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Nothing beats the city heat like the cool cultural happenings of New York. Presenting the pinnacle of theatrical performance, scintillating museum and gallery exhibitions, captivating concerts, and the most iconic, celebrated sights in the world, NYC is the place to be this summer.
Roundabout Theater – Skintight
Roundabout Theatre Company reunites writer Joshua Harmon and director Daniel Aukin (the team behind Bad Jews and Admissions) for Skintight, a scorching examination of beauty, youth and sex—starring Idina Menzel.
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Audible Theater – Girls and Boys
Audible is proud to launch their latest production: Carey Mulligan in Girls & Boys, a new play by Tony Award®-winning playwright Dennis Kelly and directed by Lyndsey Turner.
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Lincoln Center – Mostly Mozart Festival
Lincoln Center’s newly expanded Mostly Mozart Festival offers a thrilling slate of international dance, theater, and music; Available Light and Bernstein MASS, and the arresting drama NINAGAWA Macbeth.
lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival
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New York Botanical Gardens
Discover the iconic Georgia O’Keeffe’s little-known depictions of the Hawaiian Islands, and the plants and landscapes that inspired them, in “Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawai’i.”
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59 East 59 Theaters
Catch a lineup of enlivening new plays and festivals this summer, including The Originalist, East to Edinburgh, Summer Shorts, Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin, Less Than 50%, Agnes, and Separate and Equal.
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Guggenheim Museum
Summer Tuesdays are back at the Guggenheim, with extended hours until 9pm from June 19 through September 11; unwind with friends over craft cocktails in the spiral rotunda, groove to hand-picked playlists, and attend special programs.
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The Boys in the Band
Celebrating its 50th Anniversary, the groundbreaking comic drama The Boys In The Band has arrived on Broadway in a strictly limited engagement through August 11 only.
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Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots is the winner of every major Best Musical award, including the Tony®, the GRAMMY, and London’s Olivier Award. This huge-hearted hit tells the story of two people with nothing in common—or so they think!
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Park Avenue Armory
Some of the world’s most inventive artists are heating up Park Avenue with immersive installations and electrifying performances; Nick Cave creates The Let Go, and Tony Award®-winning director Ivo van Hove stages The Damned.
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The Cher Show
For six straight decades, only one unstoppable force has flat-out dominated popular culture. The Cher Show is her story, and it’s packed with so much Cher that it takes three women to play her.
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NY City Center
Off-Center was founded in 2013 with the mission of presenting Off-Broadway musicals that pushed creative boundaries; this summer, experience Songs for a New World, Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope, and Gone Missing.
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Museum of Modern Art
There’s no better place to spend the summer than MoMA’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Catch the mesmerizing special exhibition If Everything Is Sculpture Why Make Sculpture?
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