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Thursday May 8, 2025

6 – 8 pm

Opening Reception of “Compulsive Genius”

Fountain House GalleryHell’s Kitchen

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6 – 10 pm

Bhangra Dance: Dance Class & Happy Hour

Music

SOB’s

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6 – 7 pm

NYC Mayoral Forum

The Great Hall at Cooper Union,

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6 – 7 pm

‘Tour & Play’ event with NY Kids Club & EarlyBird

Ages: 4 and under
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Family

The Ny Kids Club : 21 West End AveUpper West Side

Satellite Collective Event

7 – 10 pm

Satellite Collective’s Tribeca Show 2025

Joe Kay – 3 – Mark Pangilinan – @markpeaced (1)

7 – 11:30 pm

Verizon FIOS and Complex Presents Good Vibes / Buena Vibra Concert featuring Soulection founder Joe Kay

Free
Music

Location to be disclosed upon ticket confirmation

7 – 8 pm

Harlem Gospel Series – The Thursday Night Rhythms of Resistance

Music

Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian ChurchHarlem

7 – 9 pm

EPIC Players Theatre presents Seussical the Musical: A Neuro-Inclusive Production

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7 – 10 pm

Answer The Call Red & Blue Soiree

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7 – 8:30 pm

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Jeff Simmermon by Bryan Berlin 2

7 – 8 pm

CareGiver

Comedy

SOHO PLAYHOUSESoHo

E-Moves May 8 & 9, 2025

7 – 9 pm

Harlem Stage’s E-Moves Festival: A Movement Presents the Renowned Bebe Miller Company

Harlem StageHarlem

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7 – 9 pm

Concerts at the Frick: Emi Ferguson, Flute and Ruckus, Baroque Ensemble

Art
Music

Frick CollectionUpper East Side

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7 – 9 pm

LACY ROSE SETS ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT FOR ‘LISPECTOR’, MAY 8TH AT THE TRIAD THEATER

Music

The Triad TheaterUpper West Side

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7 – 8 pm

Book Launch: You Have the Magic by Haley Hoffman Smith at Strand Book Store

Art
Talks

Strand Book Store

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7 – 9 pm

Alexandria: Off-Broadway

Theater

Dixon PlaceLower East Side

7 – 9 pm

MADDIE: A New Musical

Theater

The Players TheatreGreenwich Village

3 – Florencia Cuenca and Company

7 – 9:30 pm

Real Women Have Curves: The Musical

Ages: 9 and up
Art
Comedy
Family

James Earl Jones Theatre

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7:30 – 10 pm

The Glenn Crytzer Quartet at Festival Café (UES)

Upper East Side (UES)

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7:30 – 9:30 pm

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre Presents World Premiere of Awaken

New York Live Arts

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7:30 – 9 pm

Those Who Remained

Theater

La MaMaEast Village

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7:30 – 9 pm

Fat Cat Killers

Gene Frankel TheaterEast Village

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7:30 – 9 pm

A New York Evening With Chloe Flower

Music

The Greene Space at WNYC & WQXRSoho/Tribeca

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8 pm

GIMS

Music

Terminal 5Hell’s Kitchen

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8 pm

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Music

Carnegie HallMidtown Manhattan

Friday May 9

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All day

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade Center

All day

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS UNIQLO Friday Nights Fridays from 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Art
Free

The Museum of Modern Art

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All day

The Legacy of The Handmaid’s Tale: June’s Evolution from Handmaid to Rebel

The Paley Museum

Painting by Amrit Khurana – Whispers In Bloom

All day

Perceptions of Sentience – Art Exhibition by artists with autism from around the globe

Art
Free

United Nations Visitors Lobby

SPRING FORWARD22

All day

Spring is Blooming at Rockefeller Center by Van Cleef & Arpels

Free

The Summer Rink at Rockefeller Center

8 am – 5 pm

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS The Lady at 100: Columbia Classics from the Locarno Film Festival APRIL 16 – MAY 24, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

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