7 things to do in NYC this weekend Nov. 8-10

Highlights this play see City Center’s acclaimed revival of the 1998 Broadway classical “Ragtime” and WBLS’ star-studded 50th Anniversary solemnisation featuring legendary DJs Marley Marl, Chuck Chillout and Red Alert.

Plus, determination are respective escaped events including a children’s publication fair, a flea marketplace and a assemblage wellness expo.

Theater

The institution of “Ragtime.” (Joan Marcus)

“Ragtime”

New York City Center — 131 W. 55th St.,Manhattan (Midtown)

Through Nov. 10. Various times.

More than 25 years aft winning 4 Tony Awards, “Ragtime” returns with an acclaimed (albeit brief) engagement helmed by Lear deBessonet. The accumulation stars Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, Tabitha Lawing and Nichelle Lewis — caller from her Broadway debut arsenic Dorothy successful “The Wiz” revival.

With a publication by Terrence McNally, euphony by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, the musical, based connected E.L. Doctorow’s best-selling 1975 novel, explores themes of radical tension, migration and societal inequality centering connected 3 three families from Harlem, New Rochelle and Eastern Europe pursuing the American imagination astatine the crook of the 20th century.

Limited tickets are available, starting astatine $45 (fees included).

Comedy

Audrey Stewart (Van Corona)

“Audrey Stewart Off Her ADHD Meds”

The Second City New York Blackbox Theater — 64 North 9th St., Brooklyn (Williamsburg) 

Sun. Nov. 10, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles-based comedian Audrey Stewart volition bring her hourlong acceptable to this year’s New York Comedy Festival astatine the caller Brooklyn outpost of Second City, the Chicago-based sketch drama and improv instauration wherever Stephen Colbert and Tina Fey trained.

The “Don’t Tell Comedy” star’s amusement posits that thing tin hap erstwhile she doesn’t instrumentality her medicine for an attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Stewart plans to thin “into assemblage interactions and games to make a fun, hilarious nighttime for the full audience.”

Tickets are $20.

Music

DJ Cassidy, main, Chaka Khan, left, October London, apical right, and SWV. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage; Courtesy of WBLS)

WBLS 50th Anniversary Concert Celebration

Prudential Center — 25 Lafayette St., Newark (Downtown)

Fri. Nov. 8, 8 p.m.

WBLS-FM has served the latest and top of Black euphony since 1974, and is celebrating its aureate day with a star-studded line-up fto by DJ Cassidy for “Pass The Mic Live!”

10-time Grammy-winning Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Chaka Khan is among the headliners astatine the arena concert, powered by SJ Presents, successful collaboration with the Black Promoters Collective.

R&B hitmakers Charlie Wilson, Bobby Brown and Meli’sa Morgan, hip-hop pioneer Roxanne Shante, New York City’s precise ain SWV and psyche newcomer October London are besides connected the bill.

The station’s legendary DJs Marley Marl, Chuck Chillout and Kool DJ Red Alert volition besides look astatine the event, which WBLS programme manager Cynthia Smith promises volition beryllium “the enactment of the year.”

Tickets commencement astatine $56.

Film

Matilda Fleming, Francesca Scorsese, Leo Hervey and Ava Renne successful “Christmas Eve successful Miller’s Point.” (Courtesy of IFC Films)

“Christmas Eve successful Miller’s Point”

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn — 445 Albee Square West/City Point building, Brooklyn (Downtown)

Opens Fri. Nov. 8. Various times.

One of the archetypal caller vacation movies to deed the large surface this twelvemonth is Tyler Thomas Taormina‘s dramedy astir a Long Island clan returning to their household location — perchance 1 past time.

Michael Cera (“Superbad,” “Juno”) produces and stars successful the film, which besides includes Ben Shenkman and Francesca Scorsese and Sawyer Spielberg, the offspring of 2 of Hollywood’s biggest filmmakers.

Tickets are $20.98.

Family

Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair astatine the Brooklyn Museum successful 2023. (Elena Olivo)

18th Annual Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair

Brooklyn Museum — 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn (Crown Heights)

Sun. Nov. 10, 11 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Over 40 section authors and illustrators volition assemble successful the museum’s Beaux-Arts Court for this year’s event, which is considered the largest to date.

The just volition diagnostic readings and publication signings, book-related creation projects and the accidental to browse from a wide enactment of literate offerings for kids of each ages.

Social media prima Maxine the Fluffy Corgi volition besides beryllium connected deck, alongside presentations from bestseller Lauren Semmer, creator and decorator Dan-ah Kim and illustrator John Patrick Green.

Free.

Outdoors

First Annual Fun Run + Community Health Expo (Laura Graney/Queens County Farm Museum)

First Annual Fun Run + Community Health Expo

Queens County Farm Museum — 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Queens (Floral Park)

Sat. Nov. 9, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

It’s inactive lukewarm retired this play and pumpkins are inactive successful play for the inaugural lawsuit aiming to prosecute children ages 3 to 12. Youngsters participating successful 2 runs volition sprint connected a people astir the workplace and person a medal, h2o and goody bag. Throughout the day, determination volition besides beryllium workshops and acquisition stations connected diabetes awareness, nutrition, intelligence wellness and composting.

Free. Registration required.

Shopping

Westbeth Flea Market (Westbeth Artists Housing)

40th Annual Westbeth Flea Market

Westbeth Basement—55 Bethune St., Manhattan (Greenwich Village)

Through Nov. 11. 11a.m. – 5 p.m.

Resident artists of the historical Westbeth lodging complex nutrient this yearly fundraiser lawsuit peddling one-of-a-kind created oregon collected items. Proceeds payment Westbeth’s beautification committee.

“We worth the accidental to recycle things that whitethorn different extremity up successful landfills and to donate successful a assortment of ways to radical successful need,” Westbeth enforcement manager Peter Madden said. “As we are a assemblage of artists we stress the backing of projects that enactment the creator endeavors of our residents and fortify Westbeth’s ties to the larger community.”

Free. Check oregon currency lone for purchases.

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