The Gloaming with the Kronos Quartet at Lincoln Center

Damrosch Park Bandshell Lincoln Center, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, United States

The Gloaming—the generation-spanning supergroup consisting of New York pianist Thomas Bartlett (a.k.a. Doveman), sean nós ("old style") Gaelic singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, Hardanger fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, and the beloved duo, fiddler Martin Hayes and guitarist Dennis Cahill—keep the melodic grounding, stately flourishes, and pulse of traditional Irish music, while bringing it into the future […]

Free

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DruidShakespeare: The History Plays

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY, United States

by William Shakespeare New adaptation Mark O’Rowe Director Garry Hynes with Clare Barrett, Derbhle Crotty, Gavin Drea, Bosco Hogan, Garrett Lombard, Karen McCartney, Charlotte McCurry, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen, Rory Nolan, Aisling O'Sullivan, John Olohan, and Marty Rea Tony Award-winning director Garry Hynes and Ireland’s Druid Theatre Company make their fourth Lincoln Center Festival appearance […]

$45 – $75
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DruidShakespeare: The History Plays

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY, United States

by William Shakespeare New adaptation Mark O’Rowe Director Garry Hynes with Clare Barrett, Derbhle Crotty, Gavin Drea, Bosco Hogan, Garrett Lombard, Karen McCartney, Charlotte McCurry, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen, Rory Nolan, Aisling O'Sullivan, John Olohan, and Marty Rea Tony Award-winning director Garry Hynes and Ireland’s Druid Theatre Company make their fourth Lincoln Center Festival appearance […]

$45 – $75

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The Gloaming

Symphony Space 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY, United States

The Gloaming, which will make a highly anticipated one-night-only appearance at Symphony Space on October 16, as part of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, is comprised of master fiddler Hayes, sean-nós vocalist Ó Lionáird, fiddler Ó Raghallaigh, and two virtuosic Americans: guitarist Dennis Cahill and pianist/producer extraordinaire Thomas “Doveman” Bartlett, who has worked with everyone […]

$35 – $60

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The End

Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, West Side YMCA 10 W 64th St, New York, NY, United States

In this solo performance of Beckett’s 1946 short story The End, Irish actor Conor Lovett—“one of the world’s leading interpreters of the work” (Sunday Independent)—portrays a derelict journeying literally and figuratively toward his own mundane end. Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett, co-founder of Gare St. Lazare Ireland, this theatrical rendering depicts a man easing into […]

$70
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Here All Night

Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, West Side YMCA 10 W 64th St, New York, NY, United States

“Night here, here we, we night.” The unparalleled Beckett champions of Gare St. Lazare Ireland present the U.S. premiere of a stunning new theatrical work for soprano and actor. In this clever mix of folk and high art, the ensemble incorporates music from Samuel Beckett’s novel Watt, as well as Beckett poems and texts set […]

$70

White Light Conversation: Language and Human Consciousness

Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse 165 West 65th Street, New York, United States

Join us for this free discussion as we explore the complex connections between language and human consciousness. The 90-minute conversation will be moderated by John Schaefer, host of WNYC’s Soundcheck and New Sounds. Author Colum McCann, composer Joan La Barbara, experimental psychologist Steven Pinker, music historian Gary Tomlinson, and other leading thinkers will consider the […]

Free
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No’s Knife

Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, West Side YMCA 10 W 64th St, New York, NY, United States

Beckett referred to his Texts for Nothing as the “afterbirth” of his novel The Unnameable, a representation of how he went on after it was no longer possible to go on. Here, Irish actor and “Beckett prodigy” Lisa Dwan (New York Times) brings her penetrating vision to several of Beckett’s imagery-rich texts, offering her own […]

$70

Waiting for Beckett—A Portrait of Samuel Beckett

Bruno Walter Auditorium, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, United States

This spellbinding profile of the Nobel Prize–winning author and playwright offers an illuminating look into one of the 20th century’s greatest literary minds. A blend of rare archival footage of the famously publicity-shy Beckett, performances of his work, interviews with friends and scholars, and excerpts from his letters provide intriguing and often humorous insight into […]

$15

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Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest, presented by NY PHIL BIENNIAL and Lincoln Center’s 50th season of Great Performers

Rose Theater (Time Warner Center) West 60th St. & Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Irish composer Gerald Barry’s opera The Importance of Being Earnest, based on Oscar Wilde’s comedy, will have its  American stage premiere June 2,3 and 4. This production, which was premiered at the Royal Opera House in London, is directed by Ramin Gray and will be conducted by Ilan Volkov leading New York Philharmonic musicians. Reuniting […]

$40 – $200