{"id":216441,"date":"2026-05-01T09:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216441\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:16:10","slug":"16-things-to-do-in-nyc-if-youre-not-attending-the-met-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216441\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Things to Do in NYC If You\u2019re Not Attending the Met Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stage-wise, people are buzzing about the Roundabout Theatre Company\u2019s revival of The Rocky Horror Show<\/a> (seen in the pages of this very magazine!). Grab a ticket (if you can) and do the time warp again. Or tap a toe into the experimental dance scene at the LaMama Moves! Dance Festival<\/a> (through May 10th).<\/p>\n

If snacking on popcorn in a darkened movie theater is more your thing, you\u2019re very much in luck. This month brings multiple film festivals to the city, including the Lower East Side Film Festival<\/a> (on until May 4th), which will reunite Steve Buscemi, Thora Birch, and more members of the cast of the cult film Ghost World for a 25th anniversary screening. Elsewhere downtown, check out a documentary at the IFC Center\u2019s DOC NYC Selects<\/a> until May 5th, or a special series of films about history\u2019s greatest painters (Picasso, Munch, etc.) at Metrograph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Brooklyn, there\u2019s the Coney Island Film Festival<\/a>. (While you\u2019re there, why not make it a double-header and catch a Cyclones game<\/a>?). In Queens, the \u201cFirst Look\u201d festival at the Museum of the Moving Image<\/a> is on until May 3rd, but you can still catch their ongoing exhibitions, including a comprehensive look at the life and legacy of the Muppets\u2019 Jim Henson, and \u201cOverexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body.\u201d (Bodies! They\u2019re trending!)<\/p>\n

In other words, there\u2019s lots to do that isn\u2019t watching The Devil Wears Prada 2 or gearing up for the spectacle that is the Met Gala. Friends, the world is your oyster. Go out there and take advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stage-wise, people are buzzing about the Roundabout Theatre Company\u2019s revival of The Rocky Horror Show (seen in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[81259,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-216441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-met-gala-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}