Things to do in New York City on Thursday 29 October

XSW: Frighting Spirit, spooky live pro wrestling.

Silent film classic with a live organ score.

Tomodachi! Concert

The Good Time: improv by Second City and iO veterans.

Panel on the future of Black children.

Comedy, then meet-and-greet chats for 21+.

Wayfinding: Señas del Camino, devised theatre piece.

Queer and trans writers read new work at an open mic.

Thursday Action: four-round rapid chess tournament.

Masquerade: immersive Phantom of the Opera musical.

Jeremiah Chiu: synth music for his album Edge Conditions.

Carousel: comics performance and picture show.

No Nos Merecemos Soñar: absurdist tragicomedy with music.

Noe Socha: new album, guitar and harp.

Virginia, Karanović's film on gender in 19th-century Serbia.

Intimate Fragments: a smutty trans and queer open mic.

Book talk with author Holly EJ Black.

Malachi Provenzano, violin: Beethoven, Stravinsky and Bach.

The Lion King: the Broadway musical with Elton John's songs.

MJ: Broadway musical about Michael Jackson's Dangerous Tour.

The Unbelievers: Nick Payne's new play, with Lauren Ambrose.

YHWH Nailgun: noise rock live, with Samba Jean-Baptiste.

Danny Lipsitz & His Brass Tacks: jazz, swing and klezmer.

School Pictures, a solo musical by Milo Cramer.

Psycho: a deadly secret at the Bates Motel.

Hendrik Meurkens Quintet: jazz with Steve Davis.

Pop Crypt New York: immersive, genre-bending pop show.

Sense and Sensibility, a Jane Austen romance on film.

Starstuff: whimsical cosmic theatre.

Vampire in Brooklyn on screen: costume contest and laughs.

Youl Sun, Piano: recital of Debussy and Liszt.

Laugh & Run: a group run with stand-up comedy.

Grieg's Piano Concerto with pianist Per Tengstrand.

Anthracite Fields, an oratorio on coal miners.

Slander Factory Comedy: free stand-up hosted by Greg Gettle.

Duduka Da Fonseca & Trio Universal: Brazilian jazz.

Macabéa: Suzanne Farrin's new opera on Lispector's novel.

Helder Guimarães' solo show The Hope Theory.

Bang on a Can All-Stars play Wolfe's coal-mining oratorio.

Orchestra in Miniature: classical duets up close.