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TV
(^) Wat ch The Marvelous
Mrs. Maisel
Hit the road with Midge and Susie.
Amazon, December 6.
The third season of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel finds
Midge (Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan) and
manager Susie (Emmy winner Alex Borstein) on
their first big national tour. But don’t worry, Midge
will still be wearing amazing fit-and-flare dresses
the entire time. j.c.
MOVIES
7.SeeNew KoreanCinema
Has Bong Joon Ho’s Cannes-winning film
Parasite got you craving more?
Film at Lincoln Center,
through December 4.
The series at Lincoln Center showcases the first
wave of modern Korean film, from 1996 to 2003,
which includes Bong Joon Ho’s Memories of Mur-
der, Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy and Joint Security
Area, Hong Sang-soo’s debut The Day a Pig Fell
Into the Well, and Jang Joon-hwan’s cult classic
Save the Green Planet!
POP MUSIC
(^) See The Hold Steady
Veterans at work.
Brooklyn Bowl,
December 4 to 7.
Brooklyn indie rockers decided to start a band
after seeing Martin Scorsese’s Thanksgiving rock
doc The Last Waltz. Seven studio albums in,
they’re a rock-and-roll institution in their own
right, thanks to a wellspring of anthemic grooves
and lead singer Craig Finn’s detailed storytelling.
In 2016, the band came home for a run of shows to
celebrate 2006’s Boys and Girls in America; it’s
now an annual tradition. c.j.
OPERA
(^) Hear The Queen
of Spades
A story of Imperial Russia.
Metropolitan Opera,
opens November 29.
Tchaikovsky’s darkly gorgeous opera of love in the
time of gambling returns to the Met in Elijah
Moshinsky’s nearly 25-year-old production for the
first time in eight years. The fine Norwegian
soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Met debut oppo-
site the Latvian tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko in an
otherwise Russian-heavy cast. j.d.
ART
(^) See Alan Belcher
Plush sculpture.
Downs & Ross, 96 Bowery,
through December 22.
Once upon a time in the 1980s in the East Village,
Alan Belcher helped change the world as co-
founder of the vanguard Gallery Nature Morte.
Belcher is back with a show of beautiful sewn, col-
ored, stuffed shapes named after friends here and
gone. The collection is a testament to a life lived in
art, ever expanding and never losing his religion of
art nor his commitment to other artists. j.s. PHOTOGRAPHS: HILARY BRONWYN GAYLE/SHOWTIME (THE L WORD); CHRIS HASTON/NBC (MAKING IT); A24 (IN FABRIC); PATRICK MCMULLAN (BAD BUNNY); NYU SKIRBALL (ELEMENTS OF OZ).
MOVIES
1.SeeA BeautifulDayin
th e Neighborhood
Bringa trolley-loadoftissues.
Intheaters.
OurnicestHollywoodstar(TomHanks)playsour
nicest-everchildren’s host (FredRogers)inMari-
elleHeller’s agreeablecomedy-tearjerkerinwhich
a cynicalmagazinejournalist LloydVogel(Mat-
thewRhys)is dispatchedunderprotest toprofile
Mr. Rogersandlearns,inthecourseofmultiple
interviews,toforgivehismiserablefather(Chris
Cooper)andhimself.There’sa neat visualhook:
Thecityscapesarecardboardlike, asinMisterRog-
ers’ Neighborhood,andMr. Rogersintroducesthe
filmasLloyd’s story.Themovieoughttomake you
rollyoureyesnonstop,butthere’s enoughslyness
inHanks’s beatitudetokeepit real.
davidedelstein
TV
2.WatchA CharlieBrown
Thanksgiving
Holidaykickoffwith“Peanuts.”
ABC,November27.
Beforeyoutuckintoyourannualmealofturkey
andstuffing,pregamewithCharlieBrown& Co.as
theydigintopopcornandjellybeansandforce
Fr anklintositallbyhimselfononesideofthe
table.Seriously,what’sthat about? jenchaney
ART
3.SeeJo rdanCasteel
Teacher-studentrelationships.
CaseyKaplanGallery, 121 West27thStreet,
throughDecember7.
Anintensityofconnection, empathy, understand-
ing,optimism,andlove leaps off Jordan Casteel’s
painterlyportraits.Here, Casteel, an assistant pro-
fessoratRutgersUniversity, paints her students,
together,individually, at home, and out in the
world.Casteel’s handis moreconfident, less wed
totightness. jerry saltz
THEATER
4.SeeThe Trojan Women
ProjectFestival
Evoheevoheevohe.
Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 East 4th Street,
December 5 to 15.
To celebrate the late La MaMa founder Ellen Stew-
art’s centennial, the theater is reviving Andrei Ser-
ban’s multilingual 1974 production of The Trojan
Women. In the ’70s, Serban was experimenting
with Ur-communication (actors spoke Greek,
Latin, Nahuatl, and Navajo), and the result—
co-created with bacchanalian composer Elizabeth
Swados—was an overwhelming physical opera of
primal performance. Will the revival speak on that
same deep level? At worst, it’ll be a chance to see a
page from our theatrical archive living in front of
you; at best, it will blow your mind. helen shaw
POP MUSIC
(^) See Arlo Guthrie
A Thanksgiving concert.
Carnegie Hall, November 30.
Folksinger Arlo Guthrie, son of the legendary
Woody Guthrie, recounts the story of a fateful
Thanksgiving weekend in Massachusetts in his
classic 1967 antiwar song “Alice’s Restaurant Mas-
sacree.” The annual concert became a staple for
fans in the know. After 50-odd years, Guthrie is
ending the tradition this year. See a bit of long-
standing local lore one last time. craig jenkins
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