The Perelman Performing Arts Center (https://pacnyc.org/)on the site of the World Trade Center, under the Artistic Direction of Bill Rauch. The Drama Book Shop r(https://www.dramabookshop.com/)e-opened, thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda and others. New location at 266 W. 39th St. MOMA/PS1 (https://www.momaps1.org/en)is now free to everyone, not just us NYers! (MOMA itself is unfortunately still pricey, but also still a glorious place). April 2022 saw the opening of Pageant (https://www.pageant.space/)in Williamsburg. New dance and performance, with emphasis on "spectacle"! Check out the free Monday night Movement Research Series,(https://movementresearch.org/events/series/movement-research-at-judson-church) at Judson Memorial Church 7pm. "a free, high-visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging idea, and works-in-progress from today's cutting-edge movers and dancers." Interested in the growing field of immersive, non "theatre-based" theatre? Check out https://www.noproscenium.com (https://www.noproscenium.com)and sign up for their newsletter. Listings for LA and SF as well. Comprehensive info on Broadway show prices and price-breaks, including lotteries (for Hamilton!) and standing room: http://broadwayforbrokepeople.com(http://broadwayforbrokepeople.com) The Public Theatre's free SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK (https://publictheater.org/en/programs--events/shakespeare-in-the-park/?SiteTheme=Shakespeare)has a virtual ticket line, if you can't deal with the lines New York Classical Theatre h(https://nyclassical.org/about)as been doing free work in public spaces for years, and they are working to open-up the definition of classical to playwrights far from the usual canon. In 2018 NYC started the Culture Pass (https://www.culturepass.nyc/)program; get a library card and you are eligible for free passs to places like The Whitney Museum, MOMA, etc. The old reliable TDF (https://www.tdf.org/)discounts and their TKTS booths, which now have an app for your phone! TodayTix h(https://www.todaytix.com/x/nyc)as some good discounts as well For Dance-focused work, Wendy Perron (http://wendyperron.com/)(choreographer, dancer, writer, and former Editor of Dance Magazine) has an excellent blog Not An Alternative (http://notanalternative.org/)a hybrid arts collective and non-profit organization with a mission to affect popular understandings of events, symbols, and history. Work that questions and leverages the tools of advertising, architecture, exhibit design, branding, and public relations. Performances, installations all over town www.nytheatre-wire.com(http://www.nytheatre-wire.com) For interesting non-mainstream films, check out: IFC (http://www.ifccenter.com/)323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street | (212) 924-7771 Anthology Film Archives (http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/)at 2nd Ave. and 2nd St. in East Village, Film Forum (https://filmforum.org/)209 West Houston Street, between 6th Avenue and Varick (7th Avenue)and the film series at MOMA Film Series,(https://www.moma.org/explore/films) Metrograph (http://metrograph.com)in Lower East Side Film Society at Lincoln Center/Walter Reade Theater(https://www.filmlinc.org/wrt/wrt.html) Great music and intimate setting. Joe's Pub (https://joespub.publictheater.org/programs--events/joes-pub/?SiteTheme=JoesPub)at the Public Theatre Pangea (http://www.pangeanyc.com/music/2018-05/?tribe-bar-date=2018-05&bb2_screener_=1524685264+149.169.62.2)at E. 11th and 2nd Ave has reasonably priced food and some great acts in their club in the back. David Cale and lots of other talented folks have workshopped new material there over the years. Brave new work and works-in-progress at Dixon Place (http://dixonplace.org/)at 161 Chrystie The elaborate and expensive arts display case for Manhattan, The Shed o(https://theshed.org)n 30th St. New York Live Arts (https://newyorklivearts.org/)219 W. 19th St. also the home of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and a major center of new dance works. Soho Rep (https://sohorep.org)is now collaborating with Signature Theater and continuing to consistently challenge and transform through brilliant new scripts, directors and designers. Roulette (http://roulette.org/)509 Atlantic Ave. (at 3rd Ave)Brooklyn (917)267-0363 The Kitchen (http://thekitchen.org/) 512 W. 19th Street Japan Society(https://www.japansociety.org/) Chocolate Factory (https://chocolatefactorytheater.org/)in Brooklyn new and always compelling work. The Bushwick Starr (http://www.thebushwickstarr.org)now in a new space in 2024 Baryshnikov Arts Center/BAC (https://bacnyc.org/)450 W. 37th St. (866) 811-4111 Performance Space 122 (now Performance Space/New York) (https://performancespacenewyork.org/) E. 9th Street and First Ave HERE (http://www.here.org/)at 145 Sixth Avenue Issue Project Room (https://issueprojectroom.org/)" a home for emerging and under-recognized practices, ensuring a focused performance context, as well as resources, residencies, and commissions for the development of new projects" all sorts of stuff in all sorts of venues. National Sawdust (https://nationalsawdust.org/)composer Paola Prestini's very active presenting space in Brooklyn 3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center(http://www.3ldnyc.org/) LaMama(http://lamama.org/) on 4th Street. Continuing on in the spirit of Ellen Stewart Abrons Art Center (http://www.abronsartscenter.org/)in the real LES (NYU-free zone) down on Grand Street (at Pitt) has great stuff. New York Theatre Workshop (https://www.nytw.org/)some of the smartest and most challenging new productions around. And the best stage in NYC AUNTS (http://auntsisdance.com/)collective sponsors interesting events, performances, classes at a variety of venues. BRIC (https://www.bricartsmedia.org/)in Brooklyn is home to a lot of very compelling new performance Recess a(https://www.recessart.org/about/) project that started in Soho and Red Hook in 2009 and has grown to encompass multiple projects/performances. "reimagines a public for art. By envisioning our public as participants, we challenge common distinctions between process and product and maker and consumer. Recess is a generative meeting place for an inclusive creative community" St. Ann's Warehouse i(https://stannswarehouse.org)n Dumbo/Brooklyn has some large-scale, beautifully produced stuff WAX/Williamsburg Art Nexus (https://www.williamsburgartnexus.org/)founded way back in 1999 by Marisa Beatty, Brian Brooks, Melissa Rodnon and David Tirosh, continues on at Triskelion. Lots of new and emerging dance talent and showcases. CATCH (http://www.catchseries.org/index.html)a series of events that started in Brooklyn and moves all around. 2015 Obie Award Winner! Curators Andrew Dinwiddie, Caleb Hammons, and Jeff Larson. Cathy Weis curates an amazing series of events at her loft on Broadway. Sundays on Broadway (http://www.cathyweis.org/weisacres/sundays-on-broadway/)Free! Cathy Weis Studio/Weisacres, 537 Broadway, between Prince and Spring streets. Press buzzer #3 and walk upstairs. Elevator available upon request The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space.(http://www.morusnyc.org/) 155 Avenue C, New York, NY 10009 • 973.818.8495 Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive,(https://www.howlarts.org/) documenting the artistic history of Lower East Side. and East Village. Founded 2015 at 6 E. 1st St. Lincoln Center Claire Tow Theater (https://www.lct.org/lct3/)on the roof of the Beaumont. 112 seats and the home of their LCT3 program for new works and new audiences. Great space. Head Bronx-ward for Arthur Aviles and crew's BAAD (http://www.baadbronx.org)(Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance) classes, events, parties! Do go to the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site. It's beautiful, evocative and disturbing. Yes there was all that squabbling over money and real estate and politics but this expression of a void, of loss, is very moving. GET OUTTA TOWN! Bard College Fisher Center,(https://fishercenter.bard.edu/) under the leadership of Gideon Lester, is presenting amazing work in performance. All year long but especially in the summer. 2 hour Metro-North ride along the gorgeous Hudson (or Amtrak to Rhinecliff) The International Festival of Arts & Ideas (https://www.artidea.org/)in New Haven. 14 summer days of all sorts of great stuff. Just a Metro-North commuter train ride away from NYC. And of course Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (https://www.jacobspillow.org/)in the Berkshires The Ancram A(https://www.ancramoperahouse.org/)rts Center (formerly Ancram Opera House, created by Jeff Mousseau and Paul Ricciardi, presents local and NYC based artists and projects in an intimate and wonderfully supportive environment. A mere 2 hours north of the city!. Greenlight bookstore (https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/)in Ft. Greene has a great series of readings, book groups, etc. So does McNally Jackson (https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/)in Soho and Williamsburg.