Shows in New York

Bowery Ballroom is New York's most beloved mid-size music venue — a 1926 Lower East Side ballroom with beautiful balconies and the best sound and sight lines of any 1,000-capacity venue in the city. Its extraordinary booking of artists on their way up (the venue has presented virtually every significant indie artist before or just after they broke through), its perfect acoustic environment, and its genuine connection to the Lower East Side's music history make it the most consistently excellent mid-size music venue in New York.

Carnegie Hall is the most celebrated concert hall in the Western Hemisphere — a Midtown Manhattan institution since 1891 where virtually every significant musical artist of the past 130 years has performed in the acoustic environment considered by many musicians to be the finest in the world. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. The cultural mythology surrounding Carnegie Hall, its extraordinary acoustic design, and its unmatched 130-year history of presenting world-class classical, jazz, and popular music make it the most symbolically important concert venue in American cultural life.

City Winery New York is one of Manhattan's most unique entertainment concepts — a full-production urban winery with a 300-seat concert venue presenting intimate concerts by significant artists in a setting where guests enjoy the winery's own wines alongside exceptional music. Its revolutionary concept of combining urban wine production with intimate concert presentation has been so successful that it has spawned locations in cities from Chicago to Nashville, with the New York original remaining the most acclaimed.

David Geffen Hall (formerly Avery Fisher Hall) is the home of the New York Philharmonic — a recently renovated 2,738-seat Lincoln Center concert hall presenting America's oldest symphony orchestra (founded 1842) in a completely redesigned acoustic environment. The $550 million renovation completed in 2022 has corrected the hall's legendary acoustic problems, creating a concert experience befitting the world's most important symphony orchestra in one of the most culturally significant concert halls in the United States.

Irving Plaza is one of New York's most important mid-size concert venues — a Union Square ballroom presenting rock, hip-hop, and alternative artists in a 1,000-capacity setting that has been central to New York's live music scene for 40 years. Its position in Manhattan's cultural middle ground (too intimate for arenas, more significant than small clubs) and its consistent booking of artists at the moment of their breakthrough make it one of the most important concert development venues in the American music industry.

Lincoln Center is the world's most important performing arts complex — a 16-acre campus on the Upper West Side housing 11 resident organizations including the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, Juilliard School, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Its 11 venues, its role in making New York the world capital of classical music and dance, and its Midsummer Night Swing, Mostly Mozart Festival, and Lincoln Center Out of Doors programming create a performing arts ecosystem without equal in the world.

The Metropolitan Opera is the world's most important opera company — a 3,800-seat Lincoln Center hall presenting the greatest singers in the world in an annual season of 200+ performances that serves as the global standard for operatic excellence. The Met's extraordinary roster of singers (Leontyne Price, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Anna Netrebko), its productions broadcast live to 70+ countries via Met Opera Live in HD, and its role at the center of Lincoln Center's 11-institution performing arts campus make it the most culturally powerful performing arts organization in the Western Hemisphere.

The Box on the Lower East Side presents burlesque-style variety cabaret performances in an exclusive supper-club format favored by the downtown Manhattan art and fashion scene.

Town Hall is one of New York's most beloved and historically significant concert venues — a 1921 landmarked Midtown theater presenting eclectic concerts from jazz to world music to comedy in a 1,500-seat hall with nearly perfect acoustics. Its extraordinary history (Marian Anderson's 1939 performance here after the DAR barred her from Constitution Hall is one of American music history's most defining moments) and its consistent programming of artistically significant music make it one of New York's most culturally important mid-size venues.