tuesday
thru 2/24 (tuesdays at 7pm): union pool’s fouth annual free tuesdays: union pool’s annual free tuesday concert series is back for another winter season, kicking off tonight with hiding places and bloodsports. >>
thru 1/18: 12th annual grand street restaurant week: eat your way down williamsburg’s grand street as 14 neighborhood restaurants roll out prix-fixe dinner menus priced from $22 to $35 (tax and tip not included). >>
tues 11am-12pm: el museuo del barrio’s 48th annual three kings day parade and celebration: el museo’s three kings day parade returns with a procession of music, floats, camels(!), and more. starts at 106th st + park ave, ends at 115th street + park ave. free admission. >>
tues 7pm: the new york groove live!: the new york groove, a local, independent, journalist-owned, member-supported newsletter, brings together a mix of newsmakers and comedians for a new show about how to be a better new yorker. tonight’s edition asks: is nyc entering a new golden age? featuring guests bradford william davis (slate, new york daily news, defector) and chika (do it live with chika) along with team groove members dave colon, tim donnelly, virginia smith, jess joseph and melton sharpe. caveat (les), $16.70 with promo code ‘nygskint15’ (reg. $24-25). >>
sponsored: tues 7:30pm: chris duffy’s humor me book release show: join comedian/author chris duffy at union hall (park slope) for a night of comedy, literature, and a literal book launch celebrating humor me: how laughing more can make you present, creative, connected, and happy (recommended by author adam grant and comedian bowen yang!). the event features comedians dylan marron (writer for ted lasso), jo firestone (the tonight show), josh sharp (ta-da!), carley moseley (writer for colbert), alison leiby (broad city), and myq kaplan (new comedy special ‘rini’), and includes a prize for the audience member who is able to most impressively launch the book into the air. admission includes a signed copy of humor me. >>
sponsored
Hopefully hopeful, The Rest of Our Lives is a joyful dose of dance, theatre, circus and games. A cabaret of life and near death. Two middle-aged lives in an eclectic, spontaneous, predictable and random decline. Jo is an old dancer, George an old clown. International artists with over 100 years of life experience between them, armed with a soundtrack of floor-fillers, a book of raffle tickets and a sprinkling of eco-friendly optimism. Joyful, celebratory and hilarious. The struggle is real. It’s the beginning of the end. But we’re still here.
Running from January 7 to January 17, The Rest of Our Lives takes place at La MaMa Experimental Theater Company in downtown Manhattan. Use code SKINT15 for $15 tickets during the first week of performances. Book tickets now at utrfest.org.
wednesday
sponsored: weds thru 1/25: andy jordan productions + hindsight productions present: dreamscape at 59e59 theaters: inspired by the true story of tyisha miller, a 19 year-old african american girl who was shot by police while she lay unconscious in a car, rickerby hinds’s dreamscape uses beatboxin’, spoken word, and hip-hop dance to reimagine the innocent pleasures of tyisha’s life and hopes for the future with the sweetness and humor of a teenager’s insight. part of soho playhouse’s international fringe encore series. use code ‘skint’ to snag $19 tickets (reg. $32). >>
sponsored: weds thru 1/18: the u.s. premiere of bellow: irish arts center (hell’s kitchen) starts the new year with bellow, a surprising theatrical rendering of the extraordinary real-life story of one of ireland’s foremost accordionists, danny o’mahony, a man who has dedicated his life to the preservation of traditional irish music. alongside danny’s sublime live playing, this production from dublin-based theatre company brokentalkers features an original electronic composition by valgeir sigurðsson and contemporary dance by emily kilkenny roddy. presented as part of under the radar, a citywide festival of more than 20 leading nyc cultural institutions convening provocative, groundbreaking international and u.s. artists to celebrate risk-taking art and ideas. >>
weds: nyc winter outing reservations open today: enjoy cool savings on dining, broadway shows, attractions, and more during the annual nyc winter outing. running 1/20-2/12, this season’s promotions include restaurant week (prix-fixe meals at hundreds of restaurants across all five boroughs), broadway week (2-for-1 tickets to select broadway shows), and nyc must-see week (2-for-1 tickets to attractions, museums, performing arts, and tours across all five boroughs). >>
weds 7:30pm: awkward teenage years: laugh and reminisce as storytellers relive their growing-up joys and traumas for your entertainment. hosted by will clegg (2x moth winner) and featuring stories by adam wade (audible originals), erin barker (the moth radio hour), christine williams (story collider), brian lorio, and kate nichols. under st. marks (east village), sliding scale admission. >>
weds 7:30pm: we have fun: a stand-up show: hosts zach sims and dan wilbur team up to bring the fun-ny to young ethel’s (south slope), with stand-up by shari diaz (hbo), rob cantrell (last comic standing), jonathan van halem (the tonight show), and mo macsai-goren. free admission. >>
weds 8pm: the moth storyslam: the popular community-based open mic storytelling competition, where anyone can share a five-minute tale based on the evening’s theme to an attentive audience, returns to the bell house (gowanus). tonight’s theme: ‘new leaf’ (bold beginnings, fresh starts, falling in love). $19.65. >>
weds 8pm (biweekly): flash comedy: have a picture-perfect night of laughs at the flash comedy show, where the hosts snap free polaroids of you and your friends to take home. hosted by claire parker (celebrity memoir book club), audrey black (cracked), and temi adeoye, tonight’s show features yedoye travis, dan perlman, sunny laprade, ali clayton, amber singletary, and liza treyger. mood ring (bushwick), $10 adv, $15 door. >>
thursday
thurs thru 2/28: elisheva biernoff: elsewhere: david zwirner gallery hosts an exhibition of san francisco–based painter elisheva biernoff’s detailed depictions of anonymous photographs, which she sources from antique stores and online marketplaces. opening reception 1/8 6-8pm. david zwirner gallery e 69th street, free admission. >>
thurs thru 2/23: fourth annual books that changed my life festival: join in conversations with authors, artists, and thinkers as they share the books that have guided, challenged, and transformed their paths at the marlene meyerson jcc manhattan’s annual books that changed my life festival. opening party 1/8 at 5:30pm. various prices. >>
thurs thru 2/2: to save and project: the museum of modern art’s 22nd international festival of film preservation: moma presents more than 75 newly preserved features and shorts from 23 countries, many screening in the u.s. for the first time in decades. spanning over a century of cinema, the festival opens with a new restoration of russ meyer’s vixen! (1968) and closes with a program of previously unseen andy warhol films from the 1960s. museum of modern art (midtown west), $14 general, $12 seniors, $10 students. >>
thurs thru 1/17: juilliard chamberfest 2026: students and faculty come together to bring chamber masterpieces to life during juilliard’s annual chamberfest. the juilliard school and alice tully hall at lincoln center (uws). free-$20. >>
thurs thru sun: labyrinth 40th anniversary screenings: jim henson’s 1986 musical fantasy film, starring david bowie and jennifer connelly, returns to select theaters for a limited engagement. various prices. >>
thurs 8pm (monthly): savage! comedy show: savage comedy returns to logan’s run in park slope. hosted by lizzie martinez, melissa rocha, nonye brown-west, and chloé cunha, tonight’s show includes standup by matt koff (the daily show), rima parikh (the new yorker), gina ginsberg (vice), and christiana jackson (cash cab). bonus: rsvp for a chance to win a free drink. free admission. >>
thurs 8pm (monthly): tip top tits comedy show: it’s comedy or bust at janet hyde and mary cella’s stand-up show, featuring dan harumi (the dan harumi podcast), talib babb(the new yorker), jj mattise, and more. bonus: $3 pbrs. tip-top bar + grill (bed-stuy), free admission. >>
thurs 9pm (monthly): comedy ugly: a comedy strip show: comedians reveal more than just punchlines at comedy ugly, a standup show where performers remove an article of clothing between jokes. featuring: sima sepehri, ariel evans, gabe lonning, and danny suggs. hosted by alysia hush, marisa riley, and kim dinaro. easy lover (east williamsburg), free admission. >>
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our roundup of 30+ ongoing events: janartsnyc, ice skating, art shows, and more. >>
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– the skint
