(SoHo Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street, New York, NY 10013) (Varies) The story of St. Veronica’s indomitable Mother Superior (author Charles Busch) who is determined to build a new school for her Pittsburgh convent. Along the way, she has to deal with a young postulant who is experiencing “visions,” sexual hysteria among her nuns, a sensitive schoolboy in need of mentoring, a mysterious nun visiting from the Mother House in Berlin, and a former suitor intent on luring her away from her vows. ($60) Event Website

(Acorn Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036) (Varies) Ethan Hawke, Natasha Lyonne, Daphne Rubin-Vega. Tommy Nohilly’s debut play is a darkly comic look at a troubled working-class family living in Connecticut. ($61) Event Website

(La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, 74A East 4th St, New York, NY 10003) (Wd - Sa 7:30pm & Sa - Sun 2:30pm) Spirit-soaked and hormone-charged, Camp Wanatachi is a hilarious and provocative new electro-musical where sex is discovered and unexpected love found at an all-girls Christian summer camp. ($18) Event Website

(John Ryan Theater, 25 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY 11201) (Varies) Featuring the works of 64 contemporary dancemakers, all performances in this two-week long extravaganza . (FREE) Event Website

(Joyce Theater, 175 8th Ave, New York, NY 10011) (Varies) Parsons Dance returns with three programs featuring two world premiere dances. The new works will showcase the Parsons Dance commitment to creating contemporary American works of extraordinary artistry that are engaging and uplifting to audiences in New York and throughout the world. ($10+) Event Website

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(Off- Broadway) Explore the unparalleled diversity, excitement and experimentation that makes Off Broadway unique and electrifying. See more than 30 shows ranging from the dramatic exploration of the Tuskegee airmen's experience in Black Angels Over Tuskegee to a fun, interactive re-creation of the '80s in The Awesome 80s Prom. Use Code: NYCGO Event Website

(LABA Theater at the 14th Street Y, 344 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003) (Varies) Playwrights explore the different truths surrounding the gentrification of New York’s neighborhoods. ($25) Event Website

(Paper Mill Playhouse, 22 Brookside Drivre, Millburn, NJ 07041) (Varies) This revival is described as the "story of six quirky competitors and three oddball adults in search of spelling bee glory." ($25+) Event Website

(Sofia's Downstairs Theatre, 221 West 46 St, New York, NY 10036) (Varies) The story of Miss Abigail, the most sought-after relationship expert to the stars (think Dr. Ruth meets Emily Post), and her sexy sidekick Paco, as they travel the world teaching Miss Abigail’s outrageously funny "how-to's" on dating, mating and marriage! ($75) Event Website

(Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023) (Varies) An incredible range of artists. One intimate stage. Event Website

(Museum of Moving Image, 35 Avenue at 37 Street, Astoria, NY 11106) (Varies) The series, and the new theater and screening room, offer proof that the availability of films today in many digital formats can’t replace the immersive—and social—experience of seeing a film presented theatrically in its original format. Event Website

(The York Theater Company, 619 Lexington Avenue, Corner of 54th St, New York, NY 10021) (Varies) True musical comedy of 2 American musical theater writers commissioned to write a larger-than-life Broadway style mega-msuical for the Emir of Qatar. ($67.50) Event Website

(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) (Varies) Highlighting the season will be a new ballet by Broadway choreographer and director Susan Stroman. Also features a major revival of Peter Martins’ The Magic Flute and also feature seven performances of Peter Martins’ full-length staging of Swan Lake. Event Website

(Bryant Park, 25 West 40th St, New York, NY 10018) Citi Pond is the centerpiece of Bryant Park's winter season, which also includes the annual Holiday Shops at Bryant Park. The 170' x 100' rink features free admission ice skating, in addition to high quality rental skates, skating shows, special events, and activities. (FREE; Skates $13) Event Website

(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) (Varies) Brooke Wyeth (Elizabeth Marvel) returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents (Stockard Channing and Stacy Keach) after a six-year absence. A once-promising novelist, she announces to her family the imminent publication of a memoir dredging up a pivotal event in the family’s history. This new play is a poignant and sharply drawn portrait of a family simultaneously bound together and torn apart as it struggles to come to grips with a painful past. ($80)

(Madison Square Park, 23rd St and Madison Ave, New York, NY 10011) Combining to create a symphony of light that advance Campbell’s career-long fusion of light-based, moving-image and sculptural art. The largest of the three works, also named Scattered Light, will feature nearly 2,000 LEDs encased in standard light bulbs, suspended within a support structure spanning 80 feet in length and standing 20 feet high and 16 feet wide to create a vibrant light grid across the center of Madison Square Park’s Oval Lawn. (FREE)

(City Bakery, 3 West 18th St, New York, NY 10011) At this Flatiron institution, you can sample a different flavor of liquidy goodness every day in February. This winter’s lineup is still being kept under wraps, but past flavors have been spiked with espresso, Earl Grey tea, beer and chili peppers. ($3 - 5) Event Website

(Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th St, New York, NY 10003) (Varies) Park Slope parents Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard return to CSC to put on another Chekhov masterpiece, Three Sisters. The story concerns privileged sisters Olga, Masha, and Irina who long to return to city life in Moscow after 11 years in a small, bland town. ($75) Event Website

(Leslie/Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster St, New York, NY 10013) Eight new larger than life-size photographic prints highlighting human beings of transgender experience, photographed by Amos Mac & Katie Koti, will be showcased in the Window Gallery at the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation. These photographs, part of our ongoing window series, will be on view in our window gallery (available for viewing 24 hours, outside, from street level. (FREE) (212-431-2609) [email protected] Event Website

(City Center, 131 West 55th St, New York, NY 10019) (Varies) Caleb DeLeon, a Jewish Confederate soldier, returns wounded from the battlefield to find his family home in ruins, abandoned by everyone except Simon and John, two former slaves who were raised as Jews in the DeLeon home. As the three men reunite to celebrate Passover and recall the exodus from Egypt in light of their own new liberties, they uncover a tangle of secrets – ties that bind them together and that ultimately might cost each man his freedom. ($80) Event Website

(Standard Hotel, 848 Washington St., New York, NY 10014) (10am - midnight) Grab your most stylish winter gear, as The Standard, New York’s new ice skating rink, makes its debut! Skaters looking to warm up can also sample the Andre Balazs hotel's special après skate menu, ($12 + $3 for skates) Event Website

(Central Park, 58th St, New York, NY 10155) Skating on Wollman Rink is a winter tradition for New Yorkers and tourists alike – so many people have tied up their skates for the very first time on this very ice. Event Website

(The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10128) (Closed Wednesday) Harry Houdini captivated the world with his astonishing feats. Stunning period posters, unusual theater ephemera, and dramatic historic photographs of Houdini’s performances are complemented by contemporary art works by artists inspired by Houdini such as Matthew Barney ($12) Event Website

(Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023) (Varies) This winter, more than 150 composers, songwriters and performers re-defining contemporary music come together for collaborations exploring the fertile terrain between classical and popular music. The 14-concert festival kicks off with a FREE 7-hour marathon for MLK Day ($25) Event Website

(Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, 111 West 46th St, New York, NY 10036) (Varies) Olympia Dukakis stars in this haunting Tennessee Williams drama. In her picturesque Italian mountaintop home, Flora Goforth, a wealthy American widow has detached from the world in order to write her memoirs. When a handsome and mysterious young visitor arrives without warning to keep Flora company in her final hours, this dreamlike play blossoms into a fascinating meditation on life and death. ($71+) Event Website

(Golden Theatre, 252 West 45th St, New York, NY 10036) (Varies) Two of the world's greatest living actors—two-time Tony Award® winner and Academy Award® nomineeJames Earl Jones, and Tony Award and Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave—are coming together on Broadway. Tells the affecting story of the decades-long relationship between a stubborn Southern matriarch and her compassionate chauffeur. ($67+) Event Website

(Rockefeller Center, 45 Rockefeller Plaza, 5th to 7th Aves, 47 to 51st Sts, New York, NY 10111) (Varies) The world-famous Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center has become a quintessential New York City winter experience for generations. Here you'll find New Yorkers and visitors alike, skating amid the watchful eye of the gilded Prometheus statue and the unique urban backdrop of Rockefeller Center's sparkling lights Event Website

(Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave at 75th St, New York, NY 10021) ($18) The exhibition highlights the work of Edward Hopper, whose use of the subject matter of modern life to portray universal human experiences made him America’s most iconic realist painter of the 20th century. Event Website

(Signature Theatre Company, 555 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036) (Varies) Set in late 1985 and early 1986, as the first wave of the AIDS epidemic in America is escalating and Ronald Reagan has been elected to a second term in the White House, this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play's two parts, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, bring together a young gay man with AIDS and his frightened, unfaithful lover; a closeted Mormon lawyer. Angels in America is an epic exploration of love, justice, identity and theology, of the difficulty, terror and necessity of change. ($20 till December 21) Event Website

(American Museum of Natural History, 175 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023) This highly popular winter attraction transforms the iciest day into a summer escape, inviting visitors to mingle with up to 500 fluttering, iridescent butterflies among blooming tropical flowers and lush green vegetation in 80-degree temperatures. ($28) Event Website

(American Airlines Theater, 227 West 42nd St, New York, NY 10036) (Varies) Tony Award® winner Brian Bedford directs and stars as Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde's comedic masterpiece about class and name-dropping. The cast of this glorious comedy also features Dana Ivey as Miss Prism and Paxton Whitehead as Reverend Chasuble. ($67+) Event Website

(Sofia's Downstairs Theatre, 221 West 46 St, New York, NY 10036) (Varies) the story of Miss Abigail, the most sought-after relationship expert to the stars (think Dr. Ruth meets Emily Post), and her sexy side-kick Paco, as they travel the world teaching Miss Abigail’s outrageously funny “how-tos” on dating, mating and marriage! ($69+) Event Website

Tuesdays at 7pm, 3rd St & Prospect Park West; Wednesdays at 6:45pm, 236 West 73rd St; Saturdays at 9:15am, 236 West 73rd St Event Website

(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) The world's oldest and largest not-profit agency dedicated to serving LGBT senior citizens. Activities include Daytime Discussion, Art Studio, 75+, Support Group, Scrabble & Bridge and Women's and Men's activities. Event Website

(Chelsea Studios, 151 West 26th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011) (7 pm) Broadway Bodies is a new high-impact, dance workout to your favorite show tunes. Incorporating basic dance movements with high impact aerobic techniques, Broadway Bodies is a fun and exciting cardio class. The first 30-minutes of the class features a build-up with an exciting medley of songs (repeated each week), followed by learning and dancing a custom combination formulated around a Broadway or Hollywood musical. Broadway Bodies is designed for the absolute beginner and accomplished dancer alike. ($15) [email protected] Event Website

(Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street near West 4th St., NY, NY 10014) (7:00PM) Every Tuesday night Stagebuddy.com presents a hand-picked, one-hour sampling of performances from our expansive database of NY's Best LIVE SHOWS!! Each week is hosted by comedian Vicky Kuperman and features a mix of Theatre, Comedy,Broadway Cabaret, Burlesque Performers, Music and Magic, along with Games & Giveaways! Past guests include Grammy, MAC & Tony Award winners/nominees, top televised Comedians, and some of the most fascinating people working in show business today! ($5.00) (646-414-6668) [email protected] Event Website

(Ripley Grier Studios, 939 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Buzzer 307, New York, NY 10019) (Tu 8pm; We 8:30pm) Greg Ryzio brings same sex ballroom dancing to Hells Kitchen. Learn classic Ballroom and spicy Latin dances with your partner or on your own. Classes are open to anyone looking to learn in a comfortable and friendly environment. Come join in on the fun! ($20) (917.692.8732) [email protected] Event Website