Wynton Marsalis News

Back by popular demand, the Lied Center is again offering a virtual season package, allowing audiences to enjoy exceptional arts experiences from the comfort of home.

Gold Coast Jazz Society presents their 32nd Season, kicking off in November. Learn more about the full season lineup here!

Seattle Theatre Group will welcome back Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to the Paramount Theatre for an evening of large-ensemble jazz at its pinnacle. Learn more about the series here!

As the most widely seen modern dance work in the world, Alvin Ailey's Revelations has become part of the DNA of contemporary and popular dance, and it is a privilege to finally experience it on a live stage, alongside its more modern yet complementary 21st century cousins from Kyle Abraham and Robert Battle.

Long an annual tradition, Live the Spirit Residency presents the free 24th Englewood Jazz Festival.

Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the San Francisco Symphony in the first three Orchestral Series programs of the 2023–24 season, September 29–October 1, October 6 & 7, and October 12–14, at Davies Symphony Hall.

 UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) opens its 2023-2024 season with a weekend of virtuosic stars and genre-blending collaborations including celebrated jazz legends Dee Dee Bridgewater and Bill Charlap at Royce Hall, followed by the inaugural performance at the new UCLA Nimoy Theater (The Nimoy) headlined by Grammy-winning spoken word artist J. Ivy.

The Lied Center for Performing Arts has built a reputation of presenting the world's top pianists, and attracting internationally renowned artists requires providing world-class instruments for their performances. Thanks to generous support from the D.F. Dillon Foundation and Rhonda Seacrest, 8-time GRAMMY Award winning pianist Emanuel Ax traveled to the Steinway factory in Queens, New York to select a new 9' Steinway Model D Concert Grand piano for the Lied. Ax was joined by Lied Center Executive Director Bill Stephan, Glenn Korff School of Music Professor Paul Barnes, UNL Chancellor Ronnie Green, and Lied Center Piano Circle Member Keith Heckman.

The Paul Taylor Dance Company's 2023 Season at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, from October 31 through November 12, will include fourteen dances by five choreographers – Ulysses Dove, Amy Hall Garner, Larry Keigwin, Lauren Lovette, and Paul Taylor – and feature world premieres by Lovette, PTDC's Resident Choreographer, and Keigwin, Taylor Company Commissioned choreographer.

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), the state's anchor cultural institution, celebrates 26 years of offering thousands of high schoolers from Newark and beyond music lessons and performance experiences through its popular TD Jazz for Teens program.

Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL) gives a record six mainstage performances at Carnegie Hall in 2023–24, as well as significant ongoing series in both of the venue's other two performance spaces, Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall.

 Jazz pianist Dr. Art Topilow will be joined by acclaimed singer and saxophonist Danny Bacher and vocalists Charenee Wade and Nicole Zuraitis in a tribute to the greatest female vocalists of all time. The show, which is presented by the Axelrod Performing Arts Center, will take place at 7 p.m. Sunday, August 27 on the outdoor deck at Bell Works in Holmdel.   

Casa Mañana opens its 2023-24 Broadway Season with Jersey Boys, the long-running Broadway musical that tells the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Parker Esse returns to Casa Mañana to direct and choreograph the show, last directing Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in March of 2023.

Kean Stage has announced its 2023-2024 season line-up featuring a diverse mix of Broadway, classic rock, jazz, dance, holiday and family programming. Additional artists will be announced later this season.

On August 17, 2023, the public will get their first access to single event tickets for the Lied Center's 2023-2024 season featuring more than 30 events including top artists and ensembles from around the world in dance, classical music, jazz, musical theater, comedy, family, illusion, and more.  

Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents three jazz concerts this fall at the Jazz Club at Samueli Theater.

The Kimmel Cultural Campus and The Philadelphia Orchestra, the region’s premier center for multi-disciplinary performing arts and cultural events, announces its 2023–2024 season, welcoming audiences back to experience the magic of live art. With over 2,000 events annually across multiple venues, the lineup features everything from orchestral music to Broadway, jazz to comedy, contemporary dance to ballet, opera to rock, and much more.

The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) announces an ambitious 2023/2024 season. In addition to annual performances at Carnegie Hall and a debut at New York City's brand new Perelman Performing Arts Center, ACO continues to act as a vital conduit for new voices in orchestral music through its national composer development program, EarShot: promoting diverse talent, cultivating the careers of emerging composers, and serving as the nation's first systemic program for building relationships between composers and orchestras nationwide.

Get the latest updates on the American Composers Orchestra's upcoming 2023/2024 season, featuring new works by renowned composers. Find out about the collaborations and concert series at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall.

Songbook Sundays, created and hosted by Deborah Grace Winer celebrating the American Songbook will continue at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club with Can’t Help Lovin’ Jerome Kern on Sunday, August 13th at 5 PM and 7:30 PM