Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Sunday, June 21.
This Chinese feminist queer open mic is tightly tuned to a specific community and point of view, far from the city's generic showcase circuit.
A two o'clock Smalls jam puts the emphasis on players, regulars, and whatever develops on the bandstand, an unusually loose way into Sunday.
A Spectacle matinee called Fist Church arrives with no need for prestige framing; the title and microcinema setting make the gamble appealing.
A 1927 murder mystery staged as drag at Stonewall piles period theater, camp, and queer history into one gloriously over-specific matinee.
Drag and poetry share the bill at Dada, a hybrid that should move between performance, reading, and neighborhood-night intimacy.
Sleepwalk's experimental series offers a musician-led Bushwick detour where the open-ended format matters more than a familiar headliner.
The mock-sacred title and circus framing suggest a theatrical ritual with enough weirdness to suit Brooklyn Art Haus.
A VHS night inside the Museum of Interesting Things' secret speakeasy promises analog ephemera, collector energy, and a deliberately eccentric setting.
Turning donor selection into a live game show is a socially loaded comedy premise that should get messier and stranger in front of a littlefield crowd.
A trio starting five minutes before midnight is for the jazz crowd still extending the weekend after everyone else's Sunday has ended.