Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Wednesday, October 21, 2026.
Spill It gives comics three minutes apiece at Gramercy Theatre, turning the tight time limit into the premise and the audience into a fast-moving test panel.
The Red Pavilion’s Cowboy Bebop x Eternal Wind night welds anime’s space-western world to live music, a tailored collision for the venue’s cabaret sensibility.
Storyteller Adam Wade brings his live New York show to Under St. Marks, where first-person tales meet the tiny East Village theater’s close, offbeat setting.
Drunk Dracula hands Bram Stoker’s plot to a performer playing the Count after drinking, while the rest of the cast tries to steer the story back on course.
Anthology’s Essential Cinema series pairs Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II, a charged historical epic shown at the archive that helped define American repertory culture.
Film Forum’s Once Upon a Time in Harlem gathers rare work from the independent Black filmmaking collective founded by William Greaves, with the evening’s program carrying the series into a new generation.
Sarah Kane’s Crave breaks a relationship into four overlapping voices; East Village Basement offers the play in a small room suited to its fractured, intimate form.
NewFest’s Nitehawk screening of Corpus folds a 1990s queer-underground aesthetic into a supernatural house-party horror story, followed by a Q&A with director Corrin Evans.
Spectacle screens October Country, a vérité portrait of one upstate family across a year, with Halloween and memory hanging over its unvarnished domestic scenes.
LaGarage follows five women and a 12-year-old girl in 1978 as they confront bruised hopes and a garage full of trouble; the Tank’s late slot suits its scrappy, ensemble scale.