 | Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Annual Dance Concert & Pow-Wow |
(Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave, New York, NY 10003) (Fr & Sa 8pm, Su 3pm) Dances, stories and traditional music from the Iroquois and Native Peoples of the Northwest Coast, the Southwest, the Plains, and the Arctic regions.
($10) Event Website Note: this event runs January 27 - 29, and 3 - 5
 | Leakey's Ladies |
(Dixon Place, 161 A Chrystie, (Between Rivington & Delancey), New York, NY 10002) (7:30pm) Drama of Works presents Leakey’s Ladies, a multidisciplinary
exploration of three extraordinary women and the apes they
followed, loved and fought for.
($16/$20 @ door/$12 stu/sen) (212-219-0736) contact@dixonplace.org Event Website Note: this event runs January 12 - 14, 20 - 21, 27 - 28, and 3 - 4
 |  | Homo The Musical |
(Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 1009) (8pm) Gay wrestling! Raucous church choirs! Cheerleader blood baths! Live rock'n'roll and horny suburban housewives all to song and dance! Created by B-Movie filmmaker and NYC’s answer to John Waters, Lola Rock-N-Rolla. Starring Michael Formika Jones, Brandon Olson and many more!
($15) Event Website Note: this event runs January 19 - 21, 26 - 28, and 2 - 4
 |  | Young Jean Lee's |
(Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 W. 37th Street, New York, NY 10018) (8pm-11pm) Six charismatic stars of the downtown theater, dance, cabaret, and burlesque worlds come together to invite the audience on an exhilarating, nearly wordless
journey through expressions of a fluid and limitless sense of identity.
Conceived & directed by Young Jean Lee. Featuring Becca Blackwell, World
Famous *BOB*, Amelia Zirin-Brown, Hilary Clark, Katy Pyle &
Regina Rocke. Choreography by Faye Driscoll, Morgan Gould & Young Jean Lee,
in collaboration with the performers. Please note this performance contains
nudity.
($15-25) Event Website Note: this event runs January 31 - February 4
 |  | Two Step Together - Beginner Boot Camp |
(Chelsea Studios, 151 West 26th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011) (8pm -9pm) Do you want to get started with Two Step? Our Two Step Boot Camp class will get you started with everything you need to hit the dance floor! No experience or partner needed. This four week class will cover the basics of the dance, and a couple of beginner patterns. Meredith Stead is the instructor!
($80) jkolodin@pctutorltd.com Event Website Note: this event runs February 4, 11, 18, and 25
 | 2-For-1 Tickets As Broadway Week |
(See website for details & locations) ON SALE NOW! There's No Business Like Show Business, and there are no excuses when you can get 2-For-1 Tickets at top Broadway Shows! Yes, its time for a bit of culture as many hits including Chicago, The Lion King, Jersey Boys, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Phanton and many more are 2-For-1.
Event Website This event runs January 17 - February 4
 |  | GOB SQUAD'S KITCHEN (You've Never Had It So Good) |
(The Public Theatre, 425 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003) (See website for details) Gob Squad's Kitchen reconstructs Warhol's films in the quest to illuminate the past for a new generation, reflecting on the nature of authenticity, the here and now, and the hidden depths beneath the shiny surfaces of modern life. Gob Squad invites you to take the hand of the King of Pop himself, Andy Warhol, and take a trip back to the underground cinemas of New York City, back to where it all began.
($60) Event Website This event runs January 19 - February 5
 | 20at20 |
(See website for details & locations) (See website for details) Here is your chance to catch up with shows you may have missed, get a sneak peek at the next big show, or revisit a favorite – all for only $20 each!
Just go to the box office of the show you want to see 20 minutes before it begins and say, “20at20” and you’ll get your ticket to a real New York theater experience! See any 7 of the participating 20at20 and receive a FREE voucher for dinner for 2 at an area restaurant!
Event Website This event runs January 18 - February 6
 | Winter Restaurant Week |
(Various Locations) Affordable prix-fixe meals at some of the best restaurants all over town.
Event Website This event runs January 16 - February 10
 | American Songbook |
(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) (Varies) An incredible range of artists. One intimate stage.
($45+) Event Website This event runs January 11 - February 11
 |  | The Confusions of Young Torless |
(The Looking Glass Theatre, 422 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019) (7:30pm) Four boys in a 19th-century Austrian military academy become enmeshed in a web of psychosexual manipulation and abuse in Dorota Krimmel's adaptation of Robert Musil's 1906 novel, codirected by Krimmel and Frank-Thomas Grogan.
($20) Event Website This event runs January 21 - February 11
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(HERE Arts Center, 145 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013) (See website for details) This year’s program features 12 workshop performances spanning topics as varied as civic engagement, human error, music of the spheres, war gaming, and everything in-between.
($15) Event Website This event runs January 24 - February 11
 | Boeing-Boeing |
(Paper Mill Playhouse, 22 Brookside Drivre, Millburn, NJ 07041) (See website for details) Bernard, an American playboy in swinging '60's Paris, juggles three flight attendant fiancees -- one American, one French and one Italian -- he convinces each she is his only love. But then a fast new Boeing jet puts the flight attendants on a collision course and provides the lift-off for laugh after laugh".
($80) Event Website This event runs January 25 - February 12
 |  | HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture |
(Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238) (We - Su opens 11am) Bringing together more than one hundred works in a wide range of media, including paintings, photographs, works on paper, film, and installation art. The exhibition charts the underdocumented role that sexual identity has played in the making of modern art, and highlights the contributions of gay and lesbian artists to American art. HIDE/SEEK presents artists’ responses to the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the AIDS epidemic, and postmodern themes of identity, highlighted with major pieces by artists.
($12/$8 seniors) Event Website This event runs November 18, 2011 - February 12, 2012
 | Park Here |
(201 Mulberry St. between Spring & Kenmare) (noon - 8pm) Park Here is Openhouse Gallery's response to frigid winter. It's
a pop-up park in the heart of Nolita that's blooming
when nothing else is. Plush grass, beautiful
foliage, picnic blankets, oversized bean bags and
hammocks. Blazing fast WiFi, picnic benches, bistro tables
and a smashing playlist. Food and drink vendors, trivia and
movie nights. (FREE)
This event runs December 5, 2011 - February 15, 2012
 | Sistas: The Musical |
(St. Luke’s Theatre, 308 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036) (Sa & Su 4:4:30pm, Th) Sistas is an uplifting musical journey, of a multi-generational African-American Family. The narrative is stitched together using the lyrics of songs that perfectly capture the mood and speaks to the issues of each period and time. I
($29.50+) Event Website This event runs December 1, 2011 - February 26, 2012
 |  | Ice Skating at Bryant Park |
(Bryant Park, 25 West 40th St, New York, NY 10018) (See website for details) Skate FREE while viewing the New York Public Library or a gorgeous outdoor holiday market.
(FREE, $14 skates) Event Website This event runs October 27, 2011 - February 26, 2012
 | 2012 Hot Chocolate Festival |
(City Bakery, 3 West 18th St, New York, NY 10011) Anything and everything for and about our favorite cold weather comfort beverage. All flavors, cultures, techniques, gear and more. Check out the 29 different flavors on their website
Event Website This event runs February 1 - 29
 | How I Learned to Drive |
(2econd Stage Theater, 307 West 43rd St, New York, NY 10036) (See website for details) The show explores the complex relationship between Li'l Bit and her Uncle Peck, as a series of driving lessons progresses from innocence to something much darker. Told with surprising wit, Paula Vogel's acclaimed play is returning to New York City for the first time since its world premiere 15 years ago.
($64+) Event Website This event runs January 24 - February 29
 | Pancake Month! |
(Clinton Street Bakery, 4 Clinton Street, New York, NY 10002) February is pancake month at the bakery, which means they feature a different special pancake flavor every Monday thru Friday, well into the night.
Event Website This event runs February 1 - 29
 | Richard III |
(BAM Harvey Theater, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217) (Varies) Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey owns the stage as Shakespeare’s outrageous villain Richard III. At the climax of the Wars of the Roses, Richard watches his brother ascend the throne of England and confides in us—with all the profound bitterness of an outcast born with a hunchback and malformed leg—his intention to seize the crown.
($30+) Event Website This event runs January 10 - March 4
 | The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs |
(The Public Theatre, 425 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003) (See website for details) Mike Daisey turns his razor-sharp wit to America’s most mysterious technology icon in this hilarious and harrowing tale of pride, beauty, lust, and industrial design. He illuminates how the former CEO of Apple and his obsessions shape our lives, while sharing stories of his own travels to China to investigate the factories where millions toil to make iPhones and iPods. Daisey’s dangerous journey shines a light on our love affair with our devices and the human cost of creating them.
($75+) Event Website This event runs January 31 - March 4
 | Alicia Keys Presents: STICK FLY |
(Cort Theater, 138 West 48th St, New York, NY 10036) (See website for schedule) Stick Fly follows the LeVays, an affluent African American family who come together to spend a weekend at their stately Martha's Vineyard mansion. The adult sons, aspiring novelist Kent and golden boy plastic surgeon Flip, have each brought their respective ladies (one black and one white) to meet the parents. Food, drink and Trivial Pursuit tangle with class, race and identity politics in this contemporary comedy of manners.
($35+) Event Website This event runs December 21, 2011 - March 4, 2012
 | The Road to Mecca |
(American Airlines Theater, 227 West 42nd St, New York, NY 10036) (Varies) The story of an eccentric elderly artist facing mounting pressure to abandon her independent life for a church retirement home. Out of desperation, she calls upon her only confidant, a fiery young teacher from Cape Town. When the village minister arrives to coax out her decision, the three enter a blazing showdown that pits conformity against free expression… faith in community against faith in oneself.
($67+) Event Website This event runs January 17 - March 4
 | Wit - Play |
(Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 West 47th St, New York, NY 10036) (See website for details) Tony Award® and two-time Emmy® Award winner Cynthia Nixon returns to MTC’s Friedman Theatre in Margaret Edson’s modern masterpiece Wit.
Exquisitely written, affecting and often humorous, Wit follows a brilliant and exacting poetry professor as she undergoes experimental treatment for cancer. A scholar who devoted her life to academia, she must now face the irony and injustice of becoming the subject of research.
($57+) Event Website This event runs January 5 - March 11
 |  | Wollman Rink |
(Central Park South, 59th St & 6th Ave) (See website for details) Skating in Central Park at nighttime is a true New York City moment. Music plays, a moon is a plus, but not required since the ice itself gives off a silver sheen.
($10.75 + $6.75 skates) Event Website This event runs November 1, 2011 - March 15, 2012
 |  | "Gran Fury: Read My Lips" |
(80WSE, 80 Washington Sq East, New York, NY 10003) (Tu - Sa 10:30am–6pm) The first comprehensive survey documenting the important AIDS activist art collective's work from 1987-1995.
Naming itself after the model of Plymouth automobile used by the New York City Police Department, Gran Fury made public projects that were simultaneously scathing, provocative, stylish and often quite funny. This exhibition conveys the collective's unique voice across a wide variety of media including billboards, postcards, video, posters and painting. Photographs and records from the period help convey the urgency of the early AIDS crisis that lead many into the streets to demand reforms that changed public policy and saved lives.
Event Website This event runs January 31 - March 17
 | Look Back in Anger |
(Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, 111 West 46th St, New York, NY 10036) (See website for details) As Jimmy Porter, the caustic, charismatic lead character in John Osbourne’s Look Back in Anger, Matthew Rhys is on constant alert, ready to lash out at his young wife, Alison (Sarah Goldberg), and a pair of interlopers in their garbage-strewn flat. For his New York stage debut, Rhys has abandoned the stylish suits he wore as gay lawyer Kevin Walker in TV’s Brothers & Sisters in favor of work pants and shirts carefully ironed on stage by Jimmy’s depressive bride.
($71+) Event Website This event runs February 2 - April 8
 | The Rink at Rockefeller Center |
(Rockefeller Center, 45 Rockefeller Plaza, 5th to 7th Aves, 47 to 51st Sts, New York, NY 10111) A quintessential NYC winter experience for generations. Skate under the watchful eye of Prometheus and the unique urban backdrop of Rockefeller Center's sparkling lights.
($10 + $8 skates) Event Website This event runs October 15, 2011 - April 15, 2012
 | The Metropolitan Opera |
(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) For the fifth season in a row, thanks to a generous gift from The Agnes Varis Trust, 200 orchestra seats are available for each regular Monday through Thursday performance for only $20, 50 of these tickets are set aside for senior citizens. You can purchase Varis Rush Tickets at the Met box office beginning two hours before curtain, subject to availability.
($20) Event Website This event runs September 20, 2011 - April 30, 2012
 | Gershwins' Porgy and Bess |
(Richard Rodgers Theatre, 226 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036) (See website for details) Coming to Broadway in a stunning and stirring new staging, featuring such legendary songs as “Summertime,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” and “I Got Plenty of Nothing,” plus a remarkable cast led by four-time Tony Award(R) winner AUDRA McDONALD (Ragtime, “Private Practice”), Drama Desk nominee NORM LEWIS (Les Misérables, Sondheim on Sondheim), and two-time Tony nominee DAVID ALAN GRIER (Race, “In Living Color”).
($55+) Event Website This event runs December 17, 2011 - July 8, 2012
 | Spiderman Turn Off the Dark |
(Foxwoods Theater, 214 West 43rd St, New York, NY 10019) (Varies) Previews November 14th Opens December 21st. Drawing from over 40 years of Marvel comic books for inspiration, Spiderman - Turn Off The Dark, spins a new take on the mythic tale of Peter Parker, a teenager whose unremarkable life in Queen's is turned upside down - literally - when he's bitten by a genetically altered spider and wakes up the next morning clinging to the ceiling.
Event Website This event runs June 14, 2011 - July 31, 2012
 | Godspell |
(Circle In The Square Theatre, 235 West 50th St, New York, NY 10019) (See website for details) The beloved classic from Stephen Schwartz, the Grammy® and Academy Award®-winning composer of WICKED and PIPPIN. Enjoy all the good gifts of one of the most enduring shows of all time as it comes to Broadway in a brand new, intimately staged, one-of-a-kind production. Raise your spirit with the Tony®-nominated score filled with the popular hits Day By Day, Learn Your Lessons Well and Turn Back, O Man.
($125+) Event Website This event runs November 7, 2011 - September 1, 2012
 |  | Front Runners New York |
Tuesdays at 7pm, 3rd St & Prospect Park West; Wednesdays at 6:45pm, 236 West 73rd St; Saturdays at 9:15am, 236 West 73rd St
Event WebsiteThis event runs Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays
 |  | Metro Wrestling Practices |
(Fighthouse, 122 West 27th St, New York, NY 10001) (5 - 7pm) Metro Wrestling is New York City's gay freestyle wrestling club. Gay, straight, male or female, all are welcome to attend.
Event Website This event runs Saturdays
 | Guided tours of the Chelsea Art Museum |
(Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011) (3 PM) Join us for docent-led tours of our exhibition galleries. Highlighting works from both our permanent collection and our rotating exhibitions, tours are free with museum admission and start from the bookstore.
(Free!) (212 255 0719) carolin@chelseaartmuseum.org Event Website This event runs Saturdays
 |  | Big Apple Ranch |
(Big Apple Ranch, 39 West 19th St, New York, NY 10011) (9PM) Founded in 1997, Big Apple Ranch has hosted a weekly country-western dance for the gay and lesbian community virtually every Saturday night for eleven years. Our huge dance floor welcomes people of all dance-abilities, and our friendly people go out of their way to make sure everyone has a good time and keeps coming back. The Ranch’s growing crowds are proof that the fun of partner dancing is contagious Polish up your boots, and come on and see what all
these cowgirls and cowboys are talking about!!
Event Website This event runs Saturdays
 | Docent Tours in Chelsea Art Museum |
(Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011) (3.00 p.m.) Docent Tours are held in Chelsea Art Museum every Saturday at 3.00 p.m. (free)
This event runs Saturdays
 |  | The Ultimate Drag Off |
(Comix, 353 west 14th street, New York, NY 10014) (10:30pm) Hosted by NYC Sensation Sweetie (Wig Out, Charmed Life, Project Runway, Starbooty), The colorful ‘cast’ of contestants is an ever-changing weekly roster with some of your favorite and undiscovered talent from across the country in a wacky glamour-fest with brainy categories, comedic camp and live musical performances. This laugh out loud romp is a NYC treasure where the audience decides the outcome of the evening and gets to bestow the winner with the coveted ‘Drag Off’ crown!
($25 + 2 drink minimum) Event Website This event runs Saturdays
 |  | The Sweet's Shop Burlesque Show |
(Duane Park, 157 Duane St, New York, NY 10012) (8pm & 10:30pm) A weekly decadent, top-shelf burlesque show at the intimate this supper club with guest host MURRAY HILL and a bevy of burlesque bombshells for the 2011 spring season. Three-course dinner (anything from the menu). Beverages, tax and gratuity are not included. There is no additional cover charge.
($60) Event Website This event runs Saturdays