June 01, 2006

January 2007 calendar of events for New York City

1 - Coney Island Polar Bears' New Year’s Day swim
Municipal Art Society walking tour: The Geography of Long Island City
New Year`s Day Beach Walk on Fort Tilden Beach
New Year`s Day Walk at Great Kills Park, Staten Island
2 - Museum of Modern Art opens on a holiday Tuesday schedule
Kick off of Paint the Town deals on hotels, restaurants and Broadway shows (through February 28)
3 - Steve Cuiffo is Lenny Bruce at Joe’s Pub
4 - "Translations" begins previews on Broadway (opening night: Jan. 25; through April 1)
Hush Tour’s Harlem Hip Hop Church with Kurtis Blow
5 - Three Kings Day Parade
Cultural discounts and events for NY Times Arts & Leisure Weekend (through Jan. 8)
Starry Nights live jazz at the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space, starting at 6 p.m. with Dave Stryker & Blue to the Bone
6 - 8th Annual New York Film Critics Series: Great Documentaries at the Museum of the Moving Image (through Feb. 11)
Professional Bull Riders - The Versus Invitational at Madison Square Garden (through Jan. 7)
"The Merchant of Venice" with F. Murray Abraham begins Off-Broadway run (opening night: Feb 4; through March 11)
Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturdays with free screenings of “The Muppets Take Manhattan,” “Moulin Rouge,” and “The Naked City.” The first annual Target First Saturday Winter Ball, with the Vienna Festival Orchestra, begins at 9 p.m.
Free Trolley Tours of Prospect Park in Lights (and Jan. 7)
Municipal Art Society walking tour: SoHo: Setting the Stage
Utsayantha Country Pro Snow Cross Chute Out snowmobile races in Stamford, NY
7 – Tickets go on sale for the Public Theater’s production of "King Lear" with Kevin Kline
Kiki and Herb play Joe’s Pub (and Jan. 14, 21 and 28)
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Art Deco Downtown
Professional Bull Riders - The Versus Invitational at Madison Square Garden
First episode of NBC’s "You're the One That I Want" airs at 8 p.m. to cast the leading roles in a Broadway revival of "Grease" opening in June 2007
Broadway Playhouse family event: Rodgers & Hammerstein ("The King And I")
Free Trolley Tours of Prospect Park in Lights
8 – The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree comes down
Big Onion walking tour: Gangs of New York
"Making of a Governor" photo exhibit opens at Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall (through Jan. 21)
9 – Lecture: Restoring the Landmark Skyscrapers: The Chrysler and Empire State Buildings at The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
Culinary Historians of New York event: Absinthe, A Dark Tale
10 – CD signing at the Times Square Virgin Megastore for Broadway’s Spring Awakening
"A Spanish Play" begins previews Off-Broadway with Zoe Caldwell (through March 4)
11 - "Times Square Theatres: A New Century, A New Style" opens at the Municipal Art Society (through March 7)
"Grey Gardens" discussion with Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle
Hush Tour’s Harlem Hip Hop Church with Kurtis Blow
12 - Cubana Be Cubana Bop, Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O'Farrill at Jazz at Lincoln Center (and Jan. 13)
Willie Nelson Sings the Blues (and Jan. 13)
Steve O (of Jackass) will appear in person for a screening of "TV: THE MOVIE" at the Pioneer Theater
13 - Adventures in Travel Expo at Pier 94/The UnConvention Center (and Jan. 14)
Watson Adventures’ Museum of Natural Hysteria Hunt for Families
Watson Adventures’ The Secrets of Grand Central Scavenger Hunt
Cubana Be Cubana Bop, Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O'Farrill at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Willie Nelson Sings the Blues
14 - Fort Tilden Beach and Winter Woods walk
Kiki and Herb play Joe’s Pub
Adventures in Travel Expo at Pier 94/The UnConvention Center
15 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Met Museum open for a holiday Monday schedule
Big Onion walking tour: Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Historic Harlem
South Street Seaport Museum walking tour: African American Life in Lower Manhattan
16 - "Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers" opens at MoMA (through Feb. 12 )
Transit Museum tour of the Coney Island yards
"Maestro's Secret Music: The Artwork Collected by Arturo Toscanini" goes on view on the Grand Promenade and First Tier of Avery Fisher Hall. Open to the public every Thursday from 2 to 6 p.m., and to all ticketholders for NY Philharmonic concerts. (to March 31)
17 - Under the Radar theater festival begins at multiple venues featuring performance, playwriting, puppetry, solos, ensembles, and classics re-considered (through Jan. 28)
Waterfront in Transition: Developing Brooklyn's Green Crescent opens at the Municipal Art Society (through March 14)
The Jew of Malta with F. Murray Abraham begins Off-Broadway run (through March 10)
Mos Def at Jazz at Lincoln Center
18 - Tickets go on sale to the public for New York Philharmonic’s My Fair Lady with Kelli O'Hara, Kelsey Grammer and Brian Dennehy.
Harry Shearer and Judith Owen: This is So Not About the Simpsons - American Voyeurs at Joe’s Pub
19 - The Explorers Club Documentary Film Festival (and Jan. 20)
Weimar New York cabaret at Joe's Pub with Justin Bond, Michael Cerveris, Julie Atlas Muz and Meow Meow
Free Friday at South Street Seaport Museum
New York International Motorcycle Show at the Javits Convention Center (Jan. 21)
"Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook" opens at the International Center of Photography (through April 29)
"Martin Munkácsi: Think While You Shoot!" opens at the International Center of Photography (through April 29)
"Louise Brooks and the New Woman in Weimar Cinema" opens at the International Center of Photography (through April 29)
Terence Koh exhibition opens at the Whitney Museum (through May 2007)
Kristen Chenowith at the Met Opera
Pillow Fight League
20 – First home game for New York Titans men’s pro lacrosse at Madison Square Garden
Free NYC Audubon Winter Birding on the Bay walking tour
From the Twentieth Century Fox Archives: Documents from the Golden Age of Hollywood goes on exhibition at Swann Galleries in advance of January 25 auction
21 - GlobalFest 2007 at Webster Hall
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Inside, Outside and On 57th Street
Kiki and Herb play Joe’s Pub
22 - Winter Restaurant Week with top NYC restaurants serving three-course lunches for $24.07 and $35.00 prix-fixe dinners. (through Jan. 26)
Jamie Foxx at Madison Square Garden
Napa Valley Vintners wine tasting event at the Dahesh Museum of Art
23 – "Fantasy and Faith: The Art of Gustave Doré" opens at the Dahesh Museum of Art (through April 1)
"Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt" reopens at the Dahesh Museum of Art (extended to April 1)
11th Annual Plant-O-Rama at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Discussion: Adam Gopnik and Patricia Marx:
At Home in New York at 92nd Street Y
Lecture: Impresarios and Their Theaters at The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
Martin Ramirez exhibition opens at the American Folk Art Museum (through April 29)
Fresh Meat comedy variety show at Comix
25 - "Translations" opens on Broadway (through April 1)
"Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting" opens at the Museum of Arts & Design (through May 6)
From the Twentieth Century Fox Archives: Documents from the Golden Age of Hollywood auction at Swann Galleries
Photographs by Travis Ruse, "Brooklyn to Grand Central: A Commuter’s Journal" opens at the Redux Gallery (through March 9)
Old Master Drawings, and Rembrandt Etchings goes on exhibition at Swann Galleries in advance of January 29 auction
26 - The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac at La MaMa experimental theater club (through Jan. 28)
27 - Idiotarod
Carnegie Hall Family Concert: Sweet Honey in the Rock
Municipal Art Society tour of the Masons’ Grand Lodge of New York on the 225th anniversary of the Masons
New York Unearthed urban archaeology center opens for an afternoon program
Rare tour of the original City Hall subway station with the Transit Museum. (You must pay museum membership to take part.)
Tickets go on sale to the public for "Deuce" on Broadway with Angela Lansbury
Family Art Project: Papermaking at Wave Hill (and Jan. 28)
28 - Municipal Art Society walking tour: Central Park in Winter
The Match of Legends of Russian Hockey with
Oksana Bayul skating during breaks in play at Aviator Sports in Brooklyn (info in pdf format)
Family Art Project: Papermaking at Wave Hill
Kiki and Herb play Joe’s Pub
Final, extra performance of "The Brothers Size" at the Public Theater ($15)
Walking tour of the site of Central Park’s Seneca Village, Manhattan's first known community of African-American property owners
29 - Winter Restaurant Week with top NYC restaurants serving three-course lunches for $24.07 and $35.00 prix-fixe dinners. (through Feb. 2)
Strand bookstore reading: Mark Kurlansky, "The Big Oyster; History on the Half-Shell"
Discussion of the Harlem Renaissance with “indomitable basketball star, author and historian Kareem Abdul-Jabbar“ at the New-York Historical Society
30 - Free Broadway tickets for Kids Night on Broadway (and Jan. 31)
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation lecture and discussion First Houses—A Monument Of The Past—A Model For The Future? Reservations required.
Commemoration of President Roosevelt`s Birthday at the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, N.Y.
31 – Free Broadway tickets for Kids Night on Broadway
(new date) Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia, Salvage (Part III)" begins previews on Broadway (opening night changed to Feb 18; closing date extended to May 13)
"Robert Moses and the Modern City: Slum Clearance and the Superblock Solution" opens at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery (through April 14)
Julie Andrews book signing at Books of Wonder from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
ARTalks tour of the Spanish Painting: El Greco to Picasso at the Guggenheim
Murray’s Cheese class: Cheese and Beer from the Alps
African-American Fine Art goes on exhibition at Swann Galleries in advance of the Feb. 6 auction

January Ongoing Events

Performances:
"The Dirty Talk" plays Off-Off Broadway (through Feb. 4)
"Must Don't Whip 'Um" plays St. Ann’s Warehouse (through Feb. 4)
Rita Moreno plays Café Carlyle (through Feb. 10)
"The Little Dog Laughed" on Broadway (through Feb. 18)
"A Spanish Play" in previews Off-Broadway with Zoe Caldwell (opening night: Feb. 1; through March 4)
The Jew of Malta with F. Murray Abraham in previews Off-Broadway run (opening night: Feb. 4; through March 10)
"The Merchant of Venice" with F. Murray Abraham in previews Off-Broadway (opening night: Feb 4; through March 11)
"The Apple Tree" with Kristen Chenoweth plays Broadway (through March 11)
"The Voysey Inheritance" plays Off-Broadway (extended through March 25)
David Hare's new play "The Vertical Hour" with Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy (through April 1)
"Translations" on Broadway (through April 1)
"The Barber of Seville" at the Metropolitan Opera (through May 11)
Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia, Voyage (Part I)" plays Broadway (through May 13)
"The Coast of Utopia, Shipwreck (Part II)" on Broadway (extended through May 13)
Woody Allen and the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band play Café Carlyle (Mondays through June 11)
"Beauty and the Beast" on Broadway (through July 29)
"Les Misérables" on Broadway (extended through "summer" 2007)
Free theater event, "365 Days/365 Plays" (through Nov. 12)
"25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Avenue Q" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Blue Man Group" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
"Chicago," with Bebe Neuwirth as Roxie through March 25 on Broadway (open-ended run)
"A Chorus Line" revival on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Color Purple" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Company" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Drowsy Chaperone" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Evil Dead the Musical " plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Fantasticks" plays Off-Broadway at the new Snapple Theater (open-ended run)
"Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
"Grey Gardens" on Broadway
"Hairspray" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Jersey Boys" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Lion King" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Mamma Mia!" on Broadway (open-ended run)
Disney’s "Mary Poppins" plays Broadway (open-ended run)
"Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Producers" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Rent" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Spamalot!" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Spring Awakening" plays Broadway (open-ended run)
"Stomp" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
Disney’s "Tarzan" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Wicked" on Broadway (open-ended run)

Exhibits:
"Hot Off the Press: Prints of 2006 from New York Printers and Publishers" at the Grolier Club (through Feb. 3)
The Hanukkah Project: Works of Light By Eight Contemporary Artists at the Jewish Museum (through Feb. 4)
"Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan" at the NY Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library (through Feb. 4)
"Ron Mueck" exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum (through Feb. 4)
"Building the Collection: Acquisitions 2005–2006" at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art (through Feb. 9)
"Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980 - 2005" at the Whitney (through Feb. 11)
"From Synagogue to Church: Converted Brooklyn Houses of Worship" at the Brooklyn Historical Society (through Feb. 11)
"Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers" shows on MoMA’s exterior walls and in the sculpture garden from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. (through Feb. 12)
"Witness to History: The Face in Medieval Sculpture" at the Met Museum (through Feb. 18)
"Where Do We Go from Here? The Photo League and Its Legacy (1936-2006)" at the NY Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library (through Feb. 18)
"Black Style Now" at the Museum of the City of New York (through Feb. 19)
"Glitter and Doom: German Portraits in the 1920s" at the Met Museum (through Feb. 19)
A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (through Feb. 23)
"Humanitas: The Photographs of Fredric Roberts" at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art (through Feb. 26)
Josef Hoffmann Interiors, 1902-1913 at the Neue Galerie (through Feb. 26)
"Bodies: The Exhibition" at the South Street Seaport (extended through Feb. 28)
"Shadow and Memory: Ellis Island’s Un-restored Buildings, The Photographs of Christopher Barnes" at Ellis Island (through February)
"Nan Kempner: American Chic" at the Met Museum (through March 4)
"A City on Paper: Saul Steinberg's New York" at the Museum of the City of New York
(through March 4)
"Nan Kempner: American Chic" at the Met Museum (through March 4)
"Burgeoning Geometries: Constructed Abstractions" at the Whitney's Altria Gallery (through March 4)
Photographs by Travis Ruse, "Brooklyn to Grand Central: A Commuter’s Journal" at the Redux Gallery (through March 9)
"Crossroads: Modernism in Ukraine, 1910-1930" at the Ukranian Museum (through March 11)
"Biblical Art in a Secular Century: Selections, 1896-1993" at the Museum of Biblical Art (through March 11)
"Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day" at the Whitney Museum (through March 11)
"Waterfront in Transition: Developing Brooklyn's Green Crescent" at the Municipal Art Society (through March 14)
"Alex Katz Paints Ada, 1957-2005" at the Jewish Museum (through March 18)
Public Art: Alexander Calder in New York (through March 18)
"Africa Comics" at the Studio Museum in Harlem (through March 18)
GIANTS: The Twin Towers and the Twentieth Century at the Skyscraper Museum (through March 25)
"El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History" at the Guggenheim (through March 28)
"Maestro's Secret Music: The Artwork Collected by Arturo Toscanini" on view on the Grand Promenade and First Tier of Avery Fisher Hall. Open to the public every Thursday from 2 to 6 p.m., and to all ticketholders for NY Philharmonic concerts. (through March 31)
"Shin Banraisha: A Cultural Memory" at the Noguchi Museum (through April 1)
"Mother-of-Pearl: A Tradition in Asian Lacquer" opens at the Met Museum (through April 1)
"Fantasy and Faith: The Art of Gustave Doré" at the Dahesh Museum of Art (through April 1)
Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt" at the Dahesh Museum of Art (extended to April 1)
"A Rakish History of Men's Wear" at the NY Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library (through April 7)
" Out of Time: Contemporary Art from the Collection" at the Museum of Modern Art (through April 9)
"New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War," Part II of the Slavery in New York series, at the New-York Historical Society (through April 15)
"Mongolia: Beyond Chinggis Khan" at the Rubin Museum of Art (through April 16)
"Discovering Tutankhamun: The Photographs of Harry Burton" at the Met Museum (through April 29)
Martin Ramirez exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum (through April 29)
"Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook" at the International Center of Photography (through April 29)
"Martin Munkácsi: Think While You Shoot!" at the International Center of Photography (through April 29)
"Louise Brooks and the New Woman in Weimar Cinema" at the International Center of Photography (through April 29)
Sam Hollenshead photography exhibition: "Rebuilding the Rails After 9/11" at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn (extended through April)
"Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting" at the Museum of Arts & Design (through May 6)
The Metropolitan Opera’s contemporary art exhibit “Heroines” at its new Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery, located at the south side lobby of Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center (through May 12)
"Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall—An Artist’s Country Estate" at the Met Museum (through May 20)
Terence Koh exhibition at the Whitney Museum (through May 27)
"The Butterfly Conservatory" at the American Museum of Natural History (through May 28)
"Made to Scale: Staircase Masterpieces" at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (through June 3)
"Flowing Streams: Scenes from Japanese Art and Life" at the Met Museum (through June 3)
"Fifth Anniversary of 9/11 Exhibition: Chelsea Jeans" at the New-York Historical Society (extended to July 1)
"If These Walls Could Talk: 54 Pearl Street" at the Fraunces Tavern Museum (through July 7)
"Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006" at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (through July 29)
"Gold" at the American Museum of Natural History (through Aug. 19)
Garden Renaissance at Hatfield House at the New York Botanical Garden (through Aug. 30)
Gutenberg Bible at the New York Public Library (through Aug. 31)
"Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf" at the Met Museum (through Sept. 2)
Toot, Toot, Beep, Beep: Toys in Transit at the Transit Museum (through September 2007)
"The Triborough Bridge: Robert Moses and the Automobile Age" at the Transit Museum in Brooklyn (through April 2008)

Film:
8th Annual New York Film Critics Series: Great Documentaries at the Museum of the Moving Image (through Feb. 11)

Deals:
Wellington Hotel’s $117.13 a night "Borat Slept Here - NOT" hotel package (through January)
20 percent off Hispanic Society Publications and 10 percent off all other merchandise in the gift shop of the Hispanic Society of America if you mention "Cultural Organization of the Month" (through January)
Winter Restaurant Week with top NYC restaurants serving three-course lunches for $24.07 and $35.00 prix-fixe dinners. (through Feb. 2)
Paint the Town deals on hotels, restaurants and Broadway shows (through February 28)
Two-for-one coupons and gift shop discounts at many of the Museums of Lower Manhattan including the police and fire museums, Fraunces Tavern, the Skyscraper Museum and the South Street Seaport Museum (coupons in pdf format) (through May 31)

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