The 2012 Battle of The Boroughs’ series was one for the records! We began with 524 submissions and narrowed it down to 49 acts with hundreds of artists participating to represent their borough. The incredible diversity of our great city was represented in the varied genres and styles of the ...

The Robert Wilson/Philip Glass collaboration Einstein on the Beach, An Opera in Four Acts is widely recognized as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century. As the production returns to BAM this fall as part of the institution’s 150th anniversary, Q2 Music is pleased to present An ...

“More or Less I Am” is a music-theater piece drawn entirely from Walt Whitman’s 1855 “Song of Myself.”

WNYC is a media partner of the Asian American Arts Alliance's "Locating the Sacred" Festival. A citywide twelve-day, twenty-event project that brings diverse artists and spaces together. September 12-23, 2012

Award-winning poet and actor Carl Hancock Rux revisits Zora Neale Hurston’s celebrated novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" from the point of view of Janie’s love interest, Tea Cake, with an original performance art piece commissioned by The Greene Space. This work will explore Hurston’s narrative through a male lens. Following the ...

This fall, Grammy Award winning comedian and America’s favorite curmudgeon, Lewis Black returns to Broadway. He sat down with Elliott Forrest, Peabody Award winning host of WQXR and WNYC, in a free-wheeling conversation.  They discussed Lewis’ life, his comedy, the world around us that he rails about and the upcoming election.

Most of us think of science as a body of knowledge about the world, acquired and revised over centuries of pursuing the scientific method.  Stuart Firestein sees it differently.  What drives science, he thinks, is not knowledge, but ignorance: the infinite unknowns that lie just beyond ...

Hailed by The New York Times as “a pianist of magisterial elegance, power and insight,” Leif Ove Andsnes has embarked on a major multi-season project to perform and record the complete Beethoven piano concertos for Sony Classical.  

Join us in The Greene Space, in his ...

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy Topdog/Underdog is one of the most powerful dramas in the American theater. Acclaimed for its taut theatricality and surprising humor, the play tells the story of two brothers, Lincoln and Booth—names given to them as a joke by their father, as ...

The Greene Space presents the third annual LOPATE AND LOCAVORES event series spotlighting New York City’s local food scene.

Midge Woolsey welcomes music lovers to a WQXR get-together in the townhouse garden at the home of the American Classical Orchestra. Mingle with fellow listeners and enjoy hors d’oeuvres and wine, while a trio of musicians performs on period instruments.