Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Friday, June 12.
House of Yes makes the Pride-edition circus frame feel properly excessive, theatrical, and a little off the usual concert grid.
Brakhage at Anthology is a pure experimental-film detour, narrow in exactly the way this list can use.
A legal-wordplay cabaret at Caveat sounds like a niche joke carried all the way into a full evening.
Millennium Film Workshop keeps this personal-cinema program in a small, artist-run lane that feels discovered rather than packaged.
PAGEANT is built for this sort of slippery performance title, where dance and downtown experiment meet without overexplaining themselves.
A neo-noir cabaret at The Red Pavilion has a pulpy, Chinatown-night specificity that the broader theater listings do not.
The clown-edition tag gives this PIT slot a clearer oddball shape than another general comedy showcase.
Close Up's late set-and-session format lets the trio stretch past concert mode into something more musician-led and unpredictable.
A near-midnight solo piano set at Mezzrow is a narrow jazz-head proposition, better for listeners chasing the after-hours thread.
A midnight Evil Dead booking at Nitehawk is the night's clean cult-horror release valve.