NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

LaGuardia Performing Arts Center

Queens

The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY features a 740-seat proscenium theater, a 220-seat multipurpose theater and a lecture and reception hall.

La Mama, E.T.C.

Manhattan

Founded by Ellen Stewart in 1961, La Mama was the first home to many of today's most popular playwrights, including Harvey Fierstein, Lanford Wilson and Sam Shepard. La Mama presents the works of new playwrights, directors, designers and composers and choreographers, and showcases the international avant-garde.

Lefferts Homestead Historic House Museum

Brooklyn

The original Lefferts home, built before the American Revolution in the farming village of Flatbush, was burned down during the Battle of Long Island in 1776. The structure that now stands is a circa-1783 replacement, moved to its present location in 1918.

Leo Baeck Institute

Manhattan

Leo Baeck Institute is a research library that holds the preeminent collection of materials on the history of German-speaking Jews. Its collections, exhibitions and other public programs document the unique culture that produced luminaries such Albert Einstein, Franz Kafka and Martin Buber.

Le Poisson Rouge

Manhattan

Dedicated to the fusion of music, film, dance and visual art, Le Poisson Rouge is a multimedia art cabaret founded by musicians on the site of the historic Village Gate.