Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best date night in the East Village, Manhattan the weekend of Oct 9–12, 2026: 7 picks, refreshed weekly.
7 picks · checked Sep 15
Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, East Village, ManhattanUCB's flagship improv show turns a guest monologist's true stories into 90 minutes of scenes — past guests include Tina Fey and Conan O'Brien.
Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, East Village, ManhattanUCB's flagship improv show turns a guest monologist's true stories into 90 minutes of scenes — past guests include Tina Fey and Conan O'Brien.
Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, East Village, ManhattanNightscream · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsFormer SNL cast member Chloe Troast and friends take the audience's real problems and improvise their way toward terrible solutions at UCB.
Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, East Village, ManhattanNightscream · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsFormer SNL cast member Chloe Troast and friends take the audience's real problems and improvise their way toward terrible solutions at UCB.
Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, East Village, ManhattanMarcin Wichary from San Francisco, Calif. · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsUCB comics go head-to-head with bits too unhinged for anywhere else while Josh Nasser judges from a literal trash throne.
Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, East Village, ManhattanMarcin Wichary from San Francisco, Calif. · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsUCB comics go head-to-head with bits too unhinged for anywhere else while Josh Nasser judges from a literal trash throne.
Anthology Film Archives, East Village, ManhattanAnnie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens open each show with a live 'Ecosex 101' before their climate film narrated partly by a white peacock.
Anthology Film Archives, East Village, ManhattanAnnie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens open each show with a live 'Ecosex 101' before their climate film narrated partly by a white peacock.
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Orpheum Theatre, East Village, ManhattanBeyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA satirical hip-hop musical skewers progressive theater by turning The Diary of Anne Frank into an Afro-Latin musical, now Off-Broadway.
Orpheum Theatre, East Village, ManhattanBeyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA satirical hip-hop musical skewers progressive theater by turning The Diary of Anne Frank into an Afro-Latin musical, now Off-Broadway.
The Downstairs at La MaMa, East Village, ManhattanChoreographer Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld closes La MaMa's Queer New York Festival with a 45-minute duet about two travelers heading toward tomorrow.
The Downstairs at La MaMa, East Village, ManhattanChoreographer Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld closes La MaMa's Queer New York Festival with a 45-minute duet about two travelers heading toward tomorrow.
Anthology Film Archives, East Village, ManhattanMira Nair's Kama Sutra, Cheryl Dunye's Mommy Is Coming and a dominatrix shorts program anchor Anthology's series on sex work on screen.
Anthology Film Archives, East Village, ManhattanMira Nair's Kama Sutra, Cheryl Dunye's Mommy Is Coming and a dominatrix shorts program anchor Anthology's series on sex work on screen.
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