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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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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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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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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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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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 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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