NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

92YTribeca

Manhattan

92YTribeca opened on Hudson Street in 2008 as as the 92nd Street Y's downtown art and entertainment venue. It has a performance stage with full bar for live music, comedy, cabaret, theater, performance art and dance; a 72-seat movie theater, and more.

American Youth Symphony

Manhattan

American Youth Symphony (AYS), founded in 1982, has a long history of fulfilling its mission of promoting instrumental music in popular culture to counteract the overwhelming use of computerized, electronic sounds in popular music.

Beacon Theatre

Manhattan

This 2,894 seat, three-tiered theater opened in 1929 to present motion pictures and vaudeville entertainment. The ornately decorated, neo-Grecian venue is most famous, however, as a music hall, which has been its primary offering since the 1970s.

Bowery Ballroom

Manhattan

Around the corner from its namesame street, this venue offers excellent sight lines and sound to as many as 550 rock music fans, both from the main floor and from the balcony above. Both these floors, as well as the basement below, have full, low-lit bars.

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)

Brooklyn

BAM is America's oldest performing arts center and a leading presenter of the avant-garde. Since opening in 1861, it has presented the finest in performing arts.