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Discovery Times Square Exposition presents the world premiere of Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop, a new exhibit that explores the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci. The inventor's 500-year-old creations -- including an airplane, automobile, bridge and mechanical lion -- come to life in the form of full-scale, three-dimensional models based on da Vinci's actual drawings. Learn more...

Enjoy a day at Madame Tussauds, the famous wax attraction in Times Square. See lifelike wax models of celebrities, historical figures and more, including Michael Jackson and President Barack Obama. Your ticket also includes admission to the venue's "4-D" theatre, featuring 3-D visuals and lifelike atmospheric effects; a behind the scenes tour; and more. Learn more...

After a six-year run at Broadway's Golden Theatre, the massively popular, Tony-winning, adult puppet musical Avenue Q moves to a more intimate home at New World Stages. Full of humor and hummable tunes, Avenue Q is a hilarious look at life in New York, featuring a fantastic cast of people and puppets. Learn more...

The mission of the Museum of Sex is to preserve and present the history, evolution and cultural significance of human sexuality. In addition to changing exhibitions, the museum offers visitors a sampling from over 15,000 objects that form the museum's permanent collection. The museum is for mature audiences only. Learn more...

Married comedy couple Epstein and Hassan take you back to the edgy, New York comedy of the 60s and 70s when you could go to the Village Vanguard and see Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce or Woody Allen. Their show is filled with razor sharp insights on race, sex, politics and relationships. Learn more...

Discovery Times Square Exposition presents Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. This stunning, meticulously researched exhibition takes guests back to the "unsinkable" Titanic's tragic 1912 voyage, with the largest collection of recovered artifacts ever exhibited, plus magnificent reconstructions of the Ship's interior. Learn more...

High-end cabaret and jazz club the Metropolitan Room brings the best in live music to New York City. Fabulous performers take the stage in an atmosphere reminiscent of the golden age of cabaret. See event details for each night's line-up. Learn more...

Sam Eaton's Off-Broadway spectacle The Quantum Eye -- Magic Deceptions is an amazing evening of intimate parlor magic and mind-reading brought into the 21st century. The longest-running one-man Off-Broadway magic show in New York, The Quantum Eye continues its hit run at the Bleecker Street Theatre. Learn more...

Ashford and Simpson's Sugar Bar is one of New York's top live music venues, providing both established and emerging artists with a consistent outlet with which they can expand their fan base and share their music. The Sugar Bar showcases local and international talent playing R&B, soul, jazz and rock, as well as traditional Caribbean and African rhythms. Learn more...

When Matt and Luisa fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families, what they don't realize is that their whole love affair was plotted by their conspiring fathers, who aren't feuding at all--they only staged the conflict to encourage their children to fall in love! With their love no longer forbidden, the young pair falls into temptation, their innocence destroyed. Will their love for one another survive? Learn more...

If you miss "The Sopranos" and can't get enough of "Goodfellas," then it's time for you to be Murdered by the Mob! Murdered by the Mob is the interactive murder mystery that has been thrilling New York audiences for more than a dozen years. Enjoy an Italian dinner, dancing and a show as you mingle with mobsters! Learn more...

With Uncle Sam's Chelsea Night Club Tour, you won't just discover the hottest night clubs in New York City -- you'll walk right into them. This is an elite, guided New York City nightlife experience, introducing you to the best the Big Apple has to offer. Guests will enjoy two free drinks and free admission with no lines to two of the world's best night clubs. Learn more...

Currently in its 20th year, the enduringly popular Tony n' Tina's Wedding is a hilarious celebration of a fictional Italian wedding with audience participation. Enjoy a full Italian dinner, wedding cake, champagne, and a live band! Learn more...

The acclaimed improv comedy show National Comedy Theatre is now in its fifth year Off-Broadway, after performing nationwide for the past two decades. Based completely on audience suggestions, NCT creates a high-energy comedy performance without a script. Similar in style to Whose Line is it Anyway, each show is unique. The show is appropriate for all audiences and there is no drink minimum. Learn more...

Follow the trail of the Beat generation and 1960s folk-rock history when you plunge into the heart of Greenwich Village. Your tour guide will offer stories of The Stonewall Riots, the site where Jimi Hendrix played his first show, the drinking tale of poet Dylan Thomas and more, on your journey to four or five different pubs, including The Whitehorse Tavern, Kettle of Fish and Kenny's Castaways. Enjoy three complimentary domestic beers along the way. Learn more...

New York City's longest running variety burlesque show, Le Scandal is authentic, edgy, sexy New York City cabaret featuring circus, burlesque, variety and live music. Le Scandal's performers include a sword swallowing belly dancer, contortionist, lasso trick cowboy, sexy juggler comedian, trapeze striptease, and many more exciting and eye popping acts. Audiences can participate in the Le Scandal Sex Quiz to win fun burlesque prizes. Learn more...

You won't find entertainment quite like this anywhere else in NYC: eight hunks display their charms as they celebrate the splendors of male nudity in comedy, song and dance. This sensational revue is now in its 9th full frontal year and has been hailed by audiences and critics alike as a sure-fire crowd pleaser. Learn more...

Cruise the NY Harbor in style while learning about the regions, grapes, and wines of the world with NY wine professional Wendy Crispell. Enjoy five perfectly paired light tapas while relaxing in a climate-controlled glass solarium sailing past the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island while swirling, sniffing, savoring wines of the world. A different region or style will be explored each week. Learn more...

Jack Freiberger's They Call Me Mister Fry comes to New York's Comic Strip Live. In this hilarious and inspiring true story, Freiberger, a young teacher from Indiana, moves to Los Angeles and gets a job teaching fifth grade in South Central. The show has run in Los Angeles and Off-Broadway. Learn more...

Conjoined twins Max and Benjie share everything, from their anatomy to their careers. But when they plan to propose marriage to their mutual girlfriend, Benjie tells Max a secret so big it threatens to tear the twins apart. An irreverent comedy, Made in Heaven deals with issues of family, love and acceptance. Learn more...

Blending Latin and ballroom dance into an electrifying performance, the international hit Burn the Floor comes to Broadway with a troupe that includes two percussionists, two vocalists, and 16 top dancers including former world champions. Learn more...

Stroll the busy streets among the numerous mom & pop specialty food and gift shops and restaurants of New York's real "Little Italy" in the Bronx. Along the way, sample the tastes that make this a destination for those in search of the best Italian specialties the city has to offer: bureks, crusty bread, olives, cheese, sausage, pastry and, of course, pizza. Learn more...

A laugh-filled musical revue, Don't Leave It All to Your Children aims to offer a preview for Baby Boomers -- and younger generations -- of what they have to look forward to as senior citizens. The evening blends song with humorous monologues and even some improvised audience interaction. Learn more...

In the tradition of Tony n' Tina's Wedding and Grandma Sylvia's Funeral, The Boychick Affair is a hands-on show where audience members will mingle with the actors and enjoy a meal and dancing. From Harry Boychick's Bar Mitzvah ceremony to the reception afterward, this comedy tells the story of 23 different and highly dysfunctional characters dealing with contemporary issues. Learn more...

Experience rock history at The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ANNEX NYC with interactive exhibits, never-before-seen footage and more on this self-guided wireless headset tour. Now featuring John Lennon: The New York City Years, capturing his music and political and social activism with artifacts including his legendary instruments, original handwritten lyrics and artwork. Learn more...

After working in R&B bands as a young man, Pharoah Sanders settled in New York in the early-'60s, where he became a frequent musical associate of Don Cherry, Albert Ayler and others active in the "free jazz" movement, and worked for a while in the Sun Ra Arkestra. In the late-'80s, he reverted to a more purely instrumental jazz and became a familiar figure at international festivals. Learn more...

Jim Brochu has earned raves for his tour-de-force performance as stage star Zero Mostel in his one-man, Ovation Award-winning play Zero Hour. Oscar-nominated actress Piper Laurie directs this look at the famously volatile Mostel, known for both his comedic genius (memorably on display in Mel Brooks' The Producers) and his place on the Hollywood blacklist. Learn more...

Al Lubel headlines Broadway Comedy Club's Clean Comedy Dinner Show. Lubel, a lawyer turned stand-up comic, has made numerous appearances on the Tonight Show, and has also been seen on Late Night With David Letterman and Last Comic Standing. This early-evening show features top national comics performing clean material for an audience of adults. Learn more...

Writer and actress Carrie Fisher tells her story in the hit one-woman show Wishful Drinking, now at Studio 54. It's an incredible tale, from her childhood as the daughter of film stars Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher and stepdaughter of Elizabeth Taylor, to her big break starring as Princess Leia in Star Wars, her marriage to Paul Simon, and many more shocking and hilarious Hollywood stories. Learn more...

Irish Times Theatre Award-winner for Best New Play and Best Supporting Actor, The New Electric Ballroom is a dark, glitter-dusted fable about small-town life. Enda Walsh's companion piece to The Walworth Farce, the story is set in a small fishing town in Ireland, where, night after night, two aging sisters re-enact a night in the '60s with a seductive rock singer at the New Electric Ballroom. Learn more...

The World Music Institute presents Irish Nights at Highline Ballroom. Singer Karan Casey is one of Ireland's most acclaimed vocalists, blending traditional Irish ballad style with jazz and folk influences. She was a member of the acclaimed group Solas, and won a Grammy for her album Celtic Solstice. Learn more...

Simon Lovell's Strange and Unusual Hobbies is now entering its third sold-out year at the Huron Club -- quite an accomplishment for a chatty chap from Manchester. Part card sharp, part con man, all performer, Simon Lovell is a world-renowned close up entertainer incredibly gifted in the art of sleight-of-hand. His hilarious and magical show never fails to delight and amaze audiences. Learn more...

These Grammy nominees play all-American roots rock with a feel-good R&B foundation and a happy, rollicking back porch vibe that gets children (and their parents!) up and dancing, and smiling ear to ear. Learn more...

The New Jersey Nets host their rivals, the New York Knicks, in a Saturday afternoon NBA game at the Meadowlands. The Nets are led by speedy guard Devin Harris and rising star center Brook Lopez; Coach Mike D'Antoni's Knicks play a fast-paced and exciting style of basketball. For each ticket you purchase, you'll receive a ticket to the Nets' December 16 game with the Utah Jazz. Learn more...

The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt performs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. They'll be joined by soprano Lorna Anderson and tenor Jamie MacDougall for a program featuring three chamber works by Haydn, as well as the U.S. premieres of piano trios by Bolcom and Krammer. Learn more...

The Complete Performer is a mostly one-man comedy show, featuring the Letterman Show's Emmy Award-winning writer Ted Greenberg and his crowd-rousing mascot. The show combines stand-up, mind reading, magic, a half-time show and full-frontal nudity. The Complete Performer is a quintessential New York theater experience. Learn more...

Rita MenWeep, a member of the Peach Tartes burlesque troupe, presents a sexy stage version of the classic board game Clue. In Get a Clue, clues -- and skin -- are revealed as the story unfolds, eventually leading to the what, where and why of Mr. Body's murder. At the end, it's up to the audience to decide the outcome. Learn more...

Antoinette LaVecchia's How To Be A Good Italian Daughter (In Spite of Myself) is a funny and touching portrait of mothers and daughters, centering on the classic struggles between an immigrant Italian mother and her Americanized daughter. It's a hearty blend of humor, vivacity and family history -- Italian style. Learn more...

This campy holiday comedy takes place in West Hollywood, where a struggling gay theater company is preparing its holiday show. Jim, the pot-smoking straight tech guy, offends the playwright, causing him to walk out and take his script with him. Now the crazy and drama-addicted team has just a few weeks to produce the "gayest Christmas pageant ever." Learn more...

Amy Schumer, Christian Finnegan and Ted Alexandro perform stand-up at EastVille Comedy Club. Schumer was a finalist on Last Comic Standing. Finnegan is known for his role on Chappelle's Show's "Mad Real World", and has had his own Comedy Central special. Alexandro has appeared on David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel and The View. Learn more...

Founded in 1997, Baby Wants Candy has performed completely improvised musicals to sold-out crowds from Singapore to Edinburgh. BWC has consistently wowed audiences and critics alike with some of the funniest and smartest improvisation around. Learn more...

William Shakespeare's masterful Troilus & Cressida is joined with Thomas Heywood's rarely-seen Iron Age, to create an epic retelling of the Trojan War. Together, these two Elizabethan plays go from the rape of Helen to the sack of Troy, bringing Homer's long-lost world vividly to life. Learn more...

Get ready for a magical evening of solid-gold rock-and-roll, doo-wop, and rhythm-and-blues Top 40 hits. This collection of jukebox classics features Ben E. King ("Stand by Me"), Gene Chandler ("Duke of Earl"), Frankie Lymon's Legendary Teenagers ("Why Do Fools Fall In Love?"), Joey Dee and The Starliters ("Peppermint Twist"), Bobby Lewis ("Tossin' and Turnin'"), The Shades of Blue ("Oh How Happy"), and Newark's own popular oldies and doo-wop trio, The Silver Stars. Learn more...

In this musical comedy, a Christian boy-band (with one nice Jewish boy) look for their big break in the Big Apple. Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juan and Abraham's pious pop act, including lyrics like "Jesus Called Me On My Cell Phone," worked wonders on the Ohio bingo-hall-and-pancake-breakfast circuit. But when fate brings them to New York, will the boyz take a bite out of the forbidden apple? Learn more...

Broadway's American Airlines Theatre hosts After Miss Julie. Patrick Marber's provocative new version of August Strindberg's Miss Julie stars Sienna Miller (Factory Girl) and Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting) in their Broadway debuts. The show moves Strindberg's drama of sex and social class to the post-World War II English countryside. Learn more...

A musical comedy fantasy designed for children aged 4-12, The Goldfish Twins Swim the Big Blue Sea centers on the underwater adventures of two fancy fantail goldfish, who meet magic eels, singing turtles and dancing crabs as they race to get back to fresh water. Along the way, they learn about the values of honesty, teamwork and dreaming big. Learn more...

Local rock bands Hardcore Mojo and Wet Coma perform at Iridium Jazz. "Speed blues" band Hardcore Mojo is fronted by Robroy Mountjoy (an actor, writer and director whose credits include Shower Frown), while Wet Coma's combustive sound is reminiscent of 1970's riff-based hard rock. Learn more...

The Queen Project performs at the Bronx's Paradise Theater. This R&B supergroup features chart-topping divas Tamia, Kelly Price and Deborah Cox. They've united to record an album of inspiring, passionately sung music. Learn more...

Acclaimed film and stage actor Willem Dafoe (Platoon, Spider-Man, Antichrist) stars in the world premiere of a philosophical comedy from Nine-time Obie Award-winning avant-garde playwright Richard Foreman. Incorporating existential and metaphysical concerns as well as a ridiculous game of inter-species golf with Giant Duck, Idiot Savant blends the absurd and the hilarious while exploring of the boundaries of the legitimate. Learn more...