Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Monday, September 28, 2026.
The 11 a.m. performance brings the myth of Persephone to the Newtown Creek Nature Walk, making an industrial waterfront path its unlikely stage.
Saint Vitus and Negative Space Cinema project Heavy Metal on 16mm; free RSVP, doors at six, film at 7:30.
Nathan Truesdell attends a six-short retrospective about civic disasters and media spectacle, including Balloonfest and A Derailment at Low Cinema.
Sins and Stardust turns biology, physics and technology into burlesque, with science-themed acts in Under St. Marks’ basement theater.
A Hollywood janitor’s screenplay starts killing his neighbors in Screamplay, Rufus Butler Seder’s handmade horror comedy with George Kuchar.
Pipfreak, Diamanta, Chxndler and guests make this punk bill at Arlene’s Grocery a sharp-edged Monday option for following the local lineup rather than a headliner.
Greenlight Bookstore puts Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in conversation with contemporary writers, opening a familiar play to new readings in Fort Greene.
Rev. Vince Anderson and the Love Choir bring their long-running Monday residency back to Union Pool for a night of communal music-making.
CRE, O Slow and Sie Canela share a late Mercury Lounge bill. Take in three names across one downtown set, with room for the lineup to surprise.
L’Rain hands Night Club 101’s late shift to DJ sets from Anysia Kim, serpentwithfeet and novelist Marlon James.