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This weekend
See everythingFriday Early Comedy Show
St. Marks Comedy Club · 6:30 PM
Friday Early Comedy Show
St. Marks Comedy Club · 6:30 PM
Tiresias Presents New Weird Future: a Work in Process
La MaMa · 7:00 PM
Lily Lu Gilbert | Kaneb Andrews | Hotspur Johnny
The Bowery Electric (Bowery Palace) · 7:30 PM
Gina Brillon, JJ Liberman, Alvin Kuai and more
St. Marks Comedy Club · 8:30 PM
Juan Munguia Trio
KGB Bar · 10:00 PM
Sienna Hubert Ross, JJ Liberman and many more
St. Marks Comedy Club · 10:30 PM
Interdependence
Performance Space New York · 7:00 PM
Published at The Poetry Project: Dis/Course with Nick Sturm
The Poetry Project · 7:00 PM
The Sheila Divine | Dracu-Las | Joudy
The Bowery Electric (Bowery Palace) · 7:30 PM
Saturday Night Hottest Comedy Show
St. Marks Comedy Club · 8:30 PM
Late Night Laughs in NYC
St. Marks Comedy Club · 10:30 PM
Pocket Nines
The Bowery Electric (Bowery Palace) · 10:30 PM
Down Bad Comedy Show with Jordan Lueng
St. Marks Comedy Club · 5:30 PM
Orla Gartland
The Bowery Electric (Bowery Palace) · 6:30 PM
Daniela Mora, Laz Rivero and Alexis Carabaño
St. Marks Comedy Club · 7:30 PM
Northvale | The Last Post
The Bowery Electric (Bowery Palace) · 9:30 PM
Sunday Night Live
St. Marks Comedy Club · 9:30 PM
Easy Paradise Open Mic
KGB Bar · 7:00 PM
Everything Must Go | JUDEE | Foxy Toms Hardware
The Bowery Electric (Bowery Palace) · 8:00 PM
Reading Sophia Dahlin + Harron Walker
The Poetry Project · 8:00 PM
Tuesdays at the Red Room
KGB Bar · 7:00 PM
Sharing is Caring Care Café
La MaMa · 7:00 PM
Factors Fest Week 3
The Bowery Electric (Bowery Palace) · 8:00 PM
The Gong Show, Hosted by Robert Punchur
St. Marks Comedy Club · 9:30 PM
Third Wednesdays Open Mic
KGB Bar · 7:00 PM
Sky White Tiger | Caíto Sánchez
The Bowery Electric (Bowery Palace) · 7:00 PM
Headstone II Zine Release
KGB Bar · 7:00 PM
Reading Amy Ching-Yan Lam + Jacqueline Waters
The Poetry Project · 8:00 PM
Spaghetti Human Being | Charliehorse | Crotch Alfie Jackson
The Bowery Electric (Bowery Palace) · 9:30 PM
Lobo | Ava Trepeck | Esmé
The Bowery Electric (Bowery Palace) · 6:30 PM
DonChristian Jones: I've Been Waiting for This Moment for the Rest of My Life
Danspace Project · 7:30 PM
Thursday Indie Comedy Show Night
St. Marks Comedy Club · 8:30 PM
Reuben D Presents: Riko and Whaler Collective | Nexus Ranger
The Bowery Electric (Bowery Palace) · 10:00 PM
NYU Emerging Writers Featuring André Aciman
KGB Bar · 7:00 PM
Deep Sea Bistro
The Bowery Electric (Bowery Palace) · 8:00 PM
Reading Crackhead Barney + Ann Liv Young
The Poetry Project · 8:00 PM
Queer|Art Summit: Becoming What We Practice
Performance Space New York · Through Nov 22
Senya
KGB Bar · 7:30 PM
Rome Neal's Banana Puddin' Jazz featuring Soraya
Theater for the New City · 7:00 PM
Wild Rose
New York Theatre Workshop · Through Jan 10
A View From the Bridge
La MaMa · 7:00 PM
A New World
Theater for the New City · Through Nov 29
StorySocial
KGB Bar · 7:00 PM
Bread + Puppet: The Upside Down World Circus
Theater for the New City · 8:00 PM
Reading Carolina Ebeid + Mark Nowak
The Poetry Project · 8:00 PM
SantaCon: The Play
Theater for the New City · 8:00 PM
Art Workers Are Artists Too / Performance Space New York's Annual Holiday Party
Performance Space New York · 7:00 PM
Reading S*an D. Henry-Smith + julie ezelle patton
The Poetry Project · 8:00 PM
WHAT IS THE CITY: DEAN + NEWSREEL + DANSKA
Anthology Film Archives · 7:00 PM
EVERY CONTACT LEAVES A TRACE
Anthology Film Archives · 8:00 PM
CHILDCARE + BREAK AND ENTER
Anthology Film Archives · 6:45 PM
Material
Performance Space New York · 7:00 PM
Staged Reading: Dostoevsky Reminiscences of Anna Dostoevsky
Theater for the New City · 7:00 PM
BRAVE NEW YORK
Anthology Film Archives · 8:30 PM
URBAN VIDEO PROJECT
Anthology Film Archives · 7:00 PM
PRECIPICE (FILMMAKER IN PERSON!)
Anthology Film Archives · 8:45 PM
WRECK OF THE NEW YORK SUBWAYS + SUBWAY CITY
Anthology Film Archives · 9:00 PM
WHAT IS THE CITY: NYC BUSINESSES
Anthology Film Archives · 6:15 PM
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL: ROSEDALE: THE WAY IT IS
Anthology Film Archives · 8:15 PM
BLACK WOMEN'S HANDS
Anthology Film Archives · 6:30 PM
Bread + Puppet: Woyzeck
Theater for the New City · 8:00 PM
Bria Bacon + Annie MingHao Wang
Danspace Project · 7:30 PM
Juliette Mapp + Vicky Shick
Danspace Project · 7:30 PM
DraftWork: Iliana Penichet-Ramírez + Joel Watson
Danspace Project · 3:00 PM
Fragment Fifteen
Theater for the New City · Through Jan 10
The Grief Eater Near North Bender
New York Theatre Workshop · Through Mar 21
Chain Reaction
Performance Space New York · Through Feb 6
Icons
Performance Space New York · 7:00 PM
Mythic
Performance Space New York · 7:00 PM
Montaña de Raiz
Performance Space New York · Through Mar 12
House Favorites
Performance Space New York · 7:00 PM
Blood Be Sweet
New York Theatre Workshop · Through May 30
Dark Fringe
Performance Space New York · Through Jun 1
Great Minds Do Not Think Alike
Performance Space New York · 7:00 PM
Symara Sarai Developmental Residency
Performance Space New York · Through May 15
Witchy: Season Finale
Performance Space New York · 7:00 PM
EMOTES
Performance Space New York · Through Jun 27
On now: exhibits and runs
Coming up at Performance Space New York
Interdependence
Queer|Art Summit: Becoming What We Practice
Art Workers Are Artists Too / Performance Space New York's Annual Holiday Party
Material
Chain Reaction
Icons
Mythic
Montaña de Raiz
House Favorites
Dark Fringe
Great Minds Do Not Think Alike
Symara Sarai Developmental Residency
Close by, in Midtown, Chelsea, Upper East Side
Conversation with a Curator: How Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone Transformed TV
The Paley Museum
Free Friday Nights
Whitney Museum of American Art
First Fridays
Neue Galerie New York
Birdland Big Band
Birdland Jazz Club
The Original Art 2026 Awards Ceremony & Reception
At the Society
GAYHEM
The PIT (People's Improv Theater)
15-Minute Tour: Highlights of the Exhibition Untitled (America)
Whitney Museum of American Art
THE KILANS: COULD YOU KEEP IT DARK? TOUR
Mercury Lounge
NORDIC WISDOM ON THE ROAD | BOOK LAUNCH & ORACLE READINGS
Scandinavia House
Catch Your Breath - Not Broken Enough Tour
Irving Plaza
Doron Langberg in Conversation
Rizzoli Bookstore
Gandhi Presents: Fully Sauced
The StandPlaces in East Village
- St. Marks Comedy ClubComedy club · 16 coming up
- Theater for the New CityTheater · 16 coming up
- Performance Space New YorkPerformance space · 15 coming up
- Anthology Film ArchivesCinema · 14 coming up
- KGB BarBar and reading series · 12 coming up
- The Bowery Electric (Bowery Palace)Music venue · 12 coming up
- The Poetry ProjectReading series · 6 coming up
- Danspace ProjectDance venue · 4 coming up
- La MaMaTheater · 3 coming up
- New York Theatre WorkshopTheater · 3 coming up
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