Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Friday, October 2, 2026.
The PIT’s Feel Good Jam is an hour of improv practice open to every experience level, hosted by John T. Haller and Lane Napper. It is $5 cash, first come in a 58-person room, and the doors close at 5:15.
Open the Havel 90 festival with a rare New York screening of Citizen Havel, preceded by a three-minute archival address and followed by a drinks reception. The film makes the Czech writer and dissident’s transition into political life the center of an unusually intimate evening.
Anthology’s prison-and-enclosure program brings together Alex Johnston, Sky Hopinka and Larry Clark, moving between archival evidence, landscape and struggles over confinement.
Mfoniso Udofia’s world-premiere play follows a Black woman pulled between her child-self, future daughter, artist and possible motherhood in a mythic ritual spanning ancestors and AI.
The Bad Judies land at Berlin for a Friday-night show. It is a small-room detour from the festival halls, with a local act and a late set in one of the East Village’s longest-running live-music rooms.
Peter Evans and Ron Stabinsky bring trumpet, piano, synthesizers and electronics into dialogue at the Stone under the deceptively simple title Early Music.
Jan Němec’s country picnic turns into an allegory of coercion and conformity, screening at Bohemian National Hall during the Havel 90 Festival.
Cheryl Dunye’s Berlin sex comedy follows a queer couple trying to rekindle desire, part of Anthology’s Avatars of the Whore series.
MY TRIO combines Tim Watson’s guitar and sound design, Yvonne Rogers’s synthesizers and Jon Starks’s drums and electronics for a late album-release set at Close Up.
Eternal Wind brings the jazz-noir world of Cowboy Bebop to the Red Pavilion, turning a cult anime soundtrack into a late-night live-music outing.