NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection

ManhattanOngoing

Dedicated collections galleries introduce visitors to the ceramic, glass, wood, metal, fiber, and mixed media works in the museum’s collections. Many of the approximately 250 pieces are on view for the first time.

• Mamma Mia!

  Winter Garden Theater

  ManhattanThurs, Oct 18, 2001 – Sat, June 9, 2012

  Based on the music of ABBA, this musical follows a daughter and mother during wedding preparations on a Greek isle. The bride to be wants to know who her father is, and the mother desperately wants to forget.

• Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection

  Museum of Arts and Design

  ManhattanOngoing

  Dedicated collections galleries introduce visitors to the ceramic, glass, wood, metal, fiber, and mixed media works in the museum’s collections. Many of the approximately 250 pieces are on view for the first time.

• School Group Tours

  Green-Wood Cemetery

  BrooklynOngoing

  Visits to tombs of notables touch on topics such as the American Revolution (the cemetery is site of the Battle of Brooklyn), the Civil War, immigration, westward expansion and inventors and innovators.

• Artists Making Photographs: Smith, Raushenberg, Samaras, Ruscha, Warhol

  Whitney Museum of American Art

  ManhattanOngoing

  The ascension of photography to a high art form is the subject of this exhibition featuring works created between 1930 and 1970 by numerous artists.

• The Gazillion Bubble Show

  New World Stages 2

  ManhattanThurs, Jan 8, 2009 – Sun, July 1, 2012

  In this Off-Broadway production, a team of specialists create mind-blowing special effects by manipulating bubbles with lasers and light to make what can only be referred to as "bubble media." The appeal is so great that the show is selling tickets through November, 2012.