Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Tuesday, June 23.
Pioneer Works frames its members salon around what bodies hold and transmit, giving the Red Hook evening a live, communal focus beyond a standard exhibition visit.
Abrons takes Shakespeare underground, offering a focused Lower East Side staging that can stand apart from the more conventional institutional productions.
O'Connell's Latin-jazz fluency and Randy Brecker's trumpet make this a genuinely substantial Dizzy's booking, with a lineup strong enough to justify the Columbus Circle trip.
Of Montreal brings its maximalist pop spectacle to Webster Hall, while La Banda Chuska adds a distinctly New York psychedelic-cumbia charge to the bill.
The Tank's new-work setting makes this compactly titled piece a sharper Tuesday theater gamble than the city's long-running defaults.
BAM's Masahiro Shinoda series puts this shadowy, formally daring samurai film back on a large screen, a repertory presentation substantial enough to earn the second film slot.
Joe Morris, William Parker, and Matthew Shipp put three major improvisers on one Abrons stage for Vision Festival's thirtieth edition, a serious downtown music occasion.
This memorial and Alan Vega birthday gathering carries real downtown lineage, turning Bowery Palace into a one-night meeting point for friends, collaborators, and devotees.
Stafford's polished, hard-swinging trumpet leads a quintet into the Vanguard, where the close basement setting should give the band plenty of bite.
John Waters' gloriously abrasive cult classic belongs with an audience, and the Quad's downtown screen gives Divine's criminal ascent the right communal energy.