Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Saturday, October 3, 2026.
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.
Yuchen Ye takes the stage to investigate a great-grandfather’s 21 lost films from 1930s China, turning family history into a live search for artistic inheritance.
The Queens Poet opens its QED mic to poetry, singer-songwriters and spoken-word performers for an afternoon of shared work in Astoria.
Pantheon runs dance-floor classics and deep cuts from the 1990s and 2000s, from pop remixes to club divas and house tracks.
Pavel Juráček’s 1965 absurdist portrait of young conscripts pairs the routines of military service with a quietly antimilitarist edge; Václav Havel appears briefly.
Zekkereya El-Magharbel celebrates an album release at Close Up, adding an intimate downtown set to the Orchard Street Jazz Festival’s wide-ranging program.
Jamie Kastner’s documentary follows political activists from Trinidad whose protest over a massacre culminates in a dramatic hijacking and escape to Cuba.
Tootsie’s Video Vault screens dozens of three-minute films made by local filmmakers during a three-month race, then lets the audience vote for the winner.
Trumpeter Peter Evans plays solo at The Stone, where Alexandria Smith curates a month of adventurous music.
For a very late Saturday set, Night Club 101 lists SUPERTALL at 11 p.m., with doors at show time. It is a free, 21+ option for staying out after the evening’s earlier shows.