By Roger Costa
@NewFest NYC
The 37th edition of NewFest LGBTQ+ NYC is in full swing across the Big Apple thru October 21st featuring the boldest and highly anticipated Queer projects of the year. NewFest 2025 opened with Richard Linklater’s comedy “Blue Moon” starring Ethan Hawke in an Oscar-caliber performance followed by a party at Slate gathering filmmakers, professionals and enthusiasts.
The first weekend also featured the World Premiere of the electrifying and complex erotic thriller “Other People’s Bodies”, the sensitive female-driven “In Transit” about the romance between a lonely married woman and a painter, the NY Premiere of Kristen Stewart’s absorbing and inventive abuse drama “The Chronology of Water” boosted by a hypnotizing, awards-worthy performance by Imogen Poots, the heartwarming and funny coming of age “I Wish You All the Best”, the utterly hot and meditative urban drama “Sauna”, episodic films, shorts and workshops. This week NewFest continues its screenings and special events.
Boxing biopic “Christy” starring Sydney Sweeney in a tour-de-force performance will screen on October 19 as the Closing Night selection followed by a Party. Actress Katy O’Brian will be attending the event. Directed by David Michôd it tells the true story of a small-town boxer who becomes a champion and changes forever the boxing industry. Another highlight is the Free workshop and networking program NBCUniversal x Rotten Tomatoes: The NewFest Experience taking place at The Center on Saturday, October 18, featuring panels, talks and drinks. INFO: https://newfest.org/
@David Koch Theater
Returning to Lincoln Center’s David Koch Theater, the stylish and stunning Paul Taylor Dance Company performs November 4-23 featuring premieres and audience favorites extracted from their vast and physically challenging repertoire.
Under the Artistic Direction of Michael Novak, Paul Taylor Dance Company highlights the work of its Resident Choreographers such as Lauren Lovette’s new work set to John Adams’s Fearful Symmetries and Robert Battle’s highly anticipated new choreography danced to the music of jazz composer Wycliffe Gordon. The three-week program also includes the New York Premiere of “How Love Sounds” and the restaging of Lovette’s “SOLITAIRE”. Also on the program, the Company’s signature dances “Company B” and “Esplanade”.
The season features Live Music performed by Orchestra of St. Luke under the baton of David LaMarche and Tara Simoncic. (Photos courtesy of Paul Taylor Dance Company).
Tickets start at $22. INFO: https://www.davidhkochtheater.com/tickets-and-events/paul-taylor
@NJPAC
October brings some of the hottest shows to Newark’s NJPAC. Located at 1 Center Street, the largest performing arts center in NJ will host the thrills of “Vampire Circus” on Thursday, October 23, in a celebration of the haunted holiday with acrobats, clows and lots of fun for the whole family.
On Sunday, October 26th the iconic Australian pop group Air Supply lands on stage to celebrate their 50th anniversary featuring some worldwide eternal hits such as “Lost in Love”, “All Out of Love” and “Here I Am”.
The next day, the queen of soul music, Diana Ross returns to NJPAC for a unique and historical performance featuring hits, memories, glamour and magic. Tickets start at $63. INFO: https://www.njpac.org/tickets-events/#?month=10-2025
@The New School
On Thursday October 30th The New School’s College of Performing Arts will present a double program in defiance of the current immigration crisis in the country. The event kicks off with the screening and panel of “Fandango at the Wall” an HBO Documentary tracking the gathering of artists and musicians at the border of Mexico/US for a concert-protest taking place at 4pm at The Auditorium, 66 West 12th St.
At 7:30pm the movement continues at Tishman Auditorium at The New School, 63 Fifth Avenue, featuring a live concert led by Piano and Afro-Latin Jazz master Arturo O’Farrill, with The Conga Patria Son Jarocho Collective, Arturo O’Farrill and The Afro Latin Jazz Octet, and The New School Studio Orchestra.
(Arturo O’Farrill & Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra perform at border wall in Tijuana (2018) Photo credit: Belongó). INFO: https://event.newschool.edu/fandangoatthewall
@Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim Museum New York just launched its latest edition in the Collection in Focus series: Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be Stopped. In celebration of Robert Rauschenberg’s 100th birthday, this exhibition is part of a global tribute to the artist’s boundary-pushing creativity, experimental spirit, and lasting influence on contemporary art.
Featuring over a dozen seminal works from the Guggenheim’s collection along with major loans from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, which together highlight the artist’s radical use of materials and media.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is Barge (1962–63), a monumental 32-foot-long silkscreen painting made predominantly over a 24-hour period and the largest in a series of approximately 80 Silkscreen Paintings works the artist created between 1962 and 1964. This pivotal work returns to New York for the first time in nearly 25 years. (Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum). Tickets $30. Free for children up to 12 years old. INFO: https://www.guggenheim.org/
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