(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)

(Crossroads Theatre Company, 7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901) (Varies) Set in May 1959 in a small New York nightclub, Yesterdays is a fictional dramatization with music depicting Billie Holiday's last performance. Played by jazz vocalist Vanessa Rubin she brings haunting and memorable songs to the stage including Fine and Mellow, Strange Fruit, My Man, Yesterdays, and God Bless the Child. ($40+) Event Website

(Ars Nova, 511 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019) (8pm) Varla returns to New York for the first time in over 3 years with this all new show. Miss Merman spices up the gig with the appearance of Tom Judson aka "Gus Mattox" on piano. Come hear the Ambien sounds of Varla Jean! THE LOOSE CHANTEUSE features new videos, saucy songs and dazz ling dresses. ($35) Event Website

(Grand Opening, 39 Norfolk Street, New York, NY 10002) (Varies) 20 days of independent short and feature films made for under $30,000, all in pursuit of the prestigious LES Prix D’Or. The LES Film Festival is committed to showcasing the creativity and inventiveness of low-budget filmmaking and to give filmmakers an opportunity to present their work. BYOB screenings will be followed by a Q&A with directors. ($10) 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) 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

(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

(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

(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)

(Barneys, 255 W. 17th Street, New York, NY 10011) 50% - 75% off regular prices!!!! Event Website

(Various Locations) (Varies) Located in the heart of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The selection process is part first- come, first- serve, and part lottery. FRIGID New York returns 100% of the box office revenue to the participating company. Offering 30 production slots no longer than 60 minutes in length: 10 shows each in The Kraine Theater, The Red Room, and UNDER St. Marks. ($16) Event Website

(City Center Main Stage, 131 West 55th St, New York, NY 10019) (Varies) NYC premieres of Phantasmagoria and Three Dubious Memories... and long-awaited revival of Orbs set to Beethoven’s revered late string quartets. ($10+) 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

(Leslie/Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster St, New York, NY 10013) (noon - 6 pm) This exhibition of two young Italian photographers is comprised of two components: photographs extracted from the book, "Private Album" exposing both public and private aspect of their lives; and a series of unusual and innovative images in varying locations. Exhibition and book are curated by Peter Weiermair, international curator, author and publisher of art books including "Treasures of Gay art from the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation." (FREE) (212-431-2609) [email protected] Event Website

(BAM Harvey Theater, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217) (Varies) Music Geoffrey Rush stars in The Diary of a Madman based on Nikolai Gogol's darkly comic 1853 short story centered on the life of a minor civil servant, Poprischin, in the repressive era of Nicholas I. ($20+) Event Website

(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

(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

(Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10019) (Varies) Return with to a simpler time; Saturday morning, 1975. Your dad’s drinking again. Your brother’s writing a sci-fi novel in his pajamas.Your sister’s dancing at a strip club and your racist grandmother comes for lunch… on entirely the wrong day.Everyone’s still living at home. But after today, nothing will be the same. Or maybe everything will be the same. After all, these are white people. ($30) Event Website

(Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023) (Varies) Welcome to New York’s newest annual musical adventure: the Tully Scope Festival. Tully Scope offers a vibrant spectrum of innovative and distinctive musical presentations, spanning centuries and genres, celebrating the electricity of New York’s premier concert destination. 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

(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

(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

(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

(New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East Fourth Street, New York, NY 10003) (Varies) an imaginative new play based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers. In it, a company of 12 actors play some 50 characters on a journey to answer the century-old questions: How did Peter become The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up? ($70) Event Website

(Daniel Cooney Fine Art, 511 West 25th Street, #506, New York, NY 10001) (Tu - Sa 11am - 6pm) Photographer Carrie Levy exhibits her latest series which depicts sub-missive male nudes manipulated into a variety of poses (FREE) 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

(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

(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

(TRIAD THEATER, 158 W. 72ND ST, New York, NY 10023, 212-362-2590) (9pm) Broadway’s Next H!T Musical brings back the glitz and glam to the Upper West Side with New York’s only unscripted theatrical awards show. Taking suggestions from the audience, the cast of Broadway’s Next H!T Musical brings to life an actual mock awards show, complete with made-up show tunes and genuinely witty banter, followed by a performance of the evening’s “Phony™" Award Winning musical. ($20 with a 2 drink minimum) (212-354-4660) [email protected] 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

(Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 West 47th St, New York, NY 10036) (Varies) Welcome to Southie, a Boston neighborhood where a night on the town means a few rounds of bingo… where this month’s paycheck covers last month’s bills… and where Margie Walsh has just been let go from yet another job. Starring: Frances McDormand and Estelle Parsons ($57+) Event Website

(Times Square Arts Center, 669 Eigth Ave, New York, NY 10036) (10:30pm) The hilarious ‘interactive game show musical’ has contestants from all walks of life, male and female, pitted against each other in a race for drag superstardom. The Ultimate Drag Off has been entertaining audiences in many clubs and lounges in NYC and now it makes its official off-Broadway debut. Hosted by NYC drag sensation Sweetie (Wig Out, Charmed Life, Starbooty, Project Runway), the colorful cast of contestants comprises of an ever-changing weekly roster with some of your favorite amateur and professional drag performers. ($25 + 2 Drink Minimum) 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

(Foxwoods Theater, 214 West 43rd St, New York, NY 10019) (Varies) Previews November 14th Opens December 21st. Drawing from over 40 years of Marvel comic books for inspiration, Spiderman - Turn Off The Dark, spins a new take on the mythic tale of Peter Parker, a teenager whose unremarkable life in Queen's is turned upside down - literally - when he's bitten by a genetically altered spider and wakes up the next morning clinging to the ceiling. Event Website

(Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10028) Van Cleef & Arpels has played a leading role in style and design innovation. Its timeless pieces have been worn by style icons including the Duchess of Windsor, Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor. This exhibition will explore the historical significance of the firm's contributions to jewelry design in the 20th century. On view will be more than 350 works. Event Website

(MoMA, 11 West 53 St, New York, NY 10019) Approximately 70 works from a wide range of artists and musicians will be on view, including works by the Beastie Boys, Kathleen Hanna and Le Tigre, Keith Haring, Christian Marclay, Steven Parrino, Run DMC, and Joanie 4 Jackie, a video chain letter founded by Miranda July. ($20) 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

(Fossil, 111 Spring St, New York, NY 10012) (Varies) Excited to see a bevy of vintage items selected by the staff, as well as leather goods and accessories that are synonymous with the label. Fossil also goes retro and promises to transport us to another time with '70s style; an obvious reoccurring trend this Fashion Week that will wear us well into next winter. Event Website

(Longacre Theatre, 220 West 48th St, New York, NY 10036) (Varies) La Cage aux Folles gets a sprinkling of STARDUST as 4-time Tony® winner HARVEY FIERSTEIN (Hairspray, Fiddler on the Roof) and two-time Tony® Award-nominee CHRISTOPHER SIEBER (Monty Python’s Spamalot, Shrek The Musical) join the new, Tony-winning Broadway production of the musical comedy HARVEY FIERSTEIN co-wrote with JERRY HERMAN almost 30 years ago! La Cage aux Folles is a tuneful and touching tale of one family’s struggle to stay together... stay fabulous... and above all else, stay true to themselves! DON’T MISS IT, DARLINGS! ($47+) 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

(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

(CBST, 296 9th Ave, at 28th St, New York, NY 10001) (7pm) Event Website

(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (7:30 - 10pm) Educational, recreational, and social opportunities within the framework of Modern Western square dancing for the gay and lesbian community. Event Website

(Rififi, 332 E. 11th St, Between 1st and 2nd Ave., New York, NY 10003) (11pm) The Only Free, Gay AND Lesbian Friday night dance party in NYC. The night at Rififi features hot Go-Gos, the best DJs, crazy drink specials and NO cover charge. (Free)

(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (Excluding July and August) Dedicated to showcasing films specifically for a lesbian audience that is reflective and inclusive of the diverse community. Event Website

(Natural Gourmet Institute, 48 W. 21st St, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10011) (6:30pm) Friday Night Dinner at The Natural Gourmet has become a culinary magnet for savvy New Yorkers and visitors alike. Savor a delicious and unique experience when Chef Instructors and students of our Chef’s Training Program pour their expertise and enthusiasm into a three-course vegetarian dinner that is both innovative and beautifully presented. ($40) Event Website