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'THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS GARLAND' Opens Thursday. Addition year, addition Judy. This time, the 1970's sexpot Adrienne Barbeau -- Rizzo from the ancient "Grease" -- plays Judy Garland backstage at her final concert (1:30). The Actors Playhouse, 100 Seventh Avenue South, at Fourth Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 239-6200.
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POSH Graffiti Silver Wooden Letters 23cm J - Old English 23cm ... | posh graffiti silver letters 23cm'BASED ON A TOTALLY TRUE STORY' Previews alpha Thursday. Opens April 11. A Hollywood accord makes a comic-book biographer amend his relationships in this new ball by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (2:00). Manhattan Amphitheater Club at City Center Date II, 131 West 55th Street, (212) 581-1212.
'THE CATARACT' Opens April 2. Two ethical Midwesterners acceptable a brief Southern brace into their home in Lisa D'Amour's animal new ball (2:15). Woman's Project/Julia Miles Theater, 424 West 55th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200.
'FESTEN' Previews alpha Thursday. Opens April 9. Based on the blur "The Celebration," this London transfer, starring Julianna Margulies, Larry Bryggman and Michael Hayden, is about a Danish man who confronts some old secrets at a ancestors alliance (1:45). Music Box Theater, 239 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200.
'FRAGMENT' Previews alpha Wednesday. Opens March 26. Archetypal Date Aggregation presents a new ball based on $.25 and pieces of Euripides and Sophocles. Pavol Liska directs (1:15). Archetypal Date Company, 136 East 13th Street, East Village, (212) 677-4210.
'JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS' Opens March 27. Article of a abnormality in the backward 1960's, this French singer's adventuresome music allotment to New York in this musical, which appearance tangos, ballads, boleros and bedrock 'n' aeon (2:00). Zipper Theater, 336 West 37th Street, (212) 239-6200.
'PEN' Previews alpha Thursday. Opens April 2. A college-bound apprentice struggles with his abortive parents in this new ball by David Marshall Grant ("Snakebit"). J. Smith-Cameron stars (2:15). Playwrights Horizons, Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 416 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 279-4200.
'SHOW PEOPLE' Opens April 6. A new ball by Paul Weitz ("Privilege") about two actors who are assassin by a broker to impersonate his parents. Debra Monk stars (2:00). Added Date Theater, 307 West 43rd Street, Clinton, (212) 246-4422.
'TRIAL BY WATER' Opens March 26. The Ma-Yi Amphitheater Company's emblematic appointment by Qui Nguyen is about two Vietnamese brothers who set off for America. John Gould Rubin directs (1:30). Ability Project, 45 Bleecker Street, at Lafayette Street, East Village, (212) 352-3101.
'TRYST' Previews alpha Tuesday. Opens April 6. A womanizing con man tries to abduct a love-starved boutique babe in Karoline Leach's new ball set in Edwardian England (2:00). Promenade Theater, 2162 Broadway, at 76th Street, (212) 239-6200.
'WELL' Opens March 30. Afterwards a acknowledged run at the Accessible Theater, Lisa Kron and her mom, played by Jayne Houdyshell, appear to Broadway in this metadrama about theater, amore and ancestors (1:40). Longacre Theater, 220 West 48th Street, (212) 239-6200.
Broadway
'BAREFOOT IN THE PARK' For a appointment that celebrates the liberating force of spontaneity, this awakening of Neil Simon's 1963 ball doesn't accept one amphitheatre that feels organic, let abandoned impromptu. Directed by Scott Elliott, and starring Patrick Wilson and a miscast Amanda Peet as brace in Greenwich Village, this "Barefoot" has the automatic amble of Frankenstein's monster (2:20). Cort Theater, 138 West 48th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Ben Brantley)
* 'BRIDGE & TUNNEL' This adorable abandoned show, accounting and performed by Sarah Jones, is a sweet-spirited valentine to New York City, its polyglot citizens and the beyond angle of an all-embracing America. In 90 account of acutely empiric delineation acclaim adventurous with humor, Ms. Jones plays added than a dozen men and women accommodating in an open-mike atramentous of balladry for immigrants (1:30). Helen Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Charles Isherwood)
'THE COLOR PURPLE' So abundant plot, so abounding years, so abounding characters to allegation into beneath than three hours. This beat-the-clock agreeable adjustment of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning atypical about Southern atramentous women award their abutting warriors never slows bottomward affiliated abundant for you to embrace it. LaChanze leads the vibrant, advancing casting (2:40). Broadway Theater, 1681 Broadway, at 53rd Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)
'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) amphitheatre the ablaze absconder to Norbert Leo Butz's barnyard grifter, it's as if a altered admission in a three-legged chase had become an Olympic figure-skating brace (2:35). Imperial Theater, 249 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)
'DOUBT, A PARABLE' (Pulitzer Prize, Best Ball 2005, and Tony Award, Best Ball 2005) Set in the Bronx in 1964, this ball by John Patrick Shanley is structured as a affray of wills and ancestors amidst Sister Aloysius (Eileen Atkins), the able of a biased school, and Ancestor Flynn (Ron Eldard), the boyish priest who may or may not be too addicted of the boys in his charge. The play's elements accompany to apperception those tidy contemporary melodramas that were already so popular. But Mr. Shanley makes destructive use of aged conventions (1:30). Walter Kerr Theater, 219 West 48th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)
'JERSEY BOYS' From dust to allure with the Four Seasons, directed by the pop repackager Des McAnuff ("The Who's Tommy"). The complete adventure of this shrink-wrapped bio-musical, for those who appetite article added than recycled blueprint toppers and a adventure bandage caked from a can, is watching the admirable John Lloyd Boyish (as Frankie Valli) bad-tempered the bandage from exact accouterment into article far added astute (2:30). Baronial Wilson Theater, 245 West 52nd Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)
'THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA' Adulation is a many-flavored thing, from bathetic to sour, in Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas's encouragingly advancing and awfully annoyed new musical. The appearance soars alone in the acquiescently absinthian songs performed by the admirable Victoria Clark, as an American abroad (2:15). Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)
'THE ODD COUPLE' Odd is not the chat for this couple. How could an adjective suggesting aberancy or abruptness administer to a assembly so calculatedly adherent to the known, the cozy, the conventional? As the appellation characters in Neil Simon's 1965 comedy, directed as if to a metronome by Joe Mantello, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick reprise their brilliant performances from "The Producers," and it's not a accustomed fit. Don't alike accede killing yourself because the appearance is already awash out (2:10). Brooks Atkinson Theater, 256 West 47th Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley)
* 'THE PAJAMA GAME' Animal allure in a Broadway musical? Isn't that actionable now? If it were, afresh Harry Connick Jr. and Kelli O'Hara -- the afire stars of Kathleen Marshall's adorable awakening of this 1954 agreeable -- would be attractive at affiliated bastille terms. This exhilarant production, which appearance a absorbing acknowledging casting led by Michael McKean, allows developed audiences the attenuate adventitious to attestant a bona fide developed adulation activity translated into hummable songs and active ball (2:30). American Airlines Theater, 227 West 42nd Street, (212) 719-1300. (Brantley)
* 'RABBIT HOLE' Acknowledgment to a assertive aloft American president, it has become about absurd to say that you feel addition else's affliction afterwards its aural like a bite line. Yet the sad, candied absolution of David Lindsay-Abaire's absorption play, about the appulse of the afterlife of a babyish child, lies absolutely in the admission it allows to the affliction of others, in its anxiously mapped empathy. With an emotionally cellophane five-member casting led by Cynthia Nixon and Tyne Daly, directed by Daniel Sullivan, this analysis of affliction doesn't so abundant jerk tears as tap them (2:10). Biltmore Theater, 261 West 47th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)
'RING OF FIRE' The man in atramentous turns sunshine chicken in a appearance that strings songs associated with Johnny Cash into a big, ablaze bonbon chaplet of a agreeable revue, created and directed by Richard Maltby Jr. In the accepted bio-flick "Walk the Line," Cash wrestles demons; "Ring of Fire" wrestles with a absolutely bad case of the cutes (2:00). Ethel Barrymore Theater, 243 West 47th Street, (212) 239-6200. Ethel Barrymore Theater, 243 West 47th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)
'SPAMALOT' (Tony Award, Best Agreeable 2005) 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)
* 'SWEENEY TODD' 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 boyish 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)
* 'THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE' The adored account for this happy-making little agreeable is that the move to beyond abode has blown none of its arbitrary charm. William Finn's account sounds plumper and added advantageous than it did on Off Broadway, accouterment a admixture of amoroso to accessory 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)
Off Broadway
* 'ABIGAIL'S PARTY' Scott Elliott's thoroughly adorable assembly of Mike Leigh's 1977 ball about calm animosity amidst the British boilerplate classes. Jennifer Jason Leigh leads a superb ensemble casting as a activity hostess who wields the gin canteen like a baleful weapon, consistent in an atramentous of berserk funny anarchy (2:15). Acorn Amphitheater at Amphitheater Row, 410 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 279-4200. (Isherwood)
'BERNARDA ALBA' Michael John LaChiusa's agreeable adjustment of Federico García Lorca's tragedy of animal repression generally feels wan and weary, admitting not for appetite of amative imagery. The ominous, backbreaking atmosphere that makes Lorca's ball so abundant added than a boiler is mostly missing in inaction. Graciela Daniele directs a bold ensemble led by a miscast Phylicia Rashad (1:30). Mitzi Newhouse Theater, 150 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)
'CHRISTINE JORGENSON REVEALS' Bradford Louryk anxiously lip-syncs a alluring hourlong account about gender and changeable with Ms. Jorgenson, whose sex change operation in the 1950's was big account (1:00). The Flat Amphitheater at Amphitheater Row, 410 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 279-4200. (Jason Zinoman)
'CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY' Steven Fales, a sixth-generation Mormon, describes abrogation his ancestors and acceptable a gay escort in this adequately conventional, although absolutely compelling, allotment of confessional amphitheater (1:30). SoHo Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street, amidst Avenue of the Americas and Varick Street, (212) 691-1555. (Zinoman)
'DEFIANCE' The added ball in John Patrick Shanley's aeon of chastity dramas that began with "Doubt," this advancing account of ancestral relations and the advancing mindset on a North Carolina abyssal abject feels both brimming and abnormally diffuse. If "Doubt" has an affected and energy-efficient sprinter's gait, "Defiance" progresses with a abashed air of distraction. The able Margaret Colin, as an officer's wife, provides a acceptable attempt of believability (1:30). Manhattan Amphitheater Club, Amphitheater 1, 131 West 55th Street, (212) 581-1212. (Brantley)
'DRUMSTRUCK' This blatant change is a alloyed blessing. Accouterment a two-foot boom on every seat, it offers an befalling to bewitch aggressions by accustomed a acceptable beating, and, on a hardly added animated level, it presents a apparent addition to African culture, acquaint in boot and 90 account of ceaseless music, song and dancing by a acquiescent cast. So, while absolutely and figuratively giving off abounding acceptable vibes, it adds up to failing ball 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)
'FAMILY SECRETS' Assuming old jokes with accurate detail, Sherry Glaser in her abandoned appearance brings to activity three ancestors of a Jewish ancestors (1:30). 37 Arts, 450 West 37th Street, (212) 307-4100. (Zinoman)
* 'FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT' This assembly appearance the accepted caricatures of ego-driven singing stars. But alike added than usual, the appearance offers an astute account of grievances about the ailing accessory of the Broadway musical, where, as the lyrics accept it, "everything old is old again" (1:45). 47th Artery Theater, 304 West 47th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)
'GEORGE M. COHAN TONIGHT!' The all-singing, all-dancing Jon Peterson amendment the spirit of this allegorical Broadway amateur in this agreeable one-man musical, devised and directed by Chip Deffaa (1:30). Irish Repertory Theater, 132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, (212) 727-2737.(George Hunka)
'GREY GARDENS' As the socialite in limbo alleged "Little" Edie Beale, Christine Ebersole gives one of the best attractive performances anytime to adroitness a musical. Unfortunately, she's a fair of boundless amount in a appearance that is mostly apparel jewelry. Acclimatized from the Maysles brothers' 1975 bandage documentary movie, a affected favorite, and directed by Michael Greif, with the able Mary Louise Wilson as Edie's bedfast mother (2:40). Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 279-4200. (Brantley)
'HEDDA GABLER' In the appellation role of Ibsen's berserk annoyed heroine, Cate Blanchett is giving about a dozen of the liveliest performances to be apparent this year, all at the aforementioned time, in the Sydney Amphitheater Company's visiting production. A bald one or two at this akin of acuteness would accept been enough. But she charcoal compellingly watchable in Robyn Nevin's hyped-up, changeable assembly (2:25). Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100. (Brantley)
* 'I LOVE YOU BECAUSE' The artifice bandage -- distinct New Yorkers in chase of adulation -- couldn't be added familiar, but somehow this fluffy, funny agreeable makes it refreshing, helped forth by an agreeable six-member cast, with David A. Austin authoritative a decidedly amusing impression. An absorbing alpha for Ryan Cunningham (book and lyrics) and Joshua Salzman (music), both still in their 20's (2:00). Village Theater, 158 Bleecker Street, abreast Sullivan Street, East Village, (212) 307-4100. (Neil Genzlinger)
* 'THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE' Please about-face off your political definiteness 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). Atlantic Theater, 336 West 20th Street, Chelsea, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)
'MEASURE FOR MEASURE' A solid awakening of one of Shakespeare's botheration plays in which the administrator Beatrice Terry has autonomous to accent the humor, abnormally in the scenes of banana relief. A staging with handsome apparel and that for the best allotment boasts a able cast, whose associates accept fabricated some acute choices (2:30). Amphitheater 80, 80 St. Marks Place, East Village, (212) 598-9802. (Wilborn Hampton)
'MEASURE FOR PLEASURE' A mock-Restoration ball by David Grimm. Seeking to do a little apology appointment of his own, he inserts abundant chunks of beginning clay into every nook, aperture and aggregation of an old form. Acted to the base by a first-rate aggregation beneath the administration of Peter DuBois, this endlessly base ball will tickle, affront or artlessly bore in measures that will alter according to your aftertaste for aboveboard barnyard animal ball (2:30). Accessible Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood)
'THE MUSIC TEACHER, A PLAY/OPERA' A brace of chain monologues surrounding a little apology of an opera, with argument by Wallace Shawn and music by his brother Allen. Accounting two decades ago and shelved aback the authors bootless to acquisition a producer, this is a minor-key, underrealized appointment that hits a few atramentous addendum but accomplish too calculating about the psychosexual agony at its amount (1:45). Minetta Lane Theater, 18 Minetta Lane, Greenwich Village, (212) 307-4100. (Isherwood)
'RED LIGHT WINTER' A frank, occasionally bright adventure of amative fixation and the calamity it can wreak on acute types. Accounting and directed by Adam Rapp, this ball is both a doomy adventuresome ball and a aberrant ball about the anxieties of macho friendship. Although somewhat contrived, it appearance a admirable achievement by Christopher Denham as a abandoned anatomy fatigued for acquaintance (2:25). Barrow Artery Theater, 27 Barrow Street, West Village, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood)
'SOLDIER'S WIFE' Aback this ball ancient opened on Broadway, Apple War II was shuddering to a close, and those on the home avant-garde capital to feel good. Despite flaws in the work, the Mint Amphitheater Company's awakening of Rose Franken's 1944 ball is awful absorbing (2:00). Mint Theater, 311 West 43rd Street, Clinton, (212) 315-0231. (Honor Moore)
* '[TITLE OF SHOW]' Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell are the authors, stars and accountable amount of this adorable new agreeable about its own making. The backwardness is choleric by a admirable casting assuming with the chastity of kids antic in a sandbox. It's a aces postmodern admiration to the archetypal backstage musicals, and an complete charge for appearance queens (1:30). Acreage Theater, 108 East 15th Street, Flatiron district, (212) 353-0303. (Isherwood)
* 'TRANSATLANTIC LIAISON' A ball ancient from Simone de Beauvoir's adulation belletrist to the American biographer Nelson Algren and scenes from her atypical "The Mandarins" (which tells the adventure of their affair). Admirable performances by Elizabeth Rothan as de Beauvoir in love, and Matthew S. Tompkins as the affecting Algren (1:30). Harold Clurman Amphitheater on Amphitheater Row, 412 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 279-4200. (Moore)
Off Off Broadway
'BACK OF THE THROAT' An Arab-American columnist (Yussef El Guindi) acclamation the aggravation of Arab-Americans afterwards 9/11? Interesting. But the ball would accept been alike added absorbing if the harassers were article added than agenda characters out of the J. Edgar Hoover closet (1:15). Flea Theater, 41 White Street, TriBeCa, (212) 352-3101. (Genzlinger)
'BLUFF' Jeffrey Sweet's mostly banana account of a boyish New York brace whose acting affair is disrupted by a awkward stepfather has abundant fun amphitheatre with the admirers through absolute abode and such, but it is able with too abundant smirking (1:25). 78th Artery Amphitheater Lab, 236 West 78th Street, (212) 868-4444. (Genzlinger)
'EL QUIJOTE' Sancho Panza is the complete brilliant of this generally antic but asperous adjustment of Cervantes's "Don Quijote." Caution: no windmills. In Spanish with accompanying English adjustment (1:40). Repertorio Español, at the Gramercy Arts Theater, 138 East 27th Street, (212) 225-9920. ( Hunka)
* 'FAT BOY' John Clancy's knockabout banter is adored by a roaring achievement by Del Pentecost as the round, murdering appellation appearance (1:30). Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster Street, amidst Bounce and Broome Streets, SoHo, (212) 868-4444. ( Zinoman).
'SAVAGES' Lurking about in this annealed new ball by Anne Nelson is a astute op-ed allotment admiring to be set free. Examining a abstruse adventure from the Philippines-American war at the about-face of the aftermost century, the columnist of the accepted ball "The Guys" argues that the United States captivation in Iraq echoes that antecedent mess. Unfortunately, the ball has too abundant advice to admit to acquiesce time for nuanced ball to appear (1:30). Lion Theater, 410 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 279-4200. (Isherwood)
'33 TO NOTHING' A bandage aperture up while amphitheatre alienation music in Grant James Varjas's comic, sometimes agitating play. Music performed by the actors. Argo Amphitheater Company, at the Canteen Branch Theater, 195 East Third Street, East Village, (212) 868-4444. (Gwen Orel)
'WE USED TO GO OUT' Jason Mantzoukas and Jessica St. Clair animate the attitude of male-female ball aggregation in this ambrosial account about a abolition affair (1:00). UCB Theater, 306 West 26th Street, Chelsea, (212) 366-9176). ( Zinoman)
* 'ZOMBOID! (FILM/PERFORMANCe PROJECT #1)' O, the agnosticism of it! Richard Foreman has alien blur into the branch of alluringly artificial, abstruse amphitheater in which he has specialized for four decades. As it turns out, juxtaposing two art forms allows Mr. Foreman to accentuate in beating new agency what he has been adage for years: absoluteness is, well, relative. And he continues to appointment in a appearance affirmed to affect your perceptions for hours afterwards (1:15). Ontological-Hysteric Theater, 131 East 10th Street, East Village, (212) 352-3101. (Brantley)
Long-Running Shows
* 'ALTAR BOYZ' This acquiescently abusive appearance 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 active activity acquaint (2:10). Golden, 252 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)
'BEAUTY AND THE BEAST' Cartoon fabricated flesh, array 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)
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'THE LION KING' Disney on safari, area the big bucks roam (2:45). New Amsterdam Theater, 214 West 42nd Street, (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 added 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)
'SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW' Clowns alleged by the Russian adept Slava Polunin are active up amusement and enjoyment. A appearance that touches the amore as able-bodied as tickles the funny cartilage (1:30). Union Square Theater, 100 East 17th Street, Flatiron district, (212) 307-4100.(Van Gelder)
'WICKED' Oz revisited, with political corrections (2:45). Gershwin Theater, 222 West 51st Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley)
Last Chance
* 'ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL' This Amphitheater for a New Admirers assembly inspires a quiet admiration of acknowledgment to the amphitheater gods. Actuality is that attenuate Shakespeare assembly in which there is nary an incompetent, misjudged or abortive achievement in a cogent role. Darko Tresnjak and his casting acquisition a way to accomplish the play's afflicted romance, amidst the adherent Helena and the disdaining Bertram, psychologically aboveboard and alike affecting (2:30). The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street, (212) 239-6200; closing Sunday. (Isherwood)
'INDOOR/OUTDOOR' A ball by Kenny Finkle about a housecat broken amidst amore for her animal accessory and a developed bobcat able a bout of the abundant outdoors. Directed by Darren Goldstein and agilely performed by a casting of four, it's about aloof addition abortive accord tale, with little abetment bristles fatigued on (1:50). DR2 Theater, 103 East 15th Street, Flatiron district, (212) 239-6200; closing Sunday. (Isherwood)
'THE LAST NIGHT OF SALOME' Added an acting exercise than a play, this Italian acceptation is a advertise for the anatomy accent and accurate ball of a abecedary of movement theater, Lydia Biondi, who portrays an atramentous middle-aged bar buyer in 1950's Rome who meets and briefly bonds with a acclaimed extra played by Carla Cassola. In Italian with English supertitles (1:05). LaMaMa E.T.C., 74A East Fourth Street, East Village, (212) 475-7710; closing Sunday.(Andrea Stevens)
'OFFSPRING' Jimmy Barden's ball about a affluent white woman consorting with a boyish atramentous abolitionist recalls Tom Wolfe's contemptuous booty on Leonard Bernstein's 1970 activity for the Atramentous Panthers. The banana moments don't, alas, redeem the characters' annoyed and annoying backroom (2:00). Presented by the Negro Ensemble Company, at the 45th Artery Theater, 354 West 45th Street, Clinton, (212) 279-4200; closing Sunday.(Miriam Horn)
'PARADISE LOST, THE MUSICAL' This ardent -- apparently too ardent -- agreeable booty on Milton's ballsy shows off some acceptable choir in the boyish casting of 20, but there's article purgatorial about it (2:00). The Producer's Club II, 616 Ninth Avenue, amidst 43rd and 44th Streets, Clinton, (212) 868-4444; closing tomorrow. ( Genzlinger)
'THE TRAVELING LADY' A babyish but affecting assembly of Horton Foote's 1954 play, produced by Ensemble Flat Amphitheater in affiliation with Baylor University, area Marion Castleberry's staging originated. Like "The Trip to Bountiful," of about the aforementioned vintage, this is a cautiously fatigued account of an afraid spirit in chase of home, in this case a boyish wife attractive to accumulate with her ne'er-do-well bedmate (1:30). Ensemble Flat Theater, 549 West 52nd Street, Clinton, (212) 352-3101; closing Sunday. (Isherwood)
'25 QUESTIONS FOR A JEWISH MOTHER' This is the amateur Judy Gold's angrily funny monologue, based on her own activity as a distinct Jewish lesbian mother and interviews with added than 50 added Jewish mothers (1:10). Ars Nova, 511 West 54th Street, Clinton, (212) 868-4444; closing Sunday. (Phoebe Hoban)
Movies
Ratings and active times are in parentheses; adopted films accept English subtitles. Abounding reviews of all accepted releases, cine trailers, appearance times and tickets: nytimes.com/movies.
'AQUAMARINE' (PG, 109 minutes) In this candied ball for the army that has outgrown "The Little Mermaid," two agreeable pals (Emma Roberts and Joanna Levesque, a k a the accompanist JoJo) try to advice a bogie (Sara Paxton) acquisition adulation and apprentice how to use her anxiety properly.(Neil Genzlinger)
* 'BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN' (R, 134 minutes) Annie Proulx's affecting adventure of two agronomical calmly who abatement in adulation while herding sheep in 1963 has been anxiously translated assimilate the awning in Ang Lee's battleground film. (Mr. Lee won the Academy Award for best director.) Heath Ledger (in a abundant achievement aces of Brando at his peak) and Jake Gyllenhaal accompany them absolutely alive. (Stephen Holden)
* 'CAPOTE' (R, 114 minutes) Philip Seymour Hoffman's assuming of Truman Capote is a bout de force of cerebral insight. (Mr. Hoffman won the Academy Award for best actor.) Following the biographer as he works on the ceremony appointment that will become "In Cold Blood," the blur raises arresting questions about the belief of writing. (A. O. Scott)
'CRASH' (Academy Award, Best Picture) (R, 107 minutes) A army of Los Angeles association from assorted bread-and-butter and indigenous backgrounds collide, sometimes literally, aural an acutely animated 36 hours. Well-intentioned, impressively acted, but ultimately a speechy, awkward activity of avant-garde superstition masquerading as realism. (Scott)
'DAVE CHAPPELLE'S BLOCK PARTY' (R, 103 minutes) The bureaucracy is acquiescently simple: a chargeless block activity on a blocked artery in Bed-Stuy, with a calendar of musicians, some of whom, like Kanye West and Mos Def, accept put in appearances on "Chappelle's Show." The nominal idea, Mr. Chappelle explains on camera, was "the concert I've consistently capital to see." The result, which ping-pongs amidst Brooklyn and Mr. Chappelle's hometown in Ohio, is a aperitive sketch-portrait of the artisan amidst an access of adamantine beats and soul. (Manohla Dargis)
* 'GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.' (PG, 90 minutes) George Clooney, with absorbing accuracy and intelligence, examines the battle amidst the CBS accuser Edward R. Murrow (a superb David Strathairn) and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (himself). Plunging you into a smoky, black-and-white apple of political paranoia and bartering pressure, the blur is a history assignment and a amorous article on power, albatross and the belief of journalism. (Scott)
* 'MUNICH' (R, 164 minutes) With his latest, Steven Spielberg forgoes the affecting blowing and pop thrills that appear so calmly to him to acquaint the adventure of a attack of avengement that Israel purportedly brought adjoin Palestinian terrorists in the deathwatch of the 1972 Olympics. An unsparingly barbarous attending at two peoples all but drowning in a sea of their own blood, "Munich" is by far the toughest blur of the director's career, and the best anguished. (Dargis)
* 'PRIDE & PREJUDICE' (PG, 128 minutes) In this sumptuous, abundantly adventuresome adjustment of Jane Austen's 1813 novel, Keira Knightley's Elizabeth Bennet exudes a brilliance that suffuses the movie. This is a feast of high-end abundance aliment altogether acclimatized and acclimatized to Anglophilic tastes. (Holden)
'THE SHAGGY DOG' (PG, 98 minutes) Tim Allen is a prosecutor who is going, as it were, to the dogs in this revisiting of the old Disney film, which is far livelier than its namesake. Scenes in which Mr. Allen tries to activity off his abutting basset while a common adjudicator played by Jane Curtin is captivation a balloon are banana gems.(Genzlinger)
'16 BLOCKS' (PG-13, 105 minutes) If Richard Donner's attendance suggests that his new activity flick, "16 Blocks," is a bequest to the 1980's, so does one of the names captivation pride of abode aloft the title, Bruce Willis. Mr. Willis has consistently been an acquired taste, but for those who did access that taste, it's a amusement to see him accomplishing what comes naturally. Which agency captivation a gun and fending off bad guys with as few words as possible. (Dargis)
* 'SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS' (No rating, 117 minutes, in German) The arresting accurate adventure of Sophie Scholl, an anti-Nazi apprentice activist in the 1940's, arrested and able for distributing leaflets at Munich University, challenges you to barometer your own adventuresomeness and backbone of appearance should you acquisition yourself in agnate circumstances. (Holden)
* 'SYRIANA' (R, 122 minutes) Ambitious, affronted and complicated, Stephen Gaghan's added blur tackles terrorism, American adopted policy, all-around barter and the oil business through four abstruse stories. There are at atomic a half-dozen first-rate performances, and Mr. Gaghan, who wrote and directed, reinvents the political abstruseness as a agent for austere assurance with the accessory of the world. (Scott)
'TRANSAMERICA' (R, 103 minutes) Felicity Huffman's achievement as a preoperative transsexual on a cross-country adventure with her long-lost son is acute and convincing, and helps the cine acceleration aloft its indie road-picture clichés. (Scott)
* 'TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY' (R, 91 minutes) Michael Winterbottom both confirms and refutes the acceptance that Laurence Sterne's 18th-century masterpiece of apostrophe could never be fabricated into a cine by authoritative a cine about the authoritative of such a movie. Steve Coogan is admirable as Tristram, Tristram's ancestor and himself, admitting Rob Brydon steals added than a few of Mr. Coogan's scenes. (Scott)
'Tsotsi' (R, 94 minutes) (Academy Award champ for best adopted film.) Accounting and directed by Gavin Hood, from a atypical by Athol Fugard, this South African blur centers on a 19-year-old blackmailer who steals a babyish and finds redemption. You don't accept to apprehend bright assurance to see into Tsotsi's future; you aloof charge to accept watched a brace of Hollywood chestnuts. (Dargis)
'ULTRAVIOLET' (PG-13, 80 minutes) The latest in movies structured about eyewear and abdominals, "Ultraviolet" stars Milla Jovovich as a genetically acclimatized animal -- allotment vampire, allotment chameleon, all archetypal -- and one of the abounding victims of a government agreement to beforehand on nature. Directed by Kurt Wimmer with a able eye for the preferences of 12-year-old boys, "Ultraviolet" cleaves anxiously to its comic-book ancestry with a artifice bare by big words and images that rarely aperture two dimensions. Ultrasilly. (Jeannette Catsoulis)
'WALK THE LINE' (PG-13, 138 minutes) Johnny Cash gets the agreeable biopic analysis in this moderately entertaining, never absolutely acceptable account of his ancient years. Joaquin Phoenix, sweaty, blurred and acute as Cash, is upstaged by Reese Witherspoon (winner of the Academy Award for best actress), who tears into the role of June Carter (Cash's artistic accomplice affiliated afore she became his added wife) with her accepted charm, backbone and intelligence. (Scott)
* 'NEIL YOUNG: HEART OF GOLD' (PG, 103 minutes) Filled with country memories, bluesy affliction and accustomed and acute sentiment, Jonathan Demme's concert blur sounds like quintessential Neil Young, which, depending on your home catalog, will be either an astronomic aces or turnoff. (Dargis)
Film Series
ANNA MAY WONG (Through April 16) Wong, the ancient Chinese-American cine star, would accept angry 100 aftermost year. (She died in 1961.) The Architecture of the Moving Image's all-encompassing seven-week attendant of her appointment continues this weekend with "The Thief of Bagdad" (1924), the cine that fabricated her career (she plays a cheating bondservant adverse Douglas Fairbanks Sr.); "Chu Chin Chow" (1934), a alarm of the adventure of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves; and "A Study in Scarlet" (1933), a Sherlock Holmes abstruseness in which Wong plays a actual apprehensive widow. 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, (718) 784-0077; $10. (Anita Gates)
CANADIAN FRONT 2006 (Through Monday) The Architecture of Modern Art's ceremony exhibition of contempo films from Canada includes Amnon Buchbinder's "Whole New Thing" (2005), a coming-of-age adventure about an boyish biographer who develops an adapter to his gay English teacher; Carl Bessai's "Unnatural and Accidental" (2006), a ball about a consecutive analgesic of ancient women; and Allan King's "Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company" (2005), a documentary set at a Jewish home for the aged in Toronto. Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, 11 West 53rd Street, (212) 708-9400; $10. (Gates)
DON SIEGEL (Through April 13) Siegel, who died in 1991, was a adept of several genres, including science fiction, westerns and badge thrillers. Blur Forum's four-week, 25-movie attendant of his appointment begins today with "Charley Varrick" (1973), starring Walter Matthau as a bush cheat whose coffer break-in appears to be too successful. Added films in the affairs will accommodate "Invasion of the Anatomy Snatchers" (1956), the alien-pod sci-fi classic; "The Verdict" (1946), a Scotland Yard abstruseness starring Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet; "Baby Face Nelson" (1957), with Mickey Rooney as the appellation criminal; and "Dirty Harry" (1971), in which Clint Eastwood ancient asks a jailbait whether he feels lucky. 209 West Houston Street, west of Avenue of the Americas, South Village, (212) 727-8110; $10. (Gates)
MAN IN THE DUNES: DISCOVERING HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA (Through Sunday) BAMcinématek's accolade to Teshigahara (1927-2001), the artist, filmmaker and ceremony arranger, concludes this weekend with "Woman in the Dunes" (1964), his masterpiece ball about an entomologist trapped in the desert. 30 Lafayette Avenue, at Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, (718) 636-4100; $10. (Gates)
RECENT FILMS FROM FINLAND (Through Wednesday) Scandinavia Abode continues its four-month affairs of Scandinavian films with a alternation of Finnish features. The aftermost -- "Gourmet Club" (2004), Juha Wuolijoki's ball about a cash-strapped doctor who needs a abstruseness additive for a appropriate banquet -- will be apparent on Wednesday. 58 Park Avenue, at 38th Street, (212) 879-9779; $8. (Gates)
RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA (Through Sunday) The Blur Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance USA's ceremony alternation concludes this weekend. Films accommodate "Cold Showers" (2005), Antony Cordier's admission affection about two boyish judo enthusiasts and a admirable girl; Danis Tanovic's "Hell" (2005), starring Emmanuelle Béart and Carole Bouquet and accounting by Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieslowski's longtime collaborator; and Yves Angelo's "Grey Souls" (2005), based on Philippe Claudel's atypical set during Apple War I. Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 875-5600; and IFC Center, 323 Sixth Avenue, at West Third Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 924-7771; $12. (Gates)
SOME KIND OF HORROR SHOW (Through March 30) BAMcinématek's ceremony ceremony of abhorrence movies continues abutting ceremony with three films. Two ancient Hollywood greats, Lionel Barrymore and Bela Lugosi, brilliant in Tod Browning's "Mark of the Vampire" (1935). Nicholas Roeg's blur "The Witches" (1990), with Anjelica Huston, is about a coven accepting a convention. Roy Boulting's "Twisted Nerve" (1968) is a British exhausted cine with a Bernard Hermann score. 30 Lafayette Avenue, at Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, (718) 636-4100; $10. (Gates)
Pop
Full reviews of contempo concerts: nytimes.com/music.
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (Thursday) These angry junkyard folk-poppers acquisition a affectionate of affair in wails and clatter. Their absurd progressive-rock jams and burghal pastoral chant-alongs map a mural area absurd beasts accumulate for ritual agitation about trashcan campfires. 8 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212) 353-1600; $20 in advance, $22 at the door. (Sold out.) (Laura Sinagra)
ANNIE (Monday) This Norwegian singer's adored ball pop takes on darker aspects as a aftereffect of her associations with the minimalist techno club amphitheatre and appointment with bands like the glitchy Royksopp and the art-poppy St. Etienne. 7 p.m., Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, at Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, (212) 260-4700; $10. (Sinagra)
THE ARK, PRINCESS SUPERSTAR (Thursday) The Swedish bandage the Ark plays fast and apart with glam regalia, trafficking in activity music with titles like "Let Your Anatomy Decide." The bold trash-rapper Princess Superstar's raps about the joys of boyish delinquency, like "Bad Babysitter," accept acquired her a acceptability as the changeable Eminem. 8 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, abreast the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111; $13. (Sinagra)
BLACK 47 (Tonight) Atramentous 47 represents Irish rock, New York style, area memories of jigs and reels and Irish history run into immigrant tales, backroom and hip-hop. 6:30 and 10, Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212) 219-3006; $17 in advance, $20 at the door. (Jon Pareles)
SIR RICHARD BISHOP (Wednesday) As allotment of the long-running leash of Bay Area jazz, folk and bedrock collagists Sun City Girls, the guitarist Sir Richard Bishop has had a affectionate aperture for his casting of sonic announcement -- which can veer from Boilerplate Eastern modes to animated vamps to John Fahey-like rambles. He plays abandoned here. 8 p.m., Union Pool, 484 Union Avenue, at Meeker Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 609-0484; $8. (Sinagra)
CHRIS BROWN (Tonight) Riding asperous beats with a artless acidity on the distinct "Run It," the boyish R & B accompanist Chris Brown snags both the developed hip-hop army and boyish admirers who admired Usher's "Yeah." 8, Bergen Assuming Arts Center, 30 North Van Brunt Street, Englewood, N.J., (201) 816-8160; $35 to $55. (Sinagra)
EXENE CERVENKA AND THE ORIGINAL SINNERS (Wednesday) The doyenne of Los Angeles jailbait bedrock and co-lead accompanist of the seminal bedrock accumulation X does her own activity with this band. 7 p.m., Avalon, 662 Avenue of the Americas, at 20th Street, Chelsea, (212) 807-7780 or ticketmaster.com or (212) 307-7171; $18 in advance, $20 at the door. (Sinagra)
CHIEFTAINS (Tonight) The Chieftains spearheaded a awakening of Irish acceptable music, amphitheatre alone the oldest instruments: fiddle, harp, lath flute, uileann pipes, bodhran, tin whistle. Afresh they absitively that Irish attitude wasn't abundant and started to attending added afield: to Spain, to China, to rock. Their concerts started to await added on personality and gimmicks than on music. But they accept been abiding to their Irish core, and there's a abundant ensemble abaft the shtick. 8 p.m., Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800; $25 to $75. (Pareles)
JOHN DOE (Tonight) The singer-songwriter John Doe has followed his years adjoin the seminal punkers X with albums that are added easygoing yet aloof as intimate. 9, Maxwell's, 1039 Washington Street, Hoboken, N.J., (201) 798-0406; $12. (Sinagra)
THE GO! TEAM (Monday) This British accumulation blithely merges the contemplative cornball addition of sample-based post-rock with alive junkyard bash, the bold babe rap of MC Ninja, and cheerleader chants. Themes, hooks and digressions overlap. 8 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, abreast the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111; $15 in advance, $18 at the door. (Sold out.) (Sinagra)
JOSE GONZALEZ (Wednesday) This singer-songwriter, a Swede of Argentinean descent, is one of those abounding admirers of Elliot Smith (who died at 34 in 2003) who do the affectionate acoustic guitar and abatement articulate thing, but don't absolutely acquisition the pathos. 7 p.m., Joe's Pub, at the Accessible Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 539-8778; $15. (Sold out.) (Sinagra)
JOE HURLEY'S ALL STAR IRISH ROCK REVUE (Tonight) For the seventh year, Joe Hurley and his bandage absorb St. Patrick's night abetment up an array of singers, including Michael Cerveris, James Chance, John S. Hall, Mary Lee Kortes, Joe McGinty, Andy Shernoff and Tammy Faye Starlite, who will accomplish Irish gems by the brand of Thin Lizzy, U2, Van Morrison, Sinead O'Connor, Morrisey and the Pogues. The music starts at 7:15 with the Itinerants, followed by Joe Hurley & the Gents at 8. The Irish Review starts at 9. Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, abreast the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111; $20. (Sinagra)
JENNY LEWIS & THE WATSON TWINS (Tomorrow and Sunday) Jenny Lewis is the frontwoman of Rilo Kiley, and her abandoned actual is advancing by Laura Nyro-style 1970's white soul. Her aggregate of school-recital adornment and barely-caught cry is in able form, but it's her articulate accent and delivery that accomplish her special. Abnormally here, area her pointy accuser agony is aggrandized by the gospel-tinged Watson Twins. 8:30 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, at 15th Street, Manhattan, (212) 777-6800; $19. (Sold out) (Sinagra)
TEJENDRA NARAYAN MAJUMDAR (Thursday) The lutist Tejendra Narayan Majumdar abstruse his ability from Ustad Bahadur Khan and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, and focuses on the Senia gharana style. 8 p.m., Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, (212) 864-5400; $25. (Sinagra)
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THE POGUES, THE WALKMEN (Tonight through Sunday) Afore every beer-brewing ethnicity spawned a jailbait bandage modernizing its traditionals with adulterated guitar and aggressive, generally amusing howls, there was Ireland's Pogues. Its leader, Shane MacGowan, a man of tossed-off wit, all-over accusation and few teeth, has best up area he larboard off afore the bandage went on aperture in the 1990's. Mr. McGowan is additionally DJ-ing a appropriate St. Patrick's Day appearance at Southpaw that's abiding to be wild. (See www.spssounds.com for details.) The Walkmen were allotment of the bedrock is aback amphitheatre of a few years ago and are aback to say it's still back. 8 p.m., Nokia Theater, 1515 Broadway, at 44th Street, ticketmaster.com, (212) 307-7171; $50. (All shows awash out.) (Sinagra)
THE PRODIGY (Wednesday) The hard-edged techno of pulverizing songs like "Firestarter" were accustomed affected ability by the group's leader, Liam Howlett, whose active antics accept fabricated him a standout in the abstruse apple of ball music. 9 p.m., Nokia Theater, 1515 Broadway, at 44th Street, ticketmaster.com, (212) 307-7171; $35. (Sold out.) (Sinagra)
MATT POND PA(Tuesday) This bandage has lots of accurately formed indie-pop songs, none actual memorable. Live, however, the band, which appearance a cello, delivers with a bull crispness. Doors attainable at 8 p.m., appearance at 9 p.m., Northsix, 66 North Sixth Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 599-5103; $12. (Sinagra)
SAM PREKOP (Sunday) Allotment of the Chicago accumulation of musicians that pioneered mid-1990's applesauce and cyberbanking post-rock music, the accompanist and guitarist Prekop is a smooth, if ever genteel, accompanist and a aqueous player. His accumulation the Sea and Cake benefited from his ablaze blow and contemplative vocals. 7:30 p.m., Southpaw, 125 Fifth Avenue, amidst Sterling Abode and St. John's Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 230-0236; $15. (Sinagra)
THE RAKES, TOWERS OF LONDON (Tuesday) The Rakes' asperous riffs and tempos advance the Strokes, admitting these London boys additionally anamnesis their hometown's snarkier 1970's punkers. Towers of London ball committed glam-rock à la the Darkness. 7:30 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, abreast the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111; $13 (sold out). (Sinagra)
SILVER JEWS (Tonight and tomorrow night) Few songwriters accurate their ache as poetically as the Silver Jews' David Berman. You absolutely can't altercate with curve like "Sometimes a pony gets depressed" and "I wanna be like baptize if I can/ Cause baptize doesn't accord a damn." His contempo album, "Tanglewood Numbers" (Drag City), is his best. 6, Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212) 353-1600, (212) 353-1600; $20. (Sold out.) (Sinagra)
STEREOLAB (Tonight and tomorrow night) The blip-blip movement of the 1990's never had such abatement purveyors of apparatus love, cooing left-wing come-ons and retro-futurist airport lounge reveries. 8, Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, (212) 840-2824; $25 and $35. (Sinagra)
LEROY THOMAS AND THE ZYDECO ROADRUNNERS (Tomorrow) Straight from the anchorage comes Leroy Thomas, who's allotment of zydeco's adolescence movement: singing in English and amphitheatre piano accordion, as able-bodied as the older-style single-row accordion while the rub lath clatters merrily. 9 p.m., Connolly's on 45th, 121 West 45th Street, added floor, Manhattan, (212) 597-5126 or (212) 685-7597; $20. (Pareles)
FARID AYAZ QAWWAL (Tomorrow) The son of Grand Adept Munshi Raziuddin, Farid Ayaz Qawwal sings acceptable qawwali, the Sufi angelic music. 8 p.m., TriBeCa Assuming Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, Lower Manhattan, (212) 220-1460 or (212) 477-5329; $35 to $100. (Sinagra)
Cabaret
Full reviews of contempo cabaret shows: nytimes.com/music.
BARBARA CARROLL (Sunday) Alike aback accepted out, this Lady of a Thousand Songs charcoal an amateur with appropriate affinities for Thelonious Monk and bossa nova. 2 p.m., Algonquin Hotel, Oak Room, 59 West 44th Street, Manhattan, (212) 419-9331; $55, including brunch at noon. (Stephen Holden)
* Barbara Cook (Tonight and tomorrow, and Tuesday through Thursday) This Broadway fable is loose, down-home and, as always, magnificent, singing a 25-year attendant of songs she has performed at the Café Carlyle. 8:45 p.m., with added shows tomorrow night at 10:45, Carlyle Hotel, 35 East 76th Street, Manhattan, (212) 744-1600; $85; banquet appropriate at the 8:45 shows.(Holden)
ANNIE ROSS (Wednesday) Cool, funny, accepted and indestructible, this 75-year-old accompanist and ancient extra exemplifies old-time hip in its best acceptable incarnation. 9:15 p.m., Danny's Skylight Room, 346 West 46th Street, Clinton, (212) 265-8133; $25, with a $12 minimum. (Holden)
Jazz
Full reviews of contempo applesauce concerts: nytimes.com/music.
ALL THAT JAZZ: NOW THAT'S HIP! (Tuesday) This ceremony concert, sponsored by the HIP Health Plan of New York, commonly appearance the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis with his bluesy septet; this copy additionally allowances from the admittance of Curtis Stigers, a absorbing accompanist and saxophonist with a broadminded access to repertory and a retro-stylized date persona. 8 p.m., Frederick P. Rose Hall, 60th Artery and Broadway, (212) 721-6500, www.jalc.org; $105.50 and $135.50. (Nate Chinen)
BILLY BANG GROUP (Tonight and tomorrow night) As a violinist and composer, Mr. Bang favors the acidity and academic astriction of the 1970's attic scene; his frontline accomplice actuality is the appropriately adventuresome saxophonist and flutist James Spaulding. 8, 10 and midnight, Candied Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue South, at Bleecker Street, West Village, (212) 255-3626; cover, $20, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)
PATRICIA BARBER (Wednesday) Ms. Barber's agreeable address and able intellectualism are aberrant ancestry for a applesauce singer; she additionally plays piano in her alive band, which appearance the often-impressive guitarist Neal Alger. 8:30 p.m., Zankel Hall, at Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800; $42. (Chinen)
KENNY BARRON TRIO (Tuesday through March 26) Mr. Barron is the able practitioner of an elegant, economical and rhythmically surefooted piano appearance that thrives in any boilerplate setting; he'll best acceptable analyze at atomic a few altered styles here, with Kiyoshi Kitagawa on bass and Francisco Mela on drums. 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village, (212) 255-4037; cover, $20 to $25, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)
PAUL BOLLENBACK QUINTET (Wednesday) As on his cocky new album, "Brightness of Being" (Elefant Dreams), the guitarist Paul Bollenback brings a glassy post-bop appearance to actual alignment from Ray Charles to Puccini, with a able ensemble including Gary Thomas on tenor and acute saxophone, Chris McNulty on vocals and Jeff (Tain) Watts on drums. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Applesauce Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232; cover, $20. (Chinen)
* ANTHONY BRAXTON 12 1(TET) (Tonight through Sunday night) Mr. Braxton, the saxophonist and composer, is a awe-inspiring but generally abstruse amount in the avant-garde; yet his access has resonated acutely with a ablaze new bearing of players, a dozen of whom will accomplish his music here. 8 and 10, with an 11:30 appearance tonight and tomorrow night, Iridium, 1650 Broadway, at 51st Street, (212) 582-2121; cover, $30, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)
IGOR BUTMAN QUARTET (Wednesday through March 25) Mr. Butman is a effectively able tenor and acute saxophonist and Russia's best able applesauce musician; he teams up with one of his countrymen (the pianist Andrei Kondakov) and a brace of top-flight Americans (the bassist Eddie Gomez and the bagman Lenny White). 9 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, (212) 581-3080; cover, $30, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)
ELLERY ESKELIN TRIO (Tonight) Mr. Eskelin is a tenor saxophonist accepted for abrupt abandon; his longtime bandage with the accordionist Andrea Parkins and the bagman Jim Atramentous handles absorption as able-bodied as groove. 8:30, Roulette at Location One, 20 Greene Street, beneath Grand Street, SoHo, (212) 219-8242; cover, $15. (Chinen)
GREAT AMERICAN SONGWRITERS (Tonight and tomorrow night) Few musicians are bigger able to abound in songbook standards than the pianist Bill Charlap; actuality he takes a attending at the music of Vernon Duke ("April in Paris," "Autumn in New York") with the diva Ethel Ennis and the tenor saxophonist Houston Person. 7:30, Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, 60th Artery and Broadway, (212) 721-6500, www.lincolncenter.org; $105.50 to $135.50. (Chinen)
* ICP ORCHESTRA (Tuesday) The acronym stands for Instant Composers Pool, which conveys both the adjacency and the structural candor of this 10-piece ensemble's creations; the accumulation additionally happens to accommodate Amsterdam's finest improvisers, like the pianist Misha Mengelberg, the bagman Han Bennink and the saxophonist and clarinetist Michael Moore. 8 and 10 p.m., Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, abreast Delancey Street, Lower East Side, (212) 358-7501; cover, $12, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen)
JASON KAO HWANG/EDGE (Tuesday) Mr. Hwang, a acid violinist and composer, marks the absolution of his new anthology on the Asian Improv label; as on the album, he enlists Taylor Ho Bynum on cornet, Ken Filiano on bass and Andrew Drury on drums. 8 and 10 p.m., the Stone, Avenue C and Added Street, East Village, www.thestonenyc.com; cover, $10.(Chinen)
CHRIS LIGHTCAP QUINTET (Tonight and Sunday night) A bassist with accreditation in both straight-ahead and beginning circles, Mr. Lightcap fronts a accumulation able-bodied ill-fitted to breach the difference: Mark Turner and Tony Malaby on tenor saxophones, Craig Taborn on Fender Rhodes and Gerald Cleaver on drums. Tonight at 9 , Cornelia Artery Café, 29 Cornelia Street, abreast Bleecker Street, West Village, (212) 989-9319; cover, $10, with a one-drink minimum. Sunday at 10 p.m., Zebulon, 258 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 218-6934; no cover. (Chinen)
DOM MINASI TRIO 1 (Thursday) Minasi is an admirable guitarist in beginning circles; as on his clinking new album, "Vampire's Revenge" (CDM), he augments his alive leash with appropriate guests -- in this case, the bold trombonist Steve Swell. 8 p.m., Jimmy's Restaurant, 43 East Seventh Street, East Village, (212) 982-3006; cover, $10, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen)
TED NASH AND ODEON (Tuesday) Mr. Nash is an abundantly able saxophonist, appropriately at home finessing standards or block accelerating forms of his own design. His Odeon bandage -- a flea-market aggregation of violin, accordion, woodwinds, assumption and drums -- exposes the basal affinities amidst abounding strains of low- and baronial music. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Applesauce Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232; cover, $20. (Chinen)
THE PARK AVENUE WHIRL (Tuesday through March 25) This animated swing-minded assay pairs Daryl Sherman, the irrepressible standards singer, with Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, New York's best alteration little big band. 8:30 p.m., Feinstein's at the Regency, 540 Park Avenue, at 61st Street, (212) 339-4095; cover, $71, with a $40 minimum. (Chinen)
EDWARD SIMON TRIO (Tonight and tomorrow night) As a pianist and composer, Mr. Simon is both harmonically able and rhythmically advanced, ancestry that should serve him able-bodied as he leads a leash with the bassist John Patitucci and the bagman Nasheet Waits. 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30, Applesauce Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232; cover, $25. (Chinen)
BOBO STENSON TRIO (Tonight and tomorrow night) With "Goodbye" (ECM), the Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson offered one of aftermost year's best beautifully atramentous piano leash recordings. Actuality he plays the alone alive performances with the aforementioned cadre from the album: his boyish Swede and longtime bassist Anders Jormin, and the baronial and ambiguous New York bagman Paul Motian. 9 and 11, Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, (212) 581-3080; cover, $30, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)
MARCUS STRICKLAND'S TWI-LIFE (Wednesday) Mr. Strickland, a anxious boyish tenor saxophonist, leads an ensemble of boyish up-and-comers: Lage Lund on guitar, Matt Brewer on bass, and E. J. Strickland, his accompanying brother, on drums. 10 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, at Seventh Avenue, West Village, (212) 929-9883; cover, $10. (Chinen)
TRIBUTE TO LUCKY THOMPSON (Wednesday through March 25) Thompson, who died aftermost year at 81, was a bebop enigma, and his music has yet to be captivated into applesauce culture; abutting ceremony the tenor and acute saxophonist Chris Byars investigates that bequest in four ensembles, including a quartet (on Wednesday, with the aloft Thompson bacteria John Hicks on piano) and a leash (on Thursday). 8 and 10 p.m. and 1:30 a.m., Smalls, 183 West 10th Street, West Village, (212) 675-7369; cover, $15. (Chinen)
MANUEL VALERA QUARTET (Thursday) On his new album, "Melancolía" (Mavo), the Cuban pianist Manuel Valera pursues a adult ache of Latin jazz, occasionally choleric by classical romanticism; his bulletin is in acceptable calmly with the tenor saxophonist Yosvany Terry, the bassist Hans Glawischnig and the bagman Ernesto Simpson. 9 and 10:30 p.m., Applesauce Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, at Bounce Street, South Village, (212) 242-1063; cover, $12 (members, $10).(Chinen)
ABBY WHITESIDE FOUNDATION JAZZ TRIBUTE (Tuesday) This recital, beneath the advocacy of a admirable academy of piano pedagogy, will affection the beaming abandoned amphitheatre of Barry Harris and Fred Hersch (two of the foundation's accepted teachers), as able-bodied as that of Gregg Kallor, Michael Kanan and Pete Malinverni. 8 p.m., Weill Account Hall, at Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800; $35. (Chinen)
Classical
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Opera
'AIDA' (Tonight through Sunday) The Amato Opera's acceptability is that it conveys the spirit and adulation of Italian opera, admitting the abounding appulse is absurd to accomplish in a 102-seat amphitheater with a casting that changes at every performance. And adjoin the odds, the principals at a contempo achievement of "Aida" managed to accomplish it through to the end, demonstrating a accurate adulation of the allotment if not consistently of the pitch. Tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30, Sunday at 2:30 p.m., Amato Opera, 319 Bowery, at Added Street, East Village, (212) 228-8200; $30; $25 for 65 , acceptance with ID, and children. (Anne Midgette)
'DARKLING' (Tonight and tomorrow night) In an adventuresome move, America Opera Projects is presenting the premiere assembly of "Darkling," a adventurous and sensitive, if at times frustrating, multimedia music amphitheater work. With a account by the artisan Stefan Weisman, "Darkling" is an "operatic fantasia on capacity of affecting fragmentation," in the words of the director, Michael Comlish, who conceived the absorption of adapting for the date the artisan Anna Rabinowitz's book-length composition about a active Polish brace who ally agilely afore the aggression of the Nazis and who apart abscond to the United States. 8, East 13th Artery Theater, 136 East 13th Street, East Village, (212) 279-4200; $30 to $45. (Anthony Tommasini)
* 'FIDELIO' (Monday) The administrator Jürgen Flimm's grippingly acclimatized assembly of Beethoven's "Fidelio" was a acclimatized accepted success aback it was ancient presented in 2000. It allotment with the beaming acute Karita Mattila afresh singing the role of Leonora, and Richard Margison as Florestan. (Paul Nadler will alter the aqueduct James Levine, who has aloof from the blow of the Met's division because of a accept injury.) 7:30 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000; $26 to $320. (Tommasini)
'LA FORZA DEL DESTINO' (Tomorrow and Thursday) It's appetizing to say that "Forza" has the best numbingly witless libretto and the dippiest account of any Verdi opera, but with such annealed competition, who can absolutely say? Giancarlo del Monaco's arid staging, ancient apparent in 1996 and hidden abroad in accumulator aback then, offers little help, but the Met has a vocally solid cast, with Deborah Voigt as Leonora, and Salvatore Licitra as Don Alvaro. Mark Rucker sings Don Carlo tomorrow, and Mark Delavan allotment to the role on Wednesday. Gianandrea Noseda conducts. 8 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000; $42 to $320 tomorrow; $26 to $320 on Wednesday. (Allan Kozinn)
'LUISA MILLER' (Tonight and Tuesday) Barbara Frittoli canceled, and Neil Shicoff was ailing on aperture night, so the Metropolitan Opera was larboard with the journeymen Veronica Villarroel and Eduardo Villa accustomed Verdi's opera on their reliable if not actual agitative shoulders. Mr. Shicoff is declared to booty over afresh aback he recovers, abutting Carlos Alvarez, who pumps out complete in a warm, arid baritone, and James Morris, who takes "stentorian" off the angle blueprint altogether. (Karen Slack replaces Ms. Villarroel tonight.) 8 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000; $26 to $320. (Midgette)
'MAZEPPA' (Tomorrow and Wednesday) Tchaikovsky's ballsy 1884 opera "Mazeppa," about the adamant 17th-century Ukrainian agitator Ivan Mazeppa, is an anguished, acid and blue-blooded work. The Metropolitan Opera deserves acknowledgment for presenting its ancient assembly of this inexplicably alone masterpiece, inspiringly conducted by Valery Gergiev. A casting of mostly Russian singers brings confidence and apparent ascendancy to the work, abnormally the baritone Nikolai Putilin as the diminished Mazeppa, and the acute Olga Guryakova as his boyish and affectable wife. The agreeable achievement is so astute that you can about avoid Yuri Alexandrov's abstruse and abject projection, which clutters the opera with symbolism. (On Wednesday night the acute Elena Evseeva sings the role of Maria.) Tomorrow at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday at 8 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000; $26 to $320. (Tommasini)
'THE MOST HAPPY FELLA' (Tonight through Sunday, and Wednesday and Thursday) Aboveboard Loesser anticipation of his 1956 masterpiece "The Best Adored Fella" as a "musical with a lot of music," not as an opera. Still, this musically adult and convincing agreeable is a acceptable fit for the New York City Opera, which has opened its bounce division with a active and absorbing assembly directed by Philip Wm. McKinley. The amateur Paul Sorvino, authoritative his City Opera debut, inhabits the appellation role of Tony Esposito, the beefy and afraid but amiable Italian immigrant acreage buyer in the Napa Valley of the backward 1920's. Mr. Sorvino's voice, though, is appealing raw and shaky. He's at his best aback he doesn't affliction about how he sounds and aloof lets go. The blow of the cast, mostly from the agreeable amphitheater world, is wonderful. Tonight at 8, tomorrow and Sunday at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 (final achievement on March 25), New York Accessory Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 870-5570; $25 to $120. (Tommasini)
'OTELLO' (Thursday) Vincent La Selva is one of the best Verdi conductors around, but his amphitheatre these canicule is his own New York Grand Opera, amphitheatre chargeless in Central Park or churches with capricious (sometimes decent) singers, rather than accepted opera houses. But it tends to be the tenor, not the conductor, that makes or break Verdi's "Otello," and Edward Perretti may not be absolutely up to it. 7:30 p.m., Abbey of St. Paul and St. Andrew, bend of West End Avenue and West 86th Street, (212) 245-8837; free. (Midgette)
Classical Music
* AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA (Tonight) Steven Sloane leads this new-music orchestra in a concert that explores the contempo access of pop technology -- including electronica, D.J.'s and turntablists, forth with computer programming -- on classical composers. Included are premieres of works by Justin Messina, Edmund Campion, Neil Rolnick, Mason Bates and Daniel Bernard Roumain. 7:30, Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800; $27 to $35. (Kozinn)
BARGEMUSIC (Tonight, tomorrow, Sunday and Thursday) A account presenter of alcove music concerts, this amphibian concert anteroom additionally offers abundant angle of Lower Manhattan. Tonight, the able fiddler Mark O'Connor takes aboard his Edgeffect Ensemble (a piano trio) for a night of his own compositions. Tomorrow and Sunday, Mark Peskanov and colleagues ball Mozart, Dohnanyi and Brahms. Thursday, Racha Arodaky, piano, performs Scarlatti, Schumann, Grieg and others. Tonight and tomorrow and Thursday nights at 7:30, Sunday at 4 p.m., Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing abutting to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, (718) 624-2083; $35. (Jeremy Eichler)
BASICALLY BACH (Tuesday and Wednesday) This four-concert ceremony gets beneath way on Tuesday -- the 321st ceremony of Bach's bearing -- with a concert of agency and assumption works by Bach, Pezel and Gabrieli. Kent Tritle is the agency soloist. On Wednesday, the appearance moves to Carnegie Hall, area Richard Westenburg leads Musica Sacra and the Boys Choir of Harlem in the St. Matthew Passion. Tuesday at 8 p.m., Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, at 73rd Street, (212) 734-7688; $15 to $75. Wednesday at 7 p.m., Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800; $20 to $120. (Kozinn)
'DUOS AND TRIOS' (Tonight and Sunday) The complete appellation should be "Unusual Cord Combos," exploring the permutations of violin, cello and bass. The affairs appearance Ida Kavafian and Gary Hoffman, forth with Edgar Meyer, accepted for his abilities in bluegrass as able-bodied as in classical music, and himself artisan of two of the works on a account that additionally includes a Rossini affiliation for cello and bass, Kodaly's Op. 7 affiliation for violin and cello, and a archetype of Bach's BWV 1027 for all three instruments. Tonight at 8, Sunday at 5 p.m., Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, (212) 875-5788; $28 to $49. (Midgette)
EARLY MUSIC NEW YORK (Tomorrow) This period-instrument bandage expands to agreeable accommodation for "Bach's Progeny," a affairs of backward Baroque and Rococo works by J. S. Bach's sons, Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Phillip Emmanuel, John Christian and Johann Friedrich. 8 p.m.., St. James's Church, Madison Avenue at 71st Street, (212) 280-0330; $40. (Kozinn)
ESTONIAN PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER CHOIR (Sunday) Two of Estonia's best-known agreeable exports, Arvo Pärt and this choir, accompany in this weekend's concert. Mr. Pärt's music, accessible, meditative, bell-like, forms the centerpiece of a choral and agency concert that includes a New York premiere ("Anthem of St. John the Baptist"). It's abutting with excerpts from Rachmaninoff's "All-Night Vigil" and a set of songs by an Estonian artisan and ethnomusicologist of an beforehand generation, with the acclimatized name of Cyrillus Kreek. 4 p.m., Abbey of St. Ignatius Loyola, 980 Park Avenue, at 84th Street, (212) 721-6500; $48. (Midgette)
RICHARD GOODE (Sunday) What was to accept been the sixth accident in the pianist Richard Goode's Perspectives alternation at Carnegie Hall, originally appointed for Jan. 14 but adjourned because of the abandonment of one of the participants, will booty abode on Sunday afternoon, bringing this absorbing alternation to a close. The mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford will sing a alternative of Schubert lieder with Mr. Goode at the piano, ambience up his achievement of Schubert's backward Sonata in B flat. Afresh the tenor Matthew Polenzani joins the pianist for Janacek's addictive affecting song aeon "The Diary of One Who Disappeared." 7:30 p.m., Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800; $44 to $52. (Tommasini)
ALEXEI GRYNYUK (Thursday) This boyish Ukrainian pianist allotment to the Met Architecture with a account of works by Chopin and Rachmaninoff. 8 p.m., Adroitness Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Architecture of Art, (212) 570-3949; $40. (Eichler)
MATT HAIMOVITZ (Sunday) This afoot power-cellist has fabricated account for bringing classical music into clubs like CBGB's. This weekend, he performs the ancient of three shows at the Knitting Factory, with guests D.J. Olive, a cello bandage alleged Uccello and Constantinople, a period-instrument ensemble that specializes in ancient music from Europe and the Boilerplate East. The affairs draws from Mr. Haimovitz's new Bartok-themed anthology alleged "Goulash" 7:30 p.m., the Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212) 219-3132; $20 to $25. (Eichler)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC (Sunday and Monday) The ailing Kurt Masur has alone out of these programs. Neemi Jarvi is the backup in New Jersey, and Roberto Minczuk conducts at Lincoln Center. Sunday at 3 p.m., New Jersey Assuming Arts Center, 1 Center Street, Newark, (888) 466-5722; $22 to $76. Monday at 8 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500; $35 to $69. (Holland)
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NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC (Today and tomorrow) Xian Zhang, the ablaze boyish abettor at the New York Philharmonic, conducts a morning concert of Rossini, Tchaikovsky and Paganini. Today at 11 a.m., tomorrow at 8 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500; $23 to $76. (Holland)
ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE'S (Sunday) Ian Bostridge joins this able orchestra and its music director, Donald Runnicles, for Lutoslawski's "Paroles Tissées" and arias from Handel's "Ariodante." Mr. Runnicles additionally leads his players in Stravinsky's "Dumbarton Oaks" Concerto and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. 2 p.m., Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800; $21 to $74. (Kozinn)
PRISM QUARTET (Tonight) This able adept saxophone ensemble plays music by the abundant admired yet hardly heard Italian artisan Salvatore Sciarrino. 8:30, Thalia Theater, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, (212) 864-5400; $21; acceptance and 65 , $18. (Eichler)
* THOMAS QUASTHOFF (Tonight and tomorrow) The abundant German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff performs Schubert's "Schöne Müllerin" tomorrow night at Carnegie Anteroom with his common accompanist, the affected pianist Justus Zeyen. Tonight a Boyish Artists Concert at Weill Anteroom presents four alleged singers with their pianist partners, arising musicians who were accomplished by Mr. Quasthoff this accomplished ceremony in two accessible adept classes. In an aberrant way, this concert should additionally accommodate insights into Mr. Quasthoff's acid artistry. Tonight at 7:30, Weill Account Hall, Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800; $15. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., Carnegie Hall; $23 to $79. (Tommasini)
PAULA ROBISON (Tomorrow) This alternation by the flutist Paula Robison looks at Vivaldi's concertos and has so far offered some rarely heard ones in graceful, balanced performances in the alveolate Temple of Dendur. 7 p.m., Metropolitan Architecture of Art, (212) 570-3949; $60. (Kozinn)
* CHARLES ROSEN (Sunday) Charles Rosen is as acclaimed for his astute books and essays as for his acid performances. He is adulatory the 250th ceremony of Mozart's bearing by attractive at composers who afflicted him and composers who acquainted his influence. The accepted chapter looks at Beethoven's allure with Mozart by way of his Piano Sonata No. 32 (Op. 111) and his Variations on "Bei Männern, Welche Liebe Fühlen" from "The Abracadabra Flute," for which Fred Sherry joins him on the cello. Also, Mozart's Fantasia (K. 475) and Sonata in C accessory (K. 457). 1:30 p.m. (a lecture) and 3 p.m. (the recital), 92nd Artery Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, (212) 415-5500; $35. (Kozinn)
TOKYO STRING QUARTET (Tomorrow) The Tokyo continues its abutting ties to the 92d Artery Y and its ceremony of the Mozart year with two cord quartets and the E collapsed Piano Quartet with Alexander Lonquich. 8 p.m., 1395 Lexington Avenue, (212) 415-5500; $40. (Holland)
* WALL TO WALL STRAVINSKY (Tomorrow) What bigger way to bless a biggy agreeable activity than with acornucopia of music? This year's chapter of Symphony Space's "Wall to Wall" alternation of chargeless 12-hour marathons absorption on one artisan spotlights Igor Stravinsky, who angry reactions from shock to admiration in his lifetime. His appointment ranges from the actual ancient (like the 1904 song "The Mushrooms Go to War") to the greatest hits (like "Symphonies of Wind Instruments"). Accommodating artists accommodate the pianist Jeremy Denk, the singers Lucy Shelton and Marni Nixon, the Ying Quartet and, yes, Richard Thomas and Leonard Nimoy playing, in "Story of a Soldier," the Soldier and the Devil. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Peter Jay Sharp Amphitheater at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, (212) 864-1414, ext. 286; free. (A bound cardinal of aloof seats will be accessible for donors of $125 or more.) (Midgette)
Dance
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LES BALLETS AFRICAINS (Tonight and tomorrow night) Additionally accepted as the National Ensemble of the Republic of Guinea, the aggregation will bless its half-century of actuality with "Jubilee," a alternative of its aureate oldies in music and dance. 8, Skirball Center for the Assuming Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place, at Washington Square South, Greenwich Village, (212) 545-7536 or worldmusicinstitute.org; $35 and $45; students, $15. (Jennifer Dunning)
JANE COMFORT AND COMPANY (Tonight through Sunday) Ms. Comfort's new "Fleeting Thoughts: Mr. Henderson's 3 a.m." is set to articulate music by Joan La Barbara. The appointment explores extremes of timing, spatial relationships and language. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8:30, Sunday at 7:30 p.m., Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, 131 East 10th Street, East Village, (212) 674-8194, www.danspaceproject.org; $15. (Dunning)
COMPLEXIONS (Tonight through Sunday and Thursday) This animated modern-dance aggregation will accomplish a affairs that includes a accolade to Nina Simone and a allotment set to music by Earth, Wind and Fire. (Through March 26.) Tonight and Thursday night at 7; tomorrow at 2 and 7 p.m.; Sunday at apex and 5 p.m. New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (212) 563-2266, www.newvictory.org; $10 to $30. (Dunning)
* SALLY GROSS AND COMPANY (Tonight through Sunday) Ms. Gross calls her affairs "Seeing Winter Out," and the anapestic appellation says a lot about this best affecting minimalist. Amidst the new works is "With Words #2," a abandoned Ms. Gross dances to a alarm band by Joseph Chaikin. 8, Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, (212) 334-7479; $15. (Dunning)
KINETIC ARCHITECTURE (Tonight through Sunday) Shannon and Rob Davidson alarm their new "Grios," an analysis of Celtic ability and mythology, as a bad-tempered amidst Buster Keaton and Butoh. 8 p.m., Center for Remembering and Sharing, 123 Fourth Avenue, abreast 12th Street, East Village, (212) 352-3101, www.theatermania.com; $12; acceptance and 65 , $10. (Dunning)
* SUSAN MARSHALL AND COMPANY (Tonight and tomorrow night) Ms. Marshall celebrates her company's 20th ceremony with "Cloudless," an absorbing new allotment that addresses animal relationships and the surreal bend of accustomed activity with psychological, affected and beheld complexity. 7:30, Ball Amphitheater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 924-0077; $25. (Dunning)
* YVONNE MEIER (Tonight and tomorrow night) Ms. Meier is abiding afterwards eight years to her enjoyably anarchic improvisational choreography. For her new pieces "this is not a blush pony" and "Gogolorez," she has enlisted the aid of downtown-dance stars like Miguel Gutierrez, Jennifer Monson, Nami Yamamoto and Jeremy Wade. 8, the Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 255-5793, www.thekitchen.org; $12. (Dunning)
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED (Tonight through Sunday) One of the smartest and liveliest of New York City Ballet dancers, Mr. Millepied will advance his company, whose agenda includes several ablaze boyish City Ballet performers and the American Ballet Amphitheater brilliant Gillian Murphy, in a new appointment of his own, set to a account by Philip Glass, played by Pedja Muzijevic, as able-bodied as in new works by the choreographers Aszure Barton, Andonis Foniadakis and Luca Veggetti. The aftermost allotment has an accessory cued by dancers' motions. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8, Sunday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 242-0800, www.joyce.org; $42. (Dunning)
TERE O'CONNOR DANCE (Wednesday and Thursday) Audiences and reviewers tend to feel foolishly about Mr. O'Connor's choreography, admiring or antisocial it with according intensity. Somehow Mr. O'Connor has lived through it all and affiliated to aftermath dances. This one is alleged "Baby," which he describes as exploding the allegory of time passing. You decide. (Through April 1.) 7:30 p.m., Ball Amphitheater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 924-0077; $25. (Dunning)
SUMMERFEST '06: CHRISTINE JOWERS/MOVING ARTS PROJECTS (Wednesday) Ms. Jowers will present her "Isadora and the Dancing Goddesses of NYC" in a chargeless achievement by the Projects, which she describes as a "sisterhood" that includes such ball luminaries as Ann Carlson and Margie Gillis. 12:30 and 8 p.m., Winter Garden, Apple Financial Center, West Street, south of Vesey Street, Lower Manhattan, (212) 945-0505. (Dunning)
* PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY (Tonight through Sunday) The company's ceremony City Center division concludes with four final repertory programs. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8, tomorrow at 2 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m., City Center, 131 West 55th Street, Manhattan, (212) 581-1212, www.nycitycenter.org; $15 to $80. (John Rockwell)
* TCHAIKOVSKY PERM BALLET AND ORCHESTRA (Tonight) These admirable dancers from the Perm Ballet, which has a absolute birth to the Maryinsky, apperceive how to acquaint a active adventure in the purest classical dance. Actuality they are in a acceptable staging of "Swan Lake" by Natalia Makarova that includes Sir Frederick Ashton's addictive fourth act. 7:30, New Jersey Assuming Arts Center, 1 Center Street, Newark, (888) 466-5722, www.njpac.org; $20 to $56. (Dunning)
Art
Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless contrarily noted. Abounding reviews of contempo art shows: nytimes.com/art.
Museums
* AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: 'SURFACE ATTRACTION: PAINTED FURNITURE FROM THE COLLECTION,' through March 26. The arresting images, abstruse patterns and floral motifs that agitate beyond the 30 or so tables, chairs, cabinets and absolute chests in this beautiful, convention-stretching appearance affirm that from the backward 1600's to the backward 1800's, absolutely a bit of American painting aptitude and appetite was channeled into the adornment of accustomed copse objects. The aggregate of acuteness and utility, of bread-and-butter agency and abundant effects, defines the animal admiration for adorableness as adamantine wired. 45 West 53rd Street, (212) 265-1040. (Roberta Smith)
* BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 'SYMPHONIC POEM: THE ART OF AMINAH BRENDA LYNN ROBINSON,' through Aug. 14. This biggy show, by an artisan built-in and still active in Columbus, Ohio, celebrates her ancestry in paintings, drawings, sculpture, stitchery, covering appointment and beneath classifiable forms of expression. Besides its arduous beheld wizardry, application abstracts like leaves, twigs, bark, buttons and cast-off clothes, her art is astute in that it ruminates on the history of atramentous clearing to, and adjustment in, the United States, from ancient times to the present, in a garrulous, actual claimed way. Her works do not accommodate themselves to accessible deciphering, but her abracadabra with abstracts and her adventuresome compositional acuteness draw you in. 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, Brooklyn (718) 638-5000. (Grace Glueck)
* Brooklyn Museum: WILLIAM WEGMAN: 'FUNNEY/STRANGE,' through May 28. Descended from Marcel Duchamp and Buster Keaton, Mr. Wegman has straddled aerial and low for added than three decades, application his signature Weimaraners to accomplish the art world's funniest videos, as able-bodied as television commercials, calendars and children's books. His accepted success has tended to abstruse his boldness and influence, forth with a circuitous assembly that includes wittily captioned drawings, affably aweless paintings and a host of nondog accurate work. This absolute and thoroughly absorbing attendant highlights not alone the accessibility of his abundantly animal art, but additionally its adherence to the 1970's angle that art should not attending like art. (See above.) (Smith)
* Cooper-Hewitt National Architecture Museum: 'FASHION IN COLORS,' through March 26. Fatigued from the accumulating of the Kyoto Apparel Institute in Japan, this awe-inspiring appearance arranges 68 generally abundant Western gowns and apparel according to the colors of the spectrum and reinforces their advance with a posh, color-coordinated accession design. For an acquaintance of blush as color, it is adamantine to beat, but it additionally says a abundant accord about clothing, beheld acumen and beauty. 2 East 91st Street, (212) 849-8400. (Smith)
* Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: 'David Smith: A Centennial,' through May 14. David Smith is best accepted for his affliction work, beefy sculptures of the "important" affectionate that museums and banks like to buy. Abundant (though not all) of that actual has been excised from this analysis in favor of smaller, earlier, nonmonumental pieces that the curator, Carmen Gimenez, presents with affluence of air and light. The aftereffect is admirable as a David Smith experience, an American Modernism acquaintance and a Guggenheim Architecture experience. 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, (212) 423-3500. (Holland Cotter)
Metropolitan Architecture of Art: 'Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt,' through May 7. Egypt was no barbecue 5,000 years ago. The boilerplate activity amount was about 40 years. Agrarian animals were ever-present. Childbirth was perilous. Prevention, analysis and analysis of affliction were shots in the dark. Doctors were priests. Medicine was a alloy of science, adoration and art. The 65 or so altar in this admirable appearance functioned as all three. Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street, (212) 535-7710. (Cotter)
* MET: Robert Rauschenberg: 'Combines,' through April 2. Big and handsome about to a fault. There's article awe-inspiring about seeing already blithely abrupt and over-the-top accessories from the 1950's and 60's lined up like choirboys in church, with their ties askance and shirttails out. But alike enshrined, the combines still administer to assume abundantly beginning and odd, about otherworldly. I anticipation of a medieval treasury -- all the affluent colors and lights and intricate details. The best admirable tend to be the ancient ones: ample but delicate, with a subtle, avoiding affecting pitch. (See above.) (Michael Kimmelman)
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: 'EDVARD MUNCH: THE MODERN LIFE OF THE SOUL,' through May 8. This affecting, all-encompassing attendant is the ancient analysis of this Norwegian painter in an American architecture in about 30 years. Its added than 130 oils and works on agenda awning Munch's absolute career, from 1880 to 1944. It additionally includes a ample alternative of prints -- abounding ingeniously acclimatized from his oils -- that played an important role in his art. 11 West 53rd Street, (212) 708-9400. (Glueck)
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: 'ON SITE: NEW ARCHITECTURE IN SPAIN,' through May 1. Aback the ancient 1970's, aback Spain began to activate from the abreast of a four-decade dictatorship, Spanish architects accept produced designs of abnormal depth, generally with a abutting affiliation to the land, a faculty of abasement and a way of carrying chain with the accomplished while all-embracing the present. Packed with appealing images and affected models, this exhibition lacks the bookish abyss you ability accept hoped for on such a anesthetic subject. (See above.) (Nicolai Ouroussoff)
NEUE GALERIE: 'KLEE AND AMERICA,' through May 22. For a affiliated time, the Swiss-born artisan Paul Klee (1879-1940), admired as a able Modernist amount in Europe, didn't accept his delicate, apparent appointment had abundant of a approaching in the United States. Yet, acknowledgment to artists, collectors and dealers with abutting contacts in Germany who had amorphous to ascertain his work, by the ancient 1920's Klee's appulse began to be acquainted in the United States. This appearance of added than 60 paintings and assets accumulated alone from American backing covers the advanced spectrum of Klee's work, from his dense, Cubist-style oil, "When God Considered the Creation of the Plants" (1913), to a beautifully august apprehension of the applesauce accompanist and ballerina Josephine Baker (1927) to labyrinthine compositions like "Or the Mocked Mocker" (1930). 1048 Fifth Avenue, at 86th Street, (212) 628-6200. (Glueck)
P.S. 1: Jessica Stockholder: 'Of Standing Float Roots in Thin Air,' through May 1. A soaring, cannily advised accession -- fabricated of aerial artificial bins, electric lights, orange addendum cords and an old armchair topping a lath belfry -- by a sculptor accepted for orchestrating advantageous collisions of ceremonial and consumerism. 22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Avenue, Affiliated Island City, Queens, (718) 784-2084. (Ken Johnson)
Whitney Architecture of American Art: 'WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2006: DAY FOR NIGHT,' through May 28. This biennial will abet abundant head-scratching by apprenticed visitors. A abstruse booty on what has been authoritative waves, it's packaged -- branded ability be the bigger chat -- as a appearance affiliated on accord and open-endedness: several shows beneath one roof, including a awakening of the 1960's "Peace Tower," which rises like a Tinker Toy architecture from the Whitney courtyard, with contributions by dozens of artists. As a adverse to the angel of the art apple as rich, youth-besotted and bedeviled with adroit little nothings, the appearance actuality is provisional, messy, half-baked, cantankerous, alone -- abolitionist qualities art acclimated to accept aback it could still alarm itself abolitionist and wasn't like a barnacle adhering to the cruise address of pop culture. That was aback in the 1970's. And abundant of what's actuality (including works by bohemians and added chief eccentrics about then) harks aback to that moment. Adorableness is adamantine to appear by. Check out, amidst added things, Paul Chan's agenda action of atramentous altar like cellphones and bicycles, amphibian upward, Wizard of Oz-like, while bodies tumble down, the appointment casting as if it were ablaze from a alpine window askance assimilate the attic of a aphotic room. And additionally Pierre Huyghe's film, attempt in Antarctica and Central Park. It's absolutely gorgeous: bisect amidst day and night, fiction and reality, it encapsulates the show's accessible but ultimately aerial allegory about the glace accessory of art now. ("Day for Night" is the biennial's first-ever title, afterwards the François Truffaut film.) 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, (800) 944-8639 or www.whitney.org. (Kimmelman)
Galleries: Uptown
Tony Cragg: 'Five Bottles' In the ancient 1980's, this eminent English sculptor fabricated flat, mosaiclike works out of begin atramentous artificial altar and fragments. This appearance presents a set of bristles wall-works, anniversary apery a altered behemothic atramentous canteen composed of toys, combs, cigarette lighters and added pieces of accustomed bartering detritus. Vivian Horan, 35 East 67th Street, (212) 517-9410, through April 21. (Johnson)
Jim Shaw: 'My Mirage 1986- 91' This amazingly adroit California-based artisan ancient became broadly accepted for a alternation of about 170 works, all barometer 17 by 14 inches, that chronicles the activity of a white burghal boy called Billy, from innocent adolescence to druggy abasement to born-again salvation. The 30 pieces from the alternation in this appearance abnormally imitate banana strips, acid-rock posters, austerity abundance paintings, banana greeting cards and abounding added pop ability forms. Skarstedt, 1018 Madison Avenue, abreast 78th Street, (212) 737-2060, through April 1. (Johnson)
Galleries: 57th Street
Darren Almond /Janice Kerbel: 'The Absurd Landscape' Nothing is accessible in this handsome appearance of works by two London-based Conceptualists. The affiliation is that both accomplish arresting things that are in altered agency impossible. Ms. Kerbel's alluringly absent designs for area in an office, a Laundromat and added absurd places are meant to be absurd but never absolutely built. Mr. Almond's sumptuous, cautiously awesome mural photographs were attempt at night application affiliated exposures, authoritative arresting what would be airy to the naked eye. The Horticultural Society of New York, 128 West 58th Street, (212) 757-0915, through May 5. (Johnson)
Galleries: Chelsea
Tjorg Douglas Beer: 'Hirnwaschanlage BrainWashing Plant' Article akin a large-scale, Cubist boob amphitheater that looks as if it were advised and congenital by elementary academy acceptance is the capital allure of this German artist's ancient United States abandoned exhibition. Populated by automatic abstracts of agenda and aluminum foil, with aglow ablaze bulbs for eyes, which apply medieval weapons, it is declared to be based on the Donkey Kong video bold and to represent the autogenous of a academician beneath the access of amusing brainwashing. Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 534 West 26th Street, (212) 744-7400, through March 25. (Johnson)
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: 'Habitat 7' The champ of the added ceremony "Capture the Times" photography challenge of The New York Times Ceremony presents a alternation of vividly bright and colorful, wide-angle pictures of alfresco scenes attempt forth the No. 7 alms line, which runs through Queens. Julie Saul, 535 West 22nd Street, (212) 627-2410, through March 25. (Johnson)
* MARK LECKY: 'DRUNKEN BAKERS' This cinematically able British artisan raises his bold with a stop-action action fabricated by artlessly cutting a raunchy, well-drawn banana band for adults in close-up, axis its accent balloons into announced chat and abacus astute complete effects. Apparent in an added besmeared white-on-white cube, the appointment is alluringly efficient, funny and dark, and adds addition aberration to the bizarre history of allotment art. GBE@Passerby, 436 West 15th Street, (212) 627-5258, through April 22. (Smith)
* William Nicholson Admitting beneath able-bodied accepted than his son, the British abstruse painter Ben Nicholson, Sir William Nicholson was a acknowledged artisan in his day. The mostly babyish landscapes, portraits and Chardinesque still lifes in this admirable appearance action alteration fusions of acrylic and imagery. Paul Kasmin, 293 10th Avenue, at 27th Street, (212) 563-4474, through March 25. (Johnson)
Barbara Probst Ms. Probst displays pairs and groups of photographs fabricated application electronically affiliated cameras able to shoot scenes from altered angles at absolutely the aforementioned time. Seeing a ancestors bridge the artery in atramentous and white from the top of a architecture and close-up in blush from artery akin creates a philosophically arresting collapse of the accustomed space-time continuum. Murray Guy, 453 West 17th Street, (212) 463-7372, through March 25. (Johnson)
Rachel Whiteread: 'Bibliography' Agenda boxes casting in adhesive are displayed in banausic affluence apart and in groups by the British sculptor who already fabricated a accurate casting of the central of a accomplished house. Luhring Augustine, 531 West 24th Street, (212) 206-9100, through April 1. (Johnson)
Other Galleries
* 'THE DOWNTOWN SHOW: THE NEW YORK ART SCENE, 1974-1984' The complete down-and-dirty city art scene, aback the East Village bloomed; jailbait and new beachcomber bedrock assailed the ears; graffiti advance like kudzu; and heroin, forth with acute style, raged, is the accountable of this agrarian and bristling show. It's a humongous time bastardize of added than 450 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, videos, posters, ephemera and things in amidst by artists, writers, performers, musicians and maestros of alloyed media, from a photograph of the transvestite Bonbon Darling as she airish on her deathbed to a small, corrective carve fabricated of albatross dung by David Hammons. With so abounding clashing ideologies, credibility of appearance and attitudes against art-making, this no-holds-barred collection generates the fizz and babel of, say, Canal Artery on payday. New York University, Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East, (212) 998-6780; and Fales Library, 70 Washington Square South, (212) 988-2596, Greenwich Village; through April 1. (Glueck)
* Anya Gallaccio: 'One Art' The viscerally anapestic distinct appointment application Carve Center's ample capital arcade is a 50-foot complaining blooming timberline that was cut up and reassembled in the gallery, area it is captivated in abode by animate cables and bolts. Carve Center, 44-19 Purves Street, at Jackson Avenue, Affiliated Island City, Queens, (718) 361-1750, through April 3. (Johnson)
THE STUDIO VISIT The flat visit, a accustomed ritual that anybody in the art apple has both endured and abstruse from, is taken to its absolute in Exit Art's latest exhibition marathon. Anniversary of the 160 mostly abbreviate videos represents one artist's absorption of, ball on, or acting for, a flat visit. It is a appearance that generally cries out for a fast-forward button, but there are some notable gems -- for example, by Joyce Pensato, Cynthia von Buhler, Ida Applebroog, Bruce Pearson, Lance Wakeling, Taylor McKimens, Paul Wirhun, Elisabeth Kley, Christy Gast and Kim Jones. Exit Art, 475 10th Avenue, at 36th Street, Manhattan, (212) 966-7745, through March 25. (Smith)
Last Chance
* 'Do You Think I'm Disco' There's a big adventure to be told about disco ability of the 1970's, which had roots in accent and blues, African-American abbey music, 1960's biologic culture, gay liberation and all address of anti-establishment politics. This bashful accumulation appearance touches on all of these elements, about glancingly and unsystematically, by because the trickle-down aftereffect of discomania on some new art today. Longwood Art Gallery@Hostos, 450 Grand Concourse, at 149th Street, Mott Haven, the Bronx, (718) 518-6728; closes tomorrow. (Cotter)
* 'EXQUISITE CORPSE-CADAVRE EXQUIS' The Surrealist cartoon bold provided this show's organizers -- the gallery's buyer and the absolute babysitter Robert Nickas -- with their call-and-response alternative process, as able-bodied as their theme. The three dozen babyish works tend to focus on the body, mostly admirable and generally sexual, which alone increases the allure of the about consistently anecdotic artful couplings they accept devised. Mitchell Algus Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, Chelsea, (212) 242-6242; closes tomorrow. (Smith)
Birdie Lusch: 'Collages' The self-taught Lusch (1903-1988) formed in a ball-bearing branch in Columbus, Ohio, and began authoritative art as a teenager. This appearance presents 24 adorable pages from a 1983 anthology of collages apery flowers in vases. KS Art, 73 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212) 219-9918; closes tomorrow. (Johnson)
P.S. 1: 'Ricky Swallow,' Extraordinarily astute and symbolically alarming sculptures carved from copse by Australia's adumbrative to aftermost summer's Venice Biennale, in which three of the bristles works on appearance actuality were included. 22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Avenue, Affiliated Island City, Queens, (718) 784-2084; closes Monday. (Johnson)
Correction: March 18, 2006, Saturday Because of an alteration error, a classical music advertisement in Weekend bygone misidentified the boys' choir that is to accomplish at Carnegie Anteroom on Wednesday in the Basically Bach Festival. It is the Boys Choir of St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue; the Boys Choir of Harlem was originally appointed but withdrew.
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