Manhattan Happenings
THEATER
“Hannah Senesh”: This one-woman
show, with music and song, presented
by the National Yiddish Theatre
Folksbiene, tells the true story of
Hannah Senesh, a heroic young Jewish
woman who escaped from Axis-allied
Hungary in 1939 to British Mandate
Palestine. There she joined Haganah
and then bravely volunteered for a
daring special-operations mission to
parachute back into Europe to save
Jews from the Holocaust. Starring
Lexi Rabadi. Written and directed by
David Schechter. Tickets start at $49.
Performances July 29 to Aug. 18 at
The National Yiddish Theatre at The
Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living
Memorial to the Holocaust, 36 Battery
Place.
POETRY
“Sonnets From The Tower”: A poet
visits The Tower of London and, in
turn, is visited by 27 ghosts from various
years and centuries in the tower’s
history: male and female, birds and
four-footers, children and seniors,
famous, infamous and everyday folk.
Each spirit speaks to the poet in a
14-line, Elizabethan-style sonnet, the
form immortalized by Shakespeare.
Written and performed by William
Henry Koch, Jr., St. Peter’s Chelsea
playwright-in-residence. Performances
benefi t St. Peter’s Chelsea/Theatre
of the Elephant. Suggested $10 donation
at the door. Sun., Aug. 11, 3 p.m.
and Mon., Aug. 12 at 6 p.m. Performances
at St. Peter’s Chelsea, 246 W.
20th St.
RUNNING
Central Park run: Back for the second
year, the New York Road Runners’
Manhattan 7 Mile takes on a unique
course in Central Park. Stick around
after your race to enjoying the postrace
festival, including yoga, a live DJ,
lawn games, ice pops, a vintage car
great for photos and more. Registration
is $37 and can be completed on
the New York Road Runners Web site.
Aug. 4, 8 a.m., in Central Park.
Lexi Rabadi stars in “Hannah Senesh.”
MARKET
Fulton Stall Market: Sunday
Outdoor Market, every Sunday
at Pier 17 Square, 11
a.m. to 5 p.m., through
Nov. 24. Now in its
fi fth season, the market
features a rotating
cast of local
small-batch specialty
food producers
in a famed
waterfront setting
between Pier 17’s
new restaurants
and the South Street
Seaport Museum’s
historic ships.
FILM
Movies under the stars: Bring a
picnic blanket and enjoy the magic of
the movies under the stars at the 19th
annual Central Park Conservancy Film
Festival. “Moonstruck” (1987) — a perennial
fan-favorite outdoor summer
fi lm — tells the story of a Brooklyn
widow engaged to a mama’s boy, who
falls in love with her fi ancé’s brother.
Gates open at 6:30 pm. Film begins at
dusk. All movies are captioned. Wed.,
COURTESY THE ARTIST
Lola Lovenotes will be doing live
graffiti at Lincoln Center on Sat.,
Aug. 3.
Aug. 14, 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the
Landscape between Sheep Meadow
and the 72nd St. Cross Drive in Central
Park.
FOOD
NYC Restaurant Week runs
through Aug. 16. A two-course
lunch is $26 and three-course dinner
is $42. Participating restaurants
can be found on https://
www.nycgo.com/restaurantweek
.
PERFORMANCE
Lincoln Center Out of
Doors: A variety of free
music and dance performances
across the plazas
of Lincoln Center, running
through Sun., Aug. 11. On Sat.,
Aug 3, from 11 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.,
enjoy “Move the Crowd: A Day of
Hip-Hop and Culture,” featuring
live graffiti by Lola Lovenotes for
the whole time, the roots-jamming
Brown Rice Family at 11 a.m., poet/
educator Najee Omar at 1 p.m. and
high-energy dancing and spoken
word in “VIBEZ,” by Soul Defined,
who “turn their bodies into drums,”
and invite the audience to join into
their free-flowing storytelling. Performance
schedules can be found on
the Web http://www.lincolncenter.
org/out-of-doors.
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