Browse photos from theatre in Brooklyn including opening nights, red carpets, production shots, concerts & special events.
BAM Rose Cinemas will present FILMAFRICA 2026, a showcase of contemporary and classic Pan-African cinema curated by the New York African Film Festival, featuring world, US, and North American premieres from Uganda, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, and beyond.
BAM’s annual DanceAfrica Festival will return to Brooklyn from May 16-28, 2026.
Planet of the Grapes, a tabletop sci-fi comedy where talking grapes enslave humans, will play Brooklyn and the Lower East Side before heading to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performed by creator Peter Michael Marino.
The Little Victory Theatre will present SUPERSIZED WOMEN OF COMEDY, featuring Mary Dimino, Carolann Valentino, Randi Simon Lupo, Tracy Rosenberg, and Randi Kaplan in a Mother's Day stand-up, song, and sketch comedy event in Staten Island.
BroadwayWorld has a first look inside rehearsals for GATE SHUT PANIC, the new play written by Zoe Nelms and directed by Keira Dig.
Pianist Chelsea Randall will perform six commissioned solo piano works inspired by Black Arts Movement poetry at Brooklyn's Dweck Center, with Michigan Poet Laureate Melba Joyce Boyd among special guests.
World Music Institute will present oud virtuoso Simon Shaheen and kamancheh master Mehrnam Rastegari at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, celebrating Persian and Arabic string traditions as part of WMI's 40th Anniversary Legacy series.
The FROM SEA TO SEA NYC Southeast Asian Festival returns to Brooklyn's Chocolate Factory for its second edition, featuring live performances, 30+ vendors, cultural activities, and a keynote original score by Vietnamese composer Hao Le.
Noo Arts and Pratt Institute will present RIGHT TO FLIGHT, a rooftop performance and installation at Kingsland Wildflowers in Brooklyn raising awareness about migratory bird deaths caused by NYC building collisions.
WHITE WAVE Dance announced the 25th anniversary DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL, a three-day event featuring 35 contemporary dance companies from New York and around the world, with a Gala Opening Night honoring two arts community figures.
NANCY, a new play by Sean Swenson, will have its New York premiere at the Brick Aux Studio in Brooklyn.
TEMPEST TOSSED, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST, will return to Casa Duse in Brooklyn.
Chicha Libre will perform its only New York City show of the season at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn.
Debut playwright Geve Penn's two-act kitchen sink drama FINN'S will receive a one-day-only staged reading at Purgatory in Brooklyn, exploring work-life balance, masculinity, and race through the lens of a single bar shift.
Blessed Unrest will present the world premiere of BODY UNREDACTED, directed and choreographed by Jessica Burr, at The Makers' Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Moojestic Lion Productions will present THE CIRCUS CAME TO TOWN, a play by J.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden announced ANCESTRAL ECOLOGIES, a site-specific exhibition by artist Olalekan Jeyifous and environmental practice AD—WO, the inaugural fellows of BBG's new Heidi Nitze Art × Environment Fellowship.
Coney Island USA announced Jesse Malin and two-time Grammy winner Rickie Lee Jones as King Neptune and Queen Mermaid for the 44th Annual Mermaid Parade, the nation's largest art parade.
BAM will present the world premiere of STEVIE: A LIFE IN THE KEY OF SONGS, a three-night concert series at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House performing all five of Stevie Wonder's landmark albums, coinciding with his 76th birthday.
The Heights Players will present 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL, featuring music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, at their Brooklyn Heights theater.
Movement artist Karley Wasaff will present GROWING TAKES TIME, a life-sized interactive arcade and immersive performance at Kingsland Wildflowers Rooftop in Brooklyn, blending contemporary dance with audience-driven gameplay.
Indie theater company Dialogue with Three Chords will present three short plays inspired by the history of murder ballads at The Landing at Brooklyn's Industry City, featuring live music by LaMacchia.
Van Alen Institute has presented FRIENDS FROM THE CANAL, a public art installation by Mookntaka in Gowanus.
The Billie Holiday Theatre and Bed-Stuy Art House will present a one-night-only multidisciplinary event honoring Malcolm X and Lorraine Hansberry through original short plays, live music, and contemporary performance in Brooklyn.
Samaw Dance will present DIFFRACTION DANCE FESTIVAL at Mark Morris Dance Center's Duffy Theater in Brooklyn, gathering 16 AAPI+ artists and companies spanning house, hip hop, waacking, and contemporary dance during AAPI Heritage Month.
SLANTED FLOORS, the site-specific play starring Kyle Beltran and Adam Chanler-Berat, returns to its original Greenpoint apartment for a strictly limited 150-seat engagement, directed by Ryan Dobrin.
World Music Institute will present the NYC debut of the Will Calhoun Mali Project at The Sultan Room in Brooklyn, featuring Grammy-winning Living Colour drummer Will Calhoun alongside Malian keyboardist Cheick Tidiane Seck.
Rikud Studio, a new Brooklyn dance school founded by former Goldman Sachs professional Caila Moed, focuses exclusively on breaking, hip-hop, and house dance — with no ballet, no mirrors, and no recitals.
The Second City New York will present Nightmare on 9th Street, a new sketch comedy revue performed at the Brooklyn Improv MainStage in Williamsburg, featuring sketch, improv, and songs from its two-year conservatory cast.
Heart/Lung a drama about a closeted lesbian doctor who falls for her patient, will have its world premiere at Brooklyn's The Vino Theater.
Setar virtuoso Amir Nojan and percussionist Pejman Hadadi will perform 'Whispers of the Dastgah,' a program of spontaneous improvisations rooted in Persian classical music's modal system, at Roulette in Downtown Brooklyn.
The Syrian Music Preservation Initiative will present a concert dedicated to composer Muhammed Qadri Dalal at Roulette in Brooklyn.
Rehearsal photos have been released for CANCIONES, an immersive, site-specific production in Brooklyn.
The Non-Violence Project North America Foundation and National Sawdust will host a free workshop for middle and high school students to reinterpret the Knotted Gun, with one design selected for permanent installation.
New York Theatre Company has revealed the cast for The Circuit, a silent disco ballet set in the streets of DUMBO, Brooklyn, blending dance, theater, and nightlife into a site-specific, after-dark experience.
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Therapy Gecko The Bell House (8/29-8/29) |
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Tim Kenneth Kicks the Bucket Vino Theater (7/22-7/22) |
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Auld Acquaintances St. Paul's Episcopal Church (1/20-1/20) |
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SWAN LAKE by The United European Ballet Company Ulster Performing Arts Center (1/20-1/20) |
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Marissa Mulder Jazz On Main (7/24-7/24) |
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Zarabanda Variations Album Release Concert National Sawdust (8/31-8/31) |
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Still Life with Dowland and Britten Ascension Episcopal (10/16-10/16) |
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HOT PANTS: AN EVENING OF QUEER SHORTS Dixon Place (7/20-7/20) |
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Light As Air Tenet Vocal Artists (5/08-5/08) |
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SweetnLow Jazz On Main (8/07-8/07) |
