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COMMUNITY Dr. Marjorie Hill’s State of the African-American Community Address
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Kreutz. Gotham Comedy Club, 208 W. 23rd St. Feb 6, 8:30 p.m. Cover charge is $20, with a twobeverage minimum. Reservations at 212-367-9000.
SAT.FEB.9
The relaunch of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Community Services Center of the Bronx, earlier scarred by financial impropriety, gets a boost from its first fundraiser, “Valentine’s Vamp.” Tym Moss, president of the new Center, which he said has completed its non-profit incorporation, provides “a chance for us to really make a difference. To create an LGBTQ community center in the Bronx where everyone — from the youth to the elderly — can come and feel accepted. Where they are told and they feel that they are perfect exactly how they are. This is so desperately needed in the Bronx right now.” For more information about the Center, visit gplus.to/BronxLGBTQcenter. “Valentine’s Vamp” takes place at Rebel NYC, 251 W. 30th St. Feb. 9, 5:30-11 p.m. Tickets are $70-$95 at http://bit.ly/valentinesvamp; $85-$115 at the door.
CABARET Judy & Liza
The Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC) named Tommy Femia and Rick Skye, the stars of "Judy and Liza Together Again” (directed by Ricky Ritzel as Mort Lindsey/ Pappy), this year’s best duo. Their dizzying hollers and whoops are not being wasted on the Loop — they’re right here in New York, at Don’t Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St. Feb. 9 & 23, 8:30 p.m. Cover charge is $25, with a twodrink minimum. Reservations at 212-757-0788.
SUN.FEB.10
MICHAEL LUTCH
BENEFIT Pride Returns to the Bronx
TUE.FEB.12
THEATER The Laramie Project a Decade On: A Marathon Staging
The Brooklyn Academy of Music reunites the majority of the cast from the original 2000 production of “The Laramie Project,” the oral history of the aftermath of the 1998 anti-gay murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming created by Moisés Kaufman and members of his Tectonic Theater Project. The new production includes the original plus, plus the first fully staged New York production of “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later.” Written by Kaufman, Leigh Fondakowski, Greg Pierotti, Andy Paris, and Stephen Belber, “Ten Years Later” is directed by Kaufman and Fondakowski. BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St. at Rockwell Pl. Feb. 12-24. The production is presented in consecutive weeknight evenings on Feb 12 &13; Feb 14 & 15; Feb 19 & 20; Feb 21 & 22, 7:30 p.m. Weekend marathons are presented on Feb. 16, 17, 23 & 24, 2:30 p.m., with a dinner break btwn. Parts 1 & 2. Tickets are $20-$80 for each part at bam.org; packages to see both shows on weeknights must be purchased for consecutive evenings.
JC HOPKINS
CABARET LuPone, Musto Rave about Bridget Everett
PERFORMANCE Justin Vivian Bond & Other Valentines
Tony-nominated singer Justin Vivian Bond headlines a pre-Valentine’s evening of music, humor, romantic revelry, and even sentimentality. Bond joins the 13-piece JC Hopkins Biggish Band, led by Grammy-nominated JC Hopkins, observational humorist Kiki Valentine, musical guest Lee Chappell, and an assortment of burlesque and aerial performers. The Slipper Room, 167 Orchard St. at Stanton St. Feb. 10, 9 p.m. Tickets are $25-$45 at slipperroom.com.
No less than Patti LuPone has described Bridget Everett this way: “Now there’s a girl with great talent… She’s got guts. She’s fearless. That girl has guts.” The Village Voice’s Michael Musto described her as “Wynona Judd meets Melissa Etheridge, via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks.” Everett appears at Joe’s Pub, inside the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., btwn. E. Fourth St. & Astor Pl. Feb. 12, Mar. 20, Apr. 24, 9:30 p.m. Admission is $20 at joespub.com, plus a $12 food & drink minimum for table seating. Call 212-967-7555 for a table reservation.
THU.FEB.14
PERFORMANCE A Bawdy Valentine’s Night
The World Famous *BOB* hosts a “Filthy Gorgeous Valentine’s Spectacular,” featuring the
jazz and ragtime vaudeville duo Gelber & Manning and steamy burlesque performances by Ms Tickle, Gal Friday, Cherry Typhoon, Brewster, Gin Minsky & Dandy Wellington, Shelly the Singing Siren, and the NY City Burlesque Choir. DJ Momotaro provides the tunes. Highline Ballroom, 431 W. 16th St. Feb. 14, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Admission is $25-$45 at highlineballroom. com; $30-$50 at the door.
DANCE Classics from Nicholas Leichter, the Bang Group, Doug Elkins
DanceNow at Joe’s Pub presents “Dorothy, Annie, Maria,” a program featuring excerpts from three acclaimed works it commissioned over the past decade — Nicholas Leichter Dance’s “The Whiz: Emerald City,” the Bang Group’s” ShowDown,” and Doug Elkins’ “Fräulein Maria.” “The Whiz: Emerald City” (2010) reimagines New York’s underground communities through song, dance, and “Prince-esque extravaganzardry.” “ShowDown” (2009) takes songs from Irving Berlin's “Annie Get Your Gun,” strips them of their original narrative context, and sets them in a contemporary choreographic world. A Bessie Award-winning production, “Fräulein Maria” (2006) is an irreverent, kinetic twist on “The Sound of Music,” set to selections from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s score. Joe’s Pub, inside the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., btwn. E. Fourth St. & Astor Pl. Feb 14-16, 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 at joes.pub.com; $20 at the door, plus a $12 food & drink minimum for table seating. Call 212-967-7555 for a table reservation. Doors open at 6 p.m. for cocktails or dinner.
FRI.FEB.15
MUSIC Toshi Reagon PostValentines Sade Salute
Toshi Reagon presents “Good Folk Lovers Rock: A Post-Valentine Day Sade Love Fest.” The evening of R&B, hip hop, and blues includes performances by Reagon, Ganessa James, Allison Miller, Kimberly Nichole, Alex Nolan, Morley, and Sun Singleton. Joe’s Pub, inside the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., btwn. E. Fourth St. & Astor Pl. Feb. 15, 9 p.m. Admission is $20 at joespub.com, plus a $12 food & drink minimum for table seating. Call 212-967-7555 for a table reservation.
Men of All Colors Together/ New York — a multi-racial, multi-cultural organization of gay and bisexual men committed to combating racial discrimination in the LGBT community and providing a supportive environment for nonoppressive relating among gay men — welcomes Dr. Marjorie Hill, the CEO of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, who will speak about current issues in the African-American community, including the future of AIDS/HIV care and services in this community and, specifically, the unique needs of gay and bi men of color as well as of women, who are often underserved. LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St. Feb. 15, 8-10 p.m. For more information on MACTNY, visit mactny.org.
SAT.FEB.16
GALLERY Jonathan Ned Katz — the Artist
Groundbreaking gay historian Jonathan Ned Katz, author of “Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.” (1976) and “The Invention of Heterosexuality” (1995), has his first solo art show, “Making History, Making Art,” which demonstrates the importance of visual art over the course of his life, including samples of the art he produced as a child (Pop Art before Pop Art), teen, and young man. The show will focus on Katz’s recent paintings of men, praised by his curator — Jonathan David Katz (no relation), director of the Visual Culture Studies doctoral program at SUNY Buffalo — for their “passion, sensuality and immediacy.” Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, 26 Wooster St., btwn. Grand & Canal Sts. Feb. 15-Mar. 31. Tue.-Sun., noon-6 p.m. On Feb. 16, 4 p.m., the two Katzes join in discussion with Steph Rogerson and Kelly McCray, curators of “Rare & Raw” — a Leslie-Lohman exhibition jointly presented with the College Art Association — and artists Nina Levitt and Ken Moffatt. On Feb. 26, 6-8 p.m., Jonathan Ned Katz reads from his memoir “Coming of Age in Greenwich Village: A Memoir with Paintings,” Susan Sherman reads her poems, and Carol Polcovar reads a memoir of growing up in the mid-20th century. For more information, visit leslielohman.org.
SUN.FEB.17
NIGHTLIFE Daniel Nardicio at 1,000
Gay party promoter extraordinaire Daniel Nardicio celebrates his 1000th party with a President’s Day Weekend blowout, featuring his muse and nightlife celebrity Will Wikle, of “Big Brother” fame, and Glammy-winning special guest host and drag kook Thorgy Thor. The evening includes visuals by Marco Ovando and Neddershred, DN’s signature Go Go boys, plus underwear giveaways by Undergear. Sammy Jo — the DJ for the Scissor Sisters tour — Nita Aviance, Jon Jon Battles, and Johnny Dynell spin tunes. Rebel Nightclub, 251 W. 30th St. Feb. 17, 10 p.m. Tickets are $20 at danielnardicio.com.