Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Tuesday, June 23.
A concealed headliner, two suggestively named bands, and a DJ on the Sultan Room rooftop make this bill feel assembled for curious regulars rather than casual passersby.
Four aggressively specific team names share UCB's Harold Night, a long-form improv bill built for people who know the form and want to watch ensembles stretch it.
Trying to summarize the internet onstage at Parkside Lounge is an appropriately impossible East Village premise, likely to reward anyone fluent in online absurdity.
Anthology's Essential Cinema slot offers three of Brakhage's hand-painted Songs, a concentrated dose of image-making for experimental-film diehards.
Joe Morris expanding to an octet at Vision Festival promises a dense late set for the free-jazz crowd that follows players and configurations as closely as songs.
The umlauts, rock-opera title, and cine-concert format point toward an unabashedly handmade multimedia spectacle at Joe's Pub.
A late downtown theater piece called simply Eggs leaves just enough unexplained to make The Tank the right place to take the risk.
A late Spectacle program nested inside a series of video dreams and celluloid nightmares is exactly the sort of cryptic cult-cinema proposition this list is for.
Mezzrow hands the late shift to records instead of another set, turning the basement into a listening hang for jazz heads who care about the selections.
A Smalls session beginning fifteen minutes before midnight is aimed at players and listeners willing to let Tuesday run well into Wednesday.