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2025-26 Series & Festivals

Encounter the arts through a curated series or festival, each thoughtfully crafted around a theme, artform, historical moment in time, or audience. Whether you return to a favorite legacy program or discover something entirely new, we hope you leave feeling inspired by the arts—with a fresh perspective and connection to the world around you.

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American Songbook

Curated by Clint Ramos, American Songbook: Echoes of an Inheritance brings musical theater performances, powerhouse concerts, and genre-crossing experiences from March 18–May 23.

Big Umbrella Festival

From April 10–26, join us for a series of performances, workshops, relaxed spaces, and interactive experiences welcoming neurodivergent audiences and their families.

Lincoln Center Visionary Artist: Jeanine Tesori

Lincoln Center honors one extraordinary artist whose impact and vision embody the transformative power of the arts across disciplines.

AMOC* Up Close

Get up close to today’s most boundary-pushing artists in a one-of-a-kind showcase on our most intimate stage: featuring innovative new works from leading creators in music, dance, and opera.

Beats, Rhymes & Sights

A bold celebration of Hip-Hop’s next fifty years, this series brings together iconic concerts, film, dance, and interactive events curated by Xavier “X” Jernigan.

Create-athons

A series of free, hands-on workshops where participants team up with pro artists to dive into music, design, tech, and more—no experience needed, just bring your creativity.

Festival of Firsts

Feed your curiosity with premiere performances, Lincoln Center debuts, and fresh collaborations, so that you can say, “I saw them first!”

Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center

The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center comes together each summer during Lincoln Center's Summer for the City to celebrate and share iconic works of classical music in dialogue with new and rediscovered music.

FUTUROS: New Ideas in Composition

Don't miss New Latin Wave’s annual concert series at the David Rubenstein Atrium, celebrating visionary Latine artists shaping contemporary music.

Kids, Teens, and Families

A joyful and inclusive series of music, dance, storytelling, and hands-on creativity for young audiences and their families, with sensory-friendly and bilingual events throughout the season.

Legacies of San Juan Hill Festival

From October 14–29, celebrate the artistic legacy of San Juan Hill with events that shine a light on the artists who created here and the community that inspired them.

Lincoln Center Immersive

Step into a vivid blend of art and technology with augmented reality installations that transform Lincoln Center’s campus into a living, digital canvas.

Lincoln Center Moments

A free, welcoming performance series created for individuals with dementia and their caregivers, offering intimate artistic experiences in a supportive setting.

Livestreams

Watch select Lincoln Center performances from anywhere with free livestreams all season long—complete with closed captions and on-demand access.

Passport to the Arts

A free and inclusive introduction to the performing arts, this series welcomes children, teens, and adults with disabilities and their families to experience concerts, workshops, and events across Lincoln Center.

Seen, Sound, Scribe

Curated by Poet-in-Residence Mahogany L. Browne, this powerful series uplifts poetry, performance, and dialogue with today’s leading and emerging literary voices.

Songwriter/Storyteller

A six-night tribute to the timeless art of storytelling through song, featuring genre-defying artists who blend narrative and music with heart and originality.

The Art of Wellbeing

Refresh your mind, body, and spirit with free guided meditations, movement classes, and live music in this uplifting wellness series created with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

The InBETWEEN Music & Tech

An electrifying fusion of art, tech, and imagination, this series from Nona Hendryx invites audiences to explore AI, XR, and cyborg futures through immersive experiences and visionary dialogue.

The Tune Up!

Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks and her nine-piece band SLP & The Joyful Noise ignite a high-voltage night of new songs, short plays, surprise guests, and dance-in-the-aisles joy.

Under the Radar at Lincoln Center

Part of NYC’s trailblazing Under the Radar, this series brings two bold new productions to Lincoln Center, spotlighting boundary-breaking voices from around the globe.

Unsound New York

The boundary-defying Unsound Festival returns to Lincoln Center with genre-blurring performances that reimagine sound through bold experimentation and global artistry.

Variations on America: A Discussion Series

In partnership with the New York Philharmonic, this free discussion series explores the American experience through music, history, and culture—moderated by ethnomusicologist Fredara Hadley.

¡VAYA!

A vibrant celebration of Latin music and dance, ¡VAYA! brings NYC’s top orchestras and rhythms to the stage—for dancers, listeners, and everyone in between.

Young Artist Pipeline

A free training program for sixth and seventh graders, Young Artist Pipeline nurtures emerging talent through foundational arts education, creative exploration, and pathways to NYC’s screened arts high schools.

Ticketing Overview

Our goal is to continue exploring new ticketing practices together as a community to make our performances more accessible to more people and to center equity and inclusion in every aspect of our field. All tickets for  Lincoln Center Presents programs are FREE or Choose-What-You-Pay. Please refer to the dedicated event page of the show you’d like to attend to confirm ticketing options.

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Free General Admission Events

Many performances and events, including all programming at the David Rubenstein Atrium, are available for FREE via General Admission—first-come, first-served. Advance reservations are not required for these events; just show up! While we'll do our best to accommodate as many guests as possible, we cannot guarantee admission. Look for the “FREE” label on calendar listings and show pages, or select the “Free” calendar filter to search for a wide range of free programming.

Free Fast Track Option

All Lincoln Center Presents events at the David Rubenstein Atrium offer a Fast Track reservation option, giving priority entry into events. Reservations for Fast Track will open every Monday at noon for that week's events and can be reserved on this page. Please check the event's dedicated web page to confirm if Fast Track is available for the performance you'd like to attend.

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The celebrated two-day s3: Lincoln Center Poetry Festival, curated by poet-in-residence Mahogany L. Browne, returns for a third year. Passionate soliloquies to rhythmic verses bring together a diverse array of talented performers who captivate audiences with their lyrical prowess and engaging stage presence. The festival takes place in a one-of-a-kind intimate performance space surrounded by the buzz of New York City. Prepare to be enchanted by the interplay of words, sounds, and visuals, as artists push the boundaries of what is possible in the realm of performance poetry. Whether you are an ardent lover of poetry or a curious newcomer to the world of spoken word, the s3: Lincoln Center Poetry Festival promises an immersive experience featuring captivating performances that will leave you spellbound.

Featured Performers: February 6

Cyrus Aaron is an advocate of voice and a doer of community. As an artist and curator, he splits his time between NYC and LA, crafting stories and spaces in care of Black life. The multi-disciplinary artist works through poetry, theater, film, music, performance art and voice acting. Aaron is a Season 11 Fire This Time Festival Playwright, 2021-2022 Performance Project @ University Settlement Artist-in-Residence. His published credits include the short film: “The Conscious Subconscious of a Black American” (Urban Film Festival, Baltimore International Black Film Festival), and the Off-Broadway play “Coping Mechanism” (2024 AUDELCO Award Nominee). In 2025, he released his debut spoken word EP “Bread Upon Water” on vinyl. The seven-track project is produced by musician and composer Max Michael Jacob. It embodies the intimately resonant and timeless arrangement of storytelling that Aaron has become known for.

Safia Elhillo, Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, is the author of the books The January Children, Girls That Never Die, Home Is Not A Country, and Bright Red Fruit. Elhillo’s work appears in Poetry Magazine, Callaloo, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day series, among others, and in anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and The Penguin Book of Migration Literature. With Fatimah Asghar, she is co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books, 2019), which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in 2020. Her fellowships include a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, Cave Canem, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. Elhillo received the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and was listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30.” Her work has been translated into several languages, and commissioned by Under Armour, Cuyana, and the Bavarian State Ballet.

Carrie Fountain is a poet, novelist, children’s book author, and screenwriter. She is the author of three poetry collections, The Life, Instant Winner, and Burn Lake, winner of the National Poetry Series Award, and the novel I’m Not Missing. Her children’s book, The Poem Forest, tells the story of American poet W.S. Merwin and the palm forest he grew from scratch on the island of Maui. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review and The New Yorker, among many others. In 2019, Fountain was named Poet Laureate of Texas. She lives in Austin.

Rico Frederick is a Creative Director, Sr. Designer, Writer, and Educator. An Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University-Newark, and the author of the book Broken Calypsonian, he holds an MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute, is a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Finalist, Fulbright semi-finalist, Cave Canem Fellow, Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow, Pushcart nominee, and the first poet to represent all four original New York City poetry venues at the National Poetry Slam. Rico is a Trinidadian transplant, lives in New York, loves gummy bears, and scribbles poems on the back of maps in the hope they will take him someplace new.

Jive Poetic is a writer, organizer, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been showcased on PBS News Hour, BET, and season four of TVONE’s Lexus Verses and Flow. International recognition and support for his work has come from the British Arts Council; U.S. Embassies in Australia, Brazil, and Poland; and the Minister Of Culture in Antigua and Barbuda.

Jon Sands is a winner of the National Poetry Series, selected for his second poetry collection, It’s Not Magic (Beacon Press, 2019). He is the facilitator of the Emotional Historians workshop, a series of generative writing classes with well over 1000 registrants to date. His work has been featured in The New York Times, published in The Rumpus, The Millions, Cortland Review, The Brooklyn Rail, The Poetry Foundation, and many others, as well as anthologized in The Best American Poetry. He is a curator for SupaDupaFresh, a monthly reading series at Cheryl’s Global Soul in Brooklyn, and has received residencies and fellowships from the Blue Mountain Center, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Jerome Foundation, and the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.

Matthew Shenoda is the author of Somewhere Else (Coffee House Press, 2005), which was named one of 2005’s debut books of the year by Poets & Writers Magazine and was the winner of a 2006 American Book Award; Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone (BOA Editions, 2009); and Tahrir Suite: Poems (Northwestern University Press), winner of the 2015 Arab American Book Award. Holdings, his next collection, is forthcoming from Knopf in 2027.

J. Hope Stein is the author of little astronaut (Andrews McMeel, 2022) and Occasionally, I remove your brain through your nose (Poet Republik, 2017). She collaborated on The New One (Grand Central, 2020), a book of prose and poetry, with Mike Birbiglia.

Scott Woods is an award-winning writer in Columbus, Ohio. The author of three books of poetry and an essay collection about Prince, Woods also served as president of Poetry Slam, Inc for many years. He is the founder of a performing arts non-profit, Streetlight Guild. In 2006 he became the first poet to complete a 24-hour solo poetry reading; a feat he bested six more times without repeating a single poem.

Featured Performers: February 7

Geffrey Davis is the author of three full collections of poetry: One Wild Word Away (2024), Night Angler (2019), and Revising the Storm (2014), winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist. He is also the author of the chapbook Begotten (URB Books, 2016), coauthored with F. Douglas Brown. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Mississippi Review, New England Review, New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, PBS NewsHour, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Davis teaches for the University of Arkansas’s MFA in Creative Writing & Translation and for The Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA program.

Marlo DeFogo is a spoken word artist based in Brooklyn, NY, whose powerful storytelling blends vulnerability with an animated stage presence. Her poetry delves into themes of mental health, family, grief, personal identity, and sexuality. Through her work, Marlo opens up about her own experiences while giving voice to universal struggles, fostering a sense of shared humanity. Marlo is a 3x slam champion and has performed at a variety of renowned organizations, including The Bronx Museum, The Legendary SOB's, The Brooklyn Museum, The Guggenheim Museum and more. Her work was published in Poets Choice’s anthology Seven Jumbled Words in 2024 and she is the author of the anthology journal "Metamorphosis". Marlo is also the founder of The Butterfly Effect - a poetry event held in Brooklyn, NY. At the heart of Marlo's artistry is her commitment to building community. Whether performing on stage or writing for the page, she uses her craft to connect with others and help both herself and her audience navigate life's challenges. Marlo's poetry remains a testament to the power of vulnerability, connection, and the collective healing that art can foster.

Trace Howard DePass is the winner of the 2024 Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is the author of self-portrait as the space between us (PANK Books, 2018) and BOOTless → (Diode Editions, 2024). His work has been featured by the Poetry Foundation, Ours Poetica, Poet Lore, NPR’s the Takeaway, Sand, Entropy, Split This Rock, the Poetry Project, Bettering American Poetry and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series. DePass is a fellow with Poets House, Obsidian and Teachers & Writers.

Shira Erlichman is the author of Odes to Lithium (Alice James Books, 2019) which won the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry and is the writer-illustrator of the children’s book Be/Hold: A Friendship Book (2019). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Seattle Times, The Huffington Post, The Nation, and PBS, among others. She was a finalist for the Lambda Award, a Silver Medalist for the Nautilus Award, and the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship. She has been a returning guest host on The Slowdown. She runs In Surreal life: an Online Global Creativity School and is a Visiting Faculty Mentor at the Randolph MFA. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife.

Wesley Frazier-Keys is a dynamic poet, educator, and spoken word artist hailing from the South Side of Chicago. A paraprofessional at the University of Chicago Charter School NKO campus, Wesley has made an indelible mark both in the classroom and on the stage. Wesley’s poetic journey has been filled with significant milestones, including winning the 2015 Chicago Grand Slam Championship and placing 10th out of over 200 poets at the Southern Fried Poetry Festival that same year. He went on to repeat as Chicago Grand Slam Champion in 2018, while also coaching the team representing Chicago at the National Poetry Slam. His performance at the 2021 Southern Fried Poetry Festival further solidified his position in the spoken word community, where he placed 8th out of nearly 250 poets. In 2023, Wesley achieved another significant personal milestone by graduating from Elizabeth City State University, further expanding his knowledge and depth as an artist and educator. His journey is far from over, and he remains excited to see where the Creator will guide him next in his evolving spoken word journey.

jessica Care moore is one of the leading voices of her generation. An award winning poet, recording artist, book publisher, activist, cultural arts curator, and filmmaker. She is the Executive Producer and Founder of the 20-year old rock & roll concert and empowerment weekend, Daughters of Betty - Powered by Black WOMEN Rock! and the founder of The Moore Art House 501C3 dedicated to elevating literacy through the arts in neighborhoods and schools. The founder of Moore Black Press, she published poets Saul Williams, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, asha bandele, Danny Simmons and more. Her publishing house secured an imprint deal with HarperCollins in 2024 and released NYC poet Brad Walrond's extraordinary collection "Every Where Alien. She has mentored youth all over the country, and has lent her voice and time inside juvenile detention centers, prisons, universities and art institutions around the country her entire career.

Michelle Ortiz is an Afro-Boricua and Dominican Poet, multidisciplinary creative, mental health advocate, and educator who uses poetry and visual narratives to explore themes of grief, immigration, intergenerational trauma, and violence against women. As a certified rape crisis counselor, workshop facilitator, and student Michelle has cultivated a collective of storytellers, artists, and activists who reflect the power of empathy and tenacity of poetry when used as a catalyst for radicle safety, ritual, and community building.

Brian Turner is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently: The Wild Delight of Wild Things (2023), The Goodbye World Poem (2023), and The Dead Peasant’s Handbook (2023), all with Alice James Books. Some of his other collections include Here, Bullet (2005), winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, the New York Times “Editor’s Choice” selection, the 2006 PEN Center USA “Best in the West” award, and the 2007 Poets Prize; and Phantom Noise (2010). He is also the author of the memoir My Life as a Foreign Country, which made Powell’s Best Nonfiction of 2014 list.

Alison C. Rollins was named a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellow and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature fellow in 2019. In 2021, her essay "Dispatch from the Racial Mountain" was selected by contest judge Kiese Laymon as the winner of the Gulf Coast prize in nonfiction. Her work, across genres, has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Iowa Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow, she was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Rollins has been awarded support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and is a recipient of the 2018 Rona Jaffe Writers' Award. A 2020 Pushcart Prize winner, Rollins is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) and the debut poetry collection Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) which was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins has held faculty as well as librarian appointments at various institutions including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Colorado College, and Pacific Northwest College of Art. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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The Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio is an innovative venue for small-scale performances, rehearsals, and community gatherings. Prominently located inside David Geffen Hall on the corner of Columbus Avenue and 65th Street, the venue was designed to be visible to outside passersby—providing an open door into the creative process and artistry at Lincoln Center. Learn more »

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UPCOMING SHOWS

Sunday, February 15 at 11:00 am

Monday, February 16 at 11:00 am

Tuesday, February 17 at 11:00 am

Wednesday, February 18 at 11:00 am

Thursday, February 19 at 11:00 am

Thursday, February 19 at 7:30 pm

Friday, February 20 at 11:00 am

Friday, February 20 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, February 21 at 11:00 am

Saturday, February 21 at 1:00 pm

Saturday, February 21 at 7:30 pm

An Immersive Concert

Sunday, February 22 at 11:00 am

Thursday, February 26 at 6:00 pm

Lincoln Center Presents In collaboration with NewYork-Presbyterian

Thursday, February 26 at 7:30 pm

A Transformative Evening of Sound, Story, and Sistahood

Friday, February 27 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, February 28 at 1:30 pm

With Sam Rolfes

Saturday, February 28 at 7:30 pm

Thursday, March 5 at 1:00 pm

Lincoln Center Presents In collaboration with The Juilliard School

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Thursday, March 5 at 7:30 pm

Friday, March 6 at 11:00 am

Friday, March 6 at 2:00 pm

Friday, March 6 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, March 7 at 11:00 am

Saturday, March 7 at 2:00 pm

Saturday, March 7 at 7:30 pm

Sunday, March 8 at 11:00 am

Lincoln Center Presents
In collaboration with NewYork-Presbyterian

Lincoln Center Presents
In collaboration with The Juilliard School