(Photo: Courtesy of PWR BTTM (PWR BTTM); Kristian Schuller/Courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera (Roméo et Juliette); Stephen Cummiskey/Courtesy of BAM (The Beauty Queen of Leenane); Courtesy of Oscilloscope (Always Shine); Peggy Sirota/Courtesy of NBC (Fallon))

TV
1. Watch The 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards
Where celebrities loosen up.
The Hollywood Foreign Press consistently gets a bad rap for making unserious choices. But that’s what makes the broadcast so much more fun�well, that and the fact that they let people sit at tables and drink. If only the host were somebody other than Jimmy Fallon, but maybe you can work him into a drinking game. �Matt Zoller Seitz
NBC, January 8.

Movies
2. Watch Marcel Pagnol’s Marseille Trilogy
Why not try a marathon?
Any lover of French cinema must reckon with director Marcel Pagnol, a pioneer in sound films for his use of authentic locations. All three movies in his great trilogy � Marius (1931), Fanny (1932), and César (1936) � will screen during this nine-day event. �David Edelstein
Film Forum, January 4 through 12.

Theater
3. See The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Older but unwiser.
In this, the blackest (and funniest) of Martin McDonagh’s black comedies, Maureen, a frustrated 40-year-old spinster, and Mag, her nasty, invalid mother, take family antagonism to its limit. First staged by Galway’s Druid Theatre Company in 1996, it returns in this 20th-anniversary production. �Jesse Green
BAM, January 11 through February 5.

Pop
4. Listen to Brian Eno’s Reflection
Chill sounds for the New Year.
The veteran producer and bleep-bloop-music impresario will ring in 2017 with this album, the most recent entry in his decades-long �Ambient� series. Fans of the David Bowie and U2 collaborator’s quieter works�think Discreet Music and Music for Airports � will be pleased. �Craig Jenkins
Warp Records, January 1.

Art
5. See Genieve Figgis
You’ll wish you owned one.
Yes! The Metropolitan Opera also has a great gallery overseen by one of the brightest lights in New York, Dodie Kazanjian, who here gives us the gorgeous gift of these saucy, succulent paintings of the lovers Romeo and Juliet. Go. Swoon to Figgis’s magical color, luscious touch, fragrant scale, and romantic vision. �Jerry Saltz
Gallery Met, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, through January 21.

Books
6. Read Krazy
A diligent and searching biography.
The many artists influenced by George Herriman’s �Krazy Kat� comics may not realize how much is packed into those panels. Born to black Creole parents in New Orleans, Herriman passed successfully for white and snuck his own experiences into his work. Author Michael Tisserand tracks Herriman’s evolving art as well as the rapid growth of a conflicted nation. �Boris Kachka
HarperCollins.

Classical
7. Hear The New York Philharmonic
In the tradition of tragic merriment.
The orchestra celebrates Vienna�not its weightless waltzes or somber symphonies, but the tradition of political, fiercely comical music that culminates in the work of H. K. Gruber. Alan Gilbert has framed Gruber’s brand-new piano concerto with pieces by Kurt Weill and Franz Schubert. �Justin Davidson
David Geffen Hall, January 5 through 7.

Theater
8. See Blueprint Specials
How the war was sung.
To maintain morale during World War II, the War Department produced a series of musicals that could be performed from kits wherever soldiers were stationed. Forgotten until now, these �blueprint� musicals return for a brief run on the interior hangar deck of the Intrepid. �J.G.
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, January 6 through 11.

Movies
9. See Always Shine
California dreaming.
Sophia Takal’s second feature is like Single White Female for the Instagram generation. The story of two Hollywood actresses � one successful, one less so � on a getaway to Big Sur quickly turns dark and surreal, but not before dishing out some sly feminist commentary and pitch-perfect insight on friendship between women.
On demand.

Books
10. Read Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
Families coming together and apart.
A groundbreaking African-American playwright and filmmaker who died young in 1988, Kathleen Collins was known (if at all) for her 1982 comedy-drama, Losing Ground. Few people knew she also wrote prose � until now. Published for the first time, these stories borrow from the language of drama to illuminate psychological states. �B.K.
Ecco.

Pop
11. Hear PWR BTTM
Glitter and drag at midnight.
This queer punk duo’s makeup-melting brand of rock includes witty lyrics that sparkle alongside their onstage banter, and the show is BYOG�Bring Your Own Glitter. Part of the Public Theater’s Under the Radar festival.
Joe’s Pub, January 7.

Art
12. See Manifesto
Regarding Cate.
If you need more proof that Cate Blanchett is one of Hollywood’s greatest treasures, make a beeline for German artist Julian Rosefeldt’s �Manifesto,� an exhibit made up of 13 giant movie screens playing 11-minute films simultaneously, all starring Blanchett as 13 characters.
Park Avenue Armory, through January 8.

Movies
13. Watch Oscar Favorites
Get a leg up.
You can up your chance of winning the betting pool by seeing Oscar bait early. Try the enchanting La La Land or the deadpan but riotous German comedy Toni Erdmann. (Yes, Germans can be funny.) If you want your mood to rocket, see the formulaic but rousing Hidden Figures, an anthem to the African-American women who helped us win the space race. �D.E.
Various theaters.

Jazz
14. & 15. Hear Winter Jazzfest
Six days and nights on the scene.
Winter Jazzfest announced a social-justice theme for its 13th year, including trombonist and Sun Ra alum Craig Harris performing a set inspired by Black Lives Matter (January 6). Don’t sleep on the centennial tribute to Thelonious Monk, where a dozen musicians will rework the impossible rhythms of his canonical Solo Monk (January 8).
Various locations, January 5 through 10.

Art
16. See Eric Doeringer’s Matson Jones & Co.
Irony, love, and skill collide.
Eric Doeringer doesn’t just want to make art great again, he wants to make great art again. And boy, does he! One of the best artists to ever crawl into the physical-artistic skin of some of our best-known modern masterpieces, this resident genius makes perfect covers of early Johnses and Rauschenbergs here. �J.S.
Mulherin New York, 124 Forsyth St., through December 31.

Classical
17. Hear ChamberFest
How can you go wrong?
The Juilliard School may be the richest vein of musical talent that most New Yorkers never mine. This six-day free festival of chamber music features nearly 100 students in ensembles coached by two-dozen world-class faculty members. �J.D.
Various locations, January 9 through 14.

Theater Exhibition
18. See Yale Rep at 50
Stage Pictures.
In 1966, Robert Brustein founded the Yale Rep, which has since become one of the country’s great regional theaters. On its 50th anniversary, exhibits in New Haven and here celebrate that history in more than 70 photographs, from Jason Robards to Lupita Nyong’o. �J.G.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, January 10 through April 11.

Opera
19. See Breaking the Waves
A Scottish affair.
Missy Mazzoli’s opera, based on Lars von Trier’s 1996 film about sex, God, and guilt, has been critically acclaimed as among the best 21st-�century American operas. That list is longer than you might think, thanks in part to the organization bringing this one to New York: the Prototype Festival. �J.D.
NYU Skirball Center, January 6, 7, and 9.

Books
20. Read A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Variation on a theme.
Come to Siri Hustvedt’s new collection for the crystalline art criticism; stay for essays on the mind-body problem and a strong takedown of trends in pop psychology. Unlike many genre straddlers, Hustvedt doesn’t pander or patronize. �B.K.
Simon & Schuster.

Art
21. See Halil Altindere: Space Refugee
Far, far away.
Worried about the fate of America? This Turkish artist’s new multimedia show proposes a possible solution: Mars. It’s centered on the idea that �if no country wants them, let’s settle the world’s refugees on Mars,� and there’s an accompanying �virtual-reality video.
Andrew Kreps Gallery, January 7 through February 11.

Opera
22. See Roméo et Juliette
Those two crazy kids.
Many composers have taken a crack at Shakespeare, but few knew how to squeeze as much luscious teenage misery out of this infinitely adaptable love story as Charles Gounod. Vittorio Grigolo and Diana Damrau bring plush, lyrical voices to the title roles. �J.D.
Metropolitan Opera, December 31 through March 18.

Theater
23. See Gardens Speak
Who tells your story?
In an interactive sound installation, London- and Beirut-based performance artist Tania El Khoury tells the oral histories of ten dead Syrian activists that have been constructed in collaboration with the friends and family members of the deceased.
Abe Burrows Theatre, January 6 to 9.

Pop
24. Hear Justin Townes Earle
Son of Steve makes good.
Hear the Tennessee singer-songwriter rip through tunes from the doleful sister albums Single Mothers and Absent Fathers. �C.J.
City Winery, January 10 and 11.

Cabaret
25. Hear Piaf! The Show
You’ll regret it if you don’t.
This two-act musical show inspired by La Vie en Rose chronicles the rise and fall of France’s great (-est?) chanteuse.
Carnegie Hall, January 6.