Top 5 For the Week
MUSIC
“Et Tu, Brute: Music of the Ides of March”Brooklyn orchestral collective the Knights, mainstays at Bleecker Street music club SubCulture, perform a program inspired by the betrayal and backstabbing of Caesar’s assassination, including pieces by 18th century Austrian composer Joseph Haydn and contemporary British composer Thomas Adès.
Thursday, March 19
SubCulture
45 Bleecker St.
8 p.m.
Tickets $20-$25
To purchase tickets, visit http://subculturenewyork.com or call 212-533-5470
THEATER
Truffles: A Murder Mystery Jazz DinnerA classic whodunit unfolds as live dinner theater at the Metropolitan Room, where the audience dines on spaghetti and meatballs and attempts to solve the mysterious murder of a restaurant chef and the theft of a valuable two-pound truffle.
Saturday, March 21
Metropolitan Room
34 W. 22nd St., between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
11:30 p.m.
Tickets $75-$145
To purchase tickets, visit www.metropolitanroom.com or call 212-206-0440
KIDS
“Chinese Food, American Story”Sarah Lohman, a “historic gastronomist” who recreates old recipes and blogs about her culinary experiments at fourpoundsflour.com, teaches a historic cooking class at the New-York Historical Society. Tied to the museum’s current exhibit, “Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion,” the workshop will teach children how to make handmade dumplings, as well as chop suey, one of the earliest Chinese takeout dishes, from a 100-year-old recipe. Appropriate for ages eight and up.
Saturday, March 21
DiMenna Children’s History Museum at the New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West, at 77th Street
2 p.m.
Tickets $16
To purchase tickets visit http://www.nyhistory.org/childrens-museum/programs-events-games or email familyprograms@nyhistory.org
GALLERIES
Midtown Gallery TourRafael Risemberg, a former art critic and college professor, has led regular gallery tours throughout the city’s art districts for 12 years, performing exhaustive and regular research on the exhibitions at New York’s more than 600 galleries and highlighting only the most worthy shows. On March 21, he leads a tour of Midtown’s “skyscraper district,” visiting seven high-end contemporary art galleries. Tours take place rain or shine.
New York Gallery Tours
Saturday, March 21
Starts at 24 W. 57th St., near Sixth Avenue
1 p.m.
Tickets $25
To purchase tickets, visit http://nygallerytours.com/scheduled-tours/ or call 212-946-1548 for more information
FILM
La Vita Duo and “Occupy the Farm”Paradigm Shifts 2015, a weekend-long music and film festival at Baruch Performing Arts Center, couples a performance by classical guitar and vocal pair La Vito Duo, playing selections by Leonard Bernstein and Pete Seeger, among other composers, with a screening of Todd Darling’s “Occupy the Farm.” The 2014 documentary follows the efforts of 200 community members and college students in northern California’s East Bay who took over the sole farmland left in the urban area in an effort to feed their neighbors and divert plans to build a mall in its place.
Friday, March 20
La Vita Duo and “Occupy the Farm”
Engelman Recital Hall at Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Ave., at 25th Street
Tickets $20
To purchase tickets, visit https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/34503 or call 212-352-3101