Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of June 20

Here are some of the most important and engaging cultural events this week, curated by the editors of the Arts in Review section.

Film

“No Hard Feelings”(June 23)

Driving for Uber can be brutal, as plenty of online videos can attest. So what’s a girl to do when she loses her car but needs to earn cash behind the wheel to save her home? If you’re Jennifer Lawrence’s character in the new film from Gene Stupnitsky (”The Office”), the answer is to date an awkward 19-year-old at his parents’ request in exchange for an old Buick. Andrew Barth Feldman co-stars as the late bloomer; Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti play his parents.

“Revoir Paris”(June 23)

After surviving a terrorist attack, a woman struggling to deal with her trauma and the gaps in her memory decides to retrace her steps in this French film by Alice Winocour led by Virginie Efira.

“God Is a Bullet” (June 23)

Action-thriller might be a strange genre to associate with a director whose most famous movie is “The Notebook,” but Nick Cassavetes’s latest is a cult-revenge tale about a detective trying to rescue his kidnapped daughter and a woman seeking closure. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, January Jones and Jamie Foxx star.

TV

“The Walking Dead: Dead City” (AMC, June 18)

“The Walking Dead” may have been laid to rest but zombie fans need not fear: The first of its three sequels has arisen. This six-episode offering focuses on Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan

“Secret Invasion” (Disney+, June 21)

Samuel L. Jackson is the super-name on a roster that includes Cobie Smulders, Martin Freeman, Emilia Clarke and Don Cheadle in this latest Marvel series. He returns as Nick Fury, this time assembling a team to save the Earth from a group of shapeshifting aliens who try to take up positions of power around the world.

“The Bear,” season 2 (Hulu, June 22)

Order up for the second season of the sizzling kitchen show. TV critic

“And Just Like That . . . ,“ season 2(Max, June 22)

For “Sex and the City” fans who couldn’t help but wonder what was going on in Carrie and Big’s marriage or how Miranda’s career was going, this sequel series offered answers alongside new characters. Now it’s back for a second season with appearances by Tony Danza, Sam Smith and (briefly) Kim Cattrall.

“Glamorous” (Netflix, June 22)

Speaking of Kim Cattrall, she’s playing another elitist role in Netflix’s new show about a makeup industry bigwig and her new employee, played by Miss Benny.

“I’m a Virgo” (Prime Video, June 23)

The first TV series from rapper/director Boots Riley looks to be peppered with the same absurdly surreal humor as his film “Sorry to Bother You.” Jharrel Jerome (“When They See Us”) stars as a 19-year-old in Oakland, Calif., dealing with the usual difficulties of young adulthood—in addition to being 13 feet tall.

Theater

“One Woman Show” (Greenwich House, New York, June 20-Aug. 11)

This much-praised, self-aware sendup of theater and actorly pretensions—written by and starring Liz Kingsman, who was nominated for an Olivier Award for the show—arrives in New York.

“Illinois” (Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., June 23-July 2)

Sufjan Stevens teams with Tony-winning choreographer and dancer Justin Peck and Pulitzer-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury to turn his highly regarded 2005 concept album of the same name into a fully staged theatrical performance.

Music

Albert Hammond Jr. , “Melodies On Hiatus” (June 23)

The Strokes co-founder and lead guitarist is back with his fifth solo LP, an indie-rock record that draws in part from the hooks and melodies of ’90s hip-hop.

Big Freedia, “Central City” (June 23)

After nine years the New Orleans Bounce icon Big Freedia returns with a new full-length album that pays homage to the titular 11th Ward neighborhood on tracks that feature Lil Wayne, Faith Evans and others.

Kim Petras, “Feed The Beast” (June 23)

German dance-pop artist Kim Petras, best known for “Unholy,” her hit single with Sam Smith, releases her debut studio album, a 15-track modern take on the Andromeda tale that includes features by Nicki Minaj and Banks.

Dance

“Like Water for Chocolate”(Metropolitan Opera House, New York, June 22-July 1)

American Ballet Theatre presents the New York premiere of Christopher Wheeldon’s full-length dance adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s bittersweet novel.

Opera

Cincinnati Opera’s 2023 Summer Festival (Ohio, June 22-July 29)

Donizetti’s tragic “Lucia di Lammermoor” and Rossini’s comic “Barber of Seville” are joined at this year’s festival by a new modern-day production of Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly,” created by an all Japanese and Japanese-American team. Also on the bill, “The Knock,” a new English-language opera (co-commissioned with the Glimmerglass Festival, where it had its premiere last year) about military wives and the hardship they endure; Aleksandra Vrebalov composed the music and Deborah Brevoort wrote the libretto.

Exhibitions

“Africa Fashion” (Brooklyn Museum, New York, June 23-Oct. 22)

When someone mentions fashion, cities like New York, Milan and Paris leap to mind. But what about Accra, Lagos and Johannesburg? A new exhibition looks to expand our worldview by exploring African fashions from the 1950s—when much of the continent won its independence—to today.

Art

“Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music and Dance” (The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, N.Y., June 24-Sept. 17)

Mounted to celebrate the Hyde Collection’s 60th anniversary as a public museum, this is the first show to focus on the impact of music and dance on sculptor David Smith’s art. Included among the 30-some works on view are pieces by Dorothy Dehner, a sculptor and Smith’s first wife, who played a vital role in his creative life.

“Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds” (Cincinnati Art Museum, June 23-Oct. 15)

Another of the myriad shows marking the 50th anniversary of the Cubist icon’s passing, CAM’s exhibition is the first ever to comprehensively explore his career-long engagement with nature. With roughly 25 different collections making loans to the show, it traces the way that Picasso used landscape to deepen his connection with and draw from previous masters like Nicolas Poussin and Paul Cézanne.

“ Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio” (The Morgan Library & Museum, June 23-Oct. 8)

For the first time in half a century, the drawings of the British abstract painter associated with the Op Art movement of the 1960s are the focus of an exhibition. Comprising more than 75 of her studies made between the 1940s and the 2000s, the works on view here reveal new insights into her creative process and the ways she used seemingly humble materials in innovative ways.

Other

“Final Fantasy XVI” (PS5, June 22)

The second-best-selling RPG series of all time (topped only by Pokémon) is back, dropping the open-world format of its predecessor but keeping the real-time combat that’s been part of the game for a while now (earlier entries in the series featured turn-based battles). Players embark on a revenge quest in a medieval setting, using their physical prowess, magical skills and summoned monsters to help them along the way.

Last Call

“Monsoon Wedding” (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, N.Y., closes June 25)

Mira Nair directs a crowded, lively stage adaptation of her 2001 film about an arranged marriage in India and the many complications among the families involved. “The performances,” theater critic Charles Isherwood noted, “are impeccable” and the production lavish.

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