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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

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KATE CLINTON, MARGA GOMEZ & MICHELE BALAN oh my!
(Gotham Comedy Club, 208 West 23rd St (btwn 7 & 8th Aves), New York, NY 10011, 212.367.9000, Venue Website) (8:30pm - 10:00pm) Gynomite! Girls just want to have funny. Enjoy an extra special night of sensational stand-up from some of the legendary leading ladies of LOLGBT comedy, including the great KATE CLINTON (from Showtime, Oprah, Rachel Maddow, Comedy Central et al.), the fabulous MARGA GOMEZ (GLAAD Award Winner, author/star of numerous acclaimed solo shows and LOGO's "One Night Stand-Up" and the "Outlaugh Festival") and funny lady JESSICA HALEM (from "Gurlesque Burlesque," "The Hysterical Women" and the Chicago Comedy Festival). Hosted by high priestess of hilarity MICHELE BALAN (from NBC's "Last Comic Standing") ($20 cover/2 beverage min.) (212-367-9000) [email protected] Event Website
Arts & Entertainment
Dine Out for Japan Restaurant Week
(See website for details) By eating out at participating tri-state area restaurants during you can help support the Japan Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami relief efforts. These participating restaurants will donate a portion of their Dine Out for Japan sales to the Japan relief fund. Enjoy a great meal and do some good at the same time - it's a win-win situation! Event Website
Note: this event runs March 7 - 11
OrganizationsLGBT
Phone Bank to Save NH Marriage Equality
(SEIU 1199, 330 W. 42 St, 7 Fl) (Tu - Th 6pm-830pm; Sat 2pm-5pm) Help to phone bank to protect the marriage equality law. The NH Legislature is currently threatening to repeal the law. Marriage Equality NY / USA and Standing Up for New Hampshire Families (FREE) (347-913-6369) [email protected] Event Website
Note: this event runs March 6 - 8, 10, 13 - 15, 17, 20 - 22, and 24

Ongoing Events

through March 10
Arts & Entertainment
As Wide as I Can See
(HERE Arts Center, 145 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013) (Tu - Su 8:30pm) In the backyard of a recession-stricken Ohio town, the beer is on ice and the citronellas are ready to be lit. Dean, a disillusioned journalist, and his freeloading best friend unwittingly prepare for the most explosive barbecue of their lives. Burgers are flipped and scores are settled in this new drama about remembering who you were and confronting who you've become. ($18) Event Website
This event runs February 23 - March 10
through March 11
Arts & Entertainment
Wit - Play
(Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 West 47th St, New York, NY 10036) (See website for details) Tony Award® and two-time Emmy® Award winner Cynthia Nixon returns to MTC’s Friedman Theatre in Margaret Edson’s modern masterpiece Wit. Exquisitely written, affecting and often humorous, Wit follows a brilliant and exacting poetry professor as she undergoes experimental treatment for cancer. A scholar who devoted her life to academia, she must now face the irony and injustice of becoming the subject of research. ($57+) Event Website
This event runs January 5 - March 11
through March 15
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Wollman Rink
(Central Park South, 59th St & 6th Ave) (See website for details) Skating in Central Park at nighttime is a true New York City moment. Music plays, a moon is a plus, but not required since the ice itself gives off a silver sheen. ($10.75 + $6.75 skates) Event Website
This event runs November 1, 2011 - March 15, 2012
through March 17
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
I Heart Alice Heart I
(Irish Arts Center, 553 W. 51st St, New York City, NY 10003) (Tu - Su 8pm, Sa 2pm & Su 3pm) The play is unflinching and astonishingly personal in telling the love story of two exceptional, opinionated women – Alice and Alice – who have been in love for the best part of six decades. Filled with very Irish humor, the play explores the monumental journey of a most unlikely couple. ($27) Event Website
This event runs February 29 - March 17
through March 17
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
Romeo and Juliet
(American Theatre of Actors’ Sargent Theatre, 314 W. 54th St., New York, NY 10019) (We - Su 8pm) Tragedians of the City make their premiere outing with an all-male version of ROMEO AND JULIET, William Shakespeare's mythic tale of young passion and ancient unrest, directed by Anya Saffir. With original music composed by Cormac Bluestone. ($20)
This event runs February 29 - March 17
through March 17
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
"Gran Fury: Read My Lips"
(80WSE, 80 Washington Sq East, New York, NY 10003) (Tu - Sa 10:30am–6pm) The first comprehensive survey documenting the important AIDS activist art collective's work from 1987-1995. Naming itself after the model of Plymouth automobile used by the New York City Police Department, Gran Fury made public projects that were simultaneously scathing, provocative, stylish and often quite funny. This exhibition conveys the collective's unique voice across a wide variety of media including billboards, postcards, video, posters and painting. Photographs and records from the period help convey the urgency of the early AIDS crisis that lead many into the streets to demand reforms that changed public policy and saved lives. Event Website
This event runs January 31 - March 17
through March 17
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
Rolf Koppel: Willing
(Leslie/Lohman Museum, 26 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013) (noon - 6pm) Rolf Koppel: Willing exhibits photography richly charged with fantasy, bearing witness to the interaction of the photographer, Rolf Koppel, with his muse and partner William Light Johnson. Curated by Austrian art historian Peter Weiermair, Rolf Koppel: Willing includes over 60 images, representing 30 years of Koppel's career. During the exhibition, Rolf Koppel, Photographs 1976-2003, and Will (both by All Saints Press), and Basement Arcade (Fotohof edition 2012), will be available for purchase. OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, February 15; 6-8pm. CURATOR & ARTIST DISCUSSION: Tuesday, February 21, 6-8pm. (FREE) (212-431-2609) [email protected] Event Website
This event runs February 15 - March 17
through March 20
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
Call for entries - UNCENSORED: Queer Art and the Church
(Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, 26 Wooster St, New York, NY 10013) CALL FOR ENTRIES. ALL ENTRIES WILL BE SHOWN. The exhibition Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church is an activist riposte to the shameful history of censorship against LGBTQ art and artists by both the Catholic Church and Fundamentalist Protestant Churches. The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art firmly believes that all art should be seen and displayed without regard to content; therefore submissions will NOT be curated, edited, interpreted or censored. Artists may only submit work online at uncensoredexhibition.org/submit. Deadline is March 20, 2012 at midnight. The Museum reserves the right to reject artwork which infringes (FREE) [email protected] Event Website
This event runs March 1 - 20
through April 8
Arts & Entertainment
Look Back in Anger
(Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, 111 West 46th St, New York, NY 10036) (See website for details) As Jimmy Porter, the caustic, charismatic lead character in John Osbourne’s Look Back in Anger, Matthew Rhys is on constant alert, ready to lash out at his young wife, Alison (Sarah Goldberg), and a pair of interlopers in their garbage-strewn flat. For his New York stage debut, Rhys has abandoned the stylish suits he wore as gay lawyer Kevin Walker in TV’s Brothers & Sisters in favor of work pants and shirts carefully ironed on stage by Jimmy’s depressive bride. ($71+) Event Website
This event runs February 2 - April 8
through April 15
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The Rink at Rockefeller Center
(Rockefeller Center, 45 Rockefeller Plaza, 5th to 7th Aves, 47 to 51st Sts, New York, NY 10111) A quintessential NYC winter experience for generations. Skate under the watchful eye of Prometheus and the unique urban backdrop of Rockefeller Center's sparkling lights. ($10 + $8 skates) Event Website
This event runs October 15, 2011 - April 15, 2012
through April 22
Arts & Entertainment
The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens March 3-April 22
(New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458) (10am - 7pm) The Orchid Show takes vertical gardens to new heights in its 10th year. Renowned botanist and vertical gardening provocateur Patrick Blanc creates towering spectacles of tropical life. Dangling from Blanc's signature ''green walls,'' thousands of orchids abandon the constraints of gravity. In an explosion of alluring color and fragrance, exotic plant walls rise high above the Conservatory's Reflecting Pool and Seasonal Exhibition Galleries. Event Website
This event runs March 3 - April 22
through April 30
Arts & Entertainment
The Metropolitan Opera
(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) For the fifth season in a row, thanks to a generous gift from The Agnes Varis Trust, 200 orchestra seats are available for each regular Monday through Thursday performance for only $20, 50 of these tickets are set aside for senior citizens. You can purchase Varis Rush Tickets at the Met box office beginning two hours before curtain, subject to availability. ($20) Event Website
This event runs September 20, 2011 - April 30, 2012
through May 4
Arts & Entertainment
William Shatner's One Man Broadway Show
(Music Box Theatre, 239 West 45th St, New York, NY 10036) (Tu - Sa 8pm & Su 3pm) A one man force of nature delivers a larger than life performance complete with his laugh-out-loud humor, signature storytelling and select musical selections in his inimitable style. Through anecdotes, songs, jokes and even some poignant moments, you will experience William Shatner 's phenomenal path from classically trained Shakespearean actor to cultural icon, brilliantly creating the larger-than-life and most important character he has ever played, William Shatner. ($62+) Event Website
This event runs February 14 - May 4
through May 14
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Print/Out
(MoMA, 11 West 53 St, New York, NY 10019) This exhibition examines the evolution of artistic practices related to the print medium, from the resurgence of ancient printmaking techniques—often used alongside digital technologies—to the worldwide proliferation of self-published artists’ books and ephemera. Bringing together over 200 works drawn substantially from MoMA’s extensive collection of prints and books. Event Website
This event runs February 19 - May 14
through June 2
Arts & Entertainment
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
(Barrymore Theatre, 243 W47th Street, New York, NY 10036) (See website for schedule) Directed by eight-time Tony Award® winner Mike Nichols and starring Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, Obie Award winner Linda Emond as Linda Loman and Andrew Garfield (The Social Network, The Amazing Spider-Man), making his Broadway debut as Biff Loman. Limited 16-week engagement ($46.50+) Event Website
This event runs February 13 - June 2
through July 8
Arts & Entertainment
Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
(Richard Rodgers Theatre, 226 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036) (See website for details) Coming to Broadway in a stunning and stirring new staging, featuring such legendary songs as “Summertime,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” and “I Got Plenty of Nothing,” plus a remarkable cast led by four-time Tony Award(R) winner AUDRA McDONALD (Ragtime, “Private Practice”), Drama Desk nominee NORM LEWIS (Les Misérables, Sondheim on Sondheim), and two-time Tony nominee DAVID ALAN GRIER (Race, “In Living Color”). ($55+) Event Website
This event runs December 17, 2011 - July 8, 2012
through July 8
Arts & Entertainment
Gore Vidal's The Best Man
(Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036) (See website for schedule) Gore Vidal's The Best Man comes to Broadway in an all-star theatrical event with two time Tony Award winner James Earl Jones, Tony and Emmy Award winner John Larroquette, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Candice Bergen, Emmy Award winner Eric McCormack, Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays, Drama Desk Award winner and Academy Award nominee Michael McKean and five time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury. ($66+) Event Website
This event runs March 6 - July 8
through July 31
Arts & Entertainment
Spiderman Turn Off the Dark
(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
This event runs June 14, 2011 - July 31, 2012
through September 1
Arts & Entertainment
Godspell
(Circle In The Square Theatre, 235 West 50th St, New York, NY 10019) (See website for details) The beloved classic from Stephen Schwartz, the Grammy® and Academy Award®-winning composer of WICKED and PIPPIN. Enjoy all the good gifts of one of the most enduring shows of all time as it comes to Broadway in a brand new, intimately staged, one-of-a-kind production. Raise your spirit with the Tony®-nominated score filled with the popular hits Day By Day, Learn Your Lessons Well and Turn Back, O Man. ($125+) Event Website
This event runs November 7, 2011 - September 1, 2012
through September 9
Arts & Entertainment
Jesus Christ Superstar
(Neil Simon Theatre, 250 West 52nd St, New York, NY 10019) (See website for details) Previews March 1, Opens March 22. Two-time Tony Award®-winning director Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys, The Who’s Tommy) brings a bold, new vision to the classic rock opera by Tony®, Grammy® and Academy Award® winners Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. After winning rave reviews at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival and the La Jolla Playhouse, this thrilling new production of one of the most popular musicals of all time gets ready to rock Broadway all over again ($70+) Event Website
This event runs March 1 - September 9

Recurring Events this Wednesday

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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
Organizations
Service & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)
(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
This event runs Monday through Friday
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Marriage Equality NY
(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (6:30 - 8pm) Coalition of lesbian, gay and nongay individuals and organizations committed to ending discrimination against same-sex couples in civil marriage. Event Website
This event runs every 1st Wednesday
Arts & Entertainment
Last Call at the Starliner Lounge
(Corio, 337 West Broadway, New York, NY 10003) (8:00pm) Last Call at the Starliner Lounge, a new and entirely original burlesque noir musical featuring live music, murder, mystery, camp and, last but never least, a bevy of twirling tassels- in the tradition of the five lesbian brothers. The once-underground, once-illegal show formally takes the top floor of Soho’s burlesque landmark. ($15) (212-966-3901) [email protected] Event Website
This event runs Wednesdays
LGBTSocial
Out on the Floor - Same Sex Ballroom Dance Classes
(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
This event runs Tuesdays and Wednesdays