Drop in for a justice-oriented children’s book fair on July 31
The schedule is packed with eight back-to-back book readings for kids, games and crafts, baby movement classes, a live DJ set, and Drag Queen story hour and photo op with Cholula Lemon. Open to the general public. Learn More »In-person & Digital Events
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Sunday, August 1
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 – Storytime: Kids Musical Theatre
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Listen to a musical that tells the story of a droplet going through the water cycle. 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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Stefanie Batten Bland’s Company SBB re-imagines the classic film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as contemporary social commentary told through dance.
By Company SBB//Stefanie Batten Bland
Choreographer Stefanie Batten Bland has made an international name for herself in the dance community with a body of work that is provocative, visually arresting and thematically daring. Fresh back from a reopening performance at The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard and a residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, seven members of her troupe, Company SBB, will present Look Who's Coming to Dinner, a kinetic reimagining of Stanley Kramer’s landmark 1967 film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Where that classic movie captured the shifting racial tensions of its time as a comedy of manners, Bland's piece honors prior generations’ sacrifice toward a more justly integrated world, while acknowledging the continuing inequities of who has access to a seat at the table.
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Join us for our third community blood drive with the New York Blood Center. Every donation can save three lives! Schedule an appointment now.
Debra Ann Byrd's one-woman musical play exploring her performance as Othello blends her own struggles with that of Shakespeare's tragic lead.
Presented in collaboration with HARLEM WEEK and the Harlem Arts Alliance
By Debra Ann Byrd
Directed by Tina Packer
Classically trained actress and playwright Debra Ann Byrd's one-woman "living memoir" and musical play, Becoming Othello, explores her upbringing as a young girl raised in Spanish Harlem and the painstaking process of expressing that sometimes troubled personal history through her acclaimed gender-switched performance as the Moor of Venice. Byrd's life as a single mother and as an artist provide her with the grounding and depth necessary to inhabit Othello, but it is the willing bravery to share her unseen truths that most resonates with her audiences. In this new adaptation of the play, produced by Harlem Arts Alliance in honor of the annual HARLEM WEEK celebration, she mines the Shakespearean tradition to showcase the struggle, triumph and excellence of the uptown Black experience.
CREATIVE TEAM Playwright & Actress: Debra Ann Byrd; Director: Tina Packer; Movement Director: Dyane Harvey-Salaam; Assistant Director: Martin Jason Asprey; Costume Design: Gail Cooper-Hecht; Sound Design: David D. Wright; Stage Manager: Diana Evans; Assistant Stage Manager: Aime Jay; Executive Producer: Voza Rivers; Production/Press Liaison: Donna Walker-Kuhne; Team Harlem Shakespeare: Jackie Jeffries, Natalie Clarke; Documentary Director/Asst. to Ms. Byrd: Mary Coleman Way
BECOMING OTHELLO: A Black Girl’s Journey was developed in part through a residency at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, University of Warwick, Folger Shakespeare Library, Columbia University Office of Government and Community Affairs, Shakespeare & Company, Southwest Shakespeare Company and The Center at West Park.
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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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Mighty Sparrow, the twentieth century's most famous performer of Calypso music, plays his first U.S. show since 2019 at Restart Stages.
Light a candle and hold it up as the Trinidadian Calypso King and inimitable vocalist and storyteller Mighty Sparrow (OBE) brings the Caribbean Island fire to Lincoln Center for a career-spanning set of songs on the eve of his 86th birthday. Mighty Sparrow’s legacy spans nearly the entire history of recordings, from 78s to digital downloads, and his standing in 20th century music ranks alongside the greats of his generation. The preeminent calypsonian’s first performance in America since 2019 will include a selection of his greatest hits from a songwriting catalogue of over 600 tracks and more than 80 albums, including such Carnival classics as “Jean and Dinah,” “Sparrow Dead,” and “Mr. Walker.” For calypso fans both young and old, this promises to be the summer’s must-see concert.
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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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If you have any questions about this performance or the TodayTix Lottery, please contact Guest Services at 212-875-5456 or [email protected] (Monday–Friday, 10 am–6 pm ET).
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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.
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.
Please read below for important ticketing and COVID-19 health and safety information:
If you have any questions about this performance or the TodayTix Lottery, please contact Guest Services at 212-875-5456 or [email protected] (Monday–Friday, 10 am–6 pm ET).
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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 »
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POP-UP – Poets on the Plaza
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Poets Jive Poetic and Caridad De La Luz 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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New York Blood Center's Community Blood Drive
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 Month
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 »
