twi-ny recommended events

NADA/PARALLAX/PULSE/CUTLOG/COLLECTIVE .1

NADA NYC
Pier 36 at Basketball City
299 South St. on the East River
May 10-12, free
www.newartdealers.org

Back in March, Armory Arts Week featured the Armory Show, Volta NY, Scope, the Independent, Moving Image New York, ADAA the Art Show, New City, Fountain, and Spring/Break art fairs. Now that we’ve all gotten the chance to catch our breath, the second part of the season is up and running this weekend with another slew of art shows around the city. While the main event might be the second edition of Frieze, held on Randall’s Island and charging a whopping $42 admission fee, there are numerous lower-cost options. At NADA, it does indeed cost nada to see more than seventy exhibitors at Basketball City, including Eleven Rivington, Klaus von Nichtssagend, Marlborough Chelsea, Churner and Churner, Feature Inc., and SculptureCenter. Among the special events and projects are Merkx & Gwynne’s “King Arthur Green Room,” a LittleCollector tour, a Lower East Side gallery tour, and an Eat up NY in the LES food tour at this show sponsored by New Art Dealers Alliance, which “believes that the adversarial approach to exhibiting and selling art has run its course . . . that change can be achieved through fostering constructive thought and dialogue between various points in the art industry from large galleries to small spaces, nonprofit and commercial alike.”

PARALLAX “ART” FAIR
Prince George Ballroom
15 East 27th St.
May 11-12, free with advance registration, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
www.parallaxaf.com

Parallax is a self-described “non-art fair that makes a uniquely refreshing conceptual statement about subjectivity and the commoditization of taste, offering an intellectual framework where visitors can dare to be themselves for a change.” Created by Dr. Chris Barlow, Parallax features works from more than two hundred international emerging and established artists celebrating “the luxury of objects” and examining new forms of acquisition.

Jani Ruscica’s “Screen Test (for a Living Sculpture)” is among the special projects at Pulse (courtesy of Otto Zoo)

PULSE
The Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th St.
May 9-12, $20 (run of show $25)
www.pulse-art.com/new-york

The always enjoyable Pulse is back at the Metropolitan Pavilion, with nearly fifty international galleries part of its main exhibition and another thirteen in its Impulse cutting-edge section. This year’s Pulse Projects features Tristin Lowe’s “Comet Nature,” Lisa Lozano and Tora Lopez’s “We Couldn’t Remember What We Came to Forget,” Franco Mondini-Ruiz’s “Spring Flings & Pretty Things,” Russell Maltz’s “Painted/Stacked,” Jason Rogenes’s “CH1M3R4,” and Tim Youd’s “Typing Tropic.” The multimedia Pulse Play lounge will be showing Jani Ruscica’s Screen Test (for a Living Sculpture), Robbie Cornelissen’s The Labyrinth Runner, and Lars Arrhenius’s The Street, there will be a Pulse New York Chelsea Gallery Walk and after-party on Thursday night, and a free shuttle bus will take people between Pulse and the Frieze ferry stop.

The cutlog fair makes New York debut with indoor and outdoor events

CUTLOG NY
Clemente Soto Vélez Center
107 Suffolk St. between Rivington & Delancey Sts.
May 9-13, $15 (run of show $25)
www.cutlogny.org

Making its New York debut, cutlog is a whirlwind event focusing on collaboration and innovation in multiple disciplines. Held at the Clemente on the Lower East Side, cutlog NY includes such exhibitors as Tel Aviv’s Art Connections, Paris’s Galerie Dix9 and Olivier Watman, Antwerp’s Marion de Cannière, London’s House of the Nobleman, Milano’s Edward Cutler, Lyon’s Céline Moine, Istanbul’s Gama, and Vancouver’s the Apartment, but it’s the special projects that highlight this highly anticipated fair. There will be projected images outdoors on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights; such live performances and installations as Movement Research re-creating Anna Halprin’s “Mirror Piece,” the Fantastic Nobodies’ “Free Car Wash,” Tyler Matthew Oyer’s cabaret “Gone for Gold,” Marni Kotak’s exercise-obsessed “Calorie Countdown,” a site-specific dance by Netta Yerushalmy, and Phoebe Rathmell’s “Visceral Transcendence,” among others; and talks with Harvey Stein and John Lurie.

Gaetano Pesce will be at Collective .1 Design with new installation and conversation

COLLECTIVE .1 DESIGN FAIR
Pier 57 at 15th St. and the West Side Highway
May 8-11, $25 (run of show $30)
www.collectivedesignfair.com

Another newbie is the Collective .1 Design Fair, founded by Steven Learner to present a curated examination of new and historical design. Approximately two dozen galleries will gather at Pier 57, including Demisch Danant, Jousse Entreprise, Lost City Arts, Maison Gerard, Mondo Cane, and Sebastian + Barquet, with installations by Gaetano Pesce, Sebastian Errazuriz, and Dana Barnes, tours, book signings with Christopher Bascom Rawlins and Jeffrey Head, and such Collective Conversations as “Inside the Design Market,” “Obsessed — Collecting in the 21st Century,” and “In Dialogue” with Gaetano Pesce and curator Daniella Ohad Smith.

PIPPIN

Music Box Theatre
239 West 45th St. between Broadway & Eighth Aves.
Tuesday – Sunday through December 22, $59 – $148
www.pippinthemusical.com

Inventive director Diane Paulus, who has staged wildly successful revivals of Hair and Porgy and Bess in recent years, now lovingly resurrects Roger O. Hirson’s and Stephen Schwartz’s Pippin on the occasion of its fortieth anniversary. “We’ve got magic to do, just for you,” the cast announces in the dazzling opening number, and the first act of this self-described “anecdotic revue” is indeed magical. The show, which was directed by Bob Fosse back in 1973, is hosted by the Leading Player (usually played by Patina Miller but performed by Stephanie Pope when we saw it) à la the Emcee in Fosse’s Cabaret, both addressing the audience directly and running things onstage. It’s the early Middle Ages, and King Charlemagne (a beautifully bearded Terence Mann) is sitting on the throne, denying peasants’ wishes and leading his empire through a series of wars. Meanwhile, his prodigal son, Pippin (Matthew James Thomas), has returned from his studies, trying to figure out what to do with his life. “Why do I feel I don’t fit in anywhere I go?” he asks in the ballad “Corner of the Sky,” continuing, “Rivers belong where they can ramble / Eagles belong where they can fly / I’ve got to be where my spirit can run free / Got to find my corner of the sky.” He considers becoming a warrior like his half brother, Lewis (Erik Altemus), which delights his stepmother, Fastrada (Charlotte d’Amboise), who envisions Pippin getting killed, making Lewis next in line to be king. But that doesn’t quite work out, and soon Pippin finds himself in the midst of a difficult moral quandary as he considers the sins of the father and the needs of the common people.

Berthe (Andrea Martin) gives life lessons to her grandson (Matthew James Thomas) in Broadway revival of PIPPIN (photo © 2013 Joan Marcus)

The first act is spectacular as the fictionalized story plays out within a circus setting featuring thrilling acrobatics by members of the Montreal-based troupe Les 7 Doigts de la Main, who juggle fire, slide across rolling balls, impossibly balance on objects and one another, and literally jump through hoops as they display life’s unlimited potential. Andrea Martin (SCTV, Young Frankenstein) amazes in a showstopping acrobatic number of her own as Pippin’s grandma Berthe, agelessly performing “No Time at All.” The second act bogs down significantly as Pippin spends time on a farm with the motherly Catherine (Rachel Bay Jones) and her young son, Theo (alternately played by Andrew Cekala and Ashton Woerz), considering a more ordinary life, but he still knows there’s something special out there for him. “Every so often a man has a day he truly can call his,” he sings. “Well, here I am to seize my day / if someone would just tell me when the hell it is.” Understudy Pope is luscious, leggy, and lascivious as the Leading Player, a star-making role originated on Broadway by Ben Vereen, who won a Tony for it, and currently played by Tony nominee Miller. Chet Walker’s choreography has Bob Fosse written all over it, and indeed it’s credited to Walker (Fosse) “in the style of Bob Fosse.” Paulus has managed to transform Pippin, an obvious product of its era, coming in the early 1970s following a tumultuous decade that included the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and free love, into a more timeless tale of generational change as the son both embraces and rebels against the father, trying to find his place in the world.

FREE SUMMER MOVIES 2013

JAWS will make people on board the Intrepid wary of the water on June 28

Relaxing on a beautiful night outdoors watching a free movie has become quite a city tradition, and you can find all kinds of films being shown in parks and plazas all over town, from Central Park, Bryant Park, and Riverside Park to the USS Intrepid, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Queens Museum. Film screenings begin at dusk, although some series have live music before that, so be sure to get there early. Keep watching this space as we add more festivals as they’re announced.

Friday, May 24
Intrepid Summer Movie Series: Top Gun (Tony Scott, 1986), Pier 86

Thursday, June 6
Films in Tompkins: Romeo+Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996), with Sweet Street Symphony, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, June 7
Films on the Green: Mississippi Mermaid (François Truffaut, 1969), Cedar Hill, Central Park

Tuesday, June 11
Family Guy, Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Thursday, June 13
Films in Tompkins: O Brother Where Art Thou (Joel Coen, 2000), with the Dapper Dans, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, June 14
Films on the Green: L’Art d’aimer (The Art of Love) (Emmanuel Mouret, 2011), Washington Square Park

Sunday, June 16
SummerStage — This Is _ Hip-Hop: Soul Food Junkies (Byron Hurt, 2012) and live music by Dead Prez, Herbert Von King Park

SummerStage: Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (Luiz Bolognesi, 2013) and live music by Preta Gil and DJ Just Marcelo, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park

Monday, June 17
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982), Bryant Park Lawn

Thursday, June 20
Films in Tompkins: Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998), wtih Batala NYC, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, June 21
Intrepid Summer Movie Series: National Treasure (Jon Turteltaub, 2004), Pier 86

Films on the Green: French Cancan (Jean Renoir, 1955), Washington Square Park

Saturday, June 22
SummerStage — Make a Joyful Noise: A Tribute to Mahalia Jackson, featuring a screening of Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory (Jeff Scheftel, 1997) and live appearances by Joshua “the Prince of Kosher Gospel” Nelson and Della Reese, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park

Monday, June 24
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956), Bryant Park Lawn

Thursday, June 27
Canceled: Films in Tompkins: Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992), with Amour Obscur and free slices of Two Boots “Mr. Pink” pizza, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, June 28
Intrepid Summer Movie Series: Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975), Pier 86

Films on the Green: Angèle et Tony (Angel and Tony) (Alix Delaporte, 2010), Tompkins Square Park

Monday, July 1
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock, 1972), Bryant Park Lawn

Flicks on the Beach: Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin, 1955), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Williamsburg Summer Nights, Movies in the Park: Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012), East River State Park

Wednesday, July 3
Outdoor Cinema: Our Nixon (Penny Lane, 2013), Socrates Sculpture Park

Friday, July 5
Films on the Green: L’Arancoeur (Heartbreaker) (Pascal Chaumeil, 2010), Tompkins Square Park

Saturday, July 6
Front/Row Cinema: Breaking Away (Peter Yates, 1979), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Monday, July 8
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971), Bryant Park Lawn

Flicks on the Beach: Bending Steel (Dave Carroll, 2013), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Tuesday, July 9
Red Hook Flicks: Stand by Me (Rob Reiner, 1986), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, July 10
Maysles Cinema’s Summer of Music — the Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival: I Want My Name Back (Roger Paradiso, 2012), with DJ Tedsmooth’s Old School Jam at 5:30, a live performance of “Rapper’s Delight” by MCs Wonder Mike, Master Gee, and Grandmaster Caz and special guests Melle Mell, Dana Dana, DJ Wiz, Grandmaster Dee, Keith LeBlanc, Vernon Reid, and Doug Winbish at 7:30, film screening at 8:30, moved to Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church, 16-20 Mount Morris Park West, southwest corner of 122nd St.

RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups: Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Outdoor Cinema: A Screaming Man (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2010), Socrates Sculpture Park

Front/Row Cinema: Ice Age (Chris Wedge & Carlos Saldanha, 2002), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

SummerScreen: Can’t Hardly Wait (Harry Elfont & Deborah Kaplan, 1998), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson — Movies Under the Stars: Song & Dance — Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933), Pier 1, Riverside Park South

The call of “Bueller . . . Bueller . . . Bueller . . .” will be heard throughout Brooklyn Bridge Park on July 11

Thursday, July 11
Movies with a View: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes, 1986), preceded by Creep (Sharif Anthony), with music by DJ Still Life, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Films in Tompkins: Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969), with Main Street Quintet, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, July 12
RiverFlicks for Kids: The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Peter Lord & Jeff Newitt, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 46

Films on the Green: Marius et Jeannette (Robert Guédiguian, 1997), Pier 1, Riverside Park

Saturday, July 13
SummerStage — This Is _ Hip-Hop: Screening of From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale (Henry Chalfant, 2006) and live music by the Ghetto Brothers, Crotona Park, 7:00

Front/Row Cinema: Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty, 1978), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Monday, July 15
Flicks on the Beach: The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich, 1964), Bryant Park Lawn

Williamsburg Summer Nights, Movies in the Park: The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011), East River State Park

Tuesday, July 16
Red Hook Flicks: Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne, 2008), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, July 17
RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Outdoor Cinema: Alamar (Pedro González-Rubio, 2009), Socrates Sculpture Park

SummerScreen: Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson — Movies Under the Stars: Song & Dance — Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933), Pier 1, Riverside Park South

Front/Row Cinema: Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, July 18
Maysles Cinema’s Summer of Music — the Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival: I Remember Harlem: Toward Freedom (1940-1965) and I Remember Harlem: Toward a New Day (1940-1965) (William Miles, 1980), with a Harlem World DJ set by DJ Blade, St. Nicholas Park, 7:30

Movies with a View: Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973), preceded by Catnip: Egress to Oblivion (Jason Willis), with music by DJ Hahn Solo, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Films in Tompkins: Drive (Nicolas Winding Ref, 2011), with Brendan O’Hara, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, July 19
RiverFlicks for Kids: ParaNorman (Chris Butler & Sam Fell, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 46

Films on the Green: Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (We Won’t Grow Old Together) (Maurice Pialat, 1972), Pier 1, Riverside Park

Saturday, July 20
Front/Row Cinema: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Sunday, July 21
SummerStage — This Is _ Hip-Hop: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Screening of I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (Keenen Ivory Wayans, 1988) and live music by DJ D-Nice, Queensbridge Park

Monday, July 22
Flicks on the Beach: Wreck-It Ralph (Rich Moore, 2012), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The African Queen (John Huston, 1951), Bryant Park Lawn

Williamsburg Summer Nights, Movies in the Park: Up (Bob Peterson & Pete Docter, 2009), East River State Park

Tuesday, July 23
Red Hook Flicks: Shaft (John Singleton, 2000), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, July 24
RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups: Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Outdoor Cinema: In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo, 2012), Socrates Sculpture Park

SummerScreen: The Craft (Andrew Fleming, 1996), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson — Movies Under the Stars: Song & Dance — The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland, 1953), Pier 1, Riverside Park South

Front/Row Cinema: Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich, 2003), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, July 25
Movies with a View: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971), preceded by Irish Folk Furniture (Tony Donoghue), with music by DJ Ayres, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Maysles Cinema’s Summer of Music — the Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival: Shape of a Broken Heart (Andrew Dosumnu, 2012) and Jazz on a Summer’s Day (Bert Stern, 1960), with DJ Blade and live drumming, the Jackie Robinson Park Bandshell, 7:30

Films in Tompkins: The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998), with Jake Pinto and the Yeahtones and free slices of Two Boots “the Dude” pizza, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, July 26
RiverFlicks for Kids: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988), Hudson River Park, Pier 46

Intrepid Summer Movie Series: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979), Pier 86

Films on the Green: U (Grégoire Solotareff & Serge Elissalde, 2006), Transmitter Park

Saturday, July 27
Front/Row Cinema: Working Girl (Mike Nichols, 1988), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Monday, July 29
Flicks on the Beach: Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonenfeld, 2012), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder, 1948), Bryant Park Lawn

Williamsburg Summer Nights, Movies in the Park: Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012), East River State Park

Tuesday, July 30
Red Hook Flicks: Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann, 1992), Valentino Pier

Movie fans can find the underrated MOONRISE KINGDOM in Hudson River Park on July 31

Wednesday, July 31
RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups: Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Outdoor Cinema: Domestic (Adrian Sitaru, 2013), Socrates Sculpture Park

SummerScreen: The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson — Movies Under the Stars: Song & Dance — Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison, 1971), Pier 1, Riverside Park South

Front/Row Cinema: Star Trek (J. J. Abrams, 2009), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, August 1
Movies with a View: 8 Mile (Curtis Hanson, 2002), preceded by Until the Quiet Comes (Kahlil Joseph), with music by DJ Who Am I, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Films in Tompkins: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975), with Jason Trachtenburg and the Pendulum Swings, Tompkins Square Park

Friday, August 2
RiverFlicks for Kids: Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath & Conrad Vernon, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 46

Intrepid Summer Movie Series: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Chris Columbus, 2001), Pier 86

Films on the Green: Conte d’été (A Summer’s Tale) (Eric Rohmer, 1996), Transmitter Park

Saturday, August 3
Front/Row Cinema: The Muppets (James Bobin, 2011), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Monday, August 5
Flicks on the Beach: The Avengers (Joss Whedon, 2012), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: Norma Rae (Martin Ritt, 1979), Bryant Park Lawn

Tuesday, August 6
Red Hook Flicks: Akeelah and the Bee (Doug Atchison, 2006), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, August 7
RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups: The Avengers (Joss Wheedon, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Outdoor Cinema: Sugar (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, 2008), Socrates Sculpture Park

SummerScreen: Speed (Jan de Bont, 1994), McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson — Movies Under the Stars: Song & Dance — Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz, 1986), Pier 1, Riverside Park South

Front/Row Cinema: Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, August 8
Movies with a View: Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953), preceded by How She Slept at Night (Lilli Carré), with music by DJ $mall ¢hange, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, August 9
RiverFlicks for Kids: Rise of the Guardians (Peter Ramsey, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 46

Saturday, August 10
Front/Row Cinema: Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Sunday, August 11
SummerStage: screening of 1981 BBC documentary Hotter than July and live music by DJ Spinna, Mika, Gloria Ryann, Asa Lovechild, Darien, Mike Hammond, Chris Robb, Vivian Sessoms, and Jesse Fischer & Soul Cycle performing “A Soul Train Tribute to Stevie Wonder,” Marcus Garvey Park

Monday, August 12
Flicks on the Beach: Fame (Alan Parker, 1980), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The Women (George Cukor, 1939), Bryant Park Lawn

Tuesday, August 13
Red Hook Flicks: The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, August 14
RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups: Pitch Perfect (Jason Moore, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Outdoor Cinema: The Gleaners & I (Agnès Varda, 2000), Socrates Sculpture Park

SummerScreen: Audience Pick, McCarren Park

Summer on the Hudson — Movies Under the Stars: Song & Dance — Pitch Perfect (Jason Moore, 2012), Pier 1, Riverside Park South

Front/Row Cinema: The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb, 2012), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, August 15
Movies with a View: Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976), preceded by Marcel, King of Tervuren (Tom Schroeder), with music by DJ Emch, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Cries of “Beetelgeuse! Beetelgeuse! Beetelgeuse!” will echo through Hudson River Park on August 16

Friday, August 16
RiverFlicks for Kids: Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, 1988), Hudson River Park, Pier 46

Saturday, August 17
Front/Row Cinema: Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Monday, August 19
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982), Bryant Park Lawn

Flicks on the Beach: 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013), Beach and West Tenth St., Coney Island

Tuesday, August 20
Red Hook Flicks: Caddyshack (Harold Ramis, 1980), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, August 21
RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups: The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012), Hudson River Park, Pier 63 Lawn

Outdoor Cinema: The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007), Socrates Sculpture Park

Front/Row Cinema: Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, August 22
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, 1961), Sheep Meadow and the 72nd St. Cross Dr., DJ at 6:30, film at 8:00

Movies with a View: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), preceded by My Favorite Picture of You (Dan Lindsay & T. J. Martin), with music by DJ Geko Jones, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Friday, August 23
RiverFlicks for Kids: The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg, 2011), Hudson River Park, Pier 46

Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: Hook (Steven Spielberg, 1991), Sheep Meadow and the 72nd St. Cross Dr., DJ at 6:30, film at 8:00

Intrepid Summer Movie Series: The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen, 1984), Pier 86

Saturday, August 24
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012), Sheep Meadow and the 72nd St. Cross Dr., DJ at 6:30, film at 8:00

Front/Row Cinema: Gigi (Vincente Minnelli, 1958), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Sunday, August 25
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980), Sheep Meadow and the 72nd St. Cross Dr., DJ at 6:30, film at 8:00

Monday, August 26
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981), Sheep Meadow and the 72nd St. Cross Dr., DJ at 6:30, film at 8:00

SummerStage — This Is _ Hip-Hop: Thirtieth Anniversary Screening of Wild Style (Charlie Ahearn, 1983), live music by DJ D-Nice, East River Park

Tuesday, August 27
Red Hook Flicks — Red Hook Choice: Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (Stephen Herek, 1991), Valentino Pier

Wednesday, August 28
Front/Row Cinema: The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, August 29
Movies with a View: Public vote between Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998), Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997), Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003), and any rained-out films, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Saturday, August 31
Front/Row Cinema: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Wednesday, September 4
Front/Row Cinema: Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

Thursday, September 5
Films on the Green: Les Roseaux Sauvages (Wild Reeds) (André Téchiné, 1994), Columbia University Low Library steps

Saturday, September 7
Front/Row Cinema: Up (Bob Peterson & Pete Docter, 2009), South Street Seaport, Front & Fulton Sts.

ORPHANS

Phillip (Tom Sturridge), Treat (Ben Foster), and Harold (Alec Baldwin) form a rather unique pseudo-family in ORPHANS (photo by Joan Marcus)

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
236 West 45th St. between Broadway & Eighth Aves.
Tuesday – Sunday through May 19, $67-$132
www.orphansonbroadway.com

When petty thief Treat (Ben Foster) lures home businessman Harold (Alec Baldwin), he gets more than he bargained for in the energetic Broadway debut of Lyle Kessler’s 1983 play, Orphans. Treat has turned to a life of crime in order to take care of himself and his developmentally disabled younger brother, Phillip (Tom Sturridge), in their run-down house in North Philadelphia. Treat, who takes pleasure in wielding a knife, ties the passed-out Harold to a chair and tells Phillip to watch him while the older brother goes out to try to collect a ransom for his kidnap victim. Phillip, who has a thing for mayonnaise, canned tuna, and a woman’s red shoe, can’t leave the house because of allergies that could potentially kill him. But inside he’s like a playful caged animal, leaping across John Lee Beatty’s set like a feral cat, from stairs to couch to windowsill and back again. Meanwhile, when he comes to, Phillip is nonplussed at having been captured, speaking eloquently about admiring the Dead End Kids and remembering his difficult childhood as an orphan, just like Treat and Phillip. Soon he’s serving as a surrogate father figure, at first enraging Treat while intriguing Phillip, leading to a surprise shift in the power dynamic.

Orphans is a showcase for the trio of actors; the original L.A. production thirty years ago starred Joe Pantoliano, Lane Smith, and Paul Leiber, while the 1985 Steppenwolf version boasted Gary Sinise directing John Mahoney, Terry Kinney, and Kevin Anderson, and Alan J. Pakula’s 1987 film featured Albert Finney, Matthew Modine, and Anderson. For this Great White Way edition, Foster (3:10 to Yuma, The Messenger), in his Broadway debut, is solid as the ultraserious Treat, who will do whatever it takes to protect Phillip, while Baldwin has a field day as Harold, part Leo Gorcey, part Huntz Hall, part Humphrey Bogart as he coolly and calmly handles what should be a life-threatening situation, instead seeing it as an opportunity. But it’s Sturridge (Being Julia, On the Road) who steals the show with his mesmerizing, acrobatic performance as a trapped man-child ready to burst free. Director Daniel Sullivan (Prelude to a Kiss, The Substance of Fire) injects a kind of punk-rock ferocity into the Pinteresque proceedings as he weaves together Treat’s intense rage, Phillip’s sense of wonder, and Harold’s absurdist ramblings on human existence. Orphans is a captivating, if unusual and offbeat, dark comedy that thrills from start to finish.

FREE SUMMER MUSIC 2013

Mission of Burma will headline NYU Strawberry Festival on May 10 (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

The free summer music season gets under way this month, as concerts start popping up all over the place, from such familiar festivals as SummerStage, River to River, and Celebrate Brooklyn! to smaller shows in parks and plazas and on street corners. Keep watching this space as we add more shows as they’re announced.

Friday, May 10
NYU Strawberry Festival, with Mission of Burma, Merchandise, Library Time, La Guardia Pl. between West Third St. & Washington Pl., 12:30 – 4:30

Fab Friday, with the Fort Greene Blues Band, Putnam Triangle Plaza, 6:00

Thursday, May 16
Celebrate Brooklyn! Old School Funk and Hip-Hop Dance Party with Zapp, DJ D-Nice, and dance lesson by Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie, first 500 people who give password “Brooklyn Bridge Park” get in free, the Bell House, 8:00

Sunday, May 19
Summer on the Hudson: Tenth Annual Mamapalooza Outdoor Extravaganza, Pier 1, Riverside Park, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Thursday, May 23
Celebrate Brooklyn! Old School Funk & Hip-Hop Dance Party, with Zapp and D-Nuice, Brooklyn Bridge Park, 7:00

Friday, May 24
Good Morning America Concert Series: Mariah Carey, advance free tickets needed, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: Fun., Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

Monday, May 27
Memorial Day Concert at St. John the Divine, New York Philharmonic: Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, tickets handing out at 6:00, concert at 8:00

Friday, May 31
Good Morning America Concert Series: Pitbull, advance free tickets needed, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees, Boyz II Men, Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

Fun Friday, with Rolie Polie Guacamole, Putnam Triangle Plaza, 10:00 am

Saturday, June 1
Red Hook Fest: Brown Rice Family, Gangstagrass, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Avenida B, Nicholas Leichter Dance, the Hungry March Band, Louis J. Valentino Jr. Park & Pier, 12 noon – 7:00 pm

Saturday, June 1, and Sunday, June 2
Howl! Festival, Tompkins Square Park, 1:00 – 5:00

Sunday, June 2
American Jamboree at the Open Air Street Fair: Stephanie Coleman, Luke Richardson, and Cleek Schrey (12 noon), the Whiskeyhickon Boys (1:00), Odetta Hartman (2:00), and the Rad Trads (3:00), Crosby St. off Houston

Tuesday, June 4
Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival: Dave Davies, City Winery backyard, 5:00

Stars of Tomorrow: Students from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 6:30

SummerStage: Flatbush Zombies, the Underachievers, Red Hook Park, 7:00

Wednesday, June 5
SummerStage: Rakim, Red Hook Park, 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (for Kids) with Wynton Marsalis, Prospect Park Bandshell, 4:00

Thursday, June 6
BAM R&B Festival at MetroTech: Mint Condition, MetroTech Commons, 12 noon

SummerStage: Fuzz, Ex-Cult, DJ set by Jonathan Toubin, Red Hook Park, 7:00

Friday, June 7
Good Morning America Concert Series: Little Mix and Emblem3, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: Lionel Richie, Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

Seaport Music Festival: Oblivians, Ex-Cult, Pier 17, South Street Seaport, 7:00

Sunset on the Hudson: Chuck Braman Jazz Band, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 7:00

Saturday, June 8
Crest Fest, featuring Pitckblak Brass, Band, Aabaraki, Cold Fronts, Osekre & the Lucky Bastards, and See Through, with DJs Petey Complex, Krunk Pony, Rok One, Mama Dom, Lucas Walters, Peter Hale, Gerald Hammill, and Chuck Buckett, Crest Hardware, 558 Metropolitan Ave., 1:00 – 8:00

Big Apple BBQ, with the Spampinato Brothers (1:00), Barrence Whitfield & the Savages (2:45), and Marcia Ball (4:30), Madison Square Park

Sunday, June 9
Big Apple BBQ, with the Myles Mancuso Band (1:00), Elizabeth Cook (2:45), and the Dirty Guv’nahs (4:30), Madison Square Park

Tuesday, June 11
Jazz in the Square: Francesco Fratini, Union Square Park, 12 noon

Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival: Los Straitjackets, City Winery backyard, 5:00

SummerStage: Rayvon, Red Fox, Golden Child, RSNY, hosted by Shaggy, Herbert Von King Park, 7:00

Wednesday June 12
SummerStage: Big Daddy Kane, DJ set by DJ Scratch, Herbert Von King Park, 7:00

Thursday, June 13
BAM R&B Festival at MetroTech: Bobby Rush, MetroTech Commons, 12 noon

Jazz in the Square: Daniel Dor, Union Square Park, 12 noon

Celebrate Brooklyn! Grouplove and Alpine, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

SummerStage: Chubb Rock, Rob Base, Herbert Von King Park, 7:00

Friday, June 14
Good Morning America Concert Series: Carly Rae Jepsen, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: Maroon 5, Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

Seaport Music Festival: White Fence and PAWS, Pier 17, South Street Seaport, 7:00

Sunset on the Hudson: The Bay Soda Jazz Band, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! Mavis Staples and Cody ChesnuTT, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

The Zombies are back for a live show and panel discussion this summer

Saturday June 15
Northside Festival: Converse Rubber Tracks Live with the Walkmen, Phosphorescent, Friend Roulette, Abadabad, McCarren Park, advance RSVP required, 3:00

SummerStage: “The British Invasion” panel discussion with Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent of the Zombies and filmmaker Jonathan Demme, 3:00

SummerStage: The Zombies, Django Django, Adam Green & Binki Shapiro, DJ sets by Modest P, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 6:00

Sunday, June 16
River to River: Bang on a Can Marathon, with Hans Abrahamsen, Derek Bermel, Jeffrey Brooks, Caleb Burhans, Peter Evans, Michael Gordon, John King, David Lang, Lukas Ligeti, Annea Lockwood, Nico Muhly, Tamar Muskal, Angélica Negron, Charlie Piper, Kendall Williams, Julia Wolfe, Shara Worden, Tatsuya Yoshida, Tom Ze, and others, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 1:00 – 10:00

Northside Festival: Converse Rubber Tracks Live with Solange, Petite Noir, Cable, My Midnight Heart, McCarren Park, advance RSVP required, 3:00

SummerStage: Brooklyn Family Day, with Shine & the Moonbeams, Something Positive Afro Caribbean Dance Theater, DJ set by Hard Hittin Harry, Herbert Von King Park, 4:00

SummerStage: Dead Prez, screening of Soul Food Junkies, Herbert Von King Park, 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! Calexico, Susana Baca, Radio Jarocho & Akoko Nante Ensemble, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:00

SummerStage: Eleventh Brazilian Film Festival of NY, featuring Preta Gil, DJ sets by Just Marcelo, screening of Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00

Tuesday, June 18
Jazz in the Square: Albert Baliwas, Union Square Park, 12 noon

Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival: the English Beat, City Winery backyard, 5:00

River to River: Dana Leong Trio, Brookfield Place Plaza, 5:30

Stars of Tomorrow: Students from Mannes College, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 6:30

SummerStage: The Airborne Toxic Event featuring the Calder Quartet with Orchestra, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00

SummerStage: Dana Dane, Grand Puba, hosted by Chubb Rock, Betsy Head Park, 7:00

Tuesday, June 18, and Wednesday, June 19
River to River: An Evening with Laurie Anderson and Guests, with Laurie Anderson, Gerry Leonard, Doug Wieselman, Eyvind Kang, Steve Buscemi, Young Jean Lee, and others, Rockefeller Park, 7:00

Wednesday, June 19
SummerStage: Hezekiah Walker, Betsy Head Park, 7:00

Mad. Sq. Music — Oval Lawn Series: Suzanne Vega, Madison Square Park, 7:00

Thursday, June 20
BAM R&B Festival at MetroTech: Zozo Afrobeat Orchestra, MetroTech Commons, 12 noon

Jazz in the Square: Or Bareket, Union Square Park, 12 noon

SummerStage: Jon B, Betsy Head Park, 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! Big Boi, Phony Ppl, D-Nice, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

River to River: An Evening of Live Music and Cinema with Sam Green, the Quavers, and yMusic, East River Esplanade, Pier 15, 9:00

Friday, June 21
Good Morning America Concert Series: John Legend, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: Hunter Hayes, Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

River to River: The Jazz Saxophone, Brookfield Place Plaza, One New York Plaza, Zuccotti Park, 12 noon, 12:30, 1:00

Fab Friday, with live music TBA, Cuyler-Gore Park, 3:00 – 8:00

Sunset on the Hudson: Max Gallico & Friends, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 7:00

Seaport Music Festival: Fear of Men, Pier 17, South Street Seaport, 7:00

SummerStage: Fête De La Musique, with IAM and special guest Rakim, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! Amadou & Mariam, Bombino, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

Saturday, June 22
SummerStage: “Make a Joyful Noise,” a Tribute to Mahalia Jackson, with Joshua Nelson, the Prince of Kosher Gospel, and special guest Della Reese, and screening of Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 6:00

Sunday, June 23
SummerStage: Femi Kuti & the Positive Force, Sinkane, DJ set by King Britt, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 3:00

River to River: JG Thirlwell — The Manorexia Project, Dinoflagellate Blooms, Pauline Oliveros: Along the Way, Susie Ibarra & Robert Rodriguez, New York Electronic Art Festival, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 7:30

James Maddock will play a pair of River to River shows, on June 25 and June 27

Tuesday, June 25
Jazz in the Square: Sam Neufeld, Union Square Park, 12 noon

Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival: Ben Taylor, City Winery backyard, 5:00

River to River: James Maddock, Brookfield Place Plaza, 5:30

Stars of Tomorrow: Students from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 6:30

SummerStage: Tribute to Ismael Rivera with Moncho Rivera, St. Mary’s Park, 7:00

River to River: Angelique Kidjo, Rockefeller Park, 7:00

Wednesday, June 26
River to River: 1959, with Terri Lyne Carrington, Antonio Hart, Gregoire Maret, Jeremy Pelt, Chris Potter, and others playing music by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Billie Holiday, and Sidney Bechet, with spoken-word pieces from the Beat generation, Rockefeller Park, 7:00

SummerStage: Tribute to Hector Lavoe, St. Mary’s Park, 7:00

Mad. Sq. Music — Oval Lawn Series: Anat Cohen Quartet, Madison Square Park, 7:00

Thursday, June 27
BAM R&B Festival at MetroTech: Stooges Brass Band, MetroTech Commons, 12 noon

Jazz in the Square: Dida Pelled, Union Square Park, 12 noon

River to River: James Maddock, One New York Plaza, 12:30

SummerStage: Sammy Garcia y Sabor de Puerto Rico, St. Mary’s Park, 7:00

Friday, June 28
Good Morning America Concert Series: Demi Lovato, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: Philip Phillips, Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

Fun Friday, with Roderick Jackson and Palms Down Percussion Ensemble, Putnam Triangle Plaza, 10:00 am

Seaport Music Festival: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Pier 17, South Street Seaport, 7:00

Sunset on the Hudson: Chuck Braman Jazz Band, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Aurelio Martinez, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

Saturday, June 29
4Knots Music Festival: Kurt Vile & the Violators, the Men, Parquet Courts, White Lung, Marnie Stern, Reigning Sound, the Babies, Fat Tony, Heliotropes, South Street Seaport, 1:00 – 8:00

SummerStage: Joel Plaskett, Spirit of the West, Brasstronaut, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 6:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! Os Mutantes, Javelin, Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

Saturday, June 29, and Sunday, June 30
River to River: Ecstatic Summer 2013, Brookfield Place Plaza, 5:00

Sunday, June 30
River to River: Two-Headed Calf & Yarn/Wire: You, My Mother: A Chamber Opera in Two Parts, Pier 17, South Street Seaport, advance RSVP required, 3:00 & 8:30

SummerStage: Big Star’s Third: An Orchestrated Live Performance of the Legendary Album, featuring Mike Mills, Jody Stephens, Sharon Van Etten, Kurt Vile, Marshall Crenshaw, Pete Yorn, Reeve Carney, and others, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00

River to River: Juraj Kojs and Carlota Pradera: Dinoflagellate Blooms, Marco Donnarumma: Ominous, Mari Kimura & Tomoyuki Kato: One, New York Electronic Art Festival, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 7:30

Tuesday, July 2
Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival: the Pietasters, City Winery backyard, 5:00

River to River: Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys, Brookfield Place Plaza, 5:30

SummerStage: The Freedom Dance Party with special guest Cameo, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 6:00

SummerStage: Joe Bataan, Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue, Soundview Park, 6:00

River to River: Pedrito Martinez, Rockefeller Park, 7:00

River to River: Two-Headed Calf & Yarn/Wire: You, My Mother: A Chamber Opera in Two Parts, Pier 17, South Street Seaport, advance RSVP required, 8:30

Wednesday, July 3
BAM R&B Festival at MetroTech: Avery*Sunshine, MetroTech Commons, 12 noon

River to River: Two-Headed Calf & Yarn/Wire: You, My Mother: A Chamber Opera in Two Parts, Pier 17, South Street Seaport, advance RSVP required, 3:00

SummerStage: George Lamond, DJ set by DJ Lucho, Soundview Park, 6:00

Mad. Sq. Music — Oval Lawn Series: The Grascals, Joy Kills Sorrow, Madison Square Park, 6:00

SummerStage: Blink Your Eyes: Sekou Sundiata Revisited — longstoryshort: Remixed featuring Nona Hendryx, Sandra St. Victor, Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely, Faybiene Miranda, Lenelle Moise, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00

Friday, July 5
Good Morning America Concert Series: Imagine Dragons, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: John Mayer, Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

Saturday, July 6
Celebrate Brooklyn! Theophilus London, Les Nubians, Aabaraki, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:00

On Stage at Kingsborough Presents Hot Summer Nights: Brooklyn Community Wind Ensemble conducted by Ray Wheeler, Kingsborough Community College, 2001 Oriental Blvd., 8:00

River to River: Control Voltage 2013, 8:00 pm – 12 midnight

Sunday, July 7
Summer on the Hudson: Amplified Sundays Presents Bella’s Bartok, Pier 1, Riverside Park South, 7:00

Sunday, July 7, and Wednesday, July 10
SummerStage: Global Family Day featuring the Carpetbag Brigade & Nemcatacoa Teatro, Elizabeth Mitchell, Natural Expression, Rhythm Band, ASE Dance Theater Collective, Ifetayo Youth Ensemble, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 3:00

Tuesday, July 9
River to River: Clyne, Dufallo, Kauffman, and Dorman: “Ex-Situ Series: The Violin,” with violinists Cornelius Dufallo and Amy Kauffman and visuals by Josh Dorman, advance RSVP required

Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival: Eilen Jewell with the End of America, City Winery backyard, 5:00

SummerStage: Tego Calderón, RVSB, Crotona Park, 7:00

River to River: La Excelencia, Rockefeller Park, 7:00

Leon Russell will be in Rockefeller Park on July 10

Wednesday, July 10
Summer of Music: I Want My Name Back (Roger Paradiso, 2012), with DJ Tedsmooth’s Old School Jam at 5:30, a live performance of “Rapper’s Delight” by MCs Wonder Mike, Master Gee, and Grandmaster Caz and special guests Melle Mell, Dana Dana, DJ Wiz, Grandmaster Dee, Keith LeBlanc, Vernon Reid, and Doug Winbish at 7:30, film screening at 8:30, moved to Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church, 16-20 Mount Morris Park West, southwest corner of 122nd St.

Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival: B. B. King, the James Hunter Six, Brookfield Place Plaza, 6:00

SummerStage: Tego Calderón, Cuarto Poder, Los Rakas, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00

River to River: Leon Russell, Rockefeller Park, 7:00

SummerStage: DJ Kool Herc, Crotona Park, 7:00

Mad. Sq. Music — Oval Lawn Series: René Marie’s “Experiment in Truth,” Madison Square Park, 7:00

New York Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks: Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, Prospect Park, 8:00

Thursday, July 11
BAM R&B Festival at MetroTech: Sly & Robbie, MetroTech Commons, 12 noon

Broadway in Bryant Park: Stomp, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Pippin, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, iLuminate: Artist of Light, Bryant Park Lawn, 12:30

River to River: Hungry March Band, One New York Plaza, 12:30

SummerStage: Lila Downs, Natalia Clavier, Pamela Rodriguez, DJ sets by Raul Campos, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 6:00

RiverRocks: Generationals and Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, Pier 84, 6:00

Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival: Los Lobos, Los Lonely Boys, Alejandro Escovedo, Brookfield Place Plaza, 6:00

River to River: Hauschka, Koseminen, and Zeigler, “Ex-Situ Series,” with pianist-composer Hauschka, percussionist Samuli Kosminen, and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, East River Esplanada, Pier 15, 7:45

New York Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks: Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, Cunningham Park, 8:00

River to River: JG Thirlwell — The Manorexia Project, Dinoflagellate Blooms, Tribeca Cinemas, advance RSVP required, 10:00

Friday, July 12
Good Morning America Concert Series: OneRepublic, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: Ed Sheehan, Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

Fab Friday, with ArinMaya and Djibril Toure and the People’s Express, Fowler Sq., 6:00

Sunset on the Hudson: The Bay Soda Jazz Band, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 7:00

SummerStage: WAR, DJ set by DJ Afro, Crotona Park, 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! Nortec Collective Presents Bostich & Fussible, Mexican Institute of Sound, Mariachi Flor de Toloache, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:00

Saturday, July 13
Rite of Summer Music Festival: Bang on a Can All Stars, Colonels Row, Governors Island, 1:00 & 3:00

SummerStage: Julieta Venegas, Carla Morrison, Alex Anwandter, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 3:00

River to River: Brasslands screening with live performances by Zlatne Uste, Slavic Soul Party!, and Raya Brass Band, Brookfield Place Plaza, 6:30

SummerStage: The Ghetto Brothers, screening of From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale, Crotona Park, 7:00

River to River: So Percussion and the Joshua Light Show, Amid the Noise, Imaginary City, and Where (we) Live, with Grey Mcmurray, Angelica Negron, Kaoru Watanabe, and others, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 7:30

On Stage at Kingsborough Presents Hot Summer Nights: the George Gee Swing Orchestra featuring vocalists Hilary Gardner and John Dokes and special guests Lindy Hoppers, Samantha Siegel, and Brian Lawton, Kingsborough Community College, 2001 Oriental Blvd., 8:00

Dracula with the Philip Glass Ensemble, Kishi Bashi, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

New York Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks, location and program to be announced, 8:00

Sunday, July 14
MoonDance: Swing with George Gee, Pier 84, dance lessons at 6:30, concert at 7:00

SummerStage: Fanfare Ciocarlia, Red Baraat, DJ sets by Joro-Boro, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 3:00

Summer on the Hudson: Amplified Sundays Presents Drums and Dance of India, Pier 1, Riverside Park South, 7:00

New York Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks, College of Staten Island, 8:00

Monday, July 15
New York Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks: Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, Great Lawn, Central Park, 8:00

Tuesday, July 16
SummerStage: Mambo to Hip-Hop Part 3: The Graffiti Movement and the Media It Inspires, the Point CDC, 12 noon – 6:00 pm

Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival: Tim O’Brien, City Winery backyard, 5:00

Stars of Tomorrow: Students from Mannes College, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 6:30

New York Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks: Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, Van Cortlandt Park, 8:00

SummerStage: Meli’sa Morgan, Marley Marl, hosted by Bob Lee, Queensbridge Park, 7:00

SummerStage: The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series, with soprano Erin Morley, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and tenor Stephen Costello, with pianist Bradley Moore, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 8:00

Wednesday, July 17
SummerStage: Force MDs, Horace Brown, Jeff Redd, Marley Marl, hosted by Bob Lee, Queensbridge Park, 7:00

Thursday, July 18
BAM R&B Festival at MetroTech: Fatoumata Diawara, MetroTech Commons, 12 noon

Broadway in Bryant Park: The Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, F#%king Up Everything, Sistas the Musical, Bryant Park Lawn, 12:30

Mad. Sq. Music — Oval Lawn Series: Ben Sollee, Madison Square Park, 7:00

SummerStage: Black Sheep, Das EFX, Marley Marl, hosted by Bob Lee, Queensbridge Park, 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! The Tiger Lillies: Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Cynthia Hopkins, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

Seaside Summer Concert Series: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Coney Island, West 21st St. & Surf Ave., 7:30

Friday, July 19
Good Morning America Concert Series: Jennifer Lopez, advance free tickets needed, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: Fall Out Boy, Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

Sunset on the Hudson: Max Gallico & Friends, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! The Waterboys, Alasdair Roberts, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

SummerStage: The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series, with soprano Erin Morley, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and tenor Stephen Costello, with pianist Bradley Moore, Brooklyn Bridge Park, 8:00

Saturday, July 20
SummerStage: Planet Hemp, Gaby Amarantos Emicida, DJ sets by Greg Caz, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 3:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! The Lone Bellow, the Low Anthem, Joe Purdy, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:00

On Stage at Kingsborough Presents Hot Summer Nights: the Hot Sardines, Kingsborough Community College, 2001 Oriental Blvd., 8:00

Sunday, July 21
SummerStage: Oliver Mtukudzi and the Black Spirits, Fatoumata Diawara, Krar Collective, DJ set by DJ Sirak, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 3:00

SummerStage: Queens Family Day, featuring Invincible: A Tribute to the King of Pop, with PitchBlak Brass Band, Little Club Heads, DJ set by Chris Love “the Mixologist,” Queensbridge Park, 4:00

MoonDance: Salsa with Los Hermanos Colon, Pier 84, dance lessons at 6:30, concert at 7:00

SummerStage: DJ D-Nice and twenty-fifth anniversary screening of I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Queensbridge Park, 7:00

Monday, July 22
Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series: Old School Night, with Rakim, Whodini, Big Daddy Kane, and Chubb Rock, Wingate Field, 7:30

Tuesday, July 23
Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival: Tulipa Ruiz, City Winery backyard, 5:00

Stars of Tomorrow: Students from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 6:30

SummerStage: The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series, with soprano Ying Fang, tenor Mario Chang, and bass-baritone Brandon Cedel, with pianist Bradley Moore, Crotona Park, 7:00

Kronos Quartet celebrate fortieth anniversary with series of outdoor shows at Lincoln Center

Wednesday, July 24
Mad. Sq. Music — Oval Lawn Series: Dafnis Prieto Sextet, Yosvany Terry Quintet, Madison Square Park, 6:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Red Hot + Fela Live! featuring Tony Allen and Superhuman Happiness with Tunde Adebimpe, Baloji, Abena Koomson, Kronos Quartet, Kyp Malone, Sahr Ngaujah, Sinkane and Kalmia Traver of Rubblebucket, and musical director Stuart Bogie, and Superhuman Happiness: Music from How to Survive a Plague, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 7:30

Thursday, July 25
BAM R&B Festival at MetroTech: Bombino, MetroTech Commons, 12 noon

Broadway in Bryant Park: Avenue Q, Rock of Ages, Soul Doctor, Murder Ballad, Gazillion Bubble Show, Bryant Park Lawn, 12:30

RiverRocks: Foxygen and Thao & the Get Down, Stay Down, Pier 84, 6:00

SummerStage: The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series, with soprano Ying Fang, tenor Mario Chang, and bass-baritone Brandon Cedel, with pianist Bradley Moore, Clove Lakes Park, 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! BeBe Winans, Alicia Olatuja, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

Seaside Summer Concert Series: Smokey Robinson, Coney Island, West 21st St. & Surf Ave., 7:30

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Kronos at 40, with My Brightest Diamond; Emily Wells; and Kronos Quartet performing world premiere of Chernobyl.The Harvest with special guest Mariana Sadovska, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 7:30

Friday, July 26
Good Morning America Concert Series: Selena Gomez, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: Train, Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

Fun Friday, with Lou Gallo, Putnam Triangle Plaza, 10:00 am

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Kronos at 40: Chinese American Art Council presents Romance of the Iron Bow, Hearst Plaza, 6:00

Sunset on the Hudson: Chuck Braman Jazz Band, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! Trampled by Turtles, the Devil Makes Three, Brown Bird, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Kronos at 40, featuring Magda Giannikou, Josie Robertson Plaza, 7:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Kronos at 40, Kronos Quartet with Magda Giannikou performing world premiere of “Strophe in Antistrophe,” Kronos Quartet performing East Coast debut of collaboration with Vân-Ánh Võ, and a performance by the Gloaming, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 7:30

Friday, July 26, through Sunday, July 28
Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Kronos at 40: Found Sound Nation, Josie Robertson Plaza, 11:30, 3:30, 4:30

Saturday, July 27
Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Kronos at 40, with Brooklyn Youth Chorus, “Play Along Chorus” with Kronos Quartet and Craig Woodson, Face the Music’s Pannonia Quartet, and Elena Moon Park & Friends performing “Rabbit Days & Dumplings,” Hearst Plaza, 12 noon

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Kronos at 40, Family Day with OzoKidz and Dan Zanes & Friends performing a tribute to Lead Belly, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 5:00

SummerStage: Lianne La Havas, LP, Quadron, DJ sets by DJ Center, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Kronos at 40, Family Day with Ozomatli, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 8:00

On Stage at Kingsborough Presents Hot Summer Nights: David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Centennial Band, Kingsborough Community College, 2001 Oriental Blvd., 8:00

Sunday, July 28
SummerStage: Rock Steady Crew thirty-sixth anniversary concert featuring Pete Rock & C. L. Smooth and special guests, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 3:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Kronos at 40, Parades: Jacob Garchik’s the Heavens and Asphalt Orchestra, Josie Robertson Plaza, 6:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Kronos at 40, Kronos Quartet performing works by Amon Tobin, Dan Deacon, Jherek Bischoff, Yuri Boguinia, Bryce Dessner, and others with special guest appearances by Bischoff and Deacon, Asphalt Orchestra performing the Pixies’ Surfer Rosa, and Jacob Garchik’s the Heavens, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 6:30

MoonDance: Salsa With Nu’ Dlux, Pier 84, dance lessons at 6:30, concert at 7:00

Monday, July 29
Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Scott Kettner, “Maracatu de Baque Virado: A Living and Changing Tradition,” Bruno Walter Auditorium, 6:30

Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series: Annual Gospel Night, with Marvin Sapp, Israel Houghton and the New Breed, and the Christian Cultural Center Choir, Wingate Field, 7:30

Tuesday, July 30
Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival: Rasputina, City Winery backyard, 5:00

SummerStage: The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series, with soprano Ying Fang, tenor Mario Chang, and bass-baritone Brandon Cedel, with pianist Bradley Moore, Jackie Robinson Park, 7:00

SummerStage: Motown Revue, Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue, Tappen Park, 7:00

Wednesday, July 31
Mad. Sq. Music — Oval Lawn Series: Erin McKeown, Lake Street Dive, Madison Square Park, 6:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Festival au Désert — Caravan for Peace: Aziz Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa, Imharhan / Tartit, Mamadou Kelly, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 6:30

SummerStage: The Persuasions, Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue, Tappen Park, 7:00

Thursday, August 1
BAM R&B Festival at MetroTech: Sheila E, MetroTech Commons, 12 noon

Broadway in Bryant Park: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Kinky Boots, Big Fish, Let It Be, First Date, Bryant Park Lawn, 12:30

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: “A Tale of Two Nations,” open rehearsal with Maracatu Nação Estrela Brilhante and Nation Beat, Josie Robertson Plaza, 6:00

SummerStage: The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series, with soprano Ying Fang, tenor Mario Chang, and bass-baritone Brandon Cedel, with pianist Bradley Moore, Socrates Sculpture Park, 7:00

SummerStage: Johnny Ray & Salsa con Clase, Tappen Park, 7:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Kyle Abraham & Abraham.in.Motion: Pavement and the Living Word Project: Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s Word Becomes Flesh, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 7:30

Seaside Summer Concert Series: the Go-Go’s and Tom Tom Club, Coney Island, West 21st St. & Surf Ave., 7:30

Celebrate Brooklyn! Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Prospect Park Bandshell, 8:00

Friday, August 2
Good Morning America Concert Series: Ne-Yo, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: the Band Perry, Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: “A Tale of Two Nations,” with Maracatu Nação Estrela Brilhante and Nation Beat, and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 7:00

Sunset on the Hudson: Max Gallico & Friends, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! Jamie Lidell, Dan Deacon, the Stepkids, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

Saturday, August 3
Lincoln Center Out of Doors: La Casita, live music by Bocafloja, Cheikh Hamala Diabate, Danys Pérez & Oyu Oro, Bodoma Garifuna Culture Band, and Soema Montenegro and poetry by Carl Hancock Rux, David Alonso Rivera, Elizabeth Acevedo, Irma Pineda, Janet Rogers, Jesús Papoleto Meléndez, John S. Blake, Lynn Hill, Nolan Eskeets, and Zora Howard, Damrosch Park, 12 noon

SummerStage: WLIB sixth annual Gospel Explosion, with Shirley Caesar, Ricky Dillard, James Fortune & F.I.Y.A., Donald Lawrence, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 3:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: El Gusto, ZviDance: Dabke, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 7:30

Celebrate Brooklyn! Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra, Banda Magda, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

Sunday, August 4
Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Heritage Sunday: The S(e)OUL of Korea, Josie Robertson Plaza, 1:00

SummerStage: WBLS fifth annual R&B Fest, with Raheem DeVaughn, Lyfe Jennings, and special guests, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 3:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: La Casita, live music by Bocafloja, Cheikh Hamala Diabate, Danys Pérez & Oyu Oro, Bodoma Garifuna Culture Band, and Soema Montenegro and poetry by Carl Hancock Rux, David Alonso Rivera, Elizabeth Acevedo, Irma Pineda, Janet Rogers, Jesús Papoleto Meléndez, John S. Blake, Lynn Hill, Nolan Eskeets, and Zora Howard, Teatro Pregones, 3:00

MoonDance: Tango with Hector Del Curto’s Eternal Tango Orchestra, Pier 84, dance lessons at 6:30, concert at 7:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Sacred Drums, featuring Silvercloud Singers, Manuela Arciniegas & the Legacy Circle, Pandit Samir Chatterjee & Friends, Silva Dance Company, Something Positive Dance Company, Kaoru Watanabe Ne-O Ensemble, Roman Diaz & Omi Odara, Ousmane Sall & Yakar Roots and Rhythms, Neil Clarke, Kimati Dinizulu & Adam Rudolph, and Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra with special guest Will Calhoun, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 7:00

Monday, August 5
Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series: Annual Caribbean Night, with Morgan Heritage, Kes the Band, and the Mighty Sparrow, Wingate Field, 7:30

Tuesday, August 6
Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival: Early Elton: A Tribute to Elton John, City Winery backyard, 5:00

SummerStage: Jungle Brothers, Zhigge, Marcus Garvey Park, 7:00

Wednesday, August 7
SummerStage: Bilal, Marcus Garvey Park, 7:00

Mad. Sq. Music — Oval Lawn Series: Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Madison Square Park, 7:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Rubén Blades, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 7:30

Titus Andronicus will headline RiverRocks on August 8 (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Thursday, August 8
BAM R&B Festival at MetroTech: Shuggie Otis, MetroTech Commons, 12 noon

Broadway in Bryant Park: Annie the Musical, Wicked, Cougar the Musical, The Fantasticks, Bryant Park Lawn, 12:30

RiverRocks: Titus Andronicus with Ducktails, Pier 84, 6:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: No BS! Brass Band, Josie Robertson Plaza, 6:30

SummerStage: Tye Tribbett, Marcus Garvey Park, 7:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Dance Heginbotham with the Raymond Scott Orchestrette (Manhattan Research, Twin and throwaway), and Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 7:30

Celebrate Brooklyn! Live score to Beasts of the Southern Wild by Dan Romer, Benh Zeitlin, & the Wordless Music Orchestra, with Slavic Soul Party, Prospect Park Bandshell, 8:00

Friday, August 9
Good Morning America Concert Series: Kenny Chesney, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: Michael Bublé , Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

Fab Friday, with Bobbito Garcia a.k.a. Kool Bob Love, Putnam Triangle Plaza, 6:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Vau de Vire Society, Hungry March Band, Josie Robertson Plaza, 6:30

Sunset on the Hudson: The Bay Soda Jazz Band, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 7:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! Shaggy, TK Wonder, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra, Rosin Coven, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 7:30

Saturday, August 10
SummerStage: Fortieth anniversary of hip-hop culture with DJ Kool Herc and special guests, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 1:00

Rite of Summer Music Festival: Ljova and the Kontraband & Fireworks Ensemble, homage to Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Colonels Row, Governors Island, 1:00 & 3:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Thirtieth Annual Roots of American Music, with Hurray for the Riff Raff, Martha Redbone Roots Project, and Trixie Whitley, Hearst Plaza, 1:30

SummerStage: “Hip-Hop Turns 40” panel discussion with DJ Kool Herc and Cindy Campbell, moderated by Jeff Chang, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 3:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Thirtieth Annual Roots of American Music, with Nick Lowe, the Crickets: The Farewell Show, and Jason Isbell, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 6:00

Celebrate Brooklyn! They Might Be Giants, Moon Hooch, Prospect Park Bandshell, 7:30

Sunday, August 11
SummerStage: Shuggie Otis, José James, Hiatus Kaiyote, DJ set by OP! (I Love Vinyl), Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 3:00

SummerStage: Harlem Family Day featuring Illstyle & Peace Productions, Robbi K, DJ set by Stormin’ Norman, Sweet Billy & the Zooloos, 4:00

Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Bobby Rush, Allen Toussaint, Brian and Eddie Holland moderated by Harry Weinger, and Como Mamas, Damrosch Park Bandshell, 5:00

SummerStage: Back to the Roots – Kool Herc at 5POINTZ celebrating the fortieth anniversary of hip-hop, 5POINTZ, 5:00

SummerStage: A Soul Train Tribute to Stevie Wonder, featuring DJ Spinna, Mika, Gloria Ryann, Asa Lovechild, Darien, Mike Hammond, Chris Robb, Vivian Sessoms, and Jesse Fischer & Soul Cycle and a screening of 1981 BBC documentary Hotter Than July, Marcus Garvey Park, 7:00

MoonDance: Swing with David Berger’s Jazz Orchestra, Pier 84, dance lessons at 6:30, concert at 7:00

Monday, August 12
Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series: Toni Braxton, Wingate Field, 7:30

Tuesday, August 13
Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival: 1st Annual String Festival, with Cynthia Sayer, Tony Trischka, Andy Statman, and Michael Daves, City Winery backyard, 5:00

SummerStage: Toby Love, Highbridge Park, 7:00

Wednesday, August 14
SummerStage: Andy Andy, Highbridge Park, 7:00

Seminal film celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with special free program

Thursday, August 15
Broadway in Bryant Park: Motown the Musical, Once, Mamma Mia!, Forever Tango, Bryant Park Lawn, 12:30

SummerStage: Bachata Heightz, Highbridge Park, 7:00

Seaside Summer Concert Series: Huey Lewis and the News Sports 30th Anniversary Tour, Coney Island, West 21st St. & Surf Ave., 7:30

Friday, August 16
Good Morning America Concert Series: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: Luke Bryan, Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

Sunset on the Hudson: Chuck Braman Jazz Band, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 7:00

Saturday, August 17
SummerStage: “Speak,” featuring live music by Marla Mase and Tomás Doncker, book and lyrics by Marla Mase, choreography by Adrienne Hurd, directed by: Sara Berg, East River Park, 7:00

Sunday, August 18
SummerStage: La Mega sixth annual Tropical Fest, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 3:00

Monday, August 19
Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series: Gladys Knight, the O’Jays, Wingate Field, 7:30

Tuesday, August 20
Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival: Lost Bayou Ramblers, City Winery backyard, 5:00

SummerStage: Bobby McFerrin, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00

Wednesday, August 21
Seaside Summer Concert Series: An Evening with Chicago, Coney Island, West 21st St. & Surf Ave., 7:30

Friday, August 23
Good Morning America Concert Series: The Wanted, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: One Direction, Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

Fun Friday, with the Good Ms Padgett, Putnam Triangle Plaza, 10:00 am

Sunset on the Hudson: Max Gallico & Friends, Pier 45 at Christopher St., 7:00

SummerStage: Charlie Parker Jazz Festival: World Premiere of “Bird Is the Word” by Jimmy Heath, performed by Jimmy Heath Big Band, Marcus Garvey Park, 7:00

Saturday, August 24
Blues BBQ, with Kaki King, Tracy Nelson, Heritage Blues Orchestra, Nikki Hill, Lucky Peterson featuring Tamara Peterson, Brother Jimmy’s, and Dinosaur BBQ, Pier 84, 2:00

SummerStage: Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, with Kenny Garrett, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Kim Thompson, Jaleel Shaw, Marcus Garvey Park, 3:00

Sunday, August 25
SummerStage: Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, with Lee Konitz Quartet, Sheila Jordan, Christian Scott ,Warren Wolf, Tompkins Square Park, 3:00

Monday, August 26
SummerStage: Wild Style Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration, East River Park, 6:00

Tuesday, August 27
Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival: Carolyn Wonderland with Sasha Dobson, City Winery backyard, 5:00

SummerStage: Pete Rock vs. DJ Premier, East River Park, 7:00

Wednesday, August 28
SummerStage: Mac DeMarco, East River Park, 7:00

Thursday, August 29
SummerStage: Larry Harlow and the Latin Legends Band, DJ set by DJ Lucho, East River Park, 7:00

Friday, August 30
Good Morning America Concert Series: Alicia Keys, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00 am

Today Show Toyota Concert Series: Chris Brown, Rockefeller Center, 7:00 am

Sunday, September 1
Rite of Summer Music Festival presents Rite a Thon, with Theo Bleckmann, Blair McMillen, Pam Goldberg, TIGUE & Classical Jam, Colonels Row, Governors Island, 12 noon – 5:00 pm

THE BIG KNIFE

Marion (Marin Ireland) and Charlie Castle (Bobby Cannavale) face some tough decisions about their future together in revival of THE BIG KNIFE (photo by Joan Marcus)

American Airlines Theatre
227 West 42nd St. between Broadway & Eighth Ave.
Through June 2, $42-$127
212-719-1300
www.roundabouttheatre.org

Clifford Odets skewers Hollywood and the studio system in The Big Knife, a sharply drawn tale of greed, temptation, and ambition that ultimately dulls as it reaches its melodramatic conclusion. Bobby Cannavale stars as Charlie Castle, a studio-era B-movie star whose twelve-year contract with Hoff-Federated is up and who needs to decide whether he is going to sign on for another fourteen years. The strong first act focuses on Charlie’s relationship with his wife, Marion (Marin Ireland), who threatens to leave him if he signs, wanting the company out of their life. But studio head Marcus Hoff (Richard Kind) and his right-hand man, Smiley Coy (Reg Rogers), are essentially blackmailing Charlie, ready to tell the truth about a scandal they helped cover up that could ruin him. Meanwhile, gossip columnist Patty Benedict (Brenda Wehle) wants the inside scoop on the Castles’ potential divorce, Charlie’s fast-talking agent, Nat Danziger (Chip Zien), is caught in the middle, and family friend and writer Hank Teagle (C. J. Wilson) wants Marion if she leaves Charlie. “Well, get seven of Hollywood’s intellectual hillbillies at one nightclub table and you’re in titanic trouble,” Hank tells Marion. “Men of a thousand causes and quips, not one unpopular or human. And then to be so dull — success has made them all so dull.” In the second act, the play becomes repetitive and predictable, the characters less likable, and many of the situations less believable, taking twists and turns that grow frustrating. The Roundabout Theatre production — the first Broadway revival since the play’s 1949 debut on the Great White Way, directed by Lee Strasberg and starring John Garfield as Charlie (Robert Aldrich’s 1955 Silver Lion-winning film featured Jack Palance as Charlie, Ida Lupino as Marion, Rod Steiger as Hoff, Shelley Winters as Dixie, and Everett Sloane as Nat) — is less successful than Lincoln Center’s recent revival of Odets’s Golden Boy, which also deals with such themes as career ambition and artistic integrity. Fluidly directed by Doug Hughes (An Enemy of the People, Born Yesterday,), the show features a solid cast highlighted by Kind’s marvelous portrayal of the sleazy, powerful Hoff, from how he walks around with hunched shoulders to how he confidently relaxes in an armchair on John Lee Beatty’s lovely Beverly Hills living-room set. The Big Knife might lose its edge as it approaches its grand finale, but is has plenty of cutting moments as it asks the age-old question, What price Hollywood?

CEDAR LAKE: JOYCE 2013 SEASON

Cedar Lake will present world premiere of Andonis Foniadakis’s HORIZONS as part of Joyce season (photo by Paula Lobo)

Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Ave. at 19th St.
May 7-12, $10-$59
212-645-2904
www.joyce.org
www.cedarlakedance.com

The supremely talented Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet is celebrating its tenth anniversary with three wide-ranging works at the Joyce from May 7 to 12. The strong, highly physical company, led by artistic director Benoit-Swan Pouffer, ballet master Alexandra Damiani, and spectacular dancer Jason Kittelberger, will present the New York premiere of Jiří Kylián’s Indigo Rose, which the Dutch choreographer originally created for the twentieth anniversary of Nederlands Dans Theater 2 in 1998; the piece includes a long sheet that casts shadows and silhouettes as the dancers move to music by J. S. Bach, John Cage, Robert Ashley, and others. The evening also includes the world premiere of Horizons by Greek dancer and choreographer Andonis Foniadakis, which examines the personal and the public, action and reaction, with a score by composer and visual artist Julien Tarride. And the company looks back at its past with Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite’s Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue, a 2008 piece in which five dancers rotate into ten duets that examine the theme of rescue through movement, visuals, music, and narrative. There will be a Dance Chat with members of the company after the May 8 show, a Joyce Pre-Show discussion led by Susan Thomasson prior to the May 9 performance, and Joris Jan Bos will lead a DANY Master Class (open level, $15) on May 10 at 10:00 am. Cedar Lake, which is based in a warehouse-like space on Twenty-Sixth St. in Chelsea, rarely fails to thrill, combining inventive staging with amazingly athletic dancers, highlighted by Kittelberger along with Jon Bond, Acacia Schachte, and Nickemil Concepcion.