Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Saturday, May 9.
A Laurel Gitlen show called Lunch Paintings has the dry, oddly specific title energy this list is for.
Symphony Space’s Silent Clowns slot is a Saturday matinee detour for people who still care about old screen comedy.
Halsey McKay’s Rich Jacobs-and-friends framing reads loose, personal, and pleasingly hard to over-explain.
QED turning Madame Web into bad-movie programming is a cleaner joke than most of the day’s comedy listings.
Low Cinema keeps The Gods of Times Square in the pocket where city myth and neighborhood grime overlap.
Purgatory hosting Black Cherry Sideshow sounds like a real back-room Brooklyn bill, not a dressed-up showcase.
C’mon Everybody has the right sense of humor for a title that ridiculous and that pointed.
A neo-noir cabaret at Red Pavilion is the night’s most compact genre collision.
The Tank is exactly where a title like I’ve Arted can stay scrappy instead of becoming cute.
Spectacle’s 10 PM horror-adjacent slot is the cleanest cult-film exit ramp after the main evening.