| | NewFest 2011 |
(See website for different venues) (Varies) Lincoln Center and NewFest will co-present the opening and closing nights of NewFest at Lincoln Center. After opening night, festival programming will continue at the School of Visual Arts theater in Chelsea with special screenings at a variety of other respected New York cultural institutions, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harlem Stage and The Jewish Community Center to provide a full program of screenings
Event Website Note: this event runs July 21 - 28
| Broadway in Bryant Park |
(Bryant Park, 25 West 40th St, New York, NY 10018) (12:30pm) Songs from current Broadway shows sung by the stars themselves.
(FREE) Event Website Note: this event runs July 7, 14, 21, 28, August 4, and 11
| Movies With A View |
(Brooklyn Bridge Park, Main and Plymouth Streets, Brooklyn, NY 11201) (Sunset) One of the city's premiere outdoor film series with an eclectic lineup of films and breathtaking views of the NYC waterfront. Shorts curated by BAMcinématek & DJs from Brooklyn Radio. Jul 7 - Manhattan, Jul 14 - Ghostbusters, Jul 21 - Sweet Smell of Success, Jul 28 - Basquiat, Aug 4 - An American Tail, Aug 11 - Breakfast at Tiffany's, Aug 18 - Crooklyn, Aug 25 - Rosemary's Baby, Sept 1 - Public Vote (FREE)
Note: this event runs July 7, 14, 21, 28, August 4, 11, 18, 25, and September 1
| River Rocks |
(Pier 54, Hudson River Park at 13th St, New York, NY 10014) (6pm) Jul 14 - Tune Yards, Jul 28 - Metronomy, Aug 11 - Deer Track
(FREE) Event Website Note: this event runs July 14, 28, and August 11
| Queer Punk |
(Leslie/Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster St, New York, NY 10013) (1pm - 6pm) Leslie/Lohman & Kymara Gallery present: Queer Punk: A solo exhibition featuring new sculptures by internationally renowned Ante Artist, Fernando Carpeneda. Opening Reception: June 25: 6-11PM. For more artist info see: www.fernandocarpaneda.com
(FREE) (212-431-2609) [email protected] Event Website Note: this event runs June 1, 2011 - January 31, 2012
| 35rd ANNUAL SEASIDE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES |
(Asser Levy Park Amphitheater, West 5th St & Surf Ave, New York, NY 11224) This year's lineup includes: July 14, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts; July 21, The Monkeys; July 28, Mary Wilson of the Supremes; Aug 4, Mystery Night; Aug 11, Annual Latino Music by the Sea; Aug 18, Cheap Trick.
Note: this event runs July 14, 21, 28, August 4, 11, and 18
| Linda McCartney: My Life in Photographs |
(Bonni Benrubi Gallery, 41 East 57th St #1300, New York, NY 10022) (See website for details) The photographer (and former wife of the Beatle) is best known for the intimacy and ease of her portraits, often of musicians, like the 1967 shot of Jimi Hendrix yawning. Linda's massive collection includes vintage photos of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Willem de Kooning, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Michael Jackson. Linda and Paul had been married nearly 30 years when she died of cancer in 1998.
Event Website This event runs June 2 - July 29
| | A Strange and Separate People |
(Theatre Row, 410 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036) (8pm) About a young Orthodox couple, Jay and Phyllis, who have managed to find a precarious equilibrium in their complicated personal and religious lives that is severely tested when Stuart, a gay doctor who is handsome, cocky, and newly Orthodox, invades their lives.
($18) Event Website This event runs July 14 - 30
| Shakespeare in the Park |
(Delacorte Theater, Central Park at 81st St, New York, NY 10024) (8pm) Performed in repertory for 8 continuous weeks. MEASURE FOR MEASURE: Measure sweeps from the corridors of national power to the intimate confines of the bedroom and from the convent's chapel to the executioner's block. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL: A fairytale for grown-ups, this beguiling fable follows the low-born Helena, one of Shakespeare's most resourceful heroines.
(FREE) Event Website This event runs June 6 - July 30
| | A Midsummer Night's Dream Re-imagined! |
(the cell, 338 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011) (varies) The Hive Theatre Company and the cell have joined forces to present a
modern re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S
DREAM, which casts Hermia and Lysander as lesbian lovers with Demetrius
and Helena as a gay couple. This is not your grandmother’s MIDSUMMER, but
a MIDSUMMER for 21st century NYC. This production exposes contemporary
America's sexual hang-ups and resistance to gay marriage. Concepts of what
constitutes gender, sexual-orientation and power will be explored and
exploded!
($15+) (646.861.2253) [email protected] Event Website This event runs July 5 - 31
| Game Play 2011 |
(The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211) (Varies) Game Play explores the collision of technology, theater, performance art, and video game culture by staging the collaborative work of performance and media artists across the digital spectrum. See website for complete details.
Event Website This event runs July 7 - 31
| Anything Goes |
(Stephen Sondheim Theatre, 124 West 43 St, New York, NY 10036) (Varies) This saucy and splendid new production of Cole Porter's musical romp across the Atlantic, starring Tony Award® winner Sutton Foster and Tony® & Academy® Award winner Joel Grey!
($87) Event Website This event runs March 10 - July 31
| Midtown International Theatre Festival |
(See website for locations) (See website for details) The festival represents an adventurous, intriguing, and often paradoxical cross-section of the theatre community.
Event Website This event runs July 11 - 31
| Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty |
(MoMA, 11 West 53 St, New York, NY 10019) (See website for details) The exhibition, organized by The Costume Institute, will celebrate the late Alexander McQueen's extraordinary contributions to fashion. From his postgraduate collection of 1992 to his final runway presentation, Mr. McQueen challenged and expanded the understanding of fashion beyond utility to a conceptual expression of culture, politics, and identity.
Event Website This event runs May 4 - July 31
| Pilobolus |
(Joyce Theater, 175 8th Ave, New York, NY 10011) (Varies) The company's special 40th anniversary season features three extraordinary programs that look back in delight -- with works like Untitled, a 1975 winner, and Duet 92, a passionate piece from 1992 -- and, at the same time, celebrate the amazing range of more recent endeavors that include startling multimedia initiatives and collaborations with artists representing genres far beyond the realm of dance.
($10+) Event Website This event runs July 11 - August 6
| | Queer: from One to A Hundred |
(TNC Gallery, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10003) An exhibit of more than 200 works by Scooter LaForge, Pete Hocking and other queer artists and photographers are on view.
Event Website This event runs June 21 - August 9
| Celebrate Brooklyn 2011 |
(Prospect Park Bandshell, 9th St, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11215) (see website for details) Celebrate Brooklyn! is one of New York City's longest-running, free, summer outdoor performing arts festivals. They present a wonderfully eclectic mix of emerging, cutting-edge and world-renowned artists, as well as an amazing outdoor cinema series, for over 200,000 people each summer at the Prospect Park Bandshell. It’s a cherished summer institution that has earned a reputation for excellence that attracts artists and audiences from across the borough, the city and the world!
(FREE) Event Website This event runs June 14 - August 11
| Silence! The Musical. |
(Theater 80 St. Marks, 80 St. Marks, between 1st and 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10003) (Varies) The unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs, with book by Hunter Bell, music & lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan, and direction and choreography by Christopher Gattelli. And now, at last, this delicate symphony of suspense has been turned on its ear and retold in the only way it can be-- as a musical.
($38) Event Website This event runs June 24 - August 13
| Lincoln Center Festival 2011 |
(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) (Varies) Lincoln Center Festival’s innovative programming continually earns the attention and praise of national and international critics and audiences. Film screenings, talks, panel discussions plus Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Shakespeare Company and Cleveland Orchestra Complete the Trio of Leading Performing Ensembles
(Varies) Event Website This event runs July 5 - August 14
| Master Cllass |
(Manhattan Theatre Club, 311 West 43rd St. 8th Floor, Studio One, New York, NY 10017) (Varies) Terrence McNally’s play about Maria Callas takes us to one of her famous master classes, where, late in her own career, she dares the next generation to make the same sacrifices and rise to the same heights that made her the most celebrated, the most reviled and the most controversial singer of her time. Starring Tyne Daly
($57+) Event Website This event runs June 14 - August 14
| Riverside Park Sunset Concert Series |
(Riverside Park, Pier 1 @ 70th Street, New York, NY 10024) (7pm) Every Saturday grab your blankets, picnic baskets, and candles! The Riverside Clay Tennis Association is once again hosting its series of sunset concerts on the tennis lawn overlooking the Hudson River at 97th Street.
(FREE) Event Website This event runs June 18 - August 20
| 2011 SummerStage |
(See website for details) (Varies see website for details) New York’s largest free performing arts festival, brings over 100 performances to eighteen parks throughout the five boroughs. With performances ranging from American pop, Latin and world music to dance, spoken word and theater, SummerStage fills a vital niche in New York City’s summer arts festival landscape.
Event Website This event runs June 6 - August 30
| Fossil Opens Retro Pop-Up Shop |
(Fossil, 111 Spring St, New York, NY 10012) (Varies) Excited to see a bevy of vintage items selected by the staff, as well as leather goods and accessories that are synonymous with the label. Fossil also goes retro and promises to transport us to another time with '70s style; an obvious reoccurring trend this Fashion Week that will wear us well into next winter.
Event Website This event runs February 11 - September 1
| | Olive and the Bitter Herbs |
(59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th St, New York, NY 10022) (Varies) Tony Award®-nominated playwright Charles Busch’s latest comedy, Olive and the Bitter Herbs is a comedy about connecting to the people in our lives—those with us and those who have passed on.
($45+) Event Website This event runs July 26 - September 3
| Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo |
(Richard Rodgers Theatre, 226 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036) (Varies) scar® and Emmy Award® winner Robin Williams makes his Broadway debut in the New York premiere. he lives of two American Marines and an Iraqi translator are forever changed by an encounter with a quick-witted tiger who haunts the streets of war-torn Baghdad attempting to find meaning, forgiveness and redemption amidst the city’s ruins. Rajiv Joseph's groundbreaking new American play explores both the power and the perils of human nature.
($60+) Event Website This event runs March 20 - September 3
| Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana |
(Radio City Music Hall, 1260 6th Ave, New York, NY 10020) (Varies) This epic spectacle takes audiences into a fantastical and suspenseful world where highly-acrobatic feats are heightened by original live music and interactive multimedia elements. Zarkana transforms the grandest stage in the world into a world of unreality as only Cirque du Soleil could imagine.
($60+) Event Website This event runs June 9 - September 4
| HAIR |
(St. James Theatre, 246 W 44th st, New York, NY 10036) (See website for details) 10 weeks only! HAIR tells the story of a group of friends choosing to speak up and sing out in celebration of love, life and freedom. The first great rock musical, it has some of the most rousing and soulful songs ever written for the stage, including "Let the Sun Shine In," "Easy to be Hard," "Good Morning Starshine," "Aquarius" and the infectious title song, "Hair."
($47+) Event Website This event runs July 5 - September 9
| | The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom |
(DR2 Theatre, 103 East 15 St, New York, NY 10009) (Varies) Emmy-winning actress and comic Judy Gold returns to the New York stage in a brand-new show, building on the success of her show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, funny-woman Judy Gold returns to the stage in this hilarious look at her life through the lens of the classic sitcoms of her youth.
($45) Event Website This event runs June 30 - September 10
| Riverside Park Summer on the Hudson 2011 |
(Riverside Park, Pier 1 @ 70th Street, New York, NY 10024) (see website for details) Whether you want to learn to dance or pull up a blanket to see a movie
(FREE) Event Website This event runs June 9 - September 24
| Burlesque on the Beach |
(Sideshows by the Seashore Theater & Coney Island Museum, 3006 West 12th St & 1208 Surf Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11224) (Varies) Every Thursday & Friday during the Summer season, The Great Fredini & Bambi The Mermaid present the popular Burlesque on the Beach program- A revival of the most glorious and notorious of the "girlie revues" in Coney Island history. The sumptuous decor, fabulous bubble machine and swell girls make burlesque one of Coney's hottest attractions! Every week brings all new shows with outrageous acts.
Event Website This event runs May 5 - September 30
| Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating & Marriage |
(Sofia's Downstairs Theatre, 221 West 46 St, New York, NY 10036) (Varies) the story of Miss Abigail, the most sought-after relationship expert to the stars (think Dr. Ruth meets Emily Post), and her sexy side-kick Paco, as they travel the world teaching Miss Abigail’s outrageously funny “how-tos” on dating, mating and marriage!
($69+) Event Website This event runs December 14, 2010 - October 4, 2011
| How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
(Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 302 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036) (Varies) Openig bight. Starring the acclaimed international stage and film actor Daniel Radcliffe (Equus on Broadway, the Harry Potter film series) and five-time Emmy Award® winner John Larroquette (Night Court, The Practice) in their Broadway musical debuts, this Pulitzer and Tony Award®-winning “Best Musical” is the hilarious fable of executive dreams and office romance.
($52+) Event Website This event runs March 27 - November 6
| Catch Me If you Can |
(Neil Simon Theatre, 250 West 52nd St, New York, NY 10019) (Varies) A high-flying new musical comedy based on the hit DreamWorks film and the incredible true story that inspired it! eatures a Tony Award-winning "dream team," with a book by TERRENCE McNALLY (The Full Monty, Ragtime), an irresistible score by MARC SHAIMAN & SCOTT WITTMAN (Hairspray), choreography by JERRY MITCHELL (Hairspray, Legally Blonde) and direction by JACK O'BRIEN (Hairspray, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).
($65) Event Website This event runs April 20 - November 20
| Spiderman Turn Off the Dark |
(Foxwoods Theater, 214 West 43rd St, New York, NY 10019) (Varies) Previews November 14th Opens December 21st. Drawing from over 40 years of Marvel comic books for inspiration, Spiderman - Turn Off The Dark, spins a new take on the mythic tale of Peter Parker, a teenager whose unremarkable life in Queen's is turned upside down - literally - when he's bitten by a genetically altered spider and wakes up the next morning clinging to the ceiling.
Event Website This event runs June 14 - December 31
| The World's Largest Dinosaurs |
(American Museum of Natural History, 175 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023) (Varies) A new exhibition this spring focusing on the monstrous size and impressive survival of these beings with hands-on computer activities and collections of sauropod specimens. The main attraction will be a life-size sauropod dinosaur that is about 60 feet in length.
($24) Event Website This event runs April 16, 2011 - January 2, 2012
| On the High Line Kim Beck Space Available |
(The High Line, Gansevoort St to 34th St, btwn 10 & 11th Aves, New York, NY 10011) Three sculptures resembling the skeletal framework behind advertising billboards. These blank forms emulate the abounding indicators of the economic recession, such as empty storefronts and "For Sale" signs. Beck's sculptures have the illusion of depth when viewed from the front, but as visitors move past them, the side views reveal that they are completely flat, cut from perspective drawings and built like theater props.
(FREE) Event Website This event runs March 4, 2011 - January 3, 2012