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The Ever-Radiant Ayodele Casel

For City Center’s “Artists at the Center” series, the tap dancer has programmed several short works and an extended version of her 2021 piece “Where We Dwell.”

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The Sparkling Standup of Morgan Bassichis

“A Crowded Field,” at Abrons Arts Center, is the last in the comedian-activist’s musico-comic trilogy about radical Jewish politics.

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New Paintings from Gerhard Richter

The German artist returns to New York City with a show of works made during the past seven years, at the Zwirner gallery.

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“Life of Pi” Comes to Broadway

In a stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s novel, a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker—operated by puppeteers—joins a boy named Pi, who is lost at sea, in a lifeboat.

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Arinzé Kene’s Postmodern Portrait of a One-Man Show

In “Misty,” at the Shed, the actor-playwright-rhapsode uses spoken-word performance to explore overfamiliar constructs of Blackness.

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Jessica Chastain in Ibsen’s Proto-Feminist Masterwork

Last year’s Best Actress Oscar winner steps into the role of Nora in a Broadway production of “A Doll’s House,” also starring Arian Moayed and Okieriete Onaodowan.

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Timberlands and Bucket Hats, at F.I.T.

The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology presents “Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip-Hop Style,” celebrating the culture’s half-century mark.

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The Striking Public Art of Shahzia Sikander

The Pakistani American artist’s sculptures, in a project titled “Havah . . . to breathe, air, life,” are on view in Madison Square Park.

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Horsegirl’s Fresh Spin on Indie Rock

The band, which débuted when its members were still in high school, in Chicago, plays Bowery Ballroom as part of Ground Control Touring’s Abortion Funds Benefit Series.