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'DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS' The accession of Jonathan Pryce and his affecting eyebrows automatically makes this the season's best bigger musical. With Mr. Pryce (who replaces the admirable but afraid John Lithgow) arena the ablaze absconder to Norbert Leo Butz's barnyard grifter, it's as if a altered access in a three-legged chase had become an Olympic figure-skating brace (2:35). Imperial Theater, 249 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)

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'THE DROWSY CHAPERONE' (Tony Awards, best book of a agreeable and best aboriginal score, 2006) This baby and attractive bluff of 1920's date frolics, as absurd by an affected actualization queen, may not be a masterpiece. But in a dry division for musicals, "The Drowsy Chaperone" has admirers responding as if they were bane abode plants, assuredly actuality watered afterwards continued neglect. Bob Martin and Sutton Foster are the standouts in the eager, alive casting (1:40). Marquis Theater, 1535 Broadway, at 45th Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley)

*'FAITH HEALER' In the appellation role of Brian Friel's abundant play, Ralph Fiennes paints a account of the artisan as dreamer and boner that feels both as old as ballad and so beginning that it ability be corrective in wet blood. Additionally starring Cherry Jones and the superb Ian McDiarmid, this anesthetic alternation of monologues has been directed with anapestic starkness by Jonathan Kent (2:35). Booth Theater, 222 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)

* 'THE HISTORY BOYS' (Tony Awards, best brawl and best administration of a play, 2006) Madly enjoyable. Alan Bennett's brawl about a activity for the hearts and minds of a accumulation of university-bound students, conflicting with the aboriginal British casting from the National Theater, moves with a aerial anecdotal bluster that transcends cultural barriers. Directed by Nicholas Hytner, with a altogether bashed ensemble led by the superb Richard Griffiths and Stephen Campbell Moore as schoolmasters with opposing angle of history and apprenticeship (2:40). Broadhurst Theater, 235 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)

'HOT FEET' A dancing anthology of clichés set to the music of Earth, Wind and Fire. Numbing (2:30). Hilton Theater, 213 West 42nd Street, (212) 307-4100. (Charles Isherwood)

'JERSEY BOYS' (Tony Award, best musical, 2006) From dust to allure with the Four Seasons, directed by the pop repackager Des McAnuff ("The Who's Tommy"). The complete adventitious of this shrink-wrapped bio-musical, for those who appetence article added than recycled blueprint toppers and a adventitious bandage caked from a can, is watching the admirable John Lloyd Adolescent (as Frankie Valli) cantankerous the bandage from exact clothing into article far added astute (2:30). August Wilson Theater, 245 West 52nd Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)

* 'THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE' Amuse about-face off your political-correctness adviser forth with your cellphone for Martin McDonagh's gleeful, bleeding and appallingly absorbing play. This claret absurdity about agitation in rural Ireland, acutely directed by Wilson Milam, has a annihilation agency to battling Quentin Tarantino's. But it is additionally wildly, absurdly funny and, alike added improbably, acutely moral (1:45). Lyceum Theater, 149 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)

*'SHINING CITY' Quiet, addictive and actually glorious. Conor McPherson's impeccably accumulated apparition adventitious about actuality alone in the awash burghal of Dublin has been brought to American shores with a first-rate casting (Brian F. O'Byrne, Oliver Platt, Martha Plimpton and Peter Scanavino), directed by Robert Avalanche (1:45). Biltmore Theater, 261 West 47th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)

* 'SWEENEY TODD' (Tony Award, best administration of a musical, 2006) Candied dreams, New York. This blood-tingling new awakening of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's musical, with Michael Cerveris and Patti LuPone able a casting of 10 who bifold as their own musicians, burrows into your thoughts like a bivouac cheat who knows what absolutely scares you. The adroit administrator John Doyle aims his pared-down estimation at the squirming adolescent in anybody who wants to accept his affliction fears both accepted and dispelled (2:30). Eugene O'Neill Theater, 230 West 49th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)

'TARZAN' This askew blooming balloon with music, acclimatized by Disney Affected Productions from the 1999 activated film, has the activity of a super-deluxe day affliction center, able with lots of bungee cords and karaoke synthesizers, area accouchement can beat aback they get annoyed of singing, and carnality versa. The soda-pop account is by Phil Collins (2:30). Richard Rodgers Theater, 226 West 46th Street, (212) 307-4747. (Brantley)

* 'THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE' The blessed account for this happy-making little agreeable is that the move to above abode has blown none of its arbitrary charm. William Finn's account sounds plumper and added advantageous than it did Off Broadway, accouterment a admixture of amoroso to accompaniment the acknowledge in Rachel Sheinkin's zinger-filled book. The performances are flawless. Gold stars all about (1:45). Circle in the Square, 1633 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood)

'THE WEDDING SINGER' An assembly-kit agreeable that ability as able-bodied be alleged "That 80's Show," this date adaptation of the 1998 blur is all winks and nods and quotations from the era of big beard and clutter bonds. The casting members, who accommodate Stephen Lynch and Laura Benanti, are personable enough, which is not the aforementioned as adage they accept personalities (2:20). Al Hirschfeld Theater, 302 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)

Off Broadway

* 'BRIDGE & TUNNEL' (Tony Award, appropriate affected event, 2006) This adorable alone show, accounting and performed by Sarah Jones, is a sweet-spirited valentine to New York, its polyglot citizens and the above angle of an all-embracing America. In 90 account of acutely empiric delineation acclaim brave with humor, Ms. Jones plays added than a dozen men and women accommodating in an open-mike atramentous of balladry for immigrants. Helen Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood)

'THE FIELD' John B. Keane's account of rural activity in Ireland in the mid-20th century, both affecting and censorious. This athletic new production, directed by Ciaran O'Reilly, actualization Marty Maguire as Bull McCabe, a boxy agriculturalist who will stop at annihilation to bottle his appropriate to accession his beasts on a acreage about to be auctioned. A little moralistic, but able nonetheless (2:30). Irish Repertory Theater, 132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, (212) 727-2737. (Isherwood)

* 'FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT' This assembly actualization the accepted caricatures of ego-driven singing stars. But alike added than usual, the actualization offers an astute account of grievances about the ailing accompaniment of the Broadway musical, where, as the lyrics accept it, "everything old is old again" (1:45). 47th Street Theater, 304 West 47th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)

'THE HOUSE IN TOWN' A wan new brawl by Richard Greenberg about an American alliance boring imploding in the canicule afore the country's abridgement did the same, added aback and spectacularly, aback in 1929. A miscast Jessica Hecht stars as Amy Hammer, a flush housewife sliding into anguish as her conflicting bedmate looks on in frustration. Doug Hughes's assembly is ambrosial but desultory, as is Mr. Greenberg's about affecting but atypically alone autograph (1:30). Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, 150 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood)

'NOT A GENUINE BLACK MAN' Brian Copeland's alone account about his African-American ancestors affective into a white suburb in the aboriginal 1970's is an engaging, if stiltedly performed, actualization (1:30). DR2 Theater, 103 East 15th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Jason Zinoman)

'SHAKESPEARE IS DEAD' Orran Farmer's two-character brawl about a disturbing columnist and a drug-addicted actress-stripper is well-meaning but annoying and generally banal (1:00). Paradise Factory, 64 East Fourth Street, East Village, (212) 868-4444. (Anita Gates)

* 'SPRING AWAKENING' German schoolboys of the 19th-century antic like rockers in this adventuresome new agreeable acclimatized from the 1891 brawl by Frank Wedekind about sex, afterlife and adolescence. Staged with élan by Michael Mayer, and featuring alluringly blue music by the pop singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik, this is a awry but alive actualization that stretches the date agreeable in new admonition (2:10). Atlantic Theater, 336 West 20th Street, Chelsea, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood)

'SUSAN AND GOD' The Mint Amphitheater Company's able awakening of Rachel Crothers's 1937 brawl about religion, career and ancestors actualization Leslie Hendrix of "Law & Order," able in the role of Susan. Jonathan Bank directs (2:20). The Mint Theater, 311 West 43rd Street, third floor, Clinton, (212) 315-0231.(George Hunka)

'TREASON' The artisan Ezra Pound was a abhorrent fellow, anticipation from this brawl by Sallie Bingham: racist, anti-Semitic, acquisitive to accomplishment the angel of the women who admired him. Aloof why women were fatigued to him is never clear, but the brawl is thoughtful, and the acting, abnormally by Philip Pleasants as Pound, is superb (2:10). Perry Street Theater, 31 Perry Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 868-4444. (Neil Genzlinger)

'TROUBLE IN PARADISE' Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 blur brawl about a con man, the con woman he loves and a affluent Parisian added lives afresh as a giddy, good-looking, agilely agreeable brawl (1:30). Hudson Guild Theater, 441 West 26th Street, Chelsea, (212) 352-3101. (Gates)

Long-Running Shows

* 'ALTAR BOYZ' This acquiescently abusive actualization about a Christian pop accumulation fabricated up of bristles abeyant Teen Bodies awning boys is an enjoyable, asinine aberration (1:30). New Apple Stages, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200.(Isherwood)

'AVENUE Q' R-rated puppets accord alive activity acquaint (2:10). Golden, 252 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)

'BEAUTY AND THE BEAST' Cartoon fabricated flesh, arrangement of (2:30). Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 205 West 46th Street, (212) 307-4747. (Brantley)

'CHICAGO' Irrefutable affidavit that abomination pays (2:25). Ambassador Theater, 219 West 49th Street, (212) 239-6200.(Brantley)

'DRUMSTRUCK' Lightweight brawl that stops aloof abbreviate of pulverizing the eardrums (1:30).Dodger Stages, Date 2, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200. (Lawrence Van Gelder)

'HAIRSPRAY' Fizzy pop, admirable kids, ample man in a housedress (2:30). Neil Simon Theater, 250 West 52nd Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley)

'THE LION KING' Disney on safari, area the big bucks roam (2:45). Minskoff Theater, 200 West 45th Street at Broadway, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley)

'MAMMA MIA!' The jukebox that devoured Broadway (2:20). Cadillac Winter Garden Theater, 1634 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)

'THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA' Who was that masked man, anyway? (2:30). Majestic Theater, 247 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)

'THE PRODUCERS' The ne additional ultra of showbiz scams (2:45). St. James Theater, 246 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)

'RENT' East Village all-overs and adulation songs to die for (2:45). Nederlander Theater, 208 West 41st Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley)

'SPAMALOT' This staged account of the mock-medieval cine "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is basically a singing anthology for Python fans. Such a acceptable time is actuality had by so abounding bodies that this fitful, acquisitive ceremony of applesauce and blasphemy has begin a ample and advantageous admirers (2:20). Shubert Theater, 225 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)

'WICKED' Oz revisited, with political corrections (2:45). Gershwin Theater, 222 West 51st Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley)

Last Chance

'THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED' With the Episcopal abbey in a agitation about homosexuality and that arresting new actuality of Judas the accountable of abundant speculation, Keith Bunin's brawl about conflicts of ancestors and of acceptance arrives at a advantageous moment. Jill Clayburgh stars as an Episcopal abbot with a alarming son and what may be an conflicting Gospel. Engaging, if a little too tidy (2:00). Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 279-4200; closing on Sunday. (Isherwood)

'GODOT HAS LEFT THE BUILDING' John Griffin's admiration to Samuel Beckett's archetypal brawl nails the master's brawl but avalanche abbreviate of his lyricism, admitting it actualization able performances from Scott David Nogi and Edward Griffin (2:00). 45 Below Theater, 45 Bleecker Street, at Lafayette Street, East Village, (212) 352-3101; closing on Sunday. (Hunka)

'MACBETH' As Mr. and Mrs. MacB, Liev Schreiber and Jennifer Ehle book anxious studies in the excesses of appetence and the ultimately annihilating prickings of conscience. But in Moisés Kaufman's alluringly wrought assembly set in the agitated 1930's, the Macbeths' arduous binge unfolds at an abnormally august pace. Claret flows regularly, but as if it's actuality dispensed from argent taps. Despite the intelligence and ability of their performances, neither Mr. Schreiber nor Ms. Ehle seems to abide absolutely the atramentous of their characters. (2:25). Delacorte Theater, Axial Park West and 81st Street, (212) 539-8750; closing on Sunday. (Isherwood)

'SANDRA BERNHARD: EVERYTHING BAD AND BEAUTIFUL' Sandra Bernhard was a accepted bedrock ablaze continued afore headline-making association in alike the best actual walks of activity were actuality referred to as such. Her new show, a accumulating of songs interspersed with musings on her activity and on attainable abstracts alignment from Britney Spears to Condoleezza Rice, is accidental to the point of actuality offhand. That said, it's artful to be in the attendance of a accurate aboriginal (2:00). Daryl Roth Theater, 101 East 15th Street, at Union Square, (212) 239-6200; closing on Sunday. (Isherwood)

'SOME GIRL(S)' A slight and acerb brawl from Neil LaBute that already afresh puts a about broke man below the microscope and watches him squirm. The axial case is actuality played by Eric McCormack, who as a antisocial heterosexual gives abundant the aforementioned achievement he did as a anxious homosexual on "Will & Grace." Jo Bonney directs a casting that additionally includes Fran Drescher, Judy Reyes, Brooke Smith and Maura Tierney as women done amiss by the aforementioned man (1:40). Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, West Village, (212) 279-4200; closing tomorrow. (Brantley)

'THE WATER'S EDGE' In a adventuresome surgical endeavor that recalls the abstracts of the mad Dr. Frankenstein, Theresa Rebeck has approved to displace the big, blood-engorged amore of a Greek tragedy into the attenuate anatomy of a bashful American banana drama. The consistent amalgam runs amok in a stylishly acted production, directed by Will Frears and starring Kate Burton and Tony Goldwyn (2:00). Additional Stage, 307 West 43rd Street, Clinton, (212) 246-4422; closing on Sunday. (Brantley)

Movies

Ratings and alive times are in parentheses; adopted films accept English subtitles. Abounding reviews of all accepted releases, cine trailers, actualization times and tickets: nytimes.com/movies.

* 'AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH' (PG, 96 minutes) Al Gore gives a address on altitude change. One of the best agitative and all-important movies of the year. Seriously. (A. O. Scott)

* 'ARMY OF SHADOWS' (No rating, 140 minutes, in French) Aphotic as angle and afterwards compromise, Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 masterpiece centers on the feats of a baby bandage of Resistance fighters during the occupation. Brilliant, harrowing, capital viewing.(Manohla Dargis)

'THE BLOOD OF MY BROTHER' (No rating, 84 minutes, in English and Arabic) Accession documentary about the activity of Iraq; accession heartbreak; accession protest; accession asleep brother; accession necessity. (Nathan Lee)

'THE BREAK-UP' (PG-13, 105 minutes) Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn breach up and allotment aegis of a Chicago condominium. Dull and cheerless, admitting a drop of funny acknowledging turns, conspicuously from Judy Davis and Jason Bateman. (Scott)

'CARS' (G, 114 minutes) The latest 3D toon from Pixar aloof putt, putt, putts along, a animated archetypal of abstruse beforehand and customer safety. John Lasseter directed, and Owen Wilson provides the articulation of the little red chase car who learns all the appropriate acquaint from, amid others, a 1951 Hudson Hornet accustomed articulation by Paul Newman. (Dargis)

'CLICK' (PG-13, 98 minutes) Adam Sandler stars in this unfunny brawl about a harried ancestors man who uses a accepted conflicting to hop-scotch through time. It's a admirable life, not. (Dargis)

* 'LEONARD COHEN: I'M YOUR MAN' (PG-13, 104 minutes) This arresting documentary combines pieces of an continued account with Mr. Cohen, the Canadian singer-songwriter, artisan and author, now 71, with a accolade concert at the Sydney Opera Abode in January 2005. Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright, and Antony are amid the featured performers. (Holden)

'THE DA VINCI CODE' (PG-13, 148 minutes) Canon aside, "The Da Vinci Code" is, aloft all, a annihilation mystery. And as such, already it gets going, Ron Howard's cine has its pleasures. He and the biographer Akiva Goldsman accept cautiously rearranged some elements of the plot, unkinking a few aggrandize twists and introducing others that accumulate the activity affective along. The cine does, however, booty a while to accelerate, bustling the clamp and abrogation adaptable on the alley as it tries to authorize who is who, what he's accomplishing and why. So I absolutely can't abutment any calls for boycotting or agitation this busy, trivial, calm film. Which is not to say that I'm advising that you go see it. (Scott)

'THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA' (PG-13, 106 minutes) Lauren Weisberger's score-settling best agent about a abhorrent (and famous) bang-up is reimagined and reversed. Anne Hathaway plays the alone assistant, but she is abundant below absorbing -- and in the end below affectionate -- than the boss, Miranda Priestly, actual by Meryl Streep as a attenuate and analytic (and actual funny) account of allure and power. (Scott)

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* 'DOWN IN THE VALLEY' (R, 114 minutes) This emblematic neo-western set in the San Fernando Valley has dreams as big as the fantasies that absorb its protagonist, a Stetson-wearing burghal cowboy (Edward Norton) who is not what he appears to be. How abundant you like it will depend on your appetence for the affectionate of cultural metaphors that David Jacobson flings assimilate the awning with a adventuresome abandon. (Holden)

'THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT' (PG-13, 98 minutes) The "Fast and Furious" blueprint (dudes cars babes = $) is recycled in Tokyo, area the cars are smaller, and the clothes are kookier, but the boys are still boys. (Lee)

'GARFIELD: A TAIL OF TWO KITTIES' (PG, 80 minutes) It was the affliction of times. (Dargis)

'THE GREAT NEW WONDERFUL' (R, 88 minutes) The post-9/11 arrogance of a drop of New Yorkers. Occasionally able-bodied observed, but mostly acid and contrived. (Scott)

'THE GREAT YOKAI WAR' (No rating, 124 minutes, in Japanese) From the abounding Japanese bandage administrator Takashi Miike comes this abundantly absurd allegory about a boy who joins a bandage of admirable bewitched creatures bound in an apocalyptic attempt adjoin some who are abundant below cute. (Scott)

'THE HIDDEN BLADE' (R, 132 minutes, in Japanese) Set in 1861 at the appendage end of Japanese feudalism, "The Hidden Blade" focuses on a affable samurai acclimation his adulation for a low-caste assistant babe and his mission to annihilate a backbiting friend. By demography samurai-movie conventions and agreement them in the acrid ablaze of circadian survival, the director, Yoji Yamada, is anecdotic the afterglow of an complete way of life. (Jeannette Catsoulis)

'KEEPING UP WITH THE STEINS' (PG-13, 84 minutes) A antic bar account brawl begins as a growling, razor-toothed banter of cannibal burning in Hollywood. But afterwards the aboriginal half-hour, those growls abate into whimpers, and the fangs are retracted, and the cine morphs turns into a feel-good ancestors brawl arising acceptable vibes. (Holden)

'THE LAKE HOUSE' (PG, 108 minutes) Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, reunited 12 years afterwards "Speed," brawl aggressive lovers afar by time and yet somehow able to communicate. The complete absurdity of this bathetic activity is inseparable from its charm, which is greater than you ability expect. (Scott)

'LOVERBOY' (R, 86 minutes) This cautionary mother-child drama, directed by Kevin Bacon, is a ablaze agent for his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, who plays a pathologically careful distinct mother. Afterwards starting out balmy and fuzzy, this tonally cryptic blur stealthily pulls out the rug until you aback acquisition yourself continuing on a algid bean floor, barefoot and shivering. (Holden)

'MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III' (PG-13, 126 minutes) Er, this time it's personal, as Tom Cruise plays a adventuresome attainable for a artful alignment who sweeps a simpering bistered off her feet. Directed, afterwards abundant flair, by J. J. Abrams, the small-screen auteur abaft "Lost" and "Alias." (Dargis)

* 'LA MOUSTACHE' (No rating, 86 minutes, in French) Emmanuel Carrière's bookish abstruseness prepares you to insolate in one of those sexy, apricot conjugal comedies that are a authentication of adult French cinema. Then, by degrees, it subverts those expectations to circling bottomward a aerial aperture of ambiguity and doubt. (Holden)

* 'NACHO LIBRE' (PG, 91 minutes) A candied bliss-out from the writers Mike White, Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess, who additionally directed, that finds a august Jack Atramentous as a half-Mexican, half-Scandinavian abbey baker who aches to accord to accession brotherhood, that of the luchadores, or masked wrestlers. (Dargis)

'THE OMEN' (R, 110 minutes) The chiefly accidental accommodate of "The Omen," the 1976 abhorrence actualization that, forth with "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist," plunked everyone's admired baddie, Satan, into the Hollywood mainstream, wants to capitalize on the abridged canon in the air. Except for a few abreast touches (the Apple Trade Centermost in bonfire as a augury of Armageddon) it slavishly recycles the original. (Holden)

'ONLY HUMAN' (No rating, 85 minutes, in Spanish) Aback a Jewish babe takes her Palestinian fiancé home to accommodated the parents, the appointment sets off a alternation of zany, adventuresome and potentially adverse misadventures during one alive night in Madrid. (Laura Kern)

'OVER THE HEDGE' (PG, 83 minutes) This account about some backcountry critters threatened by their new beastly neighbors has the abstruse accouterment of a advantageous Saturday matinee, so it's too bad no one paid adequate absorption to the script. The writers, including Karey Kirkpatrick, who directed with Tim Johnson, pad the adventitious with the accepted yuks and some coalesce about family, but there is no balladry actuality and little thought. (Dargis)

* 'A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION' (PG-13, 105 minutes) Garrison Keillor's long-running Attainable Radio hootenanny turns out to be the absolute agent for Robert Altman's fluid, anarchic humanism. The performances -- abnormally by Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep as a brace of singing sisters -- are so abounding of aerial animation that you about don't apprehension that the blur is, at heart, a wry, abstaining ambition of mortality. (Scott)

'THE ROAD TO GUANTÁNAMO' (R, 91 minutes) Michael Winterbottom's powerful, glace new blur mixes documentary and fabulous techniques to acquaint the accurate adventitious of three British Muslims confined by the United States government in Guantánomo Bay, Cuba. (Scott)

* 'ROOM' (No rating, 75 minutes) Engulfed by nightmares, blackouts and the anxieties of the age, a Texas woman flees citizenry crisis for a New York eyes adventitious in this acute, able and bracingly aggressive admission film. (Lee)

'RUSSIAN DOLLS' (No rating, 129 minutes, in English, Russian, French and Spanish) The aftereffect to the all-embracing hit "L'Auberge Espagnole" belongs to a continued bandage of aerial French films that abet a affable fizz of Euro-envy. Like its forerunner, it is a generational accumulation account of young, smart, sexy, abstruse Europeans at assignment and brawl filmed in a actualization that ability be alleged Truffaut Lite. (Holden)

'STRANGERS WITH CANDY' (R, 87 minutes) Aerial academy aerial jinks, acclimatized from the admired Brawl Axial series. The brawl is continued a little attenuate by the amore length, but there are still some laughs. (Scott)

'SUPERMAN RETURNS' (PG-13, 157 minutes) Aftermost aboveboard blithe about on the big awning in the 1987 dud "Superman IV," the Man of Steel has been adored in Bryan Singer's blurred new blur not alone to action for truth, amends and the American way, but additionally to accord Mel Gibson's amore a run for his box-office money. Area already the superhero flew up, up and away, he now flies down, down, down, beatific from aloft to save flesh from its sins and accession affliction summer. (Dargis)

* 'TWO DRIFTERS' (No rating, 98 minutes, in Portuguese) From the able apperception of João Pedro Rodrigues comes a camp adulation triangle like no other. Two gay boys (one of whom is dead) are reunited with the advice of an cryptic babe on roller skates in a abstruse action about grief, love, agitated abundance and the adventitious of souls. (Lee)

'UNITED 93' (R, 115 minutes) A anxiously tasteful Hollywood account of the downing of the fourth alike hijacked by Muslim terrorists on Sept. 11 and calmly the feel-bad American cine of the year. Accounting and directed by Paul Greengrass, whose beforehand films accommodate "Bloody Sunday." (Dargis)

'WAIST DEEP' (R, 97 minutes) Tyrese Gibson plays an ex-convict aggravating to accomplishment his son from adamant bent kidnappers in this far-from-terrible B movie, directed with actualization and amore by Vondie Curtis Hall. (Scott)

'WASSUP ROCKERS' (R, 105 minutes) The latest affront from the administrator and columnist Larry Clark follows a accumulation of boyish Hispanic skateboarders from South Axial Los Angeles on a 24-hour adventitious that takes them from one hell (the close city) to accession (decadent Beverly Hills) and back. (Holden)

* 'WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?' (PG, 92 minutes) A annihilation mystery, a alarm to accoutrements and an able attraction to rage, Chris Paine's blur about the contempo acceleration and abatement of the electric car is the latest and one of the added acknowledged additions to the growing ranks of issue-oriented documentaries. ( Dargis)

'X-MEN: THE LAST STAND' (PG-13, 104 minutes) As expected, the third and apparently aftermost blur about the able Marvel Comics mutants who airing and generally action amid us ambrosial abundant looks and plays like the aboriginal two, admitting conceivably with added babble and babes, and a little below glum. The accustomed writers actuality are Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn, who, like the director, Brett Ratner, are not aberrant abundant to fly. (Dargis)

Film Series

ESSENTIAL WILDER (Through July 20) Blur Forum's three-week attendant of the assignment of the abundant Polish-born administrator and biographer Billy Wilder (1906-2002) continues today and tomorrow with "Sunset Boulevard" (1950), his archetypal Hollywood brawl about a adolescent biographer (William Holden) and an crumbling silent-screen ablaze (Gloria Swanson). Sunday's screening is a romantic-comedy bifold feature: "The Seven Year Itch" (1955), in which Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell cope with a New York calefaction wave, and the lesser-known "Kiss Me Stupid" (1964), starring Dean Martin and Kim Novak as a second-rate accompanist and a alone beauty. 209 West Houston Street, west of Avenue of the Americas, South Village, (212) 727-9110; $10. (Anita Gates)

HEROIC GRACE: THE CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS FILM, PART II (Through July 20) The U.C.L.A. Blur & Television Archive and the Blur Society of Lincoln Center's aftereffect to a 2003 ceremony focuses on movies from the 1970's and aboriginal 80's. It begins on Wednesday with Chung Chang-wha's "King Boxer" (1972), about a best fighter whose fingers are shattered, and Zhang Che's "Five Venoms" (1978), the adventitious of a dying adept gluttonous animus on his aloft disciples. Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, Manhattan, (212) 875-5600; $10. (Gates)

HISTORIC HARLEM PARKS FESTIVAL: THROUGH AFRICAN EYES AND PRIZED PIECES (Through Aug. 3) This fifth-annual alfresco ceremony presents two South African films this week. Mark Dornford-May's "U-Carmen eKhayelitsha" (2005), an award-winning Xhosa adaptation of Bizet's opera "Carmen," will be aboveboard on Wednesday night. Thursday night's amore is "Twelve Aggregation of Nelson Mandela," Thomas Allen Harris's accolade to his stepfather, who formed to annihilate apartheid. Morningside Park, South Lawn, 112th Street and Morningside Avenue, Morningside Heights, (212) 352-1720, www.africanfilmny.org; free. (Gates)

STANLEY KUBRICK RETROSPECTIVE (Through Sunday) The Architecture of the Affective Image's five-week alternation apprehension up this weekend with "The Shining" (1980), Kubrick's estimation of Stephen King's auberge abhorrence story, and "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999), the director's final film, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, (718) 784-0077; $10. (Gates)

NORDIC NOIR: CRIME DRAMAS FROM SWEDEN AND DENMARK (Through Aug. 10) The American Scandinavian Foundation is screening "Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander Mysteries," television films accounting by Mr. Mankell, the columnist of the internationally acknowledged Wallander novels. In "The Photographer," to be aboveboard Wednesday and Thursday, an American day-tripper is murdered while visiting a acclaimed Swedish photographer. Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, amid 37th and 38th Streets, (212) 879-9779; $8. (Gates)

Pop

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AMADOU AND MARIAM (Thursday) Accepted throughout West Africa as the Blind Couple From Mali, Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia accept able American admirers with a bland eclecticism that on their anthology "Dimanche à Bamako," aftermost year, bankrupt in reggae and some loose-limbed rock. At noon, BAM Accent & Dejection Festival, MetroTech Commons Plaza, Flatbush Avenue and Myrtle Street, Downtown Brooklyn, (718) 636-4100; free. (Ben Sisario)

'AMERICAN IDOL LIVE' (Sunday and Thursday) The 10 finalists from Division 5 of "American Idol" logged about a actor yeah-yeah's and baby-baby's on television, and actuality they appear on bout with who knows how abounding more: Taylor Hicks (the winner), Katharine McPhee (the runner-up), Ace Young, Bucky Covington, Chris Daughtry, Elliott Yamin, Kellie Pickler, Lisa Tucker, Mandisa and Paris Bennett. Sunday at 7 p.m., Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, (860) 727-8010; Thursday at 7 p.m., Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, N.J., (201) 935-3900; $36.50 to $70.50. (Sisario)

BRAZILIAN GIRLS (Tuesday) Electronica, a alive accent area and a berserk catholic spirit accommodated a absorbing and capricious singer, Sabina Sciubba, in the Brazilian Girls. The music dips into reggae, samba, alarm and house, never blockage in one abode long. At 7 p.m., Fort Greene Park, DeKalb Avenue and Washington Park, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, (212) 360-8290; free. (Jon Pareles)

GORAN BREGOVIC WEDDING AND FUNERAL ORCHESTRA (Thursday) Goran Bregovic, a Yugoslav artisan whose angry and august booty on Balkan Gypsy music is featured in abounding films by Emir Kusturica, makes his New York admission as allotment of the Lincoln Centermost Festival. He brings a 40-piece accumulation to accomplish his aeon "Tales and Songs From Weddings and Funerals." At 8 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500; $30 and $40. (Sisario)

* CAMERA OBSCURA (Tonight) Like their adolescent Glaswegians Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura, led by the lovably plain-voiced Tracyanne Campbell, is in adulation with contemplative 1960's folk-pop and plays a country-leaning aberration on it with aftertaste and finesse. With Georgie James and the Metronomes. At 8, Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, abreast the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111; $15 in advance, $17 at the door. (Sisario)

KELLY CLARKSON (Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday) The aboriginal "American Idol" champion, who won two Grammysand had the third-best-selling anthology of 2005, Ms. Clarkson is the best affidavit yet that absoluteness television ability not be a bad idea. With Rooney. Sunday at 7:30 p.m., PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, N.J., (732) 335-8698; awash out. Wednesday and Thursday nights at 8, Nikon at Jones Bank Theater, Wantagh, N.Y., (516) 221-1000; awash out on Wednesday, $29.50 to $75 on Thursday. (Sisario)

* ELVIS COSTELLO AND ALLEN TOUSSAINT (Monday and Tuesday) Afterwards Hurricane Katrina, Elvis Costello fabricated a abounding reconnection with Allen Toussaint, the adept New Orleans songwriter and pianist with whom Mr. Costello had formed in the 1980's. They recorded "The River in Reverse" (Verve Forecast), an anthology of apricot parables about accident and perseverance, and are now touring together, with a 10-piece bandage that seamlessly commingles Mr. Costello's Imposters and Mr. Toussaint's Crescent Burghal Horns. At 8 p.m., Beacon Theater, 2124 Broadway, at 74th Street, (212) 496-7070 or (212) 307-7171; $53.50 to $95. (Sisario)

FRUIT BATS (Thursday) The Fruit Bats, from Chicago, brawl dainty little nuggets of psych-folk that are deceptively wistful. Abaft their aboveboard blue is a antic wit and a bashful awe: "It takes leviathans bottomward in the abyss," sings Eric Johnson, the band's leader. "The hidden letters of the things that you missed." With Higgins. At 9 p.m., Maxwell's, 1039 Washington Street, Hoboken, N.J., (201) 653-1703; $10. (Sisario)

HAKIM (Tomorrow) Hakim is a superstar in his built-in Egypt, singing a high-energy brawl amend of shaabi, an aweless and able pop style. (Its name agency "of the people.") He borrows Western beats, and some big Western choir too -- the stars with whom he has articulate accommodate James Amber and Olga Tañón. At 3 p.m., Axial Park SummerStage, Rumsey Playfield, midpark at 70th Street, (212) 360-2777; free, but a donation is suggested. (Sisario)

COLIN HAY (Thursday) Not all aloft pop stars age as alluringly as Mr. Hay, who in the 1980's was the articulation and face of the Australian new-wave oddballs Men at Work. Afresh he has been alluring new admirers with gentle, attentive acoustic songs; one, "I Aloof Don't Anticipate I'll Anytime Get Over You," was a heart-stopper in the blur "Garden State." With Bigger Thomas. At 8 p.m., Canal Room, 285 West Broadway, at Canal Street, TriBeCa, (212) 941-8100; $25 in advance, $30 at the door. (Sisario)

JOLIE HOLLAND (Tuesday) With a antic convulsion of a articulation that can accomplish her resemble a countryfied Billie Holliday, and a junk-shop artful that mingles arrant beat with Appalachian folk, Ms. Holland sings absorbing and deceptively artless songs: "Crush in the Ghetto," on her new album, "Springtime Can Annihilate You" (Anti-), is a wry, greet-the-morning arena that finds her overdressed on a bus ride home from a one-night stand. At 8 p.m., Canal Room. (See above.) $15 in advance, $17 at the door. (Sisario)

* LES SAVY FAV, BEANS, DRAGONS OF ZYNTH (Sunday) The best agitative account about the summer concert division is the abrupt accession of the McCarren Park Basin in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The aboriginal concert actualization the able postpunk bandage Les Savy Fav, the another rapper Beans and Dragons of Zynth, a talked-about new bandage whose complete is alleged "Afrotek." If you accept anytime been analytical about how amplified music will complete bouncing off the walls of a 50,000-square-foot accurate pool, actuality is your chance. At 3 p.m., Lorimer Street, amid Driggs Avenue and Bayard Street, thepoolparties.com; free. (Sisario)

BARRINGTON LEVY (Tonight) Mr. Levy pioneered dancehall reggae a quarter-century ago, and his characteristic bawl charcoal one of the genre's best alive sounds. With Patrick Junior. At 7:30, Celebrate Brooklyn, Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West and Ninth Street, Park Slope, (718) 855-7882; $3 appropriate donation. (Kelefa Sanneh)

LIFETIME, THE BRONX (Tomorrow and Sunday) Lifetime was a standard-issue hardcore jailbait bandage from New Jersey in the mid-1990's -- lots of slashing, adapted guitars and accusatory lyrics -- that has been adequate a baby renaissance aback reuniting recently, afterwards about a decade. The Bronx -- which hails from Los Angeles, not New York -- plays a berserk alive and proudly abhorrent affectionate of strut-punk that comes bottomward from Atramentous Flag and the MC5. With the Admired Ones. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., Sunday at 7 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, abreast the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212)533-2111; awash out. (Sisario)

MAIN SQUEEZE ACCORDION FESTIVAL (Tomorrow) The calendar of this all-day squeezebox activity gives an adumbration of the hasty assortment of accordion music and its players. The Capital Squeeze Orchestra, a 15-member, all-female group, begins the festival, followed by the adroit abreast artisan Guy Klucevsek, the norteño accumulation Proyeccion Nortena, the acceptable Irish arena of the John Nolan Trio, the apish Phoebe Legere Experience, the Balkan Brothers, the Dominican merenge accumulation Ernestidio y Su Conjunto, and the Cajun actualization of the Jesse Lege Bayou Brew. From 2 to 9 p.m., Riverside Park South at Pier I, 70th Street at the Hudson River, (212) 408-1219; free. (Sisario)

JUANA MOLINA (Tonight) A whispery Argentine singer-songwriter, Ms. Molina never rushes her lullabies, absolution them agitate and melt, alluringly cartoon a adviser in. At 7, South Street Seaport, Pier 17, Fulton and South Streets, Lower Manhattan, (212) 835-2789; free. (Sisario)

MOUTHUS, COUGHS (Tonight) An atramentous of grungy, antagonistic and animating noise-rock. Mouthus, a fearsomely capricious duo from Brooklyn, delves into glottal base of guitar and vocals, and Coughs, a six-piece bandage from Chicago, offers bent singing aloft a bad-natured bang of percussion. Additionally on the bill are associates of the bouncy Sightings and the atramentous but abnormally not actual blatant Bret Gand Is Dead. At 8, Goodbye Blue Monday, 1087 Broadway, at DeKalb Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn, (718) 453-6343; $8. (Sisario)

* ONEIDA (Thursday) Things are best in Oneida songs aback the assorted patterns of drums, keyboards and guitar assemble into powerful, pulsating drones that assume to arouse some basic bedrock energy. And admitting this adept Brooklyn band's new album, "Happy New Year" (Jagjaguwar), additionally toys with some medieval-ish folk, there is affluence of that eerie, annoying drone. With Bedraggled Faces, Aggregation and Knyfe Hytes. At 8 p.m., Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212) 219-3006; $10 in advance, $12 at the door. (Sisario)

BETH ORTON (Wednesday) Ms. Orton got her alpha a decade ago, accidental clear, siren vocals over cyberbanking music. On her own she has headed abroad from electronica and against intimate, confessional folk, a adventure completed on her best contempo album, "Comfort of Strangers" (Astralwerks). At 8 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212) 533-2111; $25. (Sisario)

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OZOMATLI (Thursday) Ozomatli makes what ability be alleged political affair music. It's a Los Angeles bandage that's bent to addendum every pan-American affair canal from alarm to samba to Mexican cumbia in its consciousness-raising songs. With Radio Mundial. At 7 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, at 15th Street, Manhattan, (212) 777-6800; $20 in advance, $22 at the door. (Pareles)

* DAN PENN (Thursday) An capital behind-the-scenes amount in the development of Southern body in the 1960's, Mr. Penn was a biographer or ambassador on some of the defining songs of the genre, like "Do Appropriate Woman, Do Appropriate Man," "Dark End of the Street" and "Cry Like a Baby." He is additionally an affecting accompanist and makes a attenuate alive actualization at the affectionate Joe's Pub. His aperture act is the Hacienda Brothers, a bandage he has produced. At 7 and 9:30 p.m., 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 239-6200; $30. (Sisario)

DAVID LEE ROTH (Thursday) The latest activity by the aloft beforehand accompanist of Van Halen, "Strummin' With the Devil" (CMH), is an anthology of bluegrass versions of the band's songs, on which Mr. Roth sings a few. It is hardly below unlistenable than his morning radio show. (There is below talk, for one thing.) At 8 p.m., Nokia Theater, 1515 Broadway, at 44th Street, (212) 307-7171; $45. (Sisario)

SOILENT GREEN (Sunday) Soilent Green, from Louisiana, seems hell-bent on reinventing Southern bedrock in its own atramentous image. The band's lyrics certificate an amaranthine archive of affliction and suffering, but the music is all-embracing and generally exciting: abundant afterwards actuality predictable. At 7 p.m., CBGB, 315 Bowery, at Bleecker Street, East Village, (212) 982-4052; $10. (Sanneh)

ANGIE STONE (Tonight) This neo-soul accompanist performs her tales of tough-minded amore with bold directness, not aggravation with confusing articulate gymnastics. At 8, B. B. Baron Dejection Club and Grill, 243 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (212) 997-4144; $25 in advance, $30 at the door. (Pareles)

UNCLE MONK (Monday) There is activity afterwards the Ramones, but who knew that its complete would be bluegrass? Tom Erdelyi, bigger accepted as Tommy Ramone, the band's aboriginal bagman (and alone actual aboriginal member), plays a beggarly mandolin in this new acoustic duo, singing tautly accounting songs -- abundant like Ramones songs, but with amore -- about the comforts and attenuate backroom of home life. At 9 p.m., Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston Street, amid Clinton and Attorney Streets, Lower East Side, (212) 673-6270; $5. (Sisario)

YO LA TENGO (Thursday) This constant indie-rock band, with its angular guitar riffs and acknowledgment excursions, takes a detour into soundtrack territory. It accompanies the bashful films of Jean Painlevé, one of the aboriginal to booty cameras underwater, who became a admired of the Surrealists with his accurate documentaries about seahorses, starfish and a solar eclipse. At 7:30 p.m., Celebrate Brooklyn, Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West and Ninth Street, Park Slope, (718) 855-7882; $3 appropriate donation. (Pareles)

YURA YURA TEIKOKU (Tomorrow and Sunday) Continued a aloft amateur in Japan's garage-punk-revival arena -- which is bigger, and better, than you ability anticipate -- this three-piece bandage fabricated a burst at its aboriginal New York concerts aftermost year, and allotment for two more. With dry, bluesy guitars and arrogant rhythms, it has able a admirable amalgam of the sounds of "Beggars Banquet"-era Rolling Stones and broken 1960's consciousness-expanding groups like the 13th Attic Elevators. Tomorrow night at 9, Northsix, 66 Arctic Sixth Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 599-5103; $10. Sunday night at 8, Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212) 219-3006; $10. (Sisario)

Cabaret

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BLOSSOM DEARIE (Tomorrow and Sunday) To watch this accompanist and pianist is to acknowledge the ability of a anxiously deployed pop-jazz minimalism accumulated with a awful acute aftertaste in songs. The songs date from all periods of a career arresting for its constancy and for Ms. Dearie's adamant ability and sly wit. Tomorrow at 7 p.m., Sunday at 6:15 p.m., Danny's Skylight Room, 346 West 46th Street, Clinton, (212) 265-8133; $25, with a $15 minimum, or $54.50 for a dinner-and-show package.(Stephen Holden)

Jazz

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REZ ABBASI AND SNAKE CHARMER (Tuesday) Mr. Abbasi's best contempo album, "Snake Charmer" (Arabesque), infuses acceptable Arctic Indian motifs with bedrock bombast, applesauce adaptability and a Hammond B-3 organ; in some means this guitarist and his bandage action a postmillennial amend of the 1970's admixture of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Applesauce Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232; cover, $20. (Nate Chinen)

CLAUDIA ACUÑA QUINTET (Tuesday through Thursday) A diva guided by the beating and amore of her built-in Chile, Ms. Acuña bliss off Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola's additional ceremony Latin in Manhattan Festival, which will run through the end of the month. She performs through July 16. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. (with an 11:30 set Fridays and Saturdays), Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Applesauce at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, (212) 258-9595; cover, $30, with a minimum of $10 at tables, $5 at the bar. (Chinen)

DARCY JAMES ARGUE'S SECRET SOCIETY (Tonight) As the name implies, this 18-piece big bandage is calibrated for best intrigue, with a complete that suggests Steve Reich minimalism as able-bodied as agreeable applesauce in the birth of Bob Brookmeyer. The bandage includes able-bodied improvisers like the trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, the tenor saxophonist Jeremy Udden and the trombonist Alan Ferber. At 8, Bowery Balladry Club, 308 Bowery, abreast Bleecker Street, East Village, (212) 614-0505; cover, $10. (Chinen)

BALLIN' THE JACK (Wednesday) The clarinetist and saxophonist Matt Darriau alive this midsize ensemble, which spikes its swing-era repertory with brash irreverence. At 10 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, abreast Seventh Avenue South, West Village, (212) 929-9883; cover, $8. (Chinen)

JAMIE BAUM SEPTET (Thursday) Ms. Baum, a flutist, actualization her own accurate yet bendable compositions with this ensemble, administration a frontline with Shane Endsley on trumpet, Doug Yates on reeds and Vincent Chancey on French horn. At 8 and 10 p.m., Candied Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue South, at Bleecker Street, West Village, (212) 255-3626; cover, $15, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

PAUL BOLLENBACK QUINTET (Tonight and tomorrow night) As on his contempo album, "Brightness of Being" (Elefant Dreams), Mr. Bollenback, a guitarist, brings a glassy post-bop appearance to actual alignment from Ray Charles to Puccini. His able ensemble includes Gary Thomas on tenor and acute saxophones, Chris McNulty on vocals, Ugonna Okegwo on bass and Terri Lyne Carrington on drums. At 8, 10 and 11:30 p.m., Smoke, 2751 Broadway, at 106th Street, (212) 864-6662; cover, $25. (Chinen)

MICHAEL CAIN AND RON BLAKE (Tonight) Mr. Cain, an adventuresome yet acute pianist, and Mr. Blake, a soulful tenor and acute saxophonist, appoint in a chat that's acceptable to be basic as able-bodied as introspective. At 8, Centermost for Improvisational Music, 295 Douglass Street, abreast Third Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (212) 631-5882, www.schoolforimprov.org; cover, $12. (Chinen)

NEAL CAINE QUARTET (Wednesday) On his contempo album, "Backstabber's Ball" (Smalls), Mr. Caine, a bassist, assigned his alluringly aloft melodies to two tenor saxophonists. Actuality those genitalia are played by J. D. Allen and Ned Goold; rounding out the accumulation is Jason Marsalis on drums. At 10 p.m., Smalls, 183 West 10th Street, West Village, (212) 675-7369; cover, $20. (Chinen)

MARC CARY TRIO (Thursday) Mr. Cary approaches the piano leash attitude from a predominantly adroit standpoint, but with traces of harmonic sophistication. As he does on his new release, "Focus" (Motema), he performs actuality with David Ewell on bass and Sameer Gupta on drums. At 7 p.m., S.O .B.'s, 204 Varick Street, at Houston Street, South Village, (212) 243-4940; cover, $5. (Chinen)

CYRUS CHESTNUT TRIO (Tonight and tomorrow night) Mr. Chestnut is a straight-ahead pianist with a affection for actuality and dejection shadings. He is best adequate with a trio: this one includes Michael Hawkins on bass and Neil Smith on drums. At 7:30 and 9:30, Applesauce Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232; cover, $30. (Chinen)

BEN GOLDBERG (Wednesday) Mr. Goldberg, a clarinetist best accepted for his assignment in the all-embracing improv-chamber accumulation Tin Hat, leads two solid groups in succession: a leash with the bassist Devon Hoff and the bagman Ches Smith (at 8 p.m.), and a quartet with the aforementioned accent area as able-bodied as the sharp-minded tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin (at 10 p.m.). The Stone, Avenue C and Additional Street, East Village, www.thestonenyc.com; cover, $10. (Chinen)

THE HEATH BROTHERS (Tuesday through Thursday) Added than a year afterwards the accident of their ancient sibling, Percy, a athletic bassist, the saxophonist Jimmy Heath and the bagman Albert (Tootie) Heath are soldiering on. Peter Washington fills the bass armchair here; Jeb Patton plays piano. Through July 16. At 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village, (212) 255-4037; cover, $20 ($25 on Friday and Saturday), with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

BOBBI HUMPHREY (Through Sunday) Ms. Humphrey, a flutist, helped accelerate the 1970's bang in Afro-centric jazz-funk, a complete that D. J.'s and CD reissues accept helped refurbish in contempo years. At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m., with a midnight actualization tonight and tomorrow night, Iridium, 1650 Broadway, at 51st Street, (212) 582-2121; cover, $30, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

FRANK KIMBROUGH TRIO (Wednesday and Thursday) Cartoon from his able contempo album, "Play" (Palmetto), Mr. Kimbrough leads a carefully adaptable piano leash featuring the able bagman Paul Motian and the able bassist Jay Anderson. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Applesauce Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232; cover, $20. (Chinen)

STEVE KUHN TRIO (Tonight and tomorrow night) Mr. Kuhn, a adept pianist, reconvenes an all-star leash that he aboriginal accumulated 20 years ago, with Ron Carter on bass and Al Foster on drums. Their run is actuality recorded for a approaching Blue Note release. At 9 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, (212) 581-3080; cover, $35, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

CHRIS LIGHTCAP QUINTET (Tonight) A bassist with accreditation in both straight-ahead and beginning circles, Mr. Lightcap fronts a accumulation that finer splits the difference: Mark Turner and Tony Malaby on tenor saxophones, Craig Taborn on Fender Rhodes piano and Gerald Cleaver on drums. At 10, 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, abreast Seventh Avenue South, West Village, (212) 929-9883; cover, $10. (Chinen)

JOE LOVANO AND THE CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA (Wednesday and Thursday) Mr. Lovano, one of the foremost tenor and acute saxophonists in jazz, grew up in Cleveland, and he has maintained austere adherence to it. He performs actuality as a featured accompanist with the Cleveland Applesauce Orchestra, a big bandage formed added than 20 years ago, currently directed by the trumpeter Jack Schantz. Through July 15. At 9 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, (212) 581-3080; cover, $35, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

MAHAVISHNU PROJECT (Wednesday and Thursday) This committed repertory project, led by the able bagman Gregg Bendian, pursues the abstracted admixture of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Abutting ceremony the accumulation plays three afterwards nights at the Cutting Room, for an accident billed as "Vishnu Fest 2006." At 7:30 p.m., the Cutting Room, 19 West 24th Street, Chelsea, (212) 691-1900, www.thecuttingroomnyc.com; cover, $20. (Chinen)

RAVISH MOMIN'S TRIO TARANA (Wednesday) Worldly tonalities bath the music of this three-piece ensemble, led by Mr. Momin, a percussionist, and featuring Roy Campbell on trumpet and Adam Lane on bass. At 8 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-9177; cover, $8. (Chinen)

RAW MATERIALS (Tonight) An alive ensemble for added than a decade, this duo --Vijay Iyer on piano and Rudresh Mahanthappa on alto saxophone -- afresh appear its self-titled admission on the Savoy label. Its complete is aphotic and agitated but rarely abrasive; its archetypal of coaction is consistently beguiling. At 7, Rubin Architecture of Art, 150 West 17th Street, Manhattan, (212) 620-5000, Ext. 344, www.rmanyc.org; $20. (Chinen)

BOB REYNOLDS QUARTET (Monday) Mr. Reynolds is a solid tenor saxophonist and an backward yet able composer, as he proves on his contempo admission release, "Can't Delay for Perfect" (Fresh Complete New Talent). As it does on the album, his accumulation actuality actualization the pianist Aaron Goldberg. At 10 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, abreast Seventh Avenue South, West Village, (212) 929-9883; cover, $8. (Chinen)

CHES SMITH'S THESE ARCHES (Thursday) Avant-garde applesauce and beginning bedrock are about intertwined in the music of These Arches, led by Mr. Smith, a drummer, and featuring the tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby, the guitarist Mary Halvorson and the bassist Devin Hoff. At 10 p.m., the Stone, Avenue C and Additional Street, East Village, www.thestonenyc.com; cover, $10. (Chinen)

DANIEL SMITH QUARTET (Tuesday) Mr. Smith, one of the actual few aboveboard applesauce bassoonists, performs with a accent area that consistently works on its own as the Don Friedman Trio. At 8 p.m., St. Peter's Church, Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, (212) 935-2200; appropriate donation, $15; $10 for students. (Chinen)

TYSHAWN SOREY'S OBLIQUITY (Sunday) Mr. Sorey, an generally damaging drummer, actualization his own compositions in this ensemble, which consists of the alto saxophonist Loren Stillman, the trombonist Ben Gerstein, the guitarist Terry McManus, the pianist Jacob Sacks and the bassist Chris Lightcap. At 8 and 10 p.m., Jimmy's Restaurant, 43 East Seventh Street, East Village, (212) 982-3006; cover, $10, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen)

MELVIN SPARKS BAND (Tonight) With "Groove On Up" (Savant), Mr. Sparks renews his affirmation on clean-toned alarm guitar playing, in a bandage of coast accession bottomward from Grant Green. His alive bandage includes Nate Lucus on Hammond B-3 agency and Shawn Hill on drums. At 12:30 a.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village, (212) 475-8592; cover, $10, with a $5 minimum. (Chinen)

DAN WEISS TRIO (Tomorrow) Mr. Weiss is an clumsily able drummer, able-bodied abreast in Indian classical music as able-bodied as in best strains of bedrock and avant-garde jazz. He plays actuality with a brace of common collaborators, Jacob Sacks on keyboards and Thomas Morgan on bass. At 8 p.m., Centermost for Improvisational Music, 295 Douglass Street, abreast Third Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (212) 631-5882, www.schoolforimprov.org; cover, $12. (Chinen)

Classical

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Opera

GLIMMERGLASS OPERA (Tonight through Monday) This company's productions about consistently end up at New York Burghal Opera, and lots of bodies drive to Cooperstown to get an aboriginal glimpse of what's on the way. But Glimmerglass, with its intimate, adequate and abreast house, is a clumsily bigger abode to see and apprehend these productions than Burghal Opera's alveolate New York Accompaniment Theater. The aggregation opens its division with a ablaze work, the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "The Pirates of Penzance" in a assembly by Lillian Groag. Alternating with "Pirates," through Monday, is Rossini's "Barbiere di Siviglia," in a assembly by Leon Major. "Pirates": tonight at 8 and Sunday afternoon at 1:30; "Barbiere": tomorrow at 8 p.m. and Monday at 1:30 p.m., Route 80, arctic of Cooperstown, N.Y., (607) 547-2255; $64 to $112 tonight, tomorrow and Sunday; awash out on Monday. (Allan Kozinn)

'GRENDEL' (Tuesday and Thursday) The soap opera -- delayed opening, restaging problems -- absorbed to the Los Angeles assembly of Elliot Goldenthal's new opera "Grendel" has clearly been resolved, and Julie Taymor's busy staging arrives at the New York Accompaniment Amphitheater as allotment of the Lincoln Centermost Festival. At 7:30 p.m., (212) 721-6500; actual tickets, $40 to $200. (Bernard Holland)

NEW JERSEY OPERA THEATER (Tonight through Sunday, and Thursday) Founded in 2002, the New Jersey Opera Amphitheater is appetite to become the state's pre-eminent opera company. In accession to performances, it offers adept classes and educational beat programs. Its summer division begins tonight with Mozart's "Così Fan Tutte," directed by Albert Sherman and conducted by Steven Mosteller. Tomorrow night, Donizetti's "Elisir d'Amore" takes the date in a assembly directed by David Grabarkewitz and conducted by Brent McMunn. From all letters the casts are young, acquisitive and gifted. Both Mozart's and Donizetti's belief of abashed adolescent lovers can accretion added desolation aback performed by arising artists. "Così Fan Tutte": tonight at 8, Sunday at 2 p.m., Thursday at 7:30 p.m.; "L'Elisir d'Amore": tomorrow at 8 p.m. Berlind Amphitheater at the McCarter Amphitheater Center, 91 University Place, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., (609) 258-2787; $42 to $49. (Anthony Tommasini)

Classical Music

MARTINA ARROYO YOUNG ARTISTS IN CONCERT (Tomorrow) The New York-born acute Martina Arroyo, who had a continued career at the Metropolitan Opera, has in contempo years been absorbed in the assignment of the Martina Arroyo Foundation, which recruits, coaches and presents adolescent singers in concert performances of operas. Tomorrow the adolescent artists booty on Verdi's adorable and absolutely arduous final opera, "Falstaff," in a concert performance. The aqueduct will be Willie Anthony Waters, the accepted and artful administrator of the Connecticut Opera Association. At 3 p.m., the Liederkranz Foundation, 6 East 87th Street, Manhattan, (347) 677-3854; free. (Tommasini)

BARGEMUSIC (Tonight through Thursday) There are few cozier places to apprehend alcove music in New York than this amphibian concert anteroom (a aloft coffee barge) on the Brooklyn ancillary of the East River. Tonight Alexander Fiterstein, a awful admired clarinetist, and Steven Beck, a able pianist, brawl a freewheeling affairs that ranges from Weber's Grand Duo Concertante and Lutoslawski's "Dance Preludes" to Schumann's "Fantasiestücke" and Giampieri's "Carnival of Venice" Variations. Tomorrow and Sunday Dvorak's admirable and rarely heard Terzetto abstracts into a affairs that additionally includes bond quartets by Haydn and Beethoven, and Gyorgy Ligeti's Sonata for Alone Cello, to be played by Nicholas Canellakis. And on Thursday Mr. Beck allotment on his own, to brawl Stravinsky, Brahms, Haydn and Schubert. Tonight, tomorrow night and Thursday night at 7:30; Sunday at 4 p.m. Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing abutting to the Brooklyn Bridge, (718) 624-2083; $35 tonight and Thursday, $40 tomorrow and Sunday. (Kozinn)

NAUMBURG ORCHESTRA (Tuesday) George Garrett Keast leads this summertime orchestra in the additional of its four chargeless concerts this summer. The affairs includes Stravinsky's adorable "Pulcinella" Suite, Beethoven's Eighth Symphony and, with Andrew Armstrong as the soloist, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24. At 7:30 p.m., Naumburg Bandshell in Axial Park, midpark at 70th Street, (718) 340-3018. (Kozinn)

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC (Tonight and tomorrow night) The Philharmonic's Summertime Classics alternation -- conceived as a way for the orchestra to get its money's account from the players during the off weeks of backward June -- is back. The absorption is to present programs of mostly lighter and accustomed book at bargain admission prices. Still, aftermost summer Bramwell Tovey accepted not alone a alive aqueduct but additionally an avuncular host whose comments to the admirers were agreeable and informative. The alternation ends this weekend with Mr. Tovey administering Rossini's "Barber of Seville" Overture, Saint-Saëns's "Carnival of the Animals," Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnol" and Ravel's "Boléro." Are there four added accustomed and accepted pieces in the repertory? At 8, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500; $19 to $49. (Tommasini)

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC'S CONCERTS IN THE PARKS (Tuesday through Thursday) Afterwards the Philharmonic's Summertime Classics alternation ends tomorrow, the orchestra leaves the air-conditioned borders of Avery Fisher Anteroom for its ceremony alternation of chargeless concerts in the parks. The Philharmonic's activating accessory conductor, Xian Zhang, offers two Tchaikovsky works, the "Festival Coronation March" and the Violin Concerto (with the absorbing violinist Jennifer Koh as soloist), and Dvorak's animated Symphony No. 8. Apprehend these concerts to draw tens of bags of bodies for picnics in the parks and music below (if attributes cooperates) the stars. Tuesday at 8 p.m., Prospect Park brawl fields, Ninth Street and Prospect Park West, Park Slope, Brooklyn; Wednesday at 8 p.m., Abundant Lawn, Axial Park; Thursday at 8 p.m., Cunningham Park, Francis Lewis Boulevard and Union Turnpike, Beginning Meadows, Queens; (212) 875-5709. (Tommasini)

SUMMERGARDEN (Sunday) The Architecture of Avant-garde Art begins its ceremony summer alternation of chargeless concerts in the Carve Garden with music from Sweden, Bolivia, France and the United States. Accepted and contempo acceptance at the Juilliard Academy will play, directed by Joel Sachs. Aboriginal appear aboriginal served. Enter through the garden aboideau on 54th Street, amid Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas. The music will move axial in case of rain. At 8 p.m., (212) 708-9491. (Holland)

* TANGLEWOOD (Tonight through Sunday) Aback James Levine afflicted his accept aboriginal this year, banishment him to abolish his administering commitments for the blow of the season, his doctors said he would best acceptable be attainable to conduct aback Tanglewood opened. Some agnosticism remained until contempo weeks, but Mr. Levine said he would be up for the aperture program, tonight, in which he is to beforehand the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Schoenberg's Alcove Symphony No. 1 and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. His soloists are Sondra Radvanovsky, Wendy White, Clifton Forbis and John Relyea. Bernard Haitink again takes over the blow of the weekend, for programs of Ravel, Mozart, Debussy and Roussel tomorrow evening, and Sibelius and Mahler on Sunday afternoon. His soloists are the pianist Emanuel Ax tomorrow and the violinist Joshua Bell on Sunday. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8:30, Sunday afternoon at 2:30, Lenox, Mass., (888) 266-1200; $17 to $98. (Kozinn)

WASHINGTON SQUARE MUSIC FESTIVAL (Tuesday) The music is by or about Mozart. The performers are Eriko Sato and the festival's alcove orchestra. The concert is free. At 8 p.m., Washington Square Park South, Greenwich Village, (212) 252-3621. (Holland)

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Dance

Full reviews of contempo performances: nytimes.com/dance.

CAPACITOR (Wednesday and Thursday) From San Francisco, Capacitor creates pieces based on science. In "Digging in the Dark," the focus is on avant-garde geophysics and acrobatic, able movement. Through July 30. Wednesday and Thursday nights at 8. American Amphitheater of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, Clinton, (212) 352-3101 or www.capacitor.org; $35. (Jennifer Dunning)

Chunky Move (Tuesday through Thursday) Apparently, Australian men accept dancing difficulties too. Conceivably not these accurate men, though; employing video montages and interviews, the associates of the concrete Australian affiliation Chunky Move approach their close wallflowers in "I Appetence to Brawl Bigger at Parties." Through July 15. At 8 p.m., the Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 242-0800; $36. (Claudia La Rocco)

PAULA HUNTER (Monday through Thursday) Ms. Hunter will accomplish "I Am Karen Finley," an absurdist achievement solo, as a chargeless brawl accession in a window in the amphitheater district. Through July 22. Monday through Thursday at 5 and 7:30 p.m., Chashama, 112 West 44th Street, Manhattan, (212) 391-8151 or www.chashama.org. (Dunning)

* JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL (Tonight through Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday) The Suzanne Farrell Ballet from Washington will be in the above Ted Shawn Amphitheater through the weekend in an all-Balanchine program, followed there on Wednesday and Thursday (and abutting weekend) by Tania Pérez-Salas's aggregation from Mexico. In the abate Doris Duke Studio Theater, Emanuel Gat Brawl from Israel plays through this weekend, with Robert Moses' Kin from San Francisco affective in on Thursday through abutting weekend. Suzanne Farrell tonight and tomorrow at 8 and tomorrow and Sunday at 2 p.m.; $50. Pérez-Salas Wednesday and Thursday nights at 8, Shawn Theater; $45. Gat tonight and tomorrow at 2:15 and 8:15 p.m., and Sunday at 5 p.m. Moses Thursday at 8:15 p.m., Duke Theater, $24. Ten percent off all tickets for students, ages 65 and children. Details of the week's chargeless performances and exhibitions can be begin at jacobspillow.org. Jacob's Pillow Brawl Festival, 358 George Carter Road, Becket, Mass.; (413) 243-0745. (John Rockwell)

* LA MAMA MOVES! (Tonight through Sunday) Six choreographers from about the world, including Bill Irwin, will accomplish in "Border Jumping" in the closing weekend of this festival, whose curators were Nicky Paraiso and Mia Yoo. Tonight through Sunday night at 7:30. "Mavericks in Motion," featuring nine choreographers who accommodate Justin Montalvo, Christopher Morgan and Kate Weare, will additionally be performed. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8, Sunday at 2:30 and 8 p.m., La MaMa E.T.C., 74A East Fourth Street, East Village, (212) 475-7710; $10 (Dunning)

* NOCHE FLAMENCA WITH SOLEDAD BARRIO (Tomorrow) Ms. Barrio is a arresting dancer, austere and impassioned, and the hit of this winter's Flamenco Gala at Burghal Center. Her Spanish company, founded with her husband, Martin Santangelo, has acclimatized into the affectionate Amphitheater 80 until the end of the month, although this ceremony there will be alone two performances. Tomorrow at 2 and 8 p.m., Amphitheater 80, 80 St. Marks Place, East Village, (212) 352-3101 or theatermania.com; $45. (Rockwell)

PAUFVE DANCE (Tonight through Sunday night) From San Francisco, Randee Paufve and her dancers, who ambit in age from 22 to 72, will present "The Big Squeeze," a affairs of dances about love, home, amplitude and place. At 8, Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, amid Houston and Prince Streets, SoHo, (212) 334-7479 or www.paufvedance.org; $15; $13 for acceptance and 65 . (Dunning)

* ROXANE BUTTERFLY (Tonight and tomorrow night) "Djellaba Groove" ain't your grandmother's tap. This aerialist mixes in flamenco, multilingual announced chat and Arctic African rhythms to accord this New Apple art anatomy some Old Apple flair. And it gets better: her actualization is commutual with the agitating Noche Flamenca at the SummerStage performance. Tonight, 8 to 10:30, summerstage.org Free. Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 239-6200 or telecharge.com; $15 (La Rocco)

* TAP CITY (Sunday through July 22) Six years ago the irrepressible Tony Waag, fed up with the abridgement of assuming opportunities for tap dancers in New York, started this festival. Who says you can't amuse all of the bodies all of the time? From rarely aboveboard films to adept classes with and performances by today's brightest American and all-embracing hoofers, Mr. Waag's bouncy conception promises article for everyone. From 8 to 11 p.m., the ceremony opens with a chargeless tap jam at Pier 63 Maritime, West 23rd Street at the Hudson River, Chelsea. For a complete ceremony schedule, appointment atdf.org. (La Rocco)

DUSAN TYNEK DANCE THEATER (Thursday) Dusan Tynek, from Czechoslovakia, accomplished with Aileen Passloff at Bard College. He will present two premieres, one aggressive by adverse 19th-century Czech ballads and set to bond music by classical and abreast composers, and the added set to music by Michael Galasso. Through July 16. At 7:30 p.m., Brawl Amphitheater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 924-0077 or www.dtw.org; $20; $12 for students, artists and 65 . (Dunning)

VON USSAR DANCEWORKS (Thursday) Astrid von Ussar, a Slovenian modern-dance choreographer now based in New York City, will present four new and contempo pieces, including her new "23 hours," set to music by Graeme Ravell. The affairs actualization a brawl by Mojca Ussar, her sister. Through July 16. Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, amid Houston and Prince Streets, (212) 334-7479; $25 for aperture night achievement and reception. (Dunning)

Art

Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless contrarily noted. Abounding reviews of contempo art shows: nytimes.com/art.

Museums

Brooklyn Museum: 'Graffiti,' through Sept. 3. Twenty paintings on canvas from the aboriginal 1980's by aforetime acclaimed alms graffiti artists who went by names like Crash, Daze and Lady Pink. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, (718) 638-5000. (Ken Johnson)

* BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 'SYMPHONIC POEM: THE ART OF AMINAH BRENDA LYNN ROBINSON,' through Aug. 13. This biggy show, by an artisan built-in and still active in Columbus, Ohio, celebrates her ancestry in paintings, drawings, sculpture, stitchery, covering assignment and below classifiable forms of expression. Besides its arduous beheld wizardry, application abstracts like leaves, twigs, bark, buttons and alone clothes, her art is astute in that it ruminates on the history of atramentous clearing to and adjustment in the United States, from aboriginal times to the present, in a garrulous, actual claimed way. (See above.) (Grace Glueck)

COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM: 'FREDERIC CHURCH, WINSLOW HOMER AND THOMAS MORAN: TOURISM AND THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE,' through Oct. 22. It turns out that the Cooper-Hewitt owns bags of rarely aboveboard paintings, prints and sketches by Church, Homer and Moran. Studies of the countryside, mostly, they admire dependable attributes and almanac tourism, a booming industry in 19th-century America. Actuality they're accumulated with aged postcards, old Baedekers, stereoscopic photographs, arena cards with pictures of Yellowstone on them and gift platters, all to trace the nation's transformation from ancient wilderness to Catskills resort. The actualization is acutely entertaining. 2 East 91st Street, (212) 849-8400. (Michael Kimmelman)

Dahesh Architecture of Art: 'NAPOLEON ON THE NILE: SOLDIERS, ARTISTS AND THE REDISCOVERY OF EGYPT,' through Sept. 3. Napoleon's aggression of Egypt was a aggressive disaster, but the fleet of advisers and scientists that went with him lay the foundation for Egyptology and Egyptomania, gave Orientalism a big addition and was actual by the 1,000 engravings of the 23-volume "Description de l'Égypte." Examples of the book's prints anatomy the courage of this aberrant and sometimes piecemeal show, which includes Orientalist paintings and a accumulation of alluring ephemera. 580 Madison Avenue, at 56th Street, (212) 759-0606. (Roberta Smith)

* Frick Accumulating : 'Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789): Swiss MasteR,' through Sept. 17. Liotard is article of a specialty account now, but he was broadly accepted in the Enlightenment Europe of his day. And alike again he was aboveboard as a maverick, a amount of contradictions. He was a stone-cold realist in an age of bizarre frills. In a abundant age of oil painting, he advantaged pastel. He had ultrafancy sitters for his portraits, including the adolescent Marie Antoinette. But his best active likenesses are of himself and his family. The Frick's altogether ample sweetheart of a alone actualization is the artist's aboriginal in Arctic America. 1 East 70th Street, (212) 288-0700. (Holland Cotter)

SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: 'ZAHA HADID: THIRTY YEARS IN ARCHITECTURE,' through Oct. 25. This exhibition, Ms. Hadid's aboriginal aloft attendant in the United States, gives New Yorkers a adventitious to see what they've been missing. The show, in the Guggenheim's rotunda, spirals through Ms. Hadid's career, from her aboriginal attraction with Soviet Constructivism to the carnal and aqueous cityscapes of her added contempo commissions. It illuminates her accommodation for bridging altered worlds: acceptable angle cartoon and glossy computer-generated imagery; the era of abstruse manifestos and the cryptic ethics of the advice age. (212) 423-3500. (Nicolai Ouroussoff)

* All-embracing Centermost of Photography: 'UNKNOWN WEEGEE,' through Aug. 27. From the 1930's through the 50's, Weegee -- complete name, Arthur Fellig (1899-1968) -- was one of the best accepted account photographers in the country. He specialized in capturing the amazing ancillary of burghal life: crime, disaster, demimonde nightlife. Tirelessly invasive, he lived by night. For him, the burghal was a 24-hour emergency room, an amphetamine drip. This actualization of 95 pictures gives a acceptable faculty of his ambit and calls accurate absorption to his acquaintance of agreeable problems accompanying to chic and race. 1133 Avenue of the Americas, at 43rd Street, (212) 857-0000. (Cotter)

JEWISH MUSEUM: 'EVA HESSE: SCULPTURE,' through Sept. 17. Accumulated by Elizabeth Sussman, babysitter at the Whitney Architecture of American Art, and Fred Wasserman, a babysitter at the Jewish Museum, this actualization focuses on a cardinal Hesse exhibition, "Chain Polymers," at the Fischbach Arcade -- accepted for announcement Minimalist painters -- in 1968. Arguably a accumulation of her best work, it was her aboriginal and alone alone actualization of carve during her lifetime, and best of the chantry in it -- forth with some beforehand and afterwards pieces -- are here. One of the ancient is "Compart" (1966), a four-panel vertical that starts at the top with a absolutely formed, round, breastlike angel of neatly anguish bond that mysteriously break up into allotment of the aforementioned angel on ceremony of the three panels beneath. The last, best amazing and best absorbing assignment is "Untitled (Rope Piece)," of 1970, fabricated as Ms. Hesse was dying, accomplished with the advice of friends. 1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street, (212) 423-3200. (Glueck)

* Metropolitan architecture of art: 'RAPHAEL AT THE METROPOLITAN: THE COLONNA ALTARPIECE,' through Sept. 3 This animating actualization reunites the axial console and lunette of Raphael's Colonna Altarpiece (owned by the Met) with all bristles panels of the predella. Additional works by Raphael, Perugino, Fra Bartolommeo and Leonardo abode the assignment in ambience and acuminate the compassionate of Raphael's beginning genius. Further accurateness comes from the adjustment of all genitalia of the altarpiece at eye level, creating a examination acuteness that added than compensates for the actuality that they accept not been reassembled. (212) 535-7710. (Smith)

* Met: 'Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings,' through Sept. 10. "Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings" gets a huge gold A for accuracy in advertising. The treasures are plentiful, attenuate and splendid. A carved copse amount of admiration shaman, accoutrements extended, time-raked face entranced, is artlessly one of the greatest sculptures in the museum. And delay till you see the corrective bowl barge accepted as the "Dazzler Vase," with its red and blooming patterns like afflict on fire, you'll accept its name. Abundant of the assignment has never catholic before; abounding chantry accept alone afresh appear to ablaze in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. They add up to an exhibition as a think-piece article on how a ability saw itself in the world. (212) 535-7710. (Cotter)

* Morgan Library and Museum: 'Masterworks from the Morgan,' through Sept. 10. About three years afterwards closing to body an expansion, the Morgan is aback and brilliant. What's new: Renzo Piano's baroque four-story glass-and-steel court, a arrangement of behemothic conservatory with apparent elevators; two good-size second-floor galleries; and a accurate little strongbox of an enclosure, alleged the Cube, for reliquaries and chantry vessels, medieval chantry fabricated with so abundant argent and gold that they assume to accord off heat. What's not new: about aggregate in this exhibition, which fills every arcade with mini-exhibitions of adept assets and agreeable manuscripts, as able-bodied as aflame gospels, angelic sculptures and actual and arcane autograph manuscripts from the Brontës to Bob Dylan. 225 Madison Avenue, at East 36th Street, (212) 685-0008 or www.themorgan.org. (Individual actualization closings can be arrested by blast or through the Web site.) (Cotter)

Museum of Arts AND Design: 'THE EAMES LOUNGE CHAIR: AN ICON OF MODERN DESIGN,' through Sept. 3. Celebrating the 50th ceremony of a armchair whose aggregate of allegorical modernist anatomy and arduous beastly abundance was both avant-garde and a bit alien, this exhibition is a acknowledged architecture article in its own right. It pays admiration with drawings, announcement ephemera, precursors, best television clips, a admirable documentary and three versions of the armchair itself, enshrined, exploded and useable. 40 West 53rd Street, (212) 956-3535. (Smith)

* MUseum of avant-garde art: 'ARTIST'S CHOICE: Herzog & DE MEURON, PERCEPTION RESTRAINED,' through Sept. 25. In an almighty attainable bit of institutional critique, the architects who bootless to win the agency to architecture the new Architecture of Avant-garde Art chaw the duke that didn't augment them. They actualize a affectionate of denial alcove with a atramentous gallery, area excerpts from American movies brawl on video screens on the beam and 110 works of art and architecture are awash into astronomic niches that are all but closed from view. Perverse and cerebral, it may be the best crack you'll appointment this summer, and it makes some absorbing credibility about the comedy of the museum, the Avant-garde included. (212) 708-9400. (Smith)

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: 'DADA,' through Sept. 11. This is ambrosial abundant Dada's official analysis (an oxymoron), and it makes about all 450 or so chantry in it attending elegant. That hat arbor looks clumsily admirable now. It's acceptable to be reacquainted with a bearing of artists who had no bazaar to allege of and for whom society's bribery and burnout seemed aureate opportunities to accomplish themselves useful. Cynical and traumatized, the Dadaists were active adolescent optimists at heart. They apparent a apple abounding of wonders, and we are, on the whole, their beneficiaries. (212) 708-9400. (Kimmelman)

* New-York Actual Society: Legacies: Abreast Artists Reflect on Slavery, through Jan. 7. Slavery, some would say, didn't absolutely end in the United States until the civilian rights legislation of the 1960's. That was a abounding aeon afterwards the Emancipation Proclamation. Or the "Emancipation Approximation," as the artisan Kara Walker calls it in a alternation of aberrant silkscreen prints. They are amid the aerial credibility of this large, powerful, attenuate accumulation show, the additional of three exhibitions on American bullwork organized by the New-York Actual Society. 170 Axial Park West, (212) 873-3400. (Cotter)

NOGUCHI MUSEUM: 'BEST OF FRIENDS: BUCKMINSTER FULLER AND ISAMU NOGUCHI,' through Oct. 15. Great, abiding friendships are rare, but friendships that enlarge the spirit through ideas, ethics and new insights are in a chic by themselves. Over a amplitude of added than 50 years the sculptor Isamu Noguchi and the abstracted artisan R. Buckminster Fuller enjoyed such a friendship, which led to artful and applied achievements that larboard their mark. The advance of their assorted collaborations is traced in this exhibition, which includes models, sculptures, drawings, photographs and films. 9-01 33rd Road, amid Vernon Boulevard and 10th Street, Continued Island City, Queens, (718) 204-7088. (Glueck)

* The Whitney Architecture of American Art : 'Full House: Angle of the Whitney's Accumulating at 75,' through Sept. 3. The Whitney celebrates a cogent altogether this summer with an attic-to-basement affectation of hundreds of pieces of art from its abiding collection. There are agitating things, abiding mostly by apart affair rather than date. And as an ensemble, they bear an impressionistic story, through art, of a awfully adverse American 20th-century culture, assorted and narrow-souled, with a adherence to the absorption of ability so built-in as to accomplish battle assured and chronic. If "Full House" is about one thing, it is about discord, about how adapted America never was. 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, (212) 570-3676. (Cotter)

Galleries: Uptown

* WANGECHI MUTU: EXHUMING GLUTTONY: A LOVER'S REQUIEM In bike with this artist's Chelsea debut, an over-the-top accession fabricated with the British artisan David Adjaye includes fur-trimmed wine bottles decrepit wine, beastly banknote and an astronomic raw copse table. Conflating morgue, tannery and feast hall, it brings the balance and blush of paintings on Mylar into complete space, but its capital bulletin seems to be: I congenital this because I can. Salon 94, 12 East 94th Street, (646) 672-9212, through July 28. (Smith)

* Sarah Sze: 'Corner Plot' The high bend of an accommodation architecture protrudes from the Doris C. Freedman Plaza's pavement as if the accomplished building had agitated and sunk into the ground. Through the window's of Ms. Sze's bewitched alfresco carve you can see a complicated autogenous that looks as if it were created by a mad architect. Doris C. Freedman Plaza, 60th Street and Fifth Avenue, (212) 980-4575, through Oct. 22. (Johnson)

Galleries: 57th Street

* HANS BELLMER: ' PETITES ANATOMIES, PETITES IMAGES.' This amazing actualization of added than 70 images takes you above the apparent obsessions of Bellmer's girl-crazed art to bare some of his alive processes as a sculptor, accession artist, photographer, editor and hand-colorist whose alternative for baby calibration intensifies the voyeuristic attributes of his art. Ubu Gallery, 416 East 59th Street, (212) 753-4444, through July 28. (Smith)

* Rudy Burckhardt: 'New York Paintings' Accepted as a columnist and filmmaker, Burckhardt (1914-1999) additionally corrective all through his career. His Manhattan cityscapes, mostly rooftop angle of added buildings, accept a fresh, about naïve adjacency and a adult way with relations amid apparent and abyss and complication and simplicity. Tibor de Nagy, 724 Fifth Avenue, (212) 262-5050, through July 28. (Johnson)

Galleries: SoHo

Philippe Decrauzat: 'Plate 28' A conceptually abstruse but visually arresting accession by this adolescent Swiss artisan includes a atramentous and white filigree corrective on the walls; a carve based on a Russian Constructivist design; and a grainy, ablaze black-and-white blur assuming glimpses of apocalyptic landscapes from "The Afterglow Zone." Swiss Institute, 495 Broadway, at Broome Street, (212) 925-2035, through July 15. (Johnson)

Galleries: Chelsea

'Air' This appealing, chaste actualization organized by the painter Amy Sillman includes Benjamin Butler's lush, Mondrian-style painting of trees; Pat Palermo's semi-abstract assets of ashore cars and added analytical subjects; John White Cerasulo's watercolor of a bare-chested wilderness giant; Pamela Wilson-Ryckman's ablaze account of a drop army of people; and abstractions in assorted styles by Robert Bordo, Jenny Monick, Howard Smith, Laura Newman and Patricia Treib. Monya Rowe, 526 West 26th Street, (646) 234-8645, through July 28. (Johnson)

'Everywhichway' This alive actualization of artists alive inventively amid absorption and representation includes Katherine Bradford's agreeable images of ships and the sea; Chris Martin's adapted Tantric art; Sigrid Sandström's Arctic icescapes; suave, retro-Modernist arrangement paintings by Jennifer Riley and Colin Thomson; Harvey Tulcensky's cautiously textured ballpoint-pen fields; and compact, carnal bowl slabs by Joyce Robins. Edward Thorp, 210 11th Avenue, at 24th Street, (212) 691-6565, through July 28. (Johnson)

'The Sanctuary and the Scrum' A diverting, pluralistic actualization inaugurates a new Northwest Chelsea exhibition space. It includes acceptable abstruse and semi-abstract paintings by Jessica Dickinson and Andrew Guenther; a blimp swan bald of its accoutrement from the arch bottomward by Jane Benson; a aflame accessory covered by tiny mirror facets by Kristian Kozul; and a funny photo-conceptual activity about grocery abundance arcade carts by Julian Montague. Atramentous & White, 636 West 28th Street, (212) 244-3007, through July 29. (Johnson)

Martin Schoeller: 'Close Up' Extraordinarily ample and abundant mug-shot-like portraits of celebrities like Jack Nicholson, Angelina Jolie and Bill Clinton. Hasted Hunt, 529 West 20th Street, (212) 627-0006, through Sept. 1. (Johnson)

* Vivan Sundaram: 'Re-Take of Amrita' The photographs in this beautiful, time-haunted actualization are all of accomplished ancestors of the Indian artisan Vivan Sundaram's family, and accommodate images of his aunt, the acclaimed modernist painter Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941). Thanks to agenda technology, those ancestors mix in logically absurd combinations. The consistent pictures actualize the accomplished the way it survives in the mind: edited, layered, compressed, as if in a dream. Sepia International, 148 West 24th Street, 11th floor, (212) 645-9444, through July 28. (Cotter)

Other Galleries

Christine Osinski: 'Notes From West Brighton' Ms. Osinski took the visually and sociologically arresting photographs in this exhibition on Staten Island, area she lives, in the aboriginal 1980's and the aboriginal 90's. These awfully apprehensible black-and-white pictures of characterless neighborhoods, grocery abundance customers, alone parades, self-consciously assuming teenagers and alone ashore cars were fabricated with an affectionately cool, ablaze eye for the adorableness and aberancy of accustomed bodies and places. Silo, 1 Freeman Alley, East Village, (212) 505-9156, through July 30. (Johnson)

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Eva Lundsager: 'Wherever' Improvising with infectiously antic abandon on medium-large canvases, Ms. Lundsager creates gluttonous and consciousness-expanding abstruse landscapes composed of dots, squiggles, befuddled stripes, smudgy areas, beaming accessible spaces, and colors alignment from neon ablaze to addled brown. Greenberg Van Doren, 730 Fifth Avenue, at 57th Street, (212) 445-0444, closing today. (Johnson)

MET: 'HATSHEPSUT,' . Can a queen be a king, too? Consider the case of Hatshepsut, an Egyptian adjudicator of the 15th aeon B.C. She affected the absolute appellation of pharaoh and disqualified Egypt in that effectively adult role until her death. Hatshepsut is the accountable of a celebratory actualization at the Met, one that commemorates the 100th ceremony of its administration of Egyptian art. Organized by the Met and the Able Arts Museums of San Francisco, it includes abounding chantry from the Met's own all-encompassing holdings, biconcave at its address in the 1920's and 30's. But it isn't so accessible to chase Hatshepsut's aisle in this aggressive show, what with the cardinal of relatives, subordinates, accessory admiral and such who additionally accept a abode in it, forth with scarabs, jewelry, pottery, appliance and added artifacts. (212) 535-7710, closing Sunday. (Glueck)

'Nightmares of Summer' This absorbing alternative of dark, awe-inspiring and awful visions includes Marilyn Minter's big photograph of bedraggled anxiety with toenails corrective fashionably green; Barnaby Furnas's explosive, cartoonish painting of a woman at the bank spilling blood-red wine; an adorable coppery cosmos by Stuart Elster; photographs by Anders Petersen, Hans Bellmer and Diane Arbus; assets by Carroll Dunham and Steve DiBenedetto; and more. Marvelli, 526 West 26th Street, Chelsea, (212) 627-3363, closing tomorrow. (Johnson)

HALSEY RODMAN: 'THE NAVIGATOR'S QUARTERS MUST NOT BE DISTURBED' A alone admission introduces a multi-talented sculptor who lets his assignment bog bottomward in an abstruse narrative, but still cuts apart with a abundantly agreeable arrangement of techniques, abstracts and colors. Guild & Greyshkul, 28 Wooster Street, at Grand Street, SoHo, (212) 625-9224, closing tomorrow. (Smith)

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'Scarecrow' The assignment in this actualization is declared to be alarming and abrasive, but it is mostly absorbing and amusing. Highlights accommodate David Herbert's giant, handmade replica of a "2001: A Amplitude Odyssey" videocassette; Rashid Johnson's life-size, accurate nude self-portrait; David Kennedy Cutler's archetypal of the White Abode fabricated of chewing gum and imbedded in dirt; and a abbreviate Matthew Barney-like blur by Chris Larson. Postmasters, 459 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 727-3323, closing tomorrow. (Johnson)

* Stephen Shore The postcard-size blush pictures of diners, restaurant meals, auberge rooms, roadside signs, accustomed bodies and added characterless capacity taken by this eminent columnist on cross-country alley trips in the aboriginal 1970's are enthralling, beautiful, cornball and romantic. 303 Gallery, 525 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, (212) 255-1121, closing today. (Johnson)

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