SHORTLIST
WEDNESDAY 19 Art Cohen Amador Inaugural Exhibition L.A. gallerist Stephen Cohen (of PhotoLA fair fame) and Paul Amador (formerly the director of
Village Voice
Oct 19, 2005
WEDNESDAY 19
Art
Cohen Amador Inaugural Exhibition L.A. gallerist Stephen Cohen (of PhotoLA fair fame) and Paul Amador (formerly the director of photography at Lyonswier Gallery) open their doors as photo dealers on this coast with a group show that includes work from Amy Arbus, Tracey Snelling, Jessica Todd Harper, Michael Garlington, Han Nguyen, Thomas Kellner, Ida Wyman, Ervin Marton, and many others. (So many others that it may resemble a mini-fair of its own.) At 6:30, through Nov 26, Cohen Amador Gallery, 41 E 57th, 212-759-6740 SNOW
Mitch Epstein Through rock-solid compositions, Epstein heightens the drama of his everyday, everyman narratives: Two boys sneak smokes in a park, with primary colors-blue water, yellow construction girder, bright-red jackets-marking it as a momentous ritual; women on Madison Avenue, inspecting the sidewalk for some mysterious reason, are cropped by a looming shoulder adorned with bright polka dots. Originally shot decades ago, these new, richly saturated prints feel like extravagantly restaged narratives rather than documentary time capsules. Through Sat, Brent Sikkema, 530 W 22nd, 212-929-2262 BAKER
Books
`The Elements of Style: A Performance in Music and Song` The "rich deposits of gold" E.B. White found buried in William Strunk`s Elements of Style have been mined for all they`re worth by this flamboyantly tasteful new edition of the grammarian`s companion, designed and illustrated by Maira Kalman. Blow up its cloth-covered dimensions to musical proportions, and you have a Schoolhouse Rock-sized publicity stunt: Juilliard graduate Nico Muhly`s adorable adaptation (with titles such as "Be Obscure Clearly!"), with viola, banjo, and percussion, so much for understatement. At 7:30, New York Public Library, Rose Main Reading Room, 42nd and Fifth Ave, 212-868-4444 BLUMENKRANZ
Dance
American Ballet Theatre A season of gems in an intimate setting gets underway tonight with a gala; tomorrow brings the premiere of Peter Quanz`s new Kaleidoscope, to Saint-Sa毛ns, and Friday sees the company premiere of Kurt Jooss`s chilling anti-war ballet, The Green Table. Other highlights include Mark Morris`s Gong, George Balanchine`s Apollo, Jerome Robbins`s Afternoon of a Faun, and Twyla Tharp`s In the Upper Room. At 7, Thu & Tue at 7:30, Fri at 8, Sat at 2 & 8, Sun at 2, through Nov 6, New York City Center, 135 W 55th, 212-581-1212 ZIMMER
Film
`Gabrielle` The most mysterious (and maybe the greatest) film actress of her generation turns 50. There are a dozen Isabelle Huppert vehicles in this mini retro and the kickoff movie, Patrice Ch茅reau`s recent adaptation of a startlingly Henry James-like Conrad story, is among the best. At 6, Museum of Modem Art, 11 W 53rd, 212-708-9480 HOBERMAN
`Ushpizin` Mining a vein of Jewish humor not often seen in movies, this religious parable is set among Jerusalem`s present-day Hasidim. A poor, affectionately bickering couple pray for a miracle and receive a pair of unexpected guests. Ushpizin has a disarming folk quality. Although the protagonist`s I-Thou relationship is never cloyingly cozy, it`s abundantly clear that the movie`s ending proves the existence of his deity-at least to him. Opens today, Landmark Sunshine Cinema, 143 E Houston, 212-330-8182 HOBERMAN
Music
Charles Tolliuer Big Band The `70s big band that evolved out of Tolliver and Stanley Cowell`s Music Inc. and recorded for Strata-East was one of its era`s boldest ensembles, with blistering solos and engrossing writing. The trumpeter is back with another big band, and word is it`s a match for the first. And soloists? Start with Tolliver, Billy Harper, Craig Handy, and John Hicks. Through Sun at 7:30 & 9:30, Fri & Sat at 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30, Jazz Standard, 116 E 27th, 212-576-2232 DAVIS
Death Cab for Cutie Disappointed that Death Cab`s Plans didn`t bring the alt-rock bombast? Clearly you haven`t been listening: Over the past seven years these mild-mannered Seattle dudes have made a virtue out of not upending expectations; their lovely major-label debut simply proves that Ben Gibbard`s well of minorkey melancholy may be as deep as his newly lined pockets. With pretty Australian dream-popsters Youth Group on Wednesday and arch Canadian electro-nerds Stars on Thursday. At 6:30, through Thu, Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 W 34th, 212-485-1534 WOOD
Theater
`The High life` The fabled songwriting team of Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz had an unhappy Broadway reunion with this lush, bittersweet-romantic 1961 musical based on Schnitzler`s Anatol plays, sunk by miscasting, a soggy book, and a misleading title (it was called The Gay Life then). This staged concert version by Musicals Tonight should demonstrate that Dietz and Schwartz still had the stuff. Through Oct 30, 45th Street Theater, 354 W 45th, 212-362-5620 FEINCOLD
THURSDAY 20
Music
Devendra Banhart and Hairy Fairy+Bunny Brains Banhart`s new Cripple Crow is his Sunshine Superman or Bringin` It All Back Home: Electric guitars, George Harrison-like `70s classic-rock, Bobby Charles-esque swamp pop, psychedelic chamber-folk, and Gilberto cum Caetono Latin jams bring his somber twilight songs out of the woods and onto the front perch for Sunday morning breakfast with friends. Tonight, friends Hairy Fairy from the album back him. Bunny Brains are an odd opener as their sloppy, jokey, noise-boogie hare-metal has little to do with the usual freakfolk menagerie. Also: Tarantula A.D. At 7:30, Webster Hall, 125E 11th, 212-353-1600 BOSLER
Open City
Big Apple Circus The most satisfying, fun-for-all autumn outing is two hours under the soaring "big top" at Damrosch Park. The city`s homegrown one-ring circus, founded and still directed by Paul Binder, offers its 28th annual show, this season titled Grandma Goes to Hollywood. Grandma`s the brilliant clown Barry Lubin, a classic Jewish bubbe with a thirst for adventure, which she finds among the Russian trapeze artists and jugglers, Chinese acrobats, Chilean dogs, and English horses, not to mention other clowns from all over and Broadway belter Kathy Halenda. Vicki Davis choreographs. At 6:30, and other dates and times through Jan 8, Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, 62nd btwn Columbus & Amsterdam aves, 212-721-6500 ZIMMER
FRIDAY 21
Film
`A Centenary of Chinese Cinema1 There are all manner of discoveries to be made in this three-week series. Given that this is diva week, the opening film, Goddess-a silent feature from 1934, showing with live accompaniment-stars the legendary Ruan Lingyu (played by Maggie Cheung in Stanley Kwan`s Actress) in her most celebrated role. Through Nov 10, Walter Reade, 165 W 65th, 212-875-5600 HOBERMAN
`When a Woman Ascends the Stairs` The first New York retro devoted to the great Mikio Naruse-Ozu and Mizoguchi`s brilliant, downbeat peer-opens with the Japanese director`s magnificent 1960 melodrama. An elegant essay in black-and-white CinemaScope and tinkling cocktail jazz, this tale of a bar hostess`s attempt to escape her lot could give heartbreak lessons to Fassbinder and Sirk. Through Mon, Film Forum, 209 W Houston, 212-727-8110 HOBERMAN
Music
The Rapture These cold-blooded Brooklyn funk-punks put out the best dance single of 2003 ("House of Jealous Lovers") and a great rock album that same year (Echoes), toured long, then hibernated longer. Two "warm-up gigs" and a thousand votive candles later, the Rapture officially debut their new material: tighter songwriting, better vocal melodies, their most soulful and footworthy grooves to date. At 9, Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey, 212-533-2111 SYLVESTER
Theater
`Bingo` Don`t be mistaken-this new musical is definitely not Edward Bond`s famously bitter play about Shakespeare. In fact, it may be exactly what Bond was dreading: The interactive show takes place in a church hall where ladies match the caller`s numbers to the ones on their cards, and you get to play along. You never know, though: With fellow contestants as appealing as Ann Crumb, Chevi Colton, Liz Larsen, Liz McCartney, and Janet Metz, the show might even contain a prize. Previews begin tonight, opens Nov 7, St. Luke`s Theater, 308 W 46th, 212-239-6200 FDNGOLD
SATURDAY 22
Music
ReBirth Brass Band The Big Easy may have fallen on hard times, but native New Orleans acts like ReBirth Brass Band are keeping the city`s distinctive spirit strong. Touring even more relentlessly than normal, recent months have found this booty-shakin` funk band touring across the Midwest and in their good neighbor state, Texas. Now New York City gets a taste with this late-night gig. At midnight, B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, 237 W 42nd, 212-997-4144 ROTHMAN
SUNDAY 23
Film
`Wanda` The ubiquitous Isabelle Huppert, currently appearing at BAM and feted by MOMA, selected and will introduce this too rarely screened feature written and directed by the late Barbara Loden. A sort of neorealist, echt `60s psychodrama, Loden presents herself as a newly divorced woman on the road in America. At 5:30, BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave, Bklyn, 718-636-4100 HOBERMAN
MONDAY 24
Books
Joan Didion Didion`s latest book is a meticulous chronicle of a wretched spell that began on December 30, 2003, when her husband, John Gregory Dunne, died of a massive coronary in their Upper East Side apartment while their only child, Quintana Roo, lay unconscious in an ICU nearby. The bereft wife and mother, also the most disciplined of journalists, steadies herself with information. The Year of Magical Thinking is a survivor`s manual that understands all too well the limits of its usefulness. At 7, Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 W 21st, 212-255-1105 LIM
Theater
`Mrs. Warren`s Profession` It was so shocking a century ago that the NYPD arrested everybody involved, including the ticket taker, but today Bernard Shaw`s mordant comedy about what women have to go through for economic equality packs dramatic punch without any lurid frissons. This reading, celebrating the centennial of Shaw`s brush with the Vice Squad, features esteemed Dana Ivey in the title role. At 6, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plz, 212-870-1630 FEINGOLD
TUESDAY 25
Art
`Solidarity`s 25th Anniversary` Poland is justly famous for graphic design, and this sidewalk exhibit documenting the freedom-fighting union confirms that sometimes banners and posters are mightier than the sword (or sickle, in this case). Also included are Time magazine cover photos of the confrontation between Polish independence and Soviet repression-vivid images of the Lenin Shipyard workers arrayed before striped walls, flags, and iron bars-and frontpage reproductions from major U.S. newspapers detailing the home-front union buster Ronald Reagan`s rhetorical gyrations praising Eastern Bloc strikers as bastions of democracy. Through Oct 27, southwest corner of Union Square BAKER
Books
Alan Hollinghurst Woe to Nick Guest, the callow, social-climbing grad student of The Line of Beauty, who is writing a dissertation on "style" in Henry James`s late novels, yet ignores the Master`s warnings about innocence doomed. Hollinghurst`s Booker winner illuminates the glossy optimism of the cocaine decade, even as it exposes the reckless vanity behind the wide lapels. It`s a beautiful book about ugly people. At 7, 192 Books, 192 Tenth Ave, 212-255-4022 STRONG
Music
Miguel Zen贸n Don`t be shocked to see the Puerto Rican saxophonist`s J铆baro on a few "best of the year" lists; the kind of agility and assurance he brings to the table can be captivating. Zenon `s quartet is expert at messing with dynamics. An explosion here, a hush there-in cahoots with pianist Luis Perdomo he establishes some feisty drama on the bandstand. At 7:30 & 9:30, through Oct 26, Jazz Standard, 116 E 27th, 212-576-2232 MACNIE
Theater
`The Maid`s Tragedy` Jacobean romanticism hit one of its peaks in this rarely seen 1611 drama by Beaumont and Fletcher, about a courtier who has to jilt his best friend`s sister to marry by royal command. Things turn bloody, but you`ll be spared the gore in this staged reading, part of Red Bull Theatre`s Revelation Readings series. Michael Stuhlbarg, freshly out from under The Pillowman`s title prop, reads one of the leads. At 7, Culture Project, 45 Bleecker, 212-414-5168 FEINGOLD
`Songs From Shaw` Continuing the NYPL celebration of Shaw, a quartet of young singers, accompanied by pianist Robert Rogers, offers a program of songs from Shavian musicals, of which there may be more than you realize, starting with the not-quite-legal adaptation of Arms and the Man into The Chocolate Soldier. Even though he and Hammerstein failed to get the rights to Pygmalion, don`t be surprised if Richard Rodgers`s name turns up on the program. At 3, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plz, 212-870-1630 FEINGOLD
ILLUSTRATIONS
A photo from the Polish independence sidewalk exhibit, "Solidarity`s 25th Anniversary" (see Tuesday).
COPYRIGHT: Copyright Village Voice Oct 19-Oct 25, 2005. Provided by Proquest- CSA, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Only fair use as provided by the United States copyright law is permitted.
PROQUEST-CSA, LLC- MAKES NO WARRANTY REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF THE LICENSED MATERIALS OR ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
Art
Cohen Amador Inaugural Exhibition L.A. gallerist Stephen Cohen (of PhotoLA fair fame) and Paul Amador (formerly the director of photography at Lyonswier Gallery) open their doors as photo dealers on this coast with a group show that includes work from Amy Arbus, Tracey Snelling, Jessica Todd Harper, Michael Garlington, Han Nguyen, Thomas Kellner, Ida Wyman, Ervin Marton, and many others. (So many others that it may resemble a mini-fair of its own.) At 6:30, through Nov 26, Cohen Amador Gallery, 41 E 57th, 212-759-6740 SNOW
Mitch Epstein Through rock-solid compositions, Epstein heightens the drama of his everyday, everyman narratives: Two boys sneak smokes in a park, with primary colors-blue water, yellow construction girder, bright-red jackets-marking it as a momentous ritual; women on Madison Avenue, inspecting the sidewalk for some mysterious reason, are cropped by a looming shoulder adorned with bright polka dots. Originally shot decades ago, these new, richly saturated prints feel like extravagantly restaged narratives rather than documentary time capsules. Through Sat, Brent Sikkema, 530 W 22nd, 212-929-2262 BAKER
Books
`The Elements of Style: A Performance in Music and Song` The "rich deposits of gold" E.B. White found buried in William Strunk`s Elements of Style have been mined for all they`re worth by this flamboyantly tasteful new edition of the grammarian`s companion, designed and illustrated by Maira Kalman. Blow up its cloth-covered dimensions to musical proportions, and you have a Schoolhouse Rock-sized publicity stunt: Juilliard graduate Nico Muhly`s adorable adaptation (with titles such as "Be Obscure Clearly!"), with viola, banjo, and percussion, so much for understatement. At 7:30, New York Public Library, Rose Main Reading Room, 42nd and Fifth Ave, 212-868-4444 BLUMENKRANZ
Dance
American Ballet Theatre A season of gems in an intimate setting gets underway tonight with a gala; tomorrow brings the premiere of Peter Quanz`s new Kaleidoscope, to Saint-Sa毛ns, and Friday sees the company premiere of Kurt Jooss`s chilling anti-war ballet, The Green Table. Other highlights include Mark Morris`s Gong, George Balanchine`s Apollo, Jerome Robbins`s Afternoon of a Faun, and Twyla Tharp`s In the Upper Room. At 7, Thu & Tue at 7:30, Fri at 8, Sat at 2 & 8, Sun at 2, through Nov 6, New York City Center, 135 W 55th, 212-581-1212 ZIMMER
Film
`Gabrielle` The most mysterious (and maybe the greatest) film actress of her generation turns 50. There are a dozen Isabelle Huppert vehicles in this mini retro and the kickoff movie, Patrice Ch茅reau`s recent adaptation of a startlingly Henry James-like Conrad story, is among the best. At 6, Museum of Modem Art, 11 W 53rd, 212-708-9480 HOBERMAN
`Ushpizin` Mining a vein of Jewish humor not often seen in movies, this religious parable is set among Jerusalem`s present-day Hasidim. A poor, affectionately bickering couple pray for a miracle and receive a pair of unexpected guests. Ushpizin has a disarming folk quality. Although the protagonist`s I-Thou relationship is never cloyingly cozy, it`s abundantly clear that the movie`s ending proves the existence of his deity-at least to him. Opens today, Landmark Sunshine Cinema, 143 E Houston, 212-330-8182 HOBERMAN
Music
Charles Tolliuer Big Band The `70s big band that evolved out of Tolliver and Stanley Cowell`s Music Inc. and recorded for Strata-East was one of its era`s boldest ensembles, with blistering solos and engrossing writing. The trumpeter is back with another big band, and word is it`s a match for the first. And soloists? Start with Tolliver, Billy Harper, Craig Handy, and John Hicks. Through Sun at 7:30 & 9:30, Fri & Sat at 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30, Jazz Standard, 116 E 27th, 212-576-2232 DAVIS
Death Cab for Cutie Disappointed that Death Cab`s Plans didn`t bring the alt-rock bombast? Clearly you haven`t been listening: Over the past seven years these mild-mannered Seattle dudes have made a virtue out of not upending expectations; their lovely major-label debut simply proves that Ben Gibbard`s well of minorkey melancholy may be as deep as his newly lined pockets. With pretty Australian dream-popsters Youth Group on Wednesday and arch Canadian electro-nerds Stars on Thursday. At 6:30, through Thu, Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 W 34th, 212-485-1534 WOOD
Theater
`The High life` The fabled songwriting team of Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz had an unhappy Broadway reunion with this lush, bittersweet-romantic 1961 musical based on Schnitzler`s Anatol plays, sunk by miscasting, a soggy book, and a misleading title (it was called The Gay Life then). This staged concert version by Musicals Tonight should demonstrate that Dietz and Schwartz still had the stuff. Through Oct 30, 45th Street Theater, 354 W 45th, 212-362-5620 FEINCOLD
THURSDAY 20
Music
Devendra Banhart and Hairy Fairy+Bunny Brains Banhart`s new Cripple Crow is his Sunshine Superman or Bringin` It All Back Home: Electric guitars, George Harrison-like `70s classic-rock, Bobby Charles-esque swamp pop, psychedelic chamber-folk, and Gilberto cum Caetono Latin jams bring his somber twilight songs out of the woods and onto the front perch for Sunday morning breakfast with friends. Tonight, friends Hairy Fairy from the album back him. Bunny Brains are an odd opener as their sloppy, jokey, noise-boogie hare-metal has little to do with the usual freakfolk menagerie. Also: Tarantula A.D. At 7:30, Webster Hall, 125E 11th, 212-353-1600 BOSLER
Open City
Big Apple Circus The most satisfying, fun-for-all autumn outing is two hours under the soaring "big top" at Damrosch Park. The city`s homegrown one-ring circus, founded and still directed by Paul Binder, offers its 28th annual show, this season titled Grandma Goes to Hollywood. Grandma`s the brilliant clown Barry Lubin, a classic Jewish bubbe with a thirst for adventure, which she finds among the Russian trapeze artists and jugglers, Chinese acrobats, Chilean dogs, and English horses, not to mention other clowns from all over and Broadway belter Kathy Halenda. Vicki Davis choreographs. At 6:30, and other dates and times through Jan 8, Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, 62nd btwn Columbus & Amsterdam aves, 212-721-6500 ZIMMER
FRIDAY 21
Film
`A Centenary of Chinese Cinema1 There are all manner of discoveries to be made in this three-week series. Given that this is diva week, the opening film, Goddess-a silent feature from 1934, showing with live accompaniment-stars the legendary Ruan Lingyu (played by Maggie Cheung in Stanley Kwan`s Actress) in her most celebrated role. Through Nov 10, Walter Reade, 165 W 65th, 212-875-5600 HOBERMAN
`When a Woman Ascends the Stairs` The first New York retro devoted to the great Mikio Naruse-Ozu and Mizoguchi`s brilliant, downbeat peer-opens with the Japanese director`s magnificent 1960 melodrama. An elegant essay in black-and-white CinemaScope and tinkling cocktail jazz, this tale of a bar hostess`s attempt to escape her lot could give heartbreak lessons to Fassbinder and Sirk. Through Mon, Film Forum, 209 W Houston, 212-727-8110 HOBERMAN
Music
The Rapture These cold-blooded Brooklyn funk-punks put out the best dance single of 2003 ("House of Jealous Lovers") and a great rock album that same year (Echoes), toured long, then hibernated longer. Two "warm-up gigs" and a thousand votive candles later, the Rapture officially debut their new material: tighter songwriting, better vocal melodies, their most soulful and footworthy grooves to date. At 9, Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey, 212-533-2111 SYLVESTER
Theater
`Bingo` Don`t be mistaken-this new musical is definitely not Edward Bond`s famously bitter play about Shakespeare. In fact, it may be exactly what Bond was dreading: The interactive show takes place in a church hall where ladies match the caller`s numbers to the ones on their cards, and you get to play along. You never know, though: With fellow contestants as appealing as Ann Crumb, Chevi Colton, Liz Larsen, Liz McCartney, and Janet Metz, the show might even contain a prize. Previews begin tonight, opens Nov 7, St. Luke`s Theater, 308 W 46th, 212-239-6200 FDNGOLD
SATURDAY 22
Music
ReBirth Brass Band The Big Easy may have fallen on hard times, but native New Orleans acts like ReBirth Brass Band are keeping the city`s distinctive spirit strong. Touring even more relentlessly than normal, recent months have found this booty-shakin` funk band touring across the Midwest and in their good neighbor state, Texas. Now New York City gets a taste with this late-night gig. At midnight, B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, 237 W 42nd, 212-997-4144 ROTHMAN
SUNDAY 23
Film
`Wanda` The ubiquitous Isabelle Huppert, currently appearing at BAM and feted by MOMA, selected and will introduce this too rarely screened feature written and directed by the late Barbara Loden. A sort of neorealist, echt `60s psychodrama, Loden presents herself as a newly divorced woman on the road in America. At 5:30, BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave, Bklyn, 718-636-4100 HOBERMAN
MONDAY 24
Books
Joan Didion Didion`s latest book is a meticulous chronicle of a wretched spell that began on December 30, 2003, when her husband, John Gregory Dunne, died of a massive coronary in their Upper East Side apartment while their only child, Quintana Roo, lay unconscious in an ICU nearby. The bereft wife and mother, also the most disciplined of journalists, steadies herself with information. The Year of Magical Thinking is a survivor`s manual that understands all too well the limits of its usefulness. At 7, Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 W 21st, 212-255-1105 LIM
Theater
`Mrs. Warren`s Profession` It was so shocking a century ago that the NYPD arrested everybody involved, including the ticket taker, but today Bernard Shaw`s mordant comedy about what women have to go through for economic equality packs dramatic punch without any lurid frissons. This reading, celebrating the centennial of Shaw`s brush with the Vice Squad, features esteemed Dana Ivey in the title role. At 6, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plz, 212-870-1630 FEINGOLD
TUESDAY 25
Art
`Solidarity`s 25th Anniversary` Poland is justly famous for graphic design, and this sidewalk exhibit documenting the freedom-fighting union confirms that sometimes banners and posters are mightier than the sword (or sickle, in this case). Also included are Time magazine cover photos of the confrontation between Polish independence and Soviet repression-vivid images of the Lenin Shipyard workers arrayed before striped walls, flags, and iron bars-and frontpage reproductions from major U.S. newspapers detailing the home-front union buster Ronald Reagan`s rhetorical gyrations praising Eastern Bloc strikers as bastions of democracy. Through Oct 27, southwest corner of Union Square BAKER
Books
Alan Hollinghurst Woe to Nick Guest, the callow, social-climbing grad student of The Line of Beauty, who is writing a dissertation on "style" in Henry James`s late novels, yet ignores the Master`s warnings about innocence doomed. Hollinghurst`s Booker winner illuminates the glossy optimism of the cocaine decade, even as it exposes the reckless vanity behind the wide lapels. It`s a beautiful book about ugly people. At 7, 192 Books, 192 Tenth Ave, 212-255-4022 STRONG
Music
Miguel Zen贸n Don`t be shocked to see the Puerto Rican saxophonist`s J铆baro on a few "best of the year" lists; the kind of agility and assurance he brings to the table can be captivating. Zenon `s quartet is expert at messing with dynamics. An explosion here, a hush there-in cahoots with pianist Luis Perdomo he establishes some feisty drama on the bandstand. At 7:30 & 9:30, through Oct 26, Jazz Standard, 116 E 27th, 212-576-2232 MACNIE
Theater
`The Maid`s Tragedy` Jacobean romanticism hit one of its peaks in this rarely seen 1611 drama by Beaumont and Fletcher, about a courtier who has to jilt his best friend`s sister to marry by royal command. Things turn bloody, but you`ll be spared the gore in this staged reading, part of Red Bull Theatre`s Revelation Readings series. Michael Stuhlbarg, freshly out from under The Pillowman`s title prop, reads one of the leads. At 7, Culture Project, 45 Bleecker, 212-414-5168 FEINGOLD
`Songs From Shaw` Continuing the NYPL celebration of Shaw, a quartet of young singers, accompanied by pianist Robert Rogers, offers a program of songs from Shavian musicals, of which there may be more than you realize, starting with the not-quite-legal adaptation of Arms and the Man into The Chocolate Soldier. Even though he and Hammerstein failed to get the rights to Pygmalion, don`t be surprised if Richard Rodgers`s name turns up on the program. At 3, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plz, 212-870-1630 FEINGOLD
ILLUSTRATIONS
A photo from the Polish independence sidewalk exhibit, "Solidarity`s 25th Anniversary" (see Tuesday).
COPYRIGHT: Copyright Village Voice Oct 19-Oct 25, 2005. Provided by Proquest- CSA, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Only fair use as provided by the United States copyright law is permitted.
PROQUEST-CSA, LLC- MAKES NO WARRANTY REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF THE LICENSED MATERIALS OR ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
