The protruding facts of this week include a double dose of drag interpreter Kevin Aviance celebrating the week of black gay pride in Harlem and on Little Island and a tribute to sexist flexion to Whitney Houston in Joe’s Pub.
In addition, there is a series of frightening films in Lincoln Center, a free dance festival in Battery Park and an immersive art exhibition by the famous Austrian painter Gustav Klimt.
Outdoors
“Second annual summer heritage ball”
Little Island – Pier 55 at Hudson River Park at W. 13th St., Manhattan (Meatpacking District)
Free. August 15, 8:30 p.m.
The category is … “Little Island” while the ball inherited from summer 2025 descends on the enclave of the West Side motorway for an extravagance LGBTQ + that the creative director QWEN Jean calls “a testimony of the queer revolution and the excellence of the ballroom in New York”.
The interpreter of Drag renamed Kevin Aviance is making the headlines of this year with a vogue, dance track competition and all the drama of the ballroom culture.
“I love the ballroom, I like culture, I like our culture, I like to be black and gay and to be invited to play for that,” said Aviance at Daily News. “It’s just such a beautiful thing … and children have so much respect for me. And the way the ballroom has come out of its place where it is now, and the fact that it is always done by the black and brown homosexuals that hold it and take care of it, and make it prospering is incredible. ”
The ballroom competition will include four categories – the best performances dressed, reality and performance – each offering cash prices to winners.
Tony’s pioneer, J. Harrison Ghee, will serve as a “preacher” with DJ Delish, Selena Dior and Precious Basquiat working the decks. After the ball, the Collective of Art and Music based in Brooklyn, Papi Juice, will organize one of their signing festivals in Little Island with the best DJ of Ball Salle Byrell The Great.
Tickets start at $ 25.
Movie
“Friendly films XIII”
Walter Read Theater – 165 West 65th St., Manhattan (Upper West Side)
Until August 21. Various times.
Halloween is a few months old, but film At Lincoln Center obtains an early jump on the frightening season with the 13th edition of his horror series.
The British psychological horror film by Bryn Chainy “Rabbit Trap”, with Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen and Jade Croot, is one of the 16 unique films, Madeline Whittle, said: “Offer of the cinephiles The Cathartic Régal of the experience of world class suspense, gore and terrorism of all bands of the human pose.
The other strengths include a 4K classic Cult of Harry Kümel in 1971 “Daughters of Darkness – selected by Drag Artists The Boulet Brothers – and the double film centered on the canine highlighting the” new thriller “by Jérôme Boivin (Good Boy.
Tickets cost $ 17, discounts and packages available.
Theater
“Small horrors store”
WestSide Theater – 407 West 43rd St., Manhattan (Hell’s Kitchen)
Open end. Various times.
The Record Broadway Renewal of the Beloved Horror Comedy of the 1980s adapted from Roger Corman’s black comedy film in 1960 always reflected the public since its opening in 2019-one of the few New York productions to survive the pandemic of Covid-19.
The current actors include the actor of “riverdale”, Graham Phillips, like Seymour – the worker of the shopping flowers shop who discovers that his exotic plant Venus Flytrap flourishes when she nourished human blood – and “dynasty” restart the star Elizabeth Gillies as an object of desire, Audrey.
Like Tisha Campbell, Tichina Arnold and Michelle Weeks were in the 1986 feature film version, the “Urchins” – played by Savannah Lee Birdsong, Hailey Thomas and Morgan Ashley Bryant – are the real heart and soul of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken -Crafted Campy Rump. The candidate of Drama Desk Jeremy Kushnier as a sadistic dentist also fits any punch, while Major Attaway is a power as a voice of Audrey II.
Tickets start at $ 91.
Art
“Gustav Klimt: immersive experience”
Light Hall – 49 Street Chambers, Manhattan (Tribeca)
Until August 31. From Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The famous Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, who helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe at the end of the 19th century, was the subject of the last digital exhibition of the former emigrant bank behind the Town Hall.
From “The Kiss” to “Portrait d’Adele Bloch-Bauer I” (also known as Lady in Gold), the heritage of Klimt is exposed in a large style with imposing visuals, elegant music and emotional narration which refrains visually visual works by the artist through a living and biaring trip.
Tickets are $ 29, the discounts available.
Music
“Classic Whitney: edition of the tenth anniversary”
Joe’s Pub – 425 Lafayette St., Manhattan (East Village)
Sun. August 17 6 p.m.
The star of “Kinky Boots”, Kevin Smith Kirkwood, returns to the Pub Joe’s to celebrate the musical heritage of the late Whitney Houston while his domain honors his 40th anniversary of music.
For the 10th anniversary of his “Classic Whitney: Alive!” Tribute, the theater veteran plans to fully embody a cabaret type concert played by the singer at the top of the graph.
But it is not the dredging show typical of lip synchronization, he promises.
“I think what mine stands out is that I think more as a play, rather than an identity theft of Dragsters,” said Kirkwood. “I try to approach it as an actor who plays a role so that I can really try to capture the essence of Whitney; His manners, his model of discourse, his vocal style and of course singing. ”
For only one night, the former Fordham University will be joined by special guests with Ashanti Iria as Mary J. Blige, Juson Williams as Luther Vandross, Emily McNamara as a Fame Mariah Carey and JW Inspirational Singers (renowned “America’s Got Talent”).
Tickets cost $ 48.
Dance
2025 Battery Dance Festival
Rockefeller Park – 75 Battery Place (Battery Park City)
Until Saturday. August 16 7 p.m.
During its 44th year, the oldest free public dance festival in New York continues its mission to connect the world through dance by reaching the local and international public of all ages.
This year’s programming includes performances of troops based in New York as well as a solo work by Kar’Mel Small, Bulareyaung Dance Company of Tawain, Faizah Grootens of the Netherlands, the world first of the “empty hand” of Damani Pompey and the first interpreter Bangladais of the festival.
Battery Dance will also present the world first of “Swallow” by Dorchel Haqq, which she described as “a process of listening to time and the investigation into autonomy in black bodies”.
Free.
Free
“Umoja Black Pride Block Party”
303 West 127th St., Manhattan (Harlem)
Sun. August 17, from noon to 6 p.m.
Instead of producing its annual day on the beach in Coney Island, Lee Soulja -Simmons – who directed NYC Black Pride and was Executive Director of the NYC Center for Black Pride for over 15 years – brings the LGBTQ + celebration inside with a Harlem block party.
Kevin Aviance will also be at the head of this event, with a day concert featuring the DJ of Music House Inaya.
Free.
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