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Theater By Scott Brown
| Through July 2 |
4000 Miles
is the newest play from
newish playwright
Amy Herzog,
about a 21-year-old coping with grief
and his still-sassy 91-year-old grandmother.
The Duke on 42nd Street |
| Through July 3 |
Michael Weller’s
Side Effects,
about a political
power
couple
on the rocks.
MCC Theater |
| July 6 to August 14 |
In a rare six-week residency, members of The Royal Shakespeare Company will perform five plays in a full-scale mock-up of its Stratford-Upon-Avon theatre.
Park Avenue Armory |
| July 26 to September 3 |
Olive and the Bitter Herbs,
a Passover
ghost
story
from Charles Busch.
59E59 Theaters |
| Through September 4 |
Death Takes a Holiday,
a new musical
based on the play that
inspired
Meet Joe Black.
Laura Pels Theatre |
Concerts By Nitsuh Abebe
| June 23 |
Dinosaur Jr.,
with Canadian punks
Fucked Up:
The indie-rock greats
still sound terrific,
and Fucked Up’s latest
album is full of triumphant
screaming hooks.
Terminal 5 |
| June 25 |
Jeff the
Brotherhood’s
warm garage rock and
Iceage’s
chilly post-punk clatter could actually be like
seeing two great
rock shows in one night.
285 Kent |
| June 30 |
Catch a couple of
California’s finer acts—
the DIY noise of
No Age
and Health,
in one handy package.
House of Vans |
| July 14 |
A free show featuring
two very intriguing women,
tUnE-yArDs’
Merrill Garbus
(Joyous clattering
pop with a loop
pedal)
and Austra’s Katie Stelmanis
(who’s nearly operatic).
Pier 54 |
| July 21 |
Theophilus London
and Gordon Voidwell:
New Yorkers
with eclectic,
eighties-heavy
takes on R&B,
pop, and hip-hop.
Bowery Ballroom |
Performances By Justin Davidson
| June 21 |
Make Music New York: One day, hundreds of concurrent performances in band shells and rowboats, on piers and sidewalks. |
| June 22 to 25 |
The New York Philharmonic performs the first
opera
based on a
comic strip,
Leos Jánácek’s
The Cunning Little Vixen.
Avery Fisher Hall |
| June 26 |
Gilmore Foundation
grant winner
Kirill Gerstein
will play a meaty program of
Liszt,
Brahms,
and Oliver Knussen.
(Le) Poisson Rouge |
| July 13 to 17 |
The Cleveland
Orchestra,
the midwestern
guardian of Middle-European music,
rolls into town.
Avery Fisher Hall |
| August 4 |
For Mostly Mozart,
Iván Fischer
conducts and directs a staging of
Don Giovanni
that features dancers
in white leotards
arranging themselves
into sets and props.
Rose Theater at Lincoln Center |
Art By Jerry Saltz
| June 23 to July 30 |
“For the Kids,”
A mini-retrospective of
cult photographers
John and Tock Costacos,
makers of
fantasy sport
posters
in the eighties and nineties.
Salon 94 Freemans |
| June 29
to November 27 |
“Mother India:
The Goddess in
Indian
Painting.”
Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Through August 28 |
Bellini’s
fifteenth-century
masterpiece
St. Francis in the Desert has
temporarily been placed at eye level.
Now you can see what
God might have seen.
The Frick Collection |
| Through September 3 |
“Any Ever,”
Ryan Trecartin’s
frenetically edited video narratives of
sex,
persona, and
kaleidoscopic color.
P.S. 1 |
| Through November 2
|
In 2010, conceptualist
Hans-Peter Feldmann won the
Guggenheim
$100,000
Hugo Boss Prize.
Now he’s pinning every one of those dollar bills to the wall.
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