Saturday, February 5, 2011
 |  |  | 2011 Greater New York Human Rights Campaign Gala |
(Waldorf Astoria, 301 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022) (6pm) The Greater New York HRC Gala important and exciting event where over 1,000 like-minded and dedicated LGBT people and allies can connect, energize and focus on our work that lies ahead. It raises essential funds through corporate sponsorship, ticket, silent auction and program book recognition page sales. ($400) [email protected] Event Website
| Lost In The Stars |
(City Center Main Stage, 131 West 55th St, New York, NY 10019) Weill and Anderson set to work fashioning Alan Paton’s novel Cry, the Beloved Country into a musical tragedy within weeks of its momentous publication. This story of life in South Africa under apartheid stirred generations to action, and was the basis for a beautiful, brooding, dramatic musical that produced not only the immortal title song, but an entire score that pulses with the life of a people. ($25+) Event Website
Note: this event runs February 3 - 6
| Stop'N Swap |
(Varies locations see website for more info) Community "swaps" provide the perfect opportunity to find new homes for things you no longer need. By taking home items that you can use, you are also helping to prevent waste from production,packaging and transportation required to get new things. Event Website
Note: this event runs January 8, 22, February 5, 12, and 26
| Opera Boot Camp: Basic Training |
(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) (11am) Newcomers and lifelong opera-goers alike will deepen their appreciation of the lyric arts with this enlightening series. The Metropolitan Opera Guild’s resident experts reveal secrets of listening to maximize enjoyment; recount the history of the art form, from its Renaissance roots to its place in contemporary culture; and get to know the unsung heroes on and off the operatic stage. Event Website
Note: this event runs January 22, 29, February 5, and 12
| MANHATTAN VINTAGE CLOTHING AND ANTIQUE TEXTILE SHOW AND SALE |
(Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th St, New York, NY 10011) (Fr 1 - 8pm, Sa 11am - 6pm) DESIGNER FASHION THAT'S ON THE EDGE can be yours at the upcoming Manhattan Vintage Clothing Shows. A special exhibit for the upcoming show celebrates "vintage fashion on the edge." ($20) Event Website
Note: this event runs February 4 - 5, and 29 - 30
| Baby Wants Candy |
(SoHo Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street, New York, NY 10013) (10pm) The cast asks the audience for a suggestion of a musical that has never been performed before. Accompanied by a full band, the first title that the group hears becomes the title and theme for that evening’s 60 minute show. It’s a roller coaster ride of spontaneously choreographed dance numbers, rhyming verses, and witty jaw-dropping comedy. Each performance is its own opening and closing night, and by design every show is completely unique and a once–in-a-lifetime premiere. ($12+) Event Website
Note: this event runs January 8, 15, 22, 29, February 5, 12, 19, and 26
| An Evening with Whoopi Goldberg |
(New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center Street, Newark, NJ 07102) (8pm) An evening of stand-up comedy, followed by what’s sure to be a provocative, entertaining Q and A with the audience. ($39.50+) Event Website
| Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Annual Dance Concert & Pow-Wow |
(Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave, New York, NY 10003) (Varies) Dances, stories and traditional music from the Iroquois and Native Peoples of the Northwest Coast, the Southwest, the Plains, and the Arctic regions. ($10) Event Website
Note: this event runs January 28 - 30, and 4 - 6
|  | Boyfriend Material |
(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (8pm) It’s speed-dating with a unique twist: answer four questions
about your interests, values, and lifestyle, and get
assigned to four different groups of men who gave answers
similar to yours. Also meet guys one-on-one in a free
mingling period. A fun, unique way to meet men you are
compatible with. ($20) (212-971-1084) [email protected] Event Website
|  | Winter Jam NYC |
(Prospect Park, West at 15th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215) (11am - 4pm) An annual winter sports festival that encourages New Yorkers to get out and enjoy the outdoors in the colder months! ORDA will be blowing lots of fresh snow, so there will be plenty to go around! (FREE) Event Website
| CLEAR: A new musical experience |
(Dixon Place, 161 A Chrystie, (Between Rivington & Delancey), New York, NY 10002) (7:30pm) A tale of destiny, luck & the commonality of the human experience. A spiritual quest in our decidedly computerized times, Clear fuses music, memory & pure love to remind us how best to live life. ($15/$18 @ door) Event Website
Note: this event runs February 3 - 5, 10 - 12, and 17 - 19
| | Learn to Two-Step |
(Big Apple Ranch, 39 West 19th St, New York, NY 10011) (7pm) Do something different on your Saturday nights and make new friends when you learn to dance Two-Step. Two-Step is a classic partner dance popular at LGBT country-western clubs and parties around the US, including the Big Apple Ranch in NYC. No previous dance experience is required. Held right before the Big Apple Ranch opens its doors on Saturday night! ($40 for series) [email protected] Event Website
Note: this event runs February 5, 12, 19, and 26
| Mosheh: a VideOpera |
(HERE Arts Center, 145 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013) (8:30pm) Mosheh is the mythic tale of Moses, reimagined as a contemporary urban hallucination. Costumes and saturated video projection surround the five vocalists, single actor and nine-piece orchestra, who realize the intensity and fervor of Gal's composition. ($20)
Note: this event runs January 26 - 27, 30, 1 - 2, and 4 - 5
| Steve Cuiffo is Lenny Bruce |
(St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201) (8pm) Steve Cuiffo delivers a sublime, hyper-real, verbatim resurrection of this relevant, to the point of prophetic, monologue by a great American thinker, and an opportunity to reflect on all his insights and warnings. ($45) Event Website
Note: this event runs February 4 - 5
| Political Subversities |
(People's Improv Theater, 154 West 29th St., New York, NY 10001) (9:30pm) A darkly funny cabaret that finds the humorous, the stupid and the downright absurd in today's social and political landscape in the form of side-splitting sketches, fast and funny monologues and Broadway-worthy songs. Featuring an ensemble of New York's most exciting emerging writer/performers, Seamlessly presenting more than 40 sketches and songs in under an hour. Neither Left or Right, Political Subversities sinks its comedic teeth into everyone from Palin to Palestine, bedbugs to Bloomberg, Obama to Oprah - no one is spared. With fresh material every week, the show is always riding the edge of the political and cultural moment. ($10) [email protected] Event Website
Note: this event runs January 29, February 5, 12, 19, 26, March 5, 12, 19, and 26
| The OTHER Steve & Edie Edie Falco & Stephen Wallem |
(Laurie Beechman Theatre/Westbank Café, 407 W. 42nd Street between 9th and 10th, Subway: ACE to 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036) (7pm) Throughout the show, the duo will take on songs from contemporary pop to jazz standards, with a healthy dose of show tunes and original material, and even a salute to the other Steve and Eydie. ($20 + $15 Minimum) Event Website
Note: this event runs February 4 - 6
| The Sluts of Sutton Drive |
(Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10019) (7pm) A working mother enrolls in a strip aerobics class only to realize she hates men. It’s when she becomes addicted to drinking cleaning products that her life really begins to unravel. ($20) Event Website
Note: this event runs February 3 - 5
| ReelAbilities Film Festival |
(JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave at 76th St, New York, NY 10023, 646-505-4444) (Varies) ReelAbilities: NY disabilities film festival is dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different disabilities. The festival presents award winning films in various locations throughout the NY metropolitan area, as well as discussions and other engaging programs. Event Website
Note: this event runs February 3 - 8
Ongoing Events
through February 5
| Blood From a Stone |
(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
This event runs January 6 - February 5
through February 6
| Parsons Dance |
(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
This event runs January 25 - February 6
through February 6
| COOL NY 2011 DANCE Festival, |
(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
This event runs January 26 - February 6
through February 6
| | Camp Wanatachi |
(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
This event runs January 21 - February 6
through February 10
| Broadway Week |
(Broadway theatre) Get two-for-one tickets to some of the City’s hottest shows.
Tickets on sale now. Use promo code: BW2011 Event Website
This event runs January 24 - February 10
through February 13
| On the House's 2-for-1 tickets |
(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
This event runs January 24 - February 13
through February 13
| Gentrifusion |
(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
This event runs January 27 - February 13
through February 13
| The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee |
(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
This event runs January 19 - February 13
through February 14
| Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating & Marriage |
(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
This event runs October 7, 2010 - February 14, 2011
through February 20
| Recovered Treasures: Great Films from World Archives |
(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
This event runs January 15 - February 20
through February 20
| American Songbook Alice Tully Hall |
(Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023) (Varies) An incredible range of artists. One intimate stage. Event Website
This event runs January 12 - February 20
through February 27
| | Citi Pond @ Bryant Park |
(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
This event runs October 29, 2010 - February 27, 2011
through February 27
| The Road to Qatari |
(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
This event runs January 25 - February 27
through February 27
| New York City Ballet Winter Repertory Season |
(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
This event runs January 28 - February 27
through February 27
| Other Desert Cities |
(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)
This event runs December 21, 2010 - February 27, 2011
through February 28
| Jim Campbell's Scattered Light |
(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)
This event runs October 21, 2010 - February 28, 2011
through February 28
| 19th annual Hot Chocolate Festival |
(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
This event runs February 1 - 28
through March 6
| Three Sisters |
(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
This event runs January 12 - March 6
through March 12
| | Home Sweet Homo |
(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
This event runs January 11 - March 12
through March 13
| Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carré |
(Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 W. 37th Street, New York, NY 10018) (Tu - Sa 8pm; Su 7pm) Set in the boarding house in New Orleans where Williams himself stayed as a young man during the Depression. The young writer, as narrator, remembers his artistic and sexual awakening there. ($20+) Event Website
This event runs February 2 - March 13
through March 13
| The Whipping Man |
(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
This event runs January 13 - March 13
through March 20
| | The Standard Hotel's Ice Skating Ring |
(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
This event runs December 17, 2010 - March 20, 2011
through March 27
| Houdini: Art and Magic |
(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
This event runs October 29, 2010 - March 27, 2011
through March 27
| Central Park Wollman Rink |
(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
This event runs November 5, 2010 - March 27, 2011
through March 28
| The Ecstatic Music Festival |
(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
This event runs January 16 - March 28
through April 3
| The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore |
(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
This event runs January 7 - April 3
through April 9
| Driving Miss Daisy |
(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
This event runs October 6, 2010 - April 9, 2011
through April 10
| Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Times |
(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
This event runs October 28, 2010 - April 10, 2011
through April 10
| Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center |
(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
This event runs November 5, 2010 - April 10, 2011
through April 24
| | Angels in America. |
(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
This event runs September 14, 2010 - April 24, 2011
through May 30
| Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter |
(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
This event runs October 16, 2010 - May 30, 2011
through July 3
| The Importance of Being Earnest |
(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
This event runs January 13 - July 3
through October 4
| Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating & Marriage |
(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
This event runs December 14, 2010 - October 4, 2011
Recurring Events this Saturday
| | Front Runners New York |
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
This event runs Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays
| | Metro Wrestling Practices |
(Fighthouse, 122 West 27th St, New York, NY 10001) (5 - 7pm) Metro Wrestling is New York City's gay freestyle wrestling club. Gay, straight, male or female, all are welcome to attend. Event Website
This event runs Saturdays
| Guided tours of the Chelsea Art Museum |
(Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011) (3 PM) Join us for docent-led tours of our exhibition galleries. Highlighting works from both our permanent collection and our rotating exhibitions, tours are free with museum admission and start from the bookstore. (Free!) (212 255 0719) [email protected] Event Website
This event runs Saturdays
| | Big Apple Ranch |
(Big Apple Ranch, 39 West 19th St, New York, NY 10011) (9PM) Founded in 1997, Big Apple Ranch has hosted a weekly country-western dance for the gay and lesbian community virtually every Saturday night for eleven years. Our huge dance floor welcomes people of all dance-abilities, and our friendly people go out of their way to make sure everyone has a good time and keeps coming back. The Ranch’s growing crowds are proof that the fun of partner dancing is contagious Polish up your boots, and come on and see what all
these cowgirls and cowboys are talking about!! Event Website
This event runs Saturdays
| Docent Tours in Chelsea Art Museum |
(Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011) (3.00 p.m.) Docent Tours are held in Chelsea Art Museum every Saturday at 3.00 p.m. (free)
This event runs Saturdays
| | The Ultimate Drag Off |
(Comix, 353 west 14th street, New York, NY 10014) (10:30pm) Hosted by NYC Sensation Sweetie (Wig Out, Charmed Life, Project Runway, Starbooty), The colorful ‘cast’ of contestants is an ever-changing weekly roster with some of your favorite and undiscovered talent from across the country in a wacky glamour-fest with brainy categories, comedic camp and live musical performances. This laugh out loud romp is a NYC treasure where the audience decides the outcome of the evening and gets to bestow the winner with the coveted ‘Drag Off’ crown! ($25 + 2 drink minimum) Event Website
This event runs Saturdays