The Perelman Performing Arts Center has finally opened on the site of the World Trade Center, under the Artistic Direction of Bill Rauch.
The Drama Book Shop re-opened, thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda and others. New location at 266 W. 39th St.
April 2022 saw the opening of Pageant in Williamsburg. New dance and performance, with emphasis on "spectacle"!
Check out the free Monday night Movement Research Series, 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 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
The Public Theatre's free SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK has a virtual ticket line, if you can't deal with the lines
New York Classical Theatre has 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 program; get a library card and you are eligible for free passs to places like The Whitney Museum, MOMA, etc.
The old reliable TDF discounts and their TKTS booths, which now have an app for your phone!
TodayTix has some good discounts as well
For Dance-focused work, Wendy Perron (choreographer, dancer, writer, and former Editor of Dance Magazine) has an excellent blog
Not An Alternative 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
For interesting non-mainstream films, check out: IFC 323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street | (212) 924-7771 Anthology Film Archives at 2nd Ave. and 2nd St. in East Village, Film Forum 209 West Houston Street, between 6th Avenue and Varick (7th Avenue)and the film series at MOMA Film Series, Metrograph in Lower East Side Film Society at Lincoln Center/Walter Reade Theater
Great music and intimate setting. Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre
Pangea 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 at 161 Chrystie
The elaborate and expensive arts display case for Manhattan, The Shed on 30th St.
New York Live Arts 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 has a small space that they consistently challenge and transform through brilliant new scripts, directors and designers.
Roulette 509 Atlantic Ave. (at 3rd Ave)Brooklyn (917)267-0363
The Kitchen 512 W. 19th Street
Chocolate Factory in Brooklyn new and always compelling work.
The Bushwick Starr now in a new space in 2024
Baryshnikov Arts Center/BAC 450 W. 37th St. (866) 811-4111
Performance Space 122 (now Performance Space/New York) E. 9th Street and First Ave
HERE at 145 Sixth Avenue
Issue Project Room " 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 composer Paola Prestini's very active presenting space in Brooklyn
3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center
LaMama on 4th Street. Continuing on in the spirit of Ellen Stewart
Abrons Art Center in the real LES (NYU-free zone) down on Grand Street (at Pitt) has great stuff.
New York Theatre Workshop some of the smartest and most challenging new productions around. And the best stage in NYC
An unusual space, originally in Brooklyn and now on Ave. C in LES, focusing on conceptual/visually-based Performance Art, Grace Exhibition Space & Gallery
AUNTS collective sponsors interesting events, performances, classes at a variety of venues.
BRIC in Brooklyn is home to a lot of very compelling new performance
Recess a 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 in Dumbo/Brooklyn has some large-scale, beautifully produced stuff
WAX/Williamsburg Art Nexus 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 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 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. 155 Avenue C, New York, NY 10009 • 973.818.8495
Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive, documenting the artistic history of Lower East Side. and East Village. Founded 2015 at 6 E. 1st St.
Lincoln Center Claire Tow Theater 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 (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.
And if your range extends to a few hours north, check out Mount Tremper Arts near Woodstock.
Also in the Summer, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven. 14 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 in the Berkshires
The Ancram Arts 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 in Ft. Greene has a great series of readings, book groups, etc. So does McNally Jackson in Soho and Williamsburg.