Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Sunday, June 7.
Caveat gives this political-cabaret premise the right scrappy scale, more pointed than the day's standard comedy bills.
Anthology's Akerman-adjacent Sunday slot is for cinephiles who want the afternoon to feel like a precise archival choice.
The spare title and small venue make this feel like a literary Sunday passed hand to hand, not a broad bookstore stop.
An open-stage burlesque slot at QED feels small, local, and deliberately off the main Manhattan nightlife path.
This is the better kind of bookstore event: specific voices, Pride timing, and a neighborhood venue with a real reading crowd.
A live album recording gives this comedy slot a one-night reason to exist beyond the usual open-mic churn.
Wonderville is the natural habitat for something called Scrapeboard, with the event reading more like a playable oddity than a normal show.
The title alone points toward a stranger media-history corner, and Anthology is exactly where that kind of program belongs.
A hashtagged sports-show comedy premise in the BCC Pig Pen is niche enough to beat the safer stand-up options.
A late Close Up set that turns toward a jam has the after-hours musician energy this list should surface.