Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Friday, August 7.
House of Yes is built for a circus title this shameless, where the spectacle is the point rather than decoration.
The title and 3 Dollar Bill setting point to a queer cabaret night with its own humid little universe.
Spectacle is exactly where a title this strange gets to stay strange, drawing curiosity before plot summary.
Brooklyn Comedy Collective's Pig Pen gives this oddly named improv show the right scrappy, inside-baseball feel.
Caveat is a natural home for a comedy premise this pointed, somewhere between advice column and public roast.
A late Spectacle slot with this title has the grubby cult-film charge that bigger repertory rooms tend to sand down.
Close Up's late set-and-session frame makes this feel more like a working musicians' hang than a polished showcase.
A midnight solo-piano set at Mezzrow is a narrow jazz-head lane for people who want the night to quiet down, not end.
A midnight karaoke listing at Union Hall reads less like a bar filler and more like a specific late-night crowd magnet.
Millennium Film Workshop gives a noise-minded exhibition the right experimental-film context, even without a tidy showtime.