NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

Genesis Repertory Ensemble

Brooklyn

Genesis Repertory honors the original text of the classics but merges these words with new locations and casting choices. For example, it has presented Romeo and Juliet in a trailer park and set The Merry Wives of Windsor in a disco in 1976. The company performs at venues throughout Brooklyn.

Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College

Queens

The Godwin-Ternbach Museum provides educational programs and visual arts exhibits for Queens College's students, faculty and staff as well as the general public. Its holdings represent the creative output of artists in more than 120 countries and range in date from antiquity to the present.

Harlem Stage

Manhattan

Harlem Stage is Harlem's principal performing arts center. This three-theater complex serves ethnically diverse audiences with performances that are multicultural in focus, including classical, jazz and Latin music, dance, theater, literary readings and performance art.

High Line

Manhattan

The High Line is a public park built on an historic railroad viaduct elevated above the streets on the West Side of Manhattan.

IFC Center

Manhattan

This five-screen movie theater shows independent, foreign, documentary, classic and short films, as well as premieres and special events with filmmakers and actors. Midnight monster movies wreak havoc every weekend.