The Beat

Free Limited Engagement Featuring More Than 100 New Yorkers

Runs August 29-September 2

New York, N.Y. (August 26, 2025) – The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) begins free performances of PERICLES: A Public Works Concert Experience at the awe-inspiring Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Friday, August 29. A new adaptation with music and lyrics by Troy Anthony, choreography by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, and direction by Associate Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem Carl Cofield, the production features more than 100 New Yorkers from all five boroughs. The free production will run through Tuesday, September 2.

Season Opening Concert Features Eric Wubble’s Chimeric Form and Clarinetist Madison Greenstone

New York, N.Y. (August 26, 2025) — New York City-based new music collective Wet Ink Ensemble announces its 27th season with the return of its annual Mini-Festival featuring performances and new works by the Ensemble’s Artists-in-Residence Aurora Nealand and Ben LaMar Gay. Wet Ink performs Eric Wubbels’s Chimeric Form and the world premiere of a new work for big band by Sam Pluta. The season also features collaborations with clarinetist Madison Greenstone and saxophonist Anna Webber.

Thursday, September 11; Honoring Dick Van Dyke, Tommy Tune, the late Billy Strayhorn, and more

Free and open to the public

New York, NY (Aug. 25, 2025) – The American Tap Dance Foundation (ATDF) will present the 2024 and 2025 Tap City Awards on Thursday, September 11 at 6:00 PM at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, 111 Amsterdam Avenue (at 65th Street) in New York City.

September 8–28 at The Chain Theatre in midtown NYC

The bi-annual festival will feature over 60 eclectic new shows, including dance, plays, storytelling, sketch comedy, solo performances, and musicals.

New York, N.Y. - Award-winning Emerging Artists Theatre (EAT) returns with their bi-annual Spark Theatre Festival NYC this fall with a bold new lineup of innovative and original works. Running from September 8–28 at The Chain Theatre, the three-week festival will showcase over 60 new pieces, including musicals, plays, solo performances, storytelling, dance, and sketch comedy.

New York Film Festival selections and Greek Film Expo 2025 round out slate of screenings for September and October; plus special guests added for previously announced Terence Davies retrospective

Astoria, New York, August 21, 2025 — Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) announces its slate of fall film screenings for September and October. In addition to the previously announced series Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past, MoMI will present Nightmare Comedies, featuring wickedly funny movies that create worlds their characters wish they could wake up from, including 40th anniversary screenings of Martin Scorsese’s After Hours; the spooky-season series Dark Magic: Hexes and Haunts for Halloween, which will coincide with the release of a new anthology of Reverse Shot writing on scary movies; and a slew of special events…

Bronx, NY — The Bronx Night Market — the cultural powerhouse that launched the Bronx foodie revolution — will shut down this fall after eight unforgettable years. The market, which created a stage for dozens of POC-owned micro businesses in the Bronx and across New York City, will host its final three events at Fordham Plaza on August 30, September 27, and October 25.

The countdown is on, and we’re getting ready to turn up the volume!

Staten Island, N.Y. - At the 45th Annual Richmond County Fair, we will be rocking all weekend long with performances by some of Staten Island’s favorite local acts and crowd-pleasing entertainers. Expect high-energy performances, local bands, and entertainment the whole family can enjoy, all set against the backdrop of NYC’s most unique living history village.

New York, NY (August 18, 2025) – Sulfur Bottom invites you to take an exclusive first look at newly released production photos by Austin Pogrob ahead of its September debut. Written by Rishi Varma, the play has been selected as an official event of Climate Week NYC, spotlighting the urgent need for environmental justice. Through the lens of art and storytelling, Sulfur Bottom confronts the challenges of environmental collapse and sparks dialogue about its impact on communities.

Coney Island USA Hosts A Pee-wee Herman Universe Look Alike Competition

Coney Island, N.Y. - The legend lives on! To celebrate the birthday of legendary actor and comedian, Paul Reubens, and his most notable character, Pee-wee Herman, as well as the 40th anniversary of his iconic film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, we invite you to join us at Coney Island USA for the first ever Coney Island Pee-wee Herman Look Alike Contest!…

Soaring Mural Painting by Artist Adam Cvijanovic, Inspired by the Apparition at Knock, Ireland, to be Permanently Installed at St. Patrick’s

Mural to be Dedicated in September 2025

New York, NY (August 14, 2025) — Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, today announced the creation of the largest permanent artwork commissioned for Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in its 146-year history: a painting by American artist Adam Cvijanovic (TSVEE-ya-no-vich) that soars to a height of 25 feet, transforming all three walls within the cathedral’s Fifth Avenue entrance vestibule into a vast, encompassing vision of sacred and secular history.