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The most beloved musical of all time, Lerner & Loewe's MY FAIR LADY returns to Broadway in a lavish new production from Lincoln Center Theater, the theater that brought you the Tony-winning revivals of South Pacific and The King and I. Directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher, the stellar cast -...

This new play by Jackie Sibblies Drury (acclaimed author of Fairview), is an exploration of what it means to be a woman who is paid to care.  In MARYS SEACOLE, Mary (Quincy Tyler Bernstine) is an ambitious Jamaican woman determined to live a grand life; her adventures take her across oceans and e...

In his attempts to recover a memory of an event that happened on that "far away island" 35 years before, NANTUCKET SLEIGH RIDE plunges a New York playwright-turned- venture capitalist (John Larroquette) into a whirlpool of a giant lobster, Roman Polanski, a pornography ring, Walt Disney, a...

The critically acclaimed New York Film Festival favorite returns!   In Petzold's brilliant and haunting adaptation of German novelist Anna Seghers’s 1944 book Transit, a hollowed-out European refugee (Franz Rogowski), who has escaped from two concentration camps, arrives in Marseille assuming ...

Opens March 8!   Winner, 55th Golden Horse Awards (Chinese-language Oscars) BEST FEATURE * BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY * AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD   Sure to be remembered as a landmark in Chinese cinema, this intensely felt epic marks a career cut tragically short: its debut director Hu Bo took...

“…astounding, flawless, captivating.” The New York Times.   Judy Carmichael is a Grammy Award-nominated pianist, vocalist, and songwriter who has hosted Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired on NPR for 18 years and counting. For well over 30 years she has been a stride piano master (nicknamed “Strid...

Tonight's samba jazz showcase features three of Brazil’s most in-demand musicians, two of whom worked closely with the iconic Antonio Carlos Jobim. Drummer Duduka da Fonseca (of Trio da Paz), pianist Helio Alves, and vocalist Maucha Adnet are all experts in this music, each of them recognized intern...

Atrium 360°   Experience traditional Iraqi maqam with Hamid Al-Saadi, one of the genre's greatest living masters. Al-Saadi, committed to sharing the arts and culture of the Arab world, travels extensively as a maqam scholar, singer, artist, and writer. Joining him is Safaafir, the only U.S.-b...

Miles Davis' “electric period” (1969—1992) is one of the most influential and passionately debated eras in all of modern music. In this exclusive new program, one of Davis’ crucial collaborators—bassist Marcus Miller—will take audiences through an eclectic body of work, starting with the moment Davi...

This award-winning, one-person show (Outstanding Solo Show at the 2009 NYC Fringe) uses live performance, puppetry, animation, and music to weave a touching tale of enduring love at the end of the world. The seas have risen, billions have died, and those who are left live on farms atop skyscraper...

Haydn's Seven Last Words   Haydn's masterpiece of spiritual music, The Seven Last Words, was conceived as a musical illumination of Christ’s utterances from the cross. In his pre-concert lecture, Michael Parloff will explore the history of the work and the ways that Haydn’s “wordless oratorio”...

HaZamir is an international musical youth movement of choral chapters for Jewish teens in the U.S and Israel.  HaZamir chapters meet weekly to rehearse a common repertoire and build pluralistic community. HaZamir provides Jewish teens the unique opportunity to sing at the highest performance level, ...

In 1786 Franz Joseph Haydn received a commission for a work celebrating Good Friday, for the service at Oratorio de la Santa Cueva (Holy Cave Oratory) in Cádiz, Spain. Haydn produced seven slow movements, each modeled after one of the seven storied utterances of Christ on the cross. The profoundly m...

Vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri presents an intimate concert of soul-stirring sacred music. Audience members will be encouraged to sing along and rejoice in this celebration of healing and community.   Presented in collaboration with Lincoln Center's American Songbook -- This free perf...

Hear the brightest young jazz students perform alongside modern trumpet great Ingrid Jensen. Part of the William Paterson University Department of Music, the Jazz Studies Program is unique among college programs for its emphasis on small-group playing. The elite program also emphasizes arranging, co...

An artist who is always pushing further to reveal hidden depths, pianist Piotr Anderszewski returns to one of Beethoven's most revered and challenging opuses, the Diabelli Variations. Anderszewski has long been associated with the work, having recorded it for his debut album, which Gramophone called...

With guitarist Yotam Silberstein, bassist John Patitucci, accordionist Vitor Goncalves, drummer Daniel Dor, and pianists Glenn Zaleski and Andre Mehmari.

Atrium 360°   Hailed as “a cunning interpreter and arranger” by NPR, Haitian-American folk singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla is equally at ease with English, French, and Haitian Creole. Deeply influenced by traditional Creole, Cajun, and Haitian music, as well as by American jazz and folk, her ...

"Ben Vereen – unquestionably one of the finest performances seen on Broadway.” - New York Post An Evening with Ben Vereen is an uplifting evening of songs and stories seasoned with Ben Vereen's insight and humor. A natural entertainer, Vereen has appeared in Broadway smash hits such as Wicke...

CMS presents an exciting new work, by the brilliant Australian composer and violist Brett Dean, commissioned in partnership with London's Wigmore Hall. Dean’s important addition to the clarinet quartet repertoire appears in the company of classics from both the Classical and Romantic ages, by compos...

For this poetic and striking evening at the Atrium, the short film Half Dead will be screened alongside interludes of live hip-hop performance featuring filmmaker and rapper Dylan Golden. Produced by Dylan Golden, Bianca Golden, Iuliia Rudenko, and GSM Creative, a collective of artists who aspire to...

Pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Charles McPherson are both true living legends, each of them 80 years old, and they're here to prove that jazz keeps you young. Tonight they join the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis to play brand-new big band arrangements of their iconic comp...

The same three squirrels (also called a scurry) have been having parties for no reason for as long as they can remember. But one day, one of them doesn't show up, and in their place is an unexpected guest. From the creators of the critically acclaimed Up and Away and Campfire, this new play for the ...

Austin's 2015 Musician of the Year, singer-songwriter Gina Chavez takes audiences on a musical journey through the Americas with her evocative collection of bilingual (Spanish-English) songs.  

For thousands of years, humans on Earth have been writing poems to the moon, writing music about moonlight, and we've even landed on the moon. This concert is all music about the moon! With music by Debussy, Beethoven, Schumann, and George Crumb. Click here for more info (Opens in a new window)  ...

MASS IN BLUE: THE MUSIC OF WILL TODD Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 2:00 PM                 David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center   DCINY presents an evening of music by English composer Will Todd led by Maestros James Meaders (DCINY Conductor) and Alicia Walker (DCINY Guest Conductor), respective...

The second installment of Wagner's Ring cycle, Die Walküre, stars heroic soprano Christine Goerke as the warrior goddess Brünnhilde, whose encounter with the mortal twins Siegmund and Sieglinde, sung by Stuart Skelton and Eva-Maria Westbroek, leads her on a journey from Valhalla to earthbound humani...

Accessibility at Lincoln Center presents a screening of Intelligent Lives, directed by Dan Habib. Three pioneering young American adults with intellectual disabilities challenge perceptions of intelligence as they navigate education and the workforce. The film examines what it means to be intelligen...

Manhattan School of Music's programs of study for Jazz Arts majors are designed to develop skilled performers, composers, arrangers, and jazz educators in preparation for careers in jazz music. Systematic and rigorous conservatory training, combined with a myriad of performance and networking opport...

Performer, political activist, and critically acclaimed author Staceyann Chin—first known for her role in the Tony-winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam—addresses the complications of race, class, gender, and sexuality in an evening of performance at the Atrium featuring a new work commissioned by ...

Julien Labro is one of the most in-demand accordionists for a wide range of bandleaders, from straight-ahead jazz to music from around the world. The Chanson Experiment, Labro's most recent project, is an exploration of his French roots. In this program he composes and arranges traditional French ch...

A stateside visit from the high-spirited Australian Chamber Orchestra and its invigorating lead violinist Richard Tognetti is always an occasion for celebration. Add to the mix pianist Inon Barnatan, endowed with “limitless facility and infectious gusto” (Denver Post), and this propulsive program of...

Michael Feinstein's Jazz & Popular Song series kicks off with a celebration of the original “Boy from Oz,” Australian song-and-dance man Peter Allen, whose hit songs were the soundtrack of a generation. Under the direction of Executive Producer Liza Minnelli, who was married to Allen from 1967–1...

Brothers Brad and Elliot Mason share a truly unique musical bond and vision when performing together. Described as “one of the most important trombone voices of today's generation,” Elliot is a longtime member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Brad has proven himself as o...

Our streak of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members in Dizzy's Club continues as JLCO saxophonist Sherman Irby brings his all-star quintet back to the club. An accomplished bandleader and saxophonist with the sweetest tone, Irby has also distinguished himself as a talented composer and arranger. ...

Iconic documentarian Ken Burns and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis explore the shared roots found throughout American music. With never-before-seen clips from Burns' upcoming Country Music series, audiences will learn the fascinating and often intertwined histories of songs...

“You're hard-pressed to find rising talents more exciting than Camille Thurman.” – The New York Times   “Vocally, she is equally adept at scatting breezily with just the right amount of surprise and soulfully expressing the most minute detail of a ballad in such a way that you can’t imagine an...

The Calidore String Quartet, known for their “deep reserves of virtuosity and irrepressible dramatic instinct” (New York Times) and “balance of intellect and expression” (Los Angeles Times), have won accolades across the globe and firmly established themselves as one of the finest chamber music ense...

Wynton Marsalis, bassist Rodney Whitaker, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, and saxophonist Dan Block lead an all-Ellington showcase with a group of young rising jazz stars. The band includes 16 of the best young professionals on the scene, many of whom came up through our Essentially Ellington High Schoo...

Join current Juilliard students and alumni for an afternoon of singing, dancing, and dramatic interpretations of contemporary and classical literature with musical accompaniment. The interdisciplinary ensemble has created an interactive performance for all to enjoy, set to the theme “Lost in Transla...

Atrium 360°   Voices of a People's History of the United States seeks to educate and inspire a new generation working for social justice. This free performance marks the culmination of a year-long project with New York City AP U.S. History students at The Maxine Greene High School for Imagina...

Joey DeFrancesco—arguably the greatest jazz organist alive—joins the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for the first time. With two 61-note keyboards, a 25-note bass pedal board controlled by foot, and multiple custom drawbars, the Hammond organ is practically a full band by itself. This expansive in...

Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, founded in Paris in 1909, generated ground-breaking artistic influence that lasts through today. Engineering collaborations between composers, choreographers, and visual artists, Diaghilev established a creative model whose concepts are with us at Lincoln Center th...

What's your favorite musical? West Side Story? Fiddler on the Roof? Something from Rodgers & Hammerstein? A Chorus Line? Chicago? The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is Broadway’s greatest archive. Choose your favorite show tunes from a menu of musical theater hits, listen to cas...

“He made us believe in the music,” says Wynton Marsalis. Jazz raconteur Danny Barker was born in New Orleans in 1909, but he spent most of his career here in New York, playing with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, and countless others. When he finally returned home...

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis closes the season with a new collaboration bridging visual art and jazz composition. In partnership with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, JLCO members have spent the past year exploring centuries' worth of Amer...

Chijen Christopher Chung, Music Director & Conductor Featuring Jeffrey Liang, Trombone   Youth Orchestra, CYCNY Presents Annual Concert 2019. A Queens-based youth orchestra since 1996, it has presented Annual Concert at Lincoln Center since 2002 Chijen Christopher Chung, Music Director ...

Mark Morris, the “Mozart of modern dance” (Washington Post), returns to the festival with a new dance work commissioned by Lincoln Center that illuminates the playful tapestry of sound of Satie's Sports et divertissements. Then comes the “remarkable fantasy” of Empire Garden (Times, U.K.), an explor...

The timeless allure of Mozart evokes emotions from listeners of all ages and places. It's therefore natural to follow his sublime Violin Sonata with the warm glow of Johannes Brahms’s autumnal Clarinet Trio, composed in the twilight of his life, and Arensky’s hot-blooded Piano Trio, a chamber music ...

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, a spellbinding meditation on love and death, has been described as “the love story that changed opera for good” (NPR). For this concert performance of Act II, Gianandrea Noseda makes his first Lincoln Center appearance as music director of the esteemed National Symphony ...

If Johann Sebastian Bach had only left the world his six Brandenburg Concertos, he would still reside in the pantheon of the great composers. With their stunning variety of novel instrumentations, their unforgettable tunes, and their irresistible energy, the Brandenburgs easily serve as a definition...