October 23, 2008
Today in NY: Central Park skating, Big Apple Circus
It’s Thursday, October 23 and here’s today’s NYC events:
Wollman Rink in Central Park opens for the season
 Big Apple Circus begins performances at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park
“Speed-the-Plow” opens on Broadway with Jeremy Piven, Raúl Esparza and Elisabeth Moss
Lincoln Center Theater production of Horton Foote’s “Dividing the Estate” begins previews on Broadway with Elizabeth Ashley, Arthur French, Hallie Foote, Penny Fuller and Gerald McRaney
Bon Appetit Supper Club and Cafe pop-up opens for lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. through the end of the month
Dialogues with Design Legends: Architecture with Peter Eisenman, Greg Lynn and Kurt Forster at the 92nd St Y at 8:15 p.m.
Gunnin’ for that #1 Spot screening and Q&A with director (and Beastie Boy) Adam Yauch, at 92YTribeca at 8 p.m.
An Evening with Pauline Frommer, Matt Gross & Rolf Potts at BookCulture at 7 p.m.
2008 Fall Postage Stamp Mega Event at Madison Square Garden
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Robertson Conducts Mozart, Bartók and Brahms
George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars at BB Kings
Full Thursday schedule for the CMJ Music Marathon
Leonard Bernstein: A Jewish Legacy concert at the Jewish Museum at 7:30 p.m.
St. Lawrence String Quartet Todd Palmer at 7:30 p.m.
Compañia Flamenco de Madrid at 8 p.m. at the Met Museum
Art Deco Jewelry panel discussion at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
Free art deco lecture at the NY Public Library on ” Art Deco Design: Rhythm and Verve” at 12:30 p.m.
NY Historical Society lecture on Champlain’s Dream, on Samuel de Champlain at 6:30 p.m.
Alphabet Juice: Roy Blount, Jr. and Jean Strouse at the New York Public Library at 7 p.m.
Valentine-Varian House Open House and a reception for the exhibition “Yankee Stadium: Now & Forever from 4:30 to 7 p.m.
Night School Public Seminar 9: Sleepwalking in a dialectical picture puzzle Natascha Sadr Haghighian with Thomas Keenan and Avery Gordon at the New Museum at 7:30 p.m.
Important Silver and Objects of Vertu auction at Christie’s
Acker Wine workshop
Puerto Rico Tourism Co. pop up opens at Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall
Wednesday’s weekly free walking tours includes the Municipal Art Society free weekly walking tour of Grand Central Terminal, which starts at the information booth at 12:30 p.m.
Admission to the Bronx Zoo is by optional “donation” every Wednesday, and admission is free all day at the NY Botanical Garden and Van Cortlandt House Museum. The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust has free-admission hours from 4 to 8 p.m. today.
Museums open late on Wednesday are the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, (to 7 p.m.,) and the Museum of Jewish Heritage, (to 8 p.m.)
For ongoing shows and exhibits see Now in NYC, and for more upcoming events, the calendar.
October 23, 2008 7:32 AM in
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