May 17, 2007
Pencil This In
THEATER: Listen up: The World Financial Center’s unique Word of Mouth Festival is going on through Saturday only. Taking inspiration from the festival’s location, The Women’s Project is presenting a series of short plays by women playwrights called Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$. They’re all site-specific works about the relationships between women and wealth (or lack thereof); audiences are escorted through various spots around the World Financial Center to watch each performance. (There's an article today's Times Metro section.) Another intriguing production is Bird Eye Blue Print, which occurs in an abandoned office suite on the first floor of One World Financial Center. “In these rooms, a mysterious woman known only as ‘the blue dress lady’ has made her home. Join her as she tours you through her realm of disappearing birds, empty phone jacks, false doorways and lost sisters. Is it an office suite? Or an elaborate optical illusion?” (Playwright Jeffrey M. Jones highly recommends the play; he also stresses that while they are limiting the advance reservations for Bird Eye Blue Print, nobody who showed up without a reservation was turned away on the night he attended.) - John Del Signore
FREE but tickets required for Bird Eye Blue Print. Times Vary. See The World Financial Center website for the details.
ART: "Joy Ride" (An Art Show Inspired by the Bicycle) opens tonight as part of the Bicycle Film Festival. The artists include Swoon, Michel Gondry and many many many more - all of which used the bike as their muse. Tonight's opening will have an after party at Home Sweet Home (131 Chrystie St), and the show itself will run through the 21st.
6pm to Midnight (opening reception) // 33 W 17th St // Free
EVENT: Celebrating the release of Dirty Found #3, FOUND Magazines Jason Bitner and Arthur Jones will dazzle you with "all-new pervy PowerPoint festivities, packed with improbably lusty love notes, red-hot fantasy doodles, intimate bedroom photos, and other pervy samples from people's real love lives." Show and tell is encouraged, so bring your own finds, too!
8pm // UCB Theater [307 W 26th St] // $5 (make reservations here)
MUSIC: If you've been wanting to catch a High Line Festival show, or just want to see the new sign at the newly renamed Filmore New York at Irving Plaza...tonight may be the night to do so. Deerhoof, Dirty Projectors and Robert Stillman's Horses play the venue as part of the Bowie-curated festival. Tickets are still on sale.
8pm // Filmore New York at Irving Plaza [17 Irving Place] // $17
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