Things To Do in NYC in January 2023 include:
- Broadway Week
- Restaurant Week
- Under the Radar theatre festival
- Winter Jazzfest
There are showcases throughout early January for the APAP convention of booking agents and presenters, Friday-Tuesday, January 13-17, 2023.
January weather is peak winter with average temperatures of 26-39°. NYC’s coldest month is still a great time to visit. You just need to plan what to do. It’s too cold and may be slushy for wandering around.
The January holidays are New Year’s Day Sunday, January 1 (bank holiday Monday, January 2), and Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 16, 2023.
Three Kings Day is Friday, January 6, 2023. Lunar New Year is Sunday, January 22, 2023.
Happy New Year!
Many Latin families are preparing for Three Kings Day, Friday, January 6, the Hispanic gift-giving day at the end of Christmas Season. 🇵🇷🇪🇸
After that, we start preparing for traditional Carnival, and the cultural year begins with showcases for the APAP convention of presenters and booking agents including:
- The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival of international theatre.
- Prototype Festival of contemporary opera and musical theatre.
The PBR Buck Off professional bull rider’s rodeo brings Brazilian and Mexican cowboys to New York City. 🇧🇷🇲🇽
Puerto Rican families may celebrate Las Octavitas, the octave (8-day celebration) of Three Kings Day. It gets us to Puerto Rico’s biggest party, Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián in Old San Juan and across the Diaspora. 🇵🇷
The Cuban Yoruba Letter of the Year says this is the year of Obatalá (again) with help from Oshún. The core of the recommendations is that in this time of climate, health and other turmoil, we need to change the way we think about development. There are recommendations for unity among families and between religions. 🇨🇺
May you and your family have a prosperous new year.
The Contenders 2022 film series of this year’s Oscar contenders is at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art through January 19, 2023.
Between Riverside and Crazy, Chicago, Hamilton, Moulin Rouge, and Phantom of the Opera continue on Broadway.
Things To Do in NYC in January 1, 2023
Sunday, January 1, 2023 (New Year’s Day)
Happy New Year! 🇮🇹
On the last day of Kwanzaa, celebrate “Imani,” faith. We start the new year with faith in the power of our communities.
Celebrate Haitian Independence Day, and one of the world’s greatest humanitarian achievements, on January 1, 1804. 🇭🇹
Remember the Emancipation Proclamation “all persons…shall henceforward shall be free” of January 1, 1863.
Sudanese Independence Day was January 1, 1956. 🇸🇩
The Solemnity of Mary honors mothers on January 1. 🇮🇹
The Annette A Aguilar Trio, featuring Uruguayan guitar hero Bele Beledo, plays late night jazz rock on New Year’s Eve morning at the Uptown Garrison in Hudson Heights, Manhattan on Sunday, January 1, 2023 from 1:30-4:30am. No cover. 🇧🇷🇳🇮🇺🇾
Bryant Park’s Winter Village is open.
Chris Botti plays his 18th Holiday Residency of Jazz at the Blue Note in Greenwich Village, on Sunday, January 1, 2023 at 8 & 10:30pm (6 & 10pm doors). From $64. 🇮🇹
New York City is actually fairly quiet on New Year’s morning. Bryant Park’s Winter Village is one of the few open things to do.
New Year’s fatigue tends to obscure the great humanitarian achievements of Haitian Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Catholic church starts the year by honoring motherhood. It’s another hint that we are celebrating the regenerative power of Mother Earth herself.
Monday, January 2, 2023
Dance Salsa, Bachata and Merengue at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Remember Anna May Wong! The first Chinese American movie star was born in Los Angeles, California on January 3, 1905. Last year, she became one of the faces on a quarter.🇺🇸
Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet plays Argentine Tango at the Django in Tribeca, Manhattan on Wednesday, January 3, 2023 at 7:30pm. 🇦🇷
Fleur Seule plays Salsa Night at the Hard Rock Hotel, in the Sessions Lounge, in the Times Square Theater District, on Tuesday, January 3, 2023 from 5-8pm. 🇵🇷
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz at the Birdland Theater in Hell’s Kitchen; Tuesday, January 3, 2023 at 8:30pm. From $36.
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
The 18th Under the Radar Festival 2023 of new international theatre presents 36 artists from nine countries; at the Public Theater in NoHo, and other downtown venues; from January 4-22, 2023. 🇧🇮🇨🇩🇨🇬🇫🇷🇺🇸🇷🇼🏳️🌈
Italian American jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano celebrates his 70th birthday featuring Strings of Expression at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen on Wednesday, January 4, 2023 at 7pm. 🇮🇹
Vocalist Vanessa Rubin and her Trio play jazz originals and interprets classics at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center on Wednesday, January 4, 2023 at 7:30 & 9:30pm. 🇹🇹
Thursday, January 5, 2023
The Chamber Music America Conference is at the Westin New York in Times Square, Thursday-Sunday, January 5-8, 2023. chambermusicamerica.org
The Prototype Festival 2023 of contemporary opera and musical theater presents new voices, including Mexican folk singer Silvana Estrada’s beautiful “Marchita;” at Here in Hudson Square and other NYC venues; for one week Thursday, January 5-13, 2023. From $40. 🇲🇽
Three Kings Eve is Thursday, January 5, 2023. Remember to put some grass under your bed for the Three Kings’ animals.
Dance Argentine Tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea, Manhattan. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. 🇦🇷
Friday, January 6, 2023 (Three Kings Day & Eleguá)
Celebrate Three Kings Day on Friday, January 6, 2023! The Hispanic gift-giving day at the end of the Christmas Season is one of the most important family days in the Latin world. 🇵🇷🇪🇸
Celebrate Elegúa, the Yoruba orisha of the crossroads on his Caribbean feast day, Friday, January 6, 2023. ¡Ashé! 🇨🇺
The 46th Three Kings Day Parade NYC 2023 with Annette Aguilar & Stringbeans, BombaYo!, and Fogo Azul marches up Park Avenue from 106th St to 115th St in “El Barrio” East Harlem on Friday, January 6, 2023 from 11am – 12noon. FREE! 🇧🇷🇳🇮🇵🇷🇪🇸
The El Museo Three Kings Day 2023 Celebration; featuring Milteri Tucker, Bombazo Dance Co, and a parranda; is at El Museo del Barrio in “El Barrio” East Harlem on Friday, January 6, 2023, from 1-2pm. FREE! 🇵🇷
Alcarràs, Carla Simón’s 2022 film about a Catalan family facing a future where the land they farm will be turned into a solar farm, won the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin International Film Festival, and is Spain’s 2022 Oscar entry. It opens at Film at Lincoln Center on Friday, January 6, 2023. $15 ($10 matinees). 🇪🇸
Sueño de Reyes – Dream of Kings; children’s theater that imagines the Three Kings arriving in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico instead of Bethlehem; is at Teatro SEA in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; Friday, January 5, 2023 at 7pm. $20 adults/$15 children. 🇵🇷
The PBR Buck Off 2022 professional bull rider’s rodeo brings 35 of the top American, Brazilian and Mexican cowboys to ride the meanest bulls at Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, NYC, Friday, January 6, 2022 at 7:45pm. From $97. 🇧🇷🇲🇽
OPENING NIGHT
Saulo Garcia “La Locura Lo Cura,” is the Colombian standup comic’s new immigrant comedy show, at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan, Friday, January 6, 2023 at 8pm. From $17. 🇨🇴
Three Kings Day, Epiphany, the last day of the Christmas Season, is the Hispanic gift-giving day.
It’s our favorite day in the Latin world because children are out with their families playing with a new toy the Three Kings left for them.
Cuban Yoruba traditions celebrate Elegúa, the orisha of destiny.
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Celebrate Las Octavitas, the octave (8-day celebration) of Three Kings Day, celebrated in Puerto Rico through January 14. 🇵🇷
Remember Juan Gabriel, the flamboyant Mexican singer who broke barriers in the Latin music market. He was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México on January 7, 1950. 🇲🇽
Sueño de Reyes – Dream of Kings; children’s theater that imagines the Three Kings arriving in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico instead of Bethlehem; is at Teatro SEA in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 3pm. $20 adults/$15 children. 🇵🇷
The PBR Buck Off 2022 professional bull rider’s rodeo brings 35 of the top American, Brazilian and Mexican cowboys to ride the meanest bulls at Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, NYC, Saturday, January 7, 2022 at 6:45pm. From $97. 🇧🇷 🇲🇽
Baye & Asa “HotHouse” is a new commission of African and hip-hop dance; at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn; Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 8pm (7pm doors). $36. 🇺🇸
Saulo Garcia “La Locura Lo Cura,” is the Colombian standup comic’s new immigrant comedy show, at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan, Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 8pm. From $17. 🇨🇴
Now we start preparing for traditional Carnival Tuesday on February 21, 2023.
Las Octavitas extends Puerto Rican Christmas season to Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián, Puerto Rico’s main festival over Martin Luther King weekend. Puerto Ricans have the world’s longest Christmas celebration.
Sunday, January 8, 2023
Happy Birthday Carolina Herrera! The New York fashion legend (Studio 54) was born in Caracas, Venezuela on January 8, 1939.
The PBR Buck Off 2022 professional bull rider’s rodeo brings 35 of the top American, Brazilian and Mexican cowboys to ride the meanest bulls at Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, NYC, Sunday, January 8, 2022 at 1:45pm. From $97. 🇧🇷 🇲🇽
Ballet Nepantla is holding an open call dancer audition at New York City Center Studios in Midtown, NYC on Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 3pm. 🇲🇽
Sueño de Reyes – Dream of Kings; children’s theater that imagines the Three Kings arriving in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico instead of Bethlehem; is at Teatro SEA in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 3pm. $20 adults/$15 children. 🇵🇷
Saulo Garcia “La Locura Lo Cura,” is the Colombian standup comic’s new immigrant comedy show, at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan, Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 3pm. From $17. 🇨🇴
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, January 8, 2023 from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
New York starts waking up from the holidays. Sotheby’s Americana Week art auctions are January 13-24, 2023. Sotheby’s is just beginning to include us in Americana.
Monday, January 9, 2023
Remember José Alfredo Jiménez. The ranchera composer was born in Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico on January 9, 1926. 🇲🇽
Dance Salsa, Bachata and Merengue at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
PUBLIC THEATER’s UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“KLII,” Kaneza Schaal’s exorcism of the colonial ghost of Belgian King Leopold II; is at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, NYC; on Monday, January 9, 2023 at 8pm. From $37. 🇧🇮🇨🇩🇨🇬🇷🇼
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
NYC Broadway Week 2023 Winter offers 2-for-1 tickets to select Broadway shows playing January 17 – February 12, 2023. The show list goes up and tickets go on sale on Tuesday, January 10, 2023.
NYC Restaurant Week 2023 Winter offers prixe-fix dining at select New York City restaurants from Tuesday, January 17 – February 12, 2023. The restaurant list goes up and reservations open on Tuesday, January 10, 2023.
Fleur Seule plays Salsa Night at the Hard Rock Hotel, in the Sessions Lounge, in the Times Square Theater District, on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 from 5-8pm. 🇵🇷
The 7th American Dance Platform presents Les Ballet Afrik voguing at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, NYC; on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $41. 🇺🇸
Bárbara Martínez sings and dances New York Argentine, Venezuelan, Spanish flamenco at Flamenco Tuesdays at Sala Astoria, a Spanish restaurant in Astoria, Queens, on Tuesday, January 10, 17, & 24, 2023 at 7pm. 🇦🇷🇻🇪🇪🇸
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Celebrate Moroccan Independence Day, January 11, 1944. 🇲🇦
Remember Eugenio María de Hostos. The Puerto Rican writer, educator and independence activist was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico on January 11, 1839. 🇵🇷
Remember Rafael Cortijo. The Puerto Rican composer and leader who put Bomba rhythms into La Salsa, was born in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico on January 11, 1928. 🇵🇷
PUBLIC THEATER’s UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“KLII,” Kaneza Schaal’s exorcism of the colonial ghost of Belgian King Leopold II; is at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, NYC; on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 7pm. From $37. 🇧🇮🇨🇩🇨🇬🇷🇼
The 7th American Dance Platform showcase presents B. Moore Dance, African American contemporary dance; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, NYC; on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $41. 🇺🇸
French Tunisian saxophonist and composer Yacine Boularès plays a “Night in Tunisia;” a Tunis Opera commission that blends Tunisian traditions into Dizzy Gillespie’s classic jazz anthem with rapper Mehdi WMD and singer Nessrine Jabeur; at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium; Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 7:30pm. FREE! 🇫🇷🇹🇳🇺🇸
Thursday, January 12, 2023
Remember José Limón! The New York modern dance pioneer and Limón Dance Company founder, was born in Culiacán, México on January 12, 1908. 🇲🇽
The 32nd New York Jewish Film Festival 2023, coproduced with the Jewish Museum, screens 29 Jewish films from around the world. It opens with the New York Premiere of “America” (2022) by Ofir Raul Graizer (The Cakemaker); at Film at Lincoln Center in the Walter Reade Theater; from January 12-23, 2023. 🇺🇸 🇬🇹 | 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 | 🇿🇦 | 🇮🇱
PUBLIC THEATER’s UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“KLII,” Kaneza Schaal’s exorcism of the colonial ghost of Belgian King Leopold II; is at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, NYC; on Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 7pm. From $37. 🇧🇮🇨🇩🇨🇬🇷🇼
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“Moby Dick” by Plexus Polaire; a live puppet play about the great white whale; is at NYU Skirball in Greenwich Village, NYC; on Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 7:30pm. $40. 🇫🇷
The 7th American Dance Platform showcase presents WaheedWorks African American contemporary street dance; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, NYC; on Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 8pm. From $41. 🇺🇸
The Winter Jazzfest 2023 festival of jazz showcases is one week Thursday-Wednesday, January 12-18, 2023. The Manhattan Jazz Marathon is Friday, January 13. The Brooklyn Jazz Marathon is Saturday, January 14. From $65. 🇧🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇫🇷🇭🇹🇵🇦🇵🇹🇪🇸
Dance Argentine Tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea, Manhattan. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. 🇦🇷
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“Otto Frank,” Roger Guenveur Smith’s meditation on Otto, the father of famed Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, with live music by Marc Anthony Thompson; is at the Public Theater in NoHo, NYC; on Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 9pm. From $41. 🇺🇸
Friday, January 13, 2023
The APAP Conference (Association of Performing Arts Professionals) is Friday-Tuesday, January 13-17, 2023. There are many showcases for the booking agents. apap365.org
The Institute for Puerto Rican & Hispanic Elderly (IPHRE) and the Acacia Network host their 41st Three Kings (Día de los reyes) and Lunar New Year cultural celebration with a meal, parranda, and Chinese Lion Dance; at St Vartan Cathedral Church in Murray Hill, Manhattan; on Friday, January 13, 2023; from 10am – 4pm. FREE!
“Saint Omer” by Alice Diop, France’s shortlisted Oscar entry, opens at Film at Lincoln Center on Friday, January 13, 2023. In French with English subtitles. Director Alice Diop and actress Guslagie Malanda will do Q&As at the 6:15pm screening, and Saturday, January 14, 2023, at the 3:30pm screening. 🇸🇳🇫🇷
PUBLIC THEATER’s UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“KLII,” Kaneza Schaal’s exorcism of the colonial ghost of Belgian King Leopold II; is at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, NYC; on Friday, January 13, 2023 at 7pm. From $37. 🇧🇮🇨🇩🇨🇬🇷🇼
The world premiere of Mabou Mines’ “The Vicksburg Project” play, traces the experience of women and gender-fluid Americans in Vicksburg, Mississippi during the Civil War. The 1863 battle for the last stronghold of Confederate traitors on the Mississippi River, which included a long siege, was a turning point in the American Civil War (1861-65). It’s at Harlem Stage in Manhattanville, West Harlem; on Friday, January 13, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $25. 🇺🇸
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“Moby Dick” by Plexus Polaire; a live puppet play about the great white whale; is at NYU Skirball in Greenwich Village, NYC; on Friday, January 13, 2023 at 7:30pm. $40. 🇫🇷
The Hong Kong Ballet dances Septime Webre’s “Romeo + Juliet”; at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; Friday, January 13, 2023 at 8pm. The Shakespeare classic is set in 1960s Hong Kong with kung fu instead of swordplay. Being a universal story, it works everywhere. People are people. From $45. 🇭🇰
The 7th American Dance Platform showcase presents Les Ballet Afrik voguing at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, NYC on Friday, January 13, 2023 at 8pm. From $41. 🇺🇸
Saulo Garcia “La Locura Lo Cura,” is the Colombian standup comic’s new immigrant comedy show, at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan, Friday, January 13, 2023 at 8pm. From $17. 🇨🇴
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“Otto Frank,” Roger Guenveur Smith’s meditation on Otto, the father of famed Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, with live music by Marc Anthony Thompson; is at the Public Theater in NoHo, NYC; on Friday, January 13, 2023 at 8:30pm. From $41. 🇺🇸
Emmy, Grammy, and Golden Globe-nominated, New York Jamaican bassist Russell Hall; celebrates Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr with a jazz concert for the World Music Institute; in the BAMcafé at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on Friday, January 13, 2023 at 9pm. FREE! 🇺🇸
Locobeach plays psychedelic cumbia rock at the Sultan Room in Bushwick, Brooklyn on Friday, January 13, 2023 at 11pm. $20. 🇻🇪
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Happy birthday Yandel! One of the godfathers of reggaeton was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico on January 14, 1977. 🇵🇷
The Hong Kong Ballet dances Septime Webre’s “Romeo + Juliet”; at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 2pm. The Shakespeare classic is set in 1960s Hong Kong with kung fu instead of swordplay. Being a universal story, it works everywhere. People are people. From $45. 🇭🇰
The world premiere of Mabou Mines’ “The Vicksburg Project” play, traces the experience of women and gender-fluid Americans in Vicksburg, Mississippi during the Civil War. The 1863 battle for the last stronghold of Confederate traitors on the Mississippi River, which included a long siege, was a turning point in the American Civil War (1861-65). It’s at Harlem Stage in Manhattanville, West Harlem; on Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 2pm & 7:30pm. From $25. 🇺🇸
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“Moby Dick” by Plexus Polaire; a live puppet play about the great white whale; is at NYU Skirball in Greenwich Village, NYC; on Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 2pm & 7:30pm. $40. 🇫🇷
Pianist Dayramir Gonzalez plays Cuban jazz at the Winter Jazzfest Brooklyn Marathon at National Sawdust in Williamsburg on Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 7pm. $65. 🇨🇺
PUBLIC THEATER’s UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“KLII,” Kaneza Schaal’s exorcism of the colonial ghost of Belgian King Leopold II; is at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, NYC; on Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 7pm. From $37. 🇧🇮🇨🇩🇨🇬🇷🇼
Baye & Asa “HotHouse” is a new commission of African and hip-hop dance; at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn; Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 8pm (7pm doors), and Sunday, January 15 at 6:30pm (5:30pm doors). $36. 🇺🇸
The 7th American Dance Platform showcase presents B. Moore Dance, African American contemporary dance; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, NYC; on Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 8pm. From $41. 🇺🇸
Saulo Garcia “La Locura Lo Cura,” is the Colombian standup comic’s new immigrant comedy show, at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan, Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 8pm. From $17. 🇨🇴
Musical collective Harriet Tubman (Brandon Ross, Melvin Gibbs and JT Lewis) celebrates Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr for the World Music Institute with a jazz rock concert in the BAMcafé at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 9pm. FREE! 🇺🇸
Sunday, January 15, 2023
Remember Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, the American civil rights leader who was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. 🇺🇸
Happy birthday Pitbull! The Cuban American rapper, was born in Miami, Florida on January 15, 1982. 🇨🇺
As children of the United States, we were taught that Rev. Dr. King represents African American communities. He does, but as adults, we believe he represents all Americans and we are all part of his community. From this simple shift in perspective, the possibilities in our lives have grown infinitely. Thank you Rev. Dr. King. We are having the same dream.
The 7th American Dance Platform showcase presents WaheedWorks African American contemporary street dance at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, NYC on Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 2pm. From $41. 🇺🇸
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“Otto Frank,” Roger Guenveur Smith’s meditation on Otto, the father of famed Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, with live music by Marc Anthony Thompson; is at the Public Theater in NoHo, NYC; on Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 2pm. From $41. 🇺🇸
Saulo Garcia “La Locura Lo Cura,” is the Colombian standup comic’s new immigrant comedy show, at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan, Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 3pm. From $17. 🇨🇴
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, January 15, 2023 from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Baye & Asa “HotHouse” is a new commission of African and hip-hop dance; at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn; Sunday, January 15 at 6:30pm (5:30pm doors). $36. 🇺🇸
globalFESt 2023 brings global classical, cumbia, flamenco, folk, gospel, rock, rhythm & blues, and salsa music and dance; to David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 7pm. $60 all-access. 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 | 🇭🇹 | 🇨🇴 | 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 | 🇩🇿 🇲🇱 🇲🇦
Pedrito Martinez and his rumba bring Echoes of Africa to Drom in the East Village on Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). From $25. 🇨🇺
Monday, January 16, 2023
(Martin Luther King Day)
Remember Roberto Roena (1940-2021)! The founding member of Cortijo y Su Combo, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, and Roberto Roena y su Apollo Sound, was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico on January 16, 1940. 🇵🇷
Happy Birthday Lin-Manuel Miranda! The New York Puerto Rican playwright (In the Heights, Freestyle Love Supreme, Hamilton) was born in Washington Heights, NYC on January 16, 1980. 🇵🇷
Dance Salsa, Bachata and Merengue at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
NYC Broadway Week 2023 Winter offers 2-for-1 tickets to select Broadway shows playing January 17 – February 12, 2023. The show list goes up and tickets go on sale on Tuesday, January 10, 2023.
NYC Restaurant Week 2023 Winter offers prixe-fix dining at select New York City restaurants from Tuesday, January 17 – February 12, 2023. The restaurant list goes up and reservations open on Tuesday, January 10, 2023.
OPENING NIGHT
The New York City Ballet Winter 2023 Season opens with an All Balanchine program at the David H Koch Theater in Lincoln Center, on Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 7:30pm. Erica Pereira dances in “Valse Fantasie.”
Fleur Seule plays Salsa Night at the Hard Rock Hotel, in the Sessions Lounge, in the Times Square Theater District, on Tuesday, January 17, 2023 from 5-8pm. 🇵🇷
Bárbara Martínez sings and dances New York Argentine, Venezuelan, Spanish flamenco at Flamenco Tuesdays at Sala Astoria, a Spanish restaurant in Astoria, Queens, on Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 7pm. 🇦🇷🇻🇪🇪🇸
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
The New York Jewish Film Festival centerpiece film is the world premiere of “Charlotte Salomon: Life and the Maiden” (2022) by Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin. Salomon was a prolific Berlin multimedia artist who was ahead of her time. She was murdered in Auschwitz at age 26. It screens in the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 12pm & 6pm. The co-directors will do Q&A. In French with subtitles. From $15. filmlinc.org 🇫🇷
PUBLIC THEATER’s UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“KLII,” Kaneza Schaal’s exorcism of the colonial ghost of Belgian King Leopold II; is at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, NYC; on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 7pm. From $37. 🇧🇮🇨🇩🇨🇬🇷🇼
Disney On Ice: Into the Magic figure skating brings Moana and Coco to life on ice; at Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, at 7pm. From $20. 🇲🇽🇵🇷
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“Otto Frank,” Roger Guenveur Smith’s meditation on Otto, the father of famed Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, with live music by Marc Anthony Thompson; is at the Public Theater in NoHo, NYC; on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $41. 🇺🇸
The New York City Ballet Winter 2023 Season continues with an All Balanchine program at the David H Koch Theater in Lincoln Center, on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 7:30pm. Roman Mejia dances in “Valse Fantasie.”
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Happy birthday Ricardo Arjona! The pop singer-songwriter, was born in Jocotenango, Guatemala on January 19, 1964. 🇬🇹
“Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain” was the landmark exhibition of Black British art coproduced by the CCCADI, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Studio Museum in Harlem in 1997. For it’s 25th anniversary, the CCCADI has exhibition curator Dr. Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd speak with exhibition artist Rita Keegan and culture author Dr. Janice Cheddie, about the impact of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s-70s. This virtual program is live on Thursday, January 19, 2023 from 7-8:30pm. FREE! 🇺🇸🇵🇷🇬🇧
You may also like the Black Arts Movement Examined series at Harlem Stage.
PUBLIC THEATER’s UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“KLII,” Kaneza Schaal’s exorcism of the colonial ghost of Belgian King Leopold II; is at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, NYC; on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 7pm. From $37. 🇧🇮🇨🇩🇨🇬🇷🇼
Disney On Ice: Into the Magic figure skating brings Moana and Coco to life on ice; at Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on Thursday, January 19, 2023, at 7pm. From $20. 🇲🇽🇵🇷
Gregorio Uribe celebrates the release of his third cumbia, vallenato, jazz album “Hombre absurdo” (Absurd man); in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 7:30pm. FREE! 🇨🇴
Dance Argentine Tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea, Manhattan. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. 🇦🇷
TRAVEL & DIASPORA
Celebrate the 53rd Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián, Puerto Rico’s biggest festival, on Calle San Sebastián in Old San Juan, Thursday-Sunday, January 19-22, 2023. 🇵🇷
Friday, January 20, 2023
The Winter Show 2023, one of America’s leading antiques fairs, is a benefit for East Side House, a community services organization in Mott Haven, The Bronx. The antiques fair is at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; for ten days, from Friday-Sunday, January 20-29, 2023. $30. 🇦🇷🇺🇸 | 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹🇪🇸
For the Master Drawings New York 2023 art fair, 25 art galleries show old masters and new masters from their collections and from visiting international dealers; in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; from Friday, January 20-28, 2023. The exhibition continues online through February 28, 2023. 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇴🇲🇽🇵🇦🇻🇪 | 🇫🇷🇮🇹
Disney On Ice: Into the Magic figure skating brings Moana and Coco to life on ice; at Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on Friday, January 20, 2023, at 11am & 7pm. From $20. 🇲🇽🇵🇷
Grammy-winners Third Coast Percussion Movement Art, featuring Cameron Murphy and Lil Buck, premiere new work in “Metamorphosis” to contemporary classical music by Philip Glass, Jlin and Tyondai Braxton; in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall; on Friday, January 20, 2023 at 7:30pm. 🇺🇸
PUBLIC THEATER’s UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“KLII,” Kaneza Schaal’s exorcism of the colonial ghost of Belgian King Leopold II; is at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, NYC; on Friday, January 20, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $37. 🇧🇮🇨🇩🇨🇬🇷🇼
Saturday, January 21, 2023
Celebrate the Feast of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia, patron saint of the Dominican Republic on Saturday, January 21, 2023. 🇩🇴.
New York State celebrates Dominican Heritage Month January 21 – February 27. 🇩🇴
The Lunar New Year 2023 Photo Exhibition This is Home, features work about New York City by some great New York photographers of Asian descent: Janice Chung (Korean), Cindy Trinh (Vietnamese), and An Rong Xu (Taiwanese). The exhibition opens with a reception at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens; on Saturday, January 21, 2023 from 12-2pm. It ends February 26. FREE! 🇰🇷🇹🇼🇻🇳
Disney On Ice: Into the Magic figure skating brings Moana and Coco to life on ice; at Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on Saturday, January 21, 2023, at 11am, 3pm & 7pm. From $20. 🇲🇽🇵🇷
PUBLIC THEATER’s UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“KLII,” Kaneza Schaal’s exorcism of the colonial ghost of Belgian King Leopold II; is at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, NYC; on Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $37. 🇧🇮🇨🇩🇨🇬🇷🇼
Natalia Osipova Force of Nature, one of the world’s top ballerinas of her generation, dances a night of classic solos and duets from the ballet repertoire and a new contemporary ballet piece “Ashes” by her and Jason Kittleberger; at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 8pm. A percentage of proceeds will be donated to the Ukrainian Relief Effort. From $55. 🇷🇺🇺🇦
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“Otto Frank,” Roger Guenveur Smith’s meditation on Otto, the father of famed Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, with live music by Marc Anthony Thompson; is at the Public Theater in NoHo, NYC; on Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 9:30pm. From $41. 🇺🇸
Sunday, January 22, 2023
(Lunar New Year)
Celebrate Lunar New Year 2023, the Asian spring festival, on Sunday, January 22, 2023.
Masters Week exhibitions open at Sotheby’s in NYC’s Upper East Side on Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 10am.
The Lunar New Year Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival 2023 is a firecracker lighting ceremony with Chinese dance, culture, and food; at Sara D. Roosevelt Park in Manhattan Chinatown; on Sunday, January 22, 2023 from 11am – 3:30pm. FREE! 🇨🇳🇰🇭🇰🇷🇰🇵🇯🇵🇲🇳🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇼🇹🇭🇺🇸
Disney On Ice: Into the Magic figure skating brings Moana and Coco to life on ice; at Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on Sunday, January 22, 2023, at 12pm & 4pm. From $20. 🇲🇽🇵🇷
PUBLIC THEATER’s UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“KLII,” Kaneza Schaal’s exorcism of the colonial ghost of Belgian King Leopold II; is at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, NYC; on Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 2pm. From $37. 🇧🇮🇨🇩🇨🇬🇷🇼
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“Otto Frank,” Roger Guenveur Smith’s meditation on Otto, the father of famed Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, with live music by Marc Anthony Thompson; is at the Public Theater in NoHo, NYC; on Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 2pm & 4:30pm. From $41. 🇺🇸
The New York Jewish Film Festival 2023 closing film is “Alegría” (2021) by Violeta Salama. A single mom who disowns her Jewish heritage returns to the Spanish African enclave Melilla, for her niece’s Orthodox wedding. The comic drama about women breaking free from patriarchal traditions screens in the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center on January 22, 2023 at 2:30pm & 8:30pm. Director Q&As. In Spanish and Chelja with subtitles. $15. 🇪🇸
Cenicienta (Cinderella) by Glass Half Full Theatre of Austin, Texas; is bilingual puppet theatre about ten-year-old Belinda learning to love poetry and stand up for herself as she confronts her stepmother and stepsisters. It’s at the Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 1pm & 3pm. $18 (+fees) or 4 for $60 (+fees) with code 4FOR60.
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, January 22, 2023 from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Monday, January 23, 2023
Happy birthday Franco De Vita! The Venezuelan pop singer-songwriter, was born in Caracas on January 23, 1954. 🇻🇪
Dance Salsa, Bachata and Merengue at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Remember Maria Tallchief, America’s and New York City Ballet’s first prima ballerina. The Native American Osage dancer who helped popularize “The Nutcracker” ballet was born in Fairfax, Oklahoma on January 24, 1925. 🇺🇸
Remember Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, the Harlem Renaissance Black arts collector whose collection became the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Library in Harlem. He was born in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico on January 24, 1874. 🇵🇷
Flag Series: Raul Mourão is a public art installation of Mourão’s “The New Brazilian Flag #3, (2018); at Americas Society on 68th St in the Upper East Side; from January 24 – May 30, 2023. FREE! 🇧🇷
Fleur Seule plays Salsa Night at the Hard Rock Hotel, in the Sessions Lounge, in the Times Square Theater District, on Tuesday, January 24, 2023 from 5-8pm. 🇵🇷
Bárbara Martínez sings and dances New York Argentine, Venezuelan, Spanish flamenco at Flamenco Tuesdays at Sala Astoria, a Spanish restaurant in Astoria, Queens, on Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 7pm. 🇦🇷🇻🇪🇪🇸
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Remember Juan Pablo Duarte, one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic. He was born in Santo Domingo on January 25, 1813. 🇩🇴
Remember Antônio Carlos Jobim, one of the founders of Bossa Nova music. He was born in Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on January 25, 1927. 🇧🇷
Bispo do Rosário: All Existing Materials on Earth, the first U.S. solo exhibition of the genius outsider artist; is at Americas Society in the Upper East Side; from Wednesday, January 25 – May 20, 2023. FREE! 🇧🇷
Deep Marajó: Contemporary Marajoara Ceramics, an art exhibition of contemporary ceramics from the Marajó archipelago at the mouth of the Amazon River; is at Americas Society in the Upper East Side; from Wednesday, January 25 – May 20, 2023. FREE! 🇧🇷
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Celebrate India Republic Day, January 26, 1950. (Indians are Latin in the Caribbean.) 🇮🇳
Moroccan gnawa sacred singer Samir LanGus and New York Iraqi DJ Omar Aena play North African and Iraqi healing dance music (Global Music Afrobeats) for the World Music Institute at Nublu 151 in Manhattan’s East Village, on Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 8pm (7pm doors). From $20. 🇲🇦
Dance Argentine Tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea, Manhattan. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. 🇦🇷
Friday, January 27, 2023 (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
Never forget the UN’s Holocaust Remembrance Day when the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated by Soviet troops. The world could no longer deny the Holocaust (Shoah) on January 27, 1945.
“One Fine Morning,” Mia Hansen-Løve’s 2022 French portrait of a woman torn between romantic desire and family responsibility, opens at Film at Lincoln Center on Friday, January 27, 2023. In French with English subtitles. 🇫🇷
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz at the Birdland Theater in Hell’s Kitchen; Friday, January 27, 2023 at 7 & 9:30pm. From $36.
Monica Bellucci’s “Maria Callas Letters and Memoirs” tells the personal story of Greek opera legend Maria Callas in her own words; is at the Beacon Theatre in the Upper West Side; on Friday, January 27, 2023 at 8pm (7pm doors). From $85. 🇮🇹
Saturday, January 28, 2023
Happy birthday Maluma! The reggaeton and Latin trap pop star was born in Medellín, Colombia on January 28, 1994. 🇨🇴
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company celebrates Lunar New Year 2023 Year of the Water Rabbit; with dancers, acrobats, and musicians at Hostos Center Main Theater in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 3pm. $12.
Award-winning, New York Puerto Rican flamenco choreographer Nélida Tirado dances at Chelsea Table and Stage in Chelsea, NYC; on Saturday, January 28, 2023, at 7pm. From $29. 🇪🇸🇵🇷
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz at the Birdland Theater in Hell’s Kitchen; Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 7 & 9:30pm. From $36. 🇮🇹
Mexican American comic and filmmaker Louis CK plays Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, January 28, 2023, at 7:30pm. From $64. 🇲🇽
Sunday, January 29, 2023
January 29 is NYC’s average coldest day of the year.
[LUNAR NEW YEAR]
New York’s Chinese Theatre Works “Hao Bang-ah, Rabbit!” is Budaixi-style glove puppetry telling bilingual stories of Lunar New Year, the Year of the Rabbit, and other Chinese zodiac traditions. It’s at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens; on Sunday, January 29, 2023. Performances at 1pm & 3pm. Workshops at 1:45pm & 3:45pm. Performance $15. Performance and workshop $22. 🇨🇳
Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez and Italian American pianist Vincenzo Scalera perform Bellini, Rossini, Tosti, Donizetti and Verdi on Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage on Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 2pm. From $24. 🇮🇹 🇵🇪
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, January 29, 2023 from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz at the Birdland Theater in Hell’s Kitchen; Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 7 & 9:30pm. From $36.
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Monday, January 30, 2023
Colombian comic Franko Bonilla brings his “Franko de Visa Show” to the Main Room at the Broadway Comedy Club in Hell’s Kitchen on January 30, 2023 at 6:30pm. (In Spanish) 🇨🇴
Dance Salsa, Bachata and Merengue at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Fleur Seule plays Salsa Night at the Hard Rock Hotel, in the Sessions Lounge, in the Times Square Theater District, on Tuesday, January 17, 2023 from 5-8pm. 🇵🇷