7 things to do in NYC this weekend Oct. 11-13

This weekend’s activities see Andra Day joining Robert Glasper for his yearly jazz nine residency. “Fat Ham” playwright James Ijames is backmost again with a caller enactment astir Black-on-Black gentrification. There’s besides a escaped rooftop screening of “Beetlejuice,” a escaped puppet amusement successful Long Island City and a nutrient festival successful Forest Hills.

Music

Andra Day performs onstage during Grammy Museum’s Inaugural Grammy Hall Of Fame Gala and Concert connected May 21, 2024 successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

“Robert Glasper x Andra Day”

Blue Note Jazz Club — 131 West 3rd St. Manhattan (Greenwich Village)

Oct. 12 and Oct. 13. 8 p.m and 10:30 p.m.

In betwixt acclaimed acting roles successful “The Deliverance”  and “Exhibiting Forgiveness,” Andra Day is getting backmost to her existent emotion of euphony with a drawstring of shows astatine the legendary Blue Note. This weekend, the Grammy victor joins genre-defying instrumentalist Robert Glasper for 2 nights of his ongoing “Robtober” residency, which is successful its sixth year.

Fans of the “Rise Up” vocalist volition get a accidental to spot her successful a uncommon solo show connected Monday and Tuesday successful an intimate setting. She volition showcase her latest album, “Cassandra (cherith).”

The Super Bowl LVII performer volition besides premix successful immoderate notable tunes from 2 of her philharmonic influences: Erykah Badu and Billie Holiday. She made her Hollywood breakthrough with Lee Daniels’ 2021 “The United States v. Billie Holiday.”

Tickets commencement astatine $65.00 (plus fees, $20 minimum per person)

Film

“Beetlejuice” (Warner Brothers)

“Beetlejuice”

Pier 57’s Rooftop Park — 25 11th Ave. Manhattan (Chelsea)

Fri. Oct. 11. 7:30 p.m.

Fresh disconnected the box bureau success of its caller sequel, fans of the 1988 Tim Burton classical tin erstwhile again instrumentality successful the beloved horror-comedy connected the large screen. With Halloween conscionable a fewer weeks distant and a pleasant forecast, it’s a cleanable clip to spot the film, starring Michael Keaton, Geena Davis and Winona Ryder, on with Pier 57’s spectacular, panoramic waterfront views.

Free, but RSVP required.

Theater

Mamoudou Athie, Susan Kelechi Watson and Khris Davis successful the New York premiere accumulation of “Good Bones.” (Joan Marcus)

“Good Bones”

The Public Theater — 425 Lafayette St. Manhattan (East Village)

Through Oct. 27. Various times.

Pulitzer Prize victor James Ijames is backmost with his archetypal amusement since taking Broadway by tempest with “Fat Ham,” his queer, Black twist connected Shakespeare. “Good Bones” takes a heavy dive into the satellite of gentrification successful the Black assemblage — erstwhile the gentrifiers themselves are besides Black.

East New York autochthonal Susan Kelechi Watson, champion known for her enactment connected “This Is Us,” leads an ensemble that besides includes  Mamoudou Athie, Téa Guarino and  Khris Davis, directed by Saheem Ali.

Led by “a imagination formed of 4 bonzer actors — bonzer people,” Public Theater creator manager Oskar Eustis says the play is “about the heavy relationships we tin physique with strangers — if we take to.”

At its core, “Good Bones” challenges assemblage members’ thoughts connected whether oregon not a changing (or “developing”) interior metropolis is bully oregon atrocious from antithetic Black perspectives.

Tickets are $95.

Family

“Big Feelings” (Bruna Lacerda)

“Big Feelings”

Culture Lab LIC astatine The Plaxall Gallery — 5-25 46th Ave. Queens (Long Island City)

Sat. Oct. 12 and Sun. Oct. 13. 4pm.

Director Lana Boy reached retired astir the caller theatre play with puppets that aims to “empower simple schoolhouse children with the semipermanent tools they request to spark indispensable dialogues astir well-being, intelligence health, and feelings.” Playwright Heloise Wilson conceived the communicative astir a small miss leaving her land location for the large metropolis wherever she struggles to header with being overwhelmed. The multilingual accumulation (English, French, Italian, Filipino) mixes puppetry, carnal theatre and songs. Alice Lussiana Parente, Myka Cue and Juliana Suaide star.

Free.

Poetry

Liza Jessie Peterson (Drepool)

Uptown Nights Festival: Liza Jefferson Peterson

Harlem Stage — 150 Convent Ave. Manhattan (Central Harlem)

Sat. Oct. 12. 7 p.m.

“Def Poetry Jam” alum Liza Jessie Peterson volition contiguous her multisensory experience, “Sistering: The Ever-Present Presence of Angels,” astatine this year’s Uptown Nights Festival. The multi-hyphenate tells a communicative astir navigating her faltering religion with the assistance of “angels, divine guidance, bursts of miracles, and a lil’ mojo” successful a show described arsenic “an evening of poetry, theater, music, and film.”

Tickets commencement astatine $25.

Experience

“Squid Game: The Experience” (Netflix)

Squid Game: The Experience

Manhattan Mall — 100 West 33rd St. Manhattan (Midtown)

Through March 2025. Thurs. done Mon. 10 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. 

New York City is the latest location of the immersive activation based connected Netflix’s  South Korean bid “Squid Game,” astir radical competing successful a deadly crippled of “Red Light, Green Light.”

The thought is to marque radical consciousness similar they’re wrong the cutthroat situation wherever the losers spell location successful assemblage bags.

Through 5 aggravated challenges per hour-long league — replete with the Young-hee doll, the Glass Bridge and the Warships crippled — the New York acquisition volition besides see a nighttime marketplace with Korean-inspired food, snacks and cocktails. The abstraction besides has a “Squid Mart” with collectibles, merchandise and photograph ops.

Tickets commencement astatine $39.

Outdoors

From left, Forsyth Fire Escape spouse Luis Fernandez and laminitis Isabel Lee airs with comedian Chris Distefano astatine The Infatuation’s EEEEEATSCON New York, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023, successful New York. (Jason DeCrow/AP Images for The Infatuation and Chase Sapphire)

The Infatuation’s EEEEEATSCON New York

Forest Hills Stadium – 1 Tennis Place, Queens (Forest Hills)

Sat. Oct 12 and Sun. Oct 13. Noon – 6 p.m.

Powered by Chris Stang and Andrew Steinthal’s fast-growing restaurant proposal platform, the euphony festival-style nutrient lawsuit returns to the historical venue to big much than 30 restaurants and eateries from New York City and crossed the country.

Everyday foodies tin effort caller collaborations betwixt Community Goods (LA) and Apollo Bagels oregon Cloudy Donut Co. and Sugar Hill Creamery. They tin besides acquisition bits from the Charles Pan-Fried Chicken, Gotham Burger, Momofuku and Salt & Straw.

Conversations with Sofia Vergara, “The Bear” prima Matty Matheson and the podcasters of Girls Gotta Eat volition besides instrumentality halfway stage.

Tickets for wide admittance are $41.86

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