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Selective listings by critics of The New York Times of new and noteworthy cultural events in the Northeast this week. * denotes a highly recommended film, concert, show or exhibition. Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses. Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of current shows, additional listings, show times and tickets: nytimes.com/theater. Previews and Openings ALL THIS INTIMACY In previews; opens Thursday. A romantically ambitious poet balances relationships with three women in this new play by Rajiv Joseph. Presented by Second Stage Theater (1:45). McGinn/Cazale Theater, 2162 Broadway; (212) 246-4422. AMAJUBA: LIKE DOVES WE RISE In previews; opens Tuesday. Based on the lives of the five cast members, this play, which incorporates dance and song, is about growing up in apartheid-era South Africa (1:30). Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Street, at Lafayette Street, East Village; (212) 307-4100. INDIAN BLOOD Previews start Tuesday. Opens Aug. 9. Primary Stages presents A. R. Gurneys new comedy about a rebellious American Indian boy coming of age in the 1940s. Mark Lamos directs (1:30). 59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street; (212) 279-4200. LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL Through July 30. This always-buzzed-about summer showcase includes DruidSynge, the complete works of John Millington Synge (see below), and Grendel, an opera directed by Julie Taymor. Sites in and around Lincoln Center; (212) 721-6500. MIDTOWN INTERNATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL Through Aug. 6. The seventh annual showcase often gets lost in the shuffle, despite its large and diverse collection of shows. There should be more than 60 productions this season, at four locations on 36th Street. Schedules and information; (212) 868-4444. Broadway THE COLOR PURPLE So much plot, so many years, so many characters to cram into less than three hours. This beat-the-clock musical adaptation of Alice Walkers Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Southern black women finding their inner warriors never slows down long enough for you to embrace it. LaChanze leads the vibrant, hard-working cast (2:40). Broadway Theater, 1681 Broadway, at 53rd Street, (212) 239-6200.(Ben Brantley) DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS The arrival of Jonathan Pryce and his eloquent eyebrows automatically makes this the seasons most improved musical. With Mr. Pryce (who replaces the admirable but uneasy John Lithgow) playing the silken swindler to Norbert Leo Butzs vulgar grifter, its as if a mismatched entry in a three-legged race had become an Olympic figure-skating pair (2:35). Imperial Theater, 249 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (Tony Awards, best book of a musical and best original score, 2006) This small and ingratiating spoof of 1920s stage frolics, as imagined by an obsessive show queen, may not be a masterpiece. But in a dry season for musicals, The Drowsy Chaperone has theatergoers responding as if they were withering house plants, finally being watered after long neglect. Bob Martin and Sutton Foster are the standouts in the eager, energetic cast (1:40). Marquis Theater, 1535 Broadway, at 45th Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) *FAITH HEALER In the title role of Brian Friels great play, Ralph Fiennes paints a portrait of the artist as dreamer and destroyer that feels both as old as folklore and so fresh that it might be painted in wet blood. Also starring Cherry Jones and the superb Ian McDiarmid, this mesmerizing series of monologues has been directed with poetic starkness by Jonathan Kent (2:35). Booth Theater, 222 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) * THE HISTORY BOYS (Tony Awards, best play and best direction of a play, 2006) Madly enjoyable. Alan Bennetts play about a battle for the hearts and minds of a group of university-bound students, imported with the original British cast from the National Theater, moves with a breezy narrative swagger that transcends cultural barriers. Directed by Nicholas Hytner, with a perfectly oiled ensemble led by the superb Richard Griffiths and Stephen Campbell Moore as schoolmasters with opposing views of history and education (2:40). Broadhurst Theater, 235 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) JERSEY BOYS (Tony Award, best musical, 2006) From grit to glamour with the Four Seasons, directed by the pop repackager Des McAnuff (The Whos Tommy). The real thrill of this shrink-wrapped bio-musical, for those who want something more than recycled chart toppers and a story line poured from a can, is watching the wonderful John Lloyd Young (as Frankie Valli) cross the line from exact impersonation into something far more compelling (2:30). August Wilson Theater, 245 West 52nd Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) * THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE Please turn off your political-correctness monitor along with your cellphone for Martin McDonaghs gleeful, gory and appallingly entertaining play. This blood farce about terrorism in rural Ireland, acutely directed by Wilson Milam, has a carnage factor to rival Quentin Tarantinos. But it is also wildly, absurdly funny and, even more improbably, severely moral (1:45). Lyceum Theater, 149 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) * SWEENEY TODD (Tony Award, best direction of a musical, 2006) Sweet dreams, New York. This thrilling new revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheelers musical, with Michael Cerveris and Patti LuPone leading a cast of 10 who double as their own musicians, burrows into your thoughts like a campfire storyteller who knows what really scares you. The inventive director John Doyle aims his pared-down interpretation at the squirming child in everyone who wants to have his worst fears both confirmed and dispelled (2:30). Eugene ONeill Theater, 230 West 49th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) TARZAN This writhing green blob with music, adapted by Disney Theatrical Productions from the 1999 animated film, has the feeling of a super-deluxe day care center, equipped with lots of bungee cords and karaoke synthesizers, where children can swing when they get tired of singing, and vice versa. The soda-pop score is by Phil Collins (2:30). Richard Rodgers Theater, 226 West 46th Street, (212) 307-4747. (Brantley) * THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE The happy news for this happy-making little musical is that the move to larger quarters has dissipated none of its quirky charm. William Finns score sounds plumper and more rewarding than it did Off Broadway, providing a sprinkling of sugar to complement the sass in Rachel Sheinkins zinger-filled book. The performances are flawless. Gold stars all around (1:45). Circle in the Square, 1633 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Charles Isherwood) THE WEDDING SINGER An assembly-kit musical that might as well be called That 80s Show, this stage version of the 1998 film is all winks and nods and quotations from the era of big hair and junk bonds. The cast members, who include Stephen Lynch and Laura Benanti, are personable enough, which is not the same as saying they have personalities (2:20). Al Hirschfeld Theater, 302 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) Off Broadway * BRIDGE & TUNNEL (Tony Award, special theatrical event, 2006) This delightful solo show, written and performed by Sarah Jones, is a sweet-spirited valentine to New York, its polyglot citizens and the larger notion of an all-inclusive America. In 90 minutes of acutely observed portraiture gently tinted with humor, Ms. Jones plays more than a dozen men and women participating in an open-mike evening of poetry for immigrants. Helen Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood) CRAZY FOR THE DOG Christopher Boals effective family melodrama about a brother, a sister, a wife and a boyfriend caught in a web of recrimination and confession, touched off by the kidnapping of a shih tzu (2:00). Bouwerie Lane Theater, 330 Bowery, at Bond Street, East Village, (212) 677-0060, Ext. 16. (George Hunka) THE FIELD John B. Keanes portrait of rural life in Ireland in the mid-20th century, both sorrowful and censorious. This sturdy new production, directed by Ciaran OReilly, features Marty Maguire as Bull McCabe, a tough farmer who will stop at nothing to preserve his right to raise his cattle on a field about to be auctioned. A little moralistic, but powerful nonetheless (2:30). Irish Repertory Theater, 132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, (212) 727-2737. (Isherwood) * FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT This production features the expected caricatures of ego-driven singing stars. But even more than usual, the show offers an acute list of grievances about the sickly state of the Broadway musical, where, as the lyrics have it, everything old is old again (1:45). 47th Street Theater, 304 West 47th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) THE HOUSE IN TOWN A wan new drama by Richard Greenberg about an American marriage slowly imploding in the days before the countrys economy did the same, more suddenly and spectacularly, in 1929. A miscast Jessica Hecht stars as Amy Hammer, a well-to-do housewife sliding into despair as her remote husband looks on in frustration. Doug Hughess production is pretty but desultory, as is Mr. Greenbergs typically eloquent but atypically empty writing (1:30). Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, 150 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood) JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS A powerfully sung revival of the 1968 revue, presented with affectionate nostalgia by the director Gordon Greenberg. As in the original, two men (Robert Cuccioli and Drew Sarich) and two women (Natascia Diazand Gay Marshall) perform a wide selection of Brels plaintive ballads and stirring anthems. Ms. Marshalls captivating performance of Ne Me Quitte Pas, sung in the original French and with heart-stirring transparency, represents Brel at his best (2:00).Zipper Theater, 336 West 37th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood) * [TITLE OF SHOW] Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell are the authors, stars and subject matter of this delectable new musical about its own making. The self-consciousness is tempered by a wonderful cast performing with the innocence of kids cavorting in a sandbox. Its a worthy postmodern homage to classic backstage musicals, and an absolute must for show queens (1:30). Vineyard Theater, 108 East 15th Street, Flatiron district, (212) 279-4200. (Isherwood) PIG FARM A gleefully stupid comedy by Greg Kotis about lust and violence in the farm belt, with a few gristly bits of satire aimed at the fat-bellied American electorate thrown in for good measure. Powered by the frenzied commitment of the four skilled actors who make up its cast, the comedy careers around the stage like an interminable improv session for a still-unformulated sketch on Saturday Night Live. (2:15). Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theater, 111 West 46th Street, (212) 719-1300. (Isherwood) * ROOM SERVICE The Peccadillo Theater Company puts a charge into this old comedy from the 1930s, thanks to a brisk pace by the director, Dan Wackerman, and a dozen dandy performances. David Edwards is the would-be producer whose bills threaten to swamp his efforts to put a show on Broadway, and Fred Berman is particularly fine as his director (2:00). Bank Street Theater, 155 Bank Street, West Village, (212) 868-4444.(Neil Genzlinger) * SPRING AWAKENING German schoolboys of the 19th-century frolic like rockers in this adventurous new musical adapted from the 1891 play by Frank Wedekind about sex, death and adolescence. Staged with élan by Michael Mayer, and featuring alluringly melancholy music by the pop singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik, this is a flawed but vibrant show that stretches the stage musical in new directions (2:10). Atlantic Theater, 336 West 20th Street, Chelsea, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood) SUSAN AND GOD The Mint Theater Companys fine revival of Rachel Crotherss 1937 comedy about religion, career and family features Leslie Hendrix of Law & Order, excellent in the role of Susan. Jonathan Bank directs (2:20). The Mint Theater, 311 West 43rd Street, third floor, Clinton, (212) 315-0231. (Hunka) TEMPEST TOSSED FOOLS This musical audience-participation childrens version of The Tempest is rowdy, colorful and not all that Shakespearean. Manhattan Ensemble Theater, 55 Mercer Street, SoHo, (212) 239-6200. (Anita Gates) TREASON The poet Ezra Pound was a repellent fellow, judging from this play by Sallie Bingham: racist, anti-Semitic, eager to exploit the affections of the women who loved him. Just why women were drawn to him is never clear, but the play is thoughtful, and the acting, especially by Philip Pleasants as Pound, is superb (2:10). Perry Street Theater, 31 Perry Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 868-4444. (Genzlinger) Off Off Broadway CHEKHOV & MARIA Jovanka Bachs final play is a touching, beautifully acted if sometimes slow-paced study of Anton Chekhovs near-final days and his relationship with his sister, who cared for him (2:00). Barrow Group Theater, 312 West 36th Street; (212) 868-4444. (Gates) FOOD FOR FISH Adam Szymkowiczs fabulously weird and weirdly fabulous new comedy fools around with cross-dressing, suicidal writers and Chekhovian characters who long for New Jersey (2:00). Kraine Theater, 85 East Fourth Street, between Second and Third Avenues, East Village, (212) 352-3101. (Gates) Long-Running Shows * ALTAR BOYZ This sweetly satirical show about a Christian pop group made up of five potential Teen People cover boys is an enjoyable, silly diversion (1:30). New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200.(Isherwood) AVENUE Q R-rated puppets give lively life lessons (2:10). Golden, 252 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Cartoon made flesh, sort of (2:30). Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 205 West 46th Street, (212) 307-4747. (Brantley) CHICAGO Irrefutable proof that crime pays (2:25). Ambassador Theater, 219 West 49th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) DRUMSTRUCK Lightweight entertainment that stops just short of pulverizing the eardrums (1:30).Dodger Stages, Stage 2, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200. (Lawrence Van Gelder) HAIRSPRAY Fizzy pop, cute kids, large man in a housedress (2:30). Neil Simon Theater, 250 West 52nd Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) THE LION KING Disney on safari, where the big bucks roam (2:45). Minskoff Theater, 200 West 45th Street at Broadway, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) MAMMA MIA! The jukebox that devoured Broadway (2:20). Cadillac Winter Garden Theater, 1634 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Who was that masked man, anyway? (2:30). Majestic Theater, 247 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) THE PRODUCERS The ne plus ultra of showbiz scams (2:45). St. James Theater, 246 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) RENT East Village angst and love songs to die for (2:45). Nederlander Theater, 208 West 41st Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) SPAMALOT This staged re-creation of the mock-medieval movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail is basically a singing scrapbook for Python fans. Such a good time is being had by so many people that this fitful, eager celebration of inanity and irreverence has found a large and lucrative audience (2:20). Shubert Theater, 225 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) WICKED Oz revisited, with political corrections (2:45). Gershwin Theater, 222 West 51st Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) Last Chance HOT FEET A dancing encyclopedia of clichés set to music by Earth, Wind & Fire. Numbing (2:30). Hilton Theater, 213 West 42nd Street; (212) 307-4100; closing Sunday. (Isherwood) MANHATTAN MADCAPS of 1924 A not-very-madcap story is indeed included, but this is essentially a revue made of up of Rodgers and Hart songs, many of them fairly obscure. Better singing voices in the cast might help show them off to fuller advantage; as it is, the main attraction is a trio of songs with unfamiliar lyrics, but a very familiar tune: the one that, on the fourth try, became Blue Moon (1:20). Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th Street, (212) 864-5400; closing Sunday. (Genzlinger) SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS José Rivera, who wrote the screenplay for The Motorcycle Diaries, penned this rickety piece of historical speculation about the final two days of Che Guevaras life (2:00). Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 239-6200; closing Sunday.(Jason Zinoman) SHAKESPEARE IS DEAD Orran Farmers two-character drama about a struggling playwright and a drug-addicted actress-stripper is well-meaning, but tedious and often trite (1:00). Paradise Factory, 64 East Fourth Street, East Village, (212) 868-4444; closing tomorrow. (Gates) TROUBLE IN PARADISE Ernst Lubitschs 1932 film comedy about a con man, the con woman he loves and a wealthy Parisian widow lives again as a giddy, good-looking, quietly amusing play (1:30). Hudson Guild Theater, 441 West 26th Street, Chelsea, (212) 352-3101; closing tomorrow. (Gates) Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases, movie trailers, show times and tickets: nytimes.com/movies. * AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (PG, 96 minutes) Al Gore gives a lecture on climate change. One of the most exciting and necessary movies of the year. Seriously. (A. O. Scott) * ARMY OF SHADOWS (No rating, 140 minutes, in French) Dark as pitch and without compromise, Jean-Pierre Melvilles 1969 masterpiece centers on the feats of a small band of Resistance fighters during the occupation. Brilliant, harrowing, essential viewing.(Manohla Dargis) THE BREAK-UP (PG-13, 105 minutes) Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn split up and share custody of a Chicago condominium. Dull and cheerless, notwithstanding a handful of funny supporting turns, notably from Judy Davis and Jason Bateman. (Scott) CARS (G, 114 minutes) The latest 3-D toon from Pixar just putt, putt, putts along, a shining model of technological progress and consumer safety. John Lasseter directed, and Owen Wilson provides the voice of the little red race car who learns all the right lessons from, among others, a 1951 Hudson Hornet given voice by Paul Newman. (Dargis) CLICK (PG-13, 98 minutes) Adam Sandler stars in this unfunny comedy about a harried family man who uses a universal remote to hop-scotch through time. Its a wonderful life, not. (Dargis) * CHANGING TIMES (No rating, 95 minutes, in French and Arabic) Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star in André Téchinés rich, warmhearted exploration of cultural collision in contemporary Tangier. A half-dozen skillfully interwoven subplots create a set of variations on the theme of divided sensibilities tugging one another into states of perpetual unrest and possible happiness. (Stephen Holden) * LEONARD COHEN: IM YOUR MAN (PG-13, 104 minutes) This enthralling documentary combines pieces of an extended interview with Mr. Cohen, the Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and author, now 71, with a tribute concert at the Sydney Opera House in January 2005. Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright and Antony are among the featured performers. (Holden) THE DA VINCI CODE (PG-13, 148 minutes) Theology aside, The Da Vinci Code is, above all, a murder mystery. And as such, once it gets going, Ron Howards movie has its pleasures. He and the screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have deftly rearranged some elements of the plot, unkinking a few overelaborate twists and introducing others that keep the action moving along. The movie does, however, take a while to accelerate, popping the clutch and leaving rubber on the road as it tries to establish who is who, what hes doing and why. So I certainly cant support any calls for boycotting or protesting this busy, trivial, inoffensive film. Which is not to say that Im recommending that you go see it. (Scott) THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (PG-13, 106 minutes) Lauren Weisbergers score-settling best seller about a terrible (and famous) boss is reimagined and reversed. Anne Hathaway plays the beleaguered assistant, but she is much less interesting -- and in the end less sympathetic -- than the boss, Miranda Priestly, incarnated by Meryl Streep as a subtle and searching (and very funny) portrait of glamour and power. (Scott) EDMOND (R, 76 minutes) William H. Macy gives what may be the performance of his career in the faithful screen adaptation of David Mamets raw, epithet-spattered spiritual fable about a buttoned-up milquetoast who heeds his inner demons and plummets into free fall; hateful and unforgettable. (Holden) * EXCELLENT CADAVERS (No rating, 92 minutes, in English and Italian) Based on the book by Alexander Stille, this tough, brisk documentary follows Mr. Stille to Italy, where he reconstructs the recent history of the Italian mafia, focusing on the careers of two courageous prosecutors who took on organized crime and the political system that protected it. (Scott) THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT (PG-13, 98 minutes) The Fast and Furious formula (dudes + cars + babes = $) is recycled in Tokyo, where the cars are smaller, and the clothes are kookier, but the boys are still boys. (Nathan Lee) GARFIELD: A TAIL OF TWO KITTIES (PG, 80 minutes) It was the worst of times. (Dargis) * GABRIELLE (No rating, 90 minutes) A film of eccentric beauty and wild feeling, directed by the consistently inventive Patrice Chéreau and starring the supremely well-matched Pascal Greggory and Isabelle Huppert, about the dissolution of a haute bourgeoisie Parisian marriage, circa 1912. (Dargis) THE GROOMSMEN (R, 93 minutes) Just when it seems Edward Burns might have pulled off an American I Vitelloni, his X-ray vision into life in an Irish-American enclave in New York glazes over and he resolves his characters anxiety and despair with tearful hugs and phony reassurances. (Holden) * HEADING SOUTH (No rating, 105 minutes, in English and French) Sex tourism involving middle-age white women and black beach boys at a Haitian resort in the late 1970s is the subject of Laurent Cantets third film, one of the most truthful explorations of desire, age and youth ever filmed, with a politically charged subtext about capitalist imperialism. (Holden) KEEPING UP WITH THE STEINS (PG-13, 84 minutes) A rollicking bar mitzvah comedy begins as a growling, razor-toothed satire of carnivorous consumption in Hollywood. But after the first half-hour, those growls subside into whimpers, and the fangs are retracted, and the movie morphs turns into a feel-good family comedy oozing good vibes. (Holden) KILL YOUR IDOLS (No rating, 71 minutes) S. A. Crarys glib, unfocused music documentary examines the New York No Wave scene of the late 1970s -- an offshoot of punk, the anti-New Wave -- when the music was noisy (and genuinely noncommercial) and the clothes were black (and genuinely secondhand). (Dargis) THE LAKE HOUSE (PG, 108 minutes) Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, reunited 12 years after Speed, play would-be lovers separated by time and yet somehow able to communicate. The absolute preposterousness of this teary romance is inseparable from its charm, which is greater than you might expect. (Scott) LITTLE MAN (PG-13, 90 minutes) A belligerent midget jewel thief assaults groins and molests women in this infantile comedy from the Wayans brothers. (Lee) MINIS FIRST TIME (R, 91 minutes) Yet another poor little rich girl tends to her festering inner wounds by becoming one of Southern Californias children of the damned. Nikki Reed stars alongside the slumming likes of Alec Baldwin, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jeff Goldblum and Luke Wilson. (Dargis) * LA MOUSTACHE (No rating, 86 minutes, in French) Emmanuel Carrières psychological mystery prepares you to bask in one of those sexy, bittersweet marital comedies that are a hallmark of sophisticated French cinema. Then, by degrees, it subverts those expectations to spiral down a rabbit hole of ambiguity and doubt. (Holden) * THE OH IN OHIO (No rating, 91 minutes) A feel-good movie about feeling good, this fresh and very funny sex comedy stars Parker Posey as a woman in search of an orgasm, Paul Rudd as her frustrated husband and a delirious supporting cast: Danny DeVito as a swimming pool salesman, Heather Graham as a sex shop clerk and Liza Minnelli as a masturbation guru who encourages frigid women to liberate your labia! (Lee) * NACHO LIBRE (PG, 91 minutes) A sweet bliss-out from the writers Mike White, Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess, who also directed, that finds a glorious Jack Black as a half-Mexican, half-Scandinavian monastery cook who aches to belong to another brotherhood, that of the luchadores, or masked wrestlers. (Dargis) OVER THE HEDGE (PG, 83 minutes) This tale about some woodland critters threatened by their new human neighbors has the technical trappings of a worthwhile Saturday matinee, so its too bad no one paid commensurate attention to the script. The writers, including Karey Kirkpatrick, who directed with Tim Johnson, pad the story with the usual yuks and some glop about family, but there is no poetry here and little thought. (Dargis) PEACEFUL WARRIOR (PG-13, 120 minutes) As ludicrous as the title promises yet supremely unembarrassed, this New Age enlightenment parable has its heart in the right place, but a mind of corny mush. (Lee) PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MANS CHEST Although there are memorable bits and pieces, this is a movie with no particular interest in coherence, economy or feeling. (Scott) * A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (PG-13, 105 minutes) Garrison Keillors long-running Public Radio hootenanny turns out to be the perfect vehicle for Robert Altmans fluid, chaotic humanism. The performances -- especially by Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep as a pair of singing sisters -- are so full of relaxed vitality that you almost dont notice that the film is, at heart, a wry, sober contemplation of mortality. (Scott) THE ROAD TO GUANTÁNAMO (R, 91 minutes) Michael Winterbottoms powerful, slippery new film mixes documentary and fictional techniques to tell the true story of three British Muslims imprisoned by the United States government in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. (Scott) RUSSIAN DOLLS (No rating, 129 minutes, in English, Russian, French and Spanish) The sequel to the international hit LAuberge Espagnole belongs to a long line of airy French films that induce a pleasant buzz of Euro-envy. Like its forerunner, it is a generational group portrait of young, smart, sexy, well-educated Europeans at work and play filmed in a style that might be called Truffaut Lite. (Holden) A SCANNER DARKLY (R, 100 minutes) Identities shift and melt like shadows in Richard Linklaters animated adaptation of the Philip K. Dick semispeculative novel A Scanner Darkly, a look at a future that appears an awful lot like today. With the voices and gestures of Keanu Reeves, Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder and a wonderful Robert Downey Jr. (Dargis) 71 FRAGMENTS OF A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANCE (No rating, 95 minutes) This 1994 film from that great provocateur Michael Haneke follows a handful of seemingly unrelated characters, all of whom -- perhaps by chance, perhaps by divine intervention, though mostly through artistic contrivance -- have the grave misfortune to be in an Austrian bank when a student starts unloading his revolver. (Dargis) STRANGERS WITH CANDY (R, 87 minutes) High school high jinks, adapted from the beloved Comedy Central series. The comedy is stretched a little thin by the feature length, but there are still some laughs. (Scott) SUPERMAN RETURNS (PG-13, 157 minutes) Last seen larking about on the big screen in the 1987 dud Superman IV, the Man of Steel has been resurrected in Bryan Singers leaden new film not only to fight for truth, justice and the American way, but also to give Mel Gibsons passion a run for his box-office money. Where once the superhero flew up, up and away, he now flies down, down, down, sent from above to save mankind from its sins and another bummer summer. (Dargis) WAIST DEEP (R, 97 minutes) Tyrese Gibson plays an ex-convict trying to rescue his son from ruthless criminal kidnappers in this far-from-terrible B movie, directed with style and heart by Vondie Curtis Hall. (Scott) WASSUP ROCKERS (R, 105 minutes) The latest provocation from the director and photographer Larry Clark follows a group of teenage Hispanic skateboarders from South Central Los Angeles on a 24-hour adventure that takes them from one hell (the inner city) to another (decadent Beverly Hills) and back. (Holden) * WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? (PG, 92 minutes) A murder mystery, a call to arms and an effective inducement to rage, Chris Paines film about the recent rise and fall of the electric car is the latest and one of the more successful additions to the growing ranks of issue-oriented documentaries. ( Dargis) X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (PG-13, 104 minutes) As expected, the third and presumably last film about the powerful Marvel Comics mutants who walk and often fight among us pretty much looks and plays like the first two, though perhaps with more noise and babes, and a little less glum. The credited writers here are Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn, who, like the director, Brett Ratner, are not mutant enough to fly. (Dargis) YOU, ME AND DUPREE (PG-13, 108 minutes) Owen Wilson stars as the dude who comes to dinner and stays way past dessert in Joe and Anthony Russos generally unfunny comedy. A fine Matt Dillon and a decorative Kate Hudson also star, rather more wanly. (Dargis) Film Series GREAT VILLAINS IN CINEMA (Through July 30) BAMcinématek is honoring movie bad guys, from Dracula to Michael Corleone. This weekends features include White Heat (1949), starring James Cagney as a psychotic killer with a mother fixation; and A Clockwork Orange (1971), with Malcolm McDowell as a hooligan with a taste for ultraviolence. BAM Rose Cinemas, (718) 636-4100; $10. (Anita Gates) FRANK BORZAGE, HOLLYWOOD ROMANTIC (Through Aug. 20) A 24-film retrospective of Borzage (1893-1962), one of the first directors to win an Oscar (for Seventh Heaven), continues at the Museum of the Moving Image. This weekends films include the western Until They Get Me (1917); Lazybones (1925), starring Buck Jones as a single father; and the original Humoresque (1920). 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, (718) 784-0077; $10. (Gates) HISTORIC HARLEM PARKS FESTIVAL: THROUGH AFRICAN EYES AND PRIZED PIECES (Through Aug. 3) This fifth annual outdoor festival continues Wednesday night with Zézé Gamboas Hero (2004), about a homeless veteran of the civil war in Angola. Thursday nights feature is Beyond Beats and Rhymes (2006), Byron Hurts study of sex roles in hip-hop and rap. Jackie Robinson Park, the basketball courts at 150th Street and Bradhurst Avenue, (212) 352-1720; free. (Gates) KUROSAWA (Through Sept. 18) The IFC Centers series honoring Akira Kurosawa continues Sunday and Tuesday with The Bad Sleep Well (1960), which places the Hamlet story in postwar corporate Japan. 323 Avenue of the Americas, at West Third Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 924-7771; $10.75. (Gates) PREMIERE BRAZIL! (Through Sunday) The Museum of Modern Arts fourth annual program of contemporary Brazilian film concludes this weekend with the screening of seven features. They include If I Were You (2006), Daniel Filhos satire about sex-role stereotypes, and Black Orpheus (1959), Marcel Camuss classic retelling of the Greek legend, set at Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, 11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan, (212) 708-9400; $10. (Gates) SCANNERS: THE 2006 NEW YORK VIDEO FESTIVAL (Through July 30) The Film Society of Lincoln Centers 15th annual showcase of new media begins on Wednesday. The first offerings include The Magic Bus, an 80-minute program of shorts done in mixtape style; and Believe the Hype, a tribute to the music-video director Hype Williams. Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 875-5600; $10. (Gates) Pop Full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. DICKEY BETTS AND GREAT SOUTHERN (Wednesday) Kicked out of the Allman Brothers, a band he founded, the guitarist Dickey Betts wasted no time in going back on tour with his own group. His chiming, symmetrical guitar solos and the weary but amiable voice from songs like Blue Skies are intact, and he may even have something to prove. With Kenny Wayne Shepherd. At 9:30 p.m., Beacon Theater, 2124 Broadway, at 74th Street, (212) 496-7070 or (212) 307-7171; $52. (Jon Pareles) MARY J. BLIGE (Tonight) Mary J. Blige has long been emoting through hip-hop and soul for all my sisters, my troubled sisters. Her latest, The Breakthrough (Geffen), also finds her in a duet with U2. (She steals the show.) With Jaheim and LeToya. At 8, Madison Square Garden, (212) 465-6741; $59.50 to $129.50. (Ben Sisario) * BRAND NEW (Thursday) This Long Island emo band made a quantum leap with its second album three years ago, from whiny and unchallenging breakup songs to tangles of explosive melody with brooding, sometimes horrific lyrics. What the band will come up with on the as-yet-unscheduled album No. 3 is a subject of intense speculation among fans, who quickly snatched up all tickets for this tour. At 6:30 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212) 533-2111; sold out. (Sisario) JIM CAMPILONGO, JESSE HARRIS, MIKE VIOLA (Monday) Just another night at the Living Room, a plain Lower East Side cabaret that puts on one guitar-cradling singer-songwriter after another, some of them world-class. Mr. Campilongo is a well-traveled guitar whiz who plays with Norah Jones in her country band the Little Willies; here he leads his Electric Trio. Jesse Harris, who wrote Ms. Joness hit Dont Know Why, sings in the graceful and guileless manner of Paul Simon and James Taylor when on his own. Mike Viola, jumping from piano to guitar, sings strident power-pop with some jagged wit. At 9 p.m., 154 Ludlow Street, near Stanton Street, Lower East Side, (212) 533-7235; no cover. (Sisario) * CAT POWER (Tuesday) For her most recent album, The Greatest (Matador), Chan Marshall, the superbly rueful singer known as Cat Power, recorded with a group of veteran Memphis soul players, yielding some of the most stirring -- and happiest -- music of her career. Performing solo, she is spellbindingly intense and mercurial. At 8 p.m., Hiro Ballroom at the Maritime Hotel, 371 West 16th Street, Chelsea, (212) 242-4300; $20. (Sisario) CHEB I SABBAH (Tomorrow) Indian devotional music meets the beat, now and then, in the music of DJ Cheb I Sabbah, who swirls together various styles into heady meditations. He is joined on vocals by the singer Riffat Salamat Sultana, daughter of the Pakistani singer Ustad Salamat Ali Khan. At 7 p.m., Central Park SummerStage, Rumsey Playfield, midpark at 70th Street, (212) 360-2777; free, but a donation is suggested. (Pareles) BLOSSOM DEARIE (Tomorrow and Sunday) To watch this singer and pianist is to appreciate the power of a carefully deployed pop-jazz minimalism combined with a highly discriminating taste in songs. The songs date from all periods of a career remarkable for its longevity and for Ms. Dearies stubborn independence and sly wit. Tomorrow at 7 p.m., Sunday at 6:15 p.m., Dannys Skylight Room, 346 West 46th Street, Clinton, (212) 265-8133; $25, with a $15 minimum, or $54.50 for a dinner-and-show package.(Stephen Holden) DON CABALLERO (Tonight) In the mid-1990s, Don Caballero, from Pittsburgh, was one of a handful of overachieving guitar bands whose knotty, laser-precise and deliberately undanceable instrumentals exemplified the fittingly named subgenre math-rock. The band broke up six years ago, but its drummer, Damon Che, has repopulated it with new players; its new album, World Class Listening Problem (Relapse), suggests that there was more to the old groups appeal than just math. With Blind Idiot God, Alger Hiss, Houston McCoy and the Victoria Lucas. At 8, Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212) 219-3006; $13. (Sisario) DOT DASH YEAR IV (Thursday) Each summer Dot Dash, a little concert promoter in Brooklyn devoted to punk and garage-rock, throws a festival with some big-deal reunions -- big deals in the small and passionate world of garage-rock, anyway. This year its three-day series begins on Thursday with the return of the Dicks, a Texas band from the early 1980s that sang ragged and churlish complaints with titles like Hate the Police. Also on the bill are the Marked Men, the Carbonas and Live Fast Die. The highlight of the festival will be an appearance by Rocket From the Tombs on July 29. At 8 p.m., Southpaw, 125 Fifth Avenue, near Sterling Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 230-0236; $17. (Sisario) EARLY MAN, BAD WIZARD, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD (Tuesday) The best retro bands do not just conjure up an old artist or even a specific era, but freely toy with their influences to suggest a past that never quite existed. Three Inches of Blood updates the galloping, swords-and-goblins rock of early-1980s groups like Iron Maiden and Manowar with harsh streaks of violence that recall later death-metal. Early Man, on its debut album, Closing In (Matador), begins in the comforting mud of Black Sabbath and ends airborne, with a speed and control that comes down from Metallica. Also on the bill is Bad Wizard, whose plodding re-creations of Grand Funk Railroad and Kiss illustrate a less imaginative kind of retro-rock. At 8 p.m., Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212) 219-3132; $12 in advance, $14 at the door. (Sisario) MELISSA ETHERIDGE (Monday through Wednesday) Love takes on heroic dimensions in the songs of Melissa Etheridge. She puts her own mark on the brawny guitar riffs and raspy-voiced melodies of 1980s heartland rock, as adoring audiences sing along. At 8 p.m., Theater at Madison Square Garden, (212) 465-6741; $39.50 to $104.50. (Pareles) GOLDEN SMOG (Wednesday) Even heartsick alt-country has its celebrity supergroups. Golden Smog includes Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Dan Murphy of Soul Asylum, Gary Louris and Marc Perlman of the Jayhawks, and Kraig Johnson of Run Westy Run. Opening the show is David Poe, a singer and guitarist, whose wit and sparkle come through largely between songs. At 8 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, near the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111; sold out. (Sisario) HOLD STEADY (Thursday) Like the E Street Band fronted by Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, the Hold Steady -- from Brooklyn, though with Minneapolis origins -- plays bare-knuckled guitar-rock while its singer, Craig Finn, free-associates about religion and sex in a boozy snarl. I guess I heard about original sin, he growls. I heard the dude blamed the chick. At 7 p.m., Castle Clinton National Monument, Battery Park, Lower Manhattan, (212) 835-2789. Free; tickets available at 5 p.m., two per person. (Sisario) JONATHAN KANE (Tomorrow) John Lee Hooker meets La Monte Young in the droning, bluesy incantations of Mr. Kane, a mainstay in the downtown avant-garde scene who has played drums with Swans, Rhys Chatham and Gary Lucas. He has a drummers sense of steady dynamic development and an unapologetic love of noise. He plays two shows. At 2 p.m., with Dragons of Zynth, Home and Taiko Masala, East River Amphitheater, East River Park, south of Delancey Street, Lower East Side, ermp.org; free. At 9 p.m., with Golden Tongues, Mahi Mahi and Ambitious Orchestra, Sin-é, 150 Attorney Street, Lower East Side, (212) 388-0077; $10. (Sisario) * JASON LYTLE (Tomorrow and Monday) In Grandaddy, Mr. Lytle sang as if he were Neil Young trapped inside a computer chip: with a voice tiny and yet infinite, yearning to be fully human yet stuck within the strictures of the information age. Grandaddy recently released its final album, Just Like the Fambly Cat (V2), but it is an unsatisfying epitaph; fans will crowd these rare solo shows for hints of a new direction. Tomorrow at 7 p.m., Monday at 9:30 p.m., Joes Pub, Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 239-6200; $20. (Sisario) MALDITA VECINDAD, KONONO NO. 1, DAARA J (Sunday) What do a ska-flavored Mexican hard-rock band, a Congolese group that makes trance music from amplified thumb pianos and a Senegalese rap trio have in common? Not much except that they can all be lumped into the world-music category, however puzzlingly. Maldita Vecindad paints its ska rhythms with ominous, distorted metal. Konono No. 1 titled one album Congotronics, an apt term for its polyrhythmic bubblings of amplified likembés -- hand-held thumb pianos made from thin strips of medal. Daara J speed-raps in at least four languages: English, French, Spanish and Wolof. At 3 p.m., Central Park SummerStage, Rumsey Playfield, midpark at 70th Street, (212) 360-2777; free, but a donation is suggested. Maldita Vecindad also plays Sunday night at S.O.B.s, and Konono No. 1 plays there on Monday. At 8 and 10:30, 204 Varick Street, at Houston Street, South Village, (212) 243-4940; $22 in advance, $25 at the door on Sunday; $25 in advance, $28 at the door on Monday. (Sisario) THOMAS MAPFUMO AND THE BLACKS UNLIMITED (Tuesday) A musical pioneer with a rebels courage, Thomas Mapfumo made music for the revolutionaries who unseated the white-ruled government from what was Rhodesia and is now Zimbabwe. The music transferred the brisk patterns of traditional thumb-piano music to guitar; the words sometimes sent coded messages. At 8 and 10:30 p.m., S.O.B.s, 204 Varick Street, at Houston Street, South Village, (212) 243-4940; $20 in advance, $22 at the door. (Pareles) JOHN MAYALL AND THE BLUESBREAKERS (Tonight) In the 1960s John Mayall ran the premier finishing school for British blues-rock guitarists: at various times his band -- still called the Bluesbreakers despite 40-odd years of lineup changes -- included the young Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor (later of the Rolling Stones) and Peter Green (later of Fleetwood Mac), among others. At 8 and 10:30, B. B. King Blues Club and Grill, 243 West 42nd Street, (212) 997-4144; $30. (Sisario) OAKLEY HALL (Tonight) Patient country-folk mutates into dense psychedelic drones in the songs of this Brooklyn band led by Pat Sullivan, a former member of Brooklyns other masters of psychedelic minimalism, Oneida. With Mike Wexler, Black Taj and Endless Boogie. At 8:30, Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, at Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, (212) 260-4700; $10. (Sisario) * OS MUTANTES (Tonight) The oddest, most exuberant and most wonderfully innovative band of the late-1960s tropicália movement in Brazil -- when there was no shortage of odd, exuberant and wonderfully innovative musicians -- was Os Mutantes (the Mutants), which filtered American and British psychedelic and garage-rock through bossa nova and a do-what-thou-wilt pop-art philosophy. The band broke up in 1978, and before this brief tour -- with some but not all of its original members -- had never performed in the United States. With Death Vessel. At 6:30, Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212) 533-2111; $50. (Sisario) PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES, JASON LYTLE (Sunday) In the weeks before the concert giant Live Nation begins to put on big-ticket concerts at the McCarren Park Pool in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (its first there is Bloc Party on July 29), a number of smaller, scrappier promoters have been using the space -- a 50,000-square-foot public pool closed since 1984 -- for free shows. Sunday afternoon features Pretty Girls Make Graves, a Seattle band with a knack for angular, heartfelt melodies that cut through clouds of noise; and Mr. Lytle, the lead singer of Grandaddy, who is in town this weekend for a few appearances (see above). With Bon Savants. At 3 p.m., Lorimer Street, between Driggs Avenue and Bayard Street, thepoolparties.com. (Sisario) RASPUTINA (Tonight) Rasputina is a charmingly improbable project: part Marie Antoinette, part metal. Three women who are cellists in corsets (as well as a drummer) sing about Transylvanian concubines as their music seesaws between elaborate chamber-music counterpoint and grunting hard-rock chords, complete with distortion. At 9, Warsaw, 261 Driggs Avenue, at Eckford Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, (718) 387-0505; $20. (Pareles) BUTCH WALKER AND THE LETS GO OUT TONITES (Wednesday) Mr. Walker first revealed his fondness for muscular mid-1970s pop-rock and his mocking obsession with stardom as the leader of the Marvelous 3. Now on his own, he hasnt lost his ambition or his sense of irony. With Boys Like Girls and As Fast As. At 8 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, at 15th Street, Manhattan, (212) 777-6800; sold out. (Pareles) Jazz Full reviews of recent jazz concerts: nytimes.com/music. STEVEN BERNSTEINS MILLENNIAL TERRITORY ORCHESTRA (Tonight and Monday) This little big band, led by the irrepressible slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein, has a forthcoming album called MTO Volume 1 (Sunnyside) that is full of signature touches, like effervescent swing arrangements and covers of hits by Prince and Stevie Wonder. Tonight at 7, Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, at Seventh Avenue, Manhattan, (212) 620-5000, Ext. 344, www.rmanyc.org; $20. Monday at 8 p.m., Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side, (212) 358-7501; cover, $12. (Nate Chinen) MICHAEL BLAKES EULIPION ORCHESTRA (Sunday) Mr. Blake, a resourceful tenor and soprano saxophonist, leads a group inspired partly by the classic work of composer-arrangers like Gil Evans and Yusef Lateef. Its ranks include Marcus Rojas on tuba, Steven Bernstein on trumpet, Peck Almond on woodwinds and G. Calvin Weston on drums. At 9:30 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village, (212) 929-9883; cover, $8. (Chinen) DON BYRON QUARTET (Wednesday through July 30) Mr. Byron is justifiably known for his independent-minded concept albums -- his next one will shine a spotlight on the rhythm-and-blues saxophonist Junior Walker -- but he is, first and foremost, a daring clarinetist. He plays here with several longtime associates: the trumpeter Ralph Alessi, the bassist Lonnie Plaxico and the drummer Billy Hart. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232; cover, $25, $30 on July 28 and 29. (Chinen) STEVE CARDENAS TRIO (Monday) A guitarist with a modern harmonic concept and a clear yet supple style, Mr. Cardenas features his own compositions in this group, which includes the established rhythm team of Ben Allison on bass and Matt Wilson on drums. At 10 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village, (212) 929-9883; cover, $8. (Chinen) * CELEBRATION OF RAY BARRETTO & HILTON RUIZ (Tuesday through July 30) Standards Rican-ditioned, recently issued on Zoho Music, was the final studio album of the conga virtuoso Ray Barretto. It also turned out to be the last recorded effort by the pianist Hilton Ruiz. Both were New York-born musicians of Puerto Rican heritage and were pillars of Latin jazz. This tribute, fittingly programmed as the culmination of Dizzys Club Coca-Colas monthlong Latin in Manhattan Festival, includes Mr. Barrettos son Chris Barretto, as well as a two more-established saxophonists, Sonny Fortune and David Sánchez. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. with an 11:30 p.m. set July 28 and 29, Dizzys Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, (212) 258-9595; cover, $30, with a minimum of $10 at tables, $5 at the bar. (Chinen) KARL DENSON TRIO (Monday) Funk and soul are at the heart of Mr. Densons music, whether hes leading his signature band, Tiny Universe, or spotlighting his alto saxophone in this smaller unit, with Anthony Smith on keyboards and Brett Sanders on drums. At 8 and 10:30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village, (212) 475-8592; cover, $25 at tables, $15 at the bar, with a $5 minimum. (Chinen) ORRIN EVANS QUINTET (Tomorrow) Mr. Evans is a percussive pianist equally attuned to hard bop and hip-hop, and he often surrounds himself with rhythmically assertive sidemen. Here that company includes the saxophonists Abraham Burton and J. D. Allen, the bassist Luques Curtins and the drummer Donald Edwards. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, South Village, (212) 242-1063; cover, $15. (Chinen) MICHAEL FORMANEK, TIM BERNE, TOM RAINEY (Tomorrow) These three -- respectively a bassist, an alto saxophonist and a drummer -- have worked together often over the years, usually under the leadership of Mr. Berne. Here they perform as a collective, though the order of billing seems intentional: Mr. Formanek will also lead a preconcert instrumental workshop from 4 to 6 p.m. The concert begins at 8 p.m., Center for Improvisational Music, 295 Douglass Street, near Third Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (212) 631-5882, www.schoolforimprov.org; cover, $12, with a separate $25 charge for the afternoon workshop. (Chinen) JON GORDON QUINTET (Tuesday) Mr. Gordon, an alto and soprano saxophonist, projects standards through a slightly warped lens, with the help of Mike Moreno on guitar, Aaron Goldberg on piano, Joe Martin on bass and Adam Cruz on drums. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232; cover, $20. (Chinen) WYCLIFFE GORDON QUARTET (Wednesday) Mr. Gordon, a high-spirited trombonist and one of the most authoritative soloists in the Jazz and Lincoln Center Orchestra, leads a swing-minded small group in a free outdoor show. At 7 p.m., Grants Tomb, 122nd Street and Riverside Drive, Manhattan, www.jazzmobile.org; free. (Chinen) DAVID HANEY TRIO +1 (Sunday) Mr. Haney is a pianist drawn to experimental settings, and he creates a promising one here, with the bassist Mike Bisio, the drummer Adam Lane and as a featured guest, the veteran trombonist Julian Priester. At 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212) 989-9319; cover, $12, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen) FRED HERSCH TRIO (Wednesday) Mr. Hersch, a pianist strongly associated with solo recitals, leads a trio for this outdoor performance, and not with his usual partners. But the bassist John Hebert and the drummer Eric McPherson should make an excellent rhythm section, and each has experience with Mr. Herschs literate and cosmopolitan style. At 7 p.m., Madison Square Park, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street, (212) 538-6667, www.madisonsquarepark.org; free. (Chinen) THE INBETWEENS (Tuesday) Based in Brooklyn but with origins in Boston at the New England Conservatory of Music, this exploratory trio consists of the guitarist Mike Gamble, the bassist Noah Jarrett and the drummer Conor Elmes. At 8 p.m., Zebulon, 258 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 218-6934; no cover. (Chinen) * JAZZ IN JULY (Tuesday through Thursday) A year ago the pianist Bill Charlap presided over his first season as artistic director of this venerable traditional jazz series. The new season, which started a few days ago, concludes next week with a professional nod to the bossa-nova auteur Antonio Carlos Jobim on Tuesday; a piano summit involving Barry Harris and Cedar Walton, among others, on Wednesday; and a songbook salute to Harold Arlen, featuring Mr. Charlaps mother, the accomplished singer Sandy Stewart, on Thursday. At 8 p.m. each night, 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, (212) 415-5500 or www.92y.org, $50.(Chinen) LAGE LUND QUINTET (Tonight) Mr. Lund is an introspective guitarist whose compositional style can suggest the pastoral warmth of Brian Blades Fellowship. Its no accident that his quintet includes a member of Fellowship, the pianist and composer Jon Cowherd, along with the alto-saxophonist Will Vinson, the bassist Matt Penman and the drummer Rodney Green. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, South Village, (212) 242-1063; cover, $15. (Chinen) DONNY MCCASLIN GROUP (Wednesday) As on Soar (Sunnyside), his most recent album, the tenor-saxophonist Donny McCaslin applies his extroverted style to a Latin American-inspired contemporary fusion, benefiting greatly from the contributions of the guitarist Ben Monder, the bassist Scott Colley and the drummer Antonio Sanchez. At 10 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village, (212) 929-9883; cover, $10. (Chinen) MODULAR THEATER (Tonight) Collective improvisation is the mode and mission of this ensemble, comprising the trumpeter Ralph Alessi, the alto saxophonist Peter Epstein, the vocalist Will Jennings, the bassist Chris Lightcap and the drummer Mark Ferber. At 8 p.m., Center for Improvisational Music, 295 Douglass Street, near Third Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (212) 631-5882, www.schoolforimprov.org; cover, $12. (Chinen) The MPTHREE (Wednesday) Mike Pride, an intense and industrious drummer, introduces his song cycle Sour Work Dreams with an adventurous if goofily titled ensemble that also features Ken Filiano on bass and Mary Halvorson on guitar. At 8 p.m., the Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, East Village, www.thestonenyc.com; cover, $10. (Chinen) KEVIN NORTON AND JOHN LINDBERG (Wednesday) Mr. Norton is a probing drummer, vibraphonist and composer, although not always in that order; Mr. Lindberg is a versatile and imaginative bassist who also has a way with orchestration. Their interplay promises to be engagingly multilayered. At 8 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-9177; cover, $8. (Chinen) GREG OSBY QUARTET (Tuesday through July 30) Mr. Osby is an alto saxophonist with a predilection for jagged edges, and yet hes squarely within the jazz tradition. His rhythm section here consists of the pianist Frank LoCrasto, the bassist Matt Brewer and the drummer Tommy Crane. 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, West Village, (212) 255-4037; cover, $20, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) PAN ASIAN CHAMBER JAZZ ENSEMBLE (Wednesday) Led by the violinist, violist and vocalist Meg Okura, this six-piece group explores a contemporary chamber music infused with multicultural echoes and an ethos of improvisation. At 7:30 p.m., Makor, 35 West 67th Street, near Central Park West, (212) 415-5500; cover, $12. (Chinen) THE PAVONE SHOW (Thursday) An evening organized around the compositions of the violist Jessica Pavone, with such like-minded explorers as the trumpeter Peter Evans, the saxophonists Matana Roberts and Matt Bauder and the percussionist Aaron Siegel. At 8 p.m., the Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, East Village, www.thestonenyc.com; cover, $10. (Chinen) TIERNEY SUTTON (Wednesday through July 29) Ms. Suttons clear, sweetly sonorous voice isnt inherently a jazz timbre, but she is irrefutably a jazz singer, as she proved on her fine recent album, Im With the Band (Telarc), which was recorded at Birdland. 9 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, (212) 581-3080; cover, $40, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) CLARK TERRY BIG BAND (Tuesday through July 30) Mr. Terrys big-band experience is extensive: from the late-1940s on, he served successively in the orchestras of Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Quincy Jones. Here Mr. Terry, an octogenarian trumpet and flugelhorn player, applies a lifetime of wit and experience to his swinging ensemble. 8 and 10:30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village, (212) 475-8592. Cover: $35 at tables, $20 at the bar, with a $5 minimum. (Chinen) * HENRY THREADGILLS ZOOID (Through Sunday) Mr. Threadgill, the august composer, saxophonist and flutist, has always nursed a fascination with timbre. He indulges it best with this superb ensemble, with Liberty Ellman on acoustic guitar, Dana Leong on cello, Jose Davila on tuba, Tarik Benbrahim on oud and Dafnis Prieto on drums. At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m., with an additional midnight show tonight and tomorrow night, Iridium, 1650 Broadway, at 51st Street, (212) 582-2121; cover, $30, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) TAKE TORIYAMA QUARTET (Sunday) Mr. Toriyama divides his attention between drumming and computer programming in this modern-sounding ensemble, which features the alto saxophonist and bass clarinetist Andrew DAngelo, the bassist Chris Lightcap and the guitarist Ben Monder. At 7 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-9177; cover, $8. (Chinen) Classical Full reviews of recent music performances: nytimes.com/music. Opera DON GIOVANNI, AN EVENING OF OPERA ACTS (Tonight through Sunday) The New York-born soprano Martina Arroyo, who had a long career at the Metropolitan Opera, has in recent years been immersed in the work of the Martina Arroyo Foundation, which provides training and performance opportunities for fledgling singers. This weekend the foundation presents a fully staged production of Mozarts Don Giovanni, directed by Laura Alley and conducted by Steven Crawford, and An Evening of Opera Acts, with excerpts from Don Pasquale, Madama Butterfly and Falstaff, conducted by Willie Anthony Waters, the general and artistic director of the Connecticut Opera Association. Don Giovanni, tonight at 7:30 and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.; opera acts, tomorrow at 7:30 p.m.; El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, at 104th Street, East Harlem, (347) 677-3854; $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $10 for students and 65+. (Anthony Tommasini) * GLIMMERGLASS OPERA (Tonight through Monday, and Thursday) The drive from New York City to the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, N.Y., typically takes four hours, no matter what route you choose. But it is worth the trip. The companys intimate, airy and well-equipped house is an ideal place to hear opera. And the imaginative productions, which often wind up at New York City Opera, are best seen in their tryouts at Cooperstown. Tomorrow brings the major event of the season: the premiere of Stephen Hartkes opera The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif. Also playing this week are Gilbert and Sullivans Pirates of Penzance in a production by Lillian Groag and Rossinis Barbiere di Siviglia in a production by Leon Major. Pirates, tonight and Thursday night at 8; The Greater Good, tomorrow night at 8 and Monday at 1:30 p.m.; Barbiere, Sunday at 1:30 p.m.; Route 80, north of Cooperstown, N.Y., (607) 547-2255; $64 to $112 tonight through Sunday; $36 to $99 Monday and Thursday. (Tommasini) * HANSEL AND GRETEL (Monday and Thursday) Humperdincks orchestration for his opera Hansel and Gretel is rich and Wagnerian. But in some performances it can overwhelm this lyrical fairy tale. Kathleen Kelly, the music director of the Berkshire Opera, has prepared a chamber orchestra arrangement for that companys new fully staged production of the opera, to be performed in a new English translation by Cori Ellison at the intimate and magnificently restored theater of the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Mass. Ms. Kelly, an assistant conductor and coach at the Met, conducts. At 8 p.m., (413) 442-0099; $35 to $85. (Tommasini) NEW JERSEY OPERA THEATER (Tonight through Sunday) Founded in 2002, the New Jersey Opera Theater is striving to become the states preeminent opera company. Besides presenting performances, the company also offers master classes and educational outreach programs. The final weekend of its summer season features Mozarts Così Fan Tutte in a production by Albert Sherman, conducted by Steven Mosteller; and an intriguing double bill of Puccinis comedy Gianni Schicchi and Buosos Ghost, a one-act work from 1996 by the composer Michael Ching. Buosos Ghost picks up the story of the clever Schicchi where Puccinis opera leaves off. Steven Condy sings Schicchi in both works; James Caraher conducts. Schicchi and Buoso, tonight at 8 and Sunday afternoon at 2; Così, tomorrow night at 8; Berlind Theater at the McCarter Theater Center, 91 University Place, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., (609) 258-2787; $42 and $49. (Tommasini) Classical Music BANG ON A CAN SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL (Tomorrow) Each summer since 2002, New Yorks dynamic new music collective Bang on a Can has moved north for its annual Banglewood residency at Mass MoCA. Tomorrow is its All-Stars program, which includes the premiere of David Langs Sunray, Michael Nymans score to the classic silent film Manhatta, a new work by Don Byron and pieces by Annie Gosfield and Edward Ruchalski. At 8 p.m., 7 Marshall Street, North Adams, Mass., (413) 662-2111; $35. (Vivien Schweitzer) BEOWULF (Tonight and tomorrow night) Benjamin Bagbys short, fast, one-man take on the Beowulf story is part of the Lincoln Center Festival. At 8:30, Drama Theater at La Guardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts, Amsterdam Avenue at 65th Street, (212) 721-6500; $45. (Bernard Holland) Christine Brewer (Tomorrow) This fine soprano will sing Wagners Wesendonck Lieder in the intimate barn at the Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, as part of the Tannery Pond Concerts series. She will be accompanied by the pianist Craig Rutenberg in an eclectic program that also includes songs by Richard Strauss, Joseph Marx, John Carter, Harold Arlen, Samuel Barber and Edwin McArthur. At 8 p.m., New Lebanon, N.Y., (888) 820-9441; $25 and 30. (Schweitzer) INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD INSTITUTE AND FESTIVAL (Tonight through Thursday) During the slow summer months, concertgoers who love the piano have plenty to keep them happy during the two weeks of this series at Mannes College, directed by the pianist Jerome Rose. Tonight Leslie Howard explores The Russian Romantic Piano Sonata with works by Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Rachmaninoff and Anton Rubinstein. There are also recitals by the veteran pianists Fou Tsong (Tuesday) and Philippe Bianconi (Wednesday). At 8 p.m., Mannes College, a division of the New School for Music, 150 West 85th Street, Manhattan, (212) 580-0210, Ext. 4858; $20 for evening recitals, $15 for master classes, $10 for afternoon concerts. (Tommasini) MARLBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL (Tomorrow and Sunday) Public concerts are the byproduct of this intensive-study chamber-music retreat. Beethoven and Brahms quintets and a Dvorak trio are offered Saturday at 8:30. Its Mozart, Shostakovich and more Beethoven Sunday at 2:30, Marlboro Music School and Festival, Marlboro, Vt., (802) 254-2394; $15 to $30; $5 for canopy areas. (Holland) * MAVERICK CONCERTS (Tomorrow and Sunday) This concert series near Woodstock, N.Y., offers its performances in an open-backed barn that allows the sounds of nature to mingle with the music. Tomorrow, Trio Solisti plays music by Gershwin and Paul Schoenfield, as well as an arrangement of Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition. On Sunday, the Pacific String Quartet plays Shostakovichs searing Quartet No. 8, Brittens Quartet No. 2 and Mozarts Dissonant Quartet. Tomorrow at 6 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m., Maverick Concert Hall, Maverick Road, between Routes 28 and 375, West Hurley, N.Y., (845) 679-8217; $20; $5 for students. (Allan Kozinn) THOMAS MEGLIORANZA (Monday) Mr. Meglioranza, a young baritone who is fast making a name for himself singing a wide repertory, appears in the annual River to River Festival, accompanied by the able Reiko Uchida. Mr. Meglioranzas intriguingly eclectic program ranges from Schubert lieder to works by Derek Bermel and Milton Babbitt. At 7:30 p.m., Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce Street, near Park Row, Lower Manhattan, (212) 835-2789; free, but tickets are required. (Schweitzer) NORFOLK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL (Tonight and tomorrow night) Bach and Kurtag occupy tonights concert by the Keller Quartet. Tomorrow its all Mozart, with instrumental duos, songs and arias. At 8, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Routes 44 and 272, Norfolk, Conn., (860) 542-3000; $15 to $45. (Holland) S.E.M. ENSEMBLE (Tuesday) The composer Petr Kotiks daring S.E.M. Ensemble performs the works of established and emerging composers in John Zorns avant-garde performance space, the Stone. The 8 p.m. set features Reiko Fütings Leaving Without/Palimpsest for piano and clarinet, Sam Hillmers the night sweats and the day sweats , Anne Guthries Margaret or Olivier and Morton Feldmans Why Patterns? The 10 p.m. program includes Julius Eastmans Piano 2, La Monte Youngs Composition #7 1960 and John Cages Ryoanji. Avenue C at Second Street, East Village, thestonenyc.com; $10. (Schweitzer) * SUMMERGARDEN (Sunday) The student ensembles from the Juilliard School who play these concerts tend to be devoted to contemporary music and play it with virtuosity and polish. The works, all new to New York, include Pablo Ortizs Falling From Grace, Betty Oliveros Bashrav, Alberto Collas Fugue on Thin Ice, Philip Carlsens Landscape With Ladyslipper, Wen Deqings Traces II and Martin Butlers Jazz Machines. At 8 p.m., Museum of Modern Art Sculpture Garden, West 54th Street between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas, (212) 708-9491; free. (Kozinn) TANGLEWOOD (Tonight through Sunday) With all the hoopla over James Levines return to conducting, dont forget its still the Mozart year. Tanglewood and Mr. Levine, leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra, remember this weekend. Tonight its Mozart with the singer Susan Graham and the pianist Richard Goode. Tomorrow its Don Giovanni in concert, and on Sunday more Mozart. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8:30, Sunday at 2:30 p.m., Lenox, Mass., (866) 266-1200; $18 to $87 tonight, with $8.50 lawn tickets; $18 to $87 tomorrow and Sunday, with $17 lawn tickets. (Holland) Dance Full reviews of recent performances: nytimes.com/dance. CAPACITOR: DIGGING IN THE DARK (Tonight through Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday) From San Francisco, for hard-core fans of dances about geology. Call first to make sure the theater fans have been turned on. Through July 30. Tonight through Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m., American Theater of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, Manhattan, (212) 352-3101 or www.capacitor.org; $35.(Jennifer Dunning) * CELEBRATE BROOKLYN: RONALD K. BROWN/EVIDENCE (Tomorrow) The company will perform three works, including Grace, created for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater by Mr. Brown, whose African-influenced modern-dance choreography has had a major influence on dance today. 8 p.m. Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West and Ninth Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-8999 or www.prospectpark.org; $3 suggested contribution. (Dunning) CHASHAMA OASIS FESTIVAL 2006 (Today and Sunday) Artists of all disciplines -- some, we suspect, wildly undisciplined in the grand tradition of Chashama productions -- will perform in a Midtown window and outdoors. Today from noon to 1:30 p.m. and 5:30 to 7 p.m., Chashama window performance, 217 East 42nd Street, between Second and Third Avenues, Manhattan. Sunday from 3 to 4 p.m. and 5 to 6 p.m., Red Shade Plaza, Riverside Park South, 62nd Street at the Hudson River, Manhattan, (212) 391-8151 or www.chashama.org. (Dunning) COMPANY C CONTEMPORARY BALLET (Tonight through Sunday) A 12-member ballet troupe from San Francisco with an eclectic repertory presents works by Twyla Tharp, Patrick Corbin, Alexander Proia and its director, Charles Anderson. 8 p.m., Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, (212) 334-7479; $25, $20 students and 65+. (Jack Anderson) DANCE TACTICS PERFORMANCE GROUP BY KEITH THOMPSON (Thursday) The company makes its formal debut with dances choreographed by Keith A. Thompson, who performed with Trisha Brown, and set to music by Pergolesi, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Een and Nate Aldrich. Through July 29. 7:30 p.m. Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea; (212) 924-0077 or www.dtw.org; $12, $20. (Dunning) DECADANCETHEATER (Thursday) This all-female hip-hop group from Brooklyn won plaudits for its reworking of Stravinskys Firebird two years ago. Now its members are trying their hand at a 12th-century Japanese ghost story. But not to worry: there will be a live D.J. 8 p.m. Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street; (212) 334-7479. Thursday benefit tickets begin at $50.(Roslyn Sulcas) HEIDI DUCKLER COLLAGE DANCE THEATER (Tonight through Sunday) Ms. Duckler is known as Los Angeless queen of site-specific performance, the press release says. This production of Laundromatinee, part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Councils Sitelines performances, may well show she deserves claim to the title. It involves dancers spinning in dryers and hanging from clotheslines, then -- this sounds like the best bit -- removing their clothes to sing Stand By Your Man. 8.30 p.m., Laundromat, 168 Elizabeth Street, between Spring and Kenmare Streets; (212) 219-9401, www.lmcc.net/sitelines; free. (Sulcas) * JACOBS PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL (Tonight through Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday) Dance companies from Finland, Spain, India and Denmark occupy the week. The highly regarded Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen and his company, accompanied by Shaker vocalists, will be in the larger Ted Shawn Theater through the weekend. They will be followed there on Wednesday and Thursday (and next weekend) by Eva Yerbabuenas Ballet Flamenco from Spain. In the smaller Doris Duke Studio Theater, Nrityagram, a highly regarded Indian ensemble specializing in Odissi dance, plays through the weekend, and moving in on Thursday through next weekend is the Danish Dance Theater, billed as that countrys leading modern-dance ensemble. Mr. Saarinens company, tonight at 8, tomorrow at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m.; $50. Yerbabuena, Wednesday and Thursday nights at 8, Shawn Theater, $50. Nrityagram tonight and tomorrow night at 8:15, tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m.;.$24. Danish Dance Theater, Thursday at 8:15 p.m., Duke Theater, $24. Ten percent off all tickets for students, seniors 65+ and children. Details of the weeks free performances and exhibitions are at jacobspillow.org. Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, 358 George Carter Road, Becket, Mass., (413) 243-0745. (John Rockwell) PAULA HUNTER (Tonight and tomorrow) Ms. Hunter will perform I Am Karen Finley, an absurdist performance solo, as a free dance installation in a window in the Theater District. 5 and 7:30 p.m., Chashama, 112 West 44th Street, (212) 391-8151 or chashama.org. (Dunning) JPMORGAN CHASE LATINO CULTURAL FESTIVAL (Wednesday) The ubiquitous Noche Flamenca will open this festival, with dancing by Soledad Barrio, Alejandro Granados and Juan Ogalla. 8 p.m. Queens Theater in the Park, Flushing Meadows, Queens, (718) 760-0064 or www.QueensTheatre.org; $30 in advance, $35 at the door. (Dunning) * LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL (Tonight, tomorrow and Tuesday through Thursday) The Batsheva Dance Company continues its performances of Ohad Naharins new Telophaza tonight and tomorrow night at 8 at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center; $25 to $65. Also this weekend, Saburo Teshigawa, the Japanese master solo dancer, is performing his new Bones in Pages tonight and tomorrow night at 8 at the Rose Theater, 60th Street and Broadway, at Columbus Circle; $20 to $50. Next week the San Francisco Ballet performs at the New York State Theater starting Tuesday. The opening-night gala, at 8, includes solos, pas de deux and excerpts from repertory dances by choreographers, including Jerome Robbins; the company director, Helgi Tomasson; Lar Lubovitch; and Yuri Possokhov. The San Francisco Ballets production of Mark Morriss Sylvia is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday nights at 8; $30 to $75. And Yasmeen Godder and the Bloody Bench Players will perform Ms. Godders new Strawberry Cream and Gunpowder on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the La Guardia Drama Theater, Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street. Through July 29; $35. For reservations and information on all performances: (212) 721-6500 or www.lincolncenter.org. (Dunning) NEW GENERATION DANCE COMPANY (Thursday) Company founder and director Dardo Galletto mixes ballet, tango and modern dance and his Black-White Tango, whose cast includes guest dancers from American Ballet Theater and Forever Tango. Through July 30. Thursday at 8 p.m. Henry Street Settlement, 466 Grand Street, Lower East Side; (646) 342-9910; $30, $45 for opening-night gala. (Dunning) *NOCHE FLAMENCA WITH SOLEDAD BARRIO (Saturday, Sunday and Thursday) Ms. Barrio is a remarkable dancer, serious and impassioned, and the hit of last winters Flamenco Gala at City Center. Her Spanish company, founded with her husband, Martin Santangelo, is winding down its two-month run at the intimate Theater 80, which will end July 30. Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2 and 5 p.m., Thursday at 8 p.m., Theater 80, 80 St. Marks Place, East Village, (212) 352-3101 or theatermania.com; $45.(Rockwell) * PILOBOLUS (Tonight and tomorrow, Monday through Thursday) The grandfather of the current crop of Nikolais-inspired, Cirque du Soleil-like acrobatic dance troupes with spectacular visual effects. A little mindless, but enormously popular for people of all ages. Three programs alternate for the run ending Aug. 12. Tonight, tomorrow and Monday through Thursday at 8 p.m. and tomorrow at 2 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 242-0800 or joyce.org, $42. (Rockwell) RIVER DEEP: A TRIBUTE TO TINA TURNER (Tonight, tomorrow and Tuesday through Thursday) Gabrielle Lansner pays tribute to Ms. Turner, who is played by Pat Hall, in a multimedia production set to music by Philip Hamilton. Through July 29. Tonight and Tuesday through Thursday at 8 p.m.; tomorrow at 2 and 8 p.m. Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 416 West 42nd Street, Clinton; (212) 279-4200 or gabriellelansner.com; $35. (Dunning) SUMMER IN THE SQUARE (Wednesday) As part of the Union Square Parks outdoor performance series, Performance Space 122 will present excerpts from the coming season. Saar Harari, whose Herd of Bulls was enthusiastically received last fall, will perform a section from Moopim; the Palissimo dance company will perform Pavel Zustiaks Le Petit Mort; and Chris Yon will dance with Taryn Griggs in the mysteriously titled Elephant (Terrible) Assisted Suicide [in ought 6]. 6 p.m., Union Square Park, East 14th to East 17th Street, Manhattan; free. (Sulcas) * TAP CITY 2006 (Tonight and tomorrow) This spirited summer festival suggests that camaraderie and a sense of community are not dead in tap dance, on stage and in the audience. It includes two programs. Tap and Song, a celebration of traditional vaudeville, comedy and classic song-and-dance, stars the irrepressible Tony Waag, the festivals founder and director. He will be joined by a generous roster of artists, including the veteran tapper Mable Lee, the German Tap and Tray duo, the chic two-woman Tapage and the hoedown tapper Nate Cooper. Tap Forward features familiar tap soloists, cutting-edge types and up-and-comers. Tap and Song is tonight at 7 and 9:30 p.m.; Tap Forward is tomorrow at 7 and 9:30 p.m., the Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street; (212) 239-6200 or www.atdf.org; $40. (Dunning) THOMAS-ORTIZ DANCE (Tonight and tomorrow) Ted Thomas and Frances Ortiz combine urban athleticism and Latin sensuality in choreographic explorations of socially relevant themes. 7:30 p.m., Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea; (212) 924-0077; $15, $25. (Anderson) * CASSIE TERMAN AND SHINICHI MOMO KOGA (Tonight and tomorrow) Ms. Terman and Mr. Koga create a world full of humor and pathos out of empty space and perfectly attuned physical-theater skills. 8 p.m., Center for Remembering and Sharing, 123 Fourth Avenue, between 12th and 13th Streets, Manhattan; (212) 352-3101; $15. (Dunning) YOUNG DANCEMAKERS COMPANY (Thursday) These choreographers -- New York City high school students chosen by audition for a summer intensive in dance technique, performing and making dances -- know how to put on a very good show. Its free, too. Their tour of city sites continues through Aug. 3. Thursday at 2 p.m. Stern Auditorium, Mount Sinai Hospital, Fifth Avenue at 100th Street, Upper East Side; (718) 329-7250 or www.ecfs.org/ydc.asp; reservations required. (Dunning) Art Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums Brooklyn Museum: Graffiti, through Sept. 3. Twenty paintings on canvas from the early 1980s by formerly famous subway graffiti artists who went by names like Crash, Daze and Lady Pink. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, (718) 638-5000. (Ken Johnson) COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM: FREDERIC CHURCH, WINSLOW HOMER AND THOMAS MORAN: TOURISM AND THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE, through Oct. 22. It turns out that the Cooper-Hewitt owns thousands of rarely seen paintings, prints and sketches by Church, Homer and Moran. Studies of the countryside, mostly, they revere unspoiled nature and record tourism, a booming industry in 19th-century America. Here theyre combined with antique postcards, old Baedekers guides, stereoscopic photographs, playing cards with pictures of Yellowstone on them, all to trace the nations transformation from primeval wilderness to Catskills resort. The show is extremely entertaining. 2 East 91st Street, (212) 849-8400. (Michael Kimmelman) DAHESH MUSEUM OF ART: NAPOLEON ON THE NILE: SOLDIERS, ARTISTS AND THE REDISCOVERY OF EGYPT, through Sept. 3. Napoleons invasion of Egypt was a military disaster, but the squadron of scholars and scientists that went with him lay the foundation for Egyptology and Egyptomania, gave Orientalism a big boost and was commemorated by the 1,000 engravings of the 23-volume Description de lÉgypte. Examples of the books prints form the backbone of this strange and sometimes piecemeal show, which includes Orientalist paintings and a cache of fascinating ephemera. 580 Madison Avenue, at 56th Street, (212) 759-0606. (Roberta Smith) * FRICK COLLECTION : JEAN-ÉTIENNE LIOTARD (1702-1789): SWISS MASTER, through Sept. 17. Liotard is something of a specialty item now, but he was widely known in the Enlightenment Europe of his day. And even then he was seen as a maverick, a figure of contradictions. He was a stone-cold realist in an age of rococo frills. In a great age of oil painting, he favored pastel. He had ultrafancy sitters for his portraits, including the young Marie Antoinette. But his most vivid likenesses are of himself and his family. The Fricks perfectly proportioned sweetheart of a solo show is the artists first in North America. 1 East 70th Street, (212) 288-0700. (Holland Cotter) SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: ZAHA HADID: THIRTY YEARS IN ARCHITECTURE, through Oct. 25. This exhibition, Ms. Hadids first major retrospective in the United States, gives New Yorkers a chance to see what theyve been missing. The show, in the Guggenheims rotunda, spirals through Ms. Hadids career, from her early enchantment with Soviet Constructivism to the sensuous and fluid cityscapes of her more recent commissions. It illuminates her capacity for bridging different worlds: traditional perspective drawing and slick computer-generated imagery; the era of utopian manifestos and the ambiguous values of the information age. (212) 423-3500. (Nicolai Ouroussoff) * INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: UNKNOWN WEEGEE, through Aug. 27. From the 1930s through the 50s, Weegee -- real name, Arthur Fellig (1899-1968) -- was one of the best known news photographers in the country. He specialized in capturing the sensational side of urban life: crime, disaster, demimonde nightlife. Tirelessly invasive, he lived by night. For him, the city was a 24-hour emergency room, an amphetamine drip. This show of 95 pictures gives a good sense of his range and calls particular attention to his awareness of social problems related to class and race. 1133 Avenue of the Americas, at 43rd Street, (212) 857-0000. (Cotter) * METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: RAPHAEL AT THE METROPOLITAN: THE COLONNA ALTARPIECE, through Sept. 3 This exhilarating show reunites the central panel and lunette of Raphaels Colonna Altarpiece (owned by the Met) with all five panels of the predella. Additional works by Raphael, Perugino, Fra Bartolommeo and Leonardo place the work in context and sharpen the understanding of Raphaels budding genius. (212) 535-7710. (Smith) * MET: TREASURES OF SACRED MAYA KINGS, through Sept. 10. Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings gets a huge gold A for truth in advertising. The treasures are plentiful, rare and splendid. A carved wood figure of kneeling shaman, arms extended, time-raked face entranced, is simply one of the greatest sculptures in the museum. And wait till you see the painted ceramic vessel known as the Dazzler Vase, with its red and green patterns like jade on fire, youll understand its name. Much of the work has never traveled before; many objects have only recently come to light in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. They add up to an exhibition as a think-piece essay on how a culture saw itself in the world. (212) 535-7710. (Cotter) * MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: MASTERWORKS FROM THE MORGAN, through Sept. 10. Almost three years after closing to build an expansion, the Morgan is back and brilliant. Whats new: Renzo Pianos four-story glass-and-steel court, a sort of giant solarium with see-through elevators; two good-size second-floor galleries; and a neat little strongbox of an enclosure, called the Cube, for reliquaries and altar vessels. Whats not new: almost everything in this exhibition, which fills every gallery with mini-exhibitions of master drawings and musical manuscripts, as well as illuminated gospels and historical and literary autograph manuscripts from the Brontës to Bob Dylan. 225 Madison Avenue, at East 36th Street, (212) 685-0008 or www.themorgan.org. (Cotter) MUSEUM OF BIBLICAL ART: THE WORD ON THE STREET: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF LARRY RACIOPPO, through Aug. 20. Photographs documenting vernacular expressions of religious devotion in New York, including spray-painted murals, private shrines and tattoos. Museum of Biblical Art, 1865 Broadway, at 61st Street, (212) 408-1500. (Johnson) * MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: ARTISTS CHOICE: HERZOG & DE MEURON, PERCEPTION RESTRAINED, through Sept. 25. In an unusually accessible bit of institutional critique, the architects who failed to win the commission to design the new Museum of Modern Art bite the hand that didnt feed them. They create a kind of deprivation chamber with a black gallery, where excerpts from American movies play on video screens on the ceiling and 110 works of art and design are crammed into enormous niches that are all but sealed from view. Perverse and cerebral, it may be the best one-liner youll encounter this summer. (212) 708-9400. (Smith) NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN : CHIHULY AT THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENS, through Oct. 29. Dale Chihuly, the worlds most famous contemporary glass artist, has created ambitious installations of his large-scale, technically virtuosic and materially extravagant works inside the spectacular Haupt Conservatory and outside in formal reflecting pools and smaller gardens. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx River Parkway and Fordham Road, the Bronx, (718) 817-8700. (Johnson) * NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: LEGACIES: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS REFLECT ON SLAVERY, through Jan. 7. Slavery, some would say, didnt really end in the United States until the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. That was a full century after the Emancipation Proclamation. Or the Emancipation Approximation, as the artist Kara Walker calls it in a series of hallucinatory silkscreen prints. They are among the high points of this large, powerful, subtle group show, the second of three exhibitions on American slavery organized by the New-York Historical Society. 170 Central Park West, (212) 873-3400. (Cotter) P.S. 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER: INTO ME/OUT OF ME, through Sept. 25. Often with repulsive immediacy and occasionally with wit and subtlety, works by more than 130 artists in this ambitious exhibition explore the body and all its possible experiences along the pleasure-pain continuum. 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(Johnson) Galleries: 57th Street * HANS BELLMER: PETITES ANATOMIES, PETITES IMAGES. This extraordinary show of more than 70 images takes you beyond the surface obsessions of Bellmers girl-crazed art to unveil some of his working processes as a sculptor, installation artist, photographer, editor and hand-colorist whose preference for small scale intensifies the voyeuristic nature of his art. Ubu Gallery, 416 East 59th Street, (212) 753-4444, through July 28. (Smith) * RUDY BURCKHARDT: NEW YORK PAINTINGS Known as a photographer and filmmaker, Burckhardt (1914-1999) also painted all through his career. His Manhattan cityscapes, mostly rooftop views of other buildings, have a fresh, almost naïve immediacy and a sophisticated way with relations between surface and depth and complexity and simplicity. Tibor de Nagy, 724 Fifth Avenue, (212) 262-5050, through July 28. (Johnson) GEORGE HERMS Starting out as a beatnik in the 1950s, Mr. Herms has been creating and exhibiting his richly poetic assemblages of grungy found materials in California, his home state, for more than a half century. This shows eight works, from 1965 to 2002, variously call to mind Ernst, Duchamp, Cornell and Rauschenberg, but they have as well their own spiritually generous, heartfelt mix of hermetic imagination and Whitman-esque populism. Franklin Parrasch, 20 West 57th Street, (212) 246-5360, through July 28. (Johnson) Galleries: SoHo * A FOUR-DIMENSIONAL BEING WRITES POETRY ON A FIELD WITH SCULPTURES Organized by the sculptor Charles Ray, this beautiful, spare and mysterious exhibition presents sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, Mark di Suvero and the folk artist Edgar Tolson, and a giant photograph by Jeff Wall. Matthew Marks, 522 West Second Street, (212) 243-0200, through Aug. 11. 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Selective listings by critics of The New York Times of new and noteworthy cultural events in the Northeast this week. * denotes a highly recommended film, concert, show or exhibition. Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses. Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of current shows, additional listings, show times and tickets: nytimes.com/theater. Previews and Openings SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS In previews. Opens on Thursday. Based on historical fact, José Riveras new play is about two days that Che Guevera spent trapped in a one-room schoolhouse. A co-production with the Labyrinth Theater company. John Ortiz and Patricia Velasquez star. (2:00). Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 239-6200. SUMMER PLAY FESTIVAL Starts Wednesday. Through July 30. Fifteen emerging playwrights, including Peter Morris and Etan Frankel, strut their stuff in this eclectic annual showcase. Theater Row, 410 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 279-4200. Broadway * BRIDGE & TUNNEL (Tony Award, Special Theatrical Event 2006) This delightful solo show, written and performed by Sarah Jones, is a sweet-spirited valentine to New York, its polyglot citizens and the larger notion of an all-inclusive America. In 90 minutes of acutely observed portraiture gently tinted with humor, Ms. Jones plays more than a dozen men and women participating in an open-mike evening of poetry for immigrants. Helen Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Charles Isherwood) THE COLOR PURPLE So much plot, so many years, so many characters to cram into less than three hours. This beat-the-clock musical adaptation of Alice Walkers Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Southern black women finding their inner warriors never slows down long enough for you to embrace it. LaChanze leads the vibrant, hard-working cast (2:40). Broadway Theater, 1681 Broadway, at 53rd Street, (212) 239-6200.(Ben Brantley) DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS The arrival of Jonathan Pryce and his eloquent eyebrows automatically makes this the seasons most improved musical. With Mr. Pryce (who replaces the admirable but uneasy John Lithgow) playing the silken swindler to Norbert Leo Butzs vulgar grifter, its as if a mismatched entry in a three-legged race had become an Olympic figure-skating pair (2:35). Imperial Theater, 249 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (Tony Awards, Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score 2006) This small and ingratiating spoof of 1920s stage frolics, as imagined by an obsessive show queen, may not be a masterpiece. But in a dry season for musicals, The Drowsy Chaperone has theatergoers responding as if they were withering house plants, finally being watered after long neglect. Bob Martin and Sutton Foster are the standouts in the eager, energetic cast (1:40). 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(Brantley) * SPRING AWAKENING German schoolboys of the 19th century frolic like rockers in this adventurous new musical adapted from the 1891 play by Frank Wedekind about sex, death and adolescence. Staged with élan by Michael Mayer, and featuring alluringly melancholy music by the pop singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik, this is a flawed but vibrant show that stretches the stage musical in new directions (2:10). Atlantic Theater, 336 West 20th Street, Chelsea, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood) SUSAN AND GOD The Mint Theater Companys fine revival of Rachel Crotherss 1937 comedy about religion, career and family features Leslie Hendrix of Law & Order, excellent in the role of Susan. Jonathan Bank directs (2:20). The Mint Theater, 311 West 43rd Street, third floor, Clinton, (212) 315-0231.(George Hunka) TEMPEST TOSSED FOOLS This musical audience-participation childrens version of The Tempest is rowdy, colorful and not all that Shakespearean. Manhattan Ensemble Theater, 55 Mercer Street, SoHo, (212) 239-6200. (Anita Gates) TREASON The poet Ezra Pound was a repellent fellow, judging from this play by Sallie Bingham: racist, anti-Semitic, eager to exploit the affections of the women who loved him. Just why women were drawn to him is never clear, but the play is thoughtful, and the acting, especially by Philip Pleasants as Pound, is superb (2:10). Perry Street Theater, 31 Perry Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 868-4444. (Neil Genzlinger) THE WATERS EDGE In a bold surgical endeavor that recalls the experiments of the mad Dr. Frankenstein, Theresa Rebeck has tried to transplant the big, blood-engorged heart of a Greek tragedy into the slender body of a modest American comic drama. The resulting hybrid runs amok in a stylishly acted production, directed by Will Frears and starring Kate Burton and Tony Goldwyn (2:00). Second Stage, 307 West 43rd Street, Clinton, (212) 246-4422. (Brantley) Long-Running Shows * ALTAR BOYZ This sweetly satirical show about a Christian pop group made up of five potential Teen People cover boys is an enjoyable, silly diversion (1:30). New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200.(Isherwood) AVENUE Q R-rated puppets give lively life lessons (2:10). Golden, 252 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Cartoon made flesh, sort of (2:30). Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 205 West 46th Street, (212) 307-4747. (Brantley) CHICAGO Irrefutable proof that crime pays (2:25). Ambassador Theater, 219 West 49th Street, (212) 239-6200.(Brantley) DRUMSTRUCK Lightweight entertainment that stops just short of pulverizing the eardrums (1:30).Dodger Stages, Stage 2, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200. (Lawrence Van Gelder) HAIRSPRAY Fizzy pop, cute kids, large man in a housedress (2:30). Neil Simon Theater, 250 West 52nd Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) THE LION KING Disney on safari, where the big bucks roam (2:45). Minskoff Theater, 200 West 45th Street at Broadway, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) MAMMA MIA! The jukebox that devoured Broadway (2:20). Cadillac Winter Garden Theater, 1634 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Who was that masked man, anyway? (2:30). Majestic Theater, 247 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) THE PRODUCERS The ne plus ultra of showbiz scams (2:45). St. James Theater, 246 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) RENT East Village angst and love songs to die for (2:45). Nederlander Theater, 208 West 41st Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) SPAMALOT This staged re-creation of the mock-medieval movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail is basically a singing scrapbook for Python fans. Such a good time is being had by so many people that this fitful, eager celebration of inanity and irreverence has found a large and lucrative audience (2:20). Shubert Theater, 225 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) WICKED Oz revisited, with political corrections (2:45). Gershwin Theater, 222 West 51st Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) Last Chance ARABIAN NIGHT A blonde in a German apartment building sleeps too much; the super takes an unexpected trip to the desert; and a peeping Tom is properly punished in this stylish comedy whose title turns out to make perfect sense (1:05). The East 13th Street Theater, 136 East 13th Street, East Village, (212) 279-4200; closes tomorrow. (Gates) BACK OF THE THROAT An Arab-American playwright, Yussef El Guindi, addressing the harassment of Arab-Americans after Sept. 11? Interesting. But the play would have been even more interesting if the harassers were something other than cardboard characters out of the J. Edgar Hoover closet (1:15). Flea Theater, 41 White Street, TriBeCa, (212) 352-3101; closes tomorrow. (Genzlinger) CRAZY FOR THE DOG Christopher Boals effective family melodrama about a brother, a sister, a wife and a boyfriend caught in a web of recrimination and confession, touched off by the kidnapping of a shih tzu (2:00). Bouwerie Lane Theater, 330 Bowery, at Bond Street, East Village, (212) 677-0060, Ext. 16; closes on Sunday. (Hunka) ELVIS AND JULIET This opposites-collide tale by Mary Willard and starring her husband, the television actor Fred Willard, looks like community theater and is just as unoriginal. The title characters are young lovers, he the son of an Elvis impersonator, she the daughter of overeducated snobs. Fred dons an Elvis suit, but its not enough (2:15). Abingdon Theater Arts Complex, 312 West 36th Street, (212) 868-4444; closes on Sunday. (Genzlinger) GETTING HOME Anton Dudleys Valentines Day card to New York, in which three lonely lovers finally find love in unexpected places, directed by David Schweizer. Determinedly angst-free (1:20). McGinn/Cazale Theater, 2162 Broadway, at 76th Street, (212) 246-4422; closes tomorrow. (Hunka) THE GOLD STANDARD A successful alumnus, his trophy girlfriend and an eccentric Korean professor form a romantic triangle at a campus bar in Daniel Robertss drama, which is occasionally original but often downright odd (2:30). The Irish Arts Center, 553 West 51st Street, Clinton, (212) 868-4444; closes tomorrow. (Gates) THE HOUSE IN TOWN A wan new drama by Richard Greenberg about an American marriage slowly imploding in the days before the countrys economy did the same, more suddenly and spectacularly, back in 1929. A miscast Jessica Hecht stars as Amy Hammer, a well-to-do housewife sliding into despair as her remote husband looks on in frustration. Doug Hughess production is pretty but desultory, as is Mr. Greenbergs typically eloquent but atypically empty writing (1:30). Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, 150 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 239-6200; closes on Sunday. (Isherwood) THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA Love is a many flavored thing, from sugary to sour, in Adam Guettel and Craig Lucass encouragingly ambitious and discouragingly unfulfilled new musical. The show soars only in the sweetly bitter songs performed by the wonderful Victoria Clark, as an American abroad (2:15). Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 239-6200; closes on Sunday. (Brantley) * THE MOST WONDERFUL LOVE Blue Coyote Theater Group has a rollicking good time with this inventive tale of domestic disintegration by Matthew Freeman. Mother (Lenni Benicaso) and Father (Frank Anderson), after long years together, decide to unmarry, which isnt quite the same as divorce but just as unsettling for their already unsettled youngest child (Josephine Stewart). But that doesnt begin to convey how nutty this play is. Access Theater, 380 Broadway, at White Street, TriBeCa, (212) 868-4444; closes tomorrow. (Genzlinger) NERVE In Adam Szymkowiczs romantic comedy, an online couples first date is a frightening but satisfyingly comic escalation of confessions and demands (1:00). 14th Street Y, 344 East 14th Street, East Village, (212) 868-4444; closes tomorrow.(Gates) NOTHING A morsel of catnip for Anglophiles, flavorfully adapted by Andrea Hart from the novel by Henry Green. Simon Dutton and Sophie Ward play onetime lovers contemplating the possible marriage of their children in this comedy of manners about the string of upheavals that a romance in one generation causes in another (1:40). The 59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street, (212) 279-4200; closes on Sunday. (Isherwood) SATELLITES This tough-minded, soft-hearted and very likable play by Diana Son (Stop Kiss) portrays a world in which traditional ethnic, social, economic and sexual boundaries have become so porous that people are never quite sure who or where they are. Sandra Oh and Kevin Carroll play a couple who move into a Brooklyn brownstone that refuses (literally) to stay still. Michael Greif directs the appropriately fluid ensemble. (1:40). Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 239-6200; closes on Sunday. (Brantley) STOPPING TRAFFIC The actress Mary Pat Gleasons endearing one-woman show about making movies (and just getting through life) while bipolar is a play with both a message and some hearty laughs (1:30). Vineyard Theater, 108 East 15th Street, (212) 353-0303; closes on Sunday. (Gates) Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases, movie trailers, show times and tickets: nytimes.com/movies. * AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (PG, 96 minutes) Al Gore gives a lecture on climate change. One of the most exciting and necessary movies of the year. Seriously. (A. O. Scott) * ARMY OF SHADOWS (No rating, 140 minutes, in French) Dark as pitch and without compromise, Jean-Pierre Melvilles 1969 masterpiece centers on the feats of a small band of Resistance fighters during the occupation. Brilliant, harrowing, essential viewing.(Manohla Dargis) THE BLOOD OF MY BROTHER (No rating, 84 minutes, in English and Arabic) Another documentary about the occupation of Iraq; another heartbreak; another protest; another dead brother; another necessity. (Nathan Lee) THE BREAK-UP (PG-13, 105 minutes) Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn split up and share custody of a Chicago condominium. Dull and cheerless, notwithstanding a handful of funny supporting turns, notably from Judy Davis and Jason Bateman. (Scott) CARS (G, 114 minutes) The latest 3D toon from Pixar just putt, putt, putts along, a shining model of technological progress and consumer safety. John Lasseter directed, and Owen Wilson provides the voice of the little red race car who learns all the right lessons from, among others, a 1951 Hudson Hornet given voice by Paul Newman. (Dargis) * CAVITE (No rating, 80 minutes, in English and Tagalog) Terrorism and cultural identity are only two of the themes wound into a tight knot of fear and bewilderment in this gripping, no-budget political thriller shot on the fly with hand-held cameras that scour the teeming streets and squatter shacks of Cavite, a city on the outskirts of Manila. (Stephen Holden) CLICK (PG-13, 98 minutes) Adam Sandler stars in this unfunny comedy about a harried family man who uses a universal remote to hop-scotch through time. Its a wonderful life, not. (Dargis) * LEONARD COHEN: IM YOUR MAN (PG-13, 104 minutes) This enthralling documentary combines pieces of an extended interview with Mr. Cohen, the Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and author, now 71, with a tribute concert at the Sydney Opera House in January 2005. Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright, and Antony are among the featured performers. (Holden) THE DA VINCI CODE (PG-13, 148 minutes) Theology aside, The Da Vinci Code is, above all, a murder mystery. And as such, once it gets going, Ron Howards movie has its pleasures. He and the screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have deftly rearranged some elements of the plot, unkinking a few overelaborate twists and introducing others that keep the action moving along. The movie does, however, take a while to accelerate, popping the clutch and leaving rubber on the road as it tries to establish who is who, what hes doing and why. So I certainly cant support any calls for boycotting or protesting this busy, trivial, inoffensive film. Which is not to say that Im recommending that you go see it. (Scott) * DOWN IN THE VALLEY (R, 114 minutes) This allegorical neo-western set in the San Fernando Valley has dreams as big as the fantasies that consume its protagonist, a Stetson-wearing suburban cowboy (Edward Norton) who is not what he appears to be. How much you like it will depend on your appetite for the kind of cultural metaphors that David Jacobson flings onto the screen with a reckless abandon. (Holden) THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT (PG-13, 98 minutes) The Fast and Furious formula (dudes + cars + babes = $) is recycled in Tokyo, where the cars are smaller, and the clothes are kookier, but the boys are still boys. (Lee) * GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (No rating, 103 minutes) Affected but elegant, this digital video Death in Venice follows an art historian and her lover as they grapple, frequently in the buff, with life, death and the iconography of Bosch. (Lee) GARFIELD: A TAIL OF TWO KITTIES (PG, 80 minutes) It was the worst of times. (Dargis) THE HIDDEN BLADE (R, 132 minutes, in Japanese) Set in 1861 at the tail end of Japanese feudalism, The Hidden Blade focuses on a gentle samurai balancing his love for a low-caste servant girl and his mission to kill a traitorous friend. By taking samurai-movie conventions and placing them in the harsh light of daily survival, the director, Yoji Yamada, is illuminating the twilight of an entire way of life. (Jeannette Catsoulis) KEEPING UP WITH THE STEINS (PG-13, 84 minutes) A rollicking bar mitzvah comedy begins as a growling, razor-toothed satire of carnivorous consumption in Hollywood. But after the first half-hour, those growls subside into whimpers, and the fangs are retracted, and the movie morphs turns into a feel-good family comedy oozing good vibes. (Holden) THE KING (R, 105 minutes) James Marsh uses clichés and some lived-in emotions and atmosphere for his fitfully engaging, exasperating film about a young Mexican-American (Gael García Bernal) whose search for his patrimony leads him into the bosom of a deeply religious Texas family (headed by a very fine William Hurt). (Dargis) THE LAKE HOUSE (PG, 108 minutes) Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, reunited 12 years after Speed, play would-be lovers separated by time and yet somehow able to communicate. The absolute preposterousness of this teary romance is inseparable from its charm, which is greater than you might expect. (Scott) LAND OF THE BLIND (R, 111 minutes) Watching this simplistic Orwellian fable set in a composite Everycountry that swings politically from extreme right to extreme left is like poring over a quadruple exposure. Its a jumble of ideas and images. (Holden) LOVERBOY (R, 86 minutes) This cautionary mother-child drama, directed by Kevin Bacon, is a star vehicle for his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, who plays a pathologically possessive single mother. After starting out warm and fuzzy, this tonally uncertain film stealthily pulls out the rug until you suddenly find yourself standing on a cold stone floor, barefoot and shivering. (Holden) MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III (PG-13, 126 minutes) Er, this time its personal, as Tom Cruise plays a dashing operative for a clandestine organization who sweeps a simpering brunette off her feet. Directed, without much flair, by J. J. Abrams, the small-screen auteur behind Lost and Alias. (Dargis) * LA MOUSTACHE (No rating, 86 minutes, in French) Emmanuel Carrières psychological mystery prepares you to bask in one of those sexy, bittersweet marital comedies that are a hallmark of sophisticated French cinema. Then, by degrees, it subverts those expectations to spiral down a rabbit hole of ambiguity and doubt. (Holden) * NACHO LIBRE (PG, 91 minutes) A sweet bliss-out from the writers Mike White, Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess, who also directed, that finds a glorious Jack Black as a half-Mexican, half-Scandinavian monastery cook who aches to belong to another brotherhood, that of the luchadores, or masked wrestlers. (Dargis) THE OMEN (R, 110 minutes) The supremely unnecessary remake of The Omen, the 1976 horror show that, along with Rosemarys Baby and The Exorcist, plunked everyones favorite baddie, Satan, into the Hollywood mainstream, wants to capitalize on the tabloid theology in the air. Except for a few contemporary touches (the World Trade Center in flames as a portent of Armageddon) it slavishly recycles the original. (Holden) ONLY HUMAN (No rating, 85 minutes, in Spanish) When a Jewish girl takes her Palestinian fiancé home to meet the parents, the encounter sets off a series of zany, romantic and potentially tragic misadventures during one eventful night in Madrid. (Laura Kern) OVER THE HEDGE (PG, 83 minutes) This tale about some woodland critters threatened by their new human neighbors has the technical trappings of a worthwhile Saturday matinee, so its too bad no one paid commensurate attention to the script. The writers, including Karey Kirkpatrick, who directed with Tim Johnson, pad the story with the usual yuks and some glop about family, but there is no poetry here and little thought. (Dargis) * A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (PG-13, 105 minutes) Garrison Keillors long-running Public Radio hootenanny turns out to be the perfect vehicle for Robert Altmans fluid, chaotic humanism. The performances -- especially by Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep as a pair of singing sisters -- are so full of relaxed vitality that you almost dont notice that the film is, at heart, a wry, sober contemplation of mortality. (Scott) * ROOM (No rating, 75 minutes) Engulfed by nightmares, blackouts and the anxieties of the age, a Texas woman flees homeland insecurity for a New York vision quest in this acute, resourceful and bracingly ambitious debut film. (Lee) RUSSIAN DOLLS (No rating, 129 minutes, in English, Russian, French and Spanish) The sequel to the international hit LAuberge Espagnole belongs to a long line of airy French films that induce a pleasant buzz of Euro-envy. Like its forerunner, it is a generational group portrait of young, smart, sexy, well-educated Europeans at work and play filmed in a style that might be called Truffaut Lite. (Holden) SAY UNCLE (R, 90 minutes) A comedy about a suspected gay pedophile is something even Mel Brooks might balk at, but Say Uncle would have benefited from his ability to turn bad taste into a good feature. When a childlike artist (Peter Paige, who also writes and directs) indulges his unhealthy, if innocent, interest in other peoples children, a lynch mob of local moms is formed to hunt him down. Aspiring to address gay persecution and social paranoia, the movie mostly comes off as a study of arrested development. (Catsoulis) SUPERMAN RETURNS (PG-13, 157 minutes) Last seen larking about on the big screen in the 1987 dud Superman IV, the Man of Steel has been resurrected in Bryan Singers leaden new film not only to fight for truth, justice and the American way, but also to give Mel Gibsons passion a run for his box-office money. Where once the superhero flew up, up and away, he now flies down, down, down, sent from above to save mankind from its sins and another bummer summer. (Dargis) * TWO DRIFTERS (No rating, 98 minutes, in Portuguese) From the dexterous mind of João Pedro Rodrigues comes a bizarre love triangle like no other. Two gay boys (one of whom is dead) are reunited with the help of an enigmatic girl on roller skates in a metaphysical melodrama about grief, love, hysterical pregnancy and the transmigration of souls. (Lee) UNITED 93 (R, 115 minutes) A scrupulously tasteful Hollywood re-creation of the downing of the fourth plane hijacked by Muslim terrorists on Sept. 11 and easily the feel-bad American movie of the year. Written and directed by Paul Greengrass, whose earlier films include Bloody Sunday. (Dargis) WASSUP ROCKERS (R, 105 minutes) The latest provocation from the director and photographer Larry Clark follows a group of teenage Hispanic skateboarders from South Central Los Angeles on a 24-hour adventure that takes them from one hell (the inner city) to another (decadent Beverly Hills) and back. (Holden) * WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? (PG, 92 minutes) A murder mystery, a call to arms and an effective inducement to rage, Chris Paines film about the recent rise and fall of the electric car is the latest and one of the more successful additions to the growing ranks of issue-oriented documentaries. ( Dargis) X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (PG-13, 104 minutes) As expected, the third and presumably last film about the powerful Marvel Comics mutants who walk and often fight among us pretty much looks and plays like the first two, though perhaps with more noise and babes, and a little less glum. The credited writers here are Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn, who, like the director, Brett Ratner, are not mutant enough to fly. (Dargis) Film Series AFRO-PUNK WEEKEND (Through Tuesday) BAMcinémateks second annual program of films about revolution begins today. Films to be screened include Sandra Dickson and Churchill Robertss Negroes With Guns (2004), the story of Robert Williams, a founder of the Black Panthers and advocate of armed resistance; Paris Is Burning (1990), Jennie Livingstons portrait of drag queens and self-invention; and Punk: Attitude (2005), a documentary about the origins of punk from Don Letts, co-founder of the band Big Audio Dynamite. 30 Lafayette Avenue, at Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, (718) 636-4100; $10. (Gates) ESSENTIAL WILDER (Through July 20) Film Forums three-week retrospective of the work of the great Polish-born director and screenwriter Billy Wilder (1906-2002) begins today and tomorrow with Double Indemnity (1944), Wilders noir classic about an insurance salesman (Fred McMurray) and an alluring married woman (Barbara Stanwyck), who hatch a murder plot with a big payoff. Sundays feature is the comedy masterpiece Some Like It Hot (1959), about an all-women band that includes Marilyn Monroe and, strangely enough, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. 209 West Houston Street, west of Avenue of the Americas, South Village, (212) 727-9110; $10. (Gates) STANLEY KUBRICK RETROSPECTIVE (Through July 9) The Museum of the Moving Images five-week series continues this weekend with A Clockwork Orange (1971), starring Malcolm McDowell as a young, violent type from the near future, and Barry Lyndon (1975), Kubricks Thackeray adaptation starring Ryan ONeal as an 18th-century Irish social climber. 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, (718) 784-0077; $10. (Gates) KUROSAWA (Through Sept. 18) The IFC Centers series honoring Akira Kurosawa continues Sunday and Tuesday with Yojimbo (1961), starring Toshiro Mifune as a 19th-century samurai drifter who manipulates two rival gangsters. 323 Avenue of the Americas, at West Third Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 924-7771; $10.75. (Gates) NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL (Through tomorrow) Subway Cinemas fifth annual festival of high-grossing and/or award-winning new movies concludes tomorrow at the ImaginAsian Theater. The final films include Beetle the Horn King (2005), a Japanese sci-fi movie about Mexican wrestlers, and Linda Linda Linda (2005), the story of Japanese high school girls (and one Korean) who form a band. 239 East 59th Street, Manhattan, (212) 371-6682; $9. (Gates) NORDIC NOIR: CRIME DRAMAS FROM SWEDEN AND DENMARK (Through Aug. 10) The American Scandinavian Foundation is screening Henning Mankells Kurt Wallander Mysteries, television films written by Mr. Mankell, the author of the internationally best-selling Wallander novels. In Mastermind, to be shown Wednesday and Thursday, a criminal has infiltrated the detectives hometown police station. Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, between 37th and 38th Streets, (212) 879-9779; $8. (Gates) Pop Full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. * BELLE AND SEBASTIAN (Tuesday) For a decade now, these members of Scottish indie royalty have made some of the most tasteful chamber pop on the planet: calm and elegant and clever, though sometimes a little bloodless. But the band loosened up a bit for its latest, The Life Pursuit (Matador), adding some bluesy vamps and -- could it be? -- some rock n roll. At 3:30 p.m., the Lawn at Battery Park, Lower Manhattan, (212) 835-2789; free, but tickets are required. (Ben Sisario) KURTIS BLOW (Thursday) The City Parks Foundations series of free concerts in parks throughout the five boroughs begins in Brooklyn with Kurtis Blow, who became one of the first heroes of rap with strutting and innocently street-smart rhymes like The Breaks (Brakes on a bus, brakes on a car/ Breaks to make you a superstar). At 7 p.m., Von King Park, Marcy and Tompkins Avenues, Bedford-Stuyvesant, (212) 360-8290; free. (Sisario) BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE (Thursday) This Toronto collective has mastered a kind of free-associative indie-prog, following melodies and rhythmic patterns along endlessly fascinating tangents. The band plays a benefit concert for the Celebrate Brooklyn series, with the Hidden Cameras, another inventive and well-populated Toronto band. At 6 p.m., Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West and Ninth Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 855-7882 or (866) 468-7619; $30. (Sisario) JOHNNY DOWD; MARY LORSON AND SAINT LOW (Thursday) Johnny Dowd applies his stoic Texas twang to songs about passion, sin and death; his band plays a version of honky-tonk that sounds as if it has been dragged through a swamp and encrusted with misfiring electronics. Mary Lorson, who was at the core of the band Madder Rose, has a pensive undertow behind her airy voice, floating in tunes that blend a folky delicacy with the lilt of jazz. Fans of Suzanne Vega or Mazzy Star owe it to themselves to discover her. At 7 p.m., Joes Pub, at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 239-6200; $12. (Jon Pareles) FUTUREHEADS (Tonight) The Futureheads, from the northern English city of Sunderland, play tight, nervy and exhilarating little tantrums of guitar, with four-part chants and an endless supply of clever riffs. The bands first album, released two years ago, was one of the best by the many recent bands to resuscitate the angular postpunk of Gang of Four and Wire, and its new one, News and Tributes (Star Time/Vagrant), shows that it was no accident. With the French Kicks. At 6:30, Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212) 533-2111; $22 in advance, $24 at the door. (Sisario) GIPSY KINGS (Thursday) Strumming half a dozen guitars, singing in a husky rasp and stamping their heels on the floor, the members of this French pop group are to flamenco what Rice-a-Roni is to paella. Which is not to say that some of their international hits, like Bamboleo, arent fiendishly catchy. At 8 p.m., New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center Street, Newark, (888)466-5722; $31.50 to $81.50. (Pareles) * JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ, JUANA MOLINA, PSAPP (Monday) Connoisseurs of hip television soundtracks might recognize some of the music on this bill. José González, an Argentinean Swede, plays haunting, austere confessions with precision guitar picking and a deadpan hush; his song Crosses was played in the soap-opera season finale of The OC this spring. Juana Molina is another whispery Argentine, whose gentle, swirling lullabies draw a listener directly into her reveries. The English duo Psapp places soft vocals over beats constructed from found sounds like splashing water, creaking floorboards and even squeaking cats, creating a kind of hyperintimate electronica; Greys Anatomy uses one of Psapps songs as its theme. At 8 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, near the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111; $20. (Sisario) JOE JACKSON (Tonight) In songs like Is She Really Going Out With Him? and Steppin Out in the late 1970s and early 80s, Joe Jackson made his reputation as a cold-eyed master of British soul, bringing a cutting new-wave minimalism to stories of lonely lovers who cry that they are so tired of all the darkness in our lives. Since then he has proved remarkably versatile, releasing, among other projects, settings of the Seven Deadly Sins and a Grammy-winning recording of his Symphony No. 1. At 8, Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, (212) 840-2824; sold out. (Sisario) * SALIF KEITA (Tonight) Salif Keita, from Mali, has long been celebrated for a cosmopolitan ear and a voice that can melt hearts, but lately, with a devotion to acoustic guitars, his work has been even more entrancing than usual. His new album, MBemba (Decca), has songs of love and tribute to ancestors, its guitars joined by instruments from Hawaii, the Caribbean and even medieval Europe. At 8, Apollo Theater, 253 West 125th Street, Harlem, (212) 531-5305; $39 and $49. (Sisario) ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO, VUSI MAHLASELA (Tomorrow) Angélique Kidjo, from Benin, has a raw, gutsy voice, charisma that lights up a stage, and the determination to reach the world. Vusi Mahlasela was one of the most important songwriters of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, not just for his political courage but also for his sterling voice and for three-chord rockers that make earnest sentiments bounce. At 7 p.m., Celebrate Brooklyn, Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West and Ninth Street, Park Slope, (718) 855-7882; $3 suggested donation. (Pareles) BAABA MAAL (Sunday) Baaba Maal, one of the great singers and bandleaders from Senegal, merges the incantatory vocals and twinkling guitar lines of griot songs with elements of rock, reggae and Afro-Cuban music. His fusions embrace the world without leaving Senegal behind. At 8 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, at 15th Street, Manhattan, (212) 777-6800; $34 in advance, $38 at the door. (Pareles) * MADONNA (Sunday and Monday) Part 10 (or so), in which our heroine strikes such poses as Jesus on the cross, James Brown in his cape and John Travolta in his white disco suit, all while performing dance-floor hits in new remixes and reconfigurations. Madison Square Garden, (212) 465-6741; $64.50 to $354.50. (Sisario) MATES OF STATE (Thursday) Most of the time Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel, the married couple who make up Mates of State, sing insistent, almost nagging chants propelled by quick-pulse organ and drums; their latest, Bring It Back (Barsuk), also has some soothing, affectionate piano songs. At 7 p.m., Castle Clinton National Monument, Battery Park, Lower Manhattan, (212) 835-2789. Free; tickets available at 5 p.m., two per person. (Sisario) MIDSUMMER NIGHT SWING (Tonight through Thursday) Lincoln Centers annual outdoor series of low-dipping, high-kicking music and dancing continues tonight with western swing by the Bob Willss Texas Playboys (who have continued since Willss death 21 years ago); tomorrow features salsa with Alex Torres y Su Orquesta, a 13-piece band; on Tuesday, Jo Thompson sings swing favorites with the J. C. Heard Orchestra; Beth Meads Big Bandjo, on Wednesday, plays -- can you guess? -- classic swing songs in banjo-led arrangements; and Thursday features plena, the traditional Puerto Rican form of singing, dancing and social commentary, with Plena Libre. At 7:30 p.m., with dance lessons at 6:30 p.m., Josie Robertson Plaza, Columbus Avenue at 63rd Street, (212) 875-5460; $15 each night. (Sisario) AMY RIGBY, ROBBIE FULKS (Tonight) After years in various New York country-rock groups, Amy Rigby emerged on her own. She has made six worthy albums of succinct, tuneful songs about struggling through adulthood, when jobs, romance and motherhood arent exactly what shed hoped for. Robbie Fulks is fond of honky-tonk and the Beatles, and he comes up with tuneful, neatly phrased songs about near-psychotic characters. At 7 p.m., South Street Seaport, Pier 17, Fulton and South Streets, Lower Manhattan, (212) 835-2789; free. (Pareles) * TV ON THE RADIO, MATT POND PA (Tonight) One of Brooklyns finest and most consistently intriguing bands, TV on the Radio casts a dark and seductive spell with swirling electronics, washes of Pixies-esque guitar and, most alluringly, vocals that draw from both early Peter Gabriel and doo-wop. The band has a fantastic and long-awaited new album, Return to Cookie Mountain, which is due to be released by Interscope Records later this year. Matt Pond PA adds some interesting colors to its indie-rock songs with touches of cello and strings. At 6:30, Celebrate Brooklyn, Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West and Ninth Street, Park Slope, (718) 855-7882; $3 suggested donation. (Sisario) RHONDA VINCENT (Wednesday) Rhonda Vincent sings, plays mandolin and pushes bluegrass in some modern directions without forgetting standards like Muleskinner Blues. At 7 p.m., Madison Square Park, Madison Avenue and 26th Street, Manhattan, (212) 538-6667; free. (Pareles) WALKMEN (Tonight) The Walkmen emerged five years ago, playing exquisitely articulated songs of exhaustion and disaffection, with Hamilton Leithausers weary whine surrounded by an echoey wash of guitar and keyboards. The bands new album, A Hundred Miles Off (Record Collection), begins intriguingly, with festive Mexican horns, but pretty soon its back to the familiar guitar-bleached anguish. At 8, Warsaw, 261 Driggs Avenue, at Eckford Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, (718) 387-0505; $17.50. (Sisario) GARY WILSON AND THE BLIND DATES (Wednesday) The point is often made that not all the bands at CBGB in the late 1970s sounded like the Ramones. But perhaps no one was less like the Ramones than Gary Wilson, who played a kind of shattered lounge music with angst-ridden, unhinged vocals. (He also sometimes wrapped his face in plastic and wore two sets of sunglasses, something that might have actually looked cool on Joey Ramone.) Mr. Wilson disappeared from the scene in the early 80s but has played occasional dates since his re-emergence four years ago. At 9 p.m., Northsix, 66 North Sixth Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 599-5103; $10. (Sisario) Cabaret Full reviews of recent cabaret shows: nytimes.com/music. BLOSSOM DEARIE (Tomorrow and Sunday) To watch this singer and pianist is to appreciate the power of a carefully deployed pop-jazz minimalism combined with a highly discriminating taste in songs. The songs date from all periods of a career remarkable for its longevity and for Ms. Dearies stubborn independence and sly wit. Tomorrow at 7 p.m., Sunday at 6:15 p.m., Dannys Skylight Room, 346 West 46th Street, Clinton, (212) 265-8133; $25, with a $15 minimum, or $54.50 for a dinner-and-show package.(Stephen Holden) * Eartha Kitt (Tonight and tomorrow night) The latest edition of an act Ms. Kitt has been performing for decades is the lightest, swiftest and funniest one to date, and thats all to the good. More than ever, the singer, now a glamorous 79, pauses to poke fun at her status as the greatest and wittiest of all singing tigresses. At 8:45 and 10:45, Café Carlyle, Carlyle Hotel, 35 East 76th Street, Manhattan, (212) 744-1600; $100. (Holden) * JESSICA MOLASKEY (Tonight and tomorrow night) A theater singer with jazz chops, Ms. Molaskey combines sophisticated wit, fierce intelligence and a lightly swinging voice that hovers on the keen edge between happy and sad. A hybrid of the bossa nova standard Desafinado and Billy Joels Summer, Highland Falls performed Brazilian style is the pinnacle of a show whose material she describes as limbo songs. At 9 and 11:30, the Algonquin Hotel, Oak Room, 59 West 44th Street, Manhattan, (212) 419-9331; $50 cover; $60 prix fixe dinner required at the 9 p.m. shows; $20 minimum at the late shows. (Holden) Jazz Full reviews of recent jazz concerts: nytimes.com/music. THOMAS ANKERSMIT, BENTON-C BAINBRIDGE, BOBBY PREVITE (Tomorrow) Throughout July, the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn will present works specifically designed for its cylindrical space, and for the ceiling-hung 16-channel speaker system installed there. The first concert in the series features Mr. Ankersmit playing saxophones and electronics, Mr. Previte playing drums and electronics, and Mr. Bainbridge manipulating video images. At 8 p.m., Issue Project Room, 400 Carroll Street, between Bond and Nevins Streets, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, (718) 330-0313, issueprojectroom.org; cover, $10. (Nate Chinen) CYRUS CHESTNUT TRIO (Wednesday through July 8) Mr. Chestnut is a stalwart straight-ahead pianist with a penchant for gospel and blues shadings. He is most comfortable with a trio; this one includes Michael Hawkins on bass and Neil Smith on drums. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232; cover, $25; $30 next Friday and July 8. (Chinen) THE CLARINETS (Tomorrow) Three clarinetists walk into a bar and manage to make music thats not only serious but also mysterious and broadly textured. The clarinetists are Anthony Burr, Oscar Noriega and Chris Speed, and their improvisational chemistry is no joke. At 7 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-9177; cover, $8. (Chinen) GEORGE COLLIGAN AND MAD SCIENCE (Tomorrow) Last year Mr. Colligan, a keyboardist with a powerful rhythmic presence, released a modernistic organ trio album called Realization (Sirocco Music). He pursues a similar purpose here, with the guitarist Tom Guarna and the drummer Kenny Grohowski. At 10 p.m., Ace of Clubs, 9 Great Jones Street, between Broadway and Lafayette Streets, West Village, (212) 677-6963, www.aceofclubsnyc.com; cover, $8. (Chinen) ERIK FRIEDLANDERS BROKEN ARM (Thursday) This tribute to the bassist Oscar Pettiford and the pianist Herbie Nichols features Mr. Friedlanders pizzicato cello playing against a simple rhythm backdrop of bass (Kermit Driscoll) and drums (Mike Sarin). The name is an oblique reference to Mr. Pettiford; both Mr. Friedlanders arms are fine. At 8 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-9177; cover, $8. (Chinen) BEN GERSTEIN COLLECTIVE (Sunday) Mr. Gerstein, a trombonist, has led this free-improvising ensemble for the last half-dozen years, enlisting bright young players like Jacob Sacks (on keyboards), Eivind Opsvik (on bass) and Jacob Garchik (on accordion and electronics). At 8 and 10 p.m., Bar 4, 444 Seventh Avenue, at 15th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 832-9800, www.bar4.net; cover, $5. (Chinen) CURTIS HASSELBRINGS NEW MELLOW EDWARDS/JOHN HOLLENBECKS CLAUDIA QUINTET (Sunday) Two smart ensembles that harness the forward thrust of rock in the service of an almost chamberlike group cohesiveness. The trombonist Curtis Hasselbrings group is the more raucous of the two; the Claudia Quintet, led by the drummer John Hollenbeck, is the more refined. At 10 p.m., Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, near Delancey Street, Lower East Side, (212) 358-7501; cover, $10. (Chinen) VINCENT HERRING QUARTET (Tonight and tomorrow night) Mr. Herring, an alto saxophonist, rolls out a locomotive brand of post-bop with the help of Anthony Wonsey on piano, Richie Goods on bass and Joris Dudli on drums. At 8, 10 and 11:30, Smoke, 2751 Broadway, at 106th Street, (212) 864-6662; cover, $25. (Chinen) MALABY/SANCHEZ/RAINEY (Tonight) A trio that treads a middle ground between lyricism and abstraction, with Tony Malaby on saxophones, Angelica Sanchez on piano and Tom Rainey on drums. At 9 and 10:30, Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212) 989-9319; cover, $10, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen) JOHN MCNEIL/BILL McHENRY QUARTET (Sunday) Mr. McNeil, a trumpeter, and Mr. McHenry, a tenor saxophonist, mostly play obscurities by the 1950s West Coast pianist Russ Freeman in this solid and often delightful quartet, with Tom Hubbard on bass and Jochen Rückert on drums. At 8:30 p.m., Night and Day, 230 Fifth Avenue, at President Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 399-2161; cover, $5, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen) DAVY MOONEY TRIO (Thursday) Mr. Mooney has a coolly casual tone on guitar, and a vocal style to match. He offers an accessible and thoughtful variety of small-group swing, with Mark Anderson on bass and Ari Hoenig on drums. At 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212) 989-9319; cover, $10, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen) * PAUL MOTIAN BAND (Through Sunday) This luminous ensemble consists of two contrasting pairs of improvisers (the tenor saxophonists Mark Turner and Chris Cheek, and the guitarists Steve Cardenas and Ben Monder); a couple of stabilizers (Jacob Bro and Jerome Harris, also guitarists); a lone anchor (the bassist Ben Street); and a mastermind (Mr. Motian, on drums). The bands last ECM album was excellent; its last Village Vanguard appearance, in January, was even better. At 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village, (212) 255-4037; cover, $25 tonight and tomorrow, $20 on Sunday, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) RALPH PETERSON SEXTET (Tonight and tomorrow night) As a drummer, Mr. Peterson is a steamroller; as a bandleader, hes more like a sergeant. He has a way of producing strong results, as he probably will with this ensemble, featuring the trumpeter Igmar Thomas, the saxophonists Tia Fuller and Donald Lee, and the brotherly team of Zaccai and Luques Curtis on piano and bass. At 8, 10 and midnight, Sweet Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue South, at Bleecker Street, West Village, (212) 255-3626; cover, $25, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) HERLIN RILEY AND FRIENDS (Through Sunday) Few contemporary jazz drummers groove as naturally as Mr. Riley, who presides here over a quartet composed of other strong musicians with ties to Wynton Marsalis: the tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Victor Goines, the pianist Eric Reed and the bassist Reginald Veal. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., with an 11:30 set tonight and tomorrow night, Dizzys Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, (212) 258-9595; cover, $30, with a minimum of $10 at tables, $5 at the bar. (Chinen) PETE ROBBINS AND CENTRIC (Tomorrow) Waits and Measures (Playscape), the new album by the alto saxophonist Pete Robbins, is an intimate sort of jazz-rock hybrid complete with Fender Rhodes electric piano and artfully fuzzed-out electric guitar. The group plays here without its guitarist, but is otherwise intact. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212) 989-9319; cover, $6, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen) GONZALO RUBALCABA TRIO (Through Sunday) Mr. Rubalcaba can be an astonishing pianist technically, and he plays with a sense of dramatic flourish instilled by the music of his native Cuba. He works here with a rhythm section that recently distinguished itself under the aegis of the alto saxophonist Greg Osby: Matt Brewer on bass and Jeff (Tain) Watts on drums. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232; cover, $30; $25 on Sunday. (Chinen) ROMAN SKAKUN QUINTET (Tonight and tomorrow night) Mr. Skakun, a newly minted graduate of the New School jazz program, features his vibraphone playing and a few of his original compositions in this ensemble, which is impressively stocked with supporting players: the alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon, the pianist Bruce Barth, the bassist Doug Weiss and the drummer Jason Marsalis. At 10 and midnight, Smalls, 183 West 10th Street, West Village, (212) 675-7369; cover, $10, with a two-drink minimum. (Chinen) TYFT (Monday) This adventurous trio -- the guitarist Hilmar Jenssen, the alto saxophonist and bass clarinetist Andrew DAngelo and the drummer Jim Black -- fashions roughly contoured music out of grainy texture and surging pulse. Their energy level is unflaggingly high, as is the caliber of their musicianship. At 8 p.m., Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, near Delancey Street, Lower East Side, (212) 358-7501; cover, $10. (Chinen) KEVIN UEHLINGER QUARTET (Wednesday) Biochemistry and the I Ching are hardly common themes in jazz, but Mr. Uehlinger, a keyboardist, has used aspects of both in his compositional framework. He has also employed musicians independent enough to strain against those constrictions: the trumpeter Nate Wooley, the bassist Keith Witty and the drummer Tyshawn Sorey. At 8 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-9177; cover, $8. (Chinen) * RANDY WESTONS AFRICAN RHYTHMS TRIO/ELDAR (Wednesday through July 9) Mr. Weston, the pianist, has been one of the principal agents of an Africanized jazz aesthetic since his fateful first visit to Nigeria more than 40 years ago. He has an unfailingly expressive outlet in the ensemble African Rhythms, which appears here in trio form. Also on the bill is Eldar, a piano prodigy from Kyrgyzstan celebrating the release of his new trio album, Live at the Blue Note (Sony Classical), in the most appropriate setting. At 8 and 10:30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village, (212) 475-8592; cover, $30 at tables, $20 at the bar, with a $5 minimum. (Chinen) STEVE WILSON QUINTET (Tuesday through July 9) An alto saxophonist with a dry tone but a rounded sense of phrase, Mr. Wilson recruits an established rhythm section -- Bruce Barth on piano, Ed Howard on bass and Adam Cruz on drums -- and locks horns with the fine trumpeter Terrell Stafford. At 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village, (212) 255-4037; cover, $20; $25 next Friday and July 8, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) Classical Full reviews of recent music performances: nytimes.com/music. Opera BERKSHIRE OPERA (Wednesday) Opera companies and orchestras everywhere are celebrating the 250th birthday of Mozart, and on Wednesday night its the Berkshire Operas turn. For this festive event, titled The Soul of Genius: A Mozart Celebration, the company, founded in 1985, has lined up some exciting performers, including young stars of the Metropolitan Opera. The sopranos Maureen OFlynn and Christine Goerke, the tenor Mark Schowalter and the baritone Troy Cook will be joined by several members of the companys successful Resident Artists Program. The music director Kathleen Kelly conducts the Berkshire Opera Overture in a program including arias and ensembles from Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and lesser-known works. The event takes place at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Mass., and if you havent seen this enchanting old theater since its extensive renovation, it alone is worth a trip. At 8 p.m., 30 Castle Street, (413) 442-0099; $35 to $85. (Anthony Tommasini) LAKE GEORGE OPERA (Tonight through Thursday) Our Town, Ned Rorems opera based on the Thornton Wilder play, is getting its first professional production from a company that may not have all the resources of the music school (Indiana Universitys) that gave it its world premiere. The companys other two offerings of its summer season are I Pagliacci and The Barber of Seville. Our Town, tomorrow at 8, Wednesday afternoon at 1; Barber, tomorrow afternoon at 1, Thursday night at 8; Pagliacci, tonight at 8, Sunday afternoon at 1. Spa Little Theater, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., (518) 587-3330; $48 to $70; $5 off for children and 65+. (Anne Midgette) Classical Music ASTON MAGNA (Tonight and tomorrow) This 34-year-old festival dates back to the early days of the period-instruments movement. Mozart, the ubiquitous birthday boy this year, is the focus of the first of the seasons six concerts; it includes some perennial favorites (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and Exsultate, Jubilate) as well as Bastien and Bastienne, the singspiel he wrote when he was 12. Dominique Labelle, a fine soprano, is one of the soloists. Tonight at 8, Olin Humanities Building, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., (845) 758-7425; tomorrow afternoon at 5, Daniel Arts Center at Simons Rock College, Great Barrington, Mass., (800) 875-7156. $35. (Midgette) BARGEMUSIC (Tonight, tomorrow, Sunday and Thursday) This floating concert hall on the Brooklyn side of the East River offers the intimacy that chamber music needs, as well as a wonderful view of Lower Manhattan through the bay windows behind the stage. Tonight Jeanne Mallow, a violist, and Vladimir Valjarevic, a pianist, collaborate on works by Brahms, Schumann, Rachmaninoff and William Keith Rogers. Tomorrow and Sunday the Brahms Trio No. 1 is the centerpiece of a program that also includes Arvo Pärts Fratres and the Schumann A-minor Violin Sonata. The players are Pavel Ilyashov, violinist; Efe Baltacigil, cellist; and Andrius Zlabys, pianist. And on Thursday, its back to viola music, with David Aaron Carpenter, violist, and Julien Quentin, pianist, playing works by Falla, Brahms, Hindemith, Zimbalist and Paganini. Tonight, tomorrow and Thursday nights at 7:30, Sunday at 4 p.m., Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing next to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, (718) 624-2083; $35; $30 for 65+ tonight and Thursday, $20 for students. (Allan Kozinn) BETHEL WOODS CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Tomorrow) The New York Philharmonic and attractions like Audra MacDonald and Lang Lang kick off this new summer destination for music. At 7 p.m., Bethel, N.Y., (866) 781-2922; sold out. (Bernard Holland) CARAMOOR (Tonight, tomorrow, Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday) The festivals second week is crowded. Tonight the New York Festival of Song offers works by British composers; Bernstein on Broadway tomorrow night features Judy Kaye and other singers; Sundays program, Green Grass to Bluegrass, shows a wide range of American music; and two chamber concerts showcase the violinist Jonathan Chu (Wednesday) and the festivals quartet in residence, the Jupiter String Quartet, playing Dvorak, Mozart and a new piece by Paul Schoenfield (Thursday). Tonight and tomorrow night at 8, Sunday afternoon at 4:30, Wednesday morning at 11, Thursday night at 7:30, Caramoor, Katonah, N.Y., (914) 232-1252; $27 and $37 tonight, $32.50 to $87.50 tomorrow, $19 to $49 on Sunday, $16 on Wednesday (with museum tour), $17 and $27 on Thursday. (Midgette) INSTITUTE AND FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE (Tonight) Shortly after completing its extensive Beethoven Institute, the tireless Mannes College, the classical music division of the New School, turned its attention to new music, playing host to the institute and Festival of Contemporary Performance. The festival attracts composers and performers, both renowned figures and adventurous students, for 10 days of workshops, master classes and concerts, all open to the public. It ends tonight with a concert featuring solo and chamber works performed by the student participants. The program will be announced from the stage. At 7, Mannes College of Music, 150 West 85th Street, Manhattan, (212) 580-0210, Ext. 4884; $20; $10 for students. (Tommasini) MAVERICK CONCERTS (Tomorrow and Sunday) This concert series near Woodstock offers its performances in an open-backed barn that allows the sounds of nature to mingle with the music. Tomorrow Jie Chen, a pianist who won the Yamaha E-Competition, plays Mozarts Variations in C (K. 179), Schumanns Sonata No. 2, Harold Meltzers Toccata, Balakirevs fiery Islamey and works by Albéniz. On Sunday afternoon the Miami String Quartet joins forces with the pianist Melvin Chen to play the chamber version of Mozarts Concerto No. 14 (K. 449) and Arthur Footes Piano Quintet in A minor. Haydns Lark Quartet opens the program. Tomorrow at 6 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m., the Maverick Concert Hall, Maverick Road, between Routes 28 and 375, West Hurley, N.Y., (845) 679-8217; $20. (Kozinn) MUSIC FESTIVAL OF THE HAMPTONS (Tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday) Dedicated to the memory of the pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch, whose niece founded it, this festival runs heavy on piano. Two installments of its Moiseiwitsch recital series feature Assaff Weisman (tonight) and Katya Sonina (Wednesday), both with programs of classics, he leaning toward the Viennese with Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven; she toward the East with Chopin and Prokofiev. Tomorrow the clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein offers Mozarts Clarinet Quintet and other works. At 8 p.m., Wölffer Estate Vineyards, Sagaponack, N.Y., and First Baptist Church, Main Street, Greenport, N.Y. (Fiterstein), (800) 644-4418; tonight and Wednesday, $50 reserved, $35 unreserved; tomorrow, $35. (Midgette) MUSIC MOUNTAIN (Tonight, tomorrow and Sunday) String quartets are a focus of this venerable institution in northwestern Connecticut, and on Sunday afternoon the Avalon Quartet will play works by Mozart and Debussy, as well as Schumanns Piano Quintet in E flat with the pianist Pamela Mia Paul. Tomorrow the jazz group Big Easy Rhythm plays its own brand of swing; and tonight the New Haven Oratorio Choir offers Schuberts Mirjams Siegesgesang. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8, Sunday afternoon at 3, Gordon Hall at Music Mountain, Falls Village, Conn., (860) 824-7126; $25 at the door, $22 in advance, $12 for students. (Midgette) * NEW YORK GUITAR SEMINAR (Wednesday and Thursday) The Mannes College of Music has assembled a starry faculty for this five-day guitar festival of concerts and master classes. The opening faculty recital, on Wednesday, includes sets by the inventive Benjamin Verdery and the Newman and Oltman Guitar Duo. On Thursday David Leisner and Dennis Koster share the bill. At 8 p.m., Mannes College, 150 West 85th Street, Manhattan, (212) 580-0210, Ext. 4883; $15. (Kozinn) NORFOLK CHAMBER FESTIVAL (Tonight) Norfolks traditional summer season begins to stir with a free concert featuring new and recent music and a special interest in percussion instruments. At 8, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Routes 44 and 272, Norfolk, Conn., (860) 542-3000. (Holland) TANGLEWOOD (Tonight) This festival offers the venerable Juilliard String Quartet at Ozawa Hall. The music is by Schubert Alejandro Viñao and Brahms. At 8:30, Lenox, Mass., (888) 266-1200; $16 to $49. (Holland) Dance Full reviews of recent performances: nytimes.com/dance. * AMERICAN BALLET THEATER (Tonight and tomorrow; Monday, Wednesday and Thursday) The last three performances of Kevin McKenzies Swan Lake are tonight and tomorrow. On Monday begins a mere four-performance run (the house will be dark on Tuesday) of Frederick Ashtons Sylvia, which was a critical hit last summer but which Ballet Theater apparently feels cannot sustain a full weeks run. Instead, next weekend, there will be three more performances of Le Corsaire. The Sylvia is worth seeing, though, both for itself and to provide a contrast to Mark Morriss version, coming next month with the San Francisco Ballet. Ballet Theaters season continues until July 15. Tonight, tomorrow night and Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights at 8; tomorrow and Wednesday at 2 p.m.; Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000 or abt.org; $23 to $100. (John Rockwell) * BARD SUMMERSCAPE (Tonight and tomorrow night) This summer arts festival features two new dances by Donna Uchizono, performed by her company and by the guest artist Mikhail Baryshnikov, whose Hells Kitchen arts center commissioned one piece. Through tomorrow. The festival itself runs through Aug. 20. At 8, Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., (845) 758-7900 or summerscape.bard.edu; $25 to $55. (Jennifer Dunning) CATALYST (Tonight and tomorrow night) This Minneapolis-based dance company, making its New York debut, will perform Heat and Life, a multimedia dance about global warming by the company director, Emily Johnson. At 7:30 , Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 924-0077 or dtw.org; $20; $12 for students and 65+. (Dunning) * CILLA VEE MOVEMENT PROJECTS (Wednesday) The formal gardens, fields and rolling inclines of the Wave Hill environmental center will be planted with dancers in bright flowing costumes, according to the company director, Claire Elizabeth Barratt, in a performance installation set to violin, flute and vocal music performed live. At 7 p.m. (Garden tour at 6:30 p.m.) Wave Hill, West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, Riverdale, the Bronx, (718) 549-3200 or www.wavehill.org; free with admission to the center: $4; $2 for students and 65+. (Dunning) LO-LO LO-LO DANCE PERFORMANCE COMPANY (Tonight and tomorrow night) From Japan, the company is making its New York City debut in As an Ugly Duck, a quintet choreographed by Kazumi Taoka that explores love and force by using bodies, space, eye contact, touching and voice. At 8, Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, between Houston and Prince Streets, (212) 334-7479; $15; $10 for students. (Dunning) * JACOBS PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL (Tonight through Sunday; Wednesday and Thursday) The Limón Dance company will be in the larger Ted Shawn Theater through the weekend, followed there on Wednesday and Thursday (and next weekend) by the Suzanne Farrell Ballet from Washington in an all-Balanchine program. In the smaller Doris Duke Studio Theater ASzURe & Artists perform this weekend, with Emanuel Gat Dance from Israel moving in on Thursday, through next weekend. Limón tonight and tomorrow night at 8, and tomorrow and Sunday at 2 p.m.; Farrell Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m.; Shawn Theater, $50. ASzURe tonight and tomorrow night at 8:15, tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. and Sunday at 5:15 p.m.; Gat on Thursday at 8:15 p.m.; Duke Theater, $24. Ten percent off all tickets for students, ages 65+ and children. Details of the weeks free performances and exhibitions can be found at jacobspillow.org. Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, 358 George Carter Road, Becket, Mass.; (413) 243-0745. (Rockwell) * LA MAMA MOVES! (Tonight through Sunday; Thursday) This eclectic whirl of a downtown-dance festival continues at three theaters in the La MaMa complex with Mavericks in Motion, whose choreographers include Abby Chen, Bhavani Lee and Deborah Lohse (tonight and tomorrow night at 8 and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.); the highly recommended Dancing Divas program of choreography by Pat Catterson, Ellen Fisher, Keely Garfield, Sally Gross, Deborah Jowitt, Jodi Melnick, Yvonne Meier and Vicky Shick (tonight at 10); Children of Ur, which includes dances by Karinne Keithley, David Neuman, Nicky Paraiso and the program curator, Chris Yon (tomorrow at 5:30 p.m.); Burlesque, whose stars include Julie Atlas Muz and Dirty Martini (tomorrow at 10 p.m.); Duet, with a roster of five pairs of dancer-choreographers (Sunday at 5:30 p.m.); and Border Jumping, with work by six artists, including Bill Irwin, representing the United States (Thursday at 7:30 p.m.). La MaMa E.T.C., 74A East Fourth Street, west of Second Avenue, East Village, (212) 475-7710 or www.lamama.org; $10 (Dunning) NICHOLAS LEICHTER ( Tomorrow) For its 10th-anniversary season, the company Nicholasleichterdance presents four pieces commissioned by Dance New Amsterdam, which date from 1997 (Animal) to 2006 (Sweetwash Special). It is an opportunity to see how much both the choreographer and Dance New Amsterday, which was formerly known as Dance Space and now has splendid new digs downtown, have grown. At 8 p.m., Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, at Chambers Street, TriBeCa, (212) 279-4200 or www.dnadance.org; $20, or $15 for members. (Erika Kinetz) * NOCHE FLAMENCA WITH SOLEDAD BARRIO (Tonight through Sunday; Thursday) Ms. Barrio is a remarkable dancer, serious and impassioned, and the hit of this winters Flamenco Gala at City Center. Her Spanish company, founded with her husband, Martin Santangelo, has settled into the intimate Theater 80 for this month and next, through July 30. Tonight, tomorrow night and Thursday night at 8; tomorrow and Sunday at 2 p.m.; Sunday at 5 p.m.; Theater 80, 80 St. Marks Place, East Village, (212) 352-3101 or theatermania.com; $45. (Rockwell) * PARADIGM and BATTLEWORKS (Wednesday and Thursday) In their shared week at the Joyce, these two companies bring together some of the best names in modern dance, both old and new. Paradigm will perform works by Carmen deLavallade, Gus Solomons Jr., Wally Cardona, Larry Keigwin and Kay Cummings. Robert Battles gifted young ensemble will perform Primate, a world premiere set to music by Philip Hamilton; Communion, a New York premiere; Takademe; Two; and Promenade. (Through July 9.) Opening night, Wednesday, is a shared program; Battleworks performs alone on Thursday. Both are at 8 p.m. The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 242-0800; $30. (Kinetz) Art Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums * American Folk Art Museum: WHITE ON WHITE (AND A LITTLE GRAY), through Sept. 17. The importance of neo-Classicism to early American architecture, silver and fine furniture is not exactly news. This small, beautiful show follows its spread into more personal corners of visual culture: often exquisite, strikingly dimensional white-work bedcovers; luminously grisaille, sometimes wacky marble-dust drawings; and print-work embroidery mourning pictures. 45 West 53rd Street, (212) 265-1040. (Roberta Smith) * BROOKLYN MUSEUM: SYMPHONIC POEM: THE ART OF AMINAH BRENDA LYNN ROBINSON, through Aug. 13. This prodigious show, by an artist born and still living in Columbus, Ohio, celebrates her heritage in paintings, drawings, sculpture, stitchery, leather work and less classifiable forms of expression. Besides its sheer visual wizardry, using materials like leaves, twigs, bark, buttons and castoff clothes, her art is compelling in that it ruminates on the history of black migration to and settlement in the United States, from early times to the present, in a garrulous, very personal way. 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, (718) 638-5000. (Grace Glueck) COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM: FREDERIC CHURCH, WINSLOW HOMER AND THOMAS MORAN: TOURISM AND THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE, through Oct. 22. It turns out that the Cooper-Hewitt owns thousands of rarely seen paintings, prints and sketches by Church, Homer and Moran. Studies of the countryside, mostly, they revere unspoiled nature and record tourism, a booming industry in 19th-century America. Here theyre combined with antique postcards, old Baedekers, stereoscopic photographs, playing cards with pictures of Yellowstone on them and souvenir platters, all to trace the nations transformation from primeval wilderness to Catskills resort. The show is extremely entertaining. 2 East 91st Street, (212) 849-8400. (Michael Kimmelman) COOPER HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM: YINKA SHONIBARE SELECTS: WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, through Sept. 24. A British sculptor of Nigerian descent organizes an absorbing small exhibition of objects related to travel from the Cooper Hewitt collection, and adds his own oblique comment on 19th-century imperialism in the form of two headless female mannequins in Victorian-style dresses cut from African-patterned fabrics, poised on six-foot stilts strapped to their feet. 2 East 91st Street, (212) 849-8400. (Ken Johnson) * Frick Collection : Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789): Swiss MasteR, through Sept. 17. Liotard is something of a specialty item now, but he was widely known in the Enlightenment Europe of his day. And even then he was seen as a maverick, a figure of contradictions. He was a stone-cold realist in an age of rococo frills. In a great age of oil painting, he favored pastel. He had ultrafancy sitters for his portraits, including the young Marie Antoinette. But his most vivid likenesses are of himself and his family. The Fricks perfectly proportioned sweetheart of a solo show is the artists first in North America. 1 East 70th Street, (212) 288-0700. (Holland Cotter) * FRICK COLLECTION: VERONESES ALLEGORIES: VIRTUE, LOVE AND EXPLORATION IN RENAISSANCE VENICE, through July 16. Paolo Veronese (1528-88), a superb colorist and one of the most suavely sensuous of Renaissance Venetian painters, used the age-old device of allegory to make abstract concepts visual, often by means of human or mythological figures. In this five-painting show, the first to include all of his large-scale allegories from American collections, high ideals mingle with earthy and sometimes erotic physicality, as in the painting Venus and Mars United by Love. (See above.) (Glueck) SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: ZAHA HADID: THIRTY YEARS IN ARCHITECTURE, through Oct. 25. This exhibition, Ms. Hadids first major retrospective in the United States, gives New Yorkers a chance to see what theyve been missing. The show, in the Guggenheims rotunda, spirals through Ms. Hadids career, from her early enchantment with Soviet Constructivism to the sensuous and fluid cityscapes of her more recent commissions. It illuminates her capacity for bridging different worlds: traditional perspective drawing and slick computer-generated imagery; the era of utopian manifestos and the ambiguous values of the information age. (212) 423-3500. (Nicolai Ouroussoff) * International Center of Photography: UNKNOWN WEEGEE, through Aug. 27. From the 1930s through the 50s, Weegee -- real name, Arthur Fellig (1899-1968) -- was one of the best known news photographers in the country. He specialized in capturing the sensational side of urban life: crime, disaster, demimonde nightlife. Tirelessly invasive, he lived by night. For him, the city was a 24-hour emergency room, an amphetamine drip. This show of 95 pictures gives a good sense of his range and calls particular attention to his awareness of social problems related to class and race. 1133 Avenue of the Americas, at 43rd Street, (212) 857-0000. (Cotter) JEWISH MUSEUM: EVA HESSE: SCULPTURE, through Sept. 17. Assembled by Elizabeth Sussman, curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Fred Wasserman, a curator at the Jewish Museum, this show focuses on a pivotal Hesse exhibition, Chain Polymers, at the Fischbach Gallery -- known for promoting Minimalist painters -- in 1968. Arguably a compilation of her best work, it was her first and only solo show of sculpture during her lifetime, and most of the objects in it -- along with some earlier and later pieces -- are here. One of the earliest is Compart (1966), a four-panel vertical that starts at the top with a fully formed, round, breastlike image of neatly wound cord that mysteriously breaks up into part of the same image on each of the three panels beneath. The last, most startling and most impressive work is Untitled (Rope Piece), of 1970, made as Ms. Hesse was dying, finished with the help of friends. (An exhibition of her drawings is on view at the Drawing Center.) 1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street, (212) 423-3200. (Glueck) * METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: ANGLOMANIA: TRADITION AND TRANSGRESSION IN BRITISH FASHION, through Sept. 4. Ranging from early-18th-century gowns to next seasons evening wear, this show crowds 65 extravagantly clad mannequins into the Mets normally serene English period rooms, trying to connect the sartorial innovations of the English dandy, the aggressive tribal attire of punk and the deconstructive impulses of todays British fashion stars. A certain confusion, both intellectual and visual, reigns, but there is more than enough to look at. (212) 535-7710. (Smith) * met: GIRODET: ROMANTIC REBEL, through Aug. 27. Hugely famous in the early 19th century, Girodet dropped down the memory chute. His Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of French Heroes, painted for Napoleon, is one of the most deranged pictures in art history. Its so unhinged that its almost lovable, which is otherwise the last word to come to mind for an artist who, in his uptight, smarty-pants mode, could be a bore. But give the show a shot. Its sometimes brilliant, and Girodets strangeness and fairly repellent character make him at least fascinating to contemplate and heroic in his immoderation. (212) 535-7710. (Kimmelman) * Met: Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings, through Sept. 10. Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings gets a huge gold A for truth in advertising. The treasures are plentiful, rare and splendid. A carved wood figure of kneeling shaman, arms extended, time-raked face entranced, is simply one of the greatest sculptures in the museum. And wait till you see the painted ceramic vessel known as the Dazzler Vase, with its red and green patterns like jade on fire, youll understand its name. Much of the work has never traveled before; many objects have only recently come to light in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. They add up to an exhibition as a think-piece essay on how a culture saw itself in the world. (212) 535-7710. (Cotter) MET: HATSHEPSUT, through July 9. Can a queen be a king, too? Consider the case of Hatshepsut, an Egyptian ruler of the 15th century B.C. She assumed the supreme title of pharaoh and ruled Egypt in that powerfully masculine role until her death. Hatshepsut is the subject of a celebratory show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one that commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Mets department of Egyptian art. Organized by the Met and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, it includes many objects from the Mets own extensive holdings, excavated at its digs in the 1920s and 30s. But it isnt so easy to follow Hatshepsuts trail in this ambitious show, what with the number of relatives, subordinates, minor officials and such who also have a place in it, along with scarabs, jewelry, pottery, furniture and other artifacts. (212) 535-7710. (Glueck) Met: KARA WALKER AT THE MET: AFTER THE DELUGE, through July 30. The Metropolitan Museum of Arts first foray into artist-organized shows is a small tour de force of curatorial creativity. Inspired partly by Hurricane Katrina, Ms. Walker has combined works from the Met with examples of her own art, connecting shared themes of race, poverty and water to illuminate contemporary arts inevitable dialogue with past art. The show has as many crosscurrents and undertows as a river. One of the most interesting concerns the genteel technique of cut-paper silhouette that is the basis of Ms. Walkers scathing take-no-prisoners exploration of slavery and its tragic legacy. (212) 535-7710. (Smith) * Morgan Library and Museum: Masterworks from the Morgan, through Sept. 10. Almost three years after closing to build an expansion, the Morgan is back and brilliant. Whats new: Renzo Pianos splendid four-story glass-and-steel court, a sort of giant solarium with see-through elevators; two good-size second-floor galleries; and a neat little strongbox of an enclosure, called the Cube, for reliquaries and altar vessels, medieval objects made with so much silver and gold that they seem to give off heat. Whats not new: almost everything in this exhibition, which fills every gallery with mini-exhibitions of master drawings and musical manuscripts, as well as illuminated gospels, devotional sculptures and historical and literary autograph manuscripts from the Brontës to Bob Dylan. 225 Madison Avenue, at East 36th Street, (212) 685-0008 or www.themorgan.org. (Individual show closings can be checked by telephone or through the Web site.) (Cotter) Museum of Arts AND Design: THE EAMES LOUNGE CHAIR: AN ICON OF MODERN DESIGN, through Sept. 3 Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a chair whose combination of declarative modernist structure and sheer creature comfort was both innovative and a bit alien, this exhibition is a successful design object in its own right. It pays homage with drawings, advertising ephemera, precursors, vintage television clips, a wonderful documentary and three versions of the chair itself, enshrined, exploded and useable. 40 West 53rd Street, (212) 956-3535. (Smith) MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: DADA, through Sept. 11. This is pretty much Dadas official survey (an oxymoron), and it makes nearly all 450 or so objects in it look elegant. That hat rack looks awfully stylish now. Its good to be reacquainted with a generation of artists who had no market to speak of and for whom societys corruption and exhaustion seemed golden opportunities to make themselves useful. Cynical and traumatized, the Dadaists were tireless young optimists at heart. They discovered a world full of wonders, and we are, on the whole, their beneficiaries. (212) 708-9400. (Kimmelman) Museum of Modern Art: Douglas Gordon: Timeline, through Sept 4. This selection of works by the artist known for appropriating and inventively manipulating Hollywood movies includes his projection of Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho, which runs so slowly that it takes 24 hours to complete, and a large-scale video installation that studies a circus elephant performing in an empty art gallery. Museum of Modern Art. (212) 708-9400. (Johnson) * New-York Historical Society: Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, through January. Slavery, some would say, didnt really end in the United States until the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. That was a full century after the Emancipation Proclamation. Or the Emancipation Approximation, as the artist Kara Walker calls it in a series of hallucinatory silkscreen prints. They are among the high points of this large, powerful, subtle group show, the second in a trio of exhibitions on American slavery organized by the New-York Historical Society. 170 Central Park West, (212) 873-3400. (Cotter) New York Public Library: FRENCH BOOK ART/LIVRES DARTISTES: ARTISTS AND POETS IN DIALOGUE, through Aug. 19. Organized with the Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet in Paris, this lavish exhibition surveys some of the experimental ferment brought on by the combination of free verse, visionary publishers and the high rate of talent among French artists and poets, especially in the early years of the 20th century. New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, (212) 869-8089. (Smith) NOGUCHI MUSEUM: BEST OF FRIENDS: BUCKMINSTER FULLER AND ISAMU NOGUCHI, through Oct. 15. Great, lasting friendships are rare, but friendships that enlarge the spirit through ideas, ideals and new insights are in a class by themselves. Over a stretch of more than 50 years the sculptor Isamu Noguchi and the visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller enjoyed such a friendship, which led to aesthetic and practical achievements that left their mark. The course of their varied collaborations is traced in this exhibition, which includes models, sculptures, drawings, photographs and films. 9-01 33rd Road, between Vernon Boulevard and 10th Street, Long Island City, Queens, (718) 204-7088. (Glueck) Galleries: Uptown * WANGECHI MUTU: EXHUMING GLUTTONY: A LOVERS REQUIEM In tandem with this artists Chelsea debut, an over-the-top installation made with the British architect David Adjaye includes fur-trimmed wine bottles dripping wine, animal skins and an enormous raw wood table. Conflating morgue, tannery and banquet hall, it brings the excess and color of paintings on Mylar into real space, but its main message seems to be: I built this because I can. Salon 94, 12 East 94th Street, (646) 672-9212, through July 28. (Smith) * Sarah Sze: Corner Plot The upper corner of an apartment building protrudes from the Doris C. Freedman Plazas pavement as if the whole edifice had toppled and sunk into the ground. Through the windows of Ms. Szes magical outdoor sculpture you can see a complicated interior that looks as if it were created by a mad architect. Doris C. Freedman Plaza, 60th Street and Fifth Avenue, (212) 980-4575, through Oct. 22. (Johnson) Galleries: 57th Street Eva Lundsager: Wherever Improvising with infectiously playful freedom on medium-large canvases, Ms. Lundsager creates hedonistic and trippy abstract landscapes composed of dots, squiggles, woozy stripes, smudgy areas, luminous open spaces, and colors ranging from neon bright to muddy brown. Greenberg Van Doren, 730 Fifth Avenue, (212) 445-0444, through next Friday. (Johnson) * Rudy Burckhardt: New York Paintings Known as a photographer and filmmaker, Burckhardt (1914-1999) also painted all through his career. His Manhattan cityscapes, mostly rooftop views of other buildings, have a fresh, almost naïve immediacy and a sophisticated way with relations between surface and depth and complexity and simplicity. Tibor de Nagy, 724 Fifth Avenue, (212) 262-5050, through July 28. (Johnson) Galleries: SoHo Philippe Decrauzat: Plate 28 A conceptually perplexing but visually striking installation by this young Swiss artist includes a black and white grid painted on the walls; a sculpture based on a Russian Constructivist design; and a grainy, flickering black-and-white film showing glimpses of ominous landscapes from The Twilight Zone. Swiss Institute, 495 Broadway, at Broome Street, (212) 925-2035, through July 15. (Johnson) EVA HESSE: DRAWING This show deals in depth with Ms. Hesses works on paper, ranging from rough sketches or notes, to test pieces made from various materials that function as drawings, to finished projects that stand on their own. A zealous researcher, Ms. Hesse made all kinds of thumbnail notations and calculations to explore the properties of her malleable materials. Many of these sheets, perhaps too many, are shown, too. Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, (212) 219-2166, through July 15. (Glueck) Galleries: Chelsea Nightmares of Summer This entertaining selection of dark, weird and nasty visions includes Marilyn Minters big photograph of dirty feet with toenails painted fashionably green; Barnaby Furnass explosive, cartoonish painting of a woman at the beach spilling blood-red wine; an otherworldly coppery seascape by Stuart Elster; photographs by Anders Petersen, Hans Bellmer and Diane Arbus; drawings by Carroll Dunham and Steve DiBenedetto; and more. Marvelli, 526 West 26th Street, (212) 627-3363, through July 8. (Johnson) Scarecrow The work in this show is supposed to be menacing and abrasive, but it is mostly interesting and amusing. Highlights include David Herberts giant, handmade replica of a 2001: A Space Odyssey videocassette; Rashid Johnsons life-size, photographic nude self-portrait; David Kennedy Cutlers model of the White House made of chewing gum and imbedded in dirt; and a short Matthew Barney-like film by Chris Larson. Postmasters, 459 West 19th Street, (212) 727-3323, through July 8. (Johnson) Martin Schoeller: Close Up Extraordinarily large and detailed mug-shot-like portraits of celebrities like Jack Nicholson, Angelina Jolie and Bill Clinton. Hasted Hunt, 529 West 20th Street, (212) 627-0006, through Sept. 1. (Johnson) * Stephen Shore The postcard-size color pictures of diners, restaurant meals, hotel rooms, roadside signs, ordinary people and other nondescript subjects taken by this eminent photographer on cross-country road trips in the early 1970s are enthralling, beautiful, nostalgic and romantic. 303 Gallery, 525 West 22nd Street, (212) 255-1121, through July 7. (Johnson) RICHARD SERRA: ROLLED AND FORGED The centerpiece of the latest Serra spectacular, which favors mass, compression and rectangles over stretched-thin curves and spirals, is a low-lying maze in which the shifting heights and staggered placement of 16 thick, hedgelike plates create one of the most spatially complex yet straightforward works of his career. Gagosian Gallery, 555 West 24th Street, (212) 741-1111, through Aug. 11. (Smith) Last Chance Jackie Gendel: Portraits With seemingly offhand painterly verve, smudgy colors and a sweet sense of humor, Ms. Gendel creates smart and sensuous, semi-abstract riffs on Modernist portraiture. Jeff Bailey, 511 West 25th Street, (212) 989-0156; closing tomorrow. (Johnson) * NEW VIDEO, NEW EUROPE A selection of 49 tapes by 40 artists from 16 Eastern European countries, several of which did not exist before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, presents bits and pieces of another world. Revolution, landmines, economic hardship and disappearing ways of life alternate with wit and artistic originality. The whole forms an inadvertent documentary, but many of the parts are well worth attention. The Kitchen, 512 East 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 255-5793; closing today. (Smith) * The Studio Museum In harlem: Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964-1980, During one of the most radical periods in 20th-century American politics, the Black Power era, a group of African-American artists was working in one of the most radical forms of 20th-century art: abstraction. This show is stylishly installed. (One gallery bursts with color, another has a cool, platinum shimmer.) The 15 artists are intensely individualistic and part of an important history. 144 West 125th Street, (212) 864-4500; closing Sunday. (Cotter)

Freddie Gray Police Custody Death Spurs Riots In Baltimore.

A violent showdown erupted late Monday afternoon in Baltimore, following the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in police custody.. City Council President Jack Young urged rioters to ���stop the madness.���. Obama and Lynch met in the Oval Office while the violent scenes of rioting in Baltimore played out on television.. Mayor Bill de Blasio said late Monday that he is not aware of any threats against police in New York City in the wake of violence in Baltimore.

LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.; OREGON NEWS. WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Martial Law at San Juan. West India News. Lets Estimated at $1,250,000. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. Arrival of the star of the West, LATEST FROM NIGARAGUA

The steamship Star of the West, Captain E. L. TINKLETAUGH, from San Juan, arrived here yesterday morning, bringing 435 passengers and $663,-845 on freights, and California dates to July 15. Nothing of importance has transpired in California since the last steamer, with the exception of large fires in San Francisco, Sacramento and Columbia.

Tanisha Anderson Death Ruled Homicide; Cleveland Woman Died In Police.

The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiners office ruled that Tanisha Andersons death was a homicide. Anderson died Nov. 12 at hospital after being handcuffed, taken into police custody and then losing consciousness while having a mental-health episode.

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Dispute outside church leaves 2 fatally shot, 4 injured.

A long-running feud between two men ended in bloodshed when a gunfight broke out at a wake in Brooklyn, leaving one of them dead, police said Tuesday.. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens). New York City Police Department Crime Scene investigators survey the scene of a shooting outside Emmanuel Church of God in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Two people were fatally. Latest on police-custody death: Gray family satisfied �� Latest on��.

More than 120 Arrested as Cops and Freddie Gray.

Baltimore has been the scene of near-nightly protests ever since the April 19 death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who is believed to have been fatally injured while in police custody. However, the most dramatic protests��.

ONE WEEK LATER FROM EUROPE.; THE RUSSIAN COUNTER-PROPOSITION. Lord John Russells Explanations of the Conferences, in the House of Commons, And Lord Clarendons, in the House of Lords. Cotton Advanced 1-8---Consols 88 7-8. Gathering of Russian Reinforcements. BRILLIANT EXPLOITS AT THE RIFLE PITS. SEBAS TOPOL NOT TAKEN. ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC. CRITICAL POSITION OF THE ALLIES. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE LOUIS NAPOLEON. Temporary Suspension of the Siege,

The United States Mail steamer Baltic, which conveys the present news, sailed from Liverpool on Saturday, May 5, about noon. She arrived in the Mersey, from New-York, on the previous Sunday evening. The Baltic arrived at her dock about 6 oclock last evening.. Attempt of Pianori upon his life

April 19 Updates on Aftermath of Boston Marathon Explosions

. The Lede is following the aftermath of Monday’s deadly explosions at the Boston Marathon, which killed three and injured more than 170 on Monday.

Latest on Police-Custody Death: More Protests in Ferguson

We have to give her time and her office time to wade through those papers, Pugh said. ___. 10:10 p.m.. A few minutes after the city-wide curfew, only a couple dozen people are left at the scene of Mondays rioting in Baltimore. Police are clearing.

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.; ASIATIC CHOLERA. Progress of the Disease in New-York and Brooklyn-Timely Advice from Dr. Harris and Other Eminent Physicians--The Homoaepathists and the Board of Health. FOURTEENTH REGIMENT. Company K Give a Grand Picnic and Promenade at Leffrerts Grove. Metropolitan Fire Department. The Copyright Business. Award of Contracts. The Portland Sufferers. Fires. OUT-DOOR SPORTS. Base Ball. POLICE COURTS. The Tombs--Before Justice Hogan. Essex Market--Before Justice Shandley. Jefferson Market--Before Justice Dodge.

. Homoeopathists and Board of Health; Statement of the Former

Latest on police-custody death: Officer injured near station.

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky). Protestors gather outside the Baltimore Police Departments Western District police station before a match for Freddie Gray, Saturday, April 25, 2015, in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries. The injury occurred after a day of protests, including some that became violent at times.. Fire officials estimate that roughly 1,200 people gathered at City Hall earlier in the day, and one person was transported to the hospital after falling down.

The 14-Year-Old Hit Man

Tiny has always been just that. Hes 14 years old and about four feet tall. His gray Levis hang off him despite the belt he wears wrapped around his waist twice. He looks about 8, and no one would suspect him of inflicting harm. Thats one of the reasons Tiny -- as his street name is translated -- makes an effective assassin. I met Tiny one afternoon not long ago in Medellín, Colombia. He strutted up to me on the street and stood on his toes to kiss my cheek. Then he handed me two warm Chiclets. I had come to Colombia to report on a legal loophole in its Minors Code that allows kids under 18 to kill without being held responsible. After weeks of trying to persuade gang bosses to let me spend time with their young charges, I was finally introduced to Tiny, who told me his story over the next six weeks.

Baltimore police hand report on Gray death to prosecutor - 8.

Latest on police-custody death: New van stop revealed.. Authorities have said the states attorneys office will review the information, consider charges and decide how to move forward in the death of Gray, who was stopped by police April 12. He suffered spinal. In widespread protests Wednesday night - not only in Baltimore, but in several cities including Boston, New York and Washington, D.C. - it was clear that tensions over the case are far from subsiding.

Police: Man swinging a machete shot at New Orleans airport

Baltimore Police Turn Over Freddie Gray Death Report to Prosecutors Office. 11:50. Now watching Up next. KENNER, La. (AP) ��� The New Orleans airport concourse that became a scene of chaos when a machete-wielding man was shot by a sheriffs.

Baltimore riots erupt: State of emergency, curfew declared.

Mondays riot was the latest flare-up over the mysterious death of Freddie Gray, whose fatal encounter with officers came amid the national debate over police use of force,.. The curfew was imposed after unrest in the city over the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody... She said she came after seeing video of Grays arrest, which she said reminded her of her fathers shouts that he could not breathe when he was being arrested on a New York City street.

Latest on police-custody death: Rev. Sharpton to lead summit

Several hundred people have gathered in New York to protest the death of Freddie Gray, a Baltimore man who was critically injured in police custody, and at least 60 people have been arrested. Protesters Wednesday first rallied in Manhattans Union.

Martin OMalley Embraces Baltimore, for Better or Worse, in Long-Shot.

When riots exploded over the death of Freddie Gray, a young black man who was critically injured in police custody, Mr. OMalley rushed back to the city from London to visit the scene of the protests, meet with local leaders and deliver food at.

NEWS OF THE DAY.; EUROPE. CONGRESS. STATE LEGISLATURE. GENERAL NEWS. LOCAL NEWS.

The City of Washington arrived at 1 oclock this morning, bringing mails to the 24th ult. from Liverpool. The most important news is from France and Spain. The Emperors speech, of which we had just a glimpse by the Palestine, we print in full, as reported in Galignani. Count WALEWSKI has taken his seat as President of the Corps Legislatif.. Judge G. A. Brayton, elected Chief-Justice, S. C.

Latest on police-custody death: Protesters march in city

Dozens of people are marching in protest of the death of Freddie Gray, who was critically injured in police custody. Many of the protesters wore black T-shirts that said: Black Lives Matter - which has become the slogan of a movement against police.

THE MURDER MANIA.; No Clue to the Assassin of Mr. Nathan The Funeral of the Slaughtered Man Important Charge to the Grand Jury by Judge Bedford Trial and Oonviction of a Would-be Wife Murderer Shooting, Stabbing and Knocking Down tho Order of the Day Fruitless Search for the Murderer--Unfounded Rumor--The Difficulties of the Case--Little Hope of Success for the Police The Funeral of Mr. Nathan THE MURDER MANIA Judge Bedford to the Grand Jury on the Murder of Mr. Nathan Further Comments of the Press on the Twenty-Third-Street Murder Refusal of Gov. Hoffman to Commute the Sentence of Death The Broadwell Shooting Case--Trial and Conviction of the Prisoner--Remarks of Judge Bedford MORE BLOODY TRAGEDIES A German Baker Kills a Man in Self-Defence--Ante-Mortem Examination in the McLanghsn Case--Other Cases The Reporter Homicide at Bulls Ferry-The Injured Man Recoveriug Robbery and Probable Murder--An Old man Beaten Nearly to Death The Late Hanging Affair Near Williams Bridge A Bar-Room Afray in Brooklyn--Man Stabbed with a Chisel

The City was excited yesterday by a rumor that the Nathan assassin had been found in the person of a plumber, who was said to have lacerated wounds upon the face, and what was still more positive, to have had the stolen watch upon his person.

KILLED FRIENDS WIFE AND SLEW HIMSELF; Double Crime of Henry Towns- end Edson, Ex-Mayors Son. His Victim Was Mrs. Fannie Pullen -- Murderer Said to Have Been Also an Embezzler of Church Funds -- Statements of Witnesses.

Henry Townsend Edson, son of ex-Mayor Franklin Edson, shot and killed Mrs. Fannie Pullen yesterday morning in his apartment at 292 West Ninety-second Street, and then killed himself with the two bullets that remained in his 32-calibre pistol after he had fired three times at his victim.. Edson, Henry T, killed Mrs Pullen and self

The latest on Baltimore police-custody death: Dozens of protesters gather in.

Several hundred people have gathered in New York to protest the death of Freddie Gray, a Baltimore man who was critically injured in police custody, and at least 60 people have been arrested. Protesters. Hundreds of police officers in riot gear.

Live Blog: Representative Giffords Shot

Gabrielle Giffords, a congresswoman from Arizona, was shot in the head on Saturday at a public event held at a grocery store in Tucson, her spokesman, C. J. Karamargin, said. A federal judge, John Roll, who had been involved in immigration cases and had received death threats, was among those killed.. Following the developments after the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and more than a dozen others in Arizona.

Latest on police-custody death: Curfew through weekend

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US Justice Dept. opens probe into mans death in Baltimore.

The U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday it has opened an investigation into the death of a black man who died of spinal injuries he suffered during an arrest that involved being transported in a police van.. investigations in the last year include probes into the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri -- a case that resulted in no charges against the officer -- and an ongoing review of a police chokehold death of a New York City man.

Latest on police-custody death: Residents praise decision.

The Associated Press- 11:20 a.m. Across Baltimore, people are reacting to the charges against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray and praising the decision to prosecute.. Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 President Gene Ryan made the comment Friday in a letter to Baltimore City States Attorney Marilyn Mosby before she announced the charges.. The state medical examiners office says it has sent the autopsy report on Freddie Gray to prosecutors.

All six officers charged after Freddie Grays death is ruled a.

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NOTABLE BOOKS

This list has been selected from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of December 2002. It is meant to suggest some of the high points in this years fiction and poetry, nonfiction, childrens books, mysteries and science fiction. The books are arranged alphabetically under genre headings.The complete reviews of these books may be found at nytimes.com/books. FICTION & POETRY ABANDON: A Romance. By Pico Iyer. (Knopf, $24.) A graceful novel whose hero, an English graduate student of Sufi mystical poetry who hopes to uncover that within himself which passeth show, heads first for California and later for Iran, where he and the woman he is traveling with improve their understanding of mystical poetry and of themselves.. List of notable books of 2003; drawings (L)

Reaction to Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision - City Room

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Latest on police-custody death: Prosecutor asks for patience.

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THE LISTINGS | September 1 - September 7

Selective listings by critics of The New York Times of new and noteworthy cultural events in the Northeast this week. * denotes a highly recommended film, concert, show or exhibition. Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses. Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of current shows, additional listings, show times and tickets: nytimes.com/theater. Previews and Openings FOGGY BOTTOM Previews start tomorrow. Opens Sept. 10. A State Department bureaucrat promises a green card to three beautiful women in James Armstrongs new comedy (2:00). Abingdon Theater Arts Complex, 312 West 36th Street, (212) 868-4444. THE MAN HIMSELF Previews start Tuesday. Opens Sept. 10. A desperate man turns to the religious right for comfort in this exploration of extremism (1:30). 59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street, (212) 279-4200. THE PAIN AND THE ITCH Previews start today. Opens Sept. 21. Bruce Norriss drama about a dysfunctional family arrives in New York after a successful run at Chicagos Steppenwolf Theater. Jayne Houdyshell and Reg Rogers star (2:15). Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street, (212) 279-4200. RICHARD II Previews start Wednesday. Opens Sept. 17. Michael Cumpsty, who starred as Hamlet at the Classic Stage Company last season, returns to the downtown theater to headline Shakespeares history play about a deeply flawed king (2:15). Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th Street, (212) 352-3101. READING OF STUFF HAPPENS George W. Bush (or at least someone playing him) comes to Central Park in David Hares investigation of Americas run-up to war. It runs for one free performance on Wednesday (2:30). Delacorte Theater in Central Park, (212) 539-8750. SUBURBIA Previews start Wednesday. Opens Sept 28. Eric Bogosian revamps his tale of youthful angst and alienation for the new millennium. Jo Bonney directs (2:00). Second Stage Theater, 307 West 43rd Street, (212) 246-4422. THEOPHILUS NORTH Previews start Tuesday. Opens Sept. 14. Keen Companys adaptation of Thornton Wilders novel is about a teacher who quits his job and heads out for adventure -- until his car breaks down in Newport (2:00). Clurman Theater, 410 West 42nd Street, (212) 279-4200. Broadway THE COLOR PURPLE So much plot, so many years, so many characters to cram into less than three hours. This beat-the-clock musical adaptation of Alice Walkers Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Southern black women finding their inner warriors never slows down long enough for you to embrace it. LaChanze leads the vibrant, hard-working cast (2:40). Broadway Theater, 1681 Broadway, at 53rd Street, (212) 239-6200. (Ben Brantley) THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (Tony Awards, best book of a musical and best original score, 2006) This small and ingratiating spoof of 1920s stage frolics, as imagined by an obsessive show queen, may not be a masterpiece. But in a dry season for musicals, The Drowsy Chaperone has theatergoers responding as if they were withering houseplants finally being watered after long neglect. Bob Martin and Sutton Foster are the standouts in the avid, energetic cast (1:40). Marquis Theater, 1535 Broadway, at 45th Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) * THE HISTORY BOYS (Tony Awards, best play and best direction of a play, 2006) Madly enjoyable. Alan Bennetts play about a battle for the hearts and minds of a group of university-bound students, imported with the original British cast from the National Theater, moves with a breezy narrative swagger that transcends cultural barriers. Directed by Nicholas Hytner, with a perfectly oiled ensemble led by the superb Richard Griffiths and Stephen Campbell Moore as schoolmasters with opposing views of history and education (2:40). Broadhurst Theater, 235 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) JERSEY BOYS (Tony Award, best musical, 2006) From grit to glamour with the Four Seasons, directed by the pop repackager Des McAnuff (The Whos Tommy). The real thrill of this shrink-wrapped bio-musical, for those who want something more than recycled chart toppers and a story line poured from a can, is watching the wonderful John Lloyd Young (as Frankie Valli) cross the line from exact impersonation into something far more compelling (2:30). August Wilson Theater, 245 West 52nd Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) * KIKI AND HERB: ALIVE ON BROADWAY This transcendental lounge act -- made up of Kiki (Justin Bond), a molting songbird for all seasons, and Herb (Kenny Mellman), her happily suffering shadow and accompanist -- has the heat and dazzle of great balls of fire. Vital, funny and surprisingly affecting (2:00). Helen Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street; (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) MARTIN SHORT: FAME BECOMES ME This eager and amiably scattershot satire of celebrity memoirs and Broadway musicals, starring the immodestly modest Mr. Short, arrives a little late to the table for such parody to taste fresh. With serviceably tuneful songs by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman (of Hairspray fame) (1:45). Jacobs Theater, 242 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) TARZAN This writhing green blob with music, adapted by Disney Theatrical Productions from the 1999 animated film, has the feeling of a superdeluxe day care center, equipped with lots of bungee cords and karaoke synthesizers, where children can swing when they get tired of singing, and vice versa. The soda-pop score is by Phil Collins (2:30). Richard Rodgers Theater, 226 West 46th Street, (212) 307-4747. (Brantley) * THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE The happy news for this happy-making little musical is that the move to larger quarters has dissipated none of its quirky charm. William Finns score sounds plumper and more rewarding than it did Off Broadway, providing a sprinkling of sugar to complement the sass in Rachel Sheinkins zinger-filled book. The performances are flawless. Gold stars all around (1:45). Circle in the Square, 1633 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Charles Isherwood) THE WEDDING SINGER An assembly-kit musical that might as well be called That 80s Show, this stage version of the 1998 film is all winks and nods and quotations from the era of big hair and junk bonds. The cast members, who include Stephen Lynch and Laura Benanti, are personable enough, which is not the same as saying they have personalities (2:20). Al Hirschfeld Theater, 302 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) Off Broadway CREATION: A CLOWN SHOW Lucas Caleb Rooney is a cross between Red Skelton and Will Ferrell in this sweet, funny, poignant mostly one-man show about the biblical story of earths first seven days (1:15). Theater Five, 311 West 43rd Street, Clinton, (212) 868-4444. (Anita Gates) THE FANTASTICKS A revival -- well, more like a resuscitation -- of the Little Musical That Wouldnt Die. This sweet-as-ever production of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidts commedia-dellarte-style confection is most notable for Mr. Joness touching performance (under the pseudonym Thomas Bruce) as the Old Actor, a role he created when the show opened in 1960. Mr. Jones also directs (2:05). Snapple Theater Center, 210 West 50th Street, Manhattan, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) * FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT This production features the expected caricatures of ego-driven singing stars. But even more than usual, the show offers an acute list of grievances about the sickly state of the Broadway musical, where, as the lyrics have it, everything old is old again (1:45). 47th Street Theater, 304 West 47th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) GARDEL: THE MUSICAL A standard-issue bio-musical about the tango legend Carlos Gardel that wallows in melodrama (1:30). Gramercy Arts Theater, 138 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 225-9920. (Jason Zinoman) JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS A powerfully sung revival of the 1968 revue, presented with affectionate nostalgia by the director Gordon Greenberg. As in the original, two men (Robert Cuccioli and Drew Sarich) and two women (Natascia Diaz and Gay Marshall) perform a wide selection of Brels plaintive ballads and stirring anthems. Ms. Marshalls captivating performance of Ne Me Quitte Pas, sung in the original French and with heart-stirring transparency, represents Brel at his best (2:00). Zipper Theater, 336 West 37th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood) MR. DOOLEYS AMERICA Martin J. Dooley, the wisest fictional pub owner in 1890s Chicago, brings his old newspaper columns back to life with funny, surprisingly timely issues-of-the-day commentary in this likable two-man play (1:40). Irish Repertory Theater, 132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, (212) 727-2737. (Gates) NO CHILD Teachers will love Nilaja Suns one-woman show about the challenges of teaching drama at Malcolm X High School (1:10). Barrow Street Theater, 27 Barrow Street, at Seventh Avenue South, West Village, (212) 239-6200. (Gates) * SEVEN GUITARS (2:45). Life and death dance cheek to cheek in this fine new revival of August Wilsons drama from 1996. Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and acted with absorbing restraint and immediacy, this is a truly life-size production, which means it is big indeed (2:45). Peter Norton Space, 555 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 244-7529. (Brantley) SHOUT! A miniskirted, go-go-booted zombie of a musical about women searching for love in London in the 1960s. You wont see anything this groovy, this far-out, this with-it outside of, oh, maybe the showroom of a Carnival cruise ship (1:30). Julia Miles Theater, 424 West 55th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood) TEMPEST TOSSED FOOLS This musical audience-participation childrens version of The Tempest is rowdy, colorful and not all that Shakespearean. Manhattan Ensemble Theater, 55 Mercer Street, SoHo, (212) 239-6200. (Gates) * [TITLE OF SHOW] Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell are the authors, stars and subject matter of this delectable new musical about its own making. The self-consciousness is tempered by a wonderful cast performing with the innocence of kids cavorting in a sandbox. Its a worthy postmodern homage to classic backstage musicals, and an absolute must for show queens (1:30). Vineyard Theater, 108 East 15th Street, Flatiron district, (212) 279-4200. (Isherwood) Spectacles ABSINTHE Think Cirque du Soleil as channeled through Rocky Horror and painted by George Grosz. Part cabaret, part circus, Absinthe aims at a kind of seedy decadence thats mingled with the simple, aw-shucks wonder of knife-jugglers, sword-swallowers and a man creating constructions out of soap bubbles. Its the main event at the Spiegeltent, a vintage European tradition visiting South Street Seaport this summer (1:30). Spiegeltent, at the former Fulton Fish Market site, Pier 17, South Street, under the Brooklyn Bridge, (212) 279-4200. (Anne Midgette) REVEREND BILLY AND THE CHURCH OF STOP-SHOPPING Reverend Billy (a k a the performance artist Bill Talen) struts and preaches his way across the Spiegeltent stage accompanied by a choir and a fine seven-piece band. Radical political theater has rarely been more thoughtful or fun (1:30). Spiegeltent, at the former Fulton Fish Market site, Pier 17, South Street, under the Brooklyn Bridge, (212) 279-4200. (George Hunka) Long-Running Shows * ALTAR BOYZ This sweetly satirical show about a Christian pop group made up of five potential Teen People cover boys is an enjoyable, silly diversion (1:30). New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood) AVENUE Q R-rated puppets give lively life lessons (2:10). Golden, 252 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Cartoon made flesh, sort of (2:30). Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 205 West 46th Street, (212) 307-4747. (Brantley) CHICAGO Irrefutable proof that crime pays (2:25). Ambassador Theater, 219 West 49th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) DRUMSTRUCK Lightweight entertainment that stops just short of pulverizing the eardrums (1:30). 2005 New World Stages, Stage 2, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212) 239-6200. (Lawrence Van Gelder) HAIRSPRAY Fizzy pop, cute kids, large man in a housedress (2:30). Neil Simon Theater, 250 West 52nd Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) THE LION KING Disney on safari, where the big bucks roam (2:45). Minskoff Theater, 200 West 45th Street at Broadway, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) MAMMA MIA! The jukebox that devoured Broadway (2:20). Cadillac Winter Garden Theater, 1634 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Who was that masked man, anyway? (2:30). Majestic Theater, 247 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) THE PRODUCERS The ne plus ultra of showbiz scams (2:45). St. James Theater, 246 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) RENT East Village angst and love songs to die for (2:45). Nederlander Theater, 208 West 41st Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) SLAVAS SNOWSHOW Clowns chosen by the Russian master Slava Polunin stir up laughter and enjoyment. A show that touches the heart as well as tickles the funny bone (1:30). Union Square Theater, 100 East 17th Street, Flatiron District, (212) 307-4100. (Van Gelder) SPAMALOT A singing scrapbook for Python fans. (2:20). Shubert Theater, 225 West 44th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) WICKED Oz revisited, with political corrections (2:45). Gershwin Theater, 222 West 51st Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley) Last Chance DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS Another excavation of what seems to have become Broadways favorite musical terrain -- call it Scamalot, where con men are king (see The Producers). Now starring Keith Carradine and Brian DArcy James as the mismatched swindlers (2:35). Imperial Theater, 249 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200; closing on Sunday. (Brantley) EVERYTHINGS TURNING INTO BEAUTIFUL Seth Zvi Rosenfelds thrill-free demi-musical about a pair of commitment-wary songwriters (Daphne Rubin-Vega and Malik Yoba) is clearly intended to progress from wintry loneliness to heated confrontation and eroticism. But it remains stolidly at room temperature. Directed by Carl Forsman, with songs by Jimmie James (1:50). Acorn Theater, 410 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212) 279-4200; closing tomorrow. (Brantley) INDIAN BLOOD As slight as it is sweet, A. R. Gurneys latest is like a snow globe for the stage, in this case a memento of wintry Buffalo in the mid-1940s. Written with delicacy and old-school craftsmanship, the work is a modest memory play endowed with a measure of emotional heft by its unchallenged but unusually strong cast, which includes John McMartin and Rebecca Luker (1:30). 59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street, (212) 279-4200; closing tomorrow. (Isherwood) * THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE Please turn off your political-correctness monitor along with your cellphone for Martin McDonaghs gleeful, gory and appallingly entertaining play. This blood farce about terrorism in rural Ireland, acutely directed by Wilson Milam, has a carnage factor to rival Quentin Tarantinos. But it is also wildly, absurdly funny and, even more improbably, severely moral (1:45). Lyceum Theater, 149 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200; closing on Sunday. (Brantley) MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN If you ever wanted to watch one willowy human being lift a 12-ton play onto her shoulders and hold it there for hours, even as her muscles buckle, join the line to see Meryl Streep burning energy like a supernova in this otherwise less-than-stunning production. Directed by George C. Wolfe, from a new translation by Tony Kushner (2:30). Delacorte Theater, Central Park, (212) 539-8750; free; closing on Sunday. (Brantley) PIG FARM A gleefully stupid comedy by Greg Kotis about lust and violence in the farm belt, with a few gristly bits of satire aimed at the fat-bellied American electorate thrown in for good measure. Powered by the frenzied commitment of the four skilled actors who make up its cast, the comedy careers around the stage like an interminable improv session for a still-unformulated sketch on Saturday Night Live. (2:15). Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theater, 111 West 46th Street, (212) 719-1300; closing on Sunday. (Isherwood) * SWEENEY TODD (Tony Award, best direction of a musical, 2006) Sweet dreams, New York. This thrilling new revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheelers musical, with Michael Cerveris and Patti LuPone leading a cast of 10 who double as their own musicians, burrows into your thoughts like a campfire storyteller who knows what really scares you. The inventive director, John Doyle, aims his pared-down interpretation at the squirming child in everyone who wants to have his worst fears both confirmed and dispelled (2:30). Eugene ONeill Theater, 230 West 49th Street, (212) 239-6200; closing on Sunday. (Brantley) Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases, movie trailers, show times and tickets: nytimes.com/movies. ACCEPTED (PG-13, 90 minutes) A clever slacker and his oddball crew invent a phony college in this passable example of that oxymoronic genre, the Hollywood comedy about sticking it to the man. (Nathan Lee) * AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (PG, 96 minutes) Al Gore gives a lecture on climate change. One of the most exciting and necessary movies of the year. Seriously. (A. O. Scott) THE ANT BULLY (PG, 90 minutes) A young boy goes to live among the ants, who talk remarkably like Academy Award-winning actors. (Scott) BARNYARD (PG, 88 minutes) The barnyard animals in this crude 3-D animation walk, talk and party down like human beings. Way too often the male cows, as the film calls them, also flash their udders. (Manohla Dargis) THE BEALES OF GREY GARDENS (No rating, 90 minutes) The Maysles brothers dig into their archives for this collection of outtakes from Grey Gardens, their 1975 cinema vérité classic about the most fascinating cat ladies in the Hamptons. Essential viewing for drag queens. ( Lee) BEERFEST (R, 110 minutes) In Beerfest, a gaseous celebration of binge drinking and family honor, the five comedians known collectively as Broken Lizard head for Munich and an underground beer-guzzling contest. Best viewed while sloshed, the movie is idiotic, tasteless and irrepressibly good-natured -- in other words, a frat-house classic. (Jeannette Catsoulis) BOYNTON BEACH CLUB (No rating, 104 minutes) A fast-paced romantic comedy about frisky 60-something residents of a Florida active adult community, Boynton Beach Club is a rose-colored fantasy about aging that has just enough credibility to make you care about its characters and wish them merrily on their way. (Stephen Holden) THE BREAK-UP (PG-13, 105 minutes) Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn split up and share custody of a Chicago condominium. Dull and cheerless, notwithstanding a handful of funny supporting turns, notably from Judy Davis and Jason Bateman. (Scott) * THE BRIDESMAID (No rating, 110 minutes, in French) The great Claude Chabrol again takes up a sharp instrument and directs it at one of his favorite targets, the family. Yet while his aim remains true, his touch has become gentler, more forgiving. (Dargis) CARS (G, 114 minutes) The latest 3-D toon from Pixar just putt- putt-putts along, a shining model of technological progress and consumer safety. John Lasseter directed, and Owen Wilson provides the voice of the little red race car who learns all the right lessons from, among others, a 1951 Hudson Hornet given voice by Paul Newman. (Dargis) THE CELESTINE PROPHECY (PG, 100 minutes) A delectable fusion of new age babble and luridly bad filmmaking based on the best-selling book by James Redfield. (Dargis) * CHANGING TIMES (No rating, 95 minutes, in French and Arabic) Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star in André Téchinés rich, warmhearted exploration of cultural collision in contemporary Tangier. A half-dozen skillfully interwoven subplots create a set of variations on the theme of divided sensibilities tugging one another into states of perpetual unrest and possible happiness. (Holden) CLERKS II (R, 98 minutes) More than a decade later, Kevin Smiths New Jersey underachievers have moved from a convenience store to a fast-food franchise. The humor is reliably filthy and frequently hilarious, and the filmmaking is a few steps above rudimentary, but the movies poignant sweetness is disarming. It has a dirty mind, but its heart is remarkably pure. (Scott) CLICK (PG-13, 98 minutes) Adam Sandler stars in this unfunny comedy about a harried family man who uses a universal remote to hop-scotch through time. Its a wonderful life, not. (Dargis) CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WOMEN (No rating, 84 minutes) Two old flames meet, years after parting, and have a short fling. An arch, banal conceit, of some interest for Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carters performances and the split-screen gimmick that keeps them apart even in their intimate moments. (Scott) THE DA VINCI CODE (PG-13, 148 minutes) Theology aside, The Da Vinci Code is, above all, a murder mystery. And as such, once it gets going, Ron Howards movie has its pleasures. He and the screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have deftly rearranged some elements of the plot, unkinking a few overelaborate twists and introducing others that keep the action moving along. The movie does, however, take a while to accelerate, popping the clutch and leaving rubber on the road as it tries to establish who is who, what hes doing and why. So I certainly cant support any calls for boycotting or protesting this busy, trivial, inoffensive film. Which is not to say that Im recommending that you go see it. (Scott) * THE DESCENT (R, 99 minutes) A total horror freakout from the British writer and director Neil Marshall about six women on a caving expedition who meet their fears and some scary monsters, too. (Dargis) THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (PG-13, 106 minutes) Lauren Weisbergers score-settling best seller about a terrible (and famous) boss is reimagined and reversed. Anne Hathaway plays the beleaguered assistant, but she is much less interesting -- and in the end less sympathetic -- than the boss, Miranda Priestly, incarnated by Meryl Streep as a subtle and searching (and very funny) portrait of glamour and power. (Scott) * FACTOTUM (R, 94 minutes) Matt Dillon goes deep to play Henry Chinaski, the familiar alter ego of the great Charles Bukowski, who survived countless benders, brawls, rejection slips, crazy women and soul-killing jobs. The Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer directed. (Dargis) FRATRICIDE (No rating, 96 minutes, in Kurdish, German and Turkish) The familiar story of the innocent soul who travels from the country to the big, bad city receives a thorough workout from the Turkish-born German-transplant Yilmaz Arslan. If the human disembowelment via a pit bull doesnt bum you out, the child rape should do the trick. (Dargis) * GABRIELLE (No rating, 90 minutes) A film of eccentric beauty and wild feeling, directed by the consistently inventive Patrice Chéreau and starring the supremely well-matched Pascal Greggory and Isabelle Huppert, about the dissolution of a haut-bourgeois Parisian marriage, around 1912. (Dargis) * HALF NELSON (R, 107 minutes) In their beautiful bummer about the relationship between a white teacher (Ryan Gosling) and a black student (Shareeka Epps), the gifted young director Ryan Fleck and his writing partner, Anna Boden, offer a lament for the radical fires of the 1960s and a suggestion for life and politics after the new left. (Dargis) * HEADING SOUTH (No rating, 105 minutes, in English and French) Sex tourism involving middle-aged white women and black beach boys at a Haitian resort in the late 1970s is the subject of Laurent Cantets third film, one of the most truthful explorations of desire, age and youth ever filmed, with a politically charged subtext about capitalist imperialism. (Holden) HOW TO EAT FRIED WORMS (PG, 98 minutes) The worms go in, the worms go out, but mostly the worms go into the frying pan in Bob Dolmans engaging and yucky adaptation of the Thomas Rockwell book. (Dargis) * HOUSE OF SAND (R, 115 minutes, in Portuguese) Beautifully shot in a sandy, remote corner of northern Brazil, this film tells the story of three generations of women, all of them played by Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres, mother and daughter in real life and two of the national treasures of Brazilian cinema. (Scott) IDLEWILD (R, 120 minutes) André Benjamin and Antwan A. Patton, a k a André 3000 and Big Boi of OutKast, play friends living and sometimes singing in Depression-era Georgia. The joint doesnt jump; it twitches and stumbles. (Dargis) * THE ILLUSIONIST (PG-13, 109 minutes) This film tells the story of Eisenheim (Edward Norton), a fictional conjurer who enraptured Viennese audiences in 1900 with his supernatural magic shows. A terrific yarn, it rouses your slumbering belief in the miraculous. (Holden) INVINCIBLE (PG, 99 minutes) The latest addition to the Disney stable of sports-underdog movies, Invincible is the true story of Vince Papale (Mark Wahlberg), a substitute teacher and part-time bartender, who in 1976 realizes his dream of playing for the Philadelphia Eagles. While Disney piles on the uplift, the director and cinematographer, Ericson Core, counters the storys predictably inspirational trajectory with close attention to historical detail and blue-collar hardship. (Catsoulis) LADY IN THE WATER (PG-13, 108 minutes) In this watchable folly, Paul Giamatti plays a building manager who encounters a menagerie of otherworldly creatures, most important Bryce Dallas Howards water nymph. The writer and director M. Night Shyamalan wants us to believe, mostly in the myth of his own genius. (Dargis) LITTLE MAN (PG-13, 90 minutes) A belligerent midget jewel thief assaults groins and molests women in this infantile comedy from the Wayans brothers. (Lee) * LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (R, 101 minutes) A bittersweet comedy of dysfunction that takes place at the terminus of the American dream. The excellent cast includes Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano and that national treasure, Alan Arkin. (Dargis) LOL (No rating, 81 minutes) The inability to connect in a hyper-wired world is old news given fresh voice in this tragicomic indie about the way we live -- or rather, about the way white, urban, heterosexual circuit boys are failing to live. (Lee) MATERIAL GIRLS (PG, 97 minutes) The real-life sisters Hilary and Haylie Duff star in this incompetent spin on the poor-little-rich-girl story from, alas, Martha Coolidge. (Dargis) * MIAMI VICE (R, 133 minutes) This updating of the 1980s television series cost more than the annual budget of the real-life Miami Police Department, making it the most expensive experimental art film ever made. (Scott) * MONSTER HOUSE (PG, 86 minutes) This scary movie for kids provides more fun in 86 minutes than all the other would-be summer blockbusters combined. A trio of intrepid youngsters face down a demonic dwelling in a quiet suburb. The motion-capture animation produces an uncanny feeling of realism, while the fantastical effects are spooky, witty and spectacular. (Scott) MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY (No rating, 90 minutes, in Arabic, English and Kurdish) Filmed in Iraq from June 2004 to February 2005, My Country, My Country views the prelude to the January elections primarily through the eyes of Dr. Riyadh, a Sunni candidate and physician who runs a free clinic in Baghdad. Without comment but with unusual sensitivity, the director, Laura Poitras, exposes the emotional toll of occupation on Iraqis and United States soldiers alike, leaving us feeling that this particular mission is far from accomplished. (Catsoulis) * NACHO LIBRE (PG, 91 minutes) A sweet bliss-out from the writers Mike White, Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess, who also directed, that finds a glorious Jack Black as a half-Mexican, half-Scandinavian monastery cook who aches to belong to another brotherhood, that of the luchadores, or masked wrestlers. (Dargis) PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MANS CHEST (PG-13, 151 minutes) Although there are memorable bits and pieces, this is a movie with no particular interest in coherence, economy or feeling. (Scott) * A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (PG-13, 105 minutes) Garrison Keillors long-running Public Radio hootenanny turns out to be the perfect vehicle for Robert Altmans fluid, chaotic humanism. The performances -- especially by Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep as a pair of singing sisters -- are so full of relaxed vitality that you almost dont notice that the film is, at heart, a wry, sober contemplation of mortality. (Scott) PRINCESAS (No rating, 109 minutes, in Spanish) This maudlin melodrama about prostitutes in Madrid is not, alas, the new film by Pedro Almodóvar, but a dilution of his manner by the writer-director Fernando León de Aranoa. (Lee) PULSE (PG-13, 87 minutes) Evil technology menaces idiotic teenagers in this cynical remake of a Japanese horror film. (Lee) QUEENS (No rating, 107 minutes, in Spanish) A dithering but generous Spanish farce, Queens follows the forthcoming nuptials of three gay couples by focusing on their overbearing mothers. While the sons dance, bicker and fret over antiques, the mamas express their discomfort with the wedding plans by seducing inappropriate men. Despite obvious nods to Pedro Almodóvar, Queens is notable only for its unadulterated worship of middle-aged women. (Catsoulis) THE QUIET (R, 96 minutes) Neither ambitious enough to take seriously nor sleazy enough to enjoy, Jamie Babbits good-girl, bad-girl face-off flirts with the trappings of exploitation cinema without going all the way. (Dargis) * QUINCEAÑERA (R, 90 minutes) This portrait of a Mexican-American family living in a Latino neighborhood of Los Angeles is as smart and warm-hearted an exploration of an upwardly mobile immigrant culture as American independent cinema has produced. (Holden) A SCANNER DARKLY (R, 100 minutes) Identities shift and melt like shadows in Richard Linklaters animated adaptation of the Philip K. Dick semispeculative novel A Scanner Darkly, a look at a future that appears an awful lot like today. With the voices and gestures of Keanu Reeves, Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder and a wonderful Robert Downey Jr. (Dargis) * SCOOP (PG-13, 96 minutes) A not especially funny yet oddly appealing comedy in which Woody Allen and Scarlett Johansson make like Nick and Nora, but with more shtick and no martinis (or Asta). (Dargis) SNAKES ON A PLANE (R, 105 minutes) Snakes + plane + Samuel L. Jackson. David R. Ellis provides the fine B-movie-style direction while Mr. Jackson supplies the cool and his trademark 13-letter epithet. (Dargis) STEP UP (PG-13, 98 minutes) Ever since Kevin Bacons rebellious hips ignited a small-town uproar in Footloose, the modern high school romance has placed a premium on rhythm. In Step Up a rough Baltimore kid (Channing Tatum), armed only with a killer smile and hip-hop moves, falls for a classically trained dancer (Jenna Dewan). Bland but likable, the movie fashions social equality from big musical numbers. If ballet and hip-hop can coexist, it asks, why cant we all be friends? (Catsoulis) STRANGERS WITH CANDY (R, 87 minutes) High school high jinks, adapted from the beloved Comedy Central series. The comedy is stretched a little thin by the feature length, but there are still some laughs. (Scott) SUPERMAN RETURNS (PG-13, 157 minutes) Last seen larking about on the big screen in the 1987 dud Superman IV, the Man of Steel has been resurrected in Bryan Singers leaden new film not only to fight for truth, justice and the American way, but also to give Mel Gibsons passion a run for his box-office money. Where once the superhero flew up, up and away, he now flies down, down, down, sent from above to save mankind from its sins and another bummer summer. (Dargis) TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY (PG-13, 110 minutes) Fast, fun and silly, with Will Ferrell as a Nascar driver, Sacha Baron Cohen as his nemesis, and a new course record for product placements per gallon. (Scott) 10TH AND WOLF (R, 110 minutes) A grisly gangster movie with moral pretensions, 10th and Wolf never transcends mobster clichés recycled from The Godfather, Donnie Brasco and GoodFellas. (Holden) 13 TZAMETI (No rating, 90 minutes) The flashy black-and-white directorial debut of the Georgian filmmaker Gela Babluani is a sadistic, arty thriller that suggests a French new wave film infected by a virulent strain of Eastern European nihilism. (Holden) TRUST THE MAN (R, 101 minutes) A strained, flatulent relationship comedy about two couples, from the writer and director Bart Freundlich. With Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Billy Crudup. (Dargis) * WORLD TRADE CENTER (PG-13, 129 minutes) From Oliver Stone, a return to the emotions of 9/11. Powerful and almost unbearably moving. (Scott) Film Series ANOTHER WAVE: GLOBAL QUEER CINEMA (Through Sept. 16) After an August break, the Museum of Modern Arts festival of gay films and shorts from more than two dozen countries is back. This weekends features include I Like You, I Like You Very Much (1994), from Japan, a portrait of small-town gay life; Johanna dArc of Mongolia (1989), from Germany, described as a lesbian Lawrence of Arabia; and Madama Satã (2002), from Brazil, starring Lázaro Ramos as Francisco dos Santos, a transvestite singer in 1930s Rio de Janeiro. Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, 11 West 53rd Street, (212) 708-9400; $10. (Anita Gates) THE BEST OF BUSTER: KEATON COMEDY CLASSICS (Through Sept. 25) Film Forums eight-film, eight-week festival of the silent comedies of the brilliantly stone-faced Keaton (1895-1966) continues on Monday night with College (1927), about a bookish young man who takes up sports to impress his girlfriend. 209 West Houston Street, west of Avenue of the Americas, South Village, (212) 727-8110; $10. (Gates) KUROSAWA (Through Sept. 18) The IFC Centers series honoring Akira Kurosawa continues this weekend with The Hidden Fortress (1958), an action-adventure about a general (Toshiro Mifune, of course) and a princess in disguise (Misa Uehara) trying to transport gold across enemy lines. 323 Avenue of the Americas, at West Third Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 924-7771; $10.75. (Gates) THE HUSTON FAMILY: 75 YEARS ON FILM (Through Sept. 22) The Museum of Modern Arts 40-film tribute to the Hustons and their intertwined careers continues with nine films this weekend. They include Dodsworth (1936), starring Walter as a powerful man in love with an expatriate; Chinatown (1974), with John as a powerful man in love with his daughters; and Mr. North (1988), Thornton Wilders comedy of 1920s manners, starring Anjelica and directed by Danny. Their father, John, was co-writer. Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters; $10. (Gates) MARY PICKFORD RESTORED (Through Sept. 3) The Museum of the Moving Images tribute to Hollywoods first real movie star concludes this weekend with restored 35-millimeter prints of two of her silent films. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924) is a melodrama about a young 16th-century Englishwoman who angers the queen. Sparrows (1926), considered Pickfords darkest film, is about a kidnapping at a Dickensian baby farm. 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, (718) 784-0077; $10. (Gates) NEW YORK KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL (Through Sunday) This 10-day festival of recent Korean box office hits concludes this weekend with a dozen films, some at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and some at Anthology Film Archives. They include Rules of Dating (2005), a comedy about the romance between a man-about-town and an innocent schoolteacher; Murder Take One (2005), a twisty homicide thriller; and The Aggressives! (2004), about tough skateboarders. BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue, at Ashland Place, (718) 636-4100; Anthology, 32 Second Avenue, at Second Street, East Village; $10. (Gates) Pop Full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. ALBUM, SWEET ELECTRA (Tonight) Like Mexico Citys celebrated Café Tacuba, Album, from Monterrey, plays an ingenious and invigorating kind of polyglot art-pop that draws from alternative and psychedelic rock as well as from oompah Mexican music. The band makes its New York debut tonight with Sweet Electra, an electronic act from Guadalajara. At 9:30, Joes Pub, at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 239-6200, joespub.com; $15. (Ben Sisario) * MARIAH CAREY (Sunday) Before there was Idol there was Mariah, who made octave-hopping melisma a sport and never met a song she couldnt ride to No. 1. Young singers afraid of being a flash in the pan could learn a lot from Ms. Careys recent comeback, which relied on fresh hip-hop producers and songwriters. With Sean Paul. At 7 p.m. Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, N.Y., (516) 221-1000, nikonjonesbeach.com; $29.50 to $158.50. (Sisario) CARNIVORE (Wednesday) For fans of obscure New York metal only: before he founded Type O Negative, Peter Steele led Carnivore, one of the most aggressive and, perhaps not coincidentally, offensive bands of the mid-1980s thrash scene. (Typical song title: Jesus Hitler.) The new version of the band does not include any original members besides Mr. Steele. With Annunaki and Eyes of the Dead. At 8 p.m., B. B. King Blues Club and Grill, 243 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (212) 997-4144, bbkingblues.com; $26 in advance, $29 at the door. (Sisario) CLIENTELE (Tuesday) This London group is dedicated to pop understatement. It plays introspective, quietly observant mid-60s-style songs that sound as if a stiff breeze or an unkind word could dispel them. With Great Lakes. At 8 p.m., Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212) 219-3006, knittingfactory.com; $12 in advance, $14 at the door. (Jon Pareles) BOB DYLAN (Tonight) It might not make sense at first glance that Bob Dylan is playing at minor-league baseball stadiums this summer, but his devotion is on record: this is the third year he has done the tour, and a baseball-themed episode of his XM Satellite Radio show -- in which the singer of Masters of War and Like a Rolling Stone does an a cappella Take Me Out to the Ballgame -- has been added to the archive of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library. With Jimmie Vaughan, Junior Brown, Elana James and the Continental Two. At 6:30, Dutchess County Stadium, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., (845) 838-0094 or (845) 454-3388, concertstonight.com; $49.50; one child under 12 will be admitted free with each ticket holder. (Sisario) FAMILY VALUES TOUR (Today and tomorrow) Korn resurrects its tantrum-metal package tour after a four-year absence, with the Deftones, Flyleaf, Stone Sour and the Japanese group Dir En Grey. Today at 2 p.m., PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, N.J., (732) 335-8698, artscenter.com; tomorrow at 2 p.m., Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, N.Y., (516) 221-1000, nikonjonesbeach.com; $9.99 to $59.50. (Sisario) FRENCH KICKS, SOUND TEAM (Wednesday) The new wave gets a twisted revival in the songs of the French Kicks. Bouncing along on keyboards one moment, facing guitar barbs the next, the songs are as unstable as the romances they sketch. Sound Team, from Austin, Tex., constructs dense and psychologically rich songs in which elements of white soul hint at a spiritual nourishment denied by the anxious guitars and brooding vocals. With the Subjects. At 8 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, near the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111, boweryballroom.com; $15. (Sisario) GORILLA BISCUITS (Tomorrow and Sunday) The last weeks of CBGB are shaping up as a reunion of the mid-80s class of Hardcore High. This highlight this weekend is Gorilla Biscuits, who were emo before emo was emo: loudly, tunefully and sweatily struggling to keep a positive attitude. Tomorrow at 5:45 p.m., with Murphys Law, Leeway, Comeback Kid and Sick of Talk, B. B. King Blues Club and Grill, 243 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (212) 997-4144, bbkingblues.com; Sunday at 3 p.m., CBGB, 315 Bowery, at Bleecker Street, East Village, (212) 982-4052, cbgb.com. Both sold out. (Sisario) JAPANESE NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL (Tomorrow and Sunday) Somebody should have thought of this a long time ago. Three mainstays of the Japanese avant-rock scene are touring as a complete festival by arranging themselves in eight different permutations of solos, duos and trios. Yoshida Tatsuya, best known as the drummer of the long-running stop-start band the Ruins; Kawabata Makoto, a guitarist who is the main force behind the psychedelic-noise group Acid Mothers Temple; and the bassist Tsuyama Atsushi will be playing in various combinations, calling themselves Acid Mothers Temple SWR, Ruins Alone, Akaten, Zoffy, Zubi Zuva X, Seikazoku, Shrinp Wark and RonRuins. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, near Delancey Street, Lower East Side, (212) 358-7501, tonicnyc.com; Sunday at 9 p.m., Northsix, 66 North Sixth Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 599-5103, northsix.com; $15. (Sisario) MOSQUITOS (Wednesday) Life is but an indie-pop bossa nova dream with the Mosquitos, a New York-Brazil love story now on its third album of breezy melody and twinkling electronics. At 9:30 p.m., Joes Pub, at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 239-6200, joespub.com; $12 in advance, $15 at the door. (Sisario) NINA NASTASIA (Wednesday) In her clear voice, Nina Nastasia offers visions of desolation and unflinching love -- dirty hands and dirty feet and all -- with melodies that can hint at the symmetries of Appalachian music and a homespun backup from instruments like accordion and banjo. With Jeffrey Lewis. At 10 p.m., Spiegeltent, Fulton Fish Market, Pier 17, Fulton and South Streets, Lower Manhattan, (212) 279-4200, spiegelworld.com; $15 in advance, $17 at the door. (Pareles) NUBLU: BROOKLYN (Sunday) Nublu, an Avenue C bar owned by a Turkish saxophonist and home to a variety of Brazilian bands, is a classic New York multicultural incubator. On Sunday six of its signature acts step outside its warmth for a daylong gig beside the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. Forró in the Dark is one of the best and lowest-tech dance bands in the city, playing forró, a humble and sexy two-beat style made with accordion, hand-held percussion and, since this is New York, whiffs of distorted electric guitar. Love Trio features members of Brazilian Girls, a non-Brazilian band that is one of the clubs success stories. Kudu plays jazz-flavored electronic dance music, with slithery vocals by Sylvia Gordon. Also on the bill are Karina Zeviani, a sultry singer for Thievery Corporation and other electronic groups; I Led 3 Lives; and the Nublu Orchestra, led by Butch Morris. From 2 to 9 p.m., 400 Carroll Street, between Bond and Nevins Streets, Carroll Gardens, ticketweb.com or nublu.net; $10 tickets available only in advance. (Sisario) ONE RING ZERO (Thursday) This Brooklyn band has set words by authors like Jonathan Lethem, Margaret Atwood and Rick Moody to kitchen-sink songs with toy piano and theremin. At 9:30 p.m., Joes Pub, at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 239-6200, joespub.com; $15. (Sisario) RATATAT (Tuesday) The two guitarists who make up Ratatat have one simple but sometimes charming idea. They plug away at 70s-inspired riffs, creating atmospheric tracks that split the difference between minimalist post-rock and maximalist hard rock. With Envelopes and Panther. At 7:30 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, near the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111, boweryballroom.com; sold out. (Kelefa Sanneh) SHAKIRA, WYCLEF JEAN (Thursday) Their flirty duet Hips Dont Lie was one of the biggest hits of the summer, perhaps because its odd stabs at political commentary (Why the C.I.A. wanna watch us?/ Colombians and Haitians/ I aint guilty, its a musical transaction, Mr. Jean raps) are no match for its old-fashioned, steamy body language (Im on tonight/ My hips dont lie/ And I am starting to feel you, boy, Shakira replies). At 8 p.m., Madison Square Garden, (212) 465-6741, thegarden.com; sold out. (Sisario) * SHELLAC (Tomorrow) A great advantage of being in a so-called supergroup is that you really dont have to play very often to maintain your reputation. Steve Albini, Todd Trainer and Bob Weston keep very busy running recording sessions and playing in other bands, but every few years they gather to play propulsive, gourmet post-rock as Shellac. A new album is said to be in the works, though with these guys schedules it could take months, if not years. Also on the bill is Uzeda, a quartet from Sicily with an uncanny grasp of the sound of Chicago avant-rock circa 1995. At 7 p.m., Europa Night Club, 98-104 Meserole Avenue, at Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, (718) 383-5723, northsix.com; sold out. (Sisario) TEMPORARY RESIDENCE FESTIVAL (Tonight through Sunday) Temporary Residence, an independent label in New York, celebrates its 10th anniversary with three nights devoted to its signature sound, a warbling guitar pulse that slowly builds to heights of tragic, cinematic grandeur. The best lineup is tomorrow, with Explosions in the Sky, the labels flagship, from Austin, Tex., and Eluvium, a one-man band that recreates the idyll of floating on clouds with layers of keyboards. Mono, the Japanese band that headlines on Sunday, finds greater turbulence. Envy, tonight, another Japanese group, uses similarly melancholy washes of guitar as a backdrop for guttural shrieks; also tonight is Sleeping People, an instrumental group from San Diego that borrows from the nervous antifunk of 90s groups like Unwound, and Cex, a k a Rjyan Kidwell, a techno wise guy with a laptop. Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, near the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111, boweryballroom.com; $16 (sold out tomorrow). (Sisario) TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. (Monday and Wednesday) The line between harsh metal-on-metal noise and abstract musique concrète is deliberately blurred in the music of this long-running collective led by Tom Smith, which on this tour also includes the metal provocateur Andrew W. K., Mark Morgan of the band Sightings, and Don Fleming. Monday at 8 p.m., Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, near Delancey Street, Lower East Side, (212) 358-7501, tonicnyc.com; Thursday at 8 p.m., Syrup Room, 100 Ingraham Street, at Porter Avenue, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, toddpnyc.com; $8. (Sisario) VENOM (Tuesday) In the early 80s, this British band coined the term black metal; it has since been appropriated for a kind of operatic Scandinavian vaudeville, but for Venom it referred to a plodding, mirthless satanism. Riding the wave of ironic affection for all 80s metal, the band is on an unexpected reunion tour. With Goatwhore and Early Man. At 8 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, at 15th Street, Manhattan, (212) 777-6800, irvingplaza.com; $25 in advance, $28 at the door. (Sisario) ROGER WATERS (Wednesday) Two months after the death of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyds first leader and an inventor of psychedelic rock as well as one of the most famous casualties of its lifestyle, Mr. Waters, billing himself as the creative genius of Pink Floyd, is touring with a live version of The Dark Side of the Moon, the bands masterly 1973 concept album about insanity. At 8 p.m., PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, N.J., (732) 335-8698, artscenter.com; sold out. (Sisario) Jazz Full reviews of recent jazz concerts: nytimes.com/music. ERIC ALEXANDER QUARTET (Tonight and tomorrow) The tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander favors the smart, surging hard bop of the 1950s and 60s. His quartet includes the veteran pianist Harold Mabern as well as the experienced rhythm team of John Webber on bass and Joe Farnsworth on drums. At 8, 10 and 11:30 p.m., Smoke, 2751 Broadway, at 106th Street, (212) 864-6662, smokejazz.com; cover, $25. (Nate Chinen) BRIAN ALLEN WITH TONY MALABY AND TOM RAINEY (Wednesday) Mr. Allen, an adventurous trombonist, has a new album called Synapse (Braintone) featuring the tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby and the drummer Tom Rainey. Their mode of expression is ruggedly free-form, but with a high degree of collective sensitivity. At 10 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-9177, barbesbrooklyn.com; cover, $8. (Chinen) PATRICIA BARBER (Tonight through Sunday) Ms. Barbers verbosity and coolly arch intellectualism are uncommon traits for a jazz singer-songwriter. Shes also a good pianist, as she demonstrates in her working band, which features the often impressive guitarist Neal Alger. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., with an 11:30 set tonight and tomorrow, Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; $30 cover, tonight and tomorrow, $25 Sunday. (Chinen) DAVID BINNEYS BALANCE (Tuesday) The alto saxophonist David Binney pursues an avant-gardism that embraces harmony, melody and rhythm, along with amplification; he receives sinuous support from the keyboardist Craig Taborn, the bassist Thomas Morgan and the drummer Dan Weiss. At 10 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village, (212) 929-9883, 55bar.com; cover, $10. (Chinen) BROOKLYN QAWWALI PARTY (Tomorrow) The Sufi devotional music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan provides a repertory mandate for this sprawling ensemble. Faithful to its source mainly in terms of exuberance, the group creates a roiling polyphony of percussion, saxophones and brass, bass, harmonium and guitar. At 9 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-9177, barbesbrooklyn.com; cover, $8. (Chinen) CHRIS BYARS OCTET (Sunday) This band led by the tenor saxophonist Chris Byars has a new album, Night Owls (Smalls), which illustrates the cohesive benefit of a longstanding weekly engagement. A variation of the group appears here, with a front line of Mr. Byars, Jerry Dodgion on alto saxophone, Richie Vitale on trumpet, John Mosca on trombone and Mark Lopeman on baritone saxophone. At 7:30 p.m., Joes Pub, at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, East Village, (212) 539-8778, joespub.com; cover, $12, with a two-drink minimum. (Chinen) RAVI COLTRANE QUARTET (Tonight and tomorrow) In Flux (Savoy), Mr. Coltranes most recent album, marked a milestone: his tenor and soprano saxophone playing never sounded more confident, and his compositions had a sleek modernistic hue. He fronts the same stellar band here as on the album: the pianist Luis Perdomo, the bassist Drew Gress and the drummer E. J. Strickland. At 8:30 p.m., Center for Improvisational Music, 295 Douglass Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (212) 631-5882, schoolforimprov.org; cover, $12. (Chinen) * CRESCENT CITY CELEBRATION (Tomorrow) The new season at Merkin Concert Hall begins with this tribute to New Orleans, timed to coincide with the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. In addition to a group led by the clarinetist Dr. Michael White, a traditional New Orleans jazz specialist, it will feature the blues-focused pianist Henry Butler and the hip-hop-influenced young trumpeter Maurice Brown. At 8:30 p.m., Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, (212) 501-3330, kaufman-center.org; $35 in advance, $40 tomorrow. (Chinen) KRIS DAVIS QUARTET (Wednesday) On her solid new album, The Slightest Shift (Fresh Sound New Talent), Kris Davis applies her keyboard playing and compositions to a smart group consisting of Tony Malaby on tenor saxophone, Eivind Opsvik on bass and Jeff Davis on drums. At 8 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-9177, barbesbrooklyn.com; cover, $8. (Chinen) DIET COKE WOMEN IN JAZZ FESTIVAL (Monday through Thursday) This monthlong festival of female jazz artists kicks off on Monday and Tuesday with René Marie, a soulful jazz singer and vibrant performer with a growing book of original tunes. It continues on Wednesday with Ann Hampton Callaway, a vocalist who makes the most of the overlap between jazz and cabaret. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Dizzys Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, (212) 258-9595, jalc.org; cover, $30, with a minimum of $10 at tables, $5 at the bar. (Chinen) BARRY HARRIS QUINTET (Wednesday and Thursday) A crisp and courtly pianist firmly in the bebop idiom, Barry Harris has a new release, Live From New York! Vol. 1, on a start-up label called Lineage Records. Here he leads a group featuring the bop-oriented alto saxophonist Charles Davis. Through Sept. 9 at 9 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, (212) 581-3080, birdlandjazz.com; cover, $30, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) BILLY HART QUARTET (Tuesday and Wednesday) A loose but focused drummer with a sterling résumé, Billy Hart fronts the same band featured on his excellent recent HighNote album, with the tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, the pianist Ethan Iverson and the bassist Ben Street. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., with an 11:30 set tonight and tomorrow, Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; cover, $25. (Chinen) JOHN HOLLENBECKS CLAUDIA QUINTET (Tonight and tomorrow) This improvising chamber ensemble pursues texturally oriented and often contrapuntal exploration; Mr. Hollenbecks percussion provides one color on a palette that also includes Chris Speeds clarinet and tenor saxophone, Gary Versaces accordion, John Heberts bass and Matt Morans vibraphone. At 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; cover, $10, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen) CHARLIE HUNTER TRIO (Thursday) Charlie Hunter is a guitarist with a natural affinity for groove, as he has demonstrated with a handful of sturdy bands over the past decade or so. Here he introduces a new one, with Erik Deutsch on keyboards and Simon Lott on drums; theyre celebrating the release of a new album, Copperopolis (Ropeadope). Through Sept. 10 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; cover, $20. (Chinen) JAVON JACKSON QUARTET (Tonight) The tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson continues a soulful streak with his new album, Now, which Palmetto Records is releasing this month. He is leading a band well suited for that purpose, with David Gilmore on guitar, Kenny Davis on bass and Rudy Royston on drums. At 6 and 7:30 p.m., Rose Center for Earth and Space, American Museum of Natural History, 81st Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, (212) 769-5100, amnh.org; included in suggested museum admission, $14, $10.50 for students, $8 for children. (Chinen) DONNY McCASLIN GROUP (Sunday) On Soar (Sunnyside), his most recent album, the tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin applies his extroverted style to a Latin American-inspired contemporary fusion; hell do much the same in this show, benefiting greatly from the contributions of the guitarist Ben Monder, the bassist Hans Glawischnig and the drummer Antonio Sanchez. At 9:30 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village, (212) 929-9883, 55bar.com; cover, $10. (Chinen) * PAUL MOTIAN, JOE LOVANO, BILL FRISELL (Tuesday through Thursday) Mr. Motian, a drummer and composer, sets a tone for this blue-chip trio thats shadowy, slippery and as open-ended as a koan; his longtime partners are Joe Lovano, on tenor and soprano saxophones, and Bill Frisell, on guitar. Theres no better place to see them than at the Village Vanguard. Through Sept. 17 at 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village, (212) 255-4037, villagevanguard.com; cover, $35, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) NYNDK JAZZ COLLECTIVE (Tuesday) The New York-based trombonist Chris Washburne, the Norwegian saxophonist Ole Mathisen and the Danish pianist Soren Moller formed this pointedly cosmopolitan post-bop collective several years ago; its ranks at this performance include a drummer, Scott Neumann. 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; cover, $7, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen) JEAN-MICHEL PILC TRIO (Wednesday) Jean-Michel Pilcs piano playing has a joyous bounce no matter how dark or furious the extemporization. Hes at his best in the company of assertive partners like the electric bassist Richard Bona and the drummer Ari Hoenig, who will join him. At 10 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village, (212) 929-9883, 55bar.com; cover, $10. (Chinen) * JENNY SCHEINMAN (Monday and Tuesday) As a violist and violinist, Ms. Scheinman often goes for rustic charm, but she never ceases to be an exploratory improviser. She convenes an all-star sextet on Monday, with Ron Miles on trumpet, Don Byron on clarinet, Larry Grenadier on bass, Kenny Wollesen on drums and a pair of playfully pseudonymous associates: JaMo on piano and Moe Hawk on guitar. On Tuesday she takes her customary stand in Park Slope, with a smaller group. On Monday at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Joes Pub, at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, East Village, (212) 539-8778, joespub.com; cover, $20, $15 in advance, with a two-drink minimum. On Tuesday at 7 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 965-9177, barbesbrooklyn.com; cover, $8. (Chinen) JOHN SCOFIELD REAL JAZZ TRIO (Tuesday through Thursday) The guitarist John Scofield has extensive history with the bassist Steve Swallow and the drummer Bill Stewart, and they recently made a superb album at the Blue Note, EnRoute (Verve). One suspects that the name being applied to the trio here wasnt Mr. Scofields idea -- would he describe his funkier projects as fake jazz? -- but in any case, their music will be jazz, and powerfully real. At 8 and 10:30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village, (212) 475-8592 bluenote.net; cover, $35 at tables, $20 at the bar, with a $5 minimum. (Chinen) MATTHEW SHIPP TRIO (Monday) Matthew Shipps pianism is often prickly but rarely off-putting, because even his free improvisations tend to follow a faintly linear path. At this show he has strongly intuitive partners in Joe Morris, on bass, and Whit Dickey, on drums. At 8 and 10:30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village, (212) 475-8592 bluenote.net; cover, $15 at tables, $10 at the bar, with a $5 minimum. (Chinen) JEFF (TAIN) WATTS QUARTET (Thursday) Jeff (Tain) Watts, one of the most dazzlingly propulsive drummers to emerge in the last quarter-century, leads a dynamic band: Marcus Strickland, a smart young tenor saxophonist; Lawrence Fields, a pianist; and the bassist Eric Revis, Mr. Wattss rhythm section partner in the Branford Marsalis Quartet. At 10:30 p.m., Metropolitan Room at Gotham, 34 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, (212) 206-0440, metropolitanroom.com; cover, $25, plus a two-drink minimum. (Chinen) DENNY ZEITLIN TRIO (Tonight through Sunday) Denny Zeitlin has an appealing mainstream piano style, influenced by but not beholden to Bill Evans. He has veteran rhythm section partners in Buster Williams, on bass, and Billy Hart, on drums. At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m., with an midnight set tonight and tomorrow, Iridium, 1650 Broadway, at 51st Street, (212) 582-2121, iridiumjazzclub.com; cover, $30, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) Classical Full reviews of recent music performances: nytimes.com/music. Opera LA TRAVIATA (Tonight) Long respected but not quite in the realm reserved for a few exalted singers, the reliable and sometimes radiant soprano Hei-Kyung Hong is performing as Verdis Violetta on or near the baseball diamonds of the citys parks. The last Traviata of the Metropolitan Operas summer, in which she appears with Wookyung Kim as Alfredo and Charles Taylor as Germont, takes place tonight in New Jersey under the baton of Derrick Inouye. At 8, Brookdale Park, Bloomfield/Montclair, (212) 362-6000, metopera.org; free. (Anne Midgette) RIGOLETTO (Tomorrow) Mark Delavan is a slightly controversial figure in the opera world: some applaud his powerful voice, others find that his bark overpowers his bite. Whats not in dispute is that hes a strong and committed singer. The Met has handed him a plum role in this summers Met in the Parks season -- Verdis familiar jester, a part not often sung with the nuance and depth it demands. Tomorrow night, in the final concert of the summer season, he appears with Norah Amsellem as Gilda, Nancy Fabiola Herrera as Maddalena, Raymond Aceto as Sparafucile, and José Luis Duval as the Duke of Mantua, led by the knowledgeable veteran Joseph Colaneri. At 8, Buccleuch Park, New Brunswick, N.J., (212) 362-6000, metopera.org; free. (Midgette) OPERA FOR ALL (Thursday) Its the money, stupid. As opera companies around the country wonder how to attract new audiences, New York City Opera offers a reminder that its a no-brainer: slash ticket prices. For the second year in a row, the company is opening its season with a mini-festival in which all seats cost $25. This years Opera for All includes four performances, double the number of last years. It starts on Thursday with a gala concert of highlights from the coming season and continues next weekend with performances of Carmen and La Bohème. A party after Thursdays gala will feature the East Village Opera Company, a rock band that bases its music on -- what else? -- opera arias. Alas, ticket prices for the rest of the year will return to normal, but $25 will still get you a seat in the fourth ring. At 7:30 p.m., New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500, nycopera.com. (Midgette) Classical Music * BARGEMUSIC (Tonight through Sunday, and Thursday) This converted coffee barge is one of the most intimate chamber music halls in the city, and is offering ample musical variety this week. Tonight through Sunday, a piano trio of Olga Vinokur, the pianist; Mark Peskanov, the violinist; and Edward Arron, the cellist, offers a new work by Behzad Ranjbaran, commissioned by Bargemusic, as well as the Brahms Trio No. 3 and the Tchaikovsky Trio (Op. 50). On Thursday, the superb pianists Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal play works by Mozart, Wagner (as arranged by Liszt), Chabrier and Fauré. Tonight, tomorrow and Thursday at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday at 4 p.m., Fulton Ferry Landing next to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, (718) 624-2083, bargemusic.org; $35, $20 for students, $30 for 65+ tonight and Thursday only. (Allan Kozinn) ANDREA BOCELLI (Wednesday and Thursday) Clearly still kicking itself for not having given concerts with the likes of Zamfir, Helmut Lotti, André Rieu and other wonders of late-night classical crossover record advertising, the New York Philharmonic was not going to let the popular tenor Andrea Bocelli slip through its net. On the other hand, the orchestra didnt want to look too silly, so it is having it both ways, presenting Mr. Bocelli in his Philharmonic debut -- but outside the orchestras official season (which begins on Sept. 13), and with its music director nowhere to be seen. Mr. Bocellis program includes Verdis Eight Romances (in Berios orchestrations), and the orchestra, led by Asher Fisch, will play overtures and intermezzos by Verdi, Puccini and Mascagni. At 7:30 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500, nyphil.org; sold out. (Kozinn) MAVERICK CONCERTS (Tomorrow) This concert series near Woodstock, N.Y., holds its performances in an open-backed barn that allows the sounds of nature to mingle with the music. For the last public concert, Zuill Bailey, a cellist, and Simone Dinnerstein, a pianist, perform Beethoven, Britten and Shostakovich. (The season ends on Sunday with a concert for donors.) At 6 p.m., Maverick Concert Hall, Maverick Road, between Routes 28 and 375, West Hurley, N.Y., (845) 679-8217, maverickconcerts.org; $20. (Kozinn) MUSIC MOUNTAIN (Tomorrow and Sunday) String quartets are a focus of this venerable institution in northwestern Connecticut, which closes out its summer season with two performances by the Shanghai Quartet. Tomorrow, the ensemble will be joined by Michael Tree, a violist, and Robert Martin, a cellist, in Brahmss Sextet No. 1 and Schuberts Cello Quintet in C; on Sunday, it offers an all-Beethoven program, with the second and third quartets of Op. 59. Tomorrow night at 6:30, Sunday afternoon at 3, Gordon Hall at Music Mountain, Falls Village, Conn., (860) 824-7126, musicmountain.org; $25 at the door, $22 in advance, $12 for students. (Midgette) Dance Full reviews of recent performances: nytimes.com/dance. TAKUYA MURAMATSU AND IRATXE ANSA SANTESTEBAN: BECOMING (Tomorrow) This shared program is the culmination of workshops taught by Mr. Muramatsu, a member of the Dairakudakan Butoh company, and Ms. Santesteban, a ballet dancer. Tomorrow at 4 and 8 p.m., Construction Company, 10 East 18th Street, between Fifth Avenue and Broadway, Manhattan, (212) 561-9539, becoming.caveartspace.org; $15. (Jennifer Dunning) PHILADELPHIA LIVE ARTS FESTIVAL AND PHILLY FRINGE (Today through Thursday) During the dance drought in New York City, a trip south might not be a bad idea, and some of the participants in this funky, 10-year-old festival and its sidekick sound worth traveling for. Fourteen groups and artists -- some based in Philadelphia, others from around the world -- will perform this week. Those that sound the most interesting include Kate Watson-Wallace in House, a piece about memories and shifting emotional landscapes in rooms in a West Philadelphia row house (Tuesday through Thursday), the Jo Stromgren Kompani from Norway in The Convent, a dance about nuns going mad (Wednesday and Thursday), and the Miro Dance Theater in Lie to Me and shorter stories, a program of multimedia dances by Antony Rizzi and Amanda Miller, a choreographer with a truly individual voice (Thursday). Through Sept. 16. At various sites in Philadelphia, (215) 413-1318, livearts-fringe.org; $10, $15 and $20, with a few programs free. (Dunning) RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL: EVENING STARS (Wednesday and Thursday) The big late-summer free dance sampler in New York, presented by the River to River Festival with the Joyce Theater and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, plays through next Friday with a salsa evening as a chaser next Sunday. Wednesdays opener is devoted to the Kansas City Ballet in three works, including Twyla Tharps Catherine Wheel Suite; the others are by Todd Bolender and William Whitener, the companys artistic director. Thursday is oriented toward modern dance, with Battleworks, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Pilobolus and Philadanco. Through Sept. 10. Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Battery Park lawn, just north of the Staten Island ferry terminal, Lower Manhattan, rivertorivernyc.com; free. (John Rockwell) Art Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums * AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: WHITE ON WHITE (AND A LITTLE GRAY), through Sept. 17. The importance of neo-Classicism to early American architecture, silver and fine furniture is not exactly news. This small, beautiful show follows its spread into more personal corners of visual culture: often exquisite, strikingly dimensional white-work bedcovers; luminously grisaille, sometimes wacky marble-dust drawings; and print-work embroidery mourning pictures. 45 West 53rd Street, (212) 265-1040, folkartmuseum.org. (Roberta Smith) BARD GRADUATE CENTER: LIONS, DRAGONS AND OTHER BEASTS: AQUAMANILIA OF THE MIDDLE AGES, VESSELS FOR CHURCH AND TABLE, through Oct. 15. The word sounds like the latest perfume or sorbet, but actually refers to the small, cunningly figurative medieval vessels used for ritual hand washing. Cast in sturdy, glowing copper-alloy, most often in the form of lions with serpents on their backs, acquamanilia are now having their first-ever exhibition, complete with lavish catalog. The show has been drawn mostly from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and overseen by the head of the museums medieval department and its object conservator in collaboration with Bard graduate students. But dont worry about dryness. The acquamaniles triple function as totem, prestige object and pitcher lends an undeniable energy. (The serpents are handles.) The show feels like a walk-in bestiary and is enhanced by striking abbreviations reminiscent of folk art, a versatile repertory of incised details and patterns and an ongoing, rarely resolved struggle between form and function. Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, 18 West 86th Street, (212) 501-3000. (Smith) COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM: FREDERIC CHURCH, WINSLOW HOMER AND THOMAS MORAN: TOURISM AND THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE, through Oct. 22. It turns out that the Cooper-Hewitt owns thousands of rarely seen paintings, prints and sketches by Church, Homer and Moran. Studies of the countryside, mostly, they revere unspoiled nature and record tourism, a booming industry in 19th-century America. Here theyre combined with antique postcards, old Baedekers guides, stereoscopic photographs, playing cards with pictures of Yellowstone on them and souvenir platters, all to trace the nations transformation from primeval wilderness to Catskills resort. The show is extremely entertaining. And Churchs oil sketches alone are worth the price of admission: exquisite, plainspoken Emersonian love poems to New York and New England. 2 East 91st Street, (212) 849-8400 or ndm.si.edu. (Michael Kimmelman) * DAHESH MUSEUM OF ART: NAPOLEON ON THE NILE: SOLDIERS, ARTISTS AND THE REDISCOVERY OF EGYPT, through Dec. 31. Napoleons invasion of Egypt was a military disaster, but the squadron of scholars and scientists that went with him lay the foundation for Egyptology and Egyptomania, gave Orientalism a big boost and was commemorated by the 1,000 engravings of the 23-volume Description de lÉgypte. Examples of the books prints form the backbone of this engrossing if somewhat strange and sometimes piecemeal show, which includes Orientalist paintings and a cache of fascinating ephemera. 580 Madison Avenue, at 56th Street, (212) 759-0606, daheshmuseum.org. (Smith) AGNES MARTIN: A FIELD OF VISION: PAINTINGS FROM THE 1980S, through March 2007. Dia:Beacon, a bulwark of Minimalism on the banks of the Hudson River north of Manhattan, has three permanent galleries devoted to the artist Agnes Martin. Over the past two years they have been used for a retrospective of her paintings, installed in decade-long increments. The fourth installment is now in place. If Martins spare, lucid compositions of drawn lines and painted bands feel different from much of the art around them here, that is because she was not a Minimalist. In fact, she called herself an Abstract Expressionist, and she was adamant on this point. The 18 paintings here confirm her conviction, in a show as deep, light-glinting, restless and purposeful as the river flowing nearby. Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, N.Y., (845) 440-0100. (Holland Cotter) * FRICK COLLECTION : JEAN-ÉTIENNE LIOTARD (1702-1789): SWISS MASTER, through Sept. 17. Liotard is something of a specialty item now, but he was widely known in the Enlightenment Europe of his day. And even then he was seen as a maverick, a figure of contradictions. He was a stone-cold realist in an age of rococo frills. In a great age of oil painting, he favored pastel. He had ultrafancy sitters for his portraits, including Marie Antoinette. But his most vivid likenesses are of himself and his family. The Fricks perfectly proportioned sweetheart of a solo show is the artists first in North America. 1 East 70th Street, (212) 288-0700, frick.org. (Cotter) GUILD HALL MUSEUM: ELIZABETH PEYTON, through Oct. 22. Most of the 43 works in this exhibition portray beautiful people, some famous, some less so. Most immediately engaging is the tension between the painterly abstraction and the human subject matter. Images are realized in drippy swatches, squiggly lines and feathery dabs, and colors range from incandescent reds and oranges to pale lavenders and grays to dark velvety browns, blacks and purples. Yet for all that expressionistic action, likenesses are exacting. People like Nicole Kidman and Queen Elizabeth are rendered with seemingly effortless precision. Romantic feeling connects the form and content in Ms. Peytons work. A kind of erotic yearning animates how she sees her subjects and how she makes her pictures. To paint, Ms. Peytons works imply, is to be in love: to be in love with certain people and with painting itself. 158 Main Street, East Hampton, N.Y., (631) 324-0806. (Ken Johnson) SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: ZAHA HADID: THIRTY YEARS IN ARCHITECTURE, through Oct. 25. This exhibition, Ms. Hadids first major retrospective in the United States, gives New Yorkers a chance to see what theyve been missing. The show, in the Guggenheims rotunda, spirals through Ms. Hadids career, from her early enchantment with Soviet Constructivism to the sensuous and fluid cityscapes of her more recent commissions. It illuminates her capacity for bridging different worlds: traditional perspective drawing and slick computer-generated imagery; the era of utopian manifestoes and the ambiguous values of the information age. (212) 423-3500, guggenheim.org. (Nicolai Ouroussoff) KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART: ANDROMEDA HOTEL, THE ART OF JOSEPH CORNELL, through Sept. 17. Although Cornell never left the United States, he translated his dreams of faraway places into delicate, sometimes overly precious works that have a sense of longing. In this show the white-painted, weathered interior of a box titled Grand Hotel -- Hotel Taglioni (1954) contains incongruous elements of collage, among them an old ad for a French bakery topped by a color cutout of the ballerina Marie Taglioni, an object of the artists adoration. Even simpler, but equally dreamy, is another weathered box, Hotel de lÉtoile (1950), which holds only a long, vertical image of a deep blue sky rife with thousands of tiny pinpoints of light. One of the shows most striking images is a surreal photograph of Cornell by Lee Miller in which he is seen gazing upward, entranced, his shoulder adorned with a miniature sailboat (around 1935). Route 22 at Jay Street, Katonah, N.Y., (914) 232-9555, katonahmuseum.org. (Grace Glueck) JEWISH MUSEUM: EVA HESSE: SCULPTURE, through Sept. 17. Assembled by Elizabeth Sussman, curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Fred Wasserman, a curator at the Jewish Museum, this show focuses on a pivotal Hesse exhibition, Chain Polymers, at the Fischbach Gallery in 1968. Arguably a compilation of her best work, it was her first and only solo show of sculpture during her lifetime, and most of the objects in it -- along with some earlier and later pieces -- are here. One of the earliest is Compart (1966), a four-panel vertical that starts at the top with a fully formed, round, breastlike image of neatly wound cord that mysteriously breaks up into part of the same image on each of the three panels beneath. The last, most startling and most impressive work is Untitled (Rope Piece), of 1970, made as Ms. Hesse was dying, finished with the help of friends. 1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street, (212) 423-3200 or jewishmuseum.org. (Glueck) * MET: TREASURES OF SACRED MAYA KINGS, through Sept. 10. Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings gets a huge gold A for truth in advertising. The treasures are plentiful, rare and splendid. A carved wood figure of a kneeling shaman, arms extended, time-raked face entranced, is simply one of the greatest sculptures in the museum. this is taken out because the met says its no longer in the exhibition. mcd. Much of the work has never traveled before; m Many objects have only recently come to light in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. They add up to an exhibition as a think-piece essay on how a culture saw itself in the world. (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Cotter) MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM: CELEBRATING REMBRANDT: ETCHINGS FROM THE MORGAN, through Oct. 1. On the occasion of the opening of its newly rethought home, the Morgan Library has mounted a show of 50 of its greatest Rembrandt etchings. The selection demonstrates the range of the masters subjects (from the heights of biblical tragedy to the casually erotic) and also his amazingly expressive technique. It serves as reminder that Rembrandts prints represent genius of the plainest, most accessible sort: sustaining classics that encompass the earthy and the exalted and offer fresh meanings with each encounter. 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, (212) 685-0008, www.themorgan.org. (Smith) * MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: ARTISTS CHOICE: HERZOG & DE MEURON, PERCEPTION RESTRAINED, through Sept. 25. In an unusually accessible bit of institutional critique, the architects who failed to win the commission to design the new Museum of Modern Art bite the hand that didnt feed them. They create a kind of deprivation chamber with a black gallery, where excerpts from American movies play on video screens on the ceiling and 110 works of art and design are crammed into enormous niches that are all but sealed from view. Perverse and cerebral, it may be the best one-liner youll encounter this summer, and it makes some interesting points about the spectacle of the museum, the Modern included. (212) 708-9400, moma.org. (Smith) MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: DADA, through Sept. 11. This is pretty much Dadas official survey (an oxymoron), and it makes nearly all 450 or so objects in it look elegant. That hat rack looks awfully stylish now. Its good to be reacquainted with a generation of artists who had no market to speak of and for whom societys corruption and exhaustion seemed golden opportunities to make themselves useful. Cynical and traumatized, the Dadaists were tireless young optimists at heart. They discovered a world full of wonders, and we are, on the whole, their beneficiaries. (212) 708-9400, moma.org. (Kimmelman) NEUE GALERIE: GUSTAV KLIMT: FIVE PAINTINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF FERDINAND AND ADELE BLOCH-BAUER, through Sept. 18. Klimts 1907 gold portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, lately acquired by the billionaire collector Ronald S. Lauder, reportedly for $135 million, is now aptly installed like a trophy head above the mantelpiece. Shes half queen, half Las Vegas showgirl. A perfect New Yorker. She temporarily hangs with four other Klimts, including a second Adele, painted in 1912: a slender, sinuous Coke-bottle-shaped figure, more chaste than carnal. A painting of a birch forest is an archetypal Klimt mix of uncanny naturalism and geometric abstraction. Two other landscapes, of an apple tree and an unfinished jigsaw-puzzle view of houses on the shore of the Attersee, raise the question: Had Klimt not died at 55 in 1918, would he have ended up a pure abstractionist like Mondrian? 1048 Fifth Avenue, at 86th Street, (212) 628-6200, neuegalerie.org. (Kimmelman) NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: CHIHULY AT THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN, through Oct. 29. Dale Chihuly, the worlds most famous contemporary glass artist, has created ambitious installations of his large-scale, technically virtuosic and materially extravagant works inside the spectacular Haupt Conservatory and outside in reflecting pools and smaller gardens. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx River Parkway and Fordham Road, Bedford Park, the Bronx, (718) 817-8700, nybg.org. (Johnson) * NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: LEGACIES: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS REFLECT ON SLAVERY, through Jan. 7. Slavery, some would say, didnt really end in the United States until the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. That was a full century after the Emancipation Proclamation. Or the Emancipation Approximation, as the artist Kara Walker calls it in a series of hallucinatory silkscreen prints. They are among the high points of this large, powerful, subtle group show, the second of three exhibitions on American slavery organized by the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, at 77th Street, (212) 873-3400, nyhistory.org. (Cotter) NOGUCHI MUSEUM: BEST OF FRIENDS: BUCKMINSTER FULLER AND ISAMU NOGUCHI, through Oct. 15. Great, lasting friendships are rare, but friendships that enlarge the spirit through ideas, ideals and new insights are in a class by themselves. Over a stretch of more than 50 years the sculptor Isamu Noguchi and the visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller enjoyed such a friendship, which led to aesthetic and practical achievements that left their mark. The course of their varied collaborations is traced in this exhibition, which includes models, sculptures, drawings, photographs and films. The museum entrance is at 9-01 33rd Road, between Vernon Boulevard and 10th Street, Long Island City, Queens, (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org. (Glueck) P.S. 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER: INTO ME/OUT OF ME, through Sept. 25. Often with repulsive immediacy and occasionally with wit and subtlety, works by more than 130 artists in this ambitious exhibition explore the body and all its possible experiences along the pleasure-pain continuum. P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, (718) 784-2084, ps1.org. (Johnson) * RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART : WHAT IS IT? HIMALAYAN ART This museum is an oasis of calm in the city; you can feel your tension dissolve the minute you walk in the door. At the same time, the place jumps with activities, including lectures, films and exhibitions, many devoted to aspects of Himalayan culture. And for a basic guide to the art of Tibet and Nepal, you will do no better than to take a slow walk through this show, which, using an array of gorgeous objects, distills knotty visual and spiritual systems into a soothing but stimulating entry-level form. 150 West 17th Street, Chelsea, (212) 620-5000, rmanyc.org. (Cotter) WADSWORTH ATHENEUM: AMERICAN SPLENDOR: HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL MASTERWORKS FROM THE WADSWORTH ATHENEUM, through Dec. 31. Back from a two-and-a-half-year tour at six other American museums, the Wadsworths formidable collection of 19th-century Hudson River School paintings is on display in this homecoming show. Not every Hudson River collection can boast 11 works by Frederic Edwin Church, 13 by Thomas Cole and 5 by Albert Bierstadt,, a leading painter of the American West, along with powerful examples by other artists of the school. They are among the more than 60 paintings on display here. Its rare that you see these ultrafamiliar paintings in such concentration; their combined presence gives the show a synergistic sparkle and energy that you dont get when you see them in smaller groupings. 600 Main Street, Hartford, (860) 278-2670, www.wadsworthatheneum.org. (Glueck) Galleries: Uptown * SARAH SZE: CORNER PLOT The upper corner of an apartment building protrudes from the Doris C. Freedman Plazas pavement as if the whole edifice had toppled and sunk into the ground. Through the windows of Ms. Szes magical outdoor sculpture you can see a complicated interior that looks as if it were created by a mad architect. Doris C. Freedman Plaza, 60th Street and Fifth Avenue, (212) 980-4575, through Oct. 22. (Johnson) YES BRUCE NAUMAN There has never been much in the way of No to the influential Post-Minimalist and sculptor-of-all-trades Bruce Nauman. But this astutely structured, if male-dominated, exhibition considers his importance anew, especially his use of language, neon and the body, and his visceral sense of form. The shows title is taken from a 1989 work by Jessica Diamond that is included, along with pertinent efforts by Paul McCarthy, Charles Ray, Glenn Ligon, Jason Rhoades, Peter Coffin, Diana Thater, John Bock and, of course, Mr. Nauman himself. Zwirner & Wirth, 32 East 69th Street, (212) 517-8677, zwirnerandwirth.com, through Sept. 9. (Smith) Galleries: Chelsea * GALERIE DANIEL BUCHHOLZ AT METRO PICTURES This well-known Cologne gallery presents a surprisingly sweeping view of current art that includes Americans and Europeans and, despite its Conceptual slant, an impressive range of mediums and sensibilities. Metro Pictures, 519 West 24th Street, (212) 206-7100, metropicturesgallery.com, through Sept. 16. (Smith) HANS RICHTER (1888-1976), DADA; ART AND ANTI-ART This daunting yet partial survey is clogged with late paintings and reliefs that are for the most part elegant pastiches of Constructivism, Cubism and Abstract Expressionism. But it should be seen for the four short films from the 1920s, in which Richters formalist and Dada sides balance beautifully, with elegantly Surrealist results. This is especially the case in the luminous Ghosts Before Breakfast, from 1927, which explores most of films structural possibilities and segues briskly between abstraction and Hollywood narrative while three skittering bowler hats provide continuity. Maya Stendhal Gallery, 545 West 20th Street, (212) 366-1549, mayastenhalgallery.com, through Sept. 16. (Smith) RICHARD SERRA: ROLLED AND FORGED The centerpiece of the latest Serra spectacular, which favors mass, compression and rectangles over stretched-thin curves and spirals, is a low-lying maze in which the shifting heights and staggered placement of 16 thick, hedgelike plates create one of the most spatially complex yet straightforward works of his career. Gagosian Gallery, 555 West 24th Street, (212) 741-1111, extended through Sept. 23. (Smith) * JAMES J. WILLIAMS III: BY REQUEST, MY EPITAPH Despite debts to artists like Jack Pierson, Karen Kilimnik, Richard Prince and Nan Goldin, this Haversham-ish environment and solo debut exude a promising fusion of modesty and narcissism. Its deep teal walls display scores of Polaroids, drawings, collages, notebooks and thrift-shop-worthy paintings, along with many of the artists well-worn belongings. An illusion of stylish, if impoverished, full disclosure results. Self-conscious bohemianism teeters between nostalgia and irony, and art emerges as an incessant if nonchalant activity at the center of an eked-out existence. Envoy, 535 West 22nd Street, (212) 242-7524, envoygallery.com, through Sept. 9. (Smith) Other Galleries ZOO STORY A clay gorilla by Daisy Youngblood, a bronze she-wolf by Kiki Smith, a flock of concrete sheep by Françoise-Xavier Lalanne and works about animals by more than 20 other artists, including John Baldessari, Katharina Fritsch, Ross Bleckner and Rebecca Horn, turn the first floor of this sleek, three-story private museum into a diverting menagerie. Fisher Landau Center for Art, 38-27 30th Street, Long Island City, Queens, (718) 937-0727, flcart.org through Oct. 16. (Johnson) Last Chance BROOKLYN MUSEUM: GRAFFITI Twenty paintings on canvas from the early 1980s by formerly famous subway graffiti artists who went by names like Crash, Daze and Lady Pink. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, (718) 638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org; closes Sunday. (Johnson) * METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: ANGLOMANIA: TRADITION AND TRANSGRESSION IN BRITISH FASHION, Ranging from early-18th-century gowns to next seasons evening wear, this show crowds 65 extravagantly clad mannequins into the Mets normally serene English period rooms, trying to connect the sartorial innovations of the English dandy, the aggressive tribal attire of punk and the deconstructive impulses of todays British fashion stars. A certain confusion, both intellectual and visual, reigns, but there is more than enough to look at. (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org; closes Monday. (Smith) * MET: RAPHAEL AT THE METROPOLITAN: THE COLONNA ALTARPIECE, This exhilarating show reunites the central panel and lunette of Raphaels Colonna Altarpiece (owned by the Met) with all five panels of the predella. Additional works by Raphael, Perugino, Fra Bartolommeo and Leonardo place the work in context and sharpen the understanding of Raphaels budding genius. Further sharpness comes from the placement of all parts of the altarpiece at eye level, creating a viewing intensity that more than compensates for the fact that they have not been reassembled. (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org; closes Monday. (Smith) MET: ON PHOTOGRAPHY: A TRIBUTE TO SUSAN SONTAG, How to honor the memory of a multifarious figure like Susan Sontag? The Metropolitan Museums solution -- a small, grave, beautiful photography show -- is an apt one, with pictures by many of the artists she wrote about, from Diane Arbus to Walker Evans, a portrait of one of her early heroes, Oscar Wilde, and two of Sontag herself. (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org; closes Monday. (Cotter) MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: THE EAMES LOUNGE CHAIR: AN ICON OF MODERN DESIGN, Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a chair whose combination of declarative modernist structure and sheer creature comfort was both innovative and a bit alien, this exhibition is a successful design object in its own right. It pays homage with drawings, advertising ephemera, precursors, vintage television clips, a wonderful documentary and three versions of the chair itself, enshrined, exploded and usable. 40 West 53rd Street, (212) 956-3535, madmuseum.org; closes Sunday. (Smith) MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: DOUGLAS GORDON: TIMELINE, This selection of works by the artist known for appropriating and inventively manipulating Hollywood movies includes his projection of Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho, which runs so slowly that it takes 24 hours to complete, and a large-scale video installation that studies a circus elephant performing in an empty art gallery. (212) 708-9400, moma.org; closes Monday. (Johnson) MARTIN SCHOELLER: CLOSE UP Extraordinarily large and detailed mug-shot-like portraits of celebrities like Jack Nicholson, Angelina Jolie and Bill Clinton. Hasted Hunt, 529 West 20th Street, (212) 627-0006, hastedhunt.com; closes today. (Johnson) * THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: FULL HOUSE: VIEWS OF THE WHITNEYS COLLECTION AT 75, The Whitney celebrates a significant birthday this summer with an attic-to-basement display of hundreds of pieces of art from its permanent collection. There are terrific things, arranged mostly by loose theme rather than date. And as an ensemble, they deliver an impressionistic story, through art, of a staggeringly contradictory American 20th-century culture, diverse and narrow-souled, with a devotion to the idea of power so ingrained as to make conflict inevitable and chronic. 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, (212) 570-3676, whitney.org; closes Sunday. (Cotter)