Gothamist77%

NYC's new classic holiday shows you can see this year88%

By Hannah Frishberg0%

12/20/2025, 5:01:04 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Status Quo Bias, and Optimism Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 23.4% saturation with 82 hits. Analysis detected 472 faulty-reasoning hits from 366 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 80.1% and a BS Rank of 88% (2,798 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 87.20% of the article peer group.

Deep in the heart of Bushwick, performance venue the House of Yes is once again putting on its annual Xmas Spectacular. 
This year’s show, “The Nightmare Before Twinkmas,” marks the club-meets-nativity-scene-experience’s 13th year and promises to be the venue’s “most spiritually unhinged production yet.” 
The delightfully bizarre burlesque medley goes through Sunday, Dec. 21 at House of Yes’s 2 Wyckoff Ave. space. 
Tickets start at $42. 
Only in its third year but already destined to be a holiday classic in certain circles is Company XIV’s “Nutcracker Rouge.” 
This hedonistic take on the beloved holiday tale brings new levels of lavishness to the story, as well as acrobatics, magic, song and dance. 
And it’s all set far from Broadway, at Company XIV’s 383 Troutman St. home in Brooklyn. 
Shows continue through Jan. 21; tickets start at $69. 
For a quarter of a century, comedian and drag performer Murray Hill has been holding it down at Lincoln Center with his annual winter variety show, “A Murray Little Christmas.” 
This year the show is taking place on Friday, Dec. 19 and Saturday, Dec. 20. 
Attendees can expect a 10-piece band, at least one choir, celebrity cameos and oodles of holiday cheer. 
Tickets are choose-what-you-pay, with a suggested price of $35. 
Back in the winter of 1992, composer Phil Kline decided to create his own take on holiday caroling: First, he wrote a 45-minute-long electronic music piece, then he gathered a few dozen friends, provided them with a few dozen boomboxes, and paraded through Greenwich Village playing the piece, titled Unsilent Night. 
“In effect,” Kline has been quoted saying, “we became a city-block-long stereo system.” 
The concept was a hit and quickly became an annual tradition in New York and beyond  in the more than three decades since, it has drawn thousands of participants across five continents and 175 cities. 
NYC’s Unsilent Night was earlier this month, but for those willing to go a bit beyond the boroughs, Kinderhook, New York and Philadelphia’s are on Dec. 20, and Montclair, New Jersey’s is on Dec. 21. 
For the full schedule, see Unsilent Night’s website. 
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