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NYC Off-Broadway Week Returns October 5 to 18 With 2-for-1 Tickets to 25 Shows
NYC Off-Broadway Week returns for performances from October 5 through 18, 2026, with 2-for-1 tickets to 25 productions across Manhattan’s mid-size stages. Fifteen of the shows are joining

CattSue Gives Grief a Voice on “A Whisper on the Wind”
By: Rachel Donovan For CattSue, becoming a recording artist wasn’t so much about discovering a new ambition as finally giving herself permission to pursue one that had been

New York Film Festival 2026 Opens Friday at Lincoln Center With Queens Native James Gray’s Paper Tiger
The 64th New York Film Festival opens Friday, September 25, at Film at Lincoln Center with the North American premiere of Paper Tiger, a New York crime thriller

The Village Trip Festival Returns to Greenwich Village and the East Village for 10 Days of Arts and Activism
The Village Trip, the annual festival celebrating arts and activism across Downtown Manhattan, opens its 2026 edition on September 25 with a 10-day program of 42 events spanning

Broadway’s Fall 2026 Season Opens With Jocelyn Bioh’s “School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play”
Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy “School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play” began Broadway previews on September 8 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, marking the play’s first Broadway

Lupita Nyong’o Leads “Pre-Existing Condition” as Marin Ireland’s Domestic Violence Play Opens Off-Broadway
Marin Ireland’s “Pre-Existing Condition” officially opened at the Greenwich House Theater on September 14, 2026, with Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o headlining a rotating cast of six performers

What the Wind Remembers, CattSue Sings to the Mother Time Took Away
By: Mike Lewis Memory is unreliable. This is one of adulthood’s crueler discoveries. We spend childhood accumulating moments without knowing which ones we will someday desperately need to

Gustavo Dudamel Launches Inaugural New York Philharmonic Season at Radio City Music Hall
Gustavo Dudamel officially begins his tenure as the Tang Music and Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic on September 10, 2026, with a one-night-only concert at Radio

The Bullying of Emily McCarty Explores the Hidden Cost of Cruelty
Some stories ask readers to witness extraordinary heroes. Others ask something far more difficult: to notice ordinary people whose quiet suffering often goes unseen. Arnold Burry’s The Bullying

The Bullying of Emily McCarty Explores the Hidden Cost of Cruelty
Some stories ask readers to witness extraordinary heroes. Others ask something far more difficult: to notice ordinary people whose quiet suffering often goes unseen. Arnold Burry’s The Bullying

Broadway’s Fall 2026 Season Opens with School Girls Previews and a Lineup of Star-Led Productions
Broadway’s fall 2026 season launches tonight with the start of preview performances for School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The

Dani Truehart May Only Be Fifteen But She Is Already Navigating a World Few Adults Could Handle
By: Robert Andrade There is a particular kind of YA fiction that takes its protagonist’s youth seriously without condescending to it, that understands adolescence as a state of

Free Museum Days and Pay What You Wish Hours Across New York City
New York City is home to more than 100 museums, and the standard general admission price at its flagship institutions now sits between $25 and $37 per ticket.

Dante Nero Never Took the Straight Road, and That Became His Greatest Education
By: Emma Prescott The Brooklyn comedian behind Man School 202 built his perspective on relationships and life through a career that moved from science and fencing to nightlife,

NYC Labor Day Weekend 2026 Brings Caribbean Carnival, US Open Tennis, and Citywide Festivals Across All Five Boroughs
New York City’s Labor Day weekend in 2026 concentrates several of the city’s signature annual events into a single holiday stretch running from Wednesday, September 3 through Monday,

In Tracing Light: Yoo Choong Mok Freezes Time in Glass at AP Space
There is a particular kind of stillness that settles over a room full of water droplets that will never fall. At AP Space in Chelsea, South Korean artist