Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Wednesday, June 24.
Jen Shyu opens another night of Vision Festival's thirtieth edition with a project whose title points toward the vocalist-composer's mix of music, movement, and narrative.
The Breeders bring a deep catalog of jagged, melodic indie rock to the waterfront, a rare rooftop booking with enough personality to carry the big setting.
The Tank remains one of the city's reliable places to encounter theater before it has been sanded smooth, and this compactly titled piece is the night's strongest downtown gamble.
A shared evening by Malcolm-x Betts and Kat Sotelo offers two performance voices in one Williamsburg program, with enough specificity to stand apart from the day's institutional theater.
BAM's evening screening of this personal investigation into family and Libyan political history is the day's film choice with the clearest sense of occasion and consequence.
Sam Amidon reshapes folk material with a restless experimental streak, giving Lincoln Center a songwriter set that should resist the usual polished summer-stage treatment.
David Torn's electric-guitar language sharing Roulette with Aliya Ultan and the Boreas Quintet makes this a focused night of adventurous music in a venue built for close listening.
Indigipride's Ballroom Pow Wow puts Indigenous and queer celebration at the center of a House of Yes night, with a format far more specific than a standard Pride dance party.
This new-work theater pick offers a sharper reason to head to Lincoln Center than the familiar Broadway circuit, with a title that promises an intimate ensemble study.
La MaMa gives this encounter between two unknown people an East Village experimental frame, making the premise feel more like live investigation than conventional dialogue.