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Monday's Open Variety Night @ Galapagos Art Space

You got skills that you want to show off? Then here is the event for you!

What's a Variety Artist to do? Where can you put a tightrope? Where can you put a trapeze?
Where can you juggle three children and a set of nine bowling balls?
At Galapagos Art Space!

First Mondays are NYC's best variety artists presenting some of the best work NYC has to offer! Should be great!

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 16 Main Street (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $5

Cool Event at Galapagos....

Bridge Sessions Variety Show Extravaganza @ Galapagos Art Space

Tonights premiere filming will include:

-selected scenes from "Bulgaria"
a musical faerie tale written by Kamara Thomas
featuring music by Kamara Thomas, Matt Whyte, Gabriel Berezin, & Suzan Hurtuk

-the new project from Sam Cohen (Apollo Sunshine)featuring George Lewis, Jr

-Chris Leo reading pieces edited out of his most recent novel "Feathers like Leather"

& special acoustic performances from:
Matt Whyte & Kamara Thomas of Earl Greyhound!!!!
Gabriel Berezin of Monuments

Should be an awesome Sunday Event!!

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 16 Main Street (map)
Starts: 3 Pm
Cost: FREE

Enter To Win...

ENTER TO WIN!! tickets to Sleepwalk With Me w/ Mike Birbiglia @ Bleeker Street Theater

If you haven't experienced the outrageous stand up comedy of Mike Birbiglia, then you are missing out on one of the brightest comedians out right now! We here at Whats Up NYC have just acquired a pair of ticket voucher to his hilarious show Sleepwalk with Me that has been getting rave review and want to give them to you! It is an absolutely hilarious performance, so be sure to enter for your chance at the free tixs! All we need is your name and home address. Good Luck!

Enter Here!

Rules and Private Policy

@ Bleeker Street Theater
Location: 45 Bleeker St (map)
Starts: 7 pm

Enter To Win....

ENTER TO WIN!! tickets to Sleepwalk With Me w/ Mike Birbiglia @ Bleeker Street Theater

If you haven't experienced the outrageous stand up comedy of Mike Birbiglia, then you are missing out on one of the brightest comedians out right now! We here at Whats Up NYC have just acquired a pair of ticket voucher to his hilarious show Sleepwalk with Me that has been getting rave review and want to give them to you! It is an absolutely hilarious performance, so be sure to enter for your chance at the free tixs! All we need is your name and home address. Good Luck!

Enter Here!

Rules and Private Policy

@ Bleeker Street Theater
Location: 45 Bleeker St (map)
Starts: 7 pm

Great Free Burlesque..

The New Monday Night Burlesque @ Public Assembly

Every Monday at Public Assembly it's performance galore in the front room! Featuring Go Go Dancing, Fresh Faces, Sultry Burlesque Performances and Rotating special guests: Nasty Canasta, Jonny Porkpie, Gigi La Femme, Legs Malone, Tigger, Clams Casino, Anita Cookie, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Amber Ray, The Pontani Sisters, Angie Pontani, Creamy Stevens,Bastard Keith, Peekaboo Pointe and many many more!
+ DJ JOEY NOVA!

Should be a lot of fun!

@ Public Assembly
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $10

YO Yo.. It's Yo Yo Ma

YO-YO MA PERFORMS WORLD PREMIERE OF SELF COMES TO MIND @ THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, accompanied by two percussionists, will perform the world premiere of Self Comes to Mind in the LeFrak Theater at the American Museum of Natural History. Along with his performance he will be accompanied By Video of Astounding Brain Images. Should be pretty trippy...

@ The American Museum of Natural History, LeFrak Theater
Location: Central Park West at 79th St (map)
(use the Museum’s 77th Street entrance between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: $60 each for orchestra, $25 for balcony, and $125 for VIP seating (which includes a reception)

Kerouac Play..

JACK KEROUAC: CATHOLIC @ St. John’s Manhattan Campus Saval Auditorium

Award-winning Off-Broadway playwright Larry Myers stages a special spring showcase of his new play, “Jack Kerouac: Catholic” on Saturday, May 2, 7 p.m., Saval Auditorium at 101 Murray Street.

@ Saval Auditorium
Location: 101 Murray Street (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: tba

Balinese Wildness..

Gamelan Dharma Swara @ DROM

Under the direction of master Balinese artists, the 17-piece ensemble performs traditional and new works for Indonesian gamelan orchestra.

@ Drom
Location: 85 Ave A, NYC (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $10 adv/ $12 DOS

Funny yet a Little Awkward..

Sleepwalk With Me w/ Mike Birbiglia + an "Awkward 10 minutes with Mike" with SNL's Jason Sudeikis

If you haven't experienced the outrageous stand up comedy of Mike Birbiglia, then you are missing out on one of the brightest comedians out right now! Here is your chance to see the brilliance that is Mike Birbiglia when he performs his hilarious account of dealing with sleepwalking on this intensely personal absolutely hilarious comedy show presented by Nathan Lane. Tonights show will be extra special because Jason Sudeikis of SNL will be showing up after the show for an installment of "10 awkward minutes with Mike" It's a limited engagement so be sure to get your tickets immediately!

ALSO for all you broke students out there: 1 hour before the shows they will be selling half price tickets for you all. Only $25!!! Only 2 rush tickets per person! So be pick them up

@ Bleeker Street Theater
Location: 45 Bleeker St (map)
Starts: 8 pm
Saturday: 8 pm and 10 pm
Sunday: 4 pm and 7 pm
Cost: $50 (non-student)

Caberet...and more

Floating Kabarette! @ Galapagos Art Space

A night of performances from wildly talented quirky performers from all over the world. It should be a lot of fun! Check out who you get to see tonight:
. Sweden: The hosts of our show Olga and Bjorn!
(we found them wandering Times Square, looking for "Larry")

. Berlin: the very handsome Jan Manke - trapeze and parallel ropes
. Moscow: Alexi Merinov - Russian clown and physical comedian
. Japan: free haircuts from DUMBO's best hairstylist Soonji giving free
haircuts!~
. USA: Sweet Soubrette - NYC Ukulele Chanteuse extraordinaire!
. USA: Slutty Puppets (galapagos resident artist!)
. USA: Z Briggs (we can't say what it is)
. USA: the star of last weeks show: Aerialist Lisa Natoli

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 16 Main Street (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: Free

One Night Only...

DANCING WITH WILD HORSES: A Spectacular Dance Performance in a Unique Environment @ 530 W. 27th Street

Peter Tunney has created a dynamic environment showcasing a 40-foot long installation of photography of the haunting images of Sable Island created by Roberto Dutesco. The Works will perform Island in front of the dramatically lit installation. Island premiered at The Joyce Theater in 2005.

@ 530 W. 27th Street (map)
Starts: 7:30 pm

Hip hop and spoken word collide ....

Birth Right Israel NEXT presents Monologues @ Triad Theatre

Here is an evening of solo performances of monologues, spoken word and hip-hop exploring Jewish identity inspired by a 10-day trip through Israel. The show is funny, touching and an all around solid performance from a talented group of individuals. Be sure to make it out!

More Info: NEXT Monologues

@ Triad Theatre
Location: 158 W 72nd St (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $10

Monday Burlesque..

The New Monday Night Burlesque @ Public Assembly

Every Monday at Public Assembly it's performance galore in the front room! Featuring Go Go Dancing, Fresh Faces, Sultry Burlesque Performances and Rotating special guests: Nasty Canasta, Jonny Porkpie, Gigi La Femme, Legs Malone, Tigger, Clams Casino, Anita Cookie, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Amber Ray, The Pontani Sisters, Angie Pontani, Creamy Stevens,Bastard Keith, Peekaboo Pointe and many many more!
+ DJ JOEY NOVA!

Should be a lot of fun!

@ Public Assembly
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $10

Circus Hipsters??

Cirque This Presents: Dining with Cirque This @Triskelion Arts Theater

Cirque This is back for their sixth season of circus madness and mayhem! A brand new show is in the works! We've got Chirping Chickens! Dastardly Diseases! Flying Feasts!

Cirque This will take you on a journey through the food industry, from farm to face then down the gullet and into the body like you've never seen it before! All to the live music of The Cirque Dish Rags! We promise to leave you hanging on the edge of your seat while you digest our juicy morsels...

www.cirquethis.com

@Triskelion Arts Theater
Location: 118 North 11th Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $12

Circus Hipsters??

Cirque This Presents: Dining with Cirque This @Triskelion Arts Theater

Cirque This is back for their sixth season of circus madness and mayhem! A brand new show is in the works! We've got Chirping Chickens! Dastardly Diseases! Flying Feasts!

Cirque This will take you on a journey through the food industry, from farm to face then down the gullet and into the body like you've never seen it before! All to the live music of The Cirque Dish Rags! We promise to leave you hanging on the edge of your seat while you digest our juicy morsels...

www.cirquethis.com

@Triskelion Arts Theater
Location: 118 North 11th Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $12

Forgotten how to do it??

THE LOVE SHOW'S GUIDE TO SEX: An evening of Provocative Modern Dance, Cabaret, Comedy and Magic! @ Galapagos Art Space

A night of entertainment that will help revitalize your love life.. maybe. But at the least it should keep you entertained!

Featuring:
Angela Harriell's Love Show Dancers!
Live Accompaniment with the soulful singing of Shannon “Shantastic” Turner!
Devout Dancing Duo, Group Hug!
The Comedic Wizardry of Fantastic Genius!
Mystifying illusions by The Great Dubini!

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 16 Main Street (map)
Starts: 10:30 Pm
Cost: $10 ($5 for Nerd Nite Attendees)

Circus Hipsters??

Cirque This Presents: Dining with Cirque This @Triskelion Arts Theater

Cirque This is back for their sixth season of circus madness and mayhem! A brand new show is in the works! We've got Chirping Chickens! Dastardly Diseases! Flying Feasts!

Cirque This will take you on a journey through the food industry, from farm to face then down the gullet and into the body like you've never seen it before! All to the live music of The Cirque Dish Rags! We promise to leave you hanging on the edge of your seat while you digest our juicy morsels...

www.cirquethis.com

@Triskelion Arts Theater
Location: 118 North 11th Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $12

Choices Galore at 92YTribeca!!

Radiotheatre Presents: H.G. WELLS’ THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU @ 92YTribeca

The critically-acclaimed off-Broadway theater company Radiotheatre returns to NYC with a hyper-realized production of H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau. Radiotheatre uses groundbreaking sound effects and voice acting to revive and update this classic story about a mad geneticist, the creatures he creates and the rebellion that follows. Complete with a masterful cast of actors, a full orchestral score and a plethora of live sound effects.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 8 pm
Cost: $12 advance / $15 door

Cool Choreographer..

Merce Cunningham at 90 feat. John Paul Jones, Sonic Youth and Takehisa Kosugi @ BAM

Merce Cunningham, the revolutionary choreographer (and life-partner of John Cage, no less) is turning 90. To celebrate, he's combining the forces of his music director, mixed media artist Takehisa Kosugi, with indie icons Sonic Youth and Led Zeppelin's legendary bassist John Paul Jones. We saw one such collaboration with Radiohead and Sigur Ros in 2003 when Merce celebrated the 50th anniversary of his company. It was spontaneous and beautiful, which is the point. We're glad he's still around to do it.

@ BAM
Location: 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brookyn (map)
Starts: 3 PM
Cost: $25 - $75

Circus Hipsters??

Cirque This Presents: Dining with Cirque This @Triskelion Arts Theater

Cirque This is back for their sixth season of circus madness and mayhem! A brand new show is in the works! We've got Chirping Chickens! Dastardly Diseases! Flying Feasts!

Cirque This will take you on a journey through the food industry, from farm to face then down the gullet and into the body like you've never seen it before! All to the live music of The Cirque Dish Rags! We promise to leave you hanging on the edge of your seat while you digest our juicy morsels...

www.cirquethis.com

@Triskelion Arts Theater
Location: 118 North 11th Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $12

Circus Hipsters??

Cirque This Presents: Dining with Cirque This @Triskelion Arts Theater

Cirque This is back for their sixth season of circus madness and mayhem! A brand new show is in the works! We've got Chirping Chickens! Dastardly Diseases! Flying Feasts!

Cirque This will take you on a journey through the food industry, from farm to face then down the gullet and into the body like you've never seen it before! All to the live music of The Cirque Dish Rags! We promise to leave you hanging on the edge of your seat while you digest our juicy morsels...

www.cirquethis.com

@Triskelion Arts Theater
Location: 118 North 11th Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $12

Circus Hipsters??

Cirque This Presents: Dining with Cirque This @Triskelion Arts Theater

Cirque This is back for their sixth season of circus madness and mayhem! A brand new show is in the works! We've got Chirping Chickens! Dastardly Diseases! Flying Feasts!

Cirque This will take you on a journey through the food industry, from farm to face then down the gullet and into the body like you've never seen it before! All to the live music of The Cirque Dish Rags! We promise to leave you hanging on the edge of your seat while you digest our juicy morsels...

www.cirquethis.com

@Triskelion Arts Theater
Location: 118 North 11th Street (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $12

Monday Burlesque..

The New Monday Night Burlesque @ Public Assembly

Every Monday at Public Assembly it's performance galore in the front room! Featuring Go Go Dancing, Fresh Faces, Sultry Burlesque Performances and Rotating special guests: Nasty Canasta, Jonny Porkpie, Gigi La Femme, Legs Malone, Tigger, Clams Casino, Anita Cookie, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Amber Ray, The Pontani Sisters, Angie Pontani, Creamy Stevens,Bastard Keith, Peekaboo Pointe and many many more!
+ DJ JOEY NOVA!

Should be a lot of fun!

@ Public Assembly
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $10

Intriguing event..

Opera Jawa @ Freddy's Bar and Backroom

This description should sell you on this "surrealist Indonesian pomo-folkloric/funkadelic musical–slash–avant-garde pop-and-lock revolutionary romance–slash–Hindu song-and-dance-installation art extravaganza" version of India's greatest and most cherished epics."

@ Freddy's Bar and Backroom
Location: 485 Dean Street, Brooklyn (map)
Starts: 9 pm
Cost: TBA

Cool Variety Show...

Monday's Open Variety Night @ Galapagos Art Space

You got skills that you want to show off? Then here is the event for you!

What's a Variety Artist to do? Where can you put a tightrope? Where can you put a trapeze?
Where can you juggle three children and a set of nine bowling balls?
At Galapagos Art Space!
Beginning this March, we're proud to co-present Open Variety Nights with Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts. First Mondays are NYC's best variety artists presenting some of the best work NYC has to offer.

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 16 Main Street (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $5

Monday Burlesque..

The New Monday Night Burlesque @ Public Assembly

Every Monday at Public Assembly it's performance galore in the front room! Featuring Go Go Dancing, Fresh Faces, Sultry Burlesque Performances and Rotating special guests: Nasty Canasta, Jonny Porkpie, Gigi La Femme, Legs Malone, Tigger, Clams Casino, Anita Cookie, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Amber Ray, The Pontani Sisters, Angie Pontani, Creamy Stevens,Bastard Keith, Peekaboo Pointe and many many more!
+ DJ JOEY NOVA!

Should be a lot of fun!

@ Public Assembly
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $10

Funny yet a Little Awkwards..

Sleepwalk With Me w/ Mike Birbiglia + Special guest to host an "Awkward 10 minutes with Mike" after the show@ Bleeker Street Theater

If you haven't experienced the outrageous stand up comedy of Mike Birbiglia, then you are missing out on one of the brightest comedians out right now! Here is your chance to see the brilliance that is Mike Birbiglia when he performs his hilarious account of dealing with sleepwalking on this intensely personal absolutely hilarious comedy show presented by Nathan Lane. Tonights show there will be extra special because Seth Rudetsky will be showing up after the show for an installment of "10 awkward minutes with Mike" It's a limited engagement so be sure to get your tickets immediately!

ALSO for all you broke students out there: 1 hour before the shows they will be selling half price tickets for you all. Only $25!!! Only 2 rush tickets per person! So be pick them up

@ Bleeker Street Theater
Location: 45 Bleeker St (map)
Starts: 8 pm
Saturday: 8 pm and 10 pm
Sunday: 4 pm and 7 pm

Must see show...

Birth Right Israel NEXT presents Monologues @ Triad Theatre

Here is an evening of solo performances of monologues, spoken word and hip-hop exploring Jewish identity inspired by a 10-day trip through Israel. The show is funny, touching and an all around solid performance from a talented group of individuals. Be sure to make it out!

More Info: NEXT Monologues

@ Triad Theatre
Location: 158 W 72nd St (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $10

Must see show...

Birth Right Israel NEXT presents Monologues @ Triad Theatre

Here is an evening of solo performances of monologues, spoken word and hip-hop exploring Jewish identity inspired by a 10-day trip through Israel. The show is funny, touching and an all around solid performance from a talented group of individuals. Be sure to make it out!

More Info: NEXT Monologues

@ Triad Theatre
Location: 158 W 72nd St (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: $10

Burlesque is kind of a big deal...

Pork Roast @Public Assembly

The burlesque world is but rarely graced with figures of towering talent, matchless intellect, humanitarian instincts and unrestrained charisma; and Jonny Porkpie falls short of greatness in not only these but so very many other ways, as well. On Monday, March 30, Sweet and Nasty presents PORK ROAST at The New Monday Night Burlesque: a true burlesque birthday roast of the self-proclamined "Burlesque Mayor of NYC."

@ Public Assembly
Location: 70 N 6th St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $10

Wild Crazy Free Show!!!

Floating Kabarette! @ Galapagos Art Space

A night of performances from wildly talented quirky performers from all over the world. It should be a lot of fun! Check out who you get to see tonight:
. Sweden: The hosts of our show Olga and Bjorn!
(we found them wandering Times Square, looking for "Larry")

. Berlin: the very handsome Jan Manke - trapeze and parallel ropes
. Moscow: Alexi Merinov - Russian clown and physical comedian
. Japan: free haircuts from DUMBO's best hairstylist Soonji giving free
haircuts!~
. USA: Sweet Soubrette - NYC Ukulele Chanteuse extraordinaire!
. USA: Slutty Puppets (galapagos resident artist!)
. USA: Z Briggs (we can't say what it is)
. USA: the star of last weeks show: Aerialist Lisa Natoli

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 16 Main Street (map)
Starts: 8 Pm
Cost: Free

A Night of Vaudevillian History..

TRAV S.D. @ 92YTribeca

Vaudevillian and author Trav S.D. performs and discusses vaudeville history. Should be an intriguing event.

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 8 pm
Cost: $10

Interesting Art Performance..

Meme Factory aka: ROFL Mill aka: LOLFest aka: LuLzapalooza @ 3rd Ward

Three gentlemen with five computers and three projectors take the audience on a fast-paced and whirlwind tour of every major internet meme, famous piece of internet media, and upwards of three hours of youTube footage over the course of one and one half of one hour. The modus is not depth, but breadth, and constant audience participation. The goal of the evening is to produce an audience generated entry of every internet phenomenon as possible, including but not limited to: LOLCats, Bouncing GIFs, Me Singing , Reaction Videos, Folk Covers of Hip Hop Classics, FAILs, redubbed music videos, and more. You can think of it as somewhere between a lecture, vaudeville and Double Dare.

@3rd Ward
Location: 195 Morgan Ave @ Stagg St. (map)
Starts: 7:00 pm
Cost: Free (RSVP)

Celebrate..

Great Music for a Great City:World Water Day Musical Celebration @ Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College

The free classical music series will be having another installment today Featuring Eli Wallach, narrator, with Mayim Water music by Israeli Ensemble Rafi Malkiel; the Harlem Vocal Arts Ensemble; and Metropolitan Opera soloists Camellia Johnson, soprano, Terry Cook, bass baritone, and Sirena Huang, violin. Should be a great event!

@ Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
Location: 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC (map)
Starts: 4 PM
Cost: Free

Meow Meow Burlesque..

Kitty Nights @ Bar A

Kitty Nights Burlesque is back with all the feisty felines including Fem Appeal, Bambi Galore, Scarlett Spitfire, Ferro & Stormy Leather! They will strutting their stuff in this awesome night of Burlesque.

@ Bar on A
Location: 170 Avenue A (map)
Starts: 9 pm
Cost: $5