June 1, 2006

March 2010 calendar of events for New York City

Friday, March 12
(New delayed date:) Previews begin on Broadway for “Lend Me a Tenor” (opening night: April 4; open-ended run)
“Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection” exhibition opens at the Japan Society (through June 13)
Paul Holdengräber hosts William Kentridge in a conversation about Gogol, Shostakovich, and Kentridge’s creative process at 7 p.m. at the New York Public Library
NYC FIRST Robotics Competition at the Javits Center (through March 14)
The Panorama Challenge at the Queens Museum at 7 p.m.
One Step Beyond dance party from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the American Museum of Natural History: The Very Best with Theophilus London, Ninjasonik, Activaire DJs
Free Dancing with Darcy concert at the Morgan Library & Museum at 7 p.m.
New York Pops play Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at 8 p.m.: Celtic Music: A Saint Patrick’s Day Celebration
Kronos Quartet at 7:30 p.m. at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall
“Attila” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Andreas Brantelid and Bengt Forsberg at 7:30 p.m. at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall
Take 6 at the Apollo Theater at 7 p.m. (free but tickets required)
Broadway cast of “The Miracle Worker” in-store at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Noble with director Kate Whoriskey at 5 p.m.
Henry Rollins: The Frequent Flyer Tour plays Irving Plaza at 9 p.m. (and March 13)
Showgasm variety show at Ars Nova at 7:30 p.m. (free with RSVP)
World Financial Center Restaurant Showcase from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with tasting plates from $1 to $5
A History and Tasting of Beer at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden at 6:30 p.m.
Winter Night’s Banquet benefit to support New Amsterdam Market at 8 p.m.
Fête de Campagne at midnight at Landmarc
Museums with free hours today include Free Fridays admission at the Neue Galerie from 6 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, March 13
Performances begin on Broadway for “Million Dollar Quartet”
The Pier Antiques Show and Fashion Alley (and March 14)
Shostakovich’s “The Nose” at the Met Opera with Paulo Szot at 1 p.m.
“La Bohème” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Museum of American Finance walking tour: History of Wall Street at 1 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour: Cross-Park Promenade at 1 p.m.
Women’s History Month Event — Colonial Gravestones and Eleanor Roosevelt at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx from noon to 4 p.m.
Institute of Culinary Education’s A Voce kitchen tour and lunch
Book Talk: “History of White People” at Brooklyn Historical Society at 2 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Closer to Home: Clubland! at 11 a.m.
Free Central Park walking tours: Amble Through the Ramble at 2 p.m. and Views From the Past at noon
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalitions’ Wide Open show opens (weekends through March 28)
Making Brooklyn Bloom 2010 free gardening event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Downtown Eats walking tour with Nicole Harnett at noon
Q Tip DJ Show at 10 p.m. at the Nokia Theater
Blue Oyster Cult at B.B. King Blues Club at 7:30 and 10 p.m.
Rita at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
National Youth Choir at 7:30 p.m. at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium
Festival Chamber Music Series at 8:30 p.m. at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall featuring works by Schubert, Poul Ruders, and Vaughan Williams
Kronos Quartet at 10 p.m. at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall
Repin, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto & Franck’s Symphony in D Minor at the New York Philharmonic at 8 p.m.
Panel discussion: Why Local Seafood is Sustainable at 3:30 p.m. at 92YTribeca

Sunday, March 14
Opening night on Broadway for “Looped” with Valerie Harper (open-ended run)
NY Rangers home game vs. Flyers
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through May 31)
Leon Fleischer with Katerine Jacobson Fleischer at Town Hall at 2 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour: Cross-Park Promenade
Institute of Culinary Education historical cooking class: Beware the Ides of March: Dining in Imperial Rome at 6 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Exploring East Side Diversity: Islamic, Christian and Jewish Sanctuaries at 2 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour: Views From the Past at 2 p.m.
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert: Leon McCawley at 11 a.m. at Walter Reade Theater
Allman Brothers Band Big House Museum benefit at B.B. King Blues Club at 7 p.m.
Missing Persons/Gene Loves Jezebel /Tommy Tutone at B.B. King Blues Club at 8 p.m.
Kronos Quartet at 7:30 p.m. at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall
New England Symphonic Ensemble at 2 p.m. at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium

Monday, March 15
Dine-In Brooklyn restaurant week begins (through March 25)
“Attila” at the Met Opera
Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Moon, Mars and Beyond: Where Next for the Manned Space Program? with Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson and a panel of space exploration experts at 7:30 p.m. at the American Museum of Natural History
Rock N Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria
Lecture: The Invasive Alien Plant Crisis in the Northeast with Peter Alden at the Explorers Club at 6 p.m.
Angel Corella at City Center
New date: Book event: Daisy Martinez at Borders at Columbus Circle at 7 p.m.
Moore’s Irish Melodies at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall
Artemis Quartet at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
$20 opera tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. for NY City Opera’s Opera For All Rush tickets program

Tuesday, March 16
Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay in “Hamlet” at the Met Opera
NY Rangers home game vs. Canadiens
Book event: Raquel Welch at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Book event: Todd Bridges at Borders at Columbus Circle at 7 p.m.
Author @ the Library event: “From Prince of Society in New York to King of the Lobby in Washington: Sam Ward’s Excellent Adventure, with Kathryn Allamong Jacob at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan NYPL branch
KEIGWIN + COMPANY at the Joyce Theater (through March 21)
Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection opens at the Museum of Arts & Design (through Sept. 12)
Side by Side: Oberlin’s Masterworks at the Met opens at the Met Museum (through Aug. 29)
The first batch of Letters by J. D. Salinger go on display at the Morgan Library & Museum (through April 11)
The Irish Tenors in-store at J&R at noon
The Roosevelt Island Historical Society’s free screenings on the topic Hospitals, Nurses and Patients at Roosevelt Island Branch of the New York Public Library at 6:30 p.m.
Stevens Viola Duo at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall
Lecture: The Addams Family: An Evilution at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 17
St. Patrick’s Day Parade
“La Bohème” at the Met Opera
“Attila” at the Met Opera
Cars, Culture and the City opens at the Museum of the City of New York (through Aug. 1)
Institute of Culinary Education’s The Great NY Deli cooking class at 6 p.m.
Symposium: “Rites and Ceremonies of the Brooklyn African Diaspora” at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 6:30 p.m.
Riverdance at Radio City Music Hall (through March 21)
Black 47 at B.B. King Blues Club at 7 p.m.
Alicia Keys plays Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
World Record Appreciation Society at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Corella Ballet Castilla y León at City Center (thrugh March 20)
Free colloquium series: Turning the Tide: NY’s Waterfront in Transition at 5:30 p.m. at The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
Project Shaw’s St. Patrick’s Day Gala at 6 p.m.
Syfy’s Caprica with Ronald D. Moore, David Eick, Paula Malcomson, Polly Walker, Alessandra Torresani, Magda Apanowicz, and Sasha Roiz at 6:30 p.m. at Paley Center
Kronos Quartet Master Class at 7:30 p.m. at Carnegie’s Weill Hall
Celebrating Chopin and Schumann at 200 Dawn Upshaw and Emanuel Ax at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium
(New double-delayed date, now delayed a third time) Banana Shpeel from Cirque du Soleil at the Beacon Theatre (through May 30)

Thursday, March 18
NY Rangers home game vs. Blues
Shostakovich’s “The Nose” at the Met Opera with Paulo Szot at 8 p.m.
New-York Historical Society’s An Evening with Annette Gordon-Reed at 6:30 p.m.
“L’etoile” at the NY City Opera
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Pinchas Zukerman & Brahms
Free Central Park walking tour: Cross-Park Promenade
Book talk by Graham Hodges and David Ruggles: “A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York” at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 6:30 p.m.
Opening night on Broadway for “All About Me” (open-ended run)
Free Central Park walking tour: Views From the Past at 11 a.m.
Labyrinth Walk at 4 p.m. at Trinity Wall Street
Free performance by Bonga & The Vodou Drums of Haiti at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center 8:30 p.m.
House of Pain plays the Nokia Theater
Sister Sledge at B.B. King Blues Club at 8 p.m.

Friday, March 19
Cocktails class: Swing Era Cocktails: Prohibition through the 50’s at the Astor Center at 6:30 p.m.
NY Knicks vs Philadelphia 76ers at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Richard Nader’s Doo Wop Party at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” at the NY City Opera
“Attila” at the Met Opera
The National Chorale sings Mozarts “Requiem” at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Institute of Culinary Education’s Happy Nowruz! A Persian and Central Asian New Year’s Feast at 10 a.m.
Institute of Culinary Education’s Red Velvet Cake Workshop at 6 p.m.
“Sondheim on Sondheim” with Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams, Michael Arden and Leslie Kritzer begins previews on Broadway at Studio 54 (opening night: April 22; through June 13)
ATB (Andre Tanneberger) plays the Nokia Theater at 10 p.m.
The George London Foundation Awards Competition Finals concert at the Morgan Library & Museum
Robert Cray’ Band at B.B. King Blues Club at 8 p.m.
Latino Artists Round Table at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 20
“La Bohème” at the Met Opera
Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay in “Hamlet” at the Met Opera
Institute of Culinary Education’s Brighton Beach Walking Tour at 10 a.m.; and Astoria Walking Tour at 11 a.m.
Go Green Expo at the Javits Center
The 17th Original GLBT Expo at the Javits (and March 21)
New-York Historical Society’s The Civil War Draft Riots Walking Tour at 11 a.m.
“L’etoile” at the NY City Opera
Spring Equinox Special of the free Central Park Cross-Park Promenade waking tour at 1 p.m.
David Hackett Fischer and the American Revolution at 2 p.m. St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
New Museum program: Danspace Project at New Museum presents A Conversation with Elaine Summers at 3 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Harlem Renaissance at 1 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour: The Castle & its Kingdom at 12:00 pm
Free Central Park walking tour: Manhattan Adirondacks at 1 p.m.
Free Super Sabado events all day at el Museo del Barrio
Free Central Park walking tour: Views From the Past at 2 p.m.
Growing grapes in Brooklyn class at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden at 10 a.m. (advance reservations required)
Tasting the Land Through Wine class at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden at 2 p.m. (advance reservations required)
Michael Buble plays Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Eric Prydz & Sebastien Leger at 10 p.m. at the Nokia Theater

Sunday, March 21
NYC Half-Marathon
Garrick Ohlsson on piano plays at Alice Tully Hall as part of The Chopin Project at 2 p.m.
Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” at the NY City Opera
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement opens at El Museo del Barrio (through June 6)
Orchestra of St. Luke’s plays Carnegie Hall at 2 p.m.
NY Knicks vs Houston Rockets at Madison Square Garden at 1 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: A Stroll through Rosebank, Staten Island at 12:45 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour: The Castle & its Kingdom at 2:00 pm
Free Central Park walking tour at 1 p.m. of Seneca Village, Manhattan’s first known community of African-American property owners
Free Central Park walking tour: Views From the Past at noon
Ace Frehley at the Nokia Theater at 8 p.m.
92Y City Walk: Lower East Side Synagogues: Bialystoker the Beautiful, Shteibl Row and the Sites of Historic East Broadway at 11 a.m.
Bell Biv DeVoe at B.B. King Blues Club at 8 p.m.

Monday, March 22
Broadway Musicals of 1948 at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
“Attila” at the Met Opera
Lincoln Center’s What Makes it Great series Gershwin Songs at 7:30 p.m. at Walter Reade Theater
Project Shaw reading of “ The Doctor’s Dilemma ” at The Players on Gramercy Park South at 7 p.m.
The Docks of New York and selected shorts from the National Film Registry at Film Forum
King of the Bowery with Richard Welch, Introduced by Peter Quinn at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m.
Elaine Stritch at The Carlyle 8:45 p.m.

Tuesday, March 23
Shostakovich’s “The Nose” at the Met Opera with Paulo Szot at 8 p.m.
Rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson begins performances at the Public Theater (through April 25)
NY Knicks vs Denver Nuggets at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Chubby Checker at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency (through March 27)
DanceBrazil at the Joyce Theater (through April 4)
Great Parisian Masters Under Louis XV: Music of Leclair, Barrière, and Royer concert at the Morgan Library & Museum
The Long Way Home with David Laskin book talk at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m.
The Roosevelt Island Historical Society’s free Community Garden screening at Roosevelt Island Branch of the New York Public Library at 6:30 p.m.
Reservations open at noon for the March 31 free Access Restricted lecture: Douglas Berman, William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University on “A New Era in Sentencing?” at the New York County Supreme Court
Premiere screening of “American Masters: Building China Modern” at the Paley Center at 6:30 p.m. with Eugene Shirley, Anne Makepeace, Sandi Pei and Suzanne Stephens

Wednesday, March 24
Ukraine—Sweden: At the Crossroads of History (XVII–XVIII Centuries) opens at the Ukrainian Museum (through Sept. 12)
Picasso: Themes and Variations opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Sept. 6)
NY Rangers home game vs. Islanders
Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay in “Hamlet” at the Met Opera
Book talk: Donna Goodman “A History of the Future” at the Skyscraper Museum
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement opens at el Museo del Barrio (through May 23)
Free Central Park walking tour: Views From the Past at 1 p.m.
Previews begin for Green Day’s “American Idiot” on Broadway (opening night: April 20; open-ended run)
George Carlin: A Tribute at the New York Public Library at 7 p.m. hosted by Whoopi Goldberg
Jennifer Love Hewitt book event at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center at 7:30 p.m.
Slick Rick/Diamond D at B.B. King Blues Club
Book event: Jennifer Love Hewitt: The Day I Shot Cupid at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 25
Opening night on Broadway for “Come Fly Away” (open-ended run)
Shostakovich’s “The Nose” at the Met Opera with Paulo Szot at 8 p.m.
New York City Opera’s $5 Artist Dialogues at The Church of Saint Paul the Apostle at 6 p.m. on ” Madama Butterfly”
Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” at the NY City Opera
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: All Mozart Program with Jeffrey Kahane
NYC Gay Men’s Chorus Big Gay Sing 2 at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
Free Central Park walking tour: Cross-Park Promenade
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus begins performances at Madison Square Garden (through April 4)
Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution at the Fraunces Tavern Museum at 6:30 p.m., presented by John Nagy
Free Central Park walking tour: Views From the Past at 11 a.m.
The Music of Schuman and Gade concert at 7 p.m. Scandinavia House
“The 39 Steps” begins Off-Broadway performances at New World Stages (through Sept. 5)
Free performance by Puff! Quintet at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center 8:30 p.m.
Beethoven Then and Now: The Complete Symphonies at 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Spyro Gyra and Jonathan Butler at the Nokia Theater at 8 p.m.
The Rose Haggadah opens at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (through April 18)
Youth America Grand Prix International Student Ballet Competition: The Final Round at City Center at 7 p.m.
Tower of Power at B.B. King Blues Club

Friday, March 26
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance opens at the Guggenheim (through Sept. 6)
NYC Gay Men’s Chorus Big Gay Sing 2 at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
Angélique Kidjo at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
“L’etoile” at the NY City Opera
“Aida” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Vodka - History in Liquid Form at the Astor Center at 6:30 p.m.
New Museum program: A Proposition by Rodney McMillian at 7 p.m.
Spoon plays Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m.
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
Panel discussion: Road to Freedom & After 1968 at the New School at 6:30 p.m.
Beethoven Then and Now: The Complete Symphonies at 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Dashboard Confessional plays the Nokia Theater
Lucie Arnaz in-store at J&R at noon

Saturday, March 27
Sippy Cups play Symphony Space at 11 a.m.
American Landmark Festivals’ free 2 p.m. concert at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Memorial
New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert for families with children, 6 to 12 years of age: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 41, Jupiter at Avery Fisher Hall
Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay in “Hamlet” at the Met Opera
Big Band Social on the Promenade of the David H. Koch Theater at 3 p.m.
Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” at the NY City Opera
Free Central Park walking tour: Cross-Park Promenade
New Museum program: A Proposition by Rodney McMillian at noon
Institute of Culinary Education’s Chinatown Dim Sum Tour at 10 a.m.
Records workshop: “Researching My Old House” at 2 p.m. at the Brooklyn Historical Society
Free Central Park walking tours: Views From the Past at 1 p.m. and Waterways & Vistas at 2 p.m.
Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour from noon to 2 p.m.
Downtown Eats walking tour with Nicole Harnett at noon
Beethoven Then and Now: The Complete Symphonies at 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall with the Budapest Festival Orchestra
Al Jarreau plays the Nokia Theater at 8 p.m.
“Promises, Promises” begins previews on Broadway with Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes
92Y Food Outing: Brooklyn Bus Tours A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour at 11 a.m.
International Ballet Gala at City Center at 7 p.m.

Sunday, March 28
“L’etoile” at the NY City Opera
Voces Intimae concert at The Frick Collection at 5 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour: Cross-Park Promenade
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Gramercy Park to Stuyvesant Square at 11 a.m.
Free Central Park walking tour: Amble Through the Ramble at 2 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour: Views From the Past at 1 p.m.
Laura Linney in Conversation with Jordan Roth at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights opens at the Bronx Museum (through Aug. 11)
After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy opens at the Bronx Museum (through Aug. 11)
Beethoven Then and Now: The Complete Symphonies at 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall with the Budapest Festival Orchestra
Patti Austin with Special Guests Tuck & Patti play the Nokia Theater at 6:30 p.m.
New date: Anthony Anderson’s MixTape Comedy Show at the Gotham Comedy Club at 8 p.m.
Cyclone roller coaster reopens for the season at noon in Coney Island

Monday, March 29
Elaine Stritch at The Carlyle 8:45 p.m.
Angela Gheorghiu in “La Traviata ” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Judy Collins book event at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 30
Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay in “Hamlet” at the Met Opera

Wednesday, March 31
“Aida” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Museum of American Finance walking tour: History of Wall Street
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 19)
Institute of Culinary Education’s New York Tea cooking class at 1 p.m.
Author @ the Library event: “A Heavenly Offer: Religious Imagery in American Advertising,” with Leslie Levin at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan NYPL branch
Free Central Park walking tour: Views From the Past at 11 a.m.
Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake at 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Free Access Restricted lecture: Douglas Berman, William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University on “A New Era in Sentencing?” at the New York County Supreme Court

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