Stage-wise, people are buzzing about the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of The Rocky Horror Show (seen in the pages of this very magazine!). Grab a ticket (if you can) and do the time warp again. Or tap a toe into the experimental dance scene at the LaMama Moves! Dance Festival (through May 10th).
If snacking on popcorn in a darkened movie theater is more your thing, you’re very much in luck. This month brings multiple film festivals to the city, including the Lower East Side Film Festival (on until May 4th), which will reunite Steve Buscemi, Thora Birch, and more members of the cast of the cult film Ghost World for a 25th anniversary screening. Elsewhere downtown, check out a documentary at the IFC Center’s DOC NYC Selects until May 5th, or a special series of films about history’s greatest painters (Picasso, Munch, etc.) at Metrograph.
In Brooklyn, there’s the Coney Island Film Festival. (While you’re there, why not make it a double-header and catch a Cyclones game?). In Queens, the “First Look” festival at the Museum of the Moving Image is on until May 3rd, but you can still catch their ongoing exhibitions, including a comprehensive look at the life and legacy of the Muppets’ Jim Henson, and “Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body.” (Bodies! They’re trending!)
In other words, there’s lots to do that isn’t watching The Devil Wears Prada 2 or gearing up for the spectacle that is the Met Gala. Friends, the world is your oyster. Go out there and take advantage.
