Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Sunday, August 2.
An afternoon jam at Smalls is a musician-facing Sunday door, less polished showcase than neighborhood jazz machinery in motion.
A fifth SAPPHEST at Brooklyn Art Haus sounds like a local queer-performance fixture rather than a generic matinee.
Wonderville is exactly the right arcade-bar setting for a terse title like Dragon Dance, which reads more handmade than institutional.
The title arrives with enough serrated theater energy to make Green Lung Studio feel like a proper fringe address.
Anthology's Duchamp-linked title is the most obviously art-cinema oddity in the afternoon film pile.
Toy Boat's Bermuda Triangle premise at BCC sounds like a bit that grew into its own little world.
Comedy plus mediumship at Under St Marks has the basement-weird premise this list is built to catch.
A Paradise Factory title this intentionally abrasive promises downtown theater with its elbows out.
Big Slime at Alphaville has the flyer-title specificity of a comedy night built for a small loyal crowd.
Close Up's late set-and-session format keeps the night loose and inside-baseball, with the audience close to the working process.