All Tomorrow's Parties - March 20 - 26, 2006

Monday, March 20, 7:30 p.m.
R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe, Bright Eyes, Public Enemy frontman Chuck D and Rufus Wainwright will join peace activist Cindy Sheehan for the Bring 'Em Home concert. The event will benefit the Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace. The evening's guest hosts will include such celebrities as Jane Fonda, Alec Baldwin, Margaret Cho and Janeane Garofalo; while Steve Earle, Fischerspooner, Peaches and Devendra Banhart will be among the other performers. (Tickets)
Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street, NY NY

Tuesday, March 21, 10:30 p.m.
Susanne Bartsch & Kenny Kenny present Happy Valley Tuesdays.  DJ Tommie Sunshine; downstairs DJ Ryan.  SHOWS: the new opera dance sensation MAGAL and The Ultra Hot UFFIE.
14 East 27th St.,  NY NY

Wednesday, March 22, 8:00 p.m.
Don't miss this star studded Chelsea evening at the Lincoln Center.  Pianist Bruce Levingston, one of this country's leading exponents of new music, will be joined by renowned composer/performer Philip Glass in an evocative piano duet from Mr. Glass' Orphee.  Ethan Hawke will read Mr. Glass' setting of Allen Ginsberg's poem Wichita Vortex Sutra. 
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. $50, $35, $20 or splurge for tickets to the gala.

Thursday, March 23, 8:00 p.m.
The Sam Shepard Festival kicks off at The Big Little Theatre.  For the first time ever all 45 plays will be presented.  Tonight, you can catch "Buried Child," for which Shepard received a Pulitzer Prize in 1979. (Photo: Sam Shepherd & Patti Smith at the Chelsea On stage according to a well placed reader of the blog.)
The Big Little Theatre, 141 Ridge St., NY NY

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