Low instruments including bassoon, cello, tuba, trombone, and double bass all take center stage in this April Fool’s Day concert of music by Schütz, Mozart, Bruckner, Penderecki, Druckman, Gubaidulina, and more.

The Museum of Modern Art, now presenting the retrospective Cindy Sherman, featuring over one-hundred and seventy photographs from the nineteen seventies to the present, including the Untitled Film Stills series, the ornate history portraits, and the society portraits. The exhibition also includes the U.S. premiere of her eighteen-foot-tall photographic murals. 

Sir Alan Ayckbourn is an Olivier, Tony and Moliere Award winning playwright who has written 75 plays. The Greene Space presents a series of plays by this distinguished playwright in celebration of the enormous breadth of his work.

This season, desire is taking on a whole new rhythm as the greatest play from America's most celebrated playwright sizzles onto the stage at The Broadhurst Theatre. From the producers of the trailblazing 2008 Broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, comes a hot new take on Tennessee ...

One of New York’s most innovative and acclaimed new chamber orchestras, The Knights conclude their stay as WQXR’s ensemble-in-residence with a live performance in The Greene Space.

The 19th New York African Film Festival kicks off with a special preview of the two-month program at WNYC's The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.

Join us to create an anthem to African cinema, through the celebration of image and sound. As the lights go down, experimental musician and Sound ...

Be a part of New York City’s emerging music scene at the Battle of The Boroughs in The Greene Space. Come hear great music and inspiring stories from a wide range of talented up-and-coming artists.

Sex, food and money are high on the agenda in this English version of a classic Italian comedy. Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small-time East End hood, but Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been ...

The incomparable Linda Lavin stars as Rita Lyons, the indomitable matriarch of a dysfunctional family at a major crossroads. Her husband's dying, her son's in a dubious relationship, her daughter's barely holding it together. And worst of all, Rita can't figure out how to redesign her living room. 

Julius Caesar is a classic story of pride and envy, arrogance and honor, opportunity and tragic strategic errors. Written in one of his most productive times of Shakespeare’s life, Julius Caesar blends the historic events of the reign of this iconic roman emperor with tragic elements and compelling language creating ...

Virtuoso composer-organist Cameron Carpenter joins WQXR's Terrance McKnight for a kaleidoscopic tour through the repertoire for organ including legendary works and Carpenter's own compositions and arrangements.

Host Farai Chideya explores the economic recovery in this installment of the NEXT New York Conversation. The unemployment rate is dropping, but what kinds of new jobs are people getting?

Join host John Schaefer in the Greene Space as Soundcheck presents an hour with modern-day guitar hero Kaki King and Punch Brothers led by mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile.

Musician and composer Kaki King creates rich sound textures with her six-string skills – so well, in fact, that Rolling ...

WNYC is giving away 5 pairs of tickets to the Irondale Center’s performance of “Color Between the Lines.” on Tuesday April 26th at 7pm.  To enter click on giveaways at WNYC dot org before 11pm. 

Garrick Ohlsson has spent this season celebrating the bicentennial of Franz Liszt's birth by focusing his artistry on the composer’s indelible music. After a performance of Liszt’s music, The New York Times praised this gifted pianist for "the passion and force of his interpretation, enhanced by his clear voicing of ...

Over their centuries-long relationship with New York City, Jews have carved out a multitude of public and private spaces as their own, including neighborhood streets, businesses, synagogues and tenement apartments, as well as the temporarily-Jewish stadiums, squares and concert halls that served as venues for special events. Come discover the ...

Spend an afternoon with some rising stars of the classical music world. Called “breathtakingly beautiful” by The New York Times, Violinist Sean Lee and pianist Peter Dugan, will play sonatas by Mozart and Strauss as well as a piece by Camille Saint-Saëns. The future of music is here – in ...

Why does Christopher Hitchens matter? Did the man and his methods overshadow his ideas? Join the author’s friends and colleagues to examine Hitchens’ complete oeuvre and discuss the life and work of his essential voice.

100 writers from 25 nations convene to New York to celebrate the power of the ...