The week ahead in Midtown brings a new show of wooden light sculptures at Columbus Circle, two nights at The Town Hall on West 43rd Street, including three original cast members of The Rocky Horror Picture Show on the night before Halloween, and a new artwork that will play across the Times Square screens just before midnight every night in November. Here is what is on, Oct. 25 to Nov. 1, with dates, places and how to get in.

John Procario: Freeforms opens at the Museum of Arts and Design

On Tuesday, Oct. 27, the Museum of Arts and Design at 2 Columbus Circle opens John Procario: Freeforms, a show of work by the contemporary designer John Procario. The pieces include light sculptures made from ash wood that waves and twists around hidden LEDs, furniture with rolling, undulating lines, and what the museum calls Sculpted Sofas, whose shapes follow the freeform wooden bases they sit on. The exhibition runs through April 4, 2027.

While there, visitors can also see Nike: Form Follows Motion, organized by the Vitra Design Museum in Germany and drawn mostly from the Department of Nike Archives, with prototypes, design studies and one-off pieces tracing roughly 50 years of the company. It runs through March 7, 2027.

  • Where: Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle
  • Hours: Tuesday and Thursday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Wednesday, noon to 8 p.m.; closed Monday
  • Cost: $20 general, $16 seniors, $14 students, free for ages 12 and under and members. Admission is pay what you wish from 5 to 8 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month (the next one is Nov. 4), with those tickets sold in person only.
  • Subway: The 1, A, B, C and D trains to 59 St-Columbus Circle

Jeff Tweedy plays solo at The Town Hall

On Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m., Jeff Tweedy takes the stage alone at The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, between Sixth Avenue and Broadway. Bowery Presents is putting on the show. Tickets are sold through Ticketmaster from the venue's event page, and the box office can be reached at (212) 997-6661. It is open Monday to Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.

Rocky Horror, with Brad, Columbia and Magenta in the house

On Friday, Oct. 30, The Town Hall hosts The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Original Cast Spooktacular Tour, with three members of the 1975 film's cast: Barry Bostwick, who played Brad Majors, Nell Campbell, who played Columbia, and Patricia Quinn, who played Magenta. The night includes a screening of the original, unedited film with a live shadow cast acting it out and the usual audience participation, a costume contest, and a display of memorabilia that includes a costume worn in the movie.

  • When: Doors at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m.
  • Tickets: Sold through Ticketmaster from The Town Hall's event page. Every ticket comes with a prop bag. A VIP package adds a meet and greet with the three actors before the show, a photo with them, an autograph and seats in a VIP section.
  • Subway for both Town Hall nights: The B, D, F and M trains to 42 St-Bryant Park, or the 1, 2, 3, 7, N, Q, R, W and S trains to Times Sq-42 St

A carnival figure covered in mirrors on the Times Square screens

Starting Sunday, Nov. 1, and running every night through Nov. 30, Times Square Arts' Midnight Moment presents Nos diables rouges, nos dérives commotions (...) danse papillon by Julien Creuzet, the Paris-based French-Caribbean artist and poet who represented France at the 2024 Venice Biennale. From 11:57 p.m. to midnight, more than 92 synchronized digital screens along Broadway from 41st to 49th Street show his video of a masked figure covered in mirrors that crosses the screen without ever revealing its face.

The figure comes from the carnival in Martinique, where it roams the streets each year during Mardi Gras, and Creuzet uses it to open up histories that rarely get told, layering in references to myths such as Perseus and Andromeda and to Saint George. The same work is showing this fall at the Toronto Biennial of Art. Viewing is free; stand anywhere on Broadway between 41st and 49th streets at 11:57 p.m. An audio guide is available in seven languages.

Before you go

The MAD show opens Tuesday and stays up into April, so it is the easiest of these to fit into a weekend. The Town Hall nights are single performances, so check availability on the venue's site first. For the Midnight Moment, aim to be on Broadway a few minutes before 11:57 p.m. on any night in November.

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