, a woman on the verge: comedian hannah pilkes (comedy central) takes you on a journey of ‘absurdity, angst, and pratfalls’ in her comedy and storytelling show. union hall (park slope), $10 adv, $15 dos. >>
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