Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Monday, October 5, 2026.
Drummer Dan Weiss joins saxophonist Miguel Zenón and bassist Peter Washington for two sets at Close Up’s Orchard Street Jazz Festival. The trio brings three distinct rhythmic and melodic voices into a small Lower East Side room.
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam puts live poetry at the center of Monday night, with the Bowery Poetry Club hosting a stage built for spoken-word performance. Check the organizer’s current ticket page for entry details.
Evan Schwam’s quartet takes the 7 p.m. set at the Django, whose calendar lists a second set later in the evening. Choose the early performance for a compact jazz-club start before the room turns over.
Roxy screens Lakeview Terrace on a 35mm print, then welcomes director Neil LaBute for a Q&A. The thriller’s tense neighbor conflict gives the post-film conversation a direct route into how the story was staged.
Tier5 Theatre’s SPOOKYF3ST stages this new-play reading at The Tank: a dystopian Romeo-and-Juliet story about a society where the wealthy replace body parts to extend their lives. Its speculative premise puts class and survival onstage together.
Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation screens as a 4K restoration in Symphony Space’s Science on Screen series. The program connects Harry Caul’s recordings to current debates about cameras, facial recognition and the systems that track daily life.
Writer and visual artist August Lamm discusses You Don’t Need a Smartphone with essayist Catherine Shannon at the Strand. The release event turns Lamm’s move to a simpler phone into a practical conversation about navigation, attention and meeting people offline.
Céline Leboeuf previews The Tyranny of Thinness at Greenlight Bookstore. The book’s focus on freedom from disordered eating and body-shaping pressures gives this pre-release conversation a concrete ethical question to work through.
BAM pairs Dan Sallitt’s What Can’t Be Mentioned with Nathan Silver’s short Sounds From Home, then hosts a conversation with Sallitt and cast members. The two films approach intimacy and distance through very different domestic lenses.
Anthology screens Anahí Berneri’s Alanis as part of Avatars of the Whore. The intimate drama follows a sex worker balancing motherhood, precarious housing and work after a police raid upends her routine.