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June 1
Taste of Times Square; Times Square, Midtown West, 5pm. Free.
Times Square’s bad rap gets a boost with this outdoor bites-and-beats festival, featuring eats from 50 neighborhood restaurants including Shake Shack, Blue Fin and Virgil’s Real Barbecue.
Teresita Fernández, Fata Morgana; Madison Square Park, 12pm. 12pm. Free.
Fata Morgana is a term for mirage shimmering along the horizon line where water or land meets sky. Fernández evokes the effect in this series of reflective gold canopies suspended over paths in Madison Square Park.
Preludes; Claire Tow Theater, Upper West Side, 7pm. $30.
In his new music-theater piece, prodigiously talented songwriter Dave Malloy (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) explores the tortured psyche of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.
The Flick; Barrow, West Village, 7:30pm. $45–$99.
Despite its length and aura of depressive inertia, The Flick is a curiously light play about a shadowy topic: the difficulty of telling real life from projections—cinematic and the kind we put on each other.
The Tonya Harding & Nancy Kerrigan 1994 Museum; Location TBA, Contact site to request a free visit.
Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan were two of the best skaters in the early 1990s, and now their controversial legend lives on in this Kickstarter-funded project with a collection open for anyone to see.
Music Video Night; Bossa Nova Civic Club, Bushwick, 10pm. Free.
Every first Monday of the month, Bossa Nova Civic Club's professional juicer/bartender/VJ/DJ Chris Video hosts Music Video Night—complete with happy hour sets, movie screenings and live DJ sets. But wait! Make sure to stick around late for your nightcap; Chris Video runs the music video request line from 1-4am to satisfy everyone's latest YouTube wishes.
Aloha; Opens in theaters
This time, the writer-director behind Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire has Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone and Rachel McAdams in the attractive state of Hawaii for his next romantic comedy.
Inaugural Exhibition; Whitney Museum of American Art, Lenox Hill, 11am. $20.
It's finally here! The new improved Whitney home in MePa that's supposed to finally put to rest the museum's rep as the also-ran of New York's major art institutions. As designed by international starchitect Renzo Piano, the building is certainly big, with 63,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor exhibition space.
San Andreas; Opens in theaters
Don’t even pretend you’re not ready for some disaster porn come the warm-weather months. This one features Dwayne Johnson, True Detective’s Alexandra Daddario and the titular California fault line.
OutdoorFest; Various locations, 6pm. Free–$55.
New Yorkers are spending more time in the open air than we used to (thank you, bike lanes), but it’s still good to have a little push out the door. That’s exactly what OutdoorFest, a ten-day lineup of activities, classes and volunteering opportunities, aims to do.
Zombie Escape; Bucket List Productions, Midtown West, various times. $28.
Yeah, you thought you were tough until you stood in a room full of 11 other "daredevils" trying to break free from a bloodthirsty zombie attached to a (not-so-strong) chain in just one hour. THIS IS NOT A GAME. Okay, it is a game, but you get what we mean.
An Act of God; Studio 54, Midtown West, 8pm. $55–$149.
Playing the one and only Supreme Being, Jim Parsons opens on Broadway in a solo piece about ruling over all of space, time and existence—and maybe how hard it is to get a cab in midtown.
Shakespeare in the Park; Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm. Free.
Hear, hear—the free outdoor series returns! This year features the lovable Sam Waterston of The Newsroom in the lead role of Prospero in The Tempest, and award-winning director of last year's King Lear, Daniel Sullivan, for Cymbeline.
June 2
Purity Ring + Braids + Born Gold; Terminal 5, Hell's Kitchen, 7pm. $27, advance $25.
The justly buzzed-about girl-boy combo Purity Ring layers babyish coos over hacked-up synths. Eerie content (sample lyric: “Cut open my sternum and pull my little ribs around you”) adds to a light-dark tension that makes the group’s work compelling.
Eat Drink & Be Literary; BAMcafé, Fort Greene, 6:30pm. $60.
Dinner and a brilliant author, what more do you want? While you binge at the buffet, graphic novelist Chris Ware talks with The Paris Review editor Lorin Stein about his work.
Sweet; Slipper Room, Lower East Side, 9pm, $7.
Seth Herzog's weekly mainstay, which has settled back in its longtime home at the Slipper Room, still features scads of downtown stand-ups and, quite often, Herzog's mother.
June 3
Chaka Khan; Celebrate Brooklyn! (at the Prospect Park Bandshell), 8pm. Free.
Chi-town's veteran Queen of Funk unleashes her monster pipes at the 2015 Celebrate Brooklyn! season kickoff.
Heisenberg; Manhattan Theatre Club, Midtown West, 7:30pm. $30, after June 21 $75.
Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds) plays an American in London who kisses an older man in a tube station—which results in a chain of unexpected events in Simon Stephens’s thoughtful new play.
Pregnant Pause: A Variety Show About Pop Culture and Pregnancy; The Bell House, Gowanus, 7pm. $20, $15 advance.
Filmmakers, comedians and academics discuss how pregnancy is portrayed in movies and television, with special guest Gillian Robespierre, the writer and director of Obvious Child.
June 4
Red Hook Fest; Louis J. Valentino Jr. Park and Pier, Brooklyn, 6pm. Free.
Red Hook residents have been working hard to rebuild the community in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Show them some love at the 22nd annual edition of this neighborhood cultural bash.
Tasting Table’s Lobster Rumble; Metropolitan Pavilion, Chelsea, 6pm. $165, VIP $265.
The fourth annual crustacean celebration features 25 lobster-roll stations including Grand Banks, Burger & Lobster and Luke’s Lobster clawing it out to win judges'-panel and people's-choice top honors.
New York City Ballet Spring 2015; David H. Koch Theater (at Lincoln Center), Upper West Side, 7:30pm. $59–$164.
It's the last week day to catch the final performances of the spring season when the dancers takes on several works by one of the 20th century's greatest choreographers, George Balanchine.
Marin Hopper + Mark Rozzo; Strand Book Store, Downtown, Must purchase $20 Strand gift card or copy of Drugstore Camera to attend.
Marin Hopper, the daughter of the late actor and photographer Dennis Hopper, sits down with Vanity Fair deputy editor Mark Rozzo to discuss her father’s collection, Dennis Hopper: Drugstore Camera. Make sure to buy a copy of the book to attend.
Dark Wonderland; Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, 7:30pm. $30, advance $25.
You won’t have to take a tumble down a rabbit hole to visit this modern-day wonderland, but you will have to hang out in Green-Wood Cemetery past sundown.
Simpsons Trivia; Berry Park, Greenpoint, 7pm. Free.
Think you know more about the residents of Springfield than Professor Frink or Mr. Burns? If so, head to Berry Park for three rounds of trivia about America's favorite cartoon family on the first Thursday of every month.
Fluent City; Videology, Williamsburg, 7pm. Free.
The June edition of Videology language-learning series features Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s A Very Long Engagement.