NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Manhattan

This is the preeminent performing arts complex in the United States at which children can have a field day participating in a mixture of paid and unpaid performances and learning experiences. Each of its resident organizations, ranging from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to the New York City Ballet and Jazz at Lincoln Center, offers a host of school and family programs.

Musica Sacra

Manhattan

Musica Sacra is the longest continuously performing professional chorus in New York City. The repertoire represents the masterpieces of choral music – the motets, cantatas, passions, and B Minor Mass of Bach, the masses of Mozart and Haydn, the Requiems of Mozart, Brahms and Fauré, Bloch’s Sacred Service, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, and more.

Music Before 1800

Manhattan

Director Louise Basbas established the concert series in 1974 to offer New York audiences nine centuries of rarely heard medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and early classical music performed by top artists from the United States and abroad. Each season, Music Before 1800 presents eight Sunday afternoon concerts at Corpus Christi Church.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Manhattan

Housed at Lincoln Center, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts holds the world's most extensive combination of circulating, reference and rare archival collections in its field. The research collections focus on dance, theater, music and recorded sound.

Queens Theatre

Queens

Whatever your fancy—musicals, plays, dance, concerts or film—it's all available at Queens Theatre in the Park. Performances are held at either the Main Stage Theatre or the smaller cabaret/black box studio.