Lefor-Openo: cute French posters and politics after WWII.
until Sun 21 Feb
Poster House
Free
Things to do in New York City today
Things to do in New York City today, Friday 30 October: 639 events, among them 222 in exhibitions and museums, 75 in concerts, 63 in theatre, 51 in film, 51 in party and club, 40 in comedy and 137 others.
Like everything alive: art on bodies, objects and identity.
until Sat 19 Dec
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
Shimmer: 17 artists imagining a posthuman future.
until Sun 3 Jan
Gladstone Gallery
Martin Puryear: sculpture and drawings.
until Sun 17 Jan
Matthew Marks Gallery
Broken: sculpture fragments from Michelangelo to Bourgeois.
until Sun 24 Jan
Matthew Marks Gallery
Free
The Imaginary Invalid, a Molière comedy starring Bill Irwin.
until Sun 22 Nov
Todd Haimes Theatre
from $69
Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen: musical in a brothel.
until Sun 3 Jan
The Night Egg at the Culture Club
from $49
Puccini's La Bohème: opera live from the Met's stage.
until Thu 29 Apr
Metropolitan Opera
$55
Copperfield!: Dickens as a musical.
until Sun 6 Dec
The Duke on 42nd Street
from $42
Dark Matter U: an exhibition on justice and design.
until Sat 27 Mar
Center for Architecture
Humanist modernity: exhibition on architects the Nowickis.
until Sat 27 Mar
Center for Architecture
Masters of Horror: classic horror films for Halloween.
Fri 30 Oct
Quad Cinema
Anywhere–Everywhere: 300 anonymous snapshots from a century.
until Thu 12 Nov
School of Visual Arts
Free
Elizabeth Murray: studies for the dance work PRESENT TENSE.
until Sun 27 Dec
Gladstone Gallery
Free
A Ghost In Your Ear: immersive horror play in headphones.
until Sat 12 Dec
Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre
from $48
Fall Yoga with The Yoga Room: free hour of yoga.
until Sun 27 Dec
Museum of the Moving Image
Free
Open Movement – Fall 2026: free movement sessions for all.
until Sun 13 Dec
Performance Space 122
Free
Harry Benson: from the Beatles to the presidents.
until Fri 6 Nov
Cavalier Gallery
First Mondays: writers read new work, with Sarah Schulman.
until Mon 7 Jun
Performance Space 122
The Ask: new play with Marilu Henner and Shannon Purser.
until Sun 22 Nov
Theater555
from $62
Bruno Lucchesi: Memorial Exhibition of his sculptures.
until Fri 6 Nov
Cavalier Gallery
A 19th-century home in mourning.
until Sun 1 Nov
Merchant's House Museum
Included with…
Eric Aho: The Meadow's Edge, his Firefly paintings.
until Sat 14 Nov
DC Moore Gallery
A Rosy Fingered Dawn: new paintings by Jocelyn Hobbie.
until Sat 7 Nov
Fredericks & Freiser
Perchance to Dream: royal bedchambers by David Leventi.
until Wed 30 Dec
Rick Wester Fine Art
Open Access: artists rethink 130 years of American design.
until Fri 13 Nov
Van Alen Institute
A Few Good Men: Aaron Sorkin's Broadway courtroom drama.
until Sun 10 Jan
Vivian Beaumont Theater
$134
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the musical.
until Sun 20 Dec
The Public Theater
from $139
The Heart: new musical about a donated heart's gift.
until Sun 6 Dec
The Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
from $68
Saya Woolfalk: The WoodsWoman Method, a utopian exhibition.
until Sun 28 Mar
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Yoshie Sugito's exhibition on migrating pickle jars.
until Wed 4 Nov
NARS Foundation
Hot Dog with Ketchup: Alex Da Corte's public artwork.
until Mon 10 May
Whitney Museum of American Art and 1 more
Free
Portraits of America: group photography show on US identity.
until Tue 10 Nov
Flushing Town Hall
The Met: Live in HD: New York opera, live in cinemas.
until Sat 5 Jun
BAM Rose Cinemas
$8
Rope: Hamilton's thriller, the film Hitchcock made from it.
until Sun 6 Dec
Theatre at St. Clement's
$77
Show Trial: political satire of a staged 1950 trial.
until Sat 7 Nov
The Tank
Ben Quilty: Devil/God, paintings on power and abuse.
until Sat 14 Nov
Albertz Benda Gallery
Waiting for Lefty, Odets' union-hall drama.
until Sun 22 Nov
Classic Stage Company
$59–399
Call and Response: songbooks of social movements.
until Sun 31 Jan
Interference Archive
Calida Rawles: Parallax, paintings on shifting viewpoints.
until Sat 14 Nov
Lehmann Maupin