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Limited Off-Broadway Engagement ​August 30 – September 28, 2025 at Theatre Row

​Opening Night Is Saturday, September 6 at 7 p.m.

New York, NY (August 7, 2025) – SOBER SONGS, a daring new musical by Michael Levin (New York Times Best Selling author), with music direction and arrangements by Brian Reynolds, choreography by Megan Roe, directed by Chris Mackin, will begin previews at Theatre Row’s Theatre Three (410 West 42nd Street) on Saturday, August 30, with an official opening on Saturday, September 6. Performances run through Sunday, September 28.

On view October 10, 2025 – March 8, 2026

New York, NY (August 6, 2025)—Opening October 10 at The New York Historical, The Gay Harlem Renaissance examines the Black LGBTQ+ artists, writers, and performers central to the Harlem Renaissance and everyday Black gay life in the early 20th century. Marking the centennial of The New Negro—the landmark 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke—the exhibition traces the queer creativity, friendship circles, and mentorships that flourished in Harlem’s salons, social clubs, and thriving nightlife and that helped power the Harlem Renaissance.

Children’s Book Festival Returns to Inwood Hill Park, Sunday, September 7th, 2025, 11AM - 4PM

Featured Programming Includes Beloved Local Authors and Presenters

New York, NY (August 6, 2025) — Word Up Community Bookshop is proud to present the fifth annual Uptown Kid Lit, the premier children’s book festival serving families in Uptown New York City.

September 21, 2025, at 8 a.m.

Registration Is Open for the 3.1-Mile Run or Walk Through Its Beautiful, Historic Landscape and Supports NYBG’s Scientific Work

Bronx, NY—Kicking off NYC Climate Week, the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) presents the NYBG 5K Fun Run on Sunday, September 21, 2025, at 8 a.m., across a leisurely 3.1-mile course past some of the Garden’s most gorgeous scenery, including the Maureen K. Chilton Azalea Garden and the Judy and Michael Steinhardt Maple Collection, plus historic landmarks such as the Lillian and Amy Goldman Stone Mill, the Mertz Building, and the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.

Join us for our Golden Anniversary on October 5, 2025!

Brooklyn, NY (August 5, 2025) - It’s big. It’s bold. It’s back and it’s turning 50! Join the Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corporation (AALDC) as we celebrate five incredible decades of food, music, community, and culture at the Atlantic Antic™ on Sunday, October 5, 2025 from 12-6 pm.

Festival returns to West 45th Street with expanded lineup celebrating “the stubborn necessity of art in impossible times”.

New York, N.Y. - After its sold-out debut season, which brought over 1,000 attendees to The Flea Theater, RJ Theatre Company, in partnership with The Actor Launchpad, is pleased to announce the complete lineup for Circle Festival 2025, returning August 30 through October 19 with twelve bold new productions at AMT Theater, 354 W 45th St, New York, NY.

New York, N.Y. - Battery Dance celebrates the art of dance in its home community this August, in partnership with Battery Park City Authority. On Saturday, August 9, the Company celebrates the re-opening of Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park, following a two-year pause during which it was rebuilt as part of a coastal resiliency effort to protect Battery Park City and lower Manhattan from storm surge and sea level rise. A medley of dance companies will present a 1-hour program opened by Indigenous performer Marie Poncé, followed by tap-dancer John Manzari with a live band.

Highlights include Cynthia Nixon in person with A Quiet Passion, celebration of new edition of Davies’s novel, and rarely screened film prints of many features

September 12–21, 2025

Astoria, New York (August 4, 2025) — Museum of the Moving Image will present a complete film retrospective of the brilliant English filmmaker Terence Davies—the first in the United States since his death in 2023. The series, Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past, includes the director's nine features, many in rare film prints, and his trilogy of early short films, plus other rarely screened shorts, with permission from the Terence Davies Estate, from September 12–21. Highlights also include Cynthia Nixon in person on September 18 with a screening of A Quiet Passion, in which she stars as poet Emily Dickinson, and an opening night reception celebrating the reissue of Davies’s 1984 novel Hallelujah Now, published by Film Desk Books.

New York, N.Y. (Aug. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire) -- Travelers visiting New York City can now rely on Libby, an AI travel genius that provides instant responses to any travel or tourism questions about the five boroughs in 60 languages. Libby is an initiative of New York City Tourism + Conventions, the official destination marketing organization and convention and visitors bureau for the five boroughs of New York City, and leverages GuideGeek artificial intelligence technology from Matador Network.