Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City Center’s Principal Dance Company and America’s cultural ambassador to the world, returns to the New York City Center stage for its annual, five-week holiday engagement, December 4 – January 5, celebrating Legacy in Motion. Featuring the world premieres of Sacred Songs by Interim Artistic Director Matthew Rushing, Finding Free by Hope Boykin, Many Angels by Lar Lubovitch, and Al-Andalus Blues by Jamar Roberts. The season also includes the 25th anniversary staging of Ronald K. Brown’s rapturous blockbuster Grace and a new production of Elisa Monte’s mesmerizing Treading. Live music will be presented at select performances of Finding Free, Sacred Songs, and Alvin Ailey’s soul-stirring masterpiece Revelations. Performance Times: Opening Night Gala (December 4) 7pm (note earlier curtain time) Tuesday - Sunday evenings 7:30pm Wednesday matinee (Dec. 18) 2pm Saturday Family matinees 2pm Sunday matinees 2pm New Year’s Eve matinee 2pm
New York City Center is at 131 West 55th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues, New York, NY, New York, NY.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s New York City Center Season (11/29/23-12/31/23)
The Best We Could (a family tragedy) (2/8/23-3/19/23)
New York City Center has played a defining role in the cultutal life of the city since 1943 when it was founded by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia with the mission to make the best in the performing arts accessible to all. The distinctive neo-Moorish theater welcomes 300,000 visitors annually to experience internationally acclaimed artists on the same stage where legends like George Balanchine, Leonard Bernstein, and Barbara Cook made their mark. Its landmark 75th Anniversary Season (2018 – 2019) paid tribute to this rich history while celebrating the institution’s singular role in the arts today. For more than 25 years, the treasured, Tony-honored Encores! series has given new life to the American musical theater canon, complemented in recent years by the Encores! Off-Center series, which brings today’s innovative artists into contact with groundbreaking musicals from the more recent past. Dance continues to be an integral part of the institution’s mission through programs like the annual Fall for Dance Festival, which exposes a new audience to an international array of artists by offering subsidized tickets for the price of a movie ticket.
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Broadway Magic Hour
Broadway Comedy Club (9/30 - 12/30) | |
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Lobby Hero
Manes Studio Theatre of Long Island (1/9 - 1/25)
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A Marble Christmas Concert: Everlasting Joy, Narrated by Simon Jones
Marble Collegiate Church (12/14 - 12/14) | |
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Down Once More
Teatro Latea (12/15 - 12/21) | |
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A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play
Hampton Theatre Company (12/12 - 12/14) | |
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Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies
Triad Theater (12/13 - 12/13) | |
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Dance, Edita, Dance!
The Factory Series @ The Chain Theatre (12/12 - 12/14) OFF-OFF-BROADWAY PREMIERE
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A Drinking Game NYC presents: Die Hard
The Bell House (12/12 - 12/12) | |
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A Public Reading of an Unproduced Cable Television Christmas Movie
QED Astoria (12/19 - 12/19) | |
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Standard Time with Michael Feinstein: On the Town
Carnegie Hall (2/25 - 2/25) | |
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Water for Elephants
Proctors (4/7 - 4/12) | |
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A Christmas Carol
Sundog Theatre (12/13 - 12/13) | |
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