UPDATE: Bobbi Kristina Reportedly Put On A Ventilator With.
Updates are pouring in on Bobbi Kristinas condition after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub inside of her home. Reports now say she has been placed on ventilator to help her breath and her father Bobby Brown is now��.
Bobbi Kristina Brown Gets Moved To A New Hospital ��� Report
North Fulton Hospital claims that Bobbi Kristina, whom they admitted on Jan. 31, is no longer a patient of theirs, according to a new report. Bobbi, whos currently fighting for her life, has since been moved. Plus, Bobby Browns lawyer revealed Bobbi.
Bobbi Kristina -- Doing Significantly Better | TMZ.com
12:25 PM PST -- The Houston family says, Bobbi Kristina is fighting for her life and is surrounded by immediate family. As her father already stated, we are asking you to honor our request for privacy during this difficult time.
Bobbi Kristina UPDATE: Bobby Brown MOVES Bobbi Kris.
Over the weekend, we brought you traumatic news about Bobbi Kristina, the daughter of famed singers Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston. Bobbi Kris was found unresponsive, in a bathtub, inside her Roswell, GA��.
Bobbi Kristina Reportedly Brain Dead, On A Ventilator.
Bobbi Kristina Brown is reportedly brain dead and on a ventilator after being found unresponsive in her bathtub on Saturday.
Man arrested on drug charges found Bobbi Kristina Brown along with her husband
A man previously arrested on drug distribution charges was the friend who, along with her husband Nick Gordon, discovered Bobbi Kristina Brown face down in a bathtub, unresponsive on Saturday. According to MyFoxAtlanta, Maxwell Byron Lomas is named .
Bobbi Kristina -- Never Married Nick Gordon. According to.
Bobbi Kristina was never ever Mrs. Nick Gordon. at least thats what her father Bobby Brown is claiming. According to Bobbys attorney. Bobbi���
Bobbi Kristina Brown not legally married: lawyer
Troubled young couple Bobbi Kristina Brown and Nick Gordon claim they got married last year ��� but a family lawyer said Tuesday the two were never legally hitched. ���To correct earlier reports, Bobbi Kristina is not and has never been married to Nick.
Report: Bobbi Kristinas Longtime Boyfriend Banned from Hospital Room After.
The statement added, ���To correct earlier reports, Bobbi Kristina is not and has never been married to Nick Gordon. We continue to request privacy in this matter. Please allow for our family to deal with this matter and give Bobbi Kristina the love and.
Bobbi Kristina Browns family says drugs were found in her home
As Bobbi Kristina Brown fights for her life in an Atlanta-area hospital, family sources told TMZ that law enforcement officers found drugs while conducting a second, more thorough search of her home, but a police spokeswoman disputes that account.
Bobbi Kristina Brown: Kevin Costners Moving And Emotional Gesture
Family friends continue to reach out to Whitney Houstons cousin, Dionne Warwick, with well wishes and helpful hands. She received a touching gesture from Kevin Costner, which almost made her faint ��� find out the heartbreaking reason why. Getting a.
Bobbi Kristina -- Found Face Down in Bathtub. Drug.
Law enforcement sources tell us when Nick Gordon and a friend found Bobbi Kristina she was on her stomach, and there was water in the tub. Its unclear how full the tub was, but were told it was enough water for a bath.
Bobbi Kristina -- One Positive Sign. But Still in Peril | TMZ.
Doctors saw a slight glimmer of hope for Bobbi Kristina Monday morning -- but they remain clear shes not out of the woods. Sources connected to���
Why Bobbi Kristina Brown is in a medical coma
Doctors treating Bobbi Kristina Brown appear to be taking steps to limit brain damage, medical experts say. The 21-year-old daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown has been in a medically induced coma since late Saturday, after she was .
Bobbi Kristina -- Paramedics Responded to Drowning Call.
. the bathtub and paramedics were able to revive her. As we reported, Bobbi Kristinas brain function was significantly diminished and doctors told the family it didnt look good, although thankfully it got a little better Sunday.
The Listings: Nov. 18 -- Nov. 24
Selective listings by critics of The New York Times of new and noteworthy cultural events in the New York metropolitan region this week. * denotes a highly recommended film, concert, show or exhibition. Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses. Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of current shows, additional listings, showtimes and tickets: nytimes.com/theater. Previews and Openings THE GENTLEMAN DANCING-MASTER Opens Sunday. William Wycherleys Restoration satire receives a rare production, courtesy of the Pearl Theater Company (2:20). Pearl Theater, 80 St. Marks Place, East Village, (212) 598-9802. MR. MARMALADE Opens Sunday. See the world through the eyes of precocious children in Noah Haidles comedy about a wished-for family (1:50). Roundabout Theater Company, Laura Pels Theater, at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theater, 111 West 46th Street, (212) 719-1300. SEASCAPE Opens Monday. George Grizzard, Frances Sternhagen, Elizabeth Marvel and Frederick Weller star in this revival of Edward Albees interspecies drama about a couple who meet two talking lizards on the beach (1:45). Lincoln Center Theater, at the Booth Theater, 222 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. ABIGAILS PARTY Opens Dec. 1. The New Groups production of Mike Leighs comedy about a dinner party gone horribly wrong stars Jennifer Jason Leigh (2:15). Acorn Theater at Theater Row, 410 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 279-4200. CHITA RIVERA: THE DANCERS LIFE Previews start Wednesday. Opens Dec. 11. The star of Chicago and West Side Story relives many of her (and Broadways) greatest moments, with the help of a book by Terrence McNally (2:00). Schoenfeld Theater, 236 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. CELEBRATION and THE ROOM Previews start Wednesday. Opens Dec. 5. Two short plays from opposite ends of Harold Pinters distinguished career (1:45). Atlantic Theater, 336 West 20th Street, Chelsea, (212) 239-6200. THE COLOR PURPLE Opens Dec. 1. Alice Walkers Pulitzer Prizewinning book has become the basis for the first musical co-produced by Oprah Winfrey (2:30). Broadway Theater, 1681 Broadway, at 53rd Street, (212) 239-6200. MISS WITHERSPOON Opens Nov. 29. Veronica commits suicide and refuses to be reincarnated in Christopher Durangs new comedy (1:20). Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 279-4200. THE OTHER SIDE Opens Dec. 6. A new work by Ariel Dorfman (Death and the Maiden) about a couple living in a war-torn country waiting for their 15-year-old son to return home. Rosemary Harris and John Cullum star (2:00). Manhattan Theater Club, City Center Stage I, 131 West 55th Street, (212) 581-1212. ROPE Previews start Monday. Opens Dec. 4. The Drama Dept. and the Zipper Theater present a revival of Patrick Hamiltons drama inspired by the Leopold and Loeb murder case. David Warren directs (2:05). The Zipper Theater, 336 West 37th Street, (212) 239-6200. TIGHT EMBRACE Previews start Tuesday. Opens Dec. 6. Two kidnapped women struggle to survive in this new play about political violence by Jorge Ignacio Cortinas (2:00). Intar Theater at the Kirk on Theater Row, 410 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 279-4200. A TOUCH OF THE POET Opens Dec. 8. Gabriel Byrne, last on Broadway in A Moon for the Misbegotten, stars as an Irish tavern owner whose daughter falls in love with a wealthy American in one of Eugene ONeills last plays. Doug Hughes directs (2:30). Studio 54, 254 West 54th Street, (212) 719-1300. THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL Opens Dec. 4. A revival of Horton Footes drama about a woman longing to return to her childhood home. Directed by the veteran actor Harris Yulin (2:15). Signature Theater, 555 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 244-7529. Broadway ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR An uninspired revival of Alan Ayckbourns classic farce of marital misery and Christmas cheerlessness, directed by John Tillinger. The largely merely serviceable cast includes Paxton Whithead, Mireille Enos and the wonderful Deborah Rush, who sidesteps the usual clichés of playing drunk in splendid comic style (2:30). Biltmore Theater, 261 West 47th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Ben Brantley). CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG The playthings are the thing in this lavish windup music box of a show: windmills, Rube Goldberg-esque machines and the shows title character, a flying car. Its like spending two and a half hours in the Times Square branch of Toys R Us (2:30). Hilton Theater, 213 West 42nd Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS On paper this musical tale of two mismatched scam artists has an awful lot in common with The Producers. But if you are going to court comparison with giants, you had better be prepared to stand tall. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring John Lithgow and Norbert Leo Butz, never straightens out of a slouch (2:35). Imperial Theater, 249 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) * DOUBT, A PARABLE (Pulitzer Prize, Best Play 2005, and Tony Award, Best Play 2005) Set in the Bronx in 1964, this play by John Patrick Shanley is structured as a clash of wills and generations between Sister Aloysius (Cherry Jones), the head of a parochial school, and Father Flynn (Brian F. OByrne), the young priest who may or may not be too fond of the boys in his charge. The plays elements bring to mind those tidy topical melodramas that were once so popular. But Mr. Shanley makes subversive use of musty conventions (1:30). Walter Kerr, 219 West 48th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) IN MY LIFE Joseph Brookss whimsical musical about heaven and earth works grotesquely hard to disguise its conventional heart. Mostly, its like drowning in a singing sea of syrup (1:45). Music Box Theater, 239 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) JERSEY BOYS From grit to glamour with the Four Seasons, directed by the pop repackager Des McAnuff (The Whos Tommy). The real thrill of this shrink-wrapped bio-musical, for those who want something more than recycled chart toppers and a storyline poured from a can, is watching the wonderful John Lloyd Young (as Frankie Valli) cross the line from exact impersonation into something far more compelling (2:30). The August Wilson Theater, 245 West 52nd Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) LATINOLOGUES Created and written by Rick Najera and directed by Cheech Marin, long since de-Chonged, this is a series of loosely linked monologues delivered in character by Mr. Najera and three other talented Latino performers. Mr. Najera and his compadres can be skillful slingers of one-liners, but the characters cooked up to transmit them are neither fresh nor fully realized. In contrast to the colorfully individualized portraits in John Leguizamos solo shows, the men and women of Latinologues are composites of worn, easy stereotypes (1:30). Helen Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Charles Isherwood) THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA Love is a many-flavored thing, from sugary to sour, in Adam Guettel and Craig Lucass encouragingly ambitious and discouragingly unfulfilled new musical. The show soars only in the sweetly bitter songs performed by the wonderful Victoria Clark, as an American abroad (2:15). Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) A NAKED GIRL ON THE APPIAN WAY Could it be that the exhaustingly prolific Richard Greenberg has been even busier than anyone suspected? This clunky farce about the limits of liberalism, directed by Doug Hughes and starring a miscast Richard Thomas and Jill Clayburgh, suggests that Mr. Greenberg has been moonlighting as a gag writer for sitcoms and is now recycling his discarded one-liners (1:45). American Airlines Theater, 227 West 42nd Street, (212) 719-1300. (Brantley) THE ODD COUPLE Odd is not the word for this couple. How could an adjective suggesting strangeness or surprise apply to a production so calculatedly devoted to the known, the cozy, the conventional? As the title characters in Neil Simons 1965 comedy, directed as if to a metronome by Joe Mantello, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick reprise their star performances from The Producers, and its not a natural fit. Dont even consider killing yourself because the show is already sold out (2:10). Brooks Atkinson Theater, 256 West 47th Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley). SPAMALOT (Tony Award, Best Musical 2005) This staged re-creation of the mock-medieval movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail is basically a singing scrapbook for Python fans. Such a good time is being had by so many people that this fitful, eager celebration of inanity and irreverence has found a large and lucrative audience (2:20). Shubert Theater, 225 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) * SWEENEY TODD Sweet dreams, New York. This thrilling new revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheelers musical, with Michael Cerveris and Patti LuPone leading a cast of 10 who double as their own musicians, burrows into your thoughts like a campfire storyteller who knows what really scares you. The inventive director John Doyle aims his pared-down interpretation at the squirming child in everyone, who wants to have his worst fears both confirmed and dispelled (2:30). Eugene ONeill Theater, 230 West 49th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) SWEET CHARITY This revival of the 1966 musical never achieves more than a low-grade fever when whats wanted is that old steam heat. In the title role of the hopeful dance-hall hostess, the appealing but underequipped Christina Applegate is less a shopworn angel than a merry cherub (2:30). Al Hirschfeld Theater, 302 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) SOUVENIR Stephen Temperleys sweet, long love letter of a play celebrates the unlikely career of Florence Foster Jenkins, a notoriously tone-deaf soprano socialite. Its a show that could easily have been pure camp and at over two hours, it still wears thin. But with Vivian Matalon directing the redoubtable Judy Kaye as Mrs. Jenkins, and Donald Corren as her accompanist, the plays investigative empathy turns the first act into unexpectedly gentle, affecting comedy (2:15). Lyceum Theater, 149 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) * THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE The happy news for this happy-making little musical is that the move to larger quarters has dissipated none of its quirky charm. William Finns score sounds plumper and more rewarding than it did Off Broadway, providing a sprinkling of sugar to complement the sass in Rachel Sheinkins zinger-filled book. The performances are flawless. Gold stars all around. (1:45). Circle in the Square, 1633 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood) Off Broadway ALMOST HEAVEN: SONGS OF JOHN DENVER Almost 30 of John Denvers songs are rediscovered and reinvented, as the shows publicity material says, but not generally improved upon. But Nicholas Rodriguez hits the high notes of Calypso spectacularly (2:00). Promenade Theater, 2162 Broadway, at 76th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Neil Genzlinger) * ALTAR BOYZ This sweetly satirical show about a Christian pop group made up of five potential Teen People cover boys is an enjoyable, silly diversion (1:30). Dodger Stages, Stage 4, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200.(Isherwood) BACH AT LEIPZIG Itamar Mosess comedy is an ardent but hollow literary homage to Tom Stoppard stuffed with arcana about religious and musical squabbles in 18th-century Germany and knowingly feeble jokes. Despite the nimble gifts of a first-rate cast, the play never works up the farcical energy to lift us over the puddles of book-learning (2:15). New York Theater Workshop, 79 East Fourth Street, East Village, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood) BEOWULF Bob Flanagans luminous puppets of lizards and fish are wonderful, but they are relatively tangential to a so-called rock opera that is not sure whether it wants to be a childrens show or Jesus Christ Superstar, and fails at both. Humans who are less animate than the puppets try to sing their way through an uninspired enactment of this great epic (1:15). Irish Repertory Theater, 132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, (212) 727-2737. (Anne Midgette) BINGO Play bingo, munch on popcorn and watch accomplished actors freshen up a stale musical about game night (1:20). St. Lukes Theater, 308 West 46th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200.(Jason Zinoman) DRUMSTRUCK This noisy novelty is a mixed blessing. Providing a two-foot drum on every seat, it offers an opportunity to exorcise aggressions by delivering a good beating, and, on a slightly more elevated level, it presents a superficial introduction to African culture, lessons in drumming and 90 minutes of nonstop music, song and dancing by a good-natured cast (1:30). Dodger Stages, Stage 2, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200. (Lawrence Van Gelder) FIVE COURSE LOVE This musical is merely pleasantly fluffy, and sometimes offensive, but Heather Ayers may make a star vehicle out of it, thanks to an energetic, versatile performance in five roles. She, John Bolton and Jeff Gurner search for love in five restaurants, with a too-generous portion of bad accents and phallic jokes along the way (1:30). Minetta Lane Theater, 18 Minetta Lane, Greenwich Village, (212) 307-4100.( Genzlinger) * FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT This production features the expected caricatures of ego-driven singing stars. But even more than usual, the show offers an acute list of grievances about the sickly state of the Broadway musical, where, as the lyrics have it, everything old is old again (1:45). 47th Street Theater, 304 West 47th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL A terrific cast keeps the generator running in this bright but flimsy contraption. A few of David Nehlss dozen ditties raise a hearty chuckle, like the valedictory anthem in which the shows heroines collectively vow to make like a nail and press on. But Betsy Kelsos book all but dispenses with plot, and substitutes crude cartoons for characters (2:00). Dodger Stages, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood) HAMLET Michael Cumpsty gives a forceful, intelligent reading of the title role in the Classic Stage Companys likably intimate production of Shakespeares tale of doom-struck Danes. Brian Kulicks production is heavy on the directorial gimmickry (smell the spray paint! watch the set be shredded!), leaving psychology and philosophy to fend for themselves (2:30). Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th Street, East Village, (212) 279-4200. (Isherwood) HILDA Marie Ndiayes play is a psychodrama from which most of the psychology seems to have mysteriously evaporated, taking a lot of the drama with it. Ellen Karas stars as a bourgeois housewife whose obsession with her maid eventually unhinges her (1:20). Part of the Act French Festival. 59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street, (212) 279-4200. (Isherwood) IN THE AIR Historical melodrama about the 1918 flu epidemic is like a soft-focus film on the Lifetime channel (2:15). Theater 315, 315 West 47th Street, Clinton, (212) 868-4444. (Zinoman) INFERTILITY A harmless, insubstantial and highly amplified musical about the struggles of five people hoping to become parents (1:20). Dillons, 245 West 54th Street, (212) 868-4444. (Zinoman) JUNIE B. JONES A spirited entertainment (1:30). Theaterworks/NYC, at the Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 279-4200. (Van Gelder) MARION BRIDGE The Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor takes a quiet, honest look at three sisters as they face their mothers death. It is well acted and well directed, if too predictable in spots (2:20). Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street, (212) 868-4444. (Margo Jefferson) MEDEA The Jean Cocteau Repertorys cliché-ridden modern translation strains to be relevant (1:30). Bouwerie Lane Theater, 330 Bowery, near East Second Street, East Village, (212) 279-4200. (Zinoman) ONE-MAN STAR WARS TRILOGY With a storm trooper roaming the aisles and a woman in an Obi-Wan Kenobi get-up telling theatergoers to turn off their cellphones or they will be turned into cosmic dust, Charles Rosss sprint through Episodes IV through VI strives for the atmosphere of a Star Wars convention, but ends up achieving something like a religious revival (which is sort of the same thing). True believers will love how Mr. Ross, a self-confessed geek who plays every major role in under an hour, simulates R2D2, but everyone else will scratch their heads (1:00). Lambs Theater, 130 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Zinoman) ON SECOND AVENUE This genial show by the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater, celebrating Second Avenues theatrical heyday, somehow manages to be both a perfect ensemble production and a star vehicle for Mike Burstyn. The production, first seen last March and April, is in its second go-round (2:00). J.C.C. in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue, at 76th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Genzlinger) * ORSONS SHADOW Austin Pendletons play, about a 1960 production of Ionescos Rhinoceros, which was directed by Orson Welles and starred Laurence Olivier, is a sharp-witted but tenderhearted backstage comedy about the thin skins, inflamed nerves and rampaging egos that are the customary side effects when sensitivity meets success (2:00). Barrow Street Theater, 27 Barrow Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood) Radio City Christmas Spectacular Diminished though it may be by the absence of its orchestra in its 73rd season, it remains prime entertainment (1:30). 50th Street and Avenue of the Americas, (212) 307-1000. (Van Gelder) RFK This solo show written and starring Jack Holmes is a reasonably accurate historical portrait, but the performance, unfortunately, lacks the charisma and charm that made the real Bobby Kennedy a star (1:35). Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Street, at Lafayette Street, East Village, (212) 253-9983. (Jonathan Kalb) SEE WHAT I WANNA TO SEE A hot-and-cold chamber musical by Michael John LaChiusa, based on stories by Ryuonsoke Akutagawa, that considers the nature of truth and belief. The shows film-noir-style first half is more chilly than chilling. But its second act, set in the shadow of 9/11, throbs affectingly with a hunger for faith. With Idina Menzel and Marc Kudisch (2:00). The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) * A SOLDIERS PLAY This movingly acted revival of Charles Fullers Pulitzer Prizewinning drama from 1981, directed by Jo Bonney and featuring Taye Diggs, uses the clean-lined conventions of murder mysteries to elicit unsettlingly blurred shades of racism, resentment and self-hatred (1:55). Second Stage Theater, 307 West 43rd Street, Clinton, (212) 246-4422. (Brantley) THIRD Heidi is having hot flashes. In this thoughtful, seriously imbalanced comedy, Wendy Wasserstein takes her archetypal heroine (most famously embodied in 1988 in The Heidi Chronicles) into the fog of menopausal, existential uncertainty. The wonderful but miscast Dianne Weist plays a feminist college professor forced to reconsider everything she stands for. Though Daniel Sullivans staging is too easygoing to build tension, the play exhales a poignant air of autumnal rue (2:00). Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, 150 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) Off Off Broadway BELLY OF A DRUNKEN PIANO In this splendidly imperfect cabaret, Stewart DArrietta howls and growls convincingly through Tom Waitss three-decade song catalog, backed by a snappy trio. His patter and his piano playing are variable, but Mr. DArrietta makes a genial tour guide through Mr. Waitss wee-hours world (1:45). Huron Club at SoHo Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street, between Avenue of the Americas and Varick Street, (212) 691-1555. (Rob Kendt) BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER Herman Melvilles exquisitely existential short story has been beautifully brought to life at the Blue Heron Theater. From the set, which looks like a Victorian illustration, complete with desks with inkpots and plumes, to the characters dressed in antic black-and-white (reminiscent, say, of a Phiz drawing for a Dickens novel) (1:40). Blue Heron Arts Center, 123 East 24th Street, (212) 868-4444. (Phoebe Hoban) BIG APPLE CIRCUS -- GRANDMA GOES TO HOLLYWOOD Long on sweetness, rich in color and highly tuneful, but short on eye-popping, cheer-igniting wows (2:10). Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center, Broadway and 63rd Street, (212) 307-4100. (Van Gelder) COWBOY V. SAMURAI This adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac is set in a small Western town, where an Asian-American English teacher and an Anglo-Saxon gym teacher with cowboy leanings vie for the love of a sophisticated woman (1:45) National Asian American Theater Company, at the Rattlestick theater, 224 Waverly Place, Greenwich Village, (212) 352-3101. (Jefferson). DOÑA ROSITA LA SOLTERA (DOÑA ROSITA THE SPINSTER) Watching Repertorio Españols Dona Rosita the Spinster is a bit like finding a dried flower pressed in a book: charming, archaic and just a bit musty, even though the lead is played by Denise Quiñones -- Miss Universe, 2001. Frederico García Lorcas poetic play has a predictable premise; a beautiful young woman waits in vain for the handsome cousin she is engaged to. Luckily, the tragicomedy has some laughs (2:00). In Spanish with live simultaneous translation via headsets. Repertorio Español, at the Gramercy Arts Theater, 138 East 27th Street, (212) 225-9920. (Hoban) Long-Running Shows AVENUE Q R-rated puppets give lively life lessons (2:10). Golden, 252 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Cartoon made flesh, sort of (2:30). Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 205 West 46th Street, (212) 307-4747. (Brantley) CHICAGO Irrefutable proof that crime pays (2:25). Ambassador Theater, 219 West 49th Street, (212) 239-6200.(Brantley) FIDDLER ON THE ROOF The Shtetl Land pavilion in the theme park called Broadway. With Rosie ODonnell and Harvey Fierstein. (2:55). The Minskoff Theater, 200 West 45th Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) HAIRSPRAY Fizzy pop, cute kids, large man in a housedress (2:30). Neil Simon Theater, 250 West 52nd Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) THE LION KING Disney on safari, where the big bucks roam (2:45). New Amsterdam Theater, 214 West 42nd Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) MAMMA MIA! The jukebox that devoured Broadway (2:20). Cadillac Winter Garden Theater, 1634 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) MOVIN OUT The miracle dance musical that makes Billy Joel cool (2:00). Richard Rodgers Theater, 226 West 46th Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Who was that masked man, anyway? (2:30). Majestic Theater, 247 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) THE PRODUCERS The ne plus ultra of showbiz scams (2:45). St. James Theater, 246 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) RENT East Village angst and love songs to die for (2:45). Nederlander Theater, 208 West 41st Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) * SLAVAS SNOWSHOW Clowns chosen by the Russian master Slava Polunin are stirring up laughter and enjoyment. A show that touches the heart as well as tickles the funny bone (1:30). Union Square Theater, 100 East 17th Street, Flatiron district, (212) 307-4100.(Van Gelder) * THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING) Is there such a thing as stand-up existentialism? If not, Will Eno has just invented it. Stand-up-style comic riffs and deadpan hipster banter keep interrupting the corrosively bleak narrative. Mr. Eno is a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation (1:10). DR2 Theater, 103 East 15th Street, Flatiron district, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood) WICKED Oz revisited, with political corrections (2:45). Gershwin Theater, 222 West 51st Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) Last Chance CAMBODIA AGONISTES A musical about the Khmer Rouge? It works better than you might think in this revival of a 1992 play: Cambodias recent history is painted in broad strokes of parody intermingled with a tragic story line. But the most vivid performer on stage is a real-life Cambodian dancer, Sam-Ouen Tes, who doesnt have a speaking role but communicates more than this slightly pale though well-meaning piece (1:30). West End Theater, 263 West 86th Street, (212) 279-4200. Pan Asian Repertory Theater, at the West End Theater, in the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, 263 West 86th Street, (212) 279-4200, closing Sunday. ( Midgette) MANIC FLIGHT REACTION Sarah Schulmans intermittently zingy play is an awkward mixture of cultural satire and earnest psychodrama about love and responsibility. Deirdre OConnell gives a warm, engaging performance as a reformed rebel with a colorful past that bleeds into the present in sensational ways (2:00). Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 279-4200, closing Sunday. (Isherwood) THE SALVAGE SHOP Jim Nolans moving, old fashioned drama, about a fraught father-and-son relationship in a small coastland town in Ireland, delivers an emotional punch (2:30). The Storm Theater, 145 West 46th Street, (212) 868-4444, closing tomorrow. (Zinoman) THE TAMING OF THE SHREW What could be more apt than the all-female Queens Company tackling Shakespeares Taming of the Shrew, perhaps the most famous war-of-the-sexes comedy ever? But just because Petruchio (and everyone else) is played by a woman doesnt mean that this is a feminist diatribe. In this not very tame production, Bianca is played by an inflatable doll (1:50). Queens Company, Walker Space, 46 Walker Street, between Broadway and Church Street, TriBeCa, (212) 868-4444, closing Sunday. (Hoban) Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases, movie trailers, showtimes and tickets: nytimes.com/movies. * AFTER INNOCENCE (No rating, 95 minutes) Calm, deliberate and devastating, Jessica Sanderss documentary After Innocence examines the cases of seven men wrongly convicted of murder and rape and exonerated years later by DNA evidence. It confirms many of your worst fears about the weaknesses of the American criminal justice system. (Stephen Holden) * BEE SEASON (PG-13, 104 minutes) A genuinely felt, finely made adaptation of the Myla Goldberg novel about an 11-year-old girl with an ineffable gift for summoning up perfectly strung-together words. With Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche, Max Minghella and the wonderful newcomer Flora Cross as the family nearly undone by that gift. (Manohla Dargis) BROOKLYN LOBSTER (No rating, 90 minutes) Kitchen-sink neorealism set in Sheepshead Bay: although well acted by Danny Aiello and Jane Curtin, too much of the film plays like a tedious case history from a business school textbook. (Holden) CAPE OF GOOD HOPE (PG-13, 107 minutes) Set in gorgeous Cape Town, Mark Bamfords energizing first feature revolves around a group of animal-shelter workers and their significant counterparts, as they contend with varying states of loneliness and gaping voids in their lives. A genuinely uplifting, satisfying and memorable film. (Laura Kern) * CAPOTE (R, 114 minutes) Philip Seymour Hoffmans portrayal of Truman Capote is a tour de force of psychological insight. Following the novelist as he works on the magazine assignment that will become In Cold Blood, the film raises intriguing questions about the ethics of writing. (A. O. Scott) CHICKEN LITTLE (G, 80 minutes) The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Well, its not as bad as that. Almost, though. (Scott) DERAILED (R, 110 minutes) A glossy and often risible bit of trash about an adulterous affair gone bad, bad, bad, starring the invaluable Clive Owen and an uncomfortable-looking Jennifer Aniston. (Dargis) * THE DYING GAUL (R, 105 minutes) Craig Lucass screen adaptation of his bitter Off Broadway revenge tragedy, is a sublimely acted film and a high point in the careers of its three stars, Campbell Scott, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard, who play a bisexual Hollywood studio executive, his wife and a young screenwriter. (Holden) ELLIE PARKER (No rating, 95 minutes) This corrosive deadpan comedy, crudely filmed in digital video, follows the misadventures of an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. Naomi Watts, in the title role, delivers a small, brave, acting tour de force. (Holden) GAY SEX IN THE 70s (No rating, 72 minutes) Joseph Lovetts nostalgic paean to the erotic utopia of his youth might be more accurately titled Anonymous Gay Male Sex in the 70s in Manhattan. Within that narrow framework, the film is quite successful, using archival photographs, clips from pornographic films and television commercials, and interviews to evoke the period between June 1969, when the Stonewall riots brought homosexuality out of the shadows, to June 1981, when the AIDS epidemic began. (Dana Stevens) GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN (R, 134 minutes) This lumbering vehicle for the rap star 50 Cent blends gangster intrigue with follow-your-dream striving. The story is a mess, and the star is no actor, but a fine supporting cast and Jim Sheridans warm-hearted direction make it watchable. (Scott) * GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (PG, 90 minutes) George Clooney, with impressive rigor and intelligence, examines the confrontation between the CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow (a superb David Strathairn) and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (himself). Plunging you into a smoky, black-and-white world of political paranoia and commercial pressure, the film is both a history lesson and a passionate essay on power, responsibility and the ethics of journalism (Scott) JARHEAD (R, 123 minutes) Sam Mendess film about marines waiting for action in the first gulf war is often vivid and profane, like the Anthony Swofford memoir on which it is based, and some of the performances crackle with energy. But the film as a whole feels strangely detached and -- even more strangely, given its topical resonance -- irrelevant. (Scott) KISS KISS, BANG BANG (R, 103 minutes) Clever and dumb at the same time, this hectic pastiche of Los Angeles. noir conventions offers opportunities for Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer and Michelle Monaghan to have a good time with hard-boiled dialogue, and the audience to have a few laughs watching them. The pictures self-conscious manipulations of tone and chronology might have seemed fresh and witty 10 years ago, but probably not even then. (Scott) THE LEGEND OF ZORRO (PG, 126 minutes) Like most sequels, this successor to The Mask of Zorro feels obliged to outperform its forerunner by being bigger, faster and more spectacular. That translates into busier, sloppier, less coherent and more frantic. (Holden) * NINE LIVES (R, 115 minutes) The director Rodrigo Garcias suite of fleeting but intense moments in the lives of nine women is an extraordinarily rich and satisfying film, the cinematic equivalent of a collection of Chekhov short stories. The brilliant cast includes Sissy Spacek, Robin Wright Penn, Holly Hunter and Amy Brenneman. (Holden) NORTH COUNTRY (R, 123 minutes) A wobbly fiction about a real pioneering sex-discrimination case, North Country is an unabashed vehicle for its modestly de-glammed star, Charlize Theron, but its also a star vehicle with heart -- an old-fashioned liberal weepie about truth and justice. (Dargis) * PARADISE NOW (PG-13, 90 minutes, in Arabic and Hebrew) This melodrama about two Palestinians, best friends from childhood, chosen to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv is a superior thriller whose shrewdly inserted plot twists and emotional wrinkles are calculated to put your heart in your throat and keep it there. (Holden) * PRIDE & PREJUDICE (PG, 128 minutes) In this sumptuous, extravagantly romantic adaptation of Jane Austens 1813 novel, Keira Knightleys Elizabeth Bennet exudes a radiance that suffuses the movie. This is a banquet of high-end comfort food perfectly cooked and seasoned to Anglophilic tastes. (Holden) PRIME (PG-13, 105 minutes) Actually, pretty mediocre. A thin romantic comedy that nonetheless has its charms, most of them provided by Uma Thurman as a divorced 37-year-old who falls for a 23-year-old who happens to be her therapists son. (Scott) SAW II (R, 91 minutes) Jigsaw, the sicko known for masterminding twisted life-or-death games, returns for a sequel that doesnt really compare to its fine predecessor, though it still manages to be eye-opening (and sometimes positively nauseating) in itself. (Kern) * SHOPGIRL (R, 107 minutes) This delicate, deceptively simple film, taken from Steve Martins novella, spins perfect romance out of loneliness, compromise and the possibility of heartbreak. As a young retail clerk adrift in Los Angeles, Claire Danes gives a flawless performance, and Mr. Martin and Jason Schwartzman, as the very different men competing for her affection, bring gallantry, farce and sweetness to this funny, sad, insightful movie. (Scott) * THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (R, 88 minutes) Mining his own childhood, Noah Baumbach has put together an unsparing, funny portrait of a family in crisis and a young man trying to figure out his parents and himself. Superbly written and acted, especially by Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels as a pair of divorcing writers. (Scott) USHPIZIN (PG-13, 91 minutes, in Hebrew) In this groundbreaking collaboration between secular and Orthodox Israelis, two roustabouts barge into the home of a Hasid and his wife and make comic trouble. (Holden) * WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT (G, 85 minutes) The stop-motion pooch and his cheese-loving master, back again at feature length. Silly and sublime. (Scott) THE WEATHER MAN (R, 102 minutes) Yet another movie about a middle-age man gazing into the void of his life; this one was directed by Gore Verbinski and features a fine Nicolas Cage.(Dargis) ZATHURA: A SPACE ADVENTURE (PG, 113 minutes) In this extraterrestrial fantasy, adapted from a Chris Van Allsburg story, a magical board game sends two squabbling young brothers into space to fend off invaders and learn the meaning of brotherhood. The movie is sweeter, gentler and more family-friendly than Jumanji, to which it is the unofficial sequel. (Holden) Film Series CHILDREN IN THE 20TH CENTURY (Through Tuesday) Symphony Space Thalia Films international program of films focusing on problems that affect children concludes with Luis Buñuels first international hit, Los Olvidados (1950), about a teenager in the slums of Mexico City, and Victor Gavirias Rodrigo D: No Futuro (1990), about a teenager in the slums of Medellín, Colombia. Both films will be shown on Sunday and Tuesday, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, (212) 864-5400; $10. (Anita Gates) GENA ROWLANDS: AN INDEPENDENT SPIRIT (Through Sunday) This series from BAMcinématek concludes this weekend with three 1980s films. In Tempest (1982), Paul Mazurskys Shakespearean adaptation, Ms. Rowlands stars with John Cassavetes, her husband, as a modern Prosperos wife. In Woody Allens Another Woman (1988), she plays a New Yorker who eavesdrops on psychotherapy sessions. And in Love Streams (1984), the last film in which she and Cassavetes appeared together, they play a brother and sister struggling with their lives. BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue, at Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, (718) 636-4100; $10. (Gates) A LUMINOUS CENTURY: CELEBRATING NORWEGIAN CINEMA (Through Nov. 29) The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Norwegian Film Institute have organized this 29-film program representing Norways century-old movie industry. This weekends films include Leif Sindings Defenceless (1939), about orphans used as slave labor on farms; An Enemy of the People (2005), Erik Skjoldbjoergs update of Ibsens classic; Arne Skouens Nine Lives (1957), about the World War II hero Jan Baalsrud; and Next Door (2005), Pal Sletaunes dark comedy about a young mans very strange neighbors. Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, Manhattan, (212) 875-5600; $10. (Gates) A MOVING CAMERA: KENJI MIZOGUCHI (Through Tuesday) BAMcinémateks series of seven films by Mizoguchi (1898-1956), renowned for his painterly filmmaking and his brilliant direction of women, concludes with a prewar masterpiece and Mizoguchis last film. Mondays feature is The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939), about the doomed relationship of a kabuki actor and a servant girl. Tuesdays is Street of Shame (1956), sympathetic overlapping portraits of prostitutes in postwar Tokyo. BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue, at Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, (718) 636-4100; $10. (Gates) NO VISA REQUIRED: FILMS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST (Through tomorrow) The TriBeCa Film Institute and ArteEasts program concludes tomorrow with The Lizard (2004), an Iranian comedy about an escaped convict who disguises himself as a mullah. Cantor Film Center, New York University, 36 East Eighth Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 941-3890; $10. (Gates) POETRY AND RIGOR: THE FILMS OF GIANNI AMELIO (Through Nov. 30) The Museum of Modern Art and Cinecittà Holding are sponsoring an exhibition of 12 films, beginning tonight with Stolen Children (1992), introduced by Mr. Amelio, the Cannes Film Festival grand jury prizewinner about a policeman transporting two siblings to an orphanage. Other films this weekend include Lamerica (1994), Mr. Amelios neorealist drama set in post-Communist Albania; and The Keys to the House (2004), about a father reunited with his disabled son. 11 West 53rd Street, (212) 708-9400; $10. (Gates) Pop Full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. RYAN ADAMS AND THE CARDINALS (Tonight) Seemingly reinvigorated by his new band, the prolific (and hotheaded) alt-country songwriter Ryan Adams has some strong new material that offers stylistic restlessness as a sign of depth and demonstrates his honky-tonk versatility. 8, TriBeCa Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, (212) 509-0300; free with ticket (details at www.musicdowntown.org). (Laura Sinagra) AMERICAN ANALOG SET (Tonight, tomorrow night and Sunday) A more ethereal version of Death Cab for Cutie, this Austin band plays wistful, conspiratorial pop thats more hum than drone. The group has said this tour will be its last. Tonight at 9, Southpaw, 125 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 230-0236; $14 (sold out). Tomorrow at 10 p.m., Sunday at 11 p.m., Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, at Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, (212) 260-4700; $12 in advance, $14 at the door. (Sinagra) ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (Sunday) These moody junkyard folk-poppers find a kind of romance in wails and clatter. Their cracked prog jams and urban pastoral chant-alongs map a landscape where fantastical beasts gather for ritual rocking around trashcan campfires. Excepter and Amandine also play. 8 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212) 353-1600; $18 in advance, $20 at the door. (Sinagra) INDIA.ARIE, RAUL MIDON (Tonight) India.Aries combination of soul and folk stylings and be-yourself uplift paved the way for groups like Floetry. The vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Raul Midon has contributed his talents to the work of many Latin pop superstars. He plays his own material here. 8 p.m., Apollo Theater, 253 West 125th Street, Harlem, (212) 531-5305; $45. (Sinagra) BUJU BANTON (Tuesday) Buju Banton is possessed of one of the best voices and hit catalogs in dancehall. Unfortunately, the purveyor of the anti-gay screed Boom Bye Bye cant seem to leave the topic alone, as he proved at this summers Reggae Carifest. 8 p.m., B. B. King Blues Club and Grill, 243 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (212) 997-4144; $30 in advance, $35 at the door. (Sinagra) CLEM SNIDE (Tonight) Though Clem Snides nasal wiseacre frontman Eef Barzelay increasingly shows his soft side with pretty tunes influenced by love and fatherhood, this Brooklyn indie rocker hasnt lost his trademark snark. Tonight, hes playing solo. 8, Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, near Delancey Street, Lower East Side, (212) 358-7503; $12 in advance, $15 at the door. (Sinagra) THE CLIENTELE (Wednesday) This London indie-pop group fills out its sound on recent material, adding strings to its formula -- a mix of modern ironic poses with wistful nostalgia for classic rock n roll and AM radio trifles. Annie Hayden opens. 8 p.m., Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212) 219-3132; $14. (Sinagra) DONNA THE BUFFALO (Tomorrow) Donna the Buffalo is not named after its fiddler and singer, Tara Nevins. Its good-natured rock leans toward the Appalachian side of country music, though it also dips into reggae and Cajun music, with songs that ponder love and humanitys place in the universe. 9 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, near the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111; $16 in advance, $18 at the door. (Jon Pareles) ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (Sunday) Goth rock never goes out of style, but its current boost is good for the Echo and the Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch, one of the genres first legitimate babes. The band has new songs but will appease black-clad fans with agitated favorites like The Cutter and The Killing Moon. Innaway opens. 7 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, at 15th Street, Manhattan, (212) 777-6800; $22.50 in advance, $25 at the door (sold out). (Sinagra) ROBBIE FULKS, JON SPENCER (Tonight) The latest album by Chicagos country curveballer Robbie Fulks again prompts head shaking as to why this off-off-Opry wiseacre isnt a more famous songwriter (or at least a little bigger and richer). As alt-country fans know, hes a crackerjack guitarist and a charismatic performer to boot. The alt-punk bluesman Jon Spencer also plays, with his band Heavy Trash. 7:30, Housing Works Used Book Cafe, 126 Crosby Street, SoHo, (212) 334-3324; $25. (Sinagra) GUSTER (Tonight and tomorrow night) Guster, a band from Boston, has followed the Dave Matthews Bands playbook for building an audience: touring constantly and singing unabashedly earnest folk-rock songs about the painful uncertainties of friendship, love and growing up. 8, Nokia Theater, 1515 Broadway, at 44th Street, ticketmaster.com or (212) 307-7171;$35. (Pareles) H.I.M. (Tonight) This Finnish goth rock bands bid for Stateside success has been the pet cause of TV skate-rat Bam Margera. Now it finally gets a chance to show off its metallic riffs and the infernal majesty of the singer Ville Valo , who wears his heartagram (the bands romantically satanic heart and pentagram symbol) on his sleeve. Finch and Skindred also play. 6, Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street, Manhattan, (212) 279-7740; $28. (Sinagra) IDA, MICHAEL HURLEY (Sunday) With their dreamy folk-pop, the trio Ida combine aching harmonies and a supple sense of play. They perform this free in-store show with one of their quirky antecedents, the folkie Michael Hurley. 7 p.m., Sound Fix Records, 110 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 388-8090; free. (Sinagra) RICKIE LEE JONES, VIC CHESNUTT (Tomorrow) Ms. Joness Southwestern hippie roots give her urban-bohemian jazz leanings a trippy whimsy. You hope this outdoor set will cull from both the swooping multipartite reveries and the ersatz streetcorner jive of her 1970s releases, as well as the best of her songful later albums. Recent material by the Southern Gothic storyteller Vic Chesnutt leans to his darker side. 8 p.m., TriBeCa Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, (212) 509-0300; free with ticket (details at www.musicdowntown.org). (Sinagra) LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (Wednesday) With songs like Losing My Edge and Daft Punk Is Playing at My House, the Brooklyn producer and LCD leader James Murphy has proven himself a talented practitioner and master theorist of retro-chic sound, especially the current vogue for refashioning early 80s dance-punk. 7 p.m., Nokia Theater, 1515 Broadway, at 44th Street, ticketmaster.com or (212) 307-7171; $20. (Sinagra) AIMEE MANN, KEREN ANN (Sunday) Ms. Manns recent concept album about two addicts in the 70s who meet at the Virginia fairgrounds features the astute, sad lyrics and low-key but enduring melodic hooks that this singer-songwriter is known for. The chanteuse Keren Ann applies her velvety voice to jazz-inflected, rainy day urban valentines. Her lolling tunes ponder love and travel, admitting that the strongest memory of a visited place is often the homesickness endured there. 8 p.m., TriBeCa Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, (212) 509-0300; free with ticket (details at www.musicdowntown.org). (Sinagra) RHETT MILLER (Tuesday and Wednesday) The leader of the once cocky and speedy, then honest and rootsy rock band the Old 97s, Rhett Miller is still writing near-genius tunes though he often leans on formal craft. 7 p.m., Joes Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 539-8778 or (212) 239-6200; $20. (Tuesday sold out) (Sinagra) SHARAM NAZERI (Sunday) Mr. Nazeri holds listeners rapt as he sings Kurdish songs, Persian classical music and Sufi songs based on the poems of Rumi; his voice can take on the humble clarity of Gregorian chant, or it can leap and swoop and ululate. 7 p.m., Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, (212) 840-2824 or (212) 545-7536; $30 to $50. (Pareles) NEW SOUNDS FROM POLAND (Tomorrow) This glimpse into new Polish music features sets by the accordion-based group the Motion Trio, and Lautari, an improvisatory ensemble inspired by folk traditions of Poland, Romania and Macedonia. 8 p.m., Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, (212) 864-5400; $26. (Sinagra) THE NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS (Tonight) The Southern rock band North Mississippi All-Stars plays an asymmetrical, cantankerous blues from the hill country near where the members grew up, then turn it into jam-band music. 8, Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, near the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111; $20 in advance, $22 at the door. (Pareles) SAM CHAMPION (Tuesday) Local indie rock has been largely dominated by neo-formalist technicians as of late, making this quartets looser approach, which harkens back to the slacker ennui epitomized by Pavement, a welcome addition. 8 p.m., Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, at Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, (212) 260-4700; $10. (Sinagra) RICHARD SHINDELL, LUCY KAPLANSKY (Tonight) In Richard Shindells character studies, finely observed details suddenly add up to a larger picture that can be compassionate or troubling; he writes about a Civil War widow, an interrogator trying to turn a witness, a fugitive phoning his family. Lucy Kaplansky shares the bill. 8:30 p.m., Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800; $32 to $38 (sold out). (Pareles) CARLY SIMON, BEN TAYLOR, SALLY TAYLOR (Tuesday) Carly Simons hits like Anticipation and Youre So Vain endure as evergreen go-girl inspirationals. She plays after opening sets by her children Ben and Sally Taylor. 8 p.m., Jazz at Lincoln Center, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Time Warner Center, Broadway at 60th Street, (212) 258-9800; $95 to $150. (Sinagra) TRISTEZA (Tonight) This San Diego band plays instrumental music that augments rock with electronica. 9, Northsix, 66 North Sixth Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 599-5103; $10. (Sinagra) U2, PATTI SMITH (Monday and Tuesday) After 2000s thrilling All That You Cant Leave Behind (Interscope), U2s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (Interscope) focuses on what humans can live without: namely, intercontinental ballistic missiles and third-world debt. The punk rock icon Patti Smith convenes her band to show young acolytes like the Fiery Furnaces how its done in this year marking the 30th anniversary of her incendiary, poetic album Horses (Arista). 8 p.m., Madison Square Garden, (212) 465-6741: $54 to $169.50. (Sinagra) UMPHREYS MCGEE (Tonight and tomorrow night) Umphreys McGee has twin guitars and some jam-band roots, but its songs are more elaborate than the usual head-bobbing vamps; theyre full of meter-shifting convolutions and jazzy twists that move close to progressive rock. 9, Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place at 15th Street, Manhattan, (212) 777-6800; $22.50, $25 at the door. (Pareles) VODoU DRUMS AND DANCES OF HAITI (Tonight) The Afro-Haitian group La Troupe Makandal performs ritual drumming and chants in the vodou style. The Haitian vocalist Emeline Michel appears as special guest. 8, Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, (212) 864-5400; $25. (Sinagra) DAR WILLIAMS (Tomorrow) This adorable coffeehouse singer-songwriter combines a sweet voice with that rare quality of seeming like a real person. 8 p.m., Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street, Manhattan, www.concertstonight.com, (212) 307-7171; $45 and $50. (Sinagra) Cabaret Full reviews of recent cabaret shows: nytimes.com/music. BARBARA CARROLL (Sunday) Even when swinging out, this Lady of a Thousand Songs remains an impressionist with special affinities for Thelonious Monk and bossa nova. 2 p.m., Oak Room, Algonquin Hotel, 59 West 44th Street, Manhattan, (212) 419-9331; $55, including brunch at noon. (Stephen Holden) * BILL CHARLAP AND SANDY STEWART (Tonight and tomorrow night) The profound, unadorned performances of standards by the jazz pianist Bill Charlap and his mother, the singer Sandy Stewart, are as deep as cabaret gets nowadays; not to be missed. 9 and 11:30, Oak Room, Algonquin Hotel, 59 West 44th Street, Manhattan, (212) 419-9331; $50 cover, with a $50 prix fixe dinner at the early shows and a $20 minimum at the late shows. (Holden) ANNIE ROSS (Tomorrow) Cool, funny, swinging and indestructible, this 75-year-old singer and sometime actress exemplifies old-time hip in its most generous incarnation. 7 p.m., Dannys Skylight Room, 346 West 46th Street, Clinton, (212) 265-8133; $25, with a $12 minimum. (Holden) SINGING ASTAIRE (Tomorrow and Sunday) This smart, airy revue, which pays tribute to Fred Astaire, has returned, featuring Eric Comstock, Hilary Kole and Christopher Gines. 5:30 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, (212) 581-3080; $30, with a $10 minimum. (Holden) STEVE TYRELL (Tonight and tomorrow night, and Tuesday through Thursday) Mr. Tyrell has one of those where-have-I-heard-it-before growls that sounds great on a movie soundtrack but loses its charm in a club as he rolls standards off the assembly line as if they were all the same song. 8:45, with additional shows at 10:45 tonight and tomorrow night, Cafe Carlyle, Carlyle Hotel, 35 East 76th Street, Manhattan, (212) 744-1600; $95 tonight and tomorrow; $85 Tuesday through Thursday. (Holden) Jazz Full reviews of recent jazz concerts: nytimes.com/music. ERIC ALEXANDER QUARTET WITH VON FREEMAN (Tuesday through Nov. 27) Mr. Alexander is one of the leading young inheritors of a muscular tenor saxophone style associated with the 1950s; the octogenarian Mr. Freeman, dropping in from his native Chicago, is one of the unsung but widely emulated heroes of that style. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., with an 11:30 set on Friday and Saturday, Dizzys Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, 60th Street and Broadway, Jazz at Lincoln Center, (212) 258-9595; $30, with a minimum of $10 at tables, $5 at the bar. (Nate Chinen) OMER AVITAL GROUP (Wednesday) The bassist Omer Avital, a staple of the West Village club Smalls during its pre-millennial first run, has recently returned after a spell in his native Israel. He performs here with several no-nonsense players: the tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm, the pianist Omer Klein and the drummer Jonathan Blake. 8 p.m., Smalls, 183 West 10th Street, West Village, (212) 675-7369; cover, $20. (Chinen) ROY AYERS BAND WITH BOBBI HUMPHREY (Through Sunday) Mr. Ayers, a vibraphonist, and Ms. Humphrey, a flutist, helped precipitate the 1970s boom in Afro-centric jazz-funk; that sounds refurbished cachet has made both artists newly relevant in recent years. 8 and 10 p.m., Iridium, 1650 Broadway, at 51st Street, (212) 582-2121; cover, $32.50 to $35, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) MAURICE BROWN QUINTET (Tonight and tomorrow night) Mr. Brown, a young trumpeter recently displaced from the New Orleans scene, plays an extroverted strain of modern jazz that borrows from soul as well as bop; his partners here are Derek Douget on tenor saxophone, Jonathan Baptiste on piano, Peter Washington on bass and Billy Drummond on drums. 8 10, Sweet Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue South, at Bleecker Street, West Village, (212) 255-3626; cover, $20, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) JAMES CARNEY GROUP (Tonight and Tuesday) Mr. Carney, a sharp keyboardist and an imaginative conceptualist and composer, leads an ensemble consisting of fellow bandleader-composers: Ralph Alessi on trumpet, Jerome Sabbagh on saxophones, Chris Lightcap on bass, and either Shane Endsley or Mark Ferber on drums. Tonight at 10 and 11:30, Kavehaz, 37 West 26th Street, Manhattan, (212) 343-0612; no cover. Tuesday at 9 and 10:30 p.m., Koze Lounge, 676 Fifth Avenue, at 20th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 832-8282; cover, $7.(Chinen) STEPHAN CRUMPS ROSETTA TRIO (Wednesday) An intriguing string-based ensemble, featuring the compositions and bass playing of Mr. Crump, and the guitar work of Liberty Ellman (acoustic) and Jamie Fox (electric). 8 p.m., Barbes, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-9177; cover, $8. (Chinen) LOU DONALDSON QUARTET (Through Sunday) Bebop, blues and boogaloo are all fair game for the veteran alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, who receives strong support here from Dr. Lonnie Smith on Hammond B-3 organ and Randy Johnston on guitar. 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, West Village, (212) 255-4037; cover, $20 to $25, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) SCOTT DUBOIS GROUP (Sunday) Mr. Dubois, a young guitarist equally devoted to intricate compositional forms and spacious free improvisation, leads an ensemble stocked with kindred souls: the saxophonists Tony Malaby and Jason Rigby, the bassist Eivind Opsvik and the drummer Mark Ferber. 9:30 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village, (212) 929-9883; cover, $7. (Chinen) DAVID GILMORE QUARTET (Monday) Mr. Gilmore favors the clean guitar tone of George Benson, but his playing tends more toward rhythmic aggression and sharp corners; his cohesive band includes George Colligan on keyboards, Brad Jones on bass and Derrek Phillips on drums. 10 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village, (212) 929-9883; cover, $10. (Chinen) JOHN HART TRIO (Tonight) The guitarist John Hart approaches both standards and originals with the same modern sensibility; his rhythm section consists of Bill Moring on bass and Anthony Pinciotti on drums. 7 and 9, Enzos Jazz at the Jolly Hotel Madison Towers, 22 East 38th Street, at Madison Avenue, (212) 802-0600; cover, $15, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen) MARK HELIASS OPEN LOOSE (Tonight) Together with the tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby and the drummer Gerald Cleaver, the bassist and composer Mark Helias walks a line between form and freedom, confirming that there can be rigor in both. 9, Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212) 989-9319; cover, $10, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen) JAZZ BATTLES AT DIZZYS CLUB (Tomorrow) Invoking the tradition of cutting-room sessions at an unlikely hour, Dizzys Club plays host to three free Saturday matinees: a warm-up round with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra rhythm section; a face-off between the trombonists Andre Hayward and Steve Davis; and a showdown featuring the baritone saxophonists Joe Temperley and Gary Smulyan. 1, 2 and 3 p.m., Dizzys Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, 60th Street and Broadway, Jazz at Lincoln Center, (212) 258-9595; no cover. (Chinen) ILONA KNOPFLER (Tuesday) Ms. Knopfler is an effervescent chanteuse who divides her time between Paris and Atlanta; her recent album Life the Life (Mack Avenue) places her translucent vocals in a variety of jazz settings. 8 and 10 p.m., Sweet Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue South, at Bleecker Street, West Village, (212) 255-3626; cover, $15, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) * LEE KONITZ QUARTET (Wednesday through Nov. 26) Mr. Konitz lends his venerable reputation and dry-martini alto saxophone to this ensemble, which features the resourceful bop-leaning guitarist Peter Bernstein. 9 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, (212) 581-3080; cover, $30, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) FRANK LACYS VIBE TRIBE (Tonight) Mr. Lacy is a trombonist with a free spirit but a taste for tonality; this midsize ensemble, not quite a big band, features such team players as the saxophonists Abraham Burton and Salim Washington and the pianist Dave Kikoski. 9 and 10:30, Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, at Spring Street, South Village, (212) 242-1063; cover, $15, members, $12. (Chinen) ADAM LEVY TRIO/ STEVEN BERNSTEINS MILLENNIAL TERRITORY ORCHESTRA (Monday) The guitarist Adam Levy, best known for his association with Norah Jones, draws upon a broader dynamic range in his trio with the bassist Todd Sickafoose and the drummer Ben Perowsky; the MTO, a little big band led by the slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein, dusts off an obscure swing-era repertory with showmanship and irreverence. 8 p.m., Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, near Delancey Street, Lower East Side, (212) 358-7501; cover, $12. (Chinen) * BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO (Tuesday through Nov. 27) With Day Is Done (Nonesuch), the pianist Brad Mehldau has renovated the sound of his longstanding trio, with considerable help from the powerfully expressive drummer Jeff Ballard; the groups luminous brand of lyricism has survived, but its repertory is more pop-inflected, and its rhythmic push more pronounced. 9 and 11 p.m., with a 12:30 set on Nov. 25 and 26, Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village, (212) 255-4037; cover, $25, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) BEN MONDER GROUP (Thursday) In the hands of Mr. Monder, the electric guitar is a coloristic instrument first and foremost; his fine recent album, Oceana (Sunnyside), showcases his dizzyingly proficient solo workouts and his coolly convoluted pieces for trio. 9 p.m., Barbes, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-9177; cover, $8. (Chinen) OSCAR NORIEGA TRIO (Tonight) Mr. Noriega, a clarinetist and saxophonist, taps into raw but focused energies in this group with the bassist Trevor Dunn and the drummer Tom Rainey; theyre joined by the versatile singer Allyssa Lamb. 8, Barbes, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-9177; cover, $8. (Chinen) GREG OSBY (Through Sunday) Tomorrow and Sunday, Mr. Osbys hard-charging trio with the bassist Matt Brewer and the drummer Jeff (Tain) Watts will reprise material from Channel Three, a strong recent Blue Note album; tonight and tomorrow, Mr. Osby will lead his current quartet, with Cory Smythe on piano, Mr. Brewer on bass and Rodney Green on drums. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., with an 11:30 set tonight and tomorrow night, Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232; cover, $25. (Chinen) MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO (Through Sunday) Mr. Roberts has been an exemplar of blues-based jazz piano since his 1980s tenure with Wynton Marsalis; the bassist Roland Guerin and the drummer Jason Marsalis round out his excellent working trio. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., with an 11:30 set Fridays and Saturdays, Dizzys Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, 60th Street and Broadway, Jazz at Lincoln Center, (212) 258-9595; $30, with a minimum of $10 at tables, $5 at the bar.(Chinen) * ROSWELL RUDDS 70TH-BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION (Sunday) Mr. Rudd is a veteran trombonist who closely heeds an exploratory muse; on his new album, Blue Mongol (Sunnyside), he finds a common language with throat singers from Mongolia. But he celebrates his 70th birthday more traditionally, with a reunion of Elis Chosen Six, a Dixieland group with which he played in the 1950s at Yale. 3 p.m., Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, Chelsea, (212) 620-5000; $15. (Chinen) * LUCIANA SOUZA QUARTET (Tonight) Ms. Souza, a Brazilian turned New Yorker, hones a personal and highly intelligent variety of jazz singing in this ensemble, with Adam Rogers on guitar, Scott Colley on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums. 9:30,, Joes Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 539-8778; cover, $20, with a two-drink minimum. (Chinen) RORY STUART QUARTET (Tomorrow) Mr. Stuart is a guitarist with a lithe and harmonically literate style; his ensemble features the smart, somewhat reclusive Mark Shim on tenor saxophone and the sterling rhythm team of Francois Moutin and Ari Hoenig on bass and drums. 9 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212) 989-9319; cover, $12 (students, $9), with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen) * TOOTS THIELEMANS AND KENNY WERNER (Through Sunday) The Dutch harmonica master Toots Thielemans and the American pianist Kenny Werner have recorded fruitfully together in recent years; here theyll focus on Brazilian music, an area of specialty for Mr. Thielemans, in an all-star ensemble featuring the guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves and the percussionist Airto Moreira. 8 and 10:30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village, (212) 475-8592; cover, $35 at tables, with a $5 minimum or $20 at the bar and a one-drink $5 minimum.(Chinen) WYNTON WITH STRINGS: 25TH YEAR CELEBRATION (Tonight and tomorrow night) Backed by his quartet and a string orchestra, the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis plays romantic jazz standards with a tender sort of effulgence. 8, Frederick P. Rose Hall, 60th Street and Broadway, Jazz at Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500; $30 to $130. (Chinen) Classical Full reviews of recent music performances: nytimes.com/music. Opera CARMEN (Tomorrow and Wednesday) Shes back. After an initial flurry of less well-known Carmens at the Met this season, Denyce Graves is taking up one of her signature roles for a run of performances into December. And Marcello Giordani, with Don José, is coming into a role that should allow him to shine. Ana Maria Martinez, a young soprano with a burgeoning international career, makes her company debut as Micaëla. 8 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000; $220 tickets remaining tomorrow; $26 to $175 on Wednesday. (Anne Midgette) THE LITTLE PRINCE (Today, tomorrow and Sunday) Francesca Zambellos production, with bright, sure sets by Maria Bjornson, is gorgeous. And Rachel Portmans opera is opulent, with a veritably lush orchestra and a large childrens chorus. All of this is an odd fit for the spareness of Antoine de Saint-Exupérys beloved book, which inspired it, but it makes for a colorful spectacle -- though it would lose nothing by being half an hour shorter. Tonight at 8, Saturday and Sunday afternoon at 1:30, New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500; remaining tickets, $79 tonight, $25 to $65 tomorrow and $45 to $65 on Sunday. (Midgette) LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Tomorrow) Jonathan Millers spare, elegant production affords Mozarts music ample room to breathe. The solid cast includes Luca Pisaroni, Lisa Milne, Peter Mattei and Hei-Kyung Hong. Sandra Piques Eddy replaces Joyce DiDonato as Cherubino. 1:30 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000; $42 to $220. (Jeremy Eichler) LA TRAVIATA (Tonight, tomorrow and Sunday) The venerable Amato Opera may seat scarcely more than 100, but it cant be accused of cowardice. Its current run, now in its final weekend, is one of the hardest operas for soprano in the repertory, Verdis Traviata. Tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30, Sunday afternoon at 2:30, Amato Opera, 319 Bowery, at Second Street, East Village, (212) 228-8200; $30; 65+, students and children, $25. (Midgette) TURANDOT (Tomorrow) If your idea of a stimulating evening is watching a beefy and clearly none too intelligent prince devoting himself singlemindedly to winning the heart of a creepy harridan -- and, O.K., singing Nessun Dorma along the way -- the companys venerable Beni Montresor staging (now directed by Beth Greenberg) is back on the boards. Its strong cast includes Lori Phillips in the title role, Philip Webb as Calaf and Guylaine Girard as Liù. 8 p.m., New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500; $25 to $120. (Allan Kozinn) Classical Music AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Tonight) Witold Lutoslawskis orchestral works have slipped into the standard repertory to a great extent, but programs focusing on his music exclusively are rare. Leon Botstein has assembled a great overview, from the classic Musique Funèbre (1958) to the increasingly popular violin concerto Chain 2 (1985). Included as well as are two symphonies, the First (1947) and the Third (1983). 8, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500; $25 to $53. (Kozinn) BARGEMUSIC (Tonight, tomorrow, Sunday and Thursday) Vladimir Stoupel, a pianist, is holding forth this week, alone and with friends, at this intimate chamber hall on a converted coffee barge. Tonight, Mr. Stoupel plays a program of five Scriabin sonatas (Nos. 2, 3, 8, 9 and 10). He spends the rest of the weekend playing works by Schubert, Bach, Schumann and Joan Tower with Judith Ingolfsson, the violinist, and on Thursday, he is joined by Mark Peskanov, the violinist, and Peter Bruns, the cellist, for a program of Haydn and Brahms. Tonight, tomorrow night and Thursday night at 7:30; Sunday at 4 p.m.; Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing next to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, (718) 624-2083; $35; $25 for students. (Kozinn) JENNIFER CHECK (Tuesday) She does small roles at the Met but has a big voice to watch. This young soprano, an alumna of the Mets Lindemann program and already presented in New York by the Marilyn Horne Foundation, won first place in the Young Concert Artists auditions this year, and as a result is giving her Carnegie recital debut with a program of Purcell, Richard Strauss, Schumann and others. Laura Ward is the piano accompanist. 7:30 p.m., Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800; $25 and $35. (Midgette) CHOIR OF ST. IGNATIUS LOYOLA AND PIFFARO (Tonight) Kent Tritle leads his superb choir, with accompaniment from Piffaro, a fine period-instrument band, in music of the German Baroque. Included are Schützs Ich danke dem Herrn (SWV 34), Praetoriuss Nun komm der Heiden Heiland and Scheidts Hymnaria. 8, with a preconcert organ recital by Scott Warren at 7. Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, 980 Park Avenue, at 84th Street, (212) 288-2520; $25 to $45. (Kozinn) EARLY MUSIC NEW YORK (Tomorrow and Sunday) Arguing that although public church performances of the time were sung by men, women sang sacred music in convents and secular music at court, this venerable ensemble has taken to presenting an annual concert sung and played by women. This years installment is an overview of sacred and secular works by the Franco-Flemish masters of the 15th and 16th centuries, among them Dufay, Binchois, Ockeghem, Obrecht and Josquin. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m., Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, at 112th Street, Morningside Heights, (212) 280-0330; $40. (Kozinn) JUPITER SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS (Monday) In the spirit of its idiosyncratic founder, Jens Nygaard, this feisty ensemble offers programs that combine oddities and either familiar works or lesser-known scores by well-known composers. This week the focus is on virtuoso playing and includes music by Boccherini, Paganini, Respighi, Verdi, Rossini and Gambaro. 2 and 7:30 p.m., Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church, 152 West 66th Street, Manhattan, (212) 799-1259; $10 to $25. (Kozinn) NEW JUILLIARD ENSEMBLE (Tuesday) This student group, led by Joel Sachs, plays difficult music in virtually every contemporary style, and usually does it with assurance and polish. This program, part of the season-long celebration of the Juilliard Schools centenary, includes the premiere of Adam Schoenbergs Chiaroscuro, as well as works by Agustín Fernández, Liu Sola, Miguiel del Aguila and Virko Baley. 8 p.m., Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, (212) 769-7406; free, but tickets are required. (Kozinn) PRISM QUARTET (Tonight) This fine veteran saxophone ensemble tackles the rock-influenced music of the Dutch composer Jacob ter Veldhuis, including Postnuclear Winterscenario No. 10 and Pitch Black for saxophone quartet and boom box. 8:30, Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, (212) 864-5400; $21, students and 65+, $18. (Eichler) REBEL (Sunday) Rebel, one of the more successful operatives in New Yorks accident-prone early-music world, brings music for recorders and strings to the Music Before 1800 series. 4 p.m., Corpus Christi Christi Church, 529 West 121st Street, Morningside Heights, (212) 666-9266; $25 to $40; $20 to $35 for students and 62+. (Bernard Holland) PAULA ROBISON (Tomorrow) This excellent flutist and her audiences never seem to tire of music by Vivaldi, and she is sure to play it here with her usual flair. But it would also be good, for a change, to find out what else is on her musical mind. 7 p.m., Temple of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum of Art, (212) 570-3949; $60. (James R. Oestreich) ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Tonight and tomorrow night) The highly touted David Robertson makes his first New York appearance as music director of the orchestra, tonight centering on music of Debussy (and paintings of Monet) and tomorrow presenting works by Mozart, Mahler and Morton Feldman. 8, Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800; tonight, $10 to $35; tomorrow, $23 to $79.(Oestreich) ANTTI SIIRALA (Tonight) Antti Siirala, a busy and successful veteran of the piano competition wars in Britain, brings four Beethoven piano sonatas, including Les Adieux and the delectable little F sharp major Sonata. 8, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, (212) 570-3949; $40. (Holland) BAIBA SKRIDE (Sunday) Lincoln Center brings back its series of casual Sunday morning concerts followed by a reception. Here, this young Latvian violinist is accompanied by her sister Lauma in works by Schubert, Prokofiev, Copland and Ravel. 11 a.m., Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, Manhattan, (212) 721-6500; $20. (Eichler) Dance Full reviews of recent performances: nytimes.com/dance. American Ballet Theater Studio Company and Sean Curran: Works and Process (Sunday and Monday) This ongoing series at the Guggenheim Museum allows a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process; in this case the choreographer Sean Curran will talk to Kathleen Moore about making a work for Ballet Theaters junior division, and the dancers will perform excerpts from the piece. 8 p.m., 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, (212) 423-3500; $24 or $18 for members, 65+ and students. (Roslyn Sulcas) BALLET MESTIZO (Tonight through Sunday) Opening tonight for a one-month engagement, the company performs Colombian folk dance and music. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8; Sunday at 4 p.m. (weekends through Dec. 11), Thalia Spanish Theater, 41-17 Greenpoint Avenue, Sunnyside, Queens, (718) 729-3880 or www.thaliatheatre.org; $25 (tonight); $30 (other nights); students and 65+, $27. (Jennifer Dunning) THE BARNARD PROJECT (Tonight through Sunday) Student dancers from Barnard College will perform works by Ori Flomin, David Parker and Donna Uchizono. Tonight at 7:30; Sunday at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 924-0077 or www.dtw.org; $25; $15 for students and 65+. (Dunning) * BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY (Through Nov. 27) Israels leading modern-dance company performs Mamootot, a new work by Israels leading choreographer, Ohad Naharin, presented by the Next Wave festival in an extremely intimate space. Tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30; Sunday and Nov. 27 at 3 p.m., tomorrow and Nov. 26 at 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Nov. 26 at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 26 at 9:30 p.m., James and Martha Duffy Performance Space, Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, (718) 636-4100 or www.bam.org; $40 (sold out).(John Rockwell) BODYVOX (Tonight through Sunday) In Civilization Unplugged the choreographers Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland whimsically visit technological evolution. Tonight at 8, tomorrow at 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 242-0800 or www.Joyce.org; $36. (Jack Anderson) CHASHAMA: TRANSIT (Today through Sunday) Eleanor Dubinsky explores travel in a free dance piece with simultaneous video projections from five cities throughout the world, in a storefront and gallery space. (This weekend and next.) Today through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. (open rehearsals) and 5 to 9 p.m. (performances), Chashama Window Gallery, 266 West 37th Street, Manhattan., www.chashama.org (Dunning) CREACH/COMPANY (Tonight through Sunday night) An all-male group directed by Terry Creach offers a theatrical collage of choreographic portraits of men featuring dramatic interactions among dancers, readings from performers diaries and the depiction of what Mr. Creach calls a broken-hearts club of guys. 8, Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, (212) 334-7479; $15; $12 students and 65+.(Anderson) SAVION GLOVER (Tonight) This distinguished tap stylist will perform to music by choreographers as various as Bach and Piazzolla in Classical Savion. 8, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center Street, Newark, (888) 466-5772 or www.njpac.org; $20 to $56. (Dunning) JANE GOLDBERG: BELLY TAP FOR WORLD PEACE (Tonight through Sunday night) Known as the originator of the tap and schmooze school of dance, Ms. Goldberg is also a performer who embodies a good deal of recent tap history. (Weekends through Nov. 26.) 8, Blue Mountain Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, (212) 393-1182; suggested donation, $15 to $25 (Dunning) GOLDEN DRAGON ACROBATS (Tonight through Sunday and Wednesday) Direct from China, with cables to twirl on, hoops to spin and bodies to twist to pretzel shapes. (Through Jan. 1.) Tonight at 7, tomorrow and Wednesday at 2 and 7 p.m., Sunday at noon and 5 p.m., New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (212) 239-6200 or www.newvictory.org; $10 to $50. (Dunning) HEATHER HARRINGTON DANCE COMPANY (Tonight through Sunday night) Ms. Harrington fills the sanctuary stage-space with toys and childrens songs, incorporated by the composer Quentin Chiappetta, in her new Devils Playground. 8:30, Danspace Project, St. Marks Church, 131 East 10th Street, East Village, (212) 674-8194 or www.danspaceproject.org; $15 or T.D.F. vouchers. (Dunning) RENNIE HARRIS (Tomorrow and Sunday) Mr. Harris, whose choreography is an imaginative merger of hip-hop and concert dance, will present two works-in-progress, PrinceScareKrows Road to the Emerald City and Origins of Man, a collaboration with Rodney Mason. Reservations required. Tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. (PrinceScareKrow); tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. (Origins), Aaron Davis Hall, City College, West 135th Street and Convent Avenue, Hamilton Heights, (212) 650-7100 or www.aarondavishall.org; $20 (PrinceScareKrow); free (Origins). (Dunning) STUART HODES, GUS SOLOMONS JR. AND ALICE TEIRSTEIN (Today) Age has not withered nor custom staled the charms of these veteran performers, who will show Three Oh Three at this lunchtime series, which includes discussion with the audience. Noon, Buttenwieser Hall, 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, (212) 415-5500; free. (Sulcas) JAZZ TAP ENSEMBLE (Tuesday through Nov. 27) Lynn Dally, director of this troupe of young tappers, offers a slew of new works -- two accompanied live by the jazz vocalist Kate McGarry. Tuesday and Wednesday at 8 p.m. (no show on Thursday), Friday at 2 and 8 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, (212) 242-0800; $40. (Sulcas) LABAN/BARTENIEFF INSTITUTE FOR MOVEMENT STUDIES (Tuesday) Under the title Dancers and Cultural Identity, the institute presents works by choreographers from the United States, Brazil, Cuba, France and Korea. 8 p.m., St. Marks Church, 131 East 10th Street, East Village, (212) 643-8888; $20. (Rockwell) * NEW YORK CITY BALLET (Through Feb. 26) The winter season gets under way with a gala offering Peter Martinss Fearful Symmetries and Robbinss N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz, along with a new pas de deux by Albert Evans. The annual run of The Nutcracker is from Nov. 25 through Dec. 30, followed by the regular repertory season Jan. 3 through Feb. 26. Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500 after Monday; $20 to $100; for gala tickets, (212) 870-5585. (Rockwell) THE SHUA GROUP (Tomorrow and Sunday) A Jersey City contemporary dance company presents three works that offer collaborations with a saxophonist and a video artist. In 1000 nows audience members are invited onstage. Scary. 8 p.m., ghe Construction Company, 10 East 18th Street, Buzzer 3, Flatiron District, (212) 924-7882; $15; students and 65+, $10. (Sulcas) JOHANNES WIELAND (Tonight through Sunday night) A program of new works includes choreographic commentaries on the nature-versus-nurture debate, the forming and breaking of relationships and the power of images as presented in the media. 8, Ailey Studios at the Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street, Clinton, (347) 329-5526 or reservations@johanneswieland.org; $20; students, $15. (Anderson) Art Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: OBSESSIVE DRAWING, through March 19. In the museums first emerging talent show, one of the five artists selected is 83, lives in a home for the elderly in Pennsylvania and stopped painting two years ago because of failing eyesight. Overall, the work in the exhibition is abstract and spare, giving the problematic outsider category a new spin. 45 West 53rd Street, (212) 265-1040. (Holland Cotter) Asia society: Vietnam: Destination for the New Millennium -- The Art of Dinh Q. LE, through Jan. 15. Born in Vietnam, Mr. Le moved to the United States at 11 and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York. This small exhibition presents high-concept photographic and sculptural works about the Vietnam War and its effects, as well as a pair of sculptures representing communications satellites that satirize Vietnams plans to enter the space age. 725 Park Avenue, at 70th Street, (212) 288-6400.(Ken Johnson) Brooklyn Museum: Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured Landscapes, through Jan. 15. Large, expertly made color images by a Canadian photographer show industrial subjects like marble quarries in India, a tire dump in California and modern development in China. 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, (718) 638-5000. (Johnson) * THE FRICK COLLECTION: MEMLINGS PORTRAITS, through Dec. 31. Just over 30 portrait paintings by Hans Memling survive from the 15th century. Of those, about 20 are now on view at the Frick Collection. Thats a whale of a lot of paintings by any major early northern European artist to be in any one place at one time, and there is little question that this show will figure on any short list of outstanding events of the year. 1 East 70th Street, (212) 288-0700. (Cotter) GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: RUSSIA!, through Jan. 11. This survey of nine centuries of Russian art ranges from 13th-century religious icons to a smattering of 21st-century works, achieving its astounding effect without resorting to a single egg, or anything else, by Fabergé. It immerses us in two enormous, endlessly fascinating narratives: the history of painting and the history of Russia, forming a remarkable tribute to the endurance of the medium and the country, and the inescapable interconnectedness of art and life. 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, (212) 423-3600. (Roberta Smith) * JAPAN SOCIETY: HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: HISTORY OF HISTORY, through Feb. 19. A very personal, whimsical exhibition by this well-known Japanese photographer, who incorporates into his work artifacts that he has collected, particularly from East Asia and Japan. Mr. Sugimotos reach is long, and his range is broad, from fossils to textiles to undersea dioramas to Japanese calligraphy to the Trylon and Perisphere (a minisculpture) that symbolized the New York Worlds Fair of 1939. It may not be all that enlightening, but as an artists personal survey, it comes off. 333 East 47th Street, (212) 832-1155. (Grace Glueck) * JEWISH MUSEUM: THE JEWISH IDENTITY PROJECT: NEW AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY, through Jan. 29. Whos Jewish, who isnt, and, by the way, what is a Jew, anyway? They are not easy questions, as this intense who-are-we exploration makes clear. Ten projects by 13 artists try to help break the stereotype of American Jews as uniformly white, middle-class and of European descent. Using photography and video, they have interpreted their missions broadly, from the Korean-born Nikki S. Lees meticulous staging of a Jewish wedding with herself as the bride, to Andrea Robbins and Max Bechers look at the thriving shtetl established by Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews in the rural community of Postville, Iowa. 1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street, (212) 423-3200. (Glueck) * Metropolitan Museum of Art: FRA ANGELICO, through Jan. 29. An exhibition as rare as it is sublime brings the divine Angelico down to earth, showing how he had the best of both worlds, using the innovations of the Renaissance to parlay the radiant colors, gilded surfaces and doll-like figures of Gothic art into a final flowering. Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street, (212) 535-7710. (Smith) * MET: THE PERFECT MEDIUM: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE OCCULT, through Dec. 31. Hands down, the most hilarious, not to mention the most charming, exhibition the Met has done in years: an assemblage of 19th-century and early-20th-century spirit photographs, séance reportage and other examples of transparent tomfoolery. Like all examples of great humor, it is, at heart, also a sneakily serious affair. Its subjects include the depths of human gullibility and the conjuring power of photography, whose technology, we may forget in the cynical day of digital manipulation and Photoshop, seemed unfathomable to so many people a century and more ago. The exhibitions deeper subject is the dreamer in all of us. (See above.) (Michael Kimmelman) * Met: VINCENT VAN GOGH: THE DRAWINGS, through Dec. 31. Think again before deciding youve got a case of van Gogh fatigue and skipping this exhibition -- not just because the focus is on drawings, which on the whole are less well-known than the paintings and were so important to the early spread of his reputation, but also because in the flesh, great art, no matter how often it has been dully reproduced or mistaken for a price tag or overrun by crowds, retains its dignity and originality and utter strangeness. Frankly, the whole show, even including the bad drawings, is unforgettable. (See above.) (Kimmelman) * Museum of Modern Art: Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon, through Jan. 23. The timing was off for the big Odilon Redon retrospective in Chicago in 1994. The art worlds mind was on identity politics and neo-conceptualism. Fin-de-siècle drawings of moony monsters and lamp-bright flowers existed on some other planet. Now theres another Redon survey, smaller, very beautiful, culminating in his lush, pixilated late paintings. And the timing for it is just right. 11 West 53rd Street, (212) 708-9400. (Cotter) * Museum of Modern Art : ELIZABETH MURRAY, through Jan. 9. Here is the complete range of shape-shifting, dizzily colored pictures that Elizabeth Murray has produced over four decades. The colors are noisy, the harmonies pungent, the scale big and bold. While art-world fashion has drifted here and there, Ms. Murray has stuck to her craft, with all its difficulties and at the occasional cost of failure and neglect. Her show is a meaty, openhearted, eye-popping event. (See above.) (Kimmelman) neue galerie: Egon Schiele: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections, through Feb. 20. This extensive exhibition mostly of works on paper gives an informative account of the regrettably brief career of one of the 20th centurys great draftsmen and romantic rebels. Schieles self-portraits and drawings and watercolors of sexy young women still burn with fires of narcissistic yearning, erotic desire and bohemian dissent. 1048 Fifth Avenue, (212) 628-6200. (Johnson) * P.S. 1: Peter Hujar, through Jan. 16. When Peter Hujar died in 1987, he was a figure of acute interest to a small group of fans and unknown to practically everyone else. His photographs of desiccated corpses in Sicilian catacombs and studio portraits of New Yorks downtown demi-monde were a gorgeous shock, and their cocktail of Nadar, Weegee and Vogue shaped the work of many younger artists. This surveyish sampling includes several of his recurrent themes: portraits of people and animals, landscapes, still-lifes and erotica. Sensuality and mortality are the binders throughout, inseparable. 22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Street, Long Island City, Queens, (718) 784-2084.(Cotter) * P.S. 1: The Painted World, through Jan. 30. Though this 23-artist exhibition of mostly contemporary abstractionists lacks bite as a whole, every individual painter in it is worthy of attention. In addition to ancestral figures like Myron Stout and Moira Dryer, the show includes Philip Taaffe, Mary Heilmann and Chris Martin. (See above.) (Johnson) * WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: OSCAR BLUEMNER: A PASSION FOR COLOR, through Feb. 12. Not exactly a well-known name today, except to devotees of American Modernism, this German-born architect-turned-painter (1867-1938) was one of the major American artists of the early 20th century. Most of his compositions are unpeopled landscapes depicting houses and building fragments in brilliantly stylized settings in which trees, clouds, smokestacks, telephone poles, water and snow are rendered as rhythmic and dramatic shapes that play off one another almost musically. 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, (212) 570-3676. (Glueck) * Whitney Museum of American Art: THE ART OF RICHARD TUTTLE, through Feb. 5. For 40 years, Richard Tuttle has murmured the ecstasies of paying close attention to the worlds infinitude of tender incidents, making oddball assemblages of prosaic ephemera, which, at first glance, belie their intense deliberation and rather monumental ambition. Out of cord, tin, Styrofoam, florists wire and bubble wrap he has devised objects whose status is not quite sculpture or drawing or painting but some combination of the three, and whose exquisiteness is akin to that of jewelry. His outstanding retrospective is a cross between a kindergarten playroom and a medieval treasury. (See above) (Kimmelman) Galleries: 57th Street EDWARD MAYER: DRAWING OUT A single work designed for and occupying the entire front exhibition space of this gallery, Drawing Out looks both sturdy and fragile, a skeletal open-work modular passageway 18-feet-long, put together as if from a giant Erector set. At once disciplined architecture and intuitive sculptural drawing, the piece invites you to enter and explore it, while conveying a disturbing sense of matter out of place. How often do you get to view a drawing from the inside out? Zabriskie Gallery, 41 East 57th Street (212) 752-1223, through Dec. 3. (Glueck) TOM WESSELMANN: WORKS ON PAPER, RETROSPECTIVE Typed as a Pop artist early on for his portrayals of commercial foodstuffs as well as of stylized womens bodies (or parts thereof) that mingled classic odalisque and sexy pinup, Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004) had other strings to his bow, among them an interest in landscape and, later in his career, large abstract cutouts in metal. His provocative nude icons are here in abundance, but also evident is his interest in Matisse, Picasso and Mondrian. This lively show of 44 works on paper, arranged by his daughter, Kate, also reveals that Wesselmann was a compulsive draftsman, producing and revising many color and compositional studies for his finished works. Maxwell Davidson Gallery, 724 Fifth Avenue, (212) 759-7555, through Dec. 23. (Glueck) Galleries: Chelsea Mona Hatoum: Mobile Home The playful side of this often politically motivated sculptor prevails. The centerpiece, Mobile Home, is an arrangement of domestic objects strung on fine cables between metal traffic barriers; it takes a moment to realize that the toys, chairs, suitcases and other items are slowly rolling back and forth on tiny wheels. An installation upstairs consists of a circle of slowly pulsing light bulbs plugged into intricately interwoven cables. Alexander and Bonin, 132 10th Avenue, between 18th and 19th Streets, (212) 367-7474, through Dec. 22. (Johnson) James Hayward A veteran Los Angeles-based abstract painter selected for this show by Mike Kelley, Mr. Hayward presents a recent series of single-color paintings made of extremely thick, crisscrossing brush strokes. The optical and tactile combine to exceptionally satisfying effect. Cue, 511 West 25th Street, (212) 206-3583, through Dec. 3. (Johnson) Mel Leipzig A Trenton-based realist who began exhibiting in the mid-1960s, Mr. Leipzig paints affectionate, exhaustively detailed portraits of people in their homes or workplaces with a deliberately unpolished touch. One subject is a man with a shaved head and a goatee relaxing on his living room sofa in the midst of an amazingly extensive collection of sports memorabilia. Henoch, 555 West 25th Street, (917) 305-0003, through Dec. 3. (Johnson) * Ann Lislegaard: Bellona (after Samuel R. Delany) An entrancing animated video based on a famous science-fiction novel tours a mazelike series of empty rooms. Murray Guy, 453 West 17th Street, (212) 463-7372, through Dec. 3. (Johnson) Kim Simonsson Under the influence of Japanese manga cartoons, this Finnish ceramicist makes large, monochromatic sculptures of wide-eyed, otherworldly girls and deer. Nancy Margolis, 523 West 25th Street, (212) 242-3013, through Nov. 26. (Johnson) Other Galleries Hans Hofmann: The Legacy Hofmann was one of the few who made it into the art history hall of fame as both teacher and painter. Along with three works by the master himself, this exhibition presents abstract and semi-abstract paintings by disciples who were either directly taught or deeply influenced by him, including Ludwig Sander, Robert De Niro, Louisa Matthiasdottir and Laurie Fendrich. The Painting Center, 52 Greene Street, SoHo, (212) 343-1060, through Dec. 24. (Johnson) * If Its Too Bad to Be True, It Could Be Disinformation Old-style political art said yes or no, told you what to do. New-style political art, as often as not, obscures its intentions, makes you wonder what its up to and goes for confusion, as in this shrewd, dematerialized group exhibition on the subject of disinformation, a passive form of political deceit that tells lies through the omission of facts. The idea is that the less people know about what their government is doing, the less likely they are to raise a fuss. Apexart, 291 Church Street, TriBeCa, (212) 431-5270, through Nov. 26. (Cotter) * André KertEsz From tiny, wonderfully intense pictures made in the teens in Budapest, where Kertesz was born in 1894, to formally acute views of Paris in the 20s and 30s, to emotionally and metaphorically resonant images of New York, where he lived from 1936 to his death in 1985, this beautiful exhibition covers the career of a giant of 20th-century photography. International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, at 43rd Street, (212) 857-0000, through Nov. 27. (Johnson) Ray Mortenson: Cedars/Sea and Sky Alternating between the land and sea of Rhode Island, this quietly gripping show of mostly small black-and-white photographs presents soft and misty images of bushy cedars and extraordinarily clear and luminous pictures of ocean waves. Janet Borden, 560 Broadway, at Prince Street, SoHo, (212) 431-0166, through Dec. 4. (Johnson) * THE SPLENDOR OF THE WORD: MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Few objects encapsulate their times like the exquisite full-service concentrations of text, image and decoration that are illuminated manuscripts, and few institutions in North America have as many great ones as New York Citys favorite library. New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue, at 42nd Street, (212) 869-8069, through Feb. 12. (Smith) System in Chaos: New Art Brut From the Czech Republic Four fascinating Czech outsiders: Zdenek Koseks small, congested bubble diagrams chart unfathomable verbal associations; Lubos Plnys expansive, finely detailed drawings offer delirious lessons in human anatomy; Zbynek Semeraks small, delicately busy works on paper convey what seems to be a medieval iconography of religion and architecture; and Leos Wertheimers large drawings portray locomotives with mechanical precision. Cavin-Morris, 560 Broadway, at Prince Street, SoHo, (212) 226-3768, through Nov. 26. (Johnson) Robert Therrien, Table and Six Chairs In a vast corporate atrium stand a table and six chairs that are wholly ordinary-looking except for their gigantic size -- the chair backs rise to almost nine feet, and the top of the table is over six feet. Mr. Therrien transformed his own kitchen furniture into painted metal monuments that make the viewer feel like the protagonist of Jack and the Beanstalk. The Atrium of 590 Madison Avenue, at 56th Street, (212) 980-4575, through Nov. 28. (Johnson) Last Chance Eighth Annual International Juried Botanical Art Exhibition The old-fashioned art of botanical illustration lives on, as evinced by this selection of finely made drawings and watercolors by more than 40 artists. Many are routinely competent, but some, like a small, intense picture of a gnarly root ball by Jean Emmons, are remarkable for both what and how they represent. The Horticultural Society of New York, 128 West 58th Street, (212) 757-0915, closing tomorrow. (Johnson) Landscape: Myth and Memory Miniature ruins built of tiny bricks on rocky landscapes made of clay by Charles Simmonds; large, faux-antique photographs of Egyptian pyramids by Lynn Davis; an enormous, crusty book by Anselm Kiefer open to the photographic image of ancient architectural remains; and archetypal circles painted and photographed by Richard Long all add up to a nicely choreographed collective fantasy about primordial civilizations. Senior & Shopmaker, 21 East 26th Street, (212) 213-6767, closing on Wednesday. (Johnson) PLAIN OF HEAVEN Organized by Creative Time, this show of mostly site-specific installations insinuates a reverberating, poetic Minimalism into the darkened spaces of a former meatpacking plant. The efforts of Corey McCorkle, O. Winston Link, Leandro Erlich, Helen Mirra, Gordon Matta-Clark, William Forsythe and Saskia Olde-Wolbers are noteworthy. A sound piece by Trisha Donnelly will engulf the building for the last 20 minutes of the shows run. 832 Washington Street, at Gansevoort Street, West Village, (212) 206-6674, closing on Sunday. (Smith)
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MUSIC ALLAN P. KIRBY ARTS CENTER The Opera Festival of New Jersey presents Donizettis Elixir of Love, conducted by Louis Salemno and directed by Dejan Miladinovic. Saturday at 8 P.M. Tickets: $18, $30 and $45. The Lawrenceville School, Route 26 in Lawrenceville. (609) 936-1500. BEACH FEST 95 A weekend festival of free music on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City with the New Rascals, the Drifters, Shirley Alston Reeves, and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Today at 7 P.M. Free. (609) 484-0920. BLOOMINGDALE CORNET BAND A free summer concert in the park with the Bloomingdale Cornet Band, conducted by Bob Norman. Thursday at 8 P.M. Sloan Park in Bloomingdale. (908) 838-6735. CONGRESS HALL, CAPE MAY The American Boychoir. Today at 8:30 P.M. The St. Lawrence String Quartet. Wednesday at 8:30 P.M. Tickets: $12, or $10 for the elderly and $6 for students. Congress Hall, Beach Drive and Perry, Cape May. (800) 275-4278. GARDEN STATE ARTS CENTER Hootie and the Blowfish with Dillon Fence. Today at 8 P.M. Tickets: $17.50. Ted Nugent and Bad Company with the Chris Duarte Group. Tuesday at 7:30 P.M. Tickets: $18-$35. Exit 116 on the Garden State Parkway, Holmdel. (908) 888-5011. GIRALDA FARMS A Salute to the Allies is the theme of the 12th annual Giralda Concert featuring the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Next Sunday at 6 P.M. Tickets: $8, or $3 for children under 12. Route 124, Madison. (201) 377-6622. KASSCHAU MEMORIAL SHELL Trattoria Fratelli, an Italian restaurant, sponsors Opera in the Park, featuring highlights from Rigoletto, La Boheme and Carmen. Today at 7 P.M. Free. North Maple Avenue, Ridgewood. (201) 447-9377. MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM Sarah Partridge performs as part of the Montclair Art Museums annual jazz concert. Today at 4 P.M. Tickets: $12. 3 South Mountain Avenue, Montclair. (201) 746-5555. NEWARK MUSEUM The Noontime Jazz in the Garden series kicks off with a Jazz in Bloom party with Houston Person on saxophone and Etta Jones, vocalist. Thursday at 5 P.M. Tickets: $12. The Dreyfuss Memorial Garden, 49 Washington Street, Newark. (201) 596-6550. OCEAN GROVE SUMMER CONCERTS Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Saturday at 8 P.M. Tickets: $15. The Great Auditorium, Pilgrim Pathway, Ocean Grove. (908) 775-0035. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY In the first annual Princeton Invitational Choir Festival, the American Boychoir and the Czech Philharmonic Childrens Choir present the opening concert on Thursday at 8 P.M. Free. The Gala Final Concert will be held next Sunday at 8 P.M. Free. Richardson Auditorium of Alexander Hall, Princeton. (609) 896-9330. RUTGERS ART CENTER The Rutgers Summerfest begins with the Shanghai String Quartet, with Ruth Laredo, pianist, Friday at 8 P.M. Tickets: $22. Music From Aston Magna, Saturday at 8 P.M. Tickets: $22. Marian McPartland, next Sunday at 2 P.M. Tickets: $22. George Street at Route 18, New Brunswick. (908) 932-7511. RIDER UNIVERSITY Westminster Choir College presents its annual summer concert series. Joy Bechtler, accompanied by Linda Hall, performs in Great Women of Shakespeare. Monday at 6:30 P.M. Williamson Hall. The Florida Boychoir will appear on Tuesday at 6:30 P.M. Todd Marsh, pianist, performs Beethovens Sonata No. 17 in D minor. Wednesday at 8 P.M. A concert of organ and recorders with Eugene Roan and John Burkhalter will be presented on Thursday at 6:30 P.M. Free. Bristol Chapel on the Westminster campus, Princeton. (609) 921-2663. SUMMERFEST 95 CONCERTS The Morris County Park Commission presents Gordon James. Wednesday at 6:30 P.M. Hedden Park, Reservoir Avenue, Randolph. Free. The Hotel Excelsior Orchestra performs next Sunday at 3 P.M. Silas Condict Park, Kinnelon Road, Kinnelon. Free. (201) 326-7600. WATCHUNG ARTS CENTER Jennie Avila and Amy Torchia will sing and play guitar and conga drums in a concert today at 7 P.M. in the last of the centers Sunday night series this season. Tickets: $8. Satchmo, a musical trio, presents a jazz concert. Friday at 8 P.M. Tickets: $10. 18 Stirling Road, Watchung. (908) 753-0190. THEATER CAPE MAY WELCOME CENTER The Cape May Stage presents Cape May on Fire, with Eric Hissom and John Alvarez. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:30 P.M. Through July 1. Tickets: $15, or $12 for students and the elderly. 405 Lafayette Street, Cape May. (609) 884-1341. EAST LYNNE COMPANY The Woman Question features Susan Glaspells Supressed Desires, Marie Jenney Howes Anti-Suffrage Monologue and George Middletons Unknown Lady. Friday and Saturday at 8 P.M. and next Sunday at 3 P.M. The Meadowlands Center for the Arts, Rutherford. Also, June 28 through July 8 at 8:30 P.M. at Lyle Hall of the First Methodist Church, Cape May. Tickets: $14, or $12 for the elderly. (201) 863-6436. FOUNDATION THEATER Nunsense. Wednesday and Thursday at 2 and 8 P.M., Friday and Saturday at 8 P.M. and Sunday at 2 and 8 P.M. Through July 9. Tickets: $15, or $13 for students and the elderly. Burlington County College. Route 530, Pemberton. (609) 894-2138. McCARTER THEATER Random Acts 95, the second annual festival of new plays, presents A Park in Our House, by Nilo Cruz. Today at 7:30 P.M. Staged readings of one-act plays by Wendy Wasserstein, Joyce Carol Oates, Mac Wellman and Jane Anderson will be presented today at 2 P.M. Tickets: $18. 91 University Place, Princeton. (609) 683-8000. NEW JERSEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL Harold Pinters Homecoming. Wednesday at 2 and 8 P.M., Thursday and Friday at 8 P.M., Saturday at 2 and 8 P.M. and Sunday at 2 and 7 P.M. Through July 1. Tickets: $16 to $30. Bowne Theater, Drew University, 36 Madison Avenue, Madison. (201) 408-5600. PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE The Secret Garden, a musical by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon, based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Wednesday and Friday at 8 P.M., Thursday at 2 and 8 P.M. and Saturday and Sunday at 3 and 8 P.M. Through July 23. Tickets: $29 to $44. Brookside Drive, Millburn. (201) 376-4343. PARSIPPANY PLAYHOUSE Run for Your Wife. Today at 7 P.M. Tickets: $10, or $7 for students and the elderly. 130 Knoll Road, Lake Hiawatha. (201) 263-7020. ROOSEVELT PARK AMPHITHEATER The Middlesex County Department of Parks and Recreation presents Plays-in-the-Park 1995. Into the Woods. Starts Wednesday at 8:30 P.M. Through July 1. Tickets: $3. Edison. (609) 548-2884. SOMERSET VALLEY PLAYHOUSE Inherit the Wind. Today at 7 P.M. Tickets: $10 on Friday and Sunday; $12 on Saturday. Route 514, Amwell Road, Hillsborough. (908) 369-7469. THEATERFEST Lost in Yonkers, with Doris Belack. Tuesday at 8 P.M.; Wednesday at 2 and 8 P.M.; Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 P.M. and Sunday at 2 and 8 P.M. Tickets: $23-$25, or $12.50 for the elderly and $10 for students. Montclair State University. Valley Road and Normal Avenue, Upper Montclair. (201) 655-5112. MUSEUMS AND GALLARIES ARTWORKS Paintings of Dantes Inferno, by Eric Fowler. Thursday and Friday, 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. 19 Everrett Alley, Trenton. (609) 394-9436. BERGEN MUSEUM OF ART AND SCIENCE Edward Walsh Sculpture, nine abstract and traditional sculptures created from stainless steel, granite and bronze. Through July 16. Tuesday through Saturday, 9:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.; Sunday, 1 to 5 P.M. Suggested admission: adults, $2.50; children, $1. 327 East Ridgewood Avenue, Paramus. (201) 265-1248. BERLEX LABORATORIES GALLERY Moments in Time, original photographs by Janet Engeman and Dwight Hiscano. Monday and Friday, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Tuesday through Thursday, 9 A.M. to 6 P.M., and Saturday, 9:30 to 5 P.M. Through Aug. 10. 300 Fairfield Road, Wayne. (201) 540-1195. BLACKWELL STREET CENTER FOR THE ARTS Summer Daze, an exhibition of works by all members of the center. Through Aug. 20. Thursday through Sunday, noon to 4 P.M. 32-34 West Blackwell Street, Dover. (201) 328-9628. COOPER GALLERY Tangible Insites, textural paintings and clay vessels by Susan Hogan. Through July 1. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 P.M. 295 Grove Street, Jersey City. (201) 451-1074. CORYELL GALLERY Oil paintings by Albert Bross, watercolors and acrylics by Vincent Ceglia and watercolors by Charles Ross. Wednesday through Sunday, 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. Through July 5. 8 Coryell Street, Lambertville. (609) 397-0804. CS SCHULTE GALLERIES Duet: Dan Christensen -- 30 Years of Paintings; Elaine Grove -- Recent Sculpture. Through July 14. Tuesday through Saturday, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. 340 Millburn Avenue, Millburn. (201) 376-6900. EVERHART GALLERY Abstract paintings by Jim Fuess. Tuesday through Saturday, 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. Through July 12. 117 South Maple Avenue, Basking Ridge. (908) 221-9007. EXTENSION GALLERY Hug the Noise, an exhibition of cast metal sculpture and drawings by Sean Poreda. Through June 29. Monday through Thursday, 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. 60 Ward Avenue Extension, Mercerville. (609) 890-7777. GALLERY JUPITER Recent Works, paintings by Evelyn Leavens. Through July 1. Monday through Saturday, 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. 25 Church Street, Little Silver. (908) 530-8035. GALLERY OF SOUTH ORANGE Displacement, a collage by Peter Jacobs, and Home, a collage in mixed media by Valerie Sivilli, are on display. Through next Sunday. Tuesday and Wednesday, 6 to 8 P.M.; Thursday, 10 A.M. to noon and 6 to 8 P.M.; Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4 P.M. Baird Community Center, 5 Mead Street, off Ridgewood Road, South Orange. (201) 378-7754. GUILD OF CREATIVE ART Rhythms of Nature, a collection of landscapes, watercolors, pastels and collages by Fran McIlvain. Through July 6. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 4:30 P.M. 620 Broad Street, Route 35, Shrewsbury. (908) 741-1441. HOUSE OF BRATA ART GALLERY So Big, So Little, five paintings by John Krushenick. Through June. Wednesday through Friday, 10 A.M. to 6 P.M., and Saturday, 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. 46A Fairfield Street, Montclair. (201) 783-7348. HUNTERDON ART CENTER A faculty exhibition of painting, sculpture and mixed-media collages; Sculpture and Collage, assemblage sculptures and photo collages by Carol Rosen. Through next Sunday. Wednesday through Sunday, 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. 7 Lower Center Street, Clinton. (908) 735-8415. JAZZ 88 GALLERY Paintings and collages by Amy Kool and photographs by Cynthia Carris with text by Jose Luis Alonso. Monday through Friday, 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. Through July 23. 54 Park Place, Newark. (201) 624-8880. J. RICHARDS GALLERY Oil paintings of faraway beaches, old Paris streets and landscapes of the French countryside by J. P. Dubord are on display. Through next Monday. Tuesday through Saturday, 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. 64 East Palisade Avenue, Englewood. (201) 871-1050. LEBANON MUSEUM Details, color photgraphs by H. Lisa Solon. Through June next Monday. Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Saturday, 1 to 5 P.M. 57 Muscanetcong River Road, Hampton. (908) 537-6464. LONG BEACH ISLAND FOUNDATION OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Choice Collection -- Crafts 1995, an exhibition and sale, and LBI Art Foundation Faculty Exhibition. Through June 27. Free. Monday through Saturday, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M., and Sunday, noon to 4 P.M. 120 Long Beach Blvd., Loveladies. (609) 494-3169. MEADOWLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS From Darkness Into Light, paintings and drawings by Howard Lerner. Through June 30. Monday through Friday, 9 A.M. to 6 P.M., and Saturday and Sunday, 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. 1 Williams Plaza, Rutherford. (201) 939-6969. MONMOUTH COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION MUSEUM AND LIBRARY Optical Delights: Stereographic Views of Monmouth County presents images of Victorian life. Starts Tuesday. Through February 1996. Tuesday through Saturday, 10 A.M. to 4 P.M., and Sunday, 1 to 4 P.M. Admission: $2 for adults, $1 for children and $1.50 for the elderly. 70 Court Street, Freehold. (908) 462-1466. MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM What Is a Print? features the works of 60 artists and demonstrates the wide range of prints produced in America over the last 150 years. Through next Sunday. Still Life Works From the Collection offers 13 paintings by American artists ranging in style from 19th-century realism to 20th-century modernism. Through September. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 11 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sunday and Thursday, 1 P.M. to 5 P.M. Admission: $4, or $3 for the elderly and students with ID. 3 South Mountain Avenue, Montclair. (201) 746-5555. NABISCO GALLERY Lost and Found, an exhibition of 80 works of three-dimensional art using recycled objects. Through Thursday. Today and Monday through Thursday, noon to 4 P.M. River Road and DeForest Avenue, East Hanover. (201) 503-3238. NEWARK MUSEUM Gods and Goddesses in Indian Art features paintings, cloth hangings and tiny brass icons dating from the 11th to 19th centuries. Through July 2. The Arts of Nepal includes sculptures and paintings of the Himalayan kingdom. Through July 2. Astronauts: The Star Travelers features photographs of the Apollo XI flight. Through Dec. 31. Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 P.M. 49 Washington Street, Newark. (201) 596-6550. NEWARK PUBLIC LIBRARY Lasting Impressions: The Jewish Legacy of Greater Newark showcases the development of neighborhoods and culture in Newark by Jewish residents. Through July 3. Monday, Friday and Saturday, 9 A.M. to 5:30 P.M.; Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 9 A.M. to 8:30 P.M. 5 Washington Street, Newark. (201) 733-7798. NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Moving Through Memory: Caribbean Folk Arts in New Jersey. Through April 1996. Tuesday through Friday, 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. 230 Broadway, Newark. (201) 483-3939. NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM Echizen: 800 Years of Japanese Stoneware, an exhibition celebrating the history and art of potters. Through Aug. 7. Baseball in New Jersey: The Game of History. Through Aug. 27. Tuesday through Saturday, 9 A.M. to 4:45 P.M., and Sunday, noon to 5 P.M. 205 West State Street, Trenton. (609) 292-6308. NOYES MUSEUM Messages From the Planet: Artists Work to Save the Earth, two- and three-dimensional works by artists in the mid-Atlantic region. Through today. Looking Due South: Paintings of South Jersey by Glenn Rudderow. Through July 9. Wednesday through Sunday, 11 A.M. to 4 P.M. Admission, $3; the elderly, $1.50; students and children under 18, 50 cents. Free admission on Fridays. Lily Lake Road, Oceanville. (609) 652-8848. PALMER SQUARE, PRINCETON Strictly Art in Princeton at Palmer Square features the works of more than 75 local artists. Watercolors, pastels, oil and acrylic paintings, paper collages, sculptures, photographs and mixed-media creations will be on display and on sale. Saturday and next Sunday, 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. Free. Palmer Square, downtown Princeton. (908) 874-5247. PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE The Renee Foosaner Art Gallery holds its Sixth Annual Juried Exhibition of Miniature Art. Through July 30. Brookside Drive, Millburn. (201) 379-3636, extension 2272. PATERSON MUSEUM Pencilworks: The Drawings of Jerry Winick displays pencil drawings noted for their details and photo-like realism. Through July 9. Tuesday through Friday, 10 A.M. to 4 P.M.; Saturday and Sunday, 12:30 to 4:30 P.M. 2 Market Street, Paterson. (201) 881-3874. PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE The Passaic County Cultural and Heritage Council presents paintings and collages by Arnold Brown. Through July 20. Monday through Friday, 9 A.M. to 9 P.M.; Saturday, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Broadway and Memorial Drive, Paterson. (201) 684-5448. PINE SHORES ART ASSOCIATION Spring Art Show, featuring the works of members and local artists. Wednesday, 10 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. 94 Stafford Avenue, Manahawkin. (609) 597-3557. RABBET GALLERY Five Sculptors: Clay, Wood, Metal. Through July 7. Monday through Friday, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. 120 Georges Road, New Brunswick. (908) 828-5150. RINGWOOD MANOR STATE PARK 50 Years Retrospective Art Exhibition features the works of Arthur J. Barbour in the Barn Gallery. Printmaking and Sculpture offers the works of Barbara W. Frazier and Helene Hirmes in the West Wing Gallery. Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4:30 P.M., with a reception next Sunday, 2 to 4 P.M. Sloatsburg Road, Ringwood. (201) 962-7031. SHEILA NUSSBAUM GALLERY New Insights -- Rising Talent, an exhibition of the work of John Bingham, glass craftsman; Andrew Braitman, painter, and Lisa Gralnick, metal- smith. Through July 8. Monday through Wednesday and Friday and Saturday, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M., and Thursday, 10 A.M. to 8 P.M. 341 Millburn Avenue, Millburn. (201) 467-1720. SHOE-STRING GALLERY Presence by Absence, paintings by Peter Siegel. Starts today with an opening reception from 3 to 6 P.M. Saturday, 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. or by appointment. 111 First Street, Jersey City. (201) 420-5018. STONY BROOK-MILLSTONE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION Naturescape, an exhibition of paintings by Christina Allen, Sarah Antin and Guy Ciarcia. Through July 22. Wednesday through Friday, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Saturday, 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. Titus Mill Road, Hopewell Township. (609) 737-7592. SWAIN GALLERIES Recent Works, oils by Brian Townsend. Through July 20. Tuesday through Friday, 9:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M., and Saturday, 9:30 A.M. to 4 P.M. 703 Watchung Avenue, Plainfield. (908) 756-1707. UNTITLED (#130), LTD Intro Art -- Childrens Art Exhibit. Through next Sunday. Gallery hours: Friday, 1 to 9 P.M.; Saturday, 10 A.M. to 7 P.M., and Sunday, noon to 5 P.M. 130 Ryerson Avenue, Wayne. (201) 633-6767. WILLIAMS GALLERY The Changing Landscape: Contemporary Interpretations of Landscape Painting and Photography, by David Scott Leibowitz, Marlene Lenker and Rena Segal. Through July 8. Tuesday through Saturday, 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. 8 Chambers Street, Princeton. (609) 921-1142. ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM More than 100 prints document Printmaking in America from 1960 to 1990. Drawn from private collections and museums around the country, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Roger Brown and others. Through today. Free. Tuesday through Friday, 10 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 P.M. Rutgers, corner of George and Hamilton Streets, New Brunswick. (908) 932-7237. SPOKEN WORD BELLEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY Linda Heimall, an opera singer, gives a lecture on Opera Becomes Real Verismo. Wednesday at 7:30 P.M. Free. 221 Washington Avenue, Belleville. (201) 450-3434. BROOKDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE New Jersey Politics in 1995 -- What Is Right and What Is Wrong? with Tom Bryne, state Democratic chairman; Virginia Littell, state Republican chairwoman, and Bobbi Horowitz, president of Hands Across New Jersey. Next Sunday at 7:30 P.M. Free. Newman Springs Road, Lincroft. (908) 536-9078. CROSSROADS THEATER COMPANY Azimi Collections presents an art show and lecture series featuring African and African-American artists. The exhibition begins today with a reception from 3 to 8 P.M. Lectures include How to Assure Longevity in African- American Arts, with Alonzo Adamson, on Tuesday at 7 P.M.; An Eye for Jazz, an Ear for Art, with Verna Hart, on Thursday at 7 P.M. and Art as Metaphor -- Verbal and Visual Imagery in Contemporary African Art, with Ibitayo A. Ojomo, on Saturday at 3 P.M. Free. 7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. (609) 259-9705. ENGLEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY Gerald Drasheff, the manager of public safety planning for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, will discuss Building a Stronger Future, with a historical overview of the Port Authoritys bridges, tunnels, airports and the World Trade Center. Free. 31 Engle Street, Englewood. (201) 568-2215. PARENTS PLACE Beyond Motherhood: Womens Work in Womens Words focuses on the concerns of women who are trying to combine career and family. Tueday at 8 P.M. Admission: $10. 1 Munn Street, Montclair. (201) 744-0734. RIVER EDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY Wayne Russell presents a color slide presentation of New Zealand in the first of a series of monthly armchair travel programs. Thursday at 2:30 P.M. Free. Elm and Tenney Avenues, River Edge. (201) 261-1663. SOMERSET MEDICAL CENTER A series of lectures on health and medicine includes After Breast Cancer: Fashions for You, Wednesday at 7 P.M. Free. The Brain at Risk, Thursday at 10 A.M. Free. Advance registration required. 110 Rehill Avenue, Somerville. (908) 685-2200. FOR CHILDREN FRELINGHUYSEN ARBORETUM Branching Out will allow children to participate in arts and crafts, get their faces painted, listen to garden stories and munch on vegetable treats passed out by Peter Rabbit. Saturday at 2 P.M. Free. 53 East Hanover Avenue, Morris Township. (201) 326-7627. MEADOW THEATER Behind the Scenes offers a hands-on tour of the theater that will allow children to try on costumes and makeup, operate sound effects and lights, and rehearse and perform a scene on stage. Free. Advance registration is required. Saturday and next Sunday, 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. Galleria Atrium, Bridge Avenue and West Front, Red Bank. (908) 758-0099. NEWARK MUSEUM Cosmic Questions, for ages 6 to 10, at 1 and 3 P.M., and Journey Through Time and Space, for ages 9 and older, at 2 and 4 P.M. Today, Saturday and next Sunday. Adults, $2; children under 12, $1. 49 Washington Street, Newark. (201) 596-6550. NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM Take a simulated flight down the 3,000-mile-long Martian Grand Canyon in Fantastic Sky. Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 3 P.M. Learn about the greenhouse effect and holes in the ozone layer in Spaceship Earth. Saturday and Sunday at 2 P.M. Through July 2. Tickets: $1. 205 West State Street, Trenton. (609) 292-6308. PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE The Gingerbread Players present Beauty and the Beast. Today at 11 A.M. Mozart, Monsters and Matisse combines puppetry and music to tell the tales of Little Blue, Tamino and Dorabella and Why the Willow Weeps. Saturday and next Sunday at 11 A.M. Tickets: $6 and $7. Brookside Drive, Millburn. (201) 376-4343. PARAMUS PUBLIC LIBRARY Bruce Laird presents The Whale Show, a lecture that will tell children ages 4 through 12 everything they ever wanted to know about whales. Tuesday at 3:45 P.M. Free, but registration is required. 116 East Century Road, Paramus. (201) 599-1309. ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM The Rutgers Collection of Original Illustrations for Childrens Literature: Riders Up! Preparing for a Pony Race, an exhibition of photographs and other materials by Barbara Beirne for her book about a young girl and her pony as they prepare for their first race. Through July 31. Tuesday through Friday, 10 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 P.M. Free. Rutgers, corner of George and Hamilton Streets, New Brunswick. (908) 932-7237. ETC. ANNUAL ROCKLAND COUNTY FAIR The celebration of Rockland County continues with a $25 Per Carload admission price on Wednesday and unlimited free rides on Sunday. Daily free entertainment includes Dondi, the comedy elephant; the Zampella Outdoor Thrill Show and Circus and the Razz Matazz magic and illusion show. Through next Sunday. Anthony Wayne State Park, off Exit 17 of the Palisades Interstate Parkway. (914) 358-2272. ART CENTER OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY In Watercolor Workshop, led by Johanna Salomon, students will paint a traditional painting from a still-life set-up. Wednesday through Friday, 7:30 to 10:30 P.M. Fee: $100; advance registration is required. 250 Center Street, New Milford. (201) 599-2992. CONGREGATION BNAI TIKVAH Its that time of the year again: garage sale time. The public is invited to come and sift through a collection of the congregations treasures and cast-offs. Next Sunday, 9 A.M. to 1 P.M. Finnegans Lane, just west of the intersection of Route 1, North Brunswick. (98) 297-0696. COUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS A mini-foreign film festival with The Revolt of Jon on Friday and Sweetie next Friday. All show times 8 P.M. Tickets: $3. Dragonetti Auditorium in the Student Center, 214 Center Grove Road, Randolph. (201) 328-5024. DINNER AND THEATER The $42 ticket price includes a four-course meal and Deep Space Noir, an interactive and futuristic detective story. Saturdays, 8 P.M. Il Giardino Restaurant. 41 Ridgedale Avenue, Cedar Knolls. (201) 301-0562. GARDEN STATE ARTS CENTER The 1995 Spring Heritage Festivals conclude with the Irish Heritage Festival next Sunday. A piping competition with 20 piping bands from the tritate area starts the day off at 9 A.M. Other activities include an Irish shopping village with sweaters, crystal, food and other imported goods. The Celtic Cross, Richie OShea, Willie Lynch and Mike Bryne perform in the mall at noon. Tickets: $10. Exit 16 on the Garden State Park Way, Holmdel. (908) 442-9200. GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP The Monmouth County Park System is host to the 1995 U.S. Womens Amateur Public Links Championship, in which 132 golfers will tee off in practice rounds on Monday and Tuesday. Competition play begins on Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 A.M. and noon, and quarterfinal and semifinal rounds will be on Friday at 7 A.M. and noon, and Saturday at 7:30 A.M. and 12:30 P.M. The championship tournament will be held next Sunday at 12:45 P.M. Free. Harmony Hill Golf Course, Mercer Road in Colts Neck. (908) 462-9222. GREATER NEW JERSEY STAMP EXPO A chance to learn about postal history and purchase stamps, postcards, postal supplies and other memorabilia. Saturday, 10 A.M. to 5:30 P.M., and next Sunday, 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. Admission: $2. Holiday Inn Springfield, Route 22 West, Springfield. (201) 379-3779. NEW JERSEY FILM FESTIVAL Latcho Drom, Friday, and The Last Klezmer, Saturday. All show times 7 P.M. Tickets: $4. Rutgers University in New Brunswick, College Avenue campus, Milledoler Hall, George Street and Seminary Place. (908) 932-8482.
From Sydney To the Bronx, the Winners
ARCHERY U.S. Target Mens Olympic Bow: Richard Johnson, Woodstock, Conn. Womens Olympic Bow: Karen Scavotto, Enfield, Conn. Mens Compound Bow: Dave Cousins, Westbrooke, Me. Womens Compound Bow: Christie Bisco, Raymond, Me. U.S. Intercollegiate Team: Texas A&M. Mens Olympic Bow: Christopher Shull, Texas A&M. Womens Olympic Bow: Jessica Carlson, Michigan State. Mens Compound Bow: Caleb Heller, James Madison. Womens Compound Bow: Sally Wunderle, Eastern Illinois. Mens Olympic Bow Team: Texas A&M. Womens Olympic Bow Team: Texas A&M. Mens Compound Bow Team: James Madison. Womens Compound Bow Team: Texas A&M.
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