The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) is the premier museum of Himalayan art in the Western world. RMA presents and preserves the aesthetic, cultural and historical significance of Himalayan Art ranging from the 2nd to 21st centuries and representing the artistic traditions of such countries as Tibet,... | Learn More

Play On! is the Big Apple's Circus's new show, a symphony of astonishment and humor propelled by the best band in the land.  Play On! features the world's finest circus artists under the Big Apple Big Top, performing in the theatrical focus of one ring with no seat more than 50 feet... | Learn More

Catch it now through March 1 only.

Years from now theatergoers will be divided into two groups: those who saw Patti LuPone's performance and those who didn't...

Save up to 50% now through January 18 - including Christmas and New Year's weeks!... | Learn More

Enjoy a discussion with journalist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell on the science of success, followed by a reception with fellow CAAL Members. In his latest work, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of “outliers”—the best and the... | Learn More

Under the Radar is an explosively diverse kaleidoscope of new theater- examples from around the US and the world that spotlight artists ranging from emerging talents to masters in the field. UTR 09 promises to be an intense and wild celebration of theater. Among the works in this year's festival... | Learn More

The death of the Fairy Tale. Where did being good ever get anyone? It's a sort of detective story, sharp and blunt. Detecting where we are at - but in the dark. Can we not engage with reality anymore? Ice caps are melting and I'm watching people I don't know on 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of... | Learn More

8 days. 12 shows. Breathtaking performances. Performance Space 122 presents its annual winter event, COIL, featuring some of the best theatre, dance, and music from NYC and around the globe. Artists included in COIL:
Pan Pan, Joseph Silovsky, Lewis Forever, Okwui Okpokwasili, Ella Hickson,... | Learn More

Ludovic Morlot, Conductor
Olli Mustonen, Piano

Tristan Murail Gondwana (U.S. Premiere)
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 11
Messiaen Oiseaux exotiques
Debussy La Mer

CAAL Members can purchase... | Learn More

Dubbed “The Maestro” by his peers, pianist Cedar Walton, an influential composer/arranger who approaches every tune with a fresh point of view and trumpeter Roy Hargrove, a melody master whose ravishing tone illuminates any song he plays, transcend a generation gap for their debut in... | Learn More

Dance Gotham returns to present an exciting range of aesthetics and artistry. From post-modern athleticism to seasoned theatricality, the artists offer choreographic works that are sophisticated, witty, wonderfully intelligent and revealing. Performers include Arena Dances, Koresh Dance... | Learn More

Sébastien Léger is one of the most outstanding artists in the recent electronic music business, an exceptionally gifted producer who is operating far beyond all the French filter house clichés.

Being born as the son of two professional musicians Sébastien... | Learn More

Multi-media punk rock theater extravaganza

"World/Inferno are not your typical punk act, with a nearly vaudeville approach to its songwriting, The World/Inferno Friendship Society draws on everything from punk and rock to jazz, polka, swing and a mind-boggling number of influences. The... | Learn More

Singers, actors, Egyptologists, art historians, cultural critics, and Samuel Barber's biographer will offer a wide-angle view of this American masterwork and its larger-than-life heroine, culminating in a recital by soprano Elizabeth Futral.

Co-presented by New York City Opera and Miller... | Learn More

Smart, indie pop from four former Columbia students: how they got together, the success of their debut album and where they're headed now. Interviewed by Ben Sisario.

Vampire Weekend is: Ezra Koenig (CC '06), Rostam Batmanglij (CC '06), Christopher Tomson, (CC '06) and... | Learn More

By EDMUND WHITE
Directed by GEORGE PERRIN

A famous author comes face-to-face with America's most notorious terrorist. As the clock ticks on death row, the bond between the two men grows.

A scorching new play from one of America's greatest living writers inspired by Gore... | Learn More

If it is true that "there are eight million stories in the Naked City," then it is likely that there's one New Year's resolution at the top of the list for many New Yorkers - Start Writing in 2009.

On January 13 and 14, 2009, the professional writers of Gotham Writers' Workshop are going to... | Learn More

by Virginia Woolf
directed by Anne Bogart 

Virginia Woolf wrote only one play in her lifetime: Freshwater. Initially composed in 1923 and revised in 1935, the play has never enjoyed a professional production in the United States. Now, in a landmark collaboration between the... | Learn More

Dec. 18, 2008. The Sundance Institute has announced the films selected to screen at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The following is a list of 28 Sundance films to which 35 Columbia University alumni, students, and faculty from contributed.Additionally, two screenplays by Columbia filmmakers are... | Learn More

Will Berger, author, radio host and music commentator for the Metropolitan Opera, will talk with the Young Patrons about how to appreciate this international musical genre. He will be accompanied by young Met Opera singers who will engage in dialogue about their art form. The presentation and... | Learn More

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Stabat Mater and Te Deum (U.S. Premieres)
Belinda Sykes, Vocals and Mey
Charlotte Daw Paulsen, Mezzo-soprano

"Sarikiz," a violin concerto (World Premiere)
Karl Jenkins, Guest Conductor
Marat Bisengaliev,... | Learn More

Hailed by The New York Times as "FLAT-OUT HILARIOUS," called "AN HONEST-TO-GOD MUSICAL COMEDY" by New York Magazine, declared "THE FUNNIEST TUNER TO HIT TOWN SINCE THE PRODUCERS" by the New York Post-ENTER LAUGHING is not to be missed!

Based on the early life of comedian Carl Reiner and... | Learn More

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jazz at Lincoln Center honors legendary drummer and civil rights activist Max Roach. This concert weaves together the work and lives of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Lincoln with Roach’s We Insist! Freedom Now Suite, Sonny Rollins’ Freedom... | Learn More

By Marvin Lifschitz
Directed by Tom Bloom

World Premiere Is Sigmund Freud going crazy? Obsessed with a beautiful patient, he dreams of killing her lover, another patient, while he readies himself to face his rival, the mad Dr. Otto Brotto, in a duel for the very survival of... | Learn More

"A 'classic' inhalation after which comes a romantic exhalation, then again the classic inhalation, ad infinitum. ... Art cannot hold its breath too long without dying." So wrote the composer George Antheil in 1945, pondering the presumed alternation of cool Classical formalism and heated... | Learn More