NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

The Phantom of the Opera

ManhattanThurs, Jan 1, 2009 – Sat, March 31, 2012

Andrew Lloyd Weber's classic musical tells the story of a deformed man who reaches out to a beautiful young starlet through song. Winner of seven 1988 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

• Chicago

  Ambassador Theatre

  ManhattanThurs, Nov 14, 1996 – Sun, July 1, 2012

  Kander and Ebb's Prohibition-era musical tells the story of Roxy Hart and her rise to media stardom as a cold-hearted killer.

• Mamma Mia!

  Winter Garden Theater

  ManhattanThurs, Oct 18, 2001 – Sat, June 9, 2012

  Based on the music of ABBA, this musical follows a daughter and mother during wedding preparations on a Greek isle. The bride to be wants to know who her father is, and the mother desperately wants to forget.

• Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection

  Museum of Arts and Design

  ManhattanOngoing

  Dedicated collections galleries introduce visitors to the ceramic, glass, wood, metal, fiber, and mixed media works in the museum’s collections. Many of the approximately 250 pieces are on view for the first time.

• The Phantom of the Opera

  Majestic Theater

  ManhattanThurs, Jan 1, 2009 – Sat, March 31, 2012

  Andrew Lloyd Weber's classic musical tells the story of a deformed man who reaches out to a beautiful young starlet through song. Winner of seven 1988 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

• Artists Making Photographs: Smith, Raushenberg, Samaras, Ruscha, Warhol

  Whitney Museum of American Art

  ManhattanOngoing

  The ascension of photography to a high art form is the subject of this exhibition featuring works created between 1930 and 1970 by numerous artists.