Find music, dance, theater, and other arts events in New York!
Sharing the stage with New York City, the entertainment capital of the world, performing arts centers across the state go all-out to shine as bright. With the bar set high for quality, venues from the Tilles Center for Performing Arts on Long Island to the Chautauqua Institution in western New York present world-class theater, music and dance.
Of course Broadway is our greatest star, but you can see stellar theater productions throughout New York. The Performing Arts Center at Purchase has previewed several Tony Award-winning shows, such as Hal Prince's The Kiss of the Spider Woman, before they played on Broadway. Emerging as a national center for the arts, Buffalo has 14 professional theaters as well as summertime Shakespeare in Delaware Park, the second-largest outdoor Shakespeare festival in the nation (after Central Park’s in New York City). Enjoy traveling Broadway shows, classics and new plays amid the scenic Finger Lakes at the Clemens Center in Elmira, as well as opulent Vaudeville-era theaters from Proctor's in Schenectady to Binghamton's Forum.
World-famous musicians and rising stars perform at our many concert halls and festivals. In New York City, choose from icons like the Apollo, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, or small clubs like the Blue Note, arguably the world's most popular jazz club. With renowned acoustics, Troy Music Hall and Woodstock's Maverick Concerts attract legends of popular and classical music. You might want to wear a tie-dye shirt when you head to a concert at the new Center at Bethel Woods at the site of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival. In the Hudson Valley, the Fisher Center's wild architectural design could almost steal the spotlight if it weren’t for the extraordinary talent of the international artists in orchestral and chamber music, dance and opera. On the lake just outside Cooperstown, the Glimmerglass Opera was described by the London Times as "the most magical of settings."
The Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli presents professional dancers from diverse ethnic backgrounds and special events throughout the year. Summer shows at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center feature the New York City Ballet as well as rock, pop and classical music in an acoustically ideal amphitheatre.