See Mark Morris Dance Group, The Americans, and more New York events.   (Photo: Elaine Mayson (Mark Morris Dance); Johan Persson (Wolf Hall); Jack Vartoogian/Metropolitan Opera (Rake’s Progress); Patrick Harbon/Courtesy of FX (The Americans))

Pop
1. Listen to Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘All That’
Stellar single.
Jepsen is on a mission to shed her one-hit-­wonder status, and although her perky single “I Really Like You” feels like a sequel to “Call Me Maybe,” she shows off a whole new side on the dreamy, retro-cool ballad “All That,” which sounds like it could’ve been the most-requested slow jam at the Class of ’85 prom. —Lindsay Zoladz
Vevo.com.

TV
2. Watch The Americans
Tip of the iceberg.
If you thought the spy drama was intense this season—with its escalation of tensions in the household and outside, capped by the Jenningses’ (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell) telling their teenage daughter, Paige (Holly Taylor), that they’re Russian spies—you ain’t seen nothing yet. That last phrase was a favorite of President Ronald Reagan, who labeled the former Soviet Union “the Evil Empire” in a speech that gives this episode its title: “March 8, 1983.” Escalations ensue. —Matt Zoller Seitz
FX, April 22 at 10 p.m.

Movies
3. See Ex Machina
Look for the leading lady.
Screenwriter Alex Garland’s directorial debut fakes in the direction of sci-fi before turning into a decent, James M. Cain–like noir. See it for 26-year-old Swede Alicia Vikander as the female repository of A.I., one of the most creepily alluring creations in all sci-fi. She wanders her glorified cage like a faun, her lissome limbs transparent, wires curling along her torso in the shape of a spine. A former ballet dancer, Vikander has a lightness of tread, a lift that makes you sure the normal rules of gravity don’t apply to her. —David Edelstein
In theaters.

TV
4. Watch Wolf Hall
Most excellent indeed.
It’s hard to top the overwhelming prestige of Wolf Hall, based on Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize–winning books: It stars Tony and Olivier winner Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell; it’s British; even the candles seem historically crafted for excellence. But the most surprising feature of Wolf is its sense of humor. Part of this is in the writing, but a lot of it is thanks to Rylance and his distinguished eyebrows, adding depth and humanity to a show that could otherwise feel like TV vegetables. —Margaret Lyons
PBS, Sundays at 10 p.m.

Art
5. See Jamie Isenstein’s ‘Para Drama’
An abracadabra sculptor.
Among the most sly and squirrelly artists to have emerged in some time, Isenstein has been known to pose inside walls sticking her arm through holes, holding a lighted sconce as if she were a living light fixture. The works in this show (like a bed with covers that twitch, perpetually making and unmaking it) are equally uncanny, delightful, and original. —Jerry Saltz
Andrew Kreps Gallery, through May 7.

Theater
6. Listen to Josh Groban
All he asks of you.
Josh Groban has never appeared in a Broadway musical, but, for a pop singer, he has an unusually theatrical voice. On his new album, Stages, he gives his warm baritone, big belt, and tender falsetto a workout on show tunes including the expected (“Bring Him Home”), the adventurous (“Finishing the Hat”), and the sublime (“If I Loved You,” a duet with Audra McDonald). —Jesse Green
Reprise Records, April 28.

Radio
7. See RadioLoveFest
Lend them your ears (and eyes).
The stuff podcast-fan-boy-and-girl dreams are made of: a public-radio smorgasbord including onstage renditions of “Radiolab” and “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” and an evening with NPR’s Terry Gross.
Brooklyn Academy of Music, May 5 through 10.

Books
8. Read Masha Gessen’s The Brothers
Life at the cultural margins.
The fearless Russian-American journalist brings equal parts sympathy and skepticism to the task of tracking the Tsarnaev family from Russia’s Chechen enclaves to Cambridge and the Boston Marathon bombing. —Boris Kachka
Riverhead.

Dance
9. See Mark Morris Dance Group
Facing the music.
Morris’s lively imagination has lately produced major evening-length works, which makes these two repertory programs—with, among the selection, two local premieres and the world premiere of Whelm, set to Debussy—especially tantalizing. —Rebecca Milzoff
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, April 22 through 26.

Art
10. See ‘Ralph Pucci: The Art of the Mannequin’
No stick figures here.
The first exhibition of Pucci’s artistic collaborations over the years (with artists including Ruben and Isabel Toledo, Diane von Furstenberg, Kenny Scharf, and many more) shows precisely how the designer brilliantly transformed a ubiquitous dressmaker’s form into an art piece in its own right. Every other Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m., stop by a mannequin workshop studio where, starting April 23, Michael Evert will sculpt the faces of famous Pucci collaborators; designer Mary McFadden is the first. —Wendy Goodman
Museum of Arts and Design, through August 30.

Opera
11. See The Rake’s Progress
It’s already practically gone.
An assiduous opera lover who made a couple of ill-timed out-of-town trips could go a lifetime without seeing Stravinsky’s acerbically witty classic: a few performances (three, this time) and then it’s gone, perhaps for decades. Paul Appleby leads a gold-edged cast, and the man with the stick is the opera’s truest defender at the Met: James Levine. —Justin Davidson
Metropolitan Opera, opens May 1.

Movies
12. See Forbidden Games
Newly restored.
No one before René Clément in his 1952 Forbidden Games mingled the grotesque horror of war with the comedy of innocence, and maybe no one has since. The opening—in which a little girl’s parents shield her from the strafing of a German plane, and she emerges from under their bodies into a world of chaos and rubble—is so wrenching it’s hard to believe where Clement goes next: to the charming story of the girl (Brigitte Fossey) and an 11-year-old boy (Georges Poujouly) as they play and watch the foolish feuds of grown-up survivors. —D.E.
Film Forum, April 24 through May 7.

TV
13. Watch Tales of the Grim Sleeper
Forensic filmmaking.
British documentarian Nick Broomfield’s chilling film, about L.A. serial murderer Lonnie Franklin Jr., is the best example of the upside of his self-consciously disarming technique. In scene after scene, Broomfield elicits astonishing rationalizations and near shrugs from cops and neighbors, all of which add up to a portrait of how racism, class discrimination, misogyny, and even murder can start to seem normal if a community lives with them long enough. —M.Z.S.
HBO, April 27 at 9 p.m.

Cabaret
14. See James Monroe Iglehart
Out of the bottle.
Iglehart won a Tony for his explosively entertaining Genie in Aladdin and more recently preened amusingly as Titus’s arch-nemesis on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. He’ll just be himself in his first solo show, which runs the gamut from Lionel Richie to rap; based on charisma alone, that should be enough.
54Below, May 4 and 18.

Books
15. Read Jo Nesbø’s Blood on Snow
Piercing prose.
There’s room in Norway’s libraries for all kinds of brooders. Olav, who narrates this thriller ­novella, may be a shaggy blond lank with a problematic dad, but he shares little else with Karl Ove. He’s a contract killer with the kind of conscience that reduces targets to “units” but rules out bank robberies as too traumatizing. He’s odd, if a bit underdeveloped, but the compactness of this stand-alone story gives it the quick-strike force of an icicle to the heart. —B.K.
Knopf.

Art
16. See ‘Twenty by Sixteen’
Bewitching boundaries.
Unsung art hero Geoffrey Young is one of a handful of grassroots curators working outside New York who regularly stage amazing group shows, and he’s coming to town with 40 artists’ works, two 20-by-16-inch canvases apiece. The room sings with color, energy, and multiple approaches to this specific set of confines. —J.S.
Morgan Lehman Gallery, through May 2.

Pop
17. & 18. Listen to iLoveMakonnen and Father
Duo from the Dirty.
These two Atlanta rappers are sometime collaborators; they also happen to have released two of this year’s most interesting rap albums. iLoveMakonnen uses mix-tape installments like this one, Drink More Water 5, to stretch and hone his vocal legerdemain; on his Who’s Gonna Get Fucked First EP, Father proves his range with piano-added beats and repurposed golden-­oldies choruses.
Livemixtapes.com; Awful Music Group.

Classical Music
19. See The Night Dances
An evening of public intimacy.
Sylvia Plath and Benjamin Britten’s paths may never have crossed, but they were both connoisseurs of the inner life and its treacherous terrain. Sonia Wieder Atherton performs Britten’s solo cello music, interwoven with Plath’s verse, read by Charlotte Rampling. —J.D.
Park Avenue Armory, April 22 through 26.

Pop
20. See Bully
Flanneled fury, live.
The forthcoming debut from grungy Nashville four-piece Bully kind of sounds like a female-fronted In Utero—which is no coincidence, given that front woman–producer Alicia Bognanno once interned at Steve Albini’s studio. —L.Z.
Baby’s All Right, April 29.

Art
21. See Barbara Kasten
Not just black and white.
Kasten’s geometric photos use everyday materials in disorienting ways to startling effect—and for the first time in years, she’s working in color.
Bortolami Gallery, through May 2.

Theater
22. See Trash Cuisine
Food for thought.
Banned in its own country, Belarus Free Theatre reunites in exile for an exploration of capital punishment (and national foodways) in Europe, where only one country still permits the death penalty. Guess which one. —J.G.
La MaMa, April 25 through May 17.

Comedy
23. See Big Terrific
Farewell funnies.
For the past seven years, this weekly stand-up night was the best place to catch both oddball up-and-comer comedy talent and surprise sets from big names like Aziz Ansari. As hosts Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman, and Max Silvestri move on to greener pastures, they’re throwing a farewell show with pal Joe Mande and surprise (probably very famous) guests.
Warsaw, April 26.

Classical Music
24. Hear New World Symphony
Welcome visitors.
Michael Tilson Thomas’s Miami Beach–based training orchestra regularly outplays the pros. The hyperprofessional Anne-Sofie Mutter joins them for a two-concerto program: her standby Berg and Norbert Moret’s En Rêve, plus some Schubert and Debussy. —J.D.
Carnegie Hall, April 28.

Theater
25. See Emily Climbs (Machine Méchant)
Singing and sci-fi!
A high-style, far-future fantasia about the handmaiden to the most powerful woman in the world—as told by the handmaiden’s three clones. With suitably futurist music by Obie winner Heather Christian.
The Brick, through May 2.