Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Saturday, September 19, 2026.
Pioneer Works turns its attention upward for an evening of lunar science and observation on International Observe the Moon Night.
Sho Asano’s shamisen and folk vocals meet Mao Sone’s piano and trumpet, with percussionist Keita Ogawa joining the exchange.
Gangstagrass puts bluegrass and hip-hop on the same stage at littlefield, with the collision of forms leading the night.
Cirkus Moxie combines acrobatics, dance and live music in a six-person work about grief and recurring patterns of behavior.
Black Orpheus brings its Rio Carnival setting and Orpheus-and-Eurydice story outdoors to Brower Park’s Black Nature film series.
C’mon Everybody turns sapphic dating into a live show, putting romantic introductions onstage in front of the crowd.
Adam Nussbaum and Ohad Talmor join guitarists Steve Cardenas and Nate Radley for a two-guitar quartet at Close Up.
Max Wolf Friedlich’s new play is in previews at wild project, with a companion exhibition extending its tensions between shame and desire.
Jennifer Reeves’ When It Was Blue screens on 16mm at Anthology, continuing the theater’s focus on her work.
Isabel Sandoval introduces Ishmael Bernal’s fishing-village drama, returning in a restoration made from its surviving Japanese-subtitled print.