Your perfect Friday

Could there be a more atmospheric place to relive the tower-buzzing highs of Top Gun than the deck of the Intrepid? We can’t think of one—barring a trip to vaguely identified hostile waters. Bring a blanket or chair, some snacks and nonalcoholic drinks for the 1986 blockbuster, which stars Tom Cruise as a volleyball-loving Navy pilot, Val Kilmer as his jaw-chomping rival and Kelly McGillis as a Ph.D.-equipped flight instructor who’s all too easily impressed by barroom karaoke.

David Hammons is one of the most important American artists today, though you wouldn’t necessarily know it. An artist of his stature would have been recognized by now in major museum surveys, but as one of the first African-American artists to have emerged in the context of  Conceptualism, he has always remained elusive and apart from the largely white art world as matter of strategy. Not that he’s unknown or hasn’t received significant exposure, but this must-see look back at his 50-year career really belongs at MoMA or the Whitney. The fact that it isn’t is the artist’s own choice, but since it’s being mounted in a gallery venue, it does have the virtue of being free.

The Canadian ballet-and-modern company presents the New York premieres of Andonis Foniadakis’s Kosmos, Rodrigo Pederneiras’s Rouge and Itzik Galili’s Mono Lisa.

How rarely can anything like Eclipsed be seen in the starry firmament of Broadway? Musicals with all-black or mostly black casts come along every so often; so, recently, do revivals of white plays (A Streetcar Named Desire, The Trip to Bountiful) reimagined with an African-American spin. But a new play whose writer, director and entire cast of five are all women of African descent? On the Great White Way, that counts as a first. 

Watch improvisers live-dub over muted sitcoms, giving shows like Full House and Family Matters random and hilarious new story lines. This installment features comedians Evan Altshuler, Zach Cherry, Becky Chicoine and others dubbing hilariously over two of the most curious entries of the reboot era: Fuller House and Girl Meets World.

Artists gather to celebrate the artistic heritage of the Lower East Side. Celebrants at this 21st annual edition include Charles Busch, David Avram, Phoebe Legere, Gretchen Cyer, KT Sullivan, Reno, Luba Mason, Tammy Faye, Kinding Sindaw, Infinity Dance Theatre, Chinese Theater Works and a host of other performers, poets, personalities and playwrights.

This charming and cheekily named singing string quartet has been honing its craft all over the world for the past couple of years. In their latest set the boys share selections from their new album, Popssical, which includes their take on the likes of Beethoven, Ravel and Taylor Swift.

The company—including dancers Stella Abrera, Roberto Bolle, Isabella Boylston, Misty Copeland, Herman Cornejo, Marcelo Gomes, David Hallberg, Maria Kochetkova, Alban Lendorf, Gillian Murphy, Veronika Part, Hee Seo, Daniil Simkin, Cory Stearns, Diana Vishneva and James Whiteside—returns for its spring season. ABT resident choreographer Alexei Ratmansky dominates the lineup with two triple bills of repertory pieces (May 17–23) and two full-length works: The Golden Cockerel (June 6–11) and The Sleeping Beauty (June 27–July 2). Other highlights of the season include two ballets by Frederick Ashton, Sylvia (May 9–14) and La Fille mal gardée (May 24–30).

Before he became a household name as the uptight Mitchell on Modern Family, Jesse Tyler Ferguson was one of New York’s most inventive comic character actors. You can sense his delight at stretching those muscles in the Broadway revival of Fully Committed, Becky Mode’s 1999 comedy about the power of entitlement.

Gay ladies pack the upstairs dance floor at Stonewall for this Friday night party featuring cheap drinks with visiting guests rotating on the decks.