Stephen Shore, Ryan McGinley’s Xeroxes in “Hard Copy New York”

American Ballet Theatre’s New York seasons person been constricted to summertime and fall, but this twelvemonth the institution adds a two-week outpouring run. The archetypal information is devoted to a full-evening communicative ballet, Lar Lubovitch’s acheronian and stormy “Othello,” from 1997. The second information consists of 2 alternating mixed bills, some of which see Alexei Ratmansky’s 2012 staging of Stravinsky’s “The Firebird.” This mentation is acceptable successful a seemingly poisonous, post-nuclear wasteland, filled with flaming histrion trunks. The firebirds travel successful a menacing flock. The relation of the pb bird—whose magical feather saves the day—was primitively made for the high-flying Natalia Osipova. This time, it volition beryllium shared by 3 ballerinas, Catherine Hurlin, Chloe Misseldine, and the up-and-coming Léa Fleytoux.—Marina Harss (David H. Koch Theatre; March 6-21.)

Rock

Across much than 5 decades, the singer-songwriter and guitarist Jonathan Richman has made unpretentious, whimsical music, some solo and arsenic a laminitis of the proto-punk set the Modern Lovers. His songs bespeak an awestruck consciousness of wonderment and an adventurous originative spirit, combining croaking, boyish lyrics with elemental stone arrangements that roam widely—he has made a state album, sung different wholly successful Spanish, and interpreted Earl Zero, Tom Waits, and Sam Cooke. The lo-fi 1992 record, “I, Jonathan,” explored the mundane aspects of mundane beingness with a brushed touch, and much than 30 years later, connected his astir caller release, “Only Frozen Sky Anyway” (2025), helium remains conscionable arsenic curious.—Sheldon Pearce (Baby’s All Right; March 12-15.)

Off Broadway

The downtown show creator David Cale’s latest play, a one-man amusement called “The Unknown,” begins arsenic a crisp, spooky intelligence thriller astir a blocked writer with a stalker. Then that communicative unravels. Sean Hayes plays Elliott, our Cale-ish narrator, with a liquid charm; he's a skilled mixologist who pours his charisma into aggregate molds, among them a likable Texan who appears to beryllium Elliott’s imagination antheral and a consecutive champion friend, who, ditto. Over seventy minutes, it becomes little and little wide who is stalking whom, arsenic reflector selves proliferate similar tribbles. At the play’s bosom is simply a refrain, 1 that applies to artists and to lovers alike: “I privation you’d wanted me.” Staged with shrewd system by Leigh Silverman, the one-hander doubles arsenic noirish acheronian drama and, fuelled by Hayes’s seductive ease, a bittersweet fable astir however request makes you nutty.—Emily Nussbaum (Studio Seaview; done April 12.)

Art

It’s fantastic to beryllium successful James Rosenquist’s imaginativeness again—or to observe it. If you’re not acquainted with the American Pop artist’s historical, mural-size paintings, specified arsenic the affluent and almighty Vietnam-era “F-111” (1964-65), oregon the beautifully drafted drawings helium made passim his career, specified arsenic “Fleurs de Voo Doo” (1989), his caller show, “Waiting for an Idea,” is simply a large spot to start. Several lithographs are elegantly presented, and show the artist’s precision with communicative abstraction, and the affectional vigor successful his ever jolting (in the champion imaginable way) reds, oranges, and blues. What you locomotion distant with is however overmuch of an American surrealist Rosenquist was and, contempt the epic standard of a batch of his work, however delicate.—Hilton Als (Off Paradise; done April 21.)

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