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MOVIE GUIDE
Here is a selective listing by critics of The Times of new or noteworthy movies and film series playing this weekend in New York City. * denotes a highly recommended film or series. Ratings and running times are in parentheses. An index of reviews of films opening today appears on page 12. Now Playing ANASTASIA, with the voices of Meg Ryan and John Cusack. Produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman (G, 90 minutes). The splashy entry by 20th Century Fox into the Disney-ruled sweepstakes of the animated musical makes no historical sense. The Russian Revolution is dispensed with in five minutes (not a word about Communism is heard; the evil magician Rasputin was to blame), and its main characters talk like San Fernando Valley teen-agers. But this hybrid of Cinderella and The Wizard of Oz, in which the heir to the Russian throne travels from St. Petersburg to Paris, has enough lilting energy (swirling ballroom scenes) and action (a spectacular train wreck) to distract historically persnickety types (Stephen Holden).
The Listings: Aug. 19 -- Aug. 25
Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses. Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of current shows, additional listings, showtimes and tickets: nytimes.com/theater. Previews and Openings SIDES: THE FEAR IS REAL Opens Thursday. After a hit run at P.S. 122, this hilarious collection of auditioning nightmares returns (1:15). Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Street, at Lafayette Street, East Village, (212)307-4100. THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL Previews begin Saturday. Opens Sept. 15. A hit at the 2004 New York Musical Theater Festival, this comic musical features trailer trash singing show tunes (2:00). Dodger Stages, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212)239-6200. MIRACLE BROTHERS Previews begin Thursday. Opens Sept. 18. A epic new musical by Kirsten Childs about the adventures of two brothers -- one black, one white -- in 17th-century Brazil (2:00). Vineyard Theater, 108 East 15th Street, Flatiron district, (212)353-0303. TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Opens Aug. 28. One of the Public Theaters early Broadway transfers, this 1971 musical adaptation of Shakespeares comedy features lyrics by John Guare and music by Galt MacDermot. Kathleen Marshall directs (2:45). The Public Theater at the Delacorte Theater, Central Park, entrances at 81st Street and Central Park West, and at 79th Street and Fifth Avenue, (212)239-6200. Broadway ALL SHOOK UP In a pint-size theater with a campy young cast, All Shook Up might be a moderate hoot. Inflated to Broadway proportions, its a mind-numbing holler (2:10). Palace Theater, 1564 Broadway, at 47th Street, (212)307-4100.(Ben Brantley) CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG The playthings are the thing in this lavish windup music box of a show: windmills, Rube Goldberg-esque machines and the shows title character, a flying car. Its like spending two and a half hours in the Times Square branch of Toys R Us (2:30). Hilton Theater, 213 West 42nd Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley) DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS On paper this musical tale of two mismatched scam artists has an awful lot in common with The Producers. But if you are going to court comparison with giants, you had better be prepared to stand tall. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring John Lithgow and Norbert Leo Butz, never straightens out of a slouch (2:35). Imperial Theater, 249 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) DOUBT, A PARABLE (Pulitzer Prize, Best Play 2005, and Tony Award, Best Play 2005) Set in the Bronx in 1964, this play by John Patrick Shanley is structured as a clash of wills and generations between Sister Aloysius (Cherry Jones), the head of a parochial school, and Father Flynn (Brian F. OByrne), the young priest who may or may not be too fond of the boys in his charge. The plays elements bring to mind those tidy topical melodramas that were once so popular. But Mr. Shanley makes subversive use of musty conventions (1:30). Walter Kerr, 219 West 48th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (Tony Award, Best Play Revival 2005) Highly caffeinated bliss. Watching Joe Mantellos hopping revival of David Mamets play about a dog-eat-dog real estate office is like having espresso pumped directly into your bloodstream. But whats a little lost sleep when youve had the chance to see a dream-team ensemble, including Liev Schreiber and Alan Alda, pitching fast-ball Mamet dialogue with such pure love for the athletics of acting (1:50)? Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, 242 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) JACKIE MASON: FRESHLY SQUEEZED Jackie Mason has so cunningly manufactured and marketed his dyspeptic comic persona -- the herky-jerky movements used to embellish the routines, the voice thats like a sinus infection with a bad back -- that he may soon be able to refine all actual jokes out of his act, and still slay em. Thats chutzpah. And quite a talent, too (2:05). Helen Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. (Charles Isherwood) LENNON In the immortal words of Yoko Ono, Aieeeee! (2:10). Broadhurst Theater, 235 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA Love is a many-flavored thing, from sugary to sour, in Adam Guettel and Craig Lucass encouragingly ambitious and discouragingly unfulfilled new musical. The show soars only in the sweetly bitter songs performed by the wonderful Victoria Clark, as an American abroad (2:15). The Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) THE PILLOWMAN For all its darkness of plot and imagery, Martin McDonaghs tale of a suspected child murderer in a totalitarian state dazzles with a brightness now largely absent from Broadway. Exquisitely directed and designed, The Pillowman features top-of-the-line performances from Billy Crudup, Jeff Goldblum, Zeljko Ivanek and Michael Stuhlbarg (2:40). Booth Theater, 222 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) SPAMALOT (Tony Award, Best Musical 2005) This staged re-creation of the mock-medieval movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail is basically a singing scrapbook for Python fans. Still, it seems safe to say that such a good time is being had by so many people that this fitful, eager celebration of inanity and irreverence will find a large and lucrative audience (2:20). Shubert Theater, 225 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) SWEET CHARITY This revival of the 1966 musical, directed by Walter Bobbie and choreographed by Wayne Cilento, never achieves more than a low-grade fever when whats wanted is that old steam heat. In the title role of the hopeful dance-hall hostess, the appealing but underequipped Christina Applegate is less a shopworn angel than a merry cherub (2:30). Al Hirschfeld Theater, 302 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE The happy news for this happy-making little musical is that the move to larger quarters has dissipated none of its quirky charm. William Finns score sounds plumper and more rewarding than it did Off Broadway, providing a sprinkling of sugar to complement the sass in Rachel Sheinkins zinger-filled book. The performances are flawless. Gold stars all around. (1:45). Circle in the Square, 1633 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood) WHOS AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Everybody ultimately loses in Edward Albees great marital wrestling match of a play from 1962. But theatergoers who attend this revealingly acted new production, starring a superb Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin, are destined to leave the Longacre feeling like winners (2:50). Longacre Theater, 220 West 48th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) Off Broadway ALTAR BOYZ This sweetly satirical show about a Christian pop group made up of five potential Teen People cover boys is an enjoyable, silly diversion (1:30). Dodger Stages, Stage 4, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood) THE DEAR BOY An uptight English teacher learns to cut loose, at least a bit, when hes confronted with an unflattering portrait written by a gifted but troubled student. Capably acted, but lacking in real substance (1:40). McGinn/Cazale Theater, 2162 Broadway, at 76th Street, (212)246-4422. (Isherwood) DRUMSTRUCK This noisy novelty at Dodger Stages is a mixed blessing. Providing theatergoers a two-foot drum on every seat, it offers an opportunity to exorcise aggressions by delivering a good beating, and on a slightly more elevated level, it presents a superficial introduction to African culture, lessons in drumming and 90 minutes of nonstop music, song and dancing by a good-natured cast. So, while literally and figuratively giving off many good vibes, it adds up to lightweight entertainment that stops just short of pulverizing the eardrums (1:30). Dodger Stages, Stage 2, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212)239-6200.(Lawrence Van Gelder) FATAL ATTRACTION: A GREEK TRAGEDY This parody of the pompous 1980s movie has a weak script and a game Corey Feldman in the Michael Douglas role. But unlike the bunny, which is indeed boiled, it never cooks (1:10). East 13th Street Theater, 136 East 13th Street, East Village, (212)279-4200. (Andrea Stevens) FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT This production features the expected caricatures of ego-driven singing stars. But even more than usual, the show offers an acute list of grievances about the sickly state of the Broadway musical, where, as the lyrics have it, everything old is old again (1:45). 47th Street Theater, 304 West 47th Street, Clinton, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) IVANOV Jonathan Banks staging of the Chekhov classic Ivanov with the National Asian-American Theater Company has an impressively consistent tone, notwithstanding some needless mood music. Not all the acting rises to the level of that of Joel de la Fuente, who is marvelous in the lead role, but enough does to make the show well worth seeing (2:30). Mint Theater, 311 West 43rd Street, Clinton, (212)315-0231. (Jonathan Kalb) JOY John Fishers play with music, a lecture-prone valentine to San Francisco and gay life among college students, says less about human sexuality and longing than the classic, melancholy love songs the cast performs (2:00). The Actors Playhouse, 100 Seventh Avenue South, at Fourth Street, Greenwich Village, (212)239-6200. (Stevens) THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS! The musical is the happy narcissist of theater; parody is the best form of narcissism. All it needs are smart writers and winning performers. Thats what we get in this case (1:30). Dodger Stages, Stage 5, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212)239-6200. (Margo Jefferson) OEDIPUS AT PALM SPRINGS The hand of fate reaches all the way into a steaming hot tub filled with cranky women in this seriocomic lesbian soap opera from the Five Lesbian Brothers. A richly funny Sapphic sex comedy, it is also a serious inquiry into the unforeseen extremities of despair that can attend the search for a lasting love (1:30). The New York Theater Workshop, 79 East Fourth Street, East Village, (212)460-5475. (Isherwood) ORSONS SHADOW Austin Pendletons play, about a 1960 production of Ionescos Rhinoceros directed by Orson Welles and starring Laurence Olivier, is a sharp-witted but tenderhearted backstage comedy about the thin skins, inflamed nerves and rampaging egos that are the customary side effects when sensitivity meets success (2:00). Barrow Street Theater, 27 Barrow Street, Greenwich Village, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood) ONCE AROUND THE SUN The sun of the title could be the talent and energy of its impressive cast: you can warm your hands on them, and on the catchy music. Unfortunately the book fails to capitalize on these strengths, instead presenting a trite fable about a young rock singer seduced by celebrity, with cardboard characters despite the actors best attempts to give them dimension. Still, the performances are very entertaining (2:00). Zipper Theater, 336 West 37th Street, (212)239-6200. (Anne Midgette) ONE-MAN STAR WARS TRILOGY With a storm trooper roaming the aisles and a woman in an Obi-Wan Kenobi get-up telling theatergoers to turn off their cellphones or they will be turned into cosmic dust, Charles Rosss sprint in Episodes IV through VI aims for the atmosphere of a Star Wars convention, but ends up achieving something like a religious revival (which is sort of the same thing). True believers will love how Mr. Ross, a self-confessed geek who plays every major role in under an hour, simulates R2D2, but everyone else will scratch his head (1:00). Lambs Theater, 130 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. (Jason Zinoman) PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Ciaran OReillys small but spirited production of Brian Friels mournful and funny 1964 play centers on a lonely young man preparing to flee the small-minded Irish backwater he grew up in for the big time in the U.S. of A. Michael FitzGerald and James Kennedy are nicely contrasted as the public and private faces of a man at a painful emotional crossroads (2:20). Irish Repertory Theater, 132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, (212)727-2737. (Isherwood) SLAVAS SNOWSHOW Clowns chosen by the Russian master Slava Polunin are stirring up laughter and enjoyment. A show that touches the heart as well as tickles the funny bone (1:30). Union Square Theater, 100 East 17th Street, (212)307-4100. (Van Gelder) THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING) Is there such a thing as stand-up existentialism? If not, Will Eno has just invented it. Stand-up-style comic riffs and deadpan hipster banter keep interrupting the corrosively bleak narrative. Mr. Eno is a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation (1:10). DR2 Theater, 103 East 15th Street, Flatiron district, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood) Off Off Broadway DEAR DUBYA: PATRIOTIC LOVE LETTERS TO WHITEHOUSE.ORG Peevish, pathetic and plain unhinged, the e-mail messages rendered readers-theater-style in this brief, seldom cheap, often funny show demonstrate that President Bush has no shortage of credulous, humor-impaired fans and foes (45 minutes). Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 907-6189. (Rob Kendt) Long-Running Shows AVENUE Q R-rated puppets give lively life lessons (2:10). Golden Theater, 252 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Cartoon made flesh -- sort of (2:30). Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 205 West 46th Street, (212)307-4747. (Brantley) BLUE MAN GROUP Conceptual art as entertainment (1:45). Astor Place Theater, 434 Lafayette Street, East Village, (212)254-4370. (Brantley) CHICAGO Irrefutable proof that crime pays (2:25). Ambassador Theater, 219 West 49th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) FIDDLER ON THE ROOF The Shtetl Land pavilion in the theme park called Broadway (2:55). Minskoff Theater, 200 West 45th Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley) HAIRSPRAY Fizzy pop, cute kids, large man in a housedress (2:30). Neil Simon Theater, 250 West 52nd Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley) THE LION KING Disney on safari, where the big bucks roam (2:45). New Amsterdam Theater, 214 West 42nd Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley) MAMMA MIA! The jukebox that devoured Broadway (2:20). Cadillac Winter Garden Theater, 1634 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) MOVIN OUT The miracle dance musical that makes Billy Joel cool (2:00). Richard Rodgers Theater, 226 West 46th Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley) NAKED BOYS SINGING Thats who they are. Thats what they do (1:05). Julia Miles Theater, 414 West 55th Street, Clinton, (212)239-6200. (Anita Gates) THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Who was that masked man, anyway? (2:30). Majestic Theater, 247 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) THE PRODUCERS The ne plus ultra of showbiz scams (2:45). St. James Theater, 246 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) RENT East Village angst and love songs to die for (2:45). Nederlander Theater, 208 West 41st Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley) STOMP And the beat goes on (and on), with percussion unlimited (1:30). Orpheum Theater, Second Avenue at Eighth Street, East Village, (212)477-2477. (Brantley) WICKED Oz revisited, with political corrections (2:45). Gershwin Theater, 222 West 51st Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley) Last Chance BROTHER Nothing is quite what it seems at first in Brother, Lisa Ebersoles confrontational one-act play about a pair of sisters who taunt each other, and a black man who suddenly joins them in the middle of the night in an East Village apartment. The audience is uncomfortably close to the action in this theater-in-the-round production, which starts with an ambiguous tension that quickly escalates (55 minutes). Paradise Factory, 64 East Fourth Street, East Village, (212)868-4444, closing on Sunday. (Phoebe Hoban) LAZER VAUDEVILLE If this isnt an ancient showbiz rule, it ought to be: things will look a lot more impressive if they are done in the dark with a heavy dose of fluorescence. That seems to be the guiding principle behind this hodgepodge of juggling, rope twirling and such, delivered wordlessly by the cast (1:30). Lambs Theater, 130 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200, closing on Sunday. (Neil Genzlinger) THE PERSIANS Though he fought with the victorious Greeks, Aeschylus wrote the tragedy of The Persians entirely from the perspective of the vanquished. This imaginative musical production by a young company called Waterwell extends that act of empathy, while also managing to be wildly funny and entertaining (1:15). Perry Street Theater, 31 Perry Street, at Seventh Avenue, West Village, (212)868-4444, closing tomorrow. (Miriam Horn) TWELFTH NIGHT Just because the Aquila Theaters broad, crowd-pleasing interpretation lacks subtlety doesnt mean that its not effective, in its way. Even if the costumes are a bit too cute -- are the oversize codpieces really necessary? -- the design is crisp and nicely realized, and the performances have more verve and clarity than most summer Shakespeare productions (2:15). Baruch Performing Arts Center, 25th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues, (212)279-4200, closing on Sunday. (Zinoman) Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases, movie trailers, showtimes and tickets: nytimes.com/movies. THE ARISTOCRATS (No rating, 89 minutes) A rigorously scholarly documentary about the theory and practice of joke-telling that also happens to be one of the filthiest, vilest, most extravagantly obscene movies ever made -- and one of the funniest. (A.O. Scott) BAD NEWS BEARS (PG-13, 111 minutes) Filled with small, cute kids and large, goofy laughs and kept aloft by Billy Bob Thorntons ribald star turn, Richard Linklaters remake of this 1976 sports comedy wont rock your movie world. But the fact that the filmmaker keeps the freak flag flying in the face of our culture of triumphalism is a thing of beauty. (Manohla Dargis) BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS (No rating, 111 minutes, in Mandarin and French) Dai Sijie, adapting his novel, looks back at the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the early 1970s, relating a touching, bittersweet love story that is also a testament to the power of literature in times of political repression. (Scott) BATMAN BEGINS (PG-13, 137 minutes) Conceived in the shadow of American pop rather than in its bright light, this tense, effective iteration of Bob Kanes original comic book owes its power and pleasures to a director (Christopher Nolan) who takes his material seriously and to a star (a terrific Christian Bale) who shoulders that seriousness with ease. Batman Begins is the seventh live-action film to take on the comic-book legend and the first to usher it into the kingdom of movie myth. (Dargis) THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED (No rating, 107 minutes) This electrifying French film is the story of an enforcer and would-be concert pianist that hinges on the struggle between the two sides of the male animal, the beauty and the beast. For the adult moviegoer, the film is a well-timed gift; its also essential viewing. (Dargis) * BROKEN FLOWERS (R, 105 minutes) Sweet, funny, sad and meandering, Jim Jarmuschs new film sends Bill Murrays aging Don Juan out in search of a son he never knew he had. He finds four former lovers -- including Sharon Stone and Jessica Lange -- and reveals once again that he is the quietest and finest comic actor working in movies today. (Scott) BEWITCHED (PG-13, 90 minutes) Nicole Kidman stars as a real nose-twitching witch cast in a sitcom redo of Bewitched. The movie is agreeably watchable for an hour, so its too bad that the director, Nora Ephron, forgot that a gimmick is no substitute for a screenplay, never mind a real movie. (Dargis) CATERINA IN THE BIG CITY (No rating, 106 minutes, in Italian) In this contemporary political allegory from Italy, a disgruntled teacher and his family move from the country to Rome, where his 12-year-old daughter finds herself the object of a furious tug of war between two cliques, one left-wing and bohemian, the other right-wing and materialist. Bold, richly textured and entertaining.(Stephen Holden) CENTURY OF THE SELF (No rating, four hours, shown in two parts) The Century of the Self, a four-part series produced for BBC television that is being shown in theaters in two separate two-hour segments, explores how Sigmund Freuds seminal theory of the subconscious has been successfully deployed over the past century as an instrument of consumer manipulation and social control. The Century of the Self is an unusually cerebral filmed essay that demands focus and patience from its audience as it sets about unearthing a secret history of the 20th century. (Dana Stevens) CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (PG, 116 minutes) Flawed but fascinating. Some of the departures from the book will make Roald Dahl fans roll their eyes, but some of the visuals will make their eyes (and everyone elses) pop. (Scott) CINDERELLA MAN (PG-13, 144 minutes) The best parts of Ron Howards ingratiating Depression-era weepie about the boxing underdog-turned-topdog James J. Braddock are, unsurprisingly, Russell Crowe and Paul Giamatti, actors who could steal a movie from a basket of mewling kittens and an army of rosy-cheeked orphans. Renée Zellweger also stars. (Dargis) THE CONFORMIST (No rating, 115 minutes, in Italian) Bertoluccis 1970s look at the soul man under Fascism returns to take us back not only to the Mussolini years, but also, more dramatically, to the time of its own making, a cinematic era of stylistic daring and aesthetic bravura. (Scott) CRASH (R, 107 minutes) A gaggle of Los Angeles residents from various economic and ethnic backgrounds collides, sometimes literally, within an extremely hectic 36 hours. Well-intentioned, impressively acted, but ultimately a speechy, ponderous melodrama of liberal superstition masquerading as realism. (Scott) DARK WATER (PG-13, 104 minutes) Make that dark, stagnant water.(Dargis) THE DUKES OF HAZZARD (PG-13, 103 minutes) Yeee-haw? Naw. (Scott) FANTASTIC FOUR (PG-13, 105 minutes) Mediocre at best. (Scott) FOUR BROTHERS (R, 148 minutes) In John Singletons slick hybrid of urban western and modern blaxploitation movie, four young men, two black and two white, reunite in Detroit to avenge the shooting death of their saintly adoptive mother. Preposterous, amoral and exciting. (Holden) THE GOEBBELS EXPERIMENT (No rating, 107 minutes, in English and German) Lutz Hachmeister and Michael Klofts fascinating documentary provides a chilling glimpse inside the brilliant but toxic mind of Joseph Goebbels via his extensive diaries. Careening from soggy sentimentality to maniacal extermination fantasies, the entries reveal a supremely theatrical man whose manipulation of mass political opinion was unprecedented. (Jeannette Catsoulis) THE GREAT RAID (R, 132 minutes) This tedious World War II movie which re-enacts a real-life heroic rescue of American prisoners from a Japanese camp in the Philippines, slogs across the screen like a forced march in quicksand. (Holden) GEORGE A. ROMEROS LAND OF THE DEAD (R, 94 minutes) An excellent freakout of a movie in which the living and the zombies alternate between their roles as hunters and hunted. The twist here is that as the walking dead have grown progressively more human, the living have slowly lost touch with their humanity. You wont go home hungry.(Dargis) HAPPY ENDINGS (R, 130 minutes) An ensemble piece about a miscellany of Angelenos bumping against one another with love and in anger, Don Rooss slyly subversive new movie is a drama disguised as a wisp of a comedy, and a road map to the way we live now. With Lisa Kudrow and the sublime Maggie Gyllenhaal. (Dargis) HUSTLE & FLOW (R, 114 minutes) Terrence Howard is superb as a Memphis pimp chasing his dream of hip-hop stardom in a movie that is an awkward mix of realism, misogyny and Hollywood hokum. (Scott) JUNEBUG (R, 107 minutes) A Southern Five Easy Pieces, this deep, bittersweet comedy about a young mans return from Chicago to his familys North Carolina home envelops us in the texture of a culture the movies seldom visit. Amy Adams gives an incandescent portrayal of the mans pregnant, childlike sister-in-law. (Holden) LAST DAYS (R, 97 minutes) An impressionistic portrait, Last Days is, in many ways, less about the death of Kurt Cobain than about the resurrection of Gus Van Sant, even as it is also about the mystery of human consciousness, the ecstasy of creation, and how sorrow sometimes goes hand in hand with the sublime. (Dargis) MADAGASCAR (PG, 86 minutes) Like many computer-animated features, this one, about four celebrity-voiced animals exiled from the Central Park Zoo, expends most of its imaginative resources on clever visuals. These, in the end, are not enough to compensate for the lack of interesting narrative, real characters or jokes on subjects other than flatulence, excrement and contemporary pop culture. (Scott) MAD HOT BALLROOM (PG, 105 minutes) This documentary follows fifth graders from three very different New York City public schools as they prepare to compete in a ballroom dancing tournament. The sight of 10-year-olds trying to master the graceful, grown-up motions of the fox trot and the tango is charming, and the glimpses of their lives in and outside of school are fascinating, though unfortunately the film offers little more than glimpses. (Scott) MARCH OF THE PENGUINS (G, 80 minutes) This sentimental but riveting documentary follows the one-year mating cycle of emperor penguins in Antarctica when they leave the ocean and march inland to breed and lay eggs. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, the film has no qualms about playing on our emotions. (Holden) MR. AND MRS. SMITH (PG-13, 112 minutes) What counts in a movie like this are stars so dazzling that we wont really notice or at least mind the cut-rate writing (from Simon Kinberg) and occasionally incoherent action (from the director, Doug Liman). Sometimes Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie succeed in their mutual role as sucker bait, sometimes they dont, which is why their new joint venture is alternately a goof and a drag. (Dargis) MONSTER-IN-LAW (PG-13, 102 minutes) Jane Fonda finds a zany, good-natured verve in a dragon-lady caricature that mirrors a comedy so desperate to avoid offending that it runs in panic from every issue it brings up, but refuses to address. (Holden) MURDERBALL (R, 86 minutes) The brutal, highly competitive sport of wheelchair rugby is the subject of this exciting and uplifting (but never mawkish) documentary about the redemptive power of fierce athletic competition. (Holden) MUST LOVE DOGS (PG-13, 92 minutes) This tepid sitcom about computer dating wastes the talents of its stars (Diane Lane, John Cusack, Christopher Plummer, Stockard Channing) in stale, dated material that makes Nora Ephrons trifles look like Chekhov. (Holden) *MYSTERIOUS SKIN (Not rated, 99 minutes) Gregg Araki, onetime bad boy of the New Queer Cinema, has made a heartbreaking and surpassingly beautiful film out of Scott Heims clear-eyed novel about two Kansas boys dealing with the consequences of their sexual abuse by a Little League coach. Superb performances, especially by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. (Scott) 9 SONGS (No rating, 69 minutes) Graphically photographed scenes of an attractive young couple having real, not simulated, sex, are interwoven with concert performances of rock songs played by various bands. The couplings reveal little about who these people are. (Holden) OLDBOY (R, 118 minutes; in Korean) The latest in dubious pulp-fiction cool, Oldboy centers on a seemingly ordinary businessman, Dae-su (the terrific Choi Min-sik), who, after being mysteriously imprisoned, goes on an exhausting rampage, seeking answers and all manner of bloody revenge. (Dargis) PRETTY PERSUASION (No rating, 104 minutes) In this go-for-broke satire, Evan Rachel Wood plays a toxic 15-year-old alpha girl who joins with two sidekicks from her private Beverly Hills high school to falsely accuse their English and drama teacher of sexual harassment. Very funny and very nasty. (Holden) RIZE (PG-13, 85 minutes) A documentary about clowners and krumpers -- that is, fiercely athletic hip-hop dancers battling in (and with) the streets of Los Angeles. Kinetic and inspiring. (Scott) SAINT RALPH (PG-13, 98 minutes) This story of a 14-year-old Canadian schoolboy in the early 1950s who believes in miracles is pure treacle. (Holden) SARABAND (R, 107 minutes, in Swedish) Ingmar Bergman has called his bleak, unbendingly severe made-for-television epilogue to Scenes From a Marriage his final statement on film. As you watch his swan song, which stars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson as the embattled ex-spouses, you feel the crushing weight of time pressing in around them. (Holden) *SECUESTRO EXPRESS (R, 86 minutes, in Spanish) Secuestro Express is a relentless assault on the senses about a trio of hoodlums who kidnap an attractive young couple, Carla (Mia Maestro) and Martin (Jean Paul Leroux), who then must face a hellish endurance test while awaiting the ransom moneys arrival. This perfectly cast film is more than just a dizzying thrill ride laced with small doses of pitch-black comic relief; it also raises awareness of frightening real-life class wars and deep-rooted corruption in Caracas, Venezuela. (Laura Kern) SKY HIGH (PG, 102 minutes) This witty Disney adventure comedy imagines a high school for superheroes, hidden above the clouds, where the students are divided into Heroes and Sidekicks. The movie poses the age-old question, Is there life after high school?, and with a cheerful wink answers, No, not really. (Holden) STAR WARS: EPISODE III -- REVENGE OF THE SITH (PG-13, 142 minutes) George Lucas saved the best -- or at least one of the best -- for the end. Or for the middle. In any case, the saga is now complete and has regained much of its original glory. (Scott) STEALTH (PG-13, 117 minutes) A preposterous hash of Top Gun and Behind Enemy Lines, topped with a soupçon of 2001, this crypto-video game about three stealth pilots has the makings of a kitsch classic; too bad its not remotely funny. (Dargis) TONY TAKITANI (No rating, 75 minutes, in Japanese) A delicate wisp of a film with a surprisingly sharp sting, this film is about a lonely man who at 37 awakens to life for the first time during a brief idyll. Directed by Jun Ichikawa, from a short story by Haruki Murakami. (Dargis) 2046 (R, 129 minutes) An ecstatically beautiful story in which time is marked not by the hands of a clock, but by the women who pass through one mans life, 2046 is the eighth feature film from the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai and the long-awaited follow-up to his art-house favorite In the Mood for Love. A film about longing, loss and the delicate curve of a womans back, it is also an unqualified triumph. (Dargis) WAR OF THE WORLDS (PG-13, 117 minutes) The aliens invade (again). Effectively scary and visually impressive. (Scott) WEDDING CRASHERS (R, 113 minutes) A wink-wink, nudge-nudge Trojan horse of a story, this amiably raunchy sex comedy pivots on two Lotharios persuasively inhabited by Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, who love the ladies, but really and truly, cross their cheating hearts, just want a nice girl to call wife. Credited to the screenwriters Steve Faber and Bob Fisher. (Dargis) Film Series BORN IN BROOKLYN: ROSIE PEREZ (Wednesday and Thursday) BAMcinématek is sponsoring a two-day salute to Ms. Perez in her home borough. Wednesdays screening of Spike Lees Do the Right Thing (1989), in which she made her film debut, will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Ms. Perez. Thursdays feature is The 24-Hour Woman (1999), in which she stars as a pregnant television producer. BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, (718) 777-FILM or (718)636-4100, $10. (Anita Gates) CENTRAL PARK FILM FESTIVAL (Through Aug. 27) The annual festival of movies that feature the park begins its five-night run on Tuesday with Cameron Crowes Almost Famous (2000), about a 15-year-old journalist on tour with a rock band. The film ends with Kate Hudson and Patrick Fugit taking a stroll in the park. Wednesday nights feature is John Schlesingers Marathon Man (1976), in which Dustin Hoffman uses the Reservoir running track. Thursday nights is Vincente Minnellis Band Wagon (1953), with Fred Astaire as a fading movie star giving Broadway (with Central Park sets) a try. Rumsey Playfield, 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue, (212)310-6600, free. (Gates) DIVAS! (Through Aug. 30) This summer festival, presented by Thalia Film Classics, honors great women in classic movies, this week with two beautiful blondes and transportation settings. Marilyn Monroe plays a wide-eyed cafe singer yearning for love in Bus Stop (1956). Carole Lombard stars in Twentieth Century (1934) as a glamorous Hollywood actress on a long train trip with her former mentor. Both films play tomorrow and on Tuesday. Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space, Broadway and 95th Street, (212)864-5400, $10. (Gates) DESERT ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL (Through Saturday) Makors festival of movies that its audiences voted most desirable to have around if they were trapped on a desert island ends tomorrow with Quentin Tarantinos brutal and brilliant Pulp Fiction (1994). Makor, 35 West 67th Street, (212)601-1000, $9. (Gates) EVERYBODY WAS KUNG-FU FIGHTING: THE SHAW BROTHERS (Through Sunday) BAMcinémateks retrospective of films from the Shaw Brothers studio in Hong Kong concludes this weekend. Tonight Jimmy Wang Yu plays the title character in Chang Chehs One-Armed Swordsman (Dubei Dao) (1967), about a master fighter with an unorthodox technique. Tomorrows feature is Liu Chia-Liangs 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Shao Lin san shi liu fang) (1978), starring Gordon Liu as an ethics scholar who sets out to avenge the murders of his family and friends. The final film, on Sunday, is Chang Chehs Blood Brothers (Chi Ma) (1973), about power and romantic jealousy among three bandits. All the films are restored prints. BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, (718)777-FILM or (718)636-4100, $10. (Gates) THE $5 FILM FESTIVAL: BIG-SCREEN ASIAN MADNESS! (Through Thursday). The ImaginAsian Theater celebrates its first anniversary with a series of 11 film classics. This weekends screenings include the original, uncut 1954 Japanese version of Godzilla (tomorrow); the 1997 anime fantasy Princess Mononoke (tomorrow); the original 1996 Shall We Dance (today); Zhang Yimous first martial-arts film Hero, released in 2002 (Sunday); and John Woos 1989 action classic The Killer, starring Chow Yun-Fat (tomorrow and Sunday). ImaginAsian Theater, 239 East 59th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, (212)371-6682, $5. (Gates) SUMMER SAMURAI (through Sept. 15). Film Forum opens its four-week celebration of the Japanese warrior-action genre with Masaki Kobayashis Samurai Rebellion (1967), starring Toshiro Mifune, today through Thursday. Future films in the festival include Akira Kurosawas Seven Samurai (1954), Yojimbo (1961) and Throne of Blood (1957); Kobayashis Harakiri (1962); and Kihachi Okamotos Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970). At 209 West Houston Street, South Village; (212)727-8110; $10, $5 for members and 12 and under. (Gates) JAZZ MUSIC AND FILM FESTIVAL (Through Aug. 27) Makor sponsors a series of five films chosen by jazz musicians who perform live after the screenings of their favorites. The program begins on Monday with Rhythm Republik and Spike Lees Mo Better Blues (1990), followed on Tuesday by Eric Lewis and Straight No Chaser (1989), about Thelonious Monk; on Wednesday, the Dan Stein Group and Anatomy of a Murder (1959), which won a Grammy Award for Duke Ellingtons score; on Thursday, Jason Miles and Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue (2004), about Miles Davis; and, on Saturday, Andrew Sterman and Russian Ark (2002), a tour of the Hermitage in Russia, with a score that includes works by Tchaikovsky, Telemann and Henry Purcell. Makor Cafe, 35 West 67th Street, (212)601-1000, $20 (film only, $9). (Gates) Pop Full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. AKRON/FAMILY, DAVID GRUBBS, WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE (Tomorrow) The East River Music Projects final summer show features Akron/Family, a quartet that explores the crannies and latent explosiveness of Americana. The experimental guitarist David Grubbs is in a jazz-folk mood as of late. Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice warp various genres. 2 p.m., East River Amphitheater, East River Park, Lower East Side, free. (Laura Sinagra) ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND (Tuesday) The archetypal Southern rock band is still on the road. Gregg Allman, the bands keyboardist and main singer, is more than ever the bands center, since its co-founder Dickey Betts is estranged from the band. His replacement, Warren Haynes, shares the twin-guitar passages with Derek Trucks, the drummer Butch Truckss nephew and a jam-band leader in his own right. 6:30 p.m., PNC Bank Arts Center, Exit 116 Garden State Parkway, Holmdel, N.J., (732)335-0400, $20 to $65. (Sinagra) TORI AMOS (Tonight) This piano-grinding sensualist spent the 1990s rendering stormy emotional experience via alt-rock drama. Her songs were pounded out on a well-worn Bösendorfer piano and sung in a shamanic, childlike voice. Lately, shes been seeking strong female archetypes in biblical lore and reflecting on the nuances of married sexuality. 7:30 p.m., PNC Bank Arts Center, Exit 116 Garden State Parkway, Holmdel, N.J., (732)335-0400, $20 to $50. (Sinagra) AMSTERJAM: RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, SNOOP DOGG, 311, GARBAGE, FAT JOE, WYCLEF JEAN (Tomorrow) This random collection of faded alt-rockers and tenaciously popular rap acts includes the resurging Snoop Dogg, who does his stoner-for-all-seasons rap thing, and Fat Joe (aka Joey Crack), whose rump-shaking hit Get it Poppin is tasty New York radio candy. The funk-punk Chili Peppers, the enduring vixen Shirley Mansons Garbage, and slick ska-metal 311 forge on with alt-rock willfulness. The outspoken Caribbean folk-rapper Wyclef Jean will probably opine on Haitis ongoing crises. 11 a.m., Randalls Island Golf Center, 1 Randalls Island, (212)427-5689, $45. (Sinagra) APSCI (Monday) This Brooklyn-based husband-and-wife duo, whose band name is short for applied science, serves up beats that slide from synth-electro to glitch electronica. Raphael LaMotta raps with blasé indie savvy while Dana Diaz-Tutaan adds jazzy filigree. 8 p.m., Pianos, 158 Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, (212)420-1466, $7. (Sinagra) JOAN ARMATRADING (Thursday) With her deep, longing voice and songs about love and affection, Joan Armatrading was a beacon for songwriters in the 1970s and 1980s. Raul Midón opens. 8 p.m., Apollo Theater, 253 West 125th Street, Harlem, (212) 749-5838, $39 to $49. (Jon Pareles) DICKEY BETTS & GREAT SOUTHERN (Tonight) Kicked out of a band that he founded, the Allman Brothers, the guitarist Dickey Betts wasted no time in going back on tour with his own group. His chiming, symmetrical guitar solos and the weary but amiable voice from songs like Blue Skies are intact, and he may even have something to prove. 8 and 10 p.m., B.B. King Blues Club and Grill, 237 West 42nd Street, (212)997-4144, $35. (Pareles) ERIC BURDON AND THE ANIMALS (Sunday) Eric Burdon translated American soul into British Invasion rock as the belter who led the Animals; then he came to the source, joining forces with an up-and-coming American band, War. 8 p.m., B.B. King Blues Club and Grill, 237 West 42nd Street, (212)997-4144, $27, $30 at the door. (Pareles) EDMAR CASTANEDA (Tonight) The Colombian harp was not often heard in a jazz context until the teenage prodigy Edmar Castaneda began nudging its limits in the mid-90s. 8 p.m., Satalla, 37 West 26th Street, Chelsea, (212)576-1155, $15. (Sinagra) RODNEY CROWELL (Tuesday) He has written songs for Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, the Oak Ridge Boys, Bob Seger, Tim McGraw, Lee Ann Womack and his ex-wife, Rosanne Cash. His own recent work tends toward raw, straightforward rockabilly. 8 p.m., B.B. King Blues Club and Grill, 237 West 42nd Street, (212)997-4144, $20. (Sinagra) NEIL DIAMOND (Tonight and tomorrow) After four decades, during which his folk-rock evolved into high-gloss Vegas pop, this singer-songwriter has recently been working with the rock-and-rap producer Rick Rubin, who famously helped Johnny Cash garner an alt-rock audience in the 90s. Spare new songs reportedly rely on acoustic guitar and aim for a lonesome vibe. 8 p.m., Madison Square Garden, 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue, (212) 465-6741, $70 to $100. (Sinagra) THE DOUBLE (Wednesday) Like the Fiery Furnaces, this Brooklyn band ornaments its songs with kaleidoscopic experimentation. Former math-rockers, theyve seemingly gone through a Brian Wilson phase, and now use all the tools at their lo-fi disposal in service of arty pop undercut with burbles, dark surges and twinges. 7 p.m., South Street Seaport, Pier 17, Lower Manhattan, free. (Sinagra) 50 CENT, LUDACRIS, LIL JON, MIKE JONES, CIARA (Tonight and tomorrow) Soon to have his life story captured on film, the multi-platinum rapper 50 Cent is joined here by the Southern rappers Ludacris and Lil Jon. Mike Jones gives cough-syrup haze an enticing menace, while Ciara rides molasses beats smoothly enough. Tonight at 7, Jones Beach Theater, 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh, N.Y., (516)221-1000, $30 to $61. Tomorrow at 7 p.m., PNC Bank Arts Center, Exit 116 Garden State Parkway, Holmdel, N.J., (732)335-0400, $30 to $61. (Sinagra) JULIANA HATFIELD (Tonight) Ms. Hatfields voice, that of a weary but urgent ingénue, added charm to the music of the Blake Babies in the 80s and her own solo projects in the 90s. This singer-songwriters mainstream profile dimmed, but she continues to release albums with a low-key, confessional spark. 8 p.m., Warsaw, 261 Driggs Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, (718)387-0505, $16 in advance, $18. (Sinagra) HOCKEY NIGHT (Tonight and tomorrow) This hard-riffing band from St. Paul plays jaunty noise pop with a fierce beat, courtesy of its two drummers. The singer Paul Sprangers has a dry delivery reminiscent of Pavements Stephen Malkmus. Tonight at 7, South Street Seaport, Pier 17, at Fulton Street, Lower Manhattan, free. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, at Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, (212)260-4700, $10. (Sinagra) CHRIS ISAAK (Tomorrow) Chris Isaak is a disciple of Roy Orbison, writing dolorous ballads that find their only consolation in his honeyed voice and finely turned guitar lines. On stage, hes a droll storyteller. 8 p.m., North Fork Theater at Westbury Music Fair, 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury, N.Y., (516)334-0800, $47. (Pareles) ISLAJA, LAU NAU, KUUPUU, PEKKO KÃPPI (Thursday) Representing a panoply of sounds from the band-hopping musicians who make up the Finnish psychedelic-folk scene, this bill promises ethereal spookiness from the icy Islaja, accomplished jouhikko fiddle from Pekko Käppi, a weave of vocal textures and acoustic drone from Kuupuu and more vocal experimentation from Lau Nau. 8 p.m., Tommys Tavern, 1041 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, (718)383-9699, $5. (Sinagra) I-WAYNE (Tuesday) Last year, the 25-year-old Jamaican singer Clifford Taylors jumpy Cant Satisfy Her, a smooth though insulting lament about a woman who wont retire from hooking, was one of the few roots-reggae songs spinning on Hot 97. In a high voice reminiscent of 60s pop crooners, Mr. Taylor (known as I-Wayne) avoids revolution slogans, calling instead for a kind of pastoral movement. 8 p.m., S.O.B.s, 204 Varick Street, South Village, (212)243-4940, $15. (Sinagra) SLEEPY LABEEF (Sunday) Sleepy LaBeef is an unregenerate rockabilly singer and guitarist from Arkansas. He reels off one twangy tune after another, known and obscure, like a rockabilly jukebox come to life. 10 p.m., Rodeo Bar, 375 Third Avenue, at 27th Street, (212)683-6500, free. (Pareles) LEZ ZEPPELIN (Tomorrow) Strapping on the double-necked Gibson with attitude to burn, this all-girl quartet pays tribute to its swaggering namesake Led Zeppelin, ripping through the catalog with blazing accuracy. Of course, they also have their gender-bending way with macho metaphors about squeezed lemons and dripping honey. 8 p.m., B.B. King Blues Club and Grill, 237 West 42nd Street, (212)997-4144, $17 in advance, $20. (Sinagra) LIVING COLOUR (Tonight) The virtuoso guitarist and Black Rock Coalition co-founder Vernon Reids most famous bands intelligent and at times groovy heavy metal took the group well beyond the small bar scene in the late-80s. They return to play snug CBGBs in this legendary dives hour of need. 8 p.m., CBGB, 315 Bowery, East Village, (212)982-4052, $35. (Sinagra) MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. (Tonight) The songwriter Jason Molina is a pessimist, and the music on his latest album of melancholy but gritty Chicago country-rock, What Comes After the Blues (Secretly Canadian), resembles that of a defeatist Neil Young. 11:30 p.m., Knitting Factory Main Space, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212)219-3006, $10 in advance, $12.(Sinagra) JESSE MALIN (Thursday) Jesse Malin led D Generation, the glam-rock kings of St. Marks Place, and has gone on to a solo career thats considerably more earnest. 7:30 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, Lower East Side, (212)533-2111, $15. (Pareles) MEGADETH, DREAM THEATER (Tuesday) The Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine appeared recently in Metallicas Some Kind of Monster documentary, confessing lingering pain at his 1983 ejection from that band. His own precision thrash outfit was successful through the 90s despite grunge competition. An injury has silenced his speedy licks, but bandmates fill in on this tour with the metal technicians Dream Theater. 5 p.m., Jones Beach Theater, 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh, N.Y., (516)221-1000, $20 to $45. (Sinagra) PALOMAR (Thursday) This local indie-pop quartet plays winsome songs that harken back to the 90s heyday of female-fronted guitar bands whose modest ambitions made them all the more likeable. With the Mosquitos. 8:30 p.m., Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, Lower East Side, (212)260-4700, $12. (Sinagra) AMY RIGBY (Tuesday) This singer-songwriter sings about romance and decline with biting wit. She gave Nashville a try, but shes back home in New York, where her brand of real-life feistiness has always found a better fit. 9 p.m., Lakeside Lounge, 162 Avenue B, Lower East Side, (212)529-8463, free. (Sinagra) THE RUB (Tomorrow) Continuing its hip mix of favela funk, reggaeton, dancehall, alt-rock, hip-hop, classic rock and pretty much anything else these sound-crazed smart-aleck D.J.s can think of, this Brooklyn party celebrates its third anniversary. The point is to get the crowd chuckling and dancing at once. And it works. 11 p.m., Southpaw, 125 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718)230-0236, $8. (Sinagra) CHARLIE SEXTON (Tonight and Monday) This guitar prodigy made his first record at the age of 16, when he was hailed as a sort of new-wave roots rocker. Since then hes played with Bob Dylan and produced for Lucinda Williams, and this year prepares to tour with John Mayer. His own songs increasingly tend toward personal alt-country. Tonight at 7:30, Housing Works Used Book Cafe, 126 Crosby Street, SoHo, (212)334-3324, $25. Monday at 7 p.m., Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, Lower East Side, (212)260-4700, $15. (Sinagra) SYSTEM OF A DOWN (Tuesday) Combining crushing heaviness with extreme-sports dexterity allows this Armenian-American band to smuggle blatant antiwar messages past some of its more mainstream fans. 7 p.m., Continental Airlines Arena, the Meadowlands, Route 120, East Rutherford, N.J., (201)935-3900, $33 to $45. (Sinagra) THE VANDALS (Tomorrow) Founded in 1980, this jokey punk-pop band, from Orange County, California, contributed to the bratty sound of younger bands like the Offspring and Blink-182. Tomorrow they play a benefit for CBGB. 8 p.m., CBGB, 315 Bowery, at Bleecker Street, East Village, (212)982-4052, $25. (Sinagra) Jazz Full reviews of recent jazz concerts: nytimes.com/music. RAY BARRETTO AND NEW WORLD SEXTET (Tuesday through Aug. 28) Mr. Barretto, a conga player with a peerless résumé, has led this Latin-jazz ensemble since 1992; its current incarnation includes a frontline of Joe Magnarelli on trumpet and Myron Walden on alto and soprano saxophones. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., with an 11:30 set Fridays and Saturdays, Dizzys Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, 60th Street and Broadway, Jazz at Lincoln Center, (212)258-9595; cover: $30, with a minimum of $10 at tables, $5 at the bar. (Nate Chinen) BEATLEJAZZ (Through Sunday) The pianist Dave Kikoski and the drummer Brian Melvin lead this project, which lacquers the music of Lennon and McCartney with a modern-jazz gloss. 8 and 10, with an 11:30 p.m. set tonight and tomorrow, Iridium, 1650 Broadway at 51st Street, (212)582-2121; cover, $27.50, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) SATHIMA BEA BENJAMIN (Thursday) A supremely underrated jazz vocalist, Ms. Benjamin shines on standards without forsaking her South African heritage; joining her here are the pianist Onaje Allan Gumbs, the bassist Kenny Davis and the drummer Victor Lewis. 8 and 10 p.m., Sweet Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue South, at Bleecker Street, West Village, (212)255-3626; cover, $15, with a $10 drink minimum. (Chinen) GENE BERTONCINI (Thursday) Quiet Now (Ambient), Mr. Bertoncinis new solo acoustic guitar album, faithfully heeds its title with playing thats commanding, introspective and tastefully virtuosic. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212)576-2232; cover, $20. (Chinen) MAURICE BROWN QUINTET (Tuesday and Wednesday) A Midwestern-bred, New Orleans-based trumpeter only now in his mid-20s, Mr. Brown plays an extroverted strain of modern jazz that borrows from soul as well as bop. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212)576-2232; cover, $20. (Chinen) LARRY CARLTON BAND (Tuesday through next Sunday) With Sapphire Blue (RCA), Mr. Carlton directs his gaze toward the blues; as on the album, this engagement frames his limber electric guitar playing with spotless horn arrangements. 8 and 10:30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village, (212)475-8592; cover, $37.50 at tables, $20 at the bar, with a $5 minimum. (Chinen) JIMMY COBBS MOB (Tonight and tomorrow) Mr. Cobb, the hard-bop drummer, has been a mentor to many young musicians via this crackling horn-studded band. 9 and 11 p.m., and 12:30 a.m., Smoke, 2751 Broadway, at 106th Street, Manhattan, (212)864-6662; cover, $25. (Chinen) ANDREW DANGELO TRIO (Monday) Strenuous, polymorphous improvisation is the mandate of this trio, with Mr. DAngelo, the alto saxophonist and bass clarinetist; Trevor Dunn, a fierce and focused bassist; and Jim Black, a feverishly inventive drummer. 10 p.m., Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side, (212)358-7501; cover, $10. (Chinen) ELI DEGIBRI QUARTET (Tomorrow) Mr. Degibri, a gifted young saxophonist with a taste for burnished sonorities, features his own music in this band with the guitarist Ben Monder, the bassist Omer Avital and the drummer Johnathan Blake. 9 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, South Village, (212)242-1063; cover, $15. (Chinen) DOLPHY PROJECT (Through Aug. 28) The deft, angular music of Eric Dolphy serves as inspiration for an ensemble of top-flight talent: the pianist Eric Reed, the alto saxophonist Wes Anderson, the trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, the bassist Buster Williams and the drummer Billy Hart. 8 and 10 p.m., Iridium, 1650 Broadway, at 51st Street, (212)582-2121; cover, $30, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) FESTIVAL OF NEW TRUMPET MUSIC (Through Aug. 27) The final leg of this adventurous series features up-and-coming bands in a black-box theater in Chelsea, and then a handful of concerts in Midtown; highlights include the festival co-founder Dave Douglas with his Nomad band (on Tuesday), and Jeremy Pelt playing the music of Max Siegel (on Wednesday). Through Sunday: 8, 9 and 10 p.m. at Spark, 161 West 22nd Street, Chelsea. Monday through Aug. 27: 8 p.m., Yamaha Artist Services Center, 689 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, $10, www.fontmusic.org. (Chinen) SLIDE HAMPTON SEXTET (Through Sunday) This breezily proficient trombonist and brilliantly resourceful arranger applies both skill sets to this project, a celebration of the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim. 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, West Village, (212)255-4037; cover, $20, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) LINDSEY HORNER GROUP (Thursday) Mr. Horner, a bassist associated with jazzs leftward-leaning spectrum, presents music from a forthcoming album, accompanied by the saxophonist Erwin Vann, the guitarist Pete McCann, the drummer Lieven Venken and the singer Susan McKeown. 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212)989-9319; cover, $10, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen) SHERMAN IRBY QUARTET (Tomorrow) On his new album, Faith (Black Warrior), this alto saxophonist plays a searching variety of hard-bop; as on the record, hes joined here by his longtime cohorts Larry Willis on piano, Gerald Cannon on bass and Willie Jones III on drums. 8 and 10 p.m., Sweet Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue South, at Bleecker Street, West Village, (212)255-3626; cover, $20, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) JOHN LINDBERG AND SUSIE IBARRA (Wednesday) Mr. Lindberg, a bassist, and Ms. Ibarra, a drummer, share a fondness for wayward timbres and dynamic caprice; their duo project incorporates scripted forms and open improvisation. 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212)989-9319; cover, $12, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen) JESSICA LURIE TRIO (Monday) Ms. Lurie, a sharp multireedist and composer, digs into a trio setting with the bassist Todd Sickafoose and the drummer Allison Miller. 7 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718)965-9177; suggested donation, $8. (Chinen) KATE McGARRY (Tomorrow) Ms. McGarry is a quiet but potent singer who recasts jazz and folk alike with a quavering sincerity; her band here features the guitarists Steve Cardenas and Keith Ganz, and the bassist Sean Smith. 6 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village, (212)929-9883; no cover. (Chinen) ERIC McPHERSON AND NASHEET WAITS (Tomorrow) Two of jazzs most engagingly expressive younger drummers, united by a common gift for slippery propulsion, join the saxophonist Abraham Burton in an experimental exchange. 8 and 10 p.m., the Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, East Village, www.thestonenyc.com; cover, $10. (Chinen) MULGREW MILLER (Through Sunday) In celebration of his 50th birthday, the pianist Mulgrew Miller has been performing this week in various settings; tonight and tomorrow he augments his trio with the saxophonist Joe Lovano and the vibraphonist Steve Nelson, and on Sunday he leads Wingspan, an airy yet propulsive sextet. 7:30 and 9:30, with an 11:30 p.m. set tonight and tomorrow, Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212)576-2232; cover, $30, tonight and tomorrow, $25, Sunday. (Chinen) GREG OSBY QUARTET (Tuesday through next Sunday) Mr. Osby is an alto saxophonist with a predilection for jagged edges, and yet hes squarely within the jazz tradition; his rhythm section consists of the pianist James Gordon Williams, the bassist Matt Brewer and the drummer Tommy Crane. 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, West Village, (212)255-4037; cover, $20, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) CHRIS POTTERS UNDERGROUND (Tonight) The saxophonist Chris Potter has an improvisational approach thats intellectual and athletic in equal measure; here he dives headlong into edgy fusion, along with Wayne Krantz on guitar, Craig Taborn on Fender Rhodes and Nate Smith on drums. 10 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village, (212)929-9883; cover, $10. (Chinen) KURT ROSENWINKEL GROUP (Tonight and tomorrow) Mr. Rosenwinkels electric guitar has a beguilingly airy tone that offsets the cerebral twinge of his compositions; his rapport with the tenor saxophonist Mark Turner borders on the telepathic. These two are backed by a crack rhythm section: Aaron Goldberg on piano, Joe Martin on bass and Ari Hoenig on drums. 9 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, (212)581-3080; cover, $30, with a $10 minimum (students half-price). (Chinen) JENNY SCHEINMAN TRIO (Sunday and Tuesday) Ms. Scheinman is that rare jazz violinist who embraces her instruments folksier side without making concessions to genre; she performs on Sunday with the bassist Todd Sickafoose and the drummer Mark Ferber, and then on Tuesday in an improvising string trio with the violinist Carla Kihlstedt and the cellist Marika Hughes. Sunday at 9:30 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village, (212)929-9883; cover, $8. Tuesday at 8 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718)965-9177; suggested donation, $8. (Chinen) TIERNEY SUTTON (Wednesday through next Saturday) Ms. Suttons clear, sweetly sonorous voice isnt inherently a jazz timbre, but she is irrefutably a jazz singer; her fine new album, Im With the Band (Telarc), was recorded at Birdland this spring, which makes this a return engagement. 9 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, (212)581-3080; cover, $40, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen) HENRY THREADGILLS 3+3 (Sunday) Mr. Threadgill, the multi-reedist and composer, has been a restless avatar of creative music since the 1970s; here he offers the premiere of a work characteristically obsessed with texture and scored for reeds, three cellos, tuba and drums. 8 p.m., Museum of Modern Art, 14 West 54th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, (212)708-9491. Admission is free, but tickets are required, and will be distributed at 5:30 p.m. on a first-come, first-served basis. (Chinen) JAMES (BLOOD) ULMER (Monday) As on the recent album Birthright (Hyena), Mr. Ulmer delivers a startlingly personal take on the blues, armed only with his warbling baritone and his apocalyptically groovy electric guitar. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212)576-2232; cover, $20. (Chinen) CEDAR WALTON QUINTET (Through Sunday) As a pianist and composer, Mr. Walton heeds an articulate, almost courtly variety of hard-bop; hes at his best when his forms spark solos from collaborators like the saxophonist Vincent Herring. 7:30 and 9:30, with an 11 p.m. set Fridays and Saturdays, Dizzys Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, 60th Street and Broadway, Jazz at Lincoln Center, (212)258-9595; cover: $30, with a minimum of $10 at tables, $5 at the bar.(Chinen) Classical Full reviews of recent music performances: nytimes.com/music. Opera AFTERNOON ARIAS (Today) A new summer series of free concerts features opera arias, with piano, performed by singers from the New York City Opera in the somewhat bucolic if not acoustically ideal surroundings of Bryant Park. Todays program consists of excerpts from La Bohème and Don Giovanni, with house singers including Inna Dukach, Georgia Jarman and Michael Corvino. 12:30 p.m., Bryant Park, Avenue of the Americas at 42nd Street, (212)870-7787. (Anne Midgette) GLIMMERGLASS (Tonight through Tuesday) Is it a leading opera company or an experimental theater, a proving ground for young artists or a showcase for stars? Glimmerglass aspires to be all these things with a summer season -- now in its final week -- that ranges from an austere production of Benjamin Brittens valedictory Death in Venice to Lucie de Lammermoor, a French-language version of Donizettis classic that verges, inadvertently, on comic relief. But through ups and downs theres a lot to like: take the American tenor William Burden, incandescent in the Britten as the writer Gustav von Aschenbach. Also on the summer program are Mozarts Così Fan Tutte and an unusual double bill consisting of Portrait de Manon, Jules Massenets one-act sequel to his most famous opera, paired with Poulencs one-acter La Voix Humaine, which depicts a woman on the phone. Tonight at 8, Sunday at 2 p.m. (Venice); tomorrow at 1:30 p.m., Monday at 2 p.m. (Così); tomorrow night at 8 (Portrait/Voix); Tuesday at 2 p.m. (Lucie), Alice Busch Opera Theater, Route 80, eight miles north of Cooperstown, N.Y., (607)547-2255, some tickets available tonight and tomorrow night for $31.50 to $55, otherwise sold out. (Midgette) Classical Music BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL (Today through Sunday) This festival chooses a single composer each year and places that artist in a rich cultural context through concerts, lectures and panel discussions. This summers theme is Copland and His World, and the second weekend of programming begins today (at 10 a.m.) with a series of documentaries as well as a symposium titled Mid-20th-Century American Culture and Politics. Tonights concert (at 8) is called South of the Border, and features music by Copland, Nancarrow, Revueltas, Ginastera and others. Programming continues through late Sunday afternoon, when Leon Botstein will lead the American Symphony Orchestra (at 5 p.m.) in The Triumph of the American Symphonic Tradition, with more Copland as well as music by Roger Sessions, Walter Piston, Roy Harris and others. Details at www.bard.edu/bmf. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., (845)758-7900; $25 to $55, with discounts for students and 65+. (Jeremy Eichler) BARGEMUSIC (Tonight through Thursday) There are few cozier places to hear chamber music in New York than this floating concert hall (a former coffee barge) on the Brooklyn side of the East River. The range of music is typically broad: tonight, an ensemble that includes Rupert Boyd, a guitarist; Hector Del Curto, a bandoneon player; and Katya Mihailova, a pianist, play an eclectic program of works by Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Piazzolla. Tomorrow and Sunday, Alexander Fiterstein, a clarinetist, will take the spotlight for the Mozart and Weber clarinet quintets, and on Thursday, the pianist Jeffrey Swann performs and discusses works and transcriptions by Liszt. Tonight, tomorrow and Thursday at 7:30; Sunday at 4 p.m., Fulton Ferry Landing next to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, (718)624-2083, $35; $30 for 65+ tonight and Thursday; $40 tomorrow and Sunday. (Allan Kozinn) BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL (Tonight and tomorrow) The festivals 22nd season comes to a close this weekend with two blockbuster works that dont often share the same program: Schuberts Cello Quintet and Mendelssohns Octet. With veteran performers drawn from ensembles like the Tokyo and Orion Quartets as well as the Eroica Trio, one can hope for some major summer fireworks. Tonight at 7:30, St. Andrews Dune Church, Southampton, N.Y.; tomorrow at 6:30 p.m., Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, Bridgehampton, N.Y., (631)537-6368, $35; $30 for 65+. (Eichler) MAVERICK CONCERTS (Tomorrow and Sunday) This concert series near Woodstock, N.Y., in its 90th season, offers its performances in an open-backed barn that allows the sounds of nature to mingle with the music. Tomorrow afternoon the pianist Steven Lubin plays a program of Romantic music -- Sonatas by Beethoven (the Moonlight), Schumann and Schubert, along with Chopins B flat minor Scherzo. On Sunday, the Borromeo String Quartet plays works by Grieg, Fauré and Brahms, with the pianist Pedja Muzijevic. Tomorrow night at 6, Sunday at 3 p.m., Maverick Concert Hall, Maverick Road, between Routes 28 and 375, West Hurley, N.Y., (845)679-8217, $20, $5 for students. (Kozinn) MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL (Tonight through Thursday) Since becoming music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in 2003, the dynamic Finnish conductor Osmo Vanska has been a remarkable success. Minnesotans seem to love him. Mr. Vanska comes to New York this weekend to conduct two performances with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. The fine pianist Stephen Hough will be the soloist in Mozarts Piano Concerto No. 23 in A. But its Schuberts daunting Symphony No. 9 in C (Great) that should really be a showcase for Mr. Vanskas talents. On Tuesday and Wednesday nights Thomas Dausgaard takes over the podium for a program that includes Beethovens Pastorale Symphony and Mozarts Violin Concerto No. 4 in D. The soloist in the concerto, the brilliant violinist Gil Shaham, will also appear with his sister, the pianist Orli Shaham, in an hourlong all-Mozart program at the intimate Kaplan Penthouse after Wednesdays orchestra concert. This late-night series, A Little Night Music, has proved popular. And why not? You sit at round tables with a free glass of wine and enjoy the music while taking in city views. Thursday night brings the United States debut of the Russian Patriarchate Choir, an all-male ensemble specializing in Russian liturgical chant and 19th-century repertory. Russian sacred music at the Mostly Mozart Festival? How this fits into the festivals theme of traveling with Mozart is unclear. Mozart in Russia doesnt do. Still, the featured composer on the program, Dmitry Stepanovich Bortnyansky, born five years before Mozart, presented works like Mozarts Requiem at the Russian imperial court and his music has Mozartean qualities. O.K., its a stretch. But the concert should be fascinating. Tonight, tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday at 8 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall (festival orchestra); Wednesday at 10:30 p.m., Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, 10th floor (A Little Night Music); Thursday at 8 p.m., Alice Tully Hall (Russian Patriarchate Choir), (212)721-6500, $32 to $52; $30 for A Little Night Music. (Anthony Tommasini) MUSIC MOUNTAIN (Tomorrow and Sunday) Offering a smattering of choral music and jazz, but focusing on string quartets, this venerable festival presents the Arianna Quartet this weekend in a program of Mozart, Beethoven and the Dvorak Piano Quintet, for which theyre joined by the pianist Anton Nel. Also on offer this weekend is a jazz ensemble called Big Easy Rhythm, specializing in early jazz. Tomorrow night at 8, Sunday afternoon at 3, Gordon Hall at Music Mountain, Falls Village, Conn., (860)824-7126, $25; $12 for students under 24. (Midgette) NORFOLK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL (Tomorrow) Each summer the Yale Summer School of Music retreats north to this lovely spot, and the public reaps much of the benefit at concerts in the rustic Music Shed. But tomorrow the season ends, with a departure from the usual classical fare: a program by the fiddler Mark OConnors Appalachia Waltz Trio. 8 p.m., Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Routes 44 and 272, Norfolk, Conn., (860)542-3000, $15 to $45; ages 18 to 25, $10; under 18, free with a paying adult. (James R. Oestreich) SERIAL UNDERGROUND (Tonight through Sunday) The Composers Collaborative concludes its six-day festival of new music and theater. Tonight features music by Gerald Busby and Bob Windbiel. Tomorrow, Ed Schmidt and Jed Distler present The Gold Standard, described as a theater work about one helluva disgruntled piano player. Sundays closing program includes a performance of Terry Rileys early Minimalist landmark, In C. 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212)663-1967, $20. (Eichler) SKANEATELES FESTIVAL (Tonight, tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday) Since most other festivals are beginning to fold their tents, it may be time to dig out the map and do some exploring. Tucked away in Skaneateles, N.Y., near Syracuse, this event plays host to the Turtle Island String Quartet tonight and, in combination with the Ying Quartet, tomorrow. Next week there are free master classes on Wednesday and another chamber concert on Thursday. Tonight, tomorrow and Thursday at 8; tomorrow at Brook Farm, south on Route 41A; other events, First Presbyterian Church, 97 East Genesee Street, (315)685-7418; tonight and Thursday, $16 and $21, $13 for students and 65+; tomorrow, $18 and $24. (Oestreich) TANGLEWOOD (Tonight through Sunday) The conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and the Boston Symphony Orchestra kick off the weekend tonight with a Russian program that includes Rachmaninoffs Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, with Garrick Ohlsson as the piano soloist, and Rimsky-Korsakovs Scheherazade. And on Sunday afternoon, Peter Oundjian leads the Orchestra of St. Lukes in Mozarts Piano Concerto No. 24, with Peter Serkin playing the solo line, and the Beethoven Eroica Symphony. But certainly a major draw this weekend will be the Saturday evening Boston Symphony concert, led by Marin Alsop, the new music director designate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Yo-Yo Ma will join Ms. Alsop for the Barber Cello Concerto at the heart of a program that begins with Christopher Rouses Rapture and ends with the Tchaikovsky Fifth. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8:30, Sunday at 2:30 p.m., Tanglewood, Lenox, Mass., (888)266-1200, $17 (lawn) to $96. (Kozinn) Dance Full reviews of recent performances: nytimes.com/dance. HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO (Tonight and tomorrow) A contemporary company of exuberant dancers bounds through a wide repertory:. works by Jim Vincent, Ohad Naharin and Christopher Bruce. Tonight at 8 p.m. and tomorrow at 2 and 8 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea; (212)242-0800 or www.joyce.org; $42. (Jack Anderson) JACOBS PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL (Tonight through Aug. 28) Tonight through Sunday Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal will be at the larger Ted Shawn Theater and the Johannes Wieland will be at the Doris Duke Studio Theater. Wednesday through Aug. 28, Black Grace from New Zealand, a big hit last summer, moves into the Shawn, with Project Fukurow from Tokyo Thursday through Aug. 28 at the Duke. Canadiens at the Shawn tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. and tomorrow and Sunday at 2 p.m., $50; $45 for students, seniors 65+ and children. Wieland at the Duke tonight and tomorrow at 8:15 p.m., tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m., $20; $18 for students, 65+ and children. Black Grace at the Shawn Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m., $45; 40.50 for students, 65+ and children. Project Fukurow at the Duke Thursday at 8:15 p.m., $20; $18 for students, 65+ and children. Details of the weeks free performances and exhibitions can be found on www.jacobspillow.org. Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, 358 George Carter Road, Becket, Mass.; (413) 243-0745. (John Rockwell) LINCOLN CENTER OUT-OF-DOORS (Tonight, tomorrow, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday) The weeks dance attractions at this free, nicely relaxed festival begin on a very high note, with a performance by the Paul Taylor Dance Company (tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m.; Damrosch Park Bandshell). Arthur Aviles and his Typical Theater troupe will salute disco dancing in the festival-commissioned Flow to the Groove (tomorrow at 5:45 p.m. on the plaza), followed by International Hip-Hop Exchange: The Underground Vanguard (Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the bandshell) and a program shared by groups that include the companies of Ronald K. Brown, Jamel Gaines and Nathan Trice (Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. on the plaza). Another highlight is a program by the Stephen Petronio and Complexions companies (Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the bandshell). Information: (212)875-5766 or www.lincolncenter.org. (Jennifer Dunning) MOSTLY MOZART: MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP (Tonight and tomorrow) Mr. Morris has been justly celebrated for his choices of and responses to a dizzying range of musical scores. The company will perform LAllegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato, a signature piece set to Handel. 8 p.m. New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, (212)721-6500 or www.lincolncenter.org, $25 to $70. (Dunning) THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL (Through Aug. 28) Emily Dickinson, Lynndie England and Frida Kahlo are among the inspirations in this irrepressible festivals dance highlights. Those highlights include five programs of work with an emphasis on the theatrical, by Nina Hein and Elyssa Dole, Refraction Arts Project (Sonnet Blanton and Julia M. Smith), the brAdS company (Monica Bucciantini), Compagnie de lEntorse (David G. Tretiakoff and Charlotte Schioler), and Anandam (Brandy Leary and Prashant Gupta). For theater names and addresses and other attractions: (212) 279-4488, (888) 374-6436 (outside New York) or www.fringenyc.org; $15. (Dunning) PATRICK SWAYZE & FRIENDS (Tuesday) The friends include Desmond Richardson and Rasta Thomas, who will dance, and Doug Varone, who will supply some choreography. The occasion is the release of Mr. Swayzes One Last Dance DVD, which will be celebrated by a performance and party that also raises money for the Joyce Theater Foundation. 7:30 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea, (212)242-0800, $75 and $150. (Dunning) TRADITIONS, INVENTIONS AND EXCHANGE (Through Sunday) This video and sound installation by Mollie Davies documents a decade-long exchange between dancers and cultural leaders about shifting artistic landscapes in Indonesia, Japan and the United States. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, at 70th Street, www.AsiaSociety.org. (Dunning) Art Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: ANCESTRY AND INNOVATION, through Sept. 4. This selection of quilts, paintings, sculptures and drawings by several generations of self-taught artists jumps with color and talent and reflects a sharp curatorial eye. 45 West 53rd Street, (212)265-1040. (Roberta Smith) AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: SELF AND SUBJECT, through Sept. 11. From Grandma Mosess depiction of herself beguiled by infant descendants to A.G. Rizzolis rendition of his mother as a Gothic cathedral, this refreshingly offbeat show of 20th-century self-taught artists covers a vivid range of portraits. (See above.) (Grace Glueck) BROOKLYN MUSEUM: MONETS LONDON: ARTISTS REFLECTIONS ON THE THAMES, 1859-1914, through Sept. 4. This polished and studiously dry show has a dozen of Monets wildly, paradisaically pretty paintings at its center, surrounded by images of London, many of them prints and photographs by other artists, including James McNeill Whistler and figures now known primarily to art historians. 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, (718)638-5000. (Holland Cotter) COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM: EXTREME TEXTILES, through Oct. 30. Dont look for aesthetic pizazz in this intensely techy show of industrial fibers and fabrics, but dont rule it out. The shows raison dêtre is solely use, but a lot of whats on view, in the first museum display of material made to function in extreme conditions, is visually exciting. 2 East 91st Street, (212)849-8400. (Glueck) GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION: PHOTOGRAPHS AND MANNERIST PRINTS, through Aug. 28. This exhibition juxtaposes obsessively styled, drunkenly body-oriented art from the late 18th and late 20th centuries, achieving a fairly even rate of exchange in an unusually elegant installation. But the prints, having more to begin with, come out ahead and look remarkably fresh. 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, (212)423-3500. (Smith) INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: YOUNG AMERICA, through Sept. 4. The daguerreotype, an early version of photography, though invented in Europe, was a huge hit in the United States, and you can see why in these extraordinary pictures of a countrys political and intellectual elite and its well-heeled citizens. Taken by two members of a well-known Boston studio, each picture glows on the wall like a stone in a mood ring, or a computer screen floating in space. At 1133 Avenue of the Americas, at 43rd Street, (212)857-0000. (Cotter) METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: MATISSE: THE FABRIC OF DREAMS -- HIS ART AND HIS TEXTILES, through Sept. 25. This somewhat scattered yet astounding exhibition demonstrates that as African sculptures were to the Cubists, so textiles were to Matisse, and revolutionizes the understanding of his life and work. Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street, (212)535-7710. (Smith) MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: DUAL VISION: THE SIMONA AND JEROME CHAZEN COLLECTION, through Sept. 11. A selection of fair-to-good paintings by artists like Hans Hofmann, Richard Pousette-Dart, John McLaughlin and Roy Lichtenstein and a collection of mostly mediocre ceramics and art glass create a disjunctive hybrid of an exhibition. 40 West 53rd Street, (212)956-3535. (Ken Johnson) MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: LEE FRIEDLANDER, through Aug. 29. A gigantic retrospective of this great photographer of the American vernacular scene, whose sly and haunting works (grungy cityscapes, wild landscapes, portraits and nudes) can put you in mind of Audens remark that every original genius has something a bit shady about him. In Mr. Friedlanders case, its a compliment. 11 West 53rd Street, (212)708-9400.(Michael Kimmelman) MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: MOUNT ST. HELENS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRANK GOHLKE, through Sept. 26. A year after the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington in 1980, this well-known landscape photographer began documenting the explosions effect on the surrounding terrain. His expansive black-and-white pictures are formally and technically impeccable, but because they err on the side of understatement, they only partly convey a sense of the volcanos destructive violence. (See above.) (Johnson) MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: PIONEERING MODERN PAINTING: CÉZANNE AND PISSARRO, through Sept. 12. The marriage of minds, sensibilities and influences that Cézanne and Pissarro shared is the subject of this rigorous, beautiful show. Unlike its predecessor, Matisse Picasso, it is less a grand opera than a lieder recital of deep-running, summer-green Schubertian pleasures. (See above.) (Cotter) NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN: GEORGE CATLIN AND HIS INDIAN GALLERY, through Sept. 5. The portraits and landscapes here give an account of Plains Indian life in the 1830s in wonderful and sometimes harrowing detail. Viewing it is a remarkable experience. 1 Bowling Green, Lower Manhattan, (212)514-3700. (Glueck) THE NATIONAL ACADEMY MUSEUM: JEAN HÉLION, through Oct. 9. Hélions conversion, around 1940, from a suave, smartly synthetic mode of geometric abstraction to a like-minded figurative style doesnt put him in a league with great 20th-century apostates like Giacometti, Picabia or Guston. Still, he produced a weirdly fascinating body of work that influenced Americans before and after World War II and presaged aspects of Pop Art and Neo-Expressionism. This meager show does not give a full account of his strengths or his weaknesses, but it is well worth a look. 1083 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, (212)369-4880. (Smith) NEUE GALERIE: WAR/HELL: MASTER PRINTS BY OTTO DIX AND MAX BECKMANN, through Sept. 26. War, the German artist Otto Dixs great graphic condemnation of battle, a portfolio of 50 etchings rife with grisly images of trench life and death, battlefield corpses, civilian bombings and other horrors, published after World War I, is paired here with Max Beckmanns Hell, 10 lithographs from 1918 that comment on wars brutality, but also give a sardonic view of the inhumanities he saw as the hell of everyday existence. Their presentation together heightens the impact of each. 1048 Fifth Avenue, at 86th Street, (212)628-6200. (Glueck) NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: SHANGRI-LA, through Sept. 10. This film by Patty Chang, best known for her performance work, was made in China near the Tibet border. Loosely based on the 1930s novel Lost Horizons, Ms. Changs film amplifies and shatters whatever the utopian realness of Shangri-La is, and does so with wit and visual panache. 556 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, (212)219-1222. (Cotter) P.S. 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER: GREATER NEW YORK 2005, through Sept. 26. A youth-besotted, cheerful, immodestly ingratiating, finally disappointing survey of contemporary art, perusing a scene whose wide stylistic range, emphasis on drawing, persistent teenage infatuations and overall dexterousness are firmly entrenched characteristics of the marketplace. 22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, (718)784-2084. (Kimmelman) QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: DOWN THE GARDEN PATH: THE ARTISTS GARDEN AFTER MODERNISM, through Oct. 9. This big, messy and uneven show, still a thought-provoking one for patient and interested viewers, surveys how artists like Vito Acconci, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Mel Chin, Ghada Amer, Stan Douglas and many more have cultivated gardens in fantasy and in reality. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, (718)592-9700.(Johnson) STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: SCRATCH: 2004-2005 ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE: WILLIAM CORDOVA, MICHAEL QUEENLAND AND MARC ANDRE ROBINSON, through Oct. 31. Rap, religion, Minimalism and Malcolm X all figure in this intricate, multilayered show of work by the three young residents, organized by the museums associate curator, Christine Y. Kim. 144 West 125th Street, (212)864-4500. (Cotter) WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: REMOTE VIEWING, through Oct. 9. The vast information overload the world struggles with -- scientific theory, technological data, geopolitical facts, historical material and on and on -- is whipped into visual cosmologies by eight painters of widely different approaches and sensibilities. If the premise is fuzzy, the show has some sharp art, including Carroll Dunhams witty Solar Eruption, a giant, battered yellow sun that suggests a cell invaded by virus particles, its perimeter bursting with splatlike extrusions. 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, (212)570-3600. (Glueck) WHITNEY MUSEUM: ROBERT SMITHSON, through Oct. 23. Who knows whether Robert Smithson is the most influential American postwar artist, as this show claims. Consisting mostly of drawings, photographs and films (Smithson didnt make that many sculptures -- not ones that could fit into a museum, anyway), this is the first full-scale overview of him in the country. It is consequently dry but still compelling testimony to a great exuberance cut drastically short when Smithson died at 35 in a plane crash in 1973. Self-appointed spokesman for earth art, and scavenger of dirt, shells, slag and other materials from the industrial landscape, he helped to shove Minimalism, Conceptualism and Pop in various messy new directions during the 1960s and early 70s. Today, in an era of crabbed imagination and short-term profiteering, the sheer chutzpah of an artist like him is instructive. (See above.) (Kimmelman) Galleries: Uptown LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956), A SMALL RETROSPECTIVE OF WORKS ON PAPER Mostly based on Feiningers constant companion, a sketchbook in which he recorded his visual impressions, this show of about 70 small sketches, drawings and watercolors covers his career from 1892, before his artistic direction was clear, to 1953, three years before his death. Fired up by the architectural forms of sailboats, spired churches and soaring skyscrapers, he eventually developed a distinctive style combining radiant planes with lines and geometric forms. The show gives a partial but lively account of his journeys, geographical and aesthetic. Achim Moeller Fine Art, 167 East 73rd Street, (212)988-4500, through Sept. 16. (Glueck) IRIS VAN DONGEN: AURELIA Most prominent among works playing with various styles are large, possibly ironic drawings of beautiful young women that look as if they were made for the covers of modern romance novels. Salon 94, 12 East 94th Street, (646)672-9212, through Sept. 15. (Johnson) Galleries: 57th Street INTRODUCTIONS Three one-person minishows: oblique, conceptually evocative photographs by Tim Davis; lurid and juicy paintings of ornate theater interiors by Emi Avora; and diverse drawings and photographs, some funny, some poetic, by Barry Ratoff. Greenberg Van Doren, 730 Fifth Avenue, (212)445-0444, through Sept. 30. (Johnson) Galleries: Chelsea BODY AND OBJECTS Depending on your mood, this three-person show might provoke thought or irritation. Most striking are Jiang Zhis large photographs of two topless dancers, one a woman who has had a double mastectomy, the other a transsexual with breast implants. Tang Yi presents a series of photographs of a young woman blowing up colored balloons into a birdcage, and Chu Yun offers worn bars of soap as miniature sculptures formed by contact with his body. Chambers, 210 11th Avenue, near 24th Street, (212)414-1169, through Sept. 2. (Johnson) WILLIAM EGGLESTON THE NIGHTCLUB PORTRAITS The photographer known for his jewel-like color photographs of scenes of Southern decrepitude made these powerfully lucid black-and-white portraits of customers in bars around Memphis in 1973. Cheim & Read, 547 West 25th Street, (212)242-7727, through Sept. 2 (Johnson) JUSTIN LOWE This gallerys back room is basically just an extension of a store, but to round out a long, hot city summer, Mr. Lowe has turned it into a combination gallery, library and listening room. Printed Matter, 535 West 22nd Street, (212)925-0325, through Sept. 24. (Cotter) MEDITATIVE The mellow but disciplined vibes emanating from this group show are partly attributable to its theme: all the work was inspired by the artists experiences of meditation. Feature, 530 West 25th Street, (212)675-7772, through Sunday, and Sept. 6 to 17. (Cotter) ON VIEW: PHOTOGRAPHING THE MUSEUM Among 20 well-selected ways of picturing the museum are Elliot Erwitts view of a naked, sculptural Diana aiming her arrow at an unsuspecting live male visitor; wax figures by Hiroshi Sugimoto and Diane Arbus; a specimen drawer full of cardinals (birds, that is) by Terry Evans; and the dreamlike image of three real foxes in a formal period room by Karen Knorr. Yancey Richardson, 535 West 22nd Street, (646)230-9610, through Sept. 17. (Johnson) BILL OWENS: AMERICA In new 16-by-20- inch prints, Mr. Owenss photographs of white suburbanites from the 1970s remain poetically beguiling and dryly comical. James Cohan, 533 West 26th Street, (212)714-9500, through Sept. 24. (Johnson) REMARKABLE HANDS Three Japanese make art by hand: Yayoi Deki creates gently psychedelic floral patterns with a finely pointed brush; Yoko Kawamoto paints small, photo-based pictures of junked cars and industrial sites with a dry but sensuous touch; and Tomoo Gokita, using chameleonlike skill and mischievous humor, draws many different kinds of pop-culture imagery. ATM, 511 West 20th Street, (212)375-0349, through Aug. 26. (Johnson) SELF-PRESERVATION SOCIETY A longtime hold-out finally moves to Chelsea and opens a sleek space with a lively show of gallery regulars. Basketball fans must see Tom Sanfords comic-realist painting of last seasons infamous brawl between the Pacers and the Pistons. Leo Koenig, 545 West 23rd Street, (212)334-9255, through Sept. 3. (Johnson) Other Galleries ANIMAL TALES This entertaining show presents paintings of all kinds of animals in all kinds of styles: fantasy creatures painted naturalistically, real animals painted surrealistically, cartoon hybrids and old-fashioned allegorical beasts. Participating artists include Catherine Howe, David Humphrey, Elizabeth Huey, James Esber, Anton van Dalen and many more. DFN, 176 Franklin Street, TriBeCa, (212)334-3400, through Sept. 2.(Johnson) A. B. NORMAL Seven artists, including John Bock, Tim Hawkinson and Rirkrit Tiravanija, mostly deal in eccentric machinery. Best is a life-size hyper-realistic Zamboni made of rigid pale-green insulation foam by Chris Hanson & Hendrika Sonnenberg. Nyehaus, 15 Gramercy Park South, (212)473-4447, through Sept. 10. (Johnson) MASTERS OF CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE If you disregard the ugly and pretentious installation piece by the dean of Arte Povera, Mario Merz, then 50 glass snowballs by Not Vital, a circle of granite chunks by Richard Long, a sculpture of stairs painted in Burmese red lacquer by Wolfgang Laib, a life-size simulation of an airplane lavatory by Tom Sachs and a 51-minute piece of Bruce Naumans nocturnal video of his studio all add up to an almost perfectly satisfying show. Sperone Westwater, 415 13th Street, (212)999-7337, through Aug. 31. (Johnson) Last Chance MET: ALL THE MIGHTY WORLD In one of the mediums shortest great careers, Roger Fenton helped establish photography as both an art and a profession in masterly landscapes, portraits and still lifes that, for all their prescience, also express a profound ambivalence about the very notion of progress. (See above.) Closes Sunday. (Smith) BRIDGE FREEZES BEFORE ROAD This big, hot group show of the summer pays homage to Robert Smithson and casually retools countercultural languages of yesteryear for the 21st century. Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24th Street, Chelsea, (212)206-9300, closes today. (Cotter) DAVID LEVINTHAL: XXX SEX DOLLS Mr. Levinthal is known for his provocatively ironic photographs of war toys, racist kitsch and pornographic dolls. Here, along with faux-pornographic photographs, he presents 30 female miniatures from his collection; they are kitschy marvels of sexist fetishism. Ricco Maresca, 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, (212)627-4819, closes today. (Johnson) CAPTURING A MOMENT-ITO Highlights of this varied exhibition of works by nine Latino artists include Karina Aguilera Skvirskys eerie video of vaguely menacing figures in Mideastern-style robes approaching in a peaceful park; portraits by Gabriel de la Mora, in which the apparently finely drawn lines are actually made of hair from the people depicted; Gino Ruberts Surrealistic paintings of dreamy erotic encounters; and Alfonso Cantús drawings of people viewed through marbled glass. Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, Queens, (718)658-7400, closing tomorrow. (Johnson) GEERT GOIRIS, Among the most striking of the sumptuous and magical color photographs by this Belgian artist are pictures of an albino wallaby and of a mysterious explosion in a peaceful, parklike setting. Zach Feuer, 530 West 24th Street, Chelsea, (212)989-7700, closes Tuesday. (Johnson) GUGGENHEIM: OTEIZA: MYTH AND MODERNISM With the goal of paring down sculpture to an emptied (not empty) space that he saw as filled with spiritual energy, the Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza (1908-2003) worked intensively during the 1950s, creating the right containers. Experimenting with different mathematical models, he undertook processes like opening polyhedrons and emptying spheres and cubes, to arrive at a series called Metaphysical Boxes, made from the opposition of two trihedrons. The dark, nearly inaccessible spaces he created here seem to take on a religious character. But his work, mostly small in scale, smacks too much of theory to be of exciting visual interest. (See above.) Closing on Wednesday. (Glueck) WORDPLAY Twenty-three artists toy with words and letters. The show includes comical, professional-looking signs by Steve Powers; sign letters arranged to spell Me in a photograph by Jack Pierson; a neon sign that says Just Wait, by Bill Rowe; an alphabet of letters made of little water puddles photographed by Abelardo Morell; and layered, hand-painted letters spelling the hidden phrase Weapons of Mass Destruction by Joe Amrhein. Julie Saul, 535 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, (212)627-2410, closing today. (Johnson)
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