June 1, 2006

November 2009 calendar of events for New York City

Tuesday, November 3
“The Young Archer,” attributed to Michelangelo opens at the Met Museum
Opening night for “Nightingale” with Lynn Redgrave at New York City Center (through Dec. 13)
Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Lucy Shropshire: All Sides Of Love Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 4
World Series game No. 6 at Yankee Stadium: Yankees vs. the Phillies at 7:57 p.m.
NY Comedy Festival begins with Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher, and Tracy Morgan (through Nov. 8)
Celebrity Autobiography performance with Scott Adsit, Kristen Johnston, Carol Kane, Richard Kind, Carson Kressley, Andrea Martin, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Michael Urie and Alan Zweibel at the New York Comedy Festival at Caroline’s at 7:30 p.m.
John Hodgman at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
“Il Barbiere di Siviglia” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra plays Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.
Opening night for Off-Broadway’s Idiot Savant with Willem Dafoe (Dec. 13)
SciCafe cocktails at the American Museum of Natural History from 7 p.m.
New-York Historical Society’s An Evening with Walter Isaacson at 6:30 p.m.
USS New York opens for public tours while docked at Pier 88 at W. 48th Street (through Nov. 11)
Thursday, November 5
Off-Broadway opening night for Theresa Rebeck’s “The Understudy” with Julie White (through Jan. 3)
Performances begin for Horton Foote’s Orphans’ Home Cycle with “The Story of a Childhood” at the Signature Theatre Company (through March 28)
NY Comedy Festival: Ricky Gervais performs “Out of England II” at 8 p.m. at Carnegie Hall
Mike Birbiglia at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Dane Cook & Friends at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m.
USS New York opens for free public tours while docked at Pier 88 at W. 48th Street from 1 to 4 p.m.
John Morton: The Voyage Out opens at Wave Hill gardens (through Nov. 29)
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Thomas Hampson & Mozart’s Prague Symphony
Moscow String Quartet plays Trinity Church’s free Concerts at One from 1 to 2 p.m.
New York City Opera’s American Voices at the David H. Koch Theater
“La Damnation de Faust” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
New York Philharmonic: Thomas Hampson & Mozart’s Prague Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Ray LaMontagne at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Paul Auster book event for “Invisible” at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
New-York Historical Society lecture: The Evolution of the Upper West Side with Barry Lewis at 6:30 p.m.
Book event for author Charles Geisst on “Collateral Damaged” at the Museum of American Finance at 5:30 p.m.
“Tokyo Story” screens at 7:30 p.m. at the Queens Theatre in the Park as part of the Museum of the Moving Image’s Moving Image Masterpieces series
An onstage conversation with Richard Kelly after the 8 p.m. screening of “The Box” at Film Society of Lincoln Center
Meet Fifty Cent at Macy’s Herald Square launch of ” Power by Fifty Cent” at 5 p.m.
Free pop-up performances of “Chicago” at the Port Authority Bus Terminal at 5:15 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.
Dumbo Gallery Walk
Canceled: Nordic Sounds, Latin Flavor concert at the Scandinavia House at 7 p.m.
Friday, November 6
Yankees ticker-tape parade up Canyon of Heroes at 11 a.m.
The Pond at Bryant Park opens for free ice skating for the season. Celsius restaurant and the The Holiday Shops at Bryant Park also open today. Olympic gold medalist Emily Hughes and The Haydenettes perform at 1 p.m (skating through Jan. 24)
NY Knicks vs Cleveland Cavaliers at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Jane Austen exhibition opens at the Morgan Library & Museum (through March 14)
American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion exhibition opens at Museum at FIT (through April 10)
Roni Horn aka Roni Horn opens at the Whitney (through Jan. 24)
Cage a Swallow Can’t You But You Can’t Swallow A Cage: A Sonnet Sequence for Roni Horn performed at the Whitney at 7 and 8 p.m.
Free Live Action New York 09: Scandinavian Performance Art at the Scandinavia House at 7 p.m. (through Nov. 9)
First Fridays Art After Dark at the Guggenheim from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
“Aida” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
New York Philharmonic: Thomas Hampson & Mozart’s Prague Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff: 100th Anniversary Celebration of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s First US Recital at 7:30 p.m. at Zankel Hall
The Evolving Cultural Identity of Chinese American Artists at the Museum of Chinese in America at 7 p.m. with moderator David Henry Hwang
Met Museum lecture: The Medici: Artistic Patronage as Political Power at 6 p.m. with John Paoletti, professor of art history, Wesleyan University
First Fridays in The Greene Space with Dana Leong at 8 p.m.
Eighteenth-Century Tavern Nights at the Queens County Farm Museum (reservations required)
Girl Scout Night at the Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
Big Apple Circus Gala at Lincoln Center at 7 p.m.
Third Annual Cook. Eat. Drink. Live. festival (through Nov. 8)
Artie Lange Live at the Beacon Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
Rob Schneider at Caroline’s on Broadway
Comedian Bill Burr at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Keeping It Fresh: Television Writing in the Internet Age panel at the Paley Center for the Media at 6:30 p.m. with writers from Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, 30 Rock, The Simpsons and more
Saturday, November 7
USS New York commissioning at Pier 88
Dreamgirls live at the Apollo Theater (through Dec. 6)
New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert for families with children, 6 to 12 years of age: Benjamin Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with Yo-Yo Ma at 7 p.m.
Staten Island Fall Doo Wop Spectacular at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island
New York Philharmonic: Thomas Hampson & Mozart’s Prague Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall
Watteau and Music: Dance, Seduction, Allusion, Mystery at 6 p.m.
Museum of American Finance walking tour: History of Wall Street at 1 p.m.
Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
“Il Barbiere di Siviglia” at the Met Opera at 8:30 p.m.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Madison Square Garden
Greater Astoria Historical Society hosts a free screening of “Miracle on 34th Street” at 1 p.m.
“Esther” at the NY City Opera at 8 p.m.
Paley Center for the Media comedy writer panels: Writing for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: The Writers of NBC’s Late Night Discuss Their Process and Look Uncomfortable at 2 p.m. and The Truthiness Behind the Lines: An In-Depth Look Behind the Scenes with The Colbert Report Writers at 5 p.m.
Patton Oswalt at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Mike Epps at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Eighteenth-Century Tavern Nights at the Queens County Farm Museum (reservations required)

Sunday, November 8
Bauhaus 1919–1933: workshops for modernity opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Jan. 25)
USS New York opens for free public tours while docked at Pier 88 at W. 48th Street from 9 a.m. to noon
NY Giants home game vs. San Diego at 4:15 p.m.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Madison Square Garden
“Don Giovanni” at the NY City Opera at 1:30 p.m.
Pavel Haas Quartet concert at The Frick Collection at 5 p.m.
Monsters of Folk at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Teena Marie at BB Kings at 8 p.m.
An Evening with Bill Maher at 7 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center
Andy Samberg & Friends at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Louis CK at Caroline’s
Urban Oyster tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Westchester Legacy Tour of Woodlawn Cemetery at 2 p.m.
Museum at Eldridge Street’s Gangster, Writer, Rabbi walking tour at 11 a.m.
92Y Excursion: Lower East Side Synagogues O! Multitudes! Three Centuries of Domestic Architecture on the Lower East Side at 11 a.m. Bronx walking tour: Historic St. Mary’s Park & Its 17th Century Roots, at 9:30 a.m.
Kids’ Extreme Mammals Workshop at the American Museum of Natural History from 11 to 12:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Powerhouse Arts District, Jersey City at 1 p.m.
Monday, November 9
Bernadette Peters sings at the Minskoff Theatre as a benefit for Broadway Cares
24-Hour Plays on Broadway
USS New York opens for free public tours while docked at Pier 88 at W. 48th Street from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
NY Knicks vs Utah Jazz at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Explorers Club lecture: An Inside View: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Mummies
Free performance: Nejla Yatkin: Dancing with the Berlin Wall at 6 p.m.
4th Annual Latin American Cultural Week begins at the World Financial Center
Peter Maass and Ed Kashi: A Conversation on Oil at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Orhan Pamuk at 92Y at 8 p.m.
The NEXT New York Conversation presents Breakout: Voices from Inside (a partnership between PEN’s Prison Writing Program and WNYC’s The Greene Space) at 7 p.m.
Free discussion with Mark Kurlansky and four writers whose novels deal with food at 7 p.m. at the Instituto Cervantes
“La Damnation de Faust” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Ray LaMontagne at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Tickets go on sale for Present Laughter on Broadway
Tickets go on sale at noon for February’s Kids’ Night on Broadway
Tuesday, November 10
Sesame Street Day
USS New York opens for free public tours while docked at Pier 88 at W. 48th Street from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future opens at the Museum of the City of NY (through Jan. 31)
“Don Giovanni” at the NY City Opera at 7:30 p.m.
Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
New York Philharmonic: Thomas Hampson & Mozart’s Prague Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
A Conversation with Stephen King at Times Talks at 7 p.m.
Paul Shaffer’ and Glenn Close at 8 p.m. at 92Y
New-York Historical Society panel discussion at 6:30 p.m. on America’s Future, America’s Constitution
Children’s Workshop: Astrofavorites: The NASA Mission Collection at the American Museum of Natural History
Lunch and tour of Crystal Cruise Lines’ 5-star luxury cruise ship Crystal Symphony from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. (reservations required)
Maude Maggart: “Parents & Children” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency (through Nov. 14)
Ray LaMontagne at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, November 11
NYC Veterans Day Parade with an opening ceremony at 10 a.m. at Madison Square Park. The parade will march up Fifth Avenue from 26th to 56th Street
Veterans Day Ceremony at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Final day of free USS New York public tours at Pier 88 at W. 48th Street from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Living history displays and demonstrations showing the evolution of the American Army during the 19th century from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the General Grant National Memorial
Cirque du Soleil’s “Wintuk” begins performances at Madison Square Garden (through Jan. 3)
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.
NY Knicks vs the Atlanta Hawks at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Bill Gates in Conversation with Matthew Bishop: The Business of Giving at 92Y at 6:30 p.m.
New-York Historical Society panel discussion at 6:30 p.m. on Yankee Stadium Forever: College Football with Regis Philbin, Dave Anderson, Pete Dawkins, Paul Hornung, Tony Morante and Bert Sugar
Two-day Almost-Everything-Marked-Down online sale at Olde Good Things from 8 p.m.
Thursday, November 12
USS New York departs a 6 a.m.
5 Dutch Days (through Nov. 16)
7th Annual Queens International Film Festival (through Nov. 15)
Canstruction opens at the World Financial Center (through Nov. 23)
New York Philharmonic: Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius at Avery Fisher Hall
Tony Curtis: Some Still Like It Hot at 92Y at 8 p.m.
Scandinavians Celebrate Dutch New York: Henry Hudson and Beyond at the Scandinavian East Coast Museum in Brooklyn
Met Museum’s $300 Private Gallery Tours, Impressionist Paintings in the Met
Slowind Quintet plays Trinity Church’s free Concerts at One from 1 to 2 p.m.
17th Annual NYC Competition of Canstruction opens at the World Financial Center (through Nov. 23)
NY Rangers home game vs. Thrashers
Keyboard Conversations with Pianist Jeffrey Siegel: Chopin for Lovers, at the Scandinavia House at 7:30 p.m.
Fellini’s “8 ½ ” screens at 7:30 p.m. at the Queens Theatre in the Park as part of the Museum of the Moving Image’s Moving Image Masterpieces series
Joan Osborne at BB Kings at 8 p.m.
“Don Giovanni” at the NY City Opera 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 ” Don Giovanni”
Patrice Chéreau’s production of Janácek’s “From the House of the Dead” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius
Rob Thomas at the Beacon Theatre at 7 p.m. (through Nov. 14)
16 Futurist Noise Intoners at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
33rd Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival (through Nov. 15)
8th anniversary of crash of AA Flight 587 in Queens
Conversations with Penn & Teller - 35 Years of Magic and BS at Gramercy Theatre at 8 p.m.
Free AIA lectue by David Dixon, master-planner for post-Katrina New Orleans, at 5:30 p.m.
Paul Auster at PowerHouse Books at 7 p.m.
30 Seconds off an Inch opens at the Studio Museum in Harlem (through March 14)
Friday, November 13
Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall opens for the season (through Dec. 30)
“ Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” begins previews on Broadway (through Jan. 3)
“Esther” at the NY City Opera at 8 p.m.
Berliner Philharmoniker at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.
New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Space at 8 p.m.
City Symphonies Out of Doors: Text of Light from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the High Line in the 14th Street passage
Free U. S. Army Chorus and Strings at 1 p.m. at Trinity Church
Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius at the New York Philharmonic
60×60 Dance performs at the World Financial Center at 12:30 and 7 p.m.
Jefferson Starship at BB Kings at 7 p.m.
Colin Quinn at Caroline’s (through Nov. 15)
NY Knicks vs Golden State Warriors at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Page Turner: The Asian American Literary Festival with Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Ondaatje, David Henry Hwang, Hari Kunzru, Ed Park, and Porochista Khakpour (and Nov. 14)
Dark Shadows at Twilight: A Paley Center Vampire Weekend at the Paley Center for Media (through Nov. 15)
“Hidden Fortress” screens as part of the Classic Samurai Cinema: Three by Kurosawa series at the Met Museum at 6 p.m.
African American Women in Cinema Film Festival (and Nov. 14)
9th annual Russian Film Week begins (through Nov. 22)
International Postcard Show at the New Yorker Hotel’s Grand Ballroom (through Nov. 15)
One Step Beyond dance party from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the American Museum of Natural History
Museum of American Finance walking tour: Trading in New Amsterdam at 11 a.m.
92Y Food Outing: Noshes and Nibbles in the West Village and SoHo at 10 a.m.
Eighteenth-Century Tavern Nights at the Queens County Farm Museum (reservations required)
Lottery opens for free tickets to Met Opera’s Nov. 30 final dress rehearsal of “Les Contes d’Hoffmann.”

Saturday, November 14
The Silk Road exhibition opens at the American Museum of Natural History
The Pier Antiques Show and the Fashion Alley & Vintage Collecting @ The Pier Show at the Passenger Ship Terminal Pier 94 & 92 (and Nov. 15)
New York Philharmonic: Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius at Avery Fisher Hall
Historical lecture and music on “Presidential Power” at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
A Song for the Horse Nation opens at the National Museum of the American Indan (through March 7, 2011)
“Don Giovanni” at the NY City Opera at 8 p.m.
Sign-language tour of the “Silk Road” exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History
Cooking Workshop at Historic Richmond Town with materials in the library and archives of the Staten Island Historical Society
Steve Ross, To Wit: Humor in Song at 7 p.m. at the Met Museum
South Street Seaport Museum family program: Veterans Day
The Jersey Devil at 8 p.m. at Ars Nova
Hidden Harbor tour at 11 a.m. of Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay and Shooters Island
The Outlaws at BB Kings at 8 p.m.
Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Met Opera at 8:30 p.m.
“La Damnation de Faust” at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
Metallica at Madison Square Garden
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Beyond the Bauhaus at 11 a.m.
Colonial farmhouse Cooking Workshop at 11 a.m. at Historic Richmond Town
Lefferts Historic House displays land deed sign by Pieter Stuyvesant from noon to 5 p.m.
Ailey Day of Dance: Dance Workshop at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan
NYC Lap Steel Guitar Festival at the Rodeo Bar (and Nov. 15)
Rumi Symphony Project: Iranian Sounds of Peace (An East/West Musical Dialogue) at Carnegie Hall
Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius at the New York Philharmonic at 8 p.m.
African American Women in Cinema Film Festival
Page Turner: The Asian American Literary Festival with Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Ondaatje, David Henry Hwang, Hari Kunzru, Ed Park, and Porochista Khakpour

Sunday, November 15
Opening night on Broadway for “Ragtime” (open-ended run)
“Esther” at the NY City Opera at 1:30 p.m.
Alias Man Ray exhibition opens at the Jewish Museum (through March 14)
Metallica at Madison Square Garden
Tamevate Kapelye at the Museum at Eldridge Street at 3 p.m.
DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) appears in a special multi-media presentation of “The Science of Terra Nova” at the American Museum of Natural History at 4 p.m.
Kids’ Extreme Mammals Workshop at the American Museum of Natural History from 11 to 12:30 p.m.
Woodlawn Cemetery book event on “America’s Girl: The Incredible Story of How Swimmer Gertrude Ederle Changed the Nation” at 2 p.m. in the Woolworth Chapel
NY Jets home game vs. Jacksonville
Enrichment Workshop- Red Panda at the Staten Island Zoo from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Three Ways of Looking at Park Slope: Park Slope Northwest with Francis Morrone at 2 p.m.
First Annual Independent Bookstore Week NYC (through Nov. 21)
Tour of the Atlantic Avenue train tunnel (reservations required)
New York Road Runners: Cross Country Championships at Van Cortlandt Park
Free History Club: Brooklyn Brews at 1 p.m. at Marine Park
DJ Spooky and the Science of Terra Nova at the American Museum of Natural History at 4 p.m.
5 Dutch Days Lecture: Contemporary Dutch Design at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum at 2 p.m.
Philharmonic Ensembles at Merkin Concert Hall at 3 p.m.
Carnegie Hall family concert: Falu at 1 p.m.
The Pier Antiques Show and the Fashion Alley & Vintage Collecting @ The Pier Show at the Passenger Ship Terminal Pier 94 & 92
NYC Lap Steel Guitar Festival at the Rodeo Bar

Monday, November 16
Project Shaw reading of “On The Rocks”
Patrice Chéreau’s production of Janácek’s “From the House of the Dead” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Philharmonic Chamber Music at College of Staten Island, City University of New York at 7:30 p.m.
New-York Historical Society’s New York Painting Begins: 18th-Century Portraits Gallery Tour with curator Kimberly Orcutt at 11 a.m.
WWE Presents MONDAY NIGHT RAW at Madison Square Garden
6TH ANNUAL BROADWAY UNPLUGGED at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Neko Case at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Law & Order: Twenty Years and Counting panel at the Paley Center for Media at 6:30 p.m. with Dick Wolf, René Balcer, S. Epatha Merkison and
Sam Waterston
Federal Hall closes for work on the building (through Nov. 20)
Mauritz Stiller’s “The Saga of Gosta Berling” starring Greta Garbo, with live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner, at Film Forum at 7 p.m.
Tickets go on sale for “Next Fall” on Broadway
Watch the Leonids Meteor Shower event at Fort Totten Park
Classic Stage Company’s First Look Festival: Pirandello reading of “Six Characters in Search of an Author “
A Celebration of Vladimir Nabokov with Martin Amis, Brian Boyd and Chip Kidd at 8 p.m. at 92Y

Tuesday, November 17
Revolutionary Voices: Performing Arts in Central & Eastern Europe in the 1980s opens at the gallery of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center (through March 20)
John Mayer at the Beacon Theatre at 9 p.m.
New York Philharmonic: Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius at Avery Fisher Hall
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania opens at the Met Museum (through Sept. 6)
New-York Historical Society discussion on Cold War journalism: Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America with Kati Marton and Frank Rich at 6:30 p.m.
Museum of American Finance walking tour: Women of Wall Streetat 11 a.m.
NY Rangers home game vs. Capitals
“La Damnation de Faust” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Jim Cramer book event at Barnes & Noble Union Square
“Esther” at the NY City Opera at 8 p.m.
Lecture: Paterson’s Industrial History and the Newest National Park: The Making of a Monument to Making at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen at 6:30 p.m.
Bob Dylan at The United Palace Theatre (through Nov. 19)
Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius at the New York Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m.
Concert for Autism with Jerry Seinfeld and Bruce Springsteen at Carnegie Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 18
Milton Nascimento at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.
New-York Historical Society The Draft Debate discussion at 6:30 p.m.
Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Orhan Pamuk book event for “The Museum of Innocence” at Barnes & Noble Union Square
Free lecture by Bronx Borough Historian Lloyd Ultan on Henry Hudson – The Man at the Woodlawn Branch of the NY Public Library at 6:30 p.m.
Rockefeller Center Swarovski Star unveiling
Restless Legs travel readings with Patrick Symmes (“Chasing Che”) and Franz Wisner (“Honeymoon with My Brother”) at 7 p.m., downstairs at Lolita
What Will Become of our Culture? event at Symphony Space with Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner and Walter Mosley at 7 p.m.
Free screening of New York on Film in the 1970s at 92Y Tribeca at 6:30 p.m.
Canceled: Previews begin on Broadway for “Broadway Bound”
Last day to register for Met Opera free ticket lottery for Nov. 30 full dress rehearsal of the new production of “Les Contes d’Hoffmann”

Thursday, November 19
Opening night on Broadway for “In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)” (through Jan. 10)
Coaches vs. Cancer Classic at Madison Square Garden
New York Philharmonic: Muti Conducts Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet at Avery Fisher Hall
Lecture at the Fraunces Tavern Museum: Civil War Wives: The Winds of Change Presented by Carol Berkin
Watteau and Words: A Reading of French Poetry at the Met Museum at 6 p.m. with Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Fiske Kimball Professor in the History of Culture and Museums, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
itsnotyouitsme, featuring multi-instrumentalist Caleb Burhans plays Trinity Church’s free Concerts at One from 1 to 2 p.m.
Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets opens at the Brooklyn Museum (through Oct. 2, 2011)
South Street Seaport Museum event featuring maritime authority Anthony Cooke
Fashion Conversations at Museum at FIT at 6 p.m.: Glenda Bailey in conversation with Valerie Steele
“2001: A Space Odyssey” screens at 7:30 p.m. at the Queens Theatre in the Park as part of the Museum of the Moving Image’s Moving Image Masterpieces series
“Esther” at the NY City Opera 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 “Esther”
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Muti Conducts Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet
Sexy Soul Tour 2009 at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Ray Davies at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Carmine Appice in-store at J&R at 6 p.m.
Ed Lover at Caroline’s comedy club
The Museum Gala with Dave Matthews at the American Museum of Natural History
Extremely Hungary presents Fire + Fire at Symphony Space at 8 p.m.
Rita Dove and Philip Levine at 92Y at 8:15 p.m.
New York Philharmonic: Muti Conducts Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” at 7:30 p.m.
The Philadelphia Orchestra at 8 p.m.

Friday, November 20
Preview performances begins for David Mamet’s Race on Broadway (opening night: Dec. 10; open-ended run)
Coaches vs. Cancer Classic at Madison Square Garden
Lesley Gore at the Met Museum’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at 7 p.m.
Free Friday events at the South Street Seaport Museum: New Amsterdam and the Native American Perspective
“Don Giovanni” at the NY City Opera at 8 p.m.
“Il Trittico” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Ray Davies at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Devo at The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
New York Pops: Celebrating Johnny Mercer at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.
Hugh Pool at Rodeo Bar
Saturday, November 21
Holiday Train Show opens at the New York Botanical Garden (through Jan. 10)
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
David Cassidy concert at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m.
Haydn Trio Eisenstadt play the Met Museum at 7 p.m.
NY Rangers home game vs. Panthers
Patrice Chéreau’s production of Janácek’s “From the House of the Dead” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
WIRED pop-up shop opens for the holidays at 415 W. 13th St. (through Dec. 27)
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Downtown’s Lost Neighborhood , Little Syria, at 11 a.m.
Holiday Train Show opens at the New York Botanical Garden (through Jan. 10)
Tickets go on sale for Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge” with Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson
Super Sábado!: Target Free Third Saturdays at El Museo del Barrio from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Yo Gabba Gabba Live! at the Beacon Theatre at 11 a.m., 2 and 5 p.m.
Ani DiFranco at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
The Queen Project: Tamia, Deborah Cox, Kelly Price at the Paradise Theater in the Bronx at 8 p.m.
Devo at The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza at 9 p.m.
20th Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution celebrated at the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden
Alan Dershowitz vs. Jeremy Ben-Ami: American Foreign Policy and Israel at 92Y at 8 p.m.
Team America: World Police Sing & Swear Along at 11 p.m. at 92Y Tribeca
Extremely Hungary presents Fire + Fire at Symphony Space at 8 p.m.
St. Petersburg String Quartet at BargeMusic at 8 p.m.
Bang on a Can All-Stars at Carnegie Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 22
Tim Burton exhibition opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through April 26)
New Amsterdam Market monthly Public Market on South Street from 11 a.m.
Michael Jackson’s Video Art at Film Society of Lincoln Center at 6:15 p.m.
“Don Giovanni” at the NY City Opera at 1:30 p.m.
Big Band Social on the Promenade of the David H. Koch Theater at 4:45 p.m.
Devendra Banhart at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
St. Petersburg String Quartet at BargeMusic at 3 p.m.
Nareh Arghamanyan concert at The Frick Collection at 5 p.m.
Port O’ Monkeys with Jeff Greene performance at 3 p.m. at the Museum at Eldridge Street
Hudson River Historic Concerts at Wave Hill: Stephen Hamilton directs actor Reed Birney in recreating a reading of “Doctor Marigold” and “Mr. Bob Sawyer’s Party”, first given by Charles Dickens in 1868 at New York’s Steinway Hall and in Albany
NY Giants home game vs. Atlanta
NY Knicks vs Boston Celtics at Madison Square Garden at 1 p.m.
Thanksgiving with the Beasts at the Staten Island Zoo
Free Urban Glass Open House
Urban Oyster tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Woodside Avenue, Queens at 11 a.m.
92Y Excursion: Lower East Side Synagogues, Bialystoker the Beautiful, Shteibl Row and the Sites of Historic East Broadway at 11 a.m. ASSSSCAT 3000 comedy shows at Upright Citizens Brigade at 7:30 ($10) and 9:30 p.m. (free)

Monday, November 23
Opening night on Broadway for “Fela!” at 6:45 p.m. at Eugene O’Neill Theatre, 230 W. 49th St.
(open-ended run)
Robin Williams: Weapons of Self-Destruction at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Classic Stage Company’s First Look Festival: Pirandello reading of “Right You Are, If You Think So”
Celebrity Autobiography at the Triad Theater at 7:30 p.m. with Scott Adsit, Rachel Dratch, Carol Kane, Richard Kind, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Ryan Reynolds, Steve Schirripa, Sherri Shepherd, Kristen Wiig and Alan Zweibel; and a 9:30 p.m. show with Scott Adsit, Rachel Dratch, Carol Kane, Richard Kind, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Ryan Reynolds, Steve Schirripa, Sherri Shepherd, Michael Urie, Kristen Wiig and Alan Zweibel
Pixies play Hammerstein Ballroom (through Nov. 25)
David Chang book event at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Skyscraper Museum book event at 6:30 p.m.: Paul Goldberger on Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture, and Why Architecture Matters
Explorers Club lecture: On Thin Ice: The Polar Bear in a Changing World
Symphony Orchestra of Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.
“Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
NY Rangers home game vs. Blue Jackets at 7 p.m.
Grand Central Holiday Market opens for the season

Tuesday, November 24
“A Little Night Music” with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury begins previews on Broadway (opening night: Dec. 13)
New York City Ballet Opening Night Benefit: Concerto DSCH, Rubies (Pas de Deux,) Naive And Sentimental Music, (New Martins Ballet - World Premiere)
Robin Williams: Weapons of Self-Destruction at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
John Fogerty at the Beacon Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
Patrice Chéreau’s production of Janácek’s “From the House of the Dead” at the Met Opera at 9 p.m.
New York Philharmonic: Muti Conducts Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
The World of Cole Porter performance and lecture at 11 a.m. at the Met Museum with David Garrard Lowe, author of “Art Deco New York,” and Bobby Nesbitt, pianist and singer
Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 6)
Free Views from the Past walking tour of Central Park at noon led by the Central Park Conservancy

Wednesday, November 25

Thursday, November 26
The Macy’s 83nd Thanksgiving Day Parade begins at 9 a.m.
List of restaurants, museums, zoos and other places open on Thanksgiving in 2009 in New York City
Prospect Park’s Wollman Rink opens for the season

Friday, November 27
Performances of “A StreetCar Named Desire” begin at BAM with Cate Blanchett, Joel Edgerton and Robin McLeavy (thorugh Dec. 20)
NYC Ballet begins performances of “The Nutcracker” (through Dec. 30)
New York Philharmonic: Muti Conducts Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
“Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Celebrating Chekhov series at Film Society of Lincoln Center (through Dec. 3)
Guster at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
African Diaspora Film Festival (through Dec. 15)
Big Onion walking tour: Annual Post-Thanksgiving Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour at 1 p.m.
Thanksgiving Weekend Art and Craft Fair at the Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island

Saturday, November 28
College Hockey: Boston University vs. Cornell University at Madison Square Garden
New York Philharmonic: Muti Conducts Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 2 and 8 p.m.
Thanksgiving Kitchen Tour of the oldest kitchens at Historic Richmond Town at 2 p.m.
Free 10 a.m. walking tour: Flushing Freedom Mile
“Il Trittico” at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
Patrice Chéreau’s production of Janácek’s “From the House of the Dead” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Guster at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion live at Town Hall at 5:45 p.m.
Stephanie Mills & Friends Featuring Freddie Jackson & GQ at the Paradise Theater in the Bronx at 8 p.m.
Breakfast with Santa at The Rink at Rockefeller Center
American Landmark Festivals’ free 2 p.m. concert at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Memorial
Rubén Blades at The United Palace Theatre
NY Philharmonic: Muti Conducts Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony
Arlo Guthrie and Family at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.
First Annual NY Harbor Lighted Boat Parade from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on the Hudson River
Dave Brubeck plays the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Horse-drawn carriage rides at the Bronx Zoo (weekends through Dec. 27)
Museum of Chinese in America Walking Tour: From Coffeehouses to Banquet Halls at 1 p.m.
Free Akim Funk Buddha Hip Hop Holiday II: Cultural Collisions the Funk Buddha Chamber Orchestra at 10 p.m. at BAM

Sunday, November 29
Classic Stage Company’s First Look Festival: Pirandello reading of “Henry IV” with John Turturro at 8 p.m.
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Wynton Marsalis Quintet plays at 7:30 p.m.
Dave Brubeck plays the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall at 2 p.m.
Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo-soprano and Warren Jones, piano at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall at 5 p.m.
Keith Sweat at BB Kings at 8 p.m.
Free Fort Totten tunnel tour in Queens at 1 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Bedford Stuyvesant at 11 a.m.
Thanksgiving Kitchen Tour of the oldest kitchens at Historic Richmond Town at 2 p.m.
NY Jets home game vs. Carolina at 1 p.m.
Breakfast with Santa at The Rink at Rockefeller Center
ASSSSCAT 3000 comedy shows at Upright Citizens Brigade at 7:30 ($10) and 9:30 p.m. (free)

Monday, November 30
10th Annual Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square begins at 5:30 p.m.
Opening ceremony at 12:30 p.m. for the Grand Central Holiday Laser Light Show, which will run daily every half hour from 11 a.m.to 9 p.m. (through Dec. 31)
Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Rocks at the Hammerstein Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Chanticleer Christmas in the Met Museum’s Medieval Sculpture Hall at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Christmas Time in the City concert at 8 p.m. at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Robin Williams: Weapons of Self-Destruction at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Classic Stage Company’s First Look Festival: Pirandello reading of “Henry IV” with John Turturro at 8 p.m.
An Evening with Christopher Plummer at 7:30 p.m. at Film Forum
Paul Auster and Javier Marías at 8 p.m. at 92Y
Explorers Club lecture: Seas of Hope: New Ocean Discoveries, Natural Phenomena and Positive Stories in Marine Conservation
NY Rangers home game vs. Penguins at 7 p.m.
Les Paul Tribute Mondays with Les Paul Trio and Mike Stern at Iridium Jazz Club at 8 and 10 p.m.
“Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
American Composer Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. at Zankel Hall
Stephanie J. Block’s “XOXmas” at Jim Caruso’s Cast Party at Birdland at 7 p.m.
“Sweeney Todd” screens at MoMA at 8 p.m. as part of the Tim Burton exhibition
Met Opera Open House: free dress rehearsal of “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” - advance tickets required

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