n a small nowhere town in Pennsylvania, Rock (Marc Kudisch) is giving the final touches to his doomsday bunker. Remember those? I think we used to call them fallout shelters. A safe space that would protect us from the nuclear war that was coming. Well, the time is the present, and Rock is pretty sure that the election happening in a few days will do nothing to stop the world from being destroyed.
he setting is a reformatory home for wayward young women in New York City in the early 1900s, based on an actual home that existed, the Magdalene Benevolent Society’s Home, located in Inwood. These institutions took in young women with the lofty goal to help them out of poverty, out of a life as call girls, or thieves, or even being disowned by family and left on the street. The institute gave them skills that could possibly lead to a job. Or, that was the idea.
The High Society New Orleans Jazz Band plays pretty much every Thursday at Birdland Jazz Club. Their next dates start Sept 3rd. They have a 5:30 pm performance and an 8:30 pm performance every Thursday. They also have all their shows recorded live on YouTube. So, after seeing them in person with a friend, a loved one – or both – you can watch once again and relive the joyful moments.
A sonic descent into madness that’s as entertaining as it is eerie, The Whisperer in Darkness delivers cosmic horror with theatrical sophistication and campy charm. This is essential viewing lovers of genuine scares and genuinely great theater—a production that proves the best horror entertainment comes not from what you see, but from what you imagine in the darkness between the words.
Once In a Lifetime, Again” is that rare festival discovery worth crossing town for: a tender, funny, rock-and-roll-hearted musical about grief, therapy, and the terrifying comedy of dating again after sixty-five. Cooper Grodin sings with aching honesty, Jenny Lee Stern is a comic chameleon, and Thursday Farrar grounds it all with reserved grace. It is the kind of festival discovery one hopes will have a life beyond its five-performance BBTF run.
On a dark Monday at City Winery, Mary Bridget Davies turned a concert into a séance. Moving from Melissa Etheridge to Stevie Nicks, Patti Smith to Sheryl Crow, she proved she can inhabit a ballad, a hard-rock anthem, or a blues with equal authority — honoring the women who clawed their way into a rock world built for men. The night doubled as a tribute to 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Jerry Ragovoy, whose “Don’t Compromise Me,” written for Joplin and never recorded by her, became its haunting center. She closed with Linda Perry’s “What’s Up.” The verdict: an A. Go.
Five teenage laureates, one believing orchestra, and an evening that proved to us why the concerto endures: as a stage for the brave individual voice. The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony’s 2025–26 season — including its immersive InsideOut Concerts — awaits the curious listener. Seek out the exciting 2026-27 season, take a seat in the sound, and let these musicians astonish you, too.
Don’t let the American Songbook remain a rumor in your life. 92NY’s Lyrics & Lyricists series — and the full 2025–26 season at The 92nd Street Y — offers a rare opportunity to hear Broadway’s brightest voices illuminate the songs that shaped our movies, our theaters, and our love stories. Seek out the next program, bring someone you adore, and let these timeless lyrics remind you why music remembers what we forget.
This evening proved that the 92nd Street Y is New York’s most generous room for the human voice — a place where Broadway stars and concert virtuosos share the same hallowed stage, and where a single spotlight can still leave a sold-out house quietly wrecked with joy. Adrienne Warren reminded us why we gather: not merely to hear songs, but to be moved by them. So don’t wait for the next star-making night to find you. Explore the 2025–26 Tisch Music season, claim a seat in the Kaufmann Concert Hall, and let yourself be, once more, gloriously surprised.
Spellbinding Strauss was a luminous reminder of why the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony has become indispensable to New York’s cultural landscape. Maestro Bernard and Sara Beth Pearson delivered an unforgettable journey through Strauss’s life and art — all from inside the orchestra itself. Don’t miss the remainder of the 2025–26 Immersions and Explorations season; Sublime Schubert and more await. Step inside the music. You will leave transformed, inspired, and yearning, like Strauss’s own pilgrim at sunset, for the next halcyon encounter.
