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Theater<\/strong>
1. See <\/strong>Oratorio for Living Things<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Across the universe.<\/em>
Signature Theatre, opening September 30.
Physics, cosmology, jazz, and gospel blend with the classical oratorio form in the nonpareil composer Heather Christian\u2019s work of music theater, one of the most sublime pieces to come out of the pandemic and a total knockout when it premiered at Greenwich House in 2022. \u2014Sara Holdren<\/em><\/p>\n

Movies<\/strong>
2. Go to <\/strong>Chantal Akerman: The Long View<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Inner lives on film.<\/em>
Museum of Modern Art, through October 16.
Akerman\u2019s 1975 Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles<\/em> is the greatest movie of all time, per the last Sight and Sound<\/em> critics poll, and features more potato peeling than any other cinematic masterpiece. Now, the Belgian filmmaker is getting a retrospective of more than 40 films. \u2014Alison Willmore<\/em><\/p>\n

Music<\/strong>
3. See <\/strong>billy woods<\/strong><\/a>
Re-up on bad dreams.<\/em>
Knockdown Center, September 25.
The rapper goes to Maspeth on tour for his rich and unsettling album Golliwog,<\/em> which came out in May. His openers \u2014 rappers Bruiser Wolf and Elucid, producer DJ Haram, duo Gabe \u2019Nandez and Preservation, and songwriter Cleo Reed \u2014 all have great records out or on the way. \u2014Craig Jenkins<\/em><\/p>\n

Art<\/strong>
4. See <\/strong>The Gatherers<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Odes to detritus.<\/em>
MoMA PS1, through October 6.
Without Robert Rauschenberg, Allan Kaprow, and Judy Pfaff, this group show might not exist. As it is, we get pileups and arrangements of furniture, signage, mannequins, and the like. Tbilisi- and Berlin-based Tolia Astakhishvili fashions a wormhole diorama of buildings and transportation networks inside an air-conditioning duct; it is rightfully the centerpiece of the exhibition. \u2014Jerry Saltz<\/em><\/p>\n

TV<\/strong>
5. Watch <\/strong>House of Guinness<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
From the creator of <\/em>Peaky Blinders.
Netflix, September 25.
Steven Knight is back playing in the field he likes best: portraits of U.K. history that allow for violence, scheming, and general ne\u2019er-do-well-ness. This show follows the Succession<\/em>-style family infighting that occurs after Sir Benjamin Guinness\u2019s death. Which of his four adult children will pick up his yeasty mantle? \u2014Roxana Hadadi<\/em><\/p>\n

Video Games<\/strong>
6. Play <\/strong>Final Fantasy Tactics \u2014 The Ivalice Chronicles<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
One of the greatest strategy games ever made.<\/em>
Square Enix, September 30
.A more than three-decade-old swords-and-shields epic, this Final Fantasy<\/em> spinoff is a modernized remake complete with full voice-acting. It\u2019s a
feat of preservation that required the -development team to rebuild the original game from scratch. \u2014Nicholas Quah<\/em><\/p>\n

Music<\/strong>
7. See <\/strong>Alex G<\/strong><\/a>
Big-city lo-fi with Nil\u00fcfer Yanya opening.<\/em>
Radio City Music Hall, October 8.
Going from playing acoustic guitar in your high school stairwell to performing at Radio City Music Hall is like going from class president to actual president. See this singer-songwriter and celebrate the near impossible. \u2014Matthew Schnipper<\/em><\/p>\n

Books<\/strong>
8. Read <\/strong>Perverts<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
From the Poetry Project\u2019s editorial director.<\/em>
Nightboat, September 30.
Using the dreams of strangers and friends \u2014 \u201cdelegates\u2009\/\u2009of the dream assembly,\u201d as she puts it \u2014 Kay Gabriel\u2019s epic poem is far from phantasmic. It\u2019s full of specifics about protest, desire, and being trans in our political moment. The book\u2019s second part, \u201ctrannies, by Larry Kramer,\u201d satirizes that author\u2019s 1978 novel, Faggots.<\/em> \u2014Emma Alpern<\/em><\/p>\n

Movies<\/strong>
9. See <\/strong>The Lost Bus<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
An instant disaster-movie classic.<\/em>
In theaters September 19 and on Apple TV+ October 3.
Paul Greengrass\u2019s intense wildfire thriller presents the shocking, mostly true tale of a school-bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) who winds up having to drive a group of elementary-schoolers through the hellish flames of the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest in California history. \u2014Bilge Ebiri<\/em><\/p>\n

Theater<\/strong>
10. See <\/strong>And Then We Were No More<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Especially heinous.<\/em>
La MaMa, through November 2.
In a near-future dystopia, a lawyer (Elizabeth Marvel) has to fight for the life of a man deemed \u201cbeyond rehabilitation\u201d by the justice system and condemned to be executed in a supposedly painless new machine. This new play by Tim Blake Nelson sounds even more menacing than real life. \u2014S.H.<\/em><\/p>\n

Music<\/strong>
11. Listen to <\/strong>Through the Wall<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
It\u2019s so danceable.<\/em>
Empire, September
26.Rochelle Jordan is an R&B troubadour who has been exploring the synergy between soul and electronic music ever since we were finding love in hopeless places in the early 2010s. Experience on the beat makes her new album slam even though the composite parts feel impossibly light. \u2014C.J.<\/em><\/p>\n

TV<\/strong>
12. Watch <\/strong>Abbott Elementary<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
The network comedy that could keeps on going.<\/em>
ABC, October 1.
School\u2019s back in session \u2014 a little later than in reality, but still. In its fifth season, the series is creeping ever closer toward elder-statesman territory. What\u2019s next is certainly more episodic high jinks plus, hopefully, an update on the formerly fired Ava and the forever fine O\u2019Shon. \u2014R.H.<\/em><\/p>\n

Art<\/strong>
13. See <\/strong>Ohad Meromi<\/strong><\/a>
This artist bends norms at will.<\/em>
56 Henry Street, through October 26.
One of the best underknown artists anywhere is sculptor Ohad Meromi. At the larger of the two galleries here rests a quasi-space-age high-modernist figurative female, part Archipenko and part Henry Moore by way of Martha Graham\u2019s twisting forms \u2014 and part sheer genius. A second gallery is filled with watercolors. \u2014J.S.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Short List<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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New York Film Festival<\/h3>\n

Lincoln Center\u2019s paradise for cinephiles returns from September 26 through October 13.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

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A House of Dynamite<\/em><\/strong>
Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s latest is a riveting thriller about different sectors of the national-security apparatus attempting to stop a mysterious missile and the growing menace of nuclear proliferation.<\/p>\n

No Other Choice
<\/em><\/strong>Park Chan-wook is back in his deranged-satirist mode with this tale of a dedicated paper-mill employee who loses his job and decides to kill all the people he might have to compete against for his next one.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter Hujar\u2019s Diary<\/em>
<\/strong>Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall give two of their best performances in this loving, atmospheric re-creation of a 1974 interview the photographer gave to Linda Rosenkrantz.<\/p>\n

Scarlet<\/em>
<\/strong>Perhaps the strangest and most visually delightful of the recent spate of Hamlet adaptations is this spectacular anime fantasy in which an ass-kicking Princess of Denmark vows revenge on her bloodthirsty uncle.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

Music<\/strong>
14. See <\/strong>JJJJJerome Ellis<\/strong><\/a>
Sonic depth from a different way of talking.<\/em>
Roulette, October 3.
The five J<\/em>\u2019s in this multidisciplinary artist\u2019s name represent a central fact of his life and work: He has a stutter. That shapes his music; as he speaks, he may be mirrored by skittering drums. Sometimes he forgoes voice altogether to make enigmatic, peaceful instrumental pieces. \u2014M.S.<\/em><\/p>\n

Movies<\/strong>
15. See <\/strong>Ju Dou<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Cruelty and passion.<\/em>
Film Forum, October 3 through 9.
Gong Li is ferociously great in this 1990 historical drama by Zhang Yimou about a young woman who gets married off to a heartless merchant. Its claustrophobic intrigues and sumptuous footage of fabric-dyeing nabbed it China\u2019s first-ever Oscar nomination for foreign-language film. \u2014A.W.<\/em><\/p>\n

Music<\/strong>
16. Listen to <\/strong>Neon Grey Midnight Green<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Reflections on the musician\u2019s life (and work).<\/em>
Anti-, September 26.
As a solo artist, sometime alt-country bandleader, and indie-pop dynamo in the New Pornographers, Neko Case imbues her songs with novelistic insight. Her first full-length since 2018\u2019s fire-tinged chronicle Hell-On<\/em> muses heartily on the struggles and triumphs of the musician class of the 2020s. \u2014C.J.<\/em><\/p>\n

Theater<\/strong>
17. See <\/strong>Last Call<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
A play with cocktails.<\/em>
Site specific, previews start September 19.
En Garde Arts, which co-produced The Wind and the Rain<\/em> last year on a Red Hook barge, brings a new endeavor to a collection of real apartments. Obie winners Dustin Wills and Hansol Jung (both members of the performance collective the Pack) explore an immersive new story that takes place behind a bar and in the crowd as audiences mingle, drink, and get caught up in the drama. \u2014S.H.<\/em><\/p>\n

TV<\/strong>
18. Watch <\/strong>Nightmares of Nature<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Narrated by Maya Hawke.<\/em>
Netflix, September 30
Whoever came up with the idea to merge a Planet Earth<\/em>\u2013style doc with the screeching score, squelching sounds, and jump scares of the horror genre, congratulations. This docuseries is split into two halves (part two is out October 28), with forest creatures first and jungle creatures next, and both focus on how \u201cnightmares are realities.\u201d \u2014R.H.<\/em><\/p>\n

Movies<\/strong>
19. See <\/strong>Andrei Rublev<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
One of Soviet cinema\u2019s greatest achievements.<\/em>
Roxy Cinema, September 26.
The big screen is the only way to experience Andrei Tarkovsky\u2019s expansive and meditative 1966 classic about a medieval Russian icon painter and his harrowing journey through a landscape filled with absurdity, visions, mud, and violence. \u2014B.E.<\/em><\/p>\n

Opera<\/strong>
20. See <\/strong>Sibyl<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
The visual-aural William Kentridge experience.<\/em>
Powerhouse Arts, October 8 through 11.
The West got to know South Africa\u2019s a cappella vocal ensembles through Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Now, composers Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Kyle Shepherd nudge those traditions of close harmonies, chants, and percussive rhythms into the realm of chamber opera. \u2014J.D.<\/em><\/p>\n

TV<\/strong>
21. Watch <\/strong>Wayward<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Bad medicine.<\/em>
Netflix, September 25.
Mae Martin created and stars in this miniseries set at a school for troubled teens. Toni Collette plays the enigmatic woman who runs the joint, complete with oversize glasses, flowing hippie hair, and a bell that channels Weapons<\/em>\u2019s Aunt Gladys. It\u2019s sort of in the vein of Nine Perfect Strangers<\/em> but with the creeping tension of a paranoid thriller. \u2014N.Q.<\/em><\/p>\n

Music<\/strong>
22. See <\/strong>Lambrini Girls<\/strong><\/a>
Abrasive, but sweet.<\/em>
Racket, September 24.
The U.K. punk outfit, whose whip-smart and ferocious debut, Who Let the Dogs Out,<\/em> is one of our Best Albums of 2025 (So Far), brings Chicago\u2019s hooky, sax-wielding Edging to this Bowery Presents venue for a double shot of candy-sweet melody meeting distortion and thoughtful crassness. \u2014C.J.<\/em><\/p>\n

TV<\/strong>
23. Watch <\/strong>Monster: The Ed Gein Story<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
He\u2019s no Jeffrey Dahmer.<\/em>
Netflix, October 3.
Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan\u2019s Monster<\/em> series has been shockingly popular. But could a season about the infamously disgusting Ed Gein be a bridge too far? Charlie Hunnam is practically unrecognizable after shedding pounds and adopting a breathy, high-pitched accent to play the part. This is a gross story that could veer into transphobia, though, and it might turn away casual viewers. Whether Murphy\u2019s branding is strong enough to keep people enthralled is the big question. \u2014R.H.<\/em><\/p>\n

Movies<\/strong>
24. See <\/strong>Sunday at Il Posto Accanto<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Breaking bread in grim times.<\/em>
Maysles Documentary Center, September 29 and 30.
Directed by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, this film, with locals playing themselves, looks at the East Village restaurant, which was an important community space during the pandemic. Also coming to AppleTV+ October 1. \u2014Wendy Goodman<\/em><\/p>\n

Books<\/strong>
25. Go to <\/strong>Shadow Ticket Midnight<\/em> Release Party<\/strong><\/a>
The author presumably will not attend.<\/em>
Greenlight Bookstore, October 6.
Who will show up for a Harry Potter\u2013style midnight release party for the new Thomas Pynchon novel about a private eye from Milwaukee in the 1930s? We simply must find out. \u2014E.A.<\/em><\/p>\n