since fewer events are happening this holiday week, the skint will be taking some time off and returning next week. we’ll be sending out our new year’s eve roundup in a few days, so stay tuned!
tuesday
tues 7:30pm: best christmas-eve-eve ever: be merry, jolly, and bright with host jenny gorelick and a christmas eve eve lineup of comedians including brittany carney, michael cruz kayne, missy mcintosh, camden garcia, josh nasser, jared goldstein, and amber singletary. union hall (park slope), $12 adv, $15 door. >>
tues 8pm: the drunk texts: a christmas carol: random access theatre’s annual intoxicated performances of a christmas carol are back with drinking games, carols, and drunk puppets. the rat nyc (dumbo), $12. >>
tues 8pm: cinema smootaphilia: eyes wide shut: ensemble erotic (ann courtney on vocals, dave smoota smith on casio, jerome jordan on guitar, and jeremy kay on bass) perform a live, original soundtrack to a ‘hyper-libidinal’ 90-minute cut of stanley kubrick’s eyes wide shut (1999). tv eye (ridgewood), $15. >>
wednesday
weds 5pm: washington square christmas eve caroling: ring in the holiday with a sing-along beneath the washington square arch. led by the rob susman brass quartet, this annual greenwich village christmas eve tradition invites all to belt out familiar carols. songbooks provided. free admission. >>
weds 8pm: brooklyn horror society: gremlins: brooklyn horror society’s december tribute to little dudes in cinema wraps with a christmas eve screening of gremlins at gowanus metal bar lucky 13. free admission. >>
thursday
thurs 1pm: annual christmas day jewish lower east side tour: take a walk through more than 150 years of nyc’s jewish history during big onion’s annual christmas day walking tour. $30 general, $20 seniors/students. >>
sponsored
THE U.S. PREMIERE OF BELLOW IS AT IRISH ARTS CENTER FOR TWO WEEKS ONLY!
Photo by Ste Murray
“An ingenious odd couple. The pairing of a traditional musician with a maker of contemporary theater…occupies a rarified zone.”—Irish Times
Irish Arts Center 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—described as “one of Ireland’s most fearless and path-breaking theatre companies” (Irish Times)—features an original electronic composition by Valgeir Sigurðsson and contemporary dance by Emily Kilkenny Roddy, resulting in an arresting, astonishingly beautiful theatre performance exploring the weight of tradition, the capriciousness of memory, and the artist’s need to express their true self.
Join us for this North American premiere, presented January 7 through 18 only, 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.
Bellow
JL Greene Theatre
at Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue
Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
friday
fri 10pm: misfit christmas: get weird and wild and embrace your misfit brilliance with your chosen family at house of yes’ misfit christmas party. suggested looks: holiday glam, angels and snow devils, sexy santa, everything garland, silver and gold. bonus: bring a non-perishable item to benefit city harvest, get a half-priced cocktail (limit one per person). house of yes (bushwick), $11. >>
saturday
sat 9:30pm: story-oke: sing and tell: part karaoke, part confessional. story-oke invites performers and audience members alike to share a true story about their connection to a song – or the song itself – and then sing the hell out of it. tonight’s show features stories about first grown-up relationships, winning at six flags, singing karaoke with a partner’s parents, and more. plus, whatever you, the audience, want to bring to the stage. hosted by shyaporn theerakulstit. caveat (les), $13.61 with promo code ‘skint’ (reg. $18.76-20). >>
sat 10pm: sandwich comedy: comedians serve up slices of freshly assembled material at gastor almonte and jess salomon’s sandwich comedy show. featuring lizzy cassidy, darius dinkins, tatiana frank, and jim search. union hall (park slope), $10 adv, $15 door. >>
sunday
sun 10am-5pm (last chance!): holiday nostalgia train rides: next stop, 1930! once again, the mta is rolling out its restored 1930s-era subway cars for holiday trips back in time. every sunday this month, the train will make stops between 2nd avenue – houston street on the uptown f line and 96th street – 2nd avenue on the q line. ride for the price of a normal swipe/tap (no extra fare required). >>
sun 12pm-1pm: times square’s good riddance day: make room for a positive 2026 as you say goodbye to your unpleasant, unhappy, and unwanted memories of 2025 at times square’s annual good riddance day, a symbolic event for disposing of memories you can write down on provided good riddance day forms. broadway plaza between 45th + 46th sts. free. >>
sun 5pm: astoria burlesque open stage: six newbie burlesque performers take the q.e.d. stage to test out their new acts. q.e.d. (astoria), $9 admission (tipping performers is encouraged). >>
monday
mon 7pm: gravid water: at stephen ruddy’s gravid water show, actors perform scenes from classic and contemporary plays—with a twist: their scene partners are improvisers who have no prior knowledge of the script and react to them for the first time on stage. ucb (east village), $10 adv, $15 day of. >>
mon 9:15pm: the thing: keep those snow storm vibes going at syndicated’s screening of john carpenter’s 1982 horror classic, the thing. syndicated (bushwick), $10. >>
ongoing
our roundup of 40+ ongoing events: holiday markets, ice skating, art shows, and more. >>
stay safe and healthy
– the skint
