20th Fall for Dance Festival
Sep 27 – Oct 8, 2023
Sep 27 – Oct 8, 2023
Oct 14, 2023
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye, Artevi Production., Turkish-American Arts Society of NY, and ADAMS MNGMT. welcome you to an unforgettable night of Turkish music and entertainment: a spectacular concert featuring the dynamic talents of Hadise and Murat Boz.
New York City Center and Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels present
Oct 19 – 21, 2023
Lucinda Childs’s 1979 collaboration with Philip Glass and Sol LeWitt, a 20th-century masterpiece, is restaged for the peerless dancers of the Lyon Opera Ballet.
Annual Gala Presentation
Nov 1 – 5, 2023
Reconceived by tap icon Savion Glover and director Tony Goldwyn, this transformative revision casts Joey Evans (Ephraim Sykes of Ain’t Too Proud) as a Black jazz singer refusing to compromise on his craft.
Nov 9 – 11, 2023
Acclaimed choreographer Pam Tanowitz presents the New York premiere of Song of Songs, featuring music by David Lang.
This jazz-steeped reimagining of The Nutcracker celebrates the magic of the jazz heartbeat of Harlem in Sugar Hill.
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Qui Nguyen, the wildly inventive playwright (and screenwriter for Marvel and Disney) known for his use of pop culture, pop music, and puppetry, reunites with director May Adrales for this funny, sexy, and brash new play. A young Vietnamese family attempts to put down roots in Arkansas, a place as different from home as it gets. A mom and dad balance big hopes and low-wage jobs as old flings threaten to pull them apart. It all makes for a bumpy road to the American dream.
A winter tradition returns to the City Center stage with works from Kyle Abraham, Jamar Roberts, Robert Battle, and more.
Encores! 2024
Jan 24 – Feb 4, 2024
Musical theater legend Sutton Foster (The Music Man) returns to the City Center stage alongside an all-star creative team led by Encores! Artistic Director Lear deBessonet (Into the Woods, Lionel Bart’s Oliver!) and with a new concert adaptation by Amy Sherman-Palladino (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel). Full of gloriously catchy melodies like “Shy” and “In a Little While,” this uproarious update of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Princess and the Pea” promises both classic charms and new delights.
Encores! 2024
Feb 21 – Mar 3, 2024
A vivid, impressionistic portrait of legendary jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton, this wildly imaginative show helmed by Robert O’Hara (A Raisin in the Sun) captures the profound contradictions behind the artist’s explosive talent, using quintessential American forms of musical theater and jazz to weave a complex fable of history, legacy, and truth.
Mar 8 – 17, 2024
A two-week extravaganza of music, dance, and unforgettable performances, this year’s festival features The National Ballet of Spain, Premio Nacional de Danza winner Olga Pericet, and the star-studded showcase Gala Flamenca.
World famous for their theatricality, stunning technique and unparalleled expression, the dancers of Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) return to City Center with a season of premiere works.
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In a celebratory season, the Company reaffirms that the future of ballet is in Harlem with works by Robert Garland, William Forsythe, and a new staging of George Balanchine’s Pas de Dix.
The Company performs Martha Graham’s The Rite of Spring and Appalachian Spring, as well as Agnes de Mille’s 1942 classic Rodeo and a new work by Jamar Roberts with composer Rhiannon Giddens.
John Patrick Shanley, the Pulitzer Prize-and Tony-winning author of Doubt and the Oscar-winning writer of Moonstruck, returns to MTC with this world premiere of a new play. Sometimes big things start from little things; in this case, a bag of laundry.
Highlights include the restaging of Mad’moiselle, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s homage to Latina women; and Buscando a Juan, which will be re-imagined for the City Center stage following its site-specific premiere engagement at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Featuring 27 of Sting’s most beloved songs, this dance-theater sensation by Kate Prince and ZooNation opened to rave reviews on London’s West End and makes its New York debut here at City Center.
Encores! 2024
Jun 12 – 23, 2024
Operatic in its style, historical inspiration, and ambition, Titanic remains a symphonic musical theater revelation. Directed by Anne Kauffman (The Sign in Sydney Brustein’s Window), this production meditates on the nature of ambition and the human scale of the epic tragedy, focusing on the class divides both illuminated and transcended by the ship’s inexorable sinking, and painting a heartrending portrait of the individuals whose dreams of America were dashed in the Atlantic.
This popular evening series lets audiences get closer to today’s great dance artists.
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