NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

92YTribeca

Manhattan

92YTribeca opened on Hudson Street in 2008 as as the 92nd Street Y's downtown art and entertainment venue. The Sunday series, Bring Your Own Kid, features bands that both parents and kids will enjoy.

Beacon Theatre

Manhattan

This 2,894 seat, three-tiered theater opened in 1929 to present motion pictures and vaudeville entertainment. The ornately decorated, neo-Grecian venue is most famous, however, as a music hall, which has been its primary offering since the 1970s.

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.

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.