Mighty Sparrow livestream August 4 at 8:00 pm
Light a candle and hold it up as the Trinidadian Calypso King and inimitable vocalist and storyteller Mighty Sparrow brings the Caribbean Island fire to Damrosch Park. Tune in to Lincoln Center's Facebook page and YouTube channel for this free must-see concert! Learn More »In-person & Digital Events
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Thursday, August 5
Steeped in the tradition of great duets such as Johnny Cash and June Carter, Our Band performs original Americana music for families.
Our Band will win your heart with Songs Can Travel. Steeped in the tradition of great duets such as Johnny Cash and June Carter, Sasha Papernik and Justin Poindexter bring their award-winning songwriting, intimate harmonies, and Eastern-European flair to a rich Americana soundscape for kids and families to tune in to.
About the Artist
Together, Sasha Papernik and Justin Poindexter have performed for audiences in some of the world’s greatest venues, from Carnegie Hall to Lincoln Center to the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. In 2018-19 they toured Poland, Germany and Estonia as ambassadors of American music for U.S. State Department. Their debut album, featuring American music legend David Amram, will be released in 2021.
About #ConcertsForKids
For family audiences, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is teaming up with a remarkable group of artists who will bring world-class performances and diverse musical perspectives straight from their homes to yours. We’re excited to share these short performances recorded by the artists themselves with your family at home.
Fearless performance artist Ryan J. Haddad's sexuality and vulnerability is on full display in this hilariously transgressive new performance.
By Ryan J. Haddad
Directed by Jordan Fein
What do a crosstown bus, a bathroom stall, and Gramercy Park have in common? Not very much. But they're all places where writer and performer Ryan J. Haddad must face the messy contradictions of his proudly disabled life. There’s not always a punchline, darlings, and the truth is often more complicated than the empowered narratives we create for ourselves. Haddad's newest autobiographical play, Dark Disabled Stories, is a series of stirring vignettes about the strangers he encounters while navigating a city (and a world) not built for his walker and cerebral palsy. By turns raunchy, hilarious, and unforgiving, Dark Disabled Stories probes implicit ableism and the assumptions we make about people we'll never really know.
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In an unprecedented celebration of dance, Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem share the spotlight for the first time—on The Restart Stage at Damrosch Park.
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Join the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and special guest Branford Marsalis for an evening celebrating Sonny Rollins’s “Freedom Suite” and more.
One of the finest big bands in the world, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs celebrated repertoire and original arrangements.
Branford Marsalis, saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, joins the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for this special evening. Known as one of jazz’s most virtuosic bandleaders, he also performs as a featured soloist with acclaimed orchestras and pop supergroups like the Grateful Dead and Sting. His scores for award-winning films like the recent Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom provide a window into his talents as a composer of music across all genres.
With music direction by Walter Blanding, audiences will hear Sonny Rollins’s “Freedom Suite,” an instrumental protest piece that foreshadowed the Civil Rights Movement of the ’60s, selections from John Coltrane's iconic work "A Love Supreme," and Victor Goines's “Crescent City,” a tone poem about New Orleans.
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s concert in Damrosch Park made possible through the generous support of Susan and J. Alan Kahn
Leadership support for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s outdoor concert series provided by Lisa K. Meulbroek and Brent R. Harris
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is presented by the Arnhold Family.
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An orchestra performance of Mozart’s first and last symphonies with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and NYC students, conducted by Louis Langrée.
Mark your calendars and visit Lincoln Center's Facebook page and YouTube channel for the livestream on August 6! The performance will also be streamed live for free on this page.
Conducted by Louis Langrée
Mozart: Symphony No. 1 in E♭ major, K. 16
Mozart: “The Jupiter Symphony”, Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551
From August 1 – 7, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra will be in residency with students from New York City area music schools for a series of pop-up performances, open rehearsals, and recitals as a part of their ongoing collaborations with music schools across New York City. The week-long residency culminates in a concert on the Damrosch Stage featuring Mozart’s first and last symphonies with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, conducted by Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director Louis Langrée. A major component of the MMFO’s efforts with schools across the City of New York was preparing students to perform Mozart’s Symphony No. 1—composed when Mozart himself was merely 8 years old—and this piece will feature select students from the ongoing partnerships with participating schools, performing alongside Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra musicians. The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra will conclude the performance with Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony. Performance will be livestreamed.
Participating schools and programs include Union City Music Project; UpBeat NYC; Orchestrating Dreams; Harmony Program; Corona Youth Music Project; Chamber Music Center of New York; BridgeMusik; and Harlem School of the Arts.
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In an unprecedented celebration of dance, Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem share the spotlight for the first time—on The Restart Stage at Damrosch Park.
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POP-UP – Poets on the Plaza
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Poets Jive Poetic, Caridad De La Luz, and Suzen Baraka from Nuyorican Poets Café perform. Open to the public; non-ticketed event on The GREEN.
In an unprecedented celebration of dance, Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem share the spotlight for the first time—on The Restart Stage at Damrosch Park.
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An orchestra performance of Mozart’s first and last symphonies with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and NYC students, conducted by Louis Langrée.
La Casita, an extravaganza of traditional and contemporary music and spoken word performance, celebrates 20 years with a new all-star lineup.
In 2001, Lincoln Center hosted the first La Casita, a citywide, internationally inclusive festival celebrating the global oral traditions in poetry and music, grounded in the principle that New York City is more equitably represented by presenting the rich artistic traditions of its many underserved communities. In honor of La Casita's twentieth anniversary, their roster of esteemed curators has assembled a stellar cast of artists hailing from across the globe, including interdisciplinary musical performers Madison McFerrin, Amyra León, and Kelly Tsai; spoken word poets Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Rich Villar and Rabih Ahmed; and Senegalese kora player and vocalist Abdou Mboup. The evening's host is theatermaker and hip-hop artist Baba Israel.
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In an unprecedented celebration of dance, Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem share the spotlight for the first time—on The Restart Stage at Damrosch Park.
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Experience the peerless artistry of CMS with newly curated full-length HD concerts from the Frederick R. Koch Foundation Townhouse.
In an unprecedented celebration of dance, Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem share the spotlight for the first time—on The Restart Stage at Damrosch Park.
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POP-UP – Music Workshop
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Learn about rhythm and sound as we explore what we can turn into a percussive instrument. Open to the public; non-ticketed event on The GREEN.
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POP-UP – Making Instruments Workshop
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Learn how to make your own musical instrument out of anything, then join the jam session! Open to the public; non-ticketed event on The GREEN.
In an unprecedented celebration of dance, Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem share the spotlight for the first time—on The Restart Stage at Damrosch Park.
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Lee’s feature endures today as not only a seminal portrait of NYC but also an urgent work about race relations, gentrification, and community.
Spike Lee’s third feature marked nothing less than a revolution in American cinema, and endures today as not only a seminal portrait of New York City but also as an urgent work of art about race relations, gentrification, and the meaning of community. Set across one blazing-hot summer day in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, the film—which earned Lee his first Oscar nomination, for his original screenplay—captures, with a spellbinding blend of humor and political seriousness, the tensions, ecstasies, and agonies among a large ensemble of characters, played unforgettably by Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Bill Nunn, Rosie Perez, Giancarlo Esposito, John Turturro, Danny Aiello (who earned an Oscar nomination for his turn as beleaguered pizzeria owner Sal), and countless others.
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Soul music, personal identity and political protest are deliciously indivisible in music from the American Indo-Pakistani R&B tenor Zeshan B.
The Chicago-born soul singer and harmonium player Zeshan B’s finely tuned tenor hints at his classical operatic training, and his regular musical and vocal diversions into Indo-Pakistani folk and classical style serve as indicators of his heritage. But it is his deep love for retro-soul grooves that most clearly defines him as a protege following in the footsteps of sixties and seventies giants like Bobby “Blue” Bland and Sam Cooke, intentionally emphasizing that era's ethos of progressive politics and intersectional protest music with tracks like his hard-rocking anthem "Brown Power." A veteran of Lincoln Center's performance and educational programs, Zeshan and his five-piece band will perform songs from his albums Melismatic and Vetted plus new music Zeshan composed during the pandemic.
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In an unprecedented celebration of dance, Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem share the spotlight for the first time—on The Restart Stage at Damrosch Park.
Learn More »
This all-star version of King Hu’s classic “Dragon Inn,” shadow directed and produced by Tsui Hark, is the apex of Hong Kong wuxia cinema. Unmissable.
Co-presented by New York Asian Film Festival and Film at Lincoln Center
Director: Raymond Lee
Cast: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Maggie Cheung, Donnie Yen, Lau Shun, Yuen Cheung-yan
Cantonese with English subtitles
Hong Kong, 1992; 109 min
Two of Hong Kong’s greatest actresses of all time, Maggie Cheung and Brigitte Lin (who famously took an arrow in the eye during the shoot) play bad-ass swordswomen who attempt to thwart Ming Dynasty eunuch Tsao (played by Donnie Yen in full supervillain form) as he masterminds a plot to take over the Empire. One of the first Hong Kong films to be shot in China, Tsui Hark’s swordplay extravaganza is the gold standard of 1990s wuxia: a madcap blend of female-powered gravity-defying acrobatics mixed with spaghetti western tropes: it’s no surprise that both Maggie Cheung and Brigitte Lin have since retired from the big screen. Because really, how do you top a movie like this? A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catch this masterpiece of popular Asian cinema on the BIG screen.
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New York Blood Center's Community Blood Drive on August 4
Join us for our third community blood drive with the New York Blood Center. Every donation can save three lives! Schedule an appointment now. Learn More »Series & Programs
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Upcoming events by our poet-in-residence
Through September, Lincoln Center's first-ever poet-in-residence Mahogany L. Browne curates virtual and in-person events, hosting artists and activists from varying fields for conversations and performances. Her residency, entitled “We Are The Work,” is an artistic call to recharge and unite towards justice within our communities. Learn More »
Spotlight On: Disability Pride
As part of our mission to champion inclusive excellence in the arts and provide access to the arts for the widest possible audience, we shine a light on the work of Disabled artists with in-person performances as part of Restart Stages at Lincoln Center, as well as virtual events that allow for increased accessibility for audiences with disabilities. Learn More »
Restart Stages: Family & Kids
Bring the family to fun-filled—and sun-filled!—outdoor programming and activities for young audiences and the young at heart. From ticketed performances to pop-up workshops and events on The GREEN, and an open-air reading room, Restart Stages will keep your kids busy and engaged all summer long. Learn More »
