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Six-time Emmy winner Maya Rudolph is headed to Broadway, making her debut in the deliriously unhinged hit comedy Oh, Mary!, and stepping into the famously frazzled shoes of Mary Todd Lincoln for a strictly limited eight-week run.

Producers announced that Rudolph will begin performances on April 28 and play through June 20 at the Lyceum Theatre, where the show has been packing houses since its July 2024 premiere. 

Directed by Tony winner Sam Pinkleton, the outrageous historical farce imagines Mary Todd Lincoln not as a grieving widow but as a flamboyant, frustrated cabaret wannabe desperate to escape the White House and finally take the stage. The result is a manic, anachronistic fever dream that has become one of Broadway’s most talked-about comedies in years.

The Lower East Side Film Festival (LESFF) is back, folks! Now in its 16th year, LESFF will return on April 30 through May 4, taking over downtown venues (primarily Village East Cinema) with a mix of premieres, shorts, throwbacks and some very downtown-coded events.

This year’s lineup kicks off on opening night with the New York premiere of Run Amok, a debut feature from NB Mager starring Alyssa Marvin alongside Patrick Wilson and Margaret Cho. The film follows a teenager channeling trauma into a musical, which feels very on-brand.

Elsewhere, there’s plenty to dig into. The Ark, part of the festival’s “Stay Indie” spotlight, takes viewers into eastern Ukraine, where a family’s farm becomes a refuge for displaced animals during the war. A 25th-anniversary screening of Ghost World will bring cast members back for a reunion and Q&A, while the closing night film, Public Access, looks at New York’s public-access TV boom and its influence on today’s creator culture.

It seems that New Yorkers just can’t get enough of Andy Warhol, and the Whitney Museum of American Art is leaning into that appetite. On April 30, the museum will debut "Andy Warhol: Family Album," a new exhibition featuring 732 Polaroid photographs taken between 1972 and 1973 of the famed artist, specifically focusing on his social and personal life.

The selection of Polaroids is drawn from one of six Holson albums—those vintage collections that were once ubiquitous—containing hundreds of prints that Warhol himself assembled as part of his personal archive. Considering that Warhol bought his first Polaroid camera in the mid-1960s, the display draws from an archive of thousands of photographs. This exhibition, in particular, will feature a wide range of shots, from friends visiting Warhol on Long Island to images of the artist’s dog, Archie, as well as photographs from European vacations, together encompassing Warhol’s eye for capturing everyday life as a way to document relationships and social interactions.

Along with a place to pay your respects, Green-Wood Cemetery is also a place to, well, party: the gorgeous Brooklyn graveyard (500 25th Street at Fifth Avenue) is known for hosting all manner of musical performances, spirit tastings, twilight tours, spooky storytelling sessions and other after-hours festivities throughout the year, and come May, they're adding a new fête to the growing list of programming: MoonFest.

Kicking off the month on Friday, May 1 from 6pm to 11pm, MoonFest is Green-Wood's first-ever after-hours celebration of, duh, the moon, that celestial being that controls the ocean tides, our biological rhythms, our moods and a whole host of mystical properties. Underneath the light of the full Flower Moon — a symbol of spring bloom and warm-weather abundance — the nightfall event draws inspiration "from the Cemetery’s permanent resident, John Draper, who made history in 1840 by capturing one of the earliest photographs of the moon, proving we could bridge the 238,000-mile gap between the Earth and our celestial neighbor," per organizers.

Folks flock to this annual floral-filled exhibition at Macy’s Herald Square, where jaw-dropping arrangements are on display for two weeks. The theme for this year's installment is "Homegrown," part of the nationwide celebration of America's 250th birthday, "expressed through flowers, fiber and timeless handicrafts," per Macy's. From Thursday, April 23 through Sunday, May 10, explore greenhouse-inspired installations, breathtaking bloom-filled planters, decorative stained-glass garden panels, sculptural fabric birds, yarn-wrapped trees and more in the immersive spring spectacle. 

Just when you thought New York nightlife had hit its ceiling, it’s heading toward the top again—by about 1,100 feet.

Marquee Skydeck at Edge is officially back for its second season, starting May 1, turning the highest outdoor observation deck in the Western Hemisphere into a full-blown open-air nightclub. Set 100 stories above Hudson Yards, the 21+ series brings Tao Group Hospitality’s trademarks (read: big-name DJs, booming sound systems and a crowd ready to dance) to one of the city’s most vertigo-inducing settings.

If you went last year, you already know the deal. If you didn’t, picture this: you’re dancing to a world-class DJ while the Manhattan skyline stretches out in every direction, the Hudson River just below and the wind occasionally reminding you just how high up you are. This season’s lineup is stacked from the jump. Italian dance legend Benny Benassi is slated for May 2, with other early acts including Kaz James (May 8), Layla Benitez (May 9) and Agents of Time (May 15), according to the event calendar.

Sex and mortality share the spotlight (as usual) at Manhattan's Museum of Sex with The Life Force: Portraits from the Amparo & Manuel Foundation, running through November 30. The Mexico City–based Amparo & Manuel Foundation makes its U.S. debut with 45 works spanning painting, sculpture and photography, exploring desire, vulnerability and resilience. Expect big names (pieces by Tracey Emin, Lisa Yuskavage, Hernan Bas, Oh de Laval and Sarah Lucas will be on view, among others) as well as intimate moments and bodies under pressure in a show that insists intimacy is its own form of resistance.

For six nights in April, a Barcelona cocktail institution known for turning drinks into full-on performances is taking over at a prime spot on Madison Avenue. From April 23 to 28, MAD Bar & Lounge will hand over the reins to Paradiso.

If you’ve ever tried to get a seat at Paradiso’s original location in Barcelona, you’ll know this is no small thing. The bar has built a global following for cocktails that arrive smoking, glowing or hidden inside unexpected vessels. It’s mixology with a sense of humor and theatrics, but with serious technique behind it. For this takeover, that same team will be working behind the bar in New York, bringing a bit of their world directly to Midtown.

The takeover runs from 7pm to 11pm each night, with a tight 90-minute seating policy to keep things moving. MAD Bar will lean into Paradiso’s design-forward style, with live music layered in to match the rhythm of the drinks.

The cocktail menu has been created specifically for this residency in partnership with Tequila 1800. Tequila takes the lead here, but not in the predictable ways. Paradiso’s approach tends to take ingredients into new territory, so you might see familiar spirits paired with unexpected textures, aromas or presentations, all highlighting the craftsmanship found at Paradiso.

MoMA PS1 just opened "Greater New York 2026," its sprawling, building-wide exhibition that doubles as a snapshot of what artists across the city are actually making right now. Running now through August 17, the show features 53 artists and collectives working across pretty much every medium you can think of.

This isn’t the type of show you can power through in 45 minutes, though. It takes over the entire museum with more than 150 works, including large-scale installations, new commissions, performances and pieces that, in many cases, have never been shown publicly before. There’s painting next to animation next to scenography next to something you’re not entirely sure how to categorize and that’s entirely the point.

There’s also a full slate of live programming. A performance series runs through May and June, featuring eight artists debuting new works, plus artist talks throughout the run. The best part? Admission is free, which makes this one of the most ambitious—and accessible—art shows in the city right now.

Art-house cinema meets big existential questions at Metrograph with the series "New Museum Presents: New Humans." Tied to the New Museum’s sprawling inaugural exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future, each screening—including Shengze Zhu’s Present. Perfect (2019) and René Laloux’s Fantastic Planet (1973), among others—will be paired with artists from the museum exhibit to probe what it means to be human in a tech-saturated age. Expect cult favorites, artist intros and a heady mix of AI anxiety and cinematic deep cuts.