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The Winslow Boy American Airlines Theatre : 8:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until December 1; 2:00 p.m. every Wed., Sat., Sun. until December 1
The Old Vic in London has brought some thrilling productions to New York, including last year’s Richard III at BAM, starring Kevin Spacey—who is also the Old Vic’s artistic director. Now they’re teaming up with Roundabout Theatre Company for a revival of Terence... More >>
West 40s	Theater, Broadway: Opening

Nine Inch Nails+Godspeed You! Black Emperor Barclays Center : 8:00 p.m. October 14
Back in gear after a several year absence, the visceral nature of early Nine Inch Nails has given way to something more rewardingly cerebral. Reunion album Hesitation Marks plays like the sonic equivalent of a long, winding tour through fossilized wormwood. Life may not have frontman Trent... More >>
Brooklyn	Music

Vanessa Carlton Highline Ballroom : 8:00 p.m. October 15
It's hard to believe that it's been 11 years since the release of Carlton's riveting debut, Be Not Nobody, a record that set the bar high for singer-songwriters in the new millennium. Since then, she's continued to float around pop music both as an artist herself and as an influence on the... More >>
Chelsea	Music

Selena Gomez+Emblem3+Christina Grimmie Barclays Center : 7:00 p.m. October 16
Born in Grand Prairie, Texas, and named after “Dreaming of You” singer Selena, the Wizards of Waverly Place and Spring Breakers actress Selena Gomez has scored four top-10 LPs and gone four times platinum with “Love You Like a Love Song,” all before turning 22. This... More >>
Brooklyn	Music

Savages Terminal 5 : 7:00 p.m. October 16
Savages are an all-female English foursome who approach post-punk with a ferocious feminism that rivals the wildness of the riot grrrl movement. Fairly new on the scene, they only formed at the end of 2011 but have already won plenty of accolades from both fans and press. Expect ceaseless... More >>
West 50s	Music

The Band Perry Roseland Ballroom : 8:00 p.m. October 16
If 2013 goes down as the year of Rick Rubin’s resurgence, with pundits and list-compilers pointing to his work on Kanye’s Yeezus and Eminem’s “Bezerk,” the Band Perry’s Pioneer will be the one that got away, a record that the Def Jam founder was initially... More >>
West 50s	Music

Black Moon+Talib Kweli+Phony Ppl+Smif-n-Wessun+The Underachievers+Res+Cory Mo+Meka Music Hall of Williamsburg : 8:00 p.m. October 16
Though this performance commemorates its 20-year existence, Black Moon’s canonical boom-bap rap album, Enta Da Stage, shouldn’t be regarded as a reliquary for the dry bones of styles bygone. Producers Da Beatminerz assembled the original 14 tracks like verdant terrariums, each with... More >>
Brooklyn	Music

Schoolboy Q+Casey Veggies+The Bots+DJ Sliink+Bishop Nehru+SZA Webster Hall : 8:00 p.m. October 16
Schoolboy Q should not be written off as just a Kendrick Lamar affiliate, as he's far more than merely a name in the Black Hippy crew. 2012's Habits & Contradictions jittered and skittered through samples and beats cribbed from artists like Kid Cudi and Menomena and paired them with Q's... More >>
East Village	Music

Surfer Blood Bowery Ballroom : 9:00 p.m. October 16
When Surfer Blood's Astro Coast hit in 2010, the record felt like Weezer-style grunge rock was having a second coming. What started out as the college musical project of John Paul Pitts turned into one of the indie scene's most promising surf punk bands of the last few years. Though the... More >>
Lower East Side	Music

Tim Berne's Snakeoil Jazz Standard : 7:30 p.m. October 16
In the last couple years, this Brooklyn quartet has brought its keenly designed tumult to plenty of stages, scrutinizing their music's nooks and crannies, beveling its sharp edges, and refining its flow. That’s one reason the new Shadow Man is so impressive—the newfound group... More >>
Murray Hill	Music

'An Evening of Britten and Muhly' w/ Nico Muhly Le Poisson Rouge : 7:30 p.m. October 17
Innovative classical composer Nico Muhly's opera Two Boys has its U.S. premiere this month at the Met, but here he takes time to pay homage to one of his key influences, British Neoclassical composer Benjamin Britten. As part of the Britten centennial celebration, Muhly leads a cadre of... More >>
Greenwich Village	Music

Real Estate Bowery Ballroom : 8:00 p.m. October 17
Essentially a supergroup composed of Alex Bleeker (Alex Bleeker & The Freaks), Matthew Mondanile (Ducktails), Martin Courtney (Titus Andronicus), and Etienne Duguay (Predator Vision), Real Estate makes lackadaisical synth pop, but they do it so well that instead of feeling lazy, the slowness... More >>
Lower East Side	Music

Riff Raff+DJ Sliink+Heems+Lil Debbie Irving Plaza : 7:00 p.m. October 18
With his array of gaudy tattoos, bling, and the accentuated visuals of his videos, Houston rapper Riff Raff might remind you of the colorful fruit-flavored sodas, quarter waters, and cheap candy so characteristic of childhood in the Southern hoods of the U.S., where young people grow up in a... More >>
East Village	Music

The Dismemberment Plan Terminal 5 : 8:00 p.m. October 18
The Dismemberment Plan were the standard bearers of indie rock during the period between the implosion of Pavement in 1999 and the emergence of the Strokes and the White Stripes in 2001. As rock seemed to be on its last legs, the D.C.-based band stumbled upon a sound that funneled their... More >>
West 50s	Music

Father John Misty+Kate Berlant Town Hall : 8:00 p.m. October 18
Former Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tilllman has been touring the bejezus out of 2011's terrific Jonathan Wilson–produced Fear Fun. But there's new material on the way, and this is a solo version, so there will probably be even more amusing banter than usual in-between this ersatz... More >>
West 40s	Music

Fuck Buttons Le Poisson Rouge : 8:00 p.m. October 18
The career of Bristol electronic duo Fuck Buttons has been an odd one. Out of the gate, they swung with a haphazard, noisy approach that was almost hardcore in nature, while on their next outing, they glommed fast to beats. By the 2012 Olympics opening ceremonies and Slow Focus, issued earlier... More >>
Greenwich Village	Music

Aaron Parks Jazz Gallery : 9:00 p.m. October 18
Fans of the pianist’s vivid imagination have been waiting for his solo move, and the impressionistic vibe of the new Arborescence is a sizable payoff. In a recital that stresses a commitment to mood over a show of chops, each of the pieces in his suite-like program are brimming with a... More >>
Tribeca	Music

Bombay Jayashri Carnegie Hall : 2:00 p.m. October 20
One of South Indian classical (Carnatic) music's deepest devotional singers, Jayashri is also the composer and performer of "Pi's Lullaby," from Life of Pi. Beside being immersed in the classical tradition, she was also a renowned Bollywood "playback" singer and has collaborated with Finland's... More >>
Flatiron	Music

Chris Thile Carnegie Hall : 7:30 p.m. October 22
Last year, mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile won a MacArthur fellowship for his ongoing attempts to fuse bluegrass with classical music. If you aren't already familiar with those efforts, you should drop everything immediately and listen to "The Blind Leaving The Blind," the awe-inspiring... More >>
Flatiron	Music

Boys Noize+Jimmy Edgar Output : 10:00 p.m. October 22
Boys Noize is the performing name of German-born Alexander Ridha, a DJ and electronic music producer who also runs and curates the label Boysnoize Records. Blending everything from disco and hip-hop to French electro and house, Ridha has done produced and remixed for artists like Snoop Dogg,... More >>
Brooklyn	Music

Charli XCX+Kitten Irving Plaza : 8:00 p.m. November 13
Charli XCX is on her way to synthpop stardom, and she has only recently turned 21. With a guest spot on one of this year's biggest and most infectious singles, Icona Pops "I Love It," and her own well-received major label debut album True Romance, Charli has found the right time and place to... More >>
East Village	Music

Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play Playwrights Horizons : 8:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri., Sat. until October 20; 2:30 p.m. every Sat., Sun. until October 20; 7:30 p.m. every Sun. until October 20; 7:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed. until October 20
If our current way of life were to be suddenly wiped out, what traditions from the past would survivors hold on to? Playwright Anne Washburn explores this scenario in Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, which imagines that, of all things, Bart Simpson would become a vital part of the new... More >>
West 40s	Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing

Ashley Bickerton Lehmann Maupin : 10:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. until October 26
A pioneer of the ’80s Neo-Geo movement (short for neo-geometric conceptualism), along with Jeff Koons, Peter Halley, and Meyer Vaisman, Ashley Bickerton suddenly dropped out of the East Village scene in 1993 and moved to Bali, where he remains two decades later. His latest show, and his... More >>
Lower East Side	Arts, Art - Galleries

ThreeASFOUR The Jewish Museum : 10:00 p.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until February 2
A couple of seasons ago, we attended a ThreeASFOUR presentation in a West Village loft that resembled an underground party more than a Fashion Week event. Designers Gabriel Asfour, Adi Gil, and Angela Donhauser have long remained true to their aesthetic, and they rarely present their shows in a... More >>
East 80s	Fashion and Style, Arts, Art - Galleries

'Lorna's Pink Party' Birdland : 7:00 p.m. every Mon. until October 21
Sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland may not speak, but sisters Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli do. Tonight, they’re speaking and singing together on behalf of the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and the Dr. Philomena McAndrew For Tower Cancer Research Foundation.... More >>
West 40s	Music