The holidays are all about excess, and what's more extra than a drag queen named Alaska Thunderfuck 5000?

Critically acclaimed actor/writer Elizabeth Pugh will premiere her new play, 222 w. 23rd St., at Dixon Place tonight, December 16th, at 7:30 pm. Directed by Audrey Rapoport.

The New York Philharmonic Very Young People's Concerts (VYPCs), for children ages 3 to 6, will begin its 13th season Sunday, January 21, 2018, at 12:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. and Monday, January 22 at 10:30 a.m. at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its January 2018 lineup, featuring An Evening with Monty Alexander - From Kingston to Harlem, Vijay Iyer Sextet, John Pizzarelli, Vincent Herring's The Story of Jazz: 100 Years, David Murray Infinity Quartet, La Tanya Hall and The Andy Milne Trio, Fleurine, Jim Caruso's Cast Party, and more. Scroll down for details!

Christmas is always new for Early Music New York and its Founding Director, Frederick Renz. Every year has a different theme - music from different periods, or parts of the world.

This past March, at 2017's MAC Awards, honoring the best of cabaret in New York over the past season, as in most years, there were five nominees for Female Vocalist: Celia Berk, Sally Darling, Meg Flather, Josephine Sanges, and Lisa Viggiano. It's not particularly important, in this case, who won. (Flather did.) If their shared story met the usual expectations, it would've ended there and each nominee would've gone on her own way to do her next big thing. You'll be happy to hear their story defies those expectations.

Madeleine Goldsmith presents the world premiere of You Can't Kiss a Movie, written by Shelley Farmer and Alex Hare and directed by Hare.

Irish Arts Center (IAC), the arts and cultural center dedicated to projecting a dynamic image of Ireland and Irish America for the 21st century, announces its Spring 2018 lineup, featuring a characteristically wide range of theatrical, musical, dance, literary, podcast, interdisciplinary and educational events.

It's back! The annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Cabaret Show & Coat Drive to benefit New York Cares' coat drive. The hour long show will be presented on Sunday, December 17th at 5pm at The PIT Loft.

Tadeusz von Moltke (NBC's THE BLACKLIST; DJ Khaled/Jay Z's video 'I Got The Keys'; SAMSUNG/PUNCHDRUNK Virtual Reality Project) announces the premiere of 'THE HOLLYWOOD ADRIANA: A Cautionary Tale of Damaged Good' at Dixon Place in the lounge (161A Chrystie Street, NYC).

The American Museum of Natural History has announced its January 2018 public programs. Scroll down for details!

The ninth season of CONTACT!, the New York Philharmonic's new-music series, begins with Musicians from the New York Philharmonic performing two New York Premieres, Du Yun's Tattooed in Snow, for String Quartet (2015), and Fernanda Aoki Navarro's Parthenogenesis (2012).

Simone Dinnerstein returns to Miller Theatre after her Bach concerts this fall with a second concert featuring the music of Philip Glass in his 80th birthday year. This time Simone pairs Glass with Schubert, a composer he not only shares a birthday with-but also a harmonic and spiritual connection.

American Lyric Theater presents ALT Alumni: Composers and Librettists in Concert on January 14, 2018 at 8pm at Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center, 129 W. 67th Street, NYC.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has announced its January 2018 programs and events.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, Theatre Without Borders and Tamizdat join forces to present a timely community conversation exploring the challenges and power of progressive activist theater.

NYU Tisch School of the Arts today announced its 2018 gala, to be held on Monday, April 16, 2018, at Capitale in New York City.

New York Women in Film & Television has announced the honorees for this year's Muse Awards on December 14th: Laura Dern (actor), Judith Light (actor) and Amy Emmerich (Refinery29 CCO); Regina K. Scully (filmmaker and CEO of Artemis Rising Foundation) will receive the Loreen Arbus Changemaker Award; and the inaugural Nancy Malone Directing Award will be presented to groundbreaking filmmaker Julie Dash.

The ASCAP Foundation announces that Grammy- and Tony Award-winning jazz legend Dee Dee Bridgewater will be honored with The ASCAP Foundation Champion Award at The ASCAP Foundation Honors Celebration tonight, December 14. The annual, invitation-only event takes place at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

The wild project has announced its current and upcoming shows for this winter - scroll down for details!

A new concert version of guitarist Gary Lucas's celebrated salute to '30s Chinese Pop, featuring Feifei Yang (vocals) and Erhu with Jason Candler (saxophone, clarinet and percussion) is coming to the Laurie Beechman Theater (407 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036) in 'Gary Lucas: The Edge Of Heaven' on Friday, February 16, 2018 at 7 p.m.

On January 18, the ten outstanding musicians from Music Academy of the West who have been named as this year's Zarin Mehta Fellows will arrive in New York to take part in the New York Philharmonic Global Academy Fellowship Program's fourth season.

Six Rice University graduate students have been selected to participate in the New York Philharmonic Global Academy Fellowship Program, part of the New York Philharmonic Global Academy partnership launched in fall 2015 between Rice's Shepherd School of Music and the New York Philharmonic.

Baritone Tyler Duncan will replace Andrew Foster-Williams, who has withdrawn due to illness, in the remaining performances of Handel's Messiah.