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May 14 at 6:00 pm
Lincoln Center Visionary Artist: Rubén Blades
Crossover Dreams Screening and Q&A
Lincoln Center Presents
In collaboration with Film at Lincoln Center
May 14 at 6:00 pm
Francesca Beale Theater
MUSIC
FILM
TALK
May 15 at 7:30 pm
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Concert Performance
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May 15 at 7:30 pm
David Rubenstein Atrium
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MUSICAL THEATER
May 16 at 7:00 pm
Legacies of San Juan Hill
¡VAYA!
Mambo Legends Orchestra
Lincoln Center Presents
May 16 at 7:00 pm
David Rubenstein Atrium
SOCIAL DANCE
IN-PERSON
LIVESTREAM
May 16 at 7:00 pm
Kids, Teens, and Families
Backbone
By Gravity and Other Myths
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May 16 at 7:00 pm
Alice Tully Hall
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AGES 5+
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Let the rhythm lift you at Summer for the City
Summer for the City offers hundreds of free and Choose-What-You-Pay events, featuring global voices that reflect the city’s vibrant cultural communities. Experience classical and contemporary mainstage performances: Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, BAAND Together Dance Festival, Run AMOC* Festival, Brooklyn Rider, and Mahabharata. Or, join us for outdoor events, including Social Dance, Silent Discos, concerts at Damrosch Park, shows for kids, families and teens, comedy nights, Jazz Underground, and more! Explore full calendar
Experience the joy of the arts at any age
This spring, explore free and Choose-What-You-Pay events curated and designed for Kids, Teens, and Families. On April 27, teens can participate in a free Create-athon with Brandon Powers, inviting them to experiment with cutting-edge AI tools and explore how technology can shape the future of live dance, theatre, and more. In May, a contemporary circus company celebrates human interconnectedness in the New York premiere of Backbone, a thrilling event for all ages!
Celebrate 15 years of FREE events at the Atrium
The David Rubenstein Atrium has offered 15 years of dynamic, free programming—opening our world to culture that addresses today’s most pressing issues and explores our common humanity. To celebrate the occasion, we're bringing back fan-favorites and welcoming Lincoln Center debuts to light up the stage this season! Featured events include: Mambo Legends Orchestra Latin social dance party, a Personal Storytelling Workshop with The Moth, the World Premiere of the Fat Beats documentary, and a concert version of Picnic at Hanging Rock.We've sent an email to the address you provided. To complete your subscription, please click the link in the email.
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Lincoln Center Presents encompasses year-round programming, presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, that reflects New York’s cultural diversity. Our work prioritizes an expansive view of artistic excellence and complements existing programs across the campus and the civic life of the city at large. Throughout the year, we uplift contemporary, classical, and new collaborations—offering fresh interpretations and boundary-blurring art forms in many genres rarely seen at Lincoln Center. Our team is dedicated to making the arts available to the widest possible audience; and the majority of Lincoln Center Presents programs are either FREE or Choose-What-You-Pay. Join us as we break new ground, celebrate the vibrancy of New York City, and bring our constituents and partners together in new ways.
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Our goal is to continue exploring new ticketing practices together as a community to make our performances more accessible to more people and to center equity and inclusion in every aspect of our field. The majority of Lincoln Center Presents programs are FREE or Choose-What-You-Pay. Please refer to the dedicated event page of the show you’d like to attend to confirm ticketing options.
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Many performances and events, including all programming at the David Rubenstein Atrium, are available for FREE via General Admission—first-come, first-served. Advance reservations are not required for these events; just show up! While we'll do our best to accommodate as many guests as possible, we cannot guarantee admission. Look for the “FREE” label on calendar listings and show pages, or select the “Free” calendar filter to search for a wide range of free programming.
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All Lincoln Center Presents events at the David Rubenstein Atrium offer a Fast Track reservation option, giving priority entry into events. Reservations for Fast Track will open every Monday at noon for that week's events and can be reserved on this page. Please check the event's dedicated web page to confirm if Fast Track is available for the performance you'd like to attend.
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Brooklyn-based composer, playwright, vocalist and La MaMa resident artist Truth Future Bachman deftly interweaves three of the most compelling cultural threads of our moment: musical theater, gender fluidity, and superhero/sci-fi parables. Bachman's ongoing Shapeshifters saga reimagines the othering of queerness as a gift, empowering their diverse, trans-human cast's epic adventures. Following the 2022 presentation of Luna and the Starbodies at last year’s Festival of Firsts, Lincoln Center is proud to host the world premiere of Bachman's next great origin story within their multiversal mythos, Skyward. After birdwatcher Aria sights a flock of extinct animals within a great migration, the bird's ghostly songs awaken an avian adaptation that transforms her life forever.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Guest Experience at 212-875-5456 or [email protected].
Truth Future Bachman's Skyward: An Endling Elegy
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