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City Center, with its unique neo-Moorish facade, was built in 1923 as a meeting hall for the members of the Ancient Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. After it had reverted to City ownership, the building was saved from destruction by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and City Council President Newbold Morris, who created Manhattan's first performing arts center: a 2,750-seat New York home for the best of theater, music, and dance. On December 11, 1943, City Center officially opened its doors with a special concert by the New York Philharmonic; LaGuardia himself took the baton to conduct the national anthem. New York City Opera and New York City Ballet were both created at City Center. Leopold Stokowski and Leonard Bernstein led the New York City Symphony. Legendary actors gave legendary performances – from Paul Robeson in Othello to Tallulah Bankhead in A Streetcar Named Desire. Jose Ferrer then Maurice Evans served as director of the City Center Drama Company. Jean Dalrymple brought to the City Center stage one after another revivals of the hit musicals of the 1940's and 1950's. City Center quickly became a cultural haven for New Yorkers: an affordable – and fun – complement to the Broadway theater, Carnegie Hall, and the Metropolitan Opera House. In the mid-'70s, with the opera and ballet moving to Lincoln Center and the building underused, City Center was again slated for demolition. Under the leadership of chairman Howard M. Squadron, the theater was re-dedicated as New York's premiere home for dance and was given landmark status. The City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation was formed to manage the complex and ensure its survival as a performing arts center. Today, 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 (events such as Rob Fisher and The Coffee Club Orchestra), co-presents, and commercially rents the Mainstage theater, and is the long-time home for the Manhattan Theatre Club, with its full season of plays and "Writers in Performance" 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 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.
Clark Studio Theater is located in the Rose Building, 7th Floor, at West 65th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, and is part of the Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts.
The View, recipient of the 2003 Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Talk Show," is ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, featuring a team of five dynamic women of different ages, experiences and backgrounds discussing the most exciting events of the day. The program has received critical acclaim since premiering August 11, 1997. "The View" is a live, one-hour daily talk show from ABC (11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, ET) featuring moderator Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro. AUDIENCE AGE All audience members must be at least 16 years of age.
"Late Night with Seth Meyers" is home to A-list celebrity guests, memorable comedy and topical monologue jokes. It is hosted by Emmy Award-winning writer and one of the 2014 TIME 100, Time magazine's 100 most influential people, Seth Meyers. Previously, Meyers served as head writer on "Saturday Night Live" and anchor on the show's wildly popular "Weekend Update." An established comedian, Meyers is known for his perfectly-timed wit and off-the-cuff satire. Meyers' fellow "Saturday Night Live" cast member and friend Fred Armisen serves as music director/drummer for the house band, The 8G Band With Fred Armisen.
Vivian Beaumont Theater is home to Lincoln Center Theater, America's largest not-for-profit theater. The LCT produces a year-round program of plays and musicals at the Beaumont and at various other theaters around New York City as an integral part of the Lincoln Center's arts program. The Theater first opened to the public in 1965. Designed by the renowned architect Eero Saarinen and named for Vivian Beaumont Allen, a prominent New York philanthropist, the Beaumont was originally the home of the now-defunct Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, which closed in 1973. From 1973 to 1977, Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival was in residence at the Beaumont. From 1978 through 1985, the Beaumont was mostly rented to outside producers. In 1985, the building's current management -- Lincoln Center Theater -- was established. Vivian Beaumont Theater is located at the northwest corner the Lincoln Center Plaza, at West 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam.
The Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse is located in the Rose Building, 10th Floor, at 65th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, and is part of the Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts.
The Museum at Eldridge Street is preserving the Eldridge Street Synagogue as a site for historical reflection, aesthetic inspiration, and spiritual renewal. In this powerful and evocative setting, programs for adults, school children and families explore cultural continuity and change, instill respect for Jewish traditions and practices, and draw analogies between the Synagogue's immigrant founders and contemporary immigrants. As steward of this National Historic Landmark, the museum uses the building as a learning center for exploring architecture and historic preservation, synagogue life and customs; a gathering place for inter-group experiences; and a showcase for art and cultural experiences that draw on Jewish and humanistic themes.
LIVE tapes Monday through Friday at 9am ET. Ticket holders should plan to be at the studio by 7:45am ET. Although the studio's official address is 7 Lincoln Square, New York, NY 10023, the easiest way to locate the studio is to find the corner of West 67th and Columbus Ave. Arrive as early as 7am for a standby number. After ticket holders are seated, standbys are seated on a first-come, first-served basis.
TODAY's studio is on ground-floor level at 35 West 48th Street (Between 5th and 6th Avenues) overlooking Rockefeller plaza. Just outside the studio each weekday many eager tourists wave signs and hope to get on television and show the world and their friends they have made it to NYC. If you want to join them, you'll need to get there early! People have been known to line up as early as 5:00am. Please note for the morning of your visit: the TODAY Plaza is first-come, first-served until it reaches capacity.
Offering a unique downtown feel, Tribeca Cinemas is a rare venue. Housing two theaters, three reception areas, and an old fashioned lobby all under a landmark marquee, this artistic ground floor space offers a versatile landscape for any event. Whether it be an intimate 10-person viewing or a large reception, a classy red carpet affair or a fun, hip party— Tribeca Cinemas provides a dynamic space and an experienced team of talented event producers to help transform your ideal event into a reality. Tribeca Cinemas has two full-service theaters available - events such as premieres, private screenings, press conferences, panel discussions, screenplay readings, and business presentations have taken place here. The theaters are conveniently located between the concessions lobby and reception areas to create an easy flow between screening and reception. Tribeca Cinemas also curates film festivals and special screenings throughout the year.
Renovated Pier in the Hudson River Park. Hosts special events, including outdoor summer cinema.
Opened in 1986, the Marquis Theatre is one of the newest theaters to be built on Broadway. Located inside the Marriott Marquis Hotel, it was designed to provide maximum comfort for audiences and actors while conveying a feeling of intimacy. The venue features expansive backstage, high ceilings, state-of-the-art acoustics, wide aisles, comfortable seats, ample restrooms and parking. Since its opening, the theater has showcased a series of hit musicals including Me and My Girl, Gypsy, Man of La Mancha, The Goodbye Girl, Damn Yankees, Victor/Victoria, Peter Pan, Annie Get Your Gun and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Before or after seeing a show at the Marquis, theatergoers can dine at one of the fine restaurants located throughout the hotel.
The WaMu Theater is the intimate side of the mostly massive Madison Square Garden: the last row of the WaMu is only a reasonable 177 feet from Center Stage. Some of the biggest and best touring bands prefer the venue to the Garden itself, and the theater is never wanting for great shows!
The main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library and one of the largest library branches in the entire city, this massive library even has a restaurant on the third floor and is home to the world-renowned Brooklyn Collection of manuscripts, books, maps, and other historical documents regarding the borough. The building itself has stood at Grand Army Plaza since 1941, when it was conceived and constructed to resemble an open book.
La MaMa Experimental Theatre is a world-renowned cultural organization led by founder Ellen Stewart. For 44 years La MaMa has passionately pursued its original mission to develop, nurture, support, produce and present new and original performance work by artists of all nations and cultures. Since La MaMa's doors first opened in 1961, their primary dedication has been to new works. Many of the best plays and playwrights of the 60's and 70's have come from La MaMa's lower East Side stages and workshops. The face of Theatre as we now know it on Broadway and beyond was influenced by and infused with the spirit and work of La MaMa artists. To date La MaMa has presented over 1000 original scores on their stages. Creative risk-taking, experimentation, and challenging artistic boundaries have always been the focus of the work created and performed at La MaMa. La Mama envisions art as a universal language. Cultural pluralism and ethnic diversity have been inherent in the work created at La MaMa. To sustain this global vision, La Mama has become one of this country's foremost presenters of international performance and calls artists from over seventy nations part of the La MaMa family. La MaMa has been honored with over thirty Obie Awards, dozens of Drama Desk Awards, Bessie Awards and Villager Awards. La MaMa has an incredible roster of theatre, movie and multi-media luminaries for whom La MaMa was an early artistic home. La MaMa began as a tiny basement theatre dedicated to the playwright and all aspects of the theatre. In the past 44 years, La MaMa has grown into an arts complex of national and international celebrity. La MaMa houses three theaters, "The First Floor Theatre", "The Club" and "The Annex", an art gallery, a 6-story rehearsal/studio building, and a extensive archive documenting the history of off-off Broadway theatre. The First Floor theater is a small, intermediate space in which plays that are in a developmental stage are created. The large theatre, the La MaMa Annex, had it's official opening on October 18, 1974. The Annex has near perfect acoustics and has become a world-class venue. Because of its flexible design, companies can construct their world within its walls. It is a chameleon space that changes to suit the art that it embraces. The Annex has been a "port of entry" for artists from around the world. It is a spiritual place where artists can work without fear. The Club, La MaMa's cabaret space, gives voice to established and emerging multi-disciplinary performance artists.
This open air 15,200-seat arena presents an impressive roster of music talent every summer. Located right on Zach's bay, it is just a few minutes walk from Jones Beach. The location is spectacular, and if the weather cooperates it makes for a unique setting. Keep in mind that the Ocean is literally steps away, and evening concerts can get quite chilly even in the dead of summer. And although it is an open air venue, the seating is strictly your typical arena fare with no lawn area. So leave the picnic basket at home, and pack a sweater. 2020 Schedule (click for tickets) Friday, August 14 Rod Stewart & Cheap Trick Tuesday, August 25 Hall and Oates, KT Tunstall & Squeeze
The largest hall at Carnegie Hall was dedicated the Isaac Stern Auditorium in 1996 and has been the premier classical music performance space in the United States since its opening in 1891, showcasing the world's greatest soloists, conductors, and ensembles. Throughout its century-plus history, it has also hosted important jazz events, historic lectures, noted educational forums, and much more. Designed by architect and cellist William Burnett Tuthill and renovated in 1986, the auditorium's striking curvilinear design allows the stage to become a focal point embraced by five levels of seating, which accommodates up to 2,804. The auditorium's renowned acoustics have made it a favorite of audiences and performers alike. "It has been said that the hall itself is an instrument," said the late Isaac Stern. "It takes what you do and makes it larger than life."
The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is the largest public tennis facility in the world. Operated by the USTA for the City of New York, the facility opened in 1978 when the USTA moved the US Open from the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, NY. It is, most certainly, a “Tennis Welcome Center.” The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center includes 33 outdoor courts – not including Arthur Ashe Stadium, Louis Armstrong Stadium or the Grandstand courts – and nine indoor courts, which are available for year-round use by the public. There are 22 field courts located within the gates of the tennis center, and 11 additional courts built by the USTA at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, which is adjacent to the main entrance. These 11 courts are run by the New York City Parks Department and are used as practice courts during the US Open. Although the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is best known as the home of the US Open, a number of other exciting events are held at the facility each year. Tournaments include the Women’s College Tennis Invitational (an ITA event), the Jana Hunsaker Memorial Eastern Wheelchair Championships (an ITF event), the USTA National Open Indoor Championships, the "Turn Back The Clock" (wood racquets only) tournament and a host of USTA Eastern sectional tournaments for juniors, adults and seniors.
The Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall opened in September 2003 as the site of a broad spectrum of performing and educational events. When it first opened its doors In 1891, Carnegie Hall comprised three auditoriums: the Main Hall, the Chamber Music Hall, and the Recital Hall, located underneath the Main Hall. The Recital Hall was leased to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1895 and was used as a theater by various groups until the early 1960s, when it was converted to a cinema. In 1997, a process began to reclaim the space for its original purpose, and construction began to create a versatile auditorium generally seating 599, with alternate stage configurations of different capacities. Zankel Hall is named in honor of the generosity of Carnegie Hall Vice Chairman Arthur Zankel and his wife, Judy.