New York City Center provides special services
(significant rental underwriting, ticketing, production/technical
help, marketing assistance) to the many companies that perform
here, annually including Alvin Ailey® American Dance
Theater, Paul Taylor Dance Company, and American Ballet Theatre.
City Center presents, co-presents, and commercially rents the
Mainstage theater, and is the long-time home for Manhattan
Theatre Club, with its full season of plays and "Spring Boards" series in City Center's Stage I and Stage II
theaters.
 The jewel in City Center's producing crown is New York City
Center's Encores!® Great American
Musicals in Concert, introduced in 1994 to critical and
audience acclaim. It has successfully brought a new audience into
this theater – and kept them here, with an annual
subscription renewal rate over 95% – who are encouraged to
cross over and enjoy other programming at the same venue.
Consistently attracting the best of reigning entertainment talent
and discovering the stars of the future, City Center Encores!
has garnered a fistful of awards, including the 2000 Tony®
Honor for Excellence in Theatre, the Lucille Lortel, and the
Outer Critics Circle. When the 1996 Encores! version of Chicago
(Bebe Neuwirth, Ann Reinking, James Naughton) was remounted on
Broadway it received six Tony awards, the most ever given to a
musical revival.
Committed since its founding to be an educational resource for
the diverse New York community, New York City Center has long
offered opportunities for students and teachers. For over ten
years, New York City Center's Young People's Dance Series
has brought professional artists into public schools; brought
their students into the Mainstage theater experience; and brought
the creativity, discipline, and excitement of the music and
movement into the schools' core curricula. This renowned effort,
nationally recognized in 1999 by the President's Committee on the
Arts and Humanities, has been expanded into workshops, musical
theater components, and teacher education programs, and today
reaches out to educate and enlighten both young and general
audiences.
For more than 60 years, New York City Center has hosted some of
America's and the world's most amazing performers and
productions. Each season unveils exciting new developments. With
each word, with each step, with each note from its glorious
stage, New York City Center is proud to bring to life Mayor
LaGuardia's dream of a home for the arts and its audience.
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