There are so many ways to enjoy New York City this first full week of Autumn, both virtually and in person, with more museums opening, a free virtual film festival and concerts, free online dance performances and movement classes, free discussion on the future of live theater, and more.
There’s never a dull moment in the greatest city on the planet.
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NYC Museums & Attractions Now Open Include:
- National September 11 Museum at the 9/11 Memorial
- New York Aquarium at Coney Island
- All five NYC zoos, one in each borough
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
- American Museum of Natural History
- New York Historical Society
- The Rubin Museum of Art
- The Museum of Jewish Heritage
- Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum
More museums open this week. All museums and attractions have new operating hours and admission and mask-wearing requirements.
See the full list here.
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FREE Virtual Concert on Tuesday
SummerStage Anywhere with Amazon Music Series
Get ready for some toe-tapping soca music with an all-female performances by Trinidadian Soca singer-songwriters Nailah Blackman, Nadia Batson, and Patrice Roberts. Nailah Blackman.
Nailah Blackman’s grandfather, the late Garfield Blackman, also known as Lord Shorty or Ras Shorty I, invented the style of music known as Jamoo and is also credited with inventing soca as a means of reinvigorating calypso music. Nadia Batson was a runner-up in the Power Category at the 2007 International Soca Monarch with her song “My Land” with Kees Dieffenthaller. Patrice Roberts came to national attention in 2005 with the huge hit collaboration “The Islands” with Bunji Garlin. One of her greatest achievements was being named the youngest female Road March winner for her collaboration with Machel Montano titled “Band Of The Year.”
- 5pm.
- Tune in here: Amazon Music Twitch
Save the Date – Tuesday Oct. 13
Free Virtual Film Festival on Wednesday
Capital Irish Film Festival Online Shorts
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- 7pm, total running time is 68 minutes.
- Register for this event, to receive a link to join the screeningone hour before the film begins.
Free Broadway Show on Thursday
How I Miss the Theater
Do you miss the butterflies that flutter as the stage lights go down? The breathless anticipation as the curtain rises? That effervescent feeling of a show you’ll never forget? You’re not alone.
We all miss going to the theater, whether that is a Broadway, Off-Broadway or National Touring Company performance.
Join former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a lifelong theater lover, as she reflects on theater’s meaning, its absence, and its future, in a special conversation with theater reporter Michael Paulson.
Then, six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald, Tony nominee Danielle Brooks, Tony winner Jessie Mueller, and Tony winner Neil Patrick Harris join Michael for a live roundtable, to share what they miss most about the stage, why it must come back and what they want for theater’s return.
This is an episode of Offstage, the new New York Times series about theatermaking during the pandemic.
Register to be able to submit questions to the participants.
- FREE, 7pm
- Register here
- Tune in here https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/theater/offstage-broadway-new-york-times.html
Thursdays in October
Native New York in Your Classroom
This FREE four-part webinar series on Thursdays in October is designed for education professionals who teach about the Native nations of New York State, and also parents homeschooling their kids.
Educators whose primary teaching focus is social studies, English language arts, or library sciences, and who work with students in grades 4–12 are encouraged to register. We also invite homeschoolers, parents, and others looking for digital educational resources about Native Americans.
From the National Museum of the American Indian – in NYC at Battery Park and also on the National Mall in Washington, DC
- October 1, 8, and 15
- Register online
NYC Weekend Events
Virtual Fall Festival at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Saturday, October 3
FREE
Dyckman Farmhouse goes virtual with 2020 Fall Festival. Join the FREE annual Fall Festival on Saturday, October 3rd on Facebook Live
To enhance the virtual Festival, you can purchase an optional Fall Festival In-A-Bag, which includes; DIY crafts, an Inwood scavenger hunt, Dyckman recipe cards, fresh Dyckman apples from Boscobel House & Gardens, and a Paint-A-Pumpkin kit, all in a cute Dyckman Farmhouse Museum tote!
A Fall Festival In-A-Bag is for PICK UP customers only and is an additional Fall Festival experience to bring more fun into your home and is not required for participation.
Pick up dates are Thursday October 1st and Friday October 2nd from 10am-2pm.
- The Dyckman Farmhouse Museum is on Broadway between Dyckman St. and 207th St. in Inwood.
- NYC on the Cheap Editor Evelyn Kanter grew up here. I attended Jr. H. S. 52 across the street from the museum, and used to do my homework in the Inwood Branch of the NYPL adjacent to the junior high school. I also used to do my homework in the back of my mother’s hat store on Dyckman Street.
The Dyckman Farmhouse Museum is included in my recent NYC guidebook, 100 Things to Do in NYC Before You Die, as is neighborhing Fort Tryon Park and the Cloisters..
email me here at evelyn@nyconthecheap.com to purchase an autographed copy.
Randalls Island Harvest Festival
Note that this annual event, scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 4, has been cancelled.
Official cancellation notice on the NYC Parks website.
Any Time
Riverside Park
Limón Live
Join the company of the José Limón Dance Foundation on Instagram for daily dance classes. All classes will be available on their story for 24 hours after start time! Donation-based.
- Daily at 3pm
- The High Line is now open its entire length, 14th to 30th Street, with FREE timed entry and visitors all walking in the same direction, south to north.
Piano in Bryant Park is back on the Upper Terrace, presenting New York City’s finest ragtime, stride, and jazz pianists performing free lunchtime concerts
- Every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursdays from 12:30pm-2:30pm.
Shakespeare in the Park – Much Ado About Nothing
For the first time in over more than four decades, PBS Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at the free Shakespeare in the Park in Central Park.After a highly successful, critically acclaimed run at the outdoor Delacorte Theater in New York City’s Central Park, “Much Ado About Nothing” is a bold interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece featuring Danielle Brooks as Beatrice.
- Streaming now
- Link to watch
Ongoing Events & Performances
Riverside Park
Limón Live
Join the company of the José Limón Dance Foundation on Instagram for daily dance classes. All classes will be available on their story for 24 hours after start time! Donation-based.
- Daily at 3pm
The High Line is now open its entire length, 14th to 30th Street, with FREE timed entry and visitors all walking in the same direction, south to north.
Piano in Bryant Park is back on the Upper Terrace, presenting New York City’s finest ragtime, stride, and jazz pianists performing free lunchtime concerts
- Every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursdays from 12:30pm-2:30pm.
Shakespeare in the Park – Much Ado About Nothing
For the first time in over more than four decades, PBS Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at the free Shakespeare in the Park in Central Park.After a highly successful, critically acclaimed run at the outdoor Delacorte Theater in New York City’s Central Park, “Much Ado About Nothing” is a bold interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece featuring Danielle Brooks as Beatrice.
- Streaming now
- Link to watch
Mondays and Thursdays – Free Dance PerformancesThe Queensboro Dance Festival continues with some two dozen Queens-based troupes, continues virtually and FREE with events on Mondays and Thursdays through October.The dance groups represent the most culturally diverse borough of NYC.
Along with dance performances, the festival includes classes, Q&A sessions with choreographers, and background information about a particular dance style.
Queensboro Dance Festival 2020 includes Arabic Bellydance, Ballet, Bangladeshi, Chinese, Cumbia, Flamenco, Greek, Hawaiian, Hip-Hop, Indian, Jazz, Latin Ballroom, Mexican, Modern, Tap, and West African.
- Queensboro Dance Festival 2020 videos air on Mondays and Thursdays at 4 pm.
Every Wednesday
Wednesday with WendyJoin the NYC Ballet for Wednesday With Wendy, a series of ballet-inspired movement classes taught by New York City Ballet Associate Artistic Director Wendy WhelanThe FREE virtual classes are suitable for people of all ages and levels of dance training.Classes are on Instagram Live, and each class will also be available after the livestream concludes on NYCB’s IGTV channel.
- Every Wednesday at 5pm.
Central Park Virtual WalksThese FREE virtual walks with a Central Park expert showcase some of the flowers and trees currently in bloom, share Park history, and give you the mid-week recharge that we all so desperately need.
- Sign up now to access the FREE live Zoom program and learn the history of this incredibly significant site.
- Wednesday, 12:30p.
Friday – Free Carnegie Hall Concert
Carnegie Hall FridaysEach week for the the forseable future, Carnegie Hall is streaming a concert from its archived recordings.
- Watch each week’s livestream from Friday 3am through Monday at 3 AM
- Watch here on medici.tv
Every Day
SummerStage Anywhere
Instead of more than 100 FREE live performances in city parks all summer, SummerStage is offering FREE virtual performances all summer.
Metropolitan Opera photo
Metropolitan Opera Nightly Opera Streams
Every night of the week, the world-famous Met Opera is streaming a different performance from its repetoire of recorded performances, including operas by Puccini, Verdi and Mozart, and legendary stars including Luciano Pavarotti and Renée Fleming.
Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 6:30 p.m. the following day.
The schedule will include outstanding complete performances from the past 14 years of cinema transmissions, starring all of opera’s greatest singers.The streams are also available through the Met Opera on Demand apps for Apple, Amazon, and Roku devices and Samsung Smart TV.
This is the 29th week of livestreaming nightly operas.
Last week was Puccini Week. This week is all Mozart.
Week 29 (Mozart Week)
Monday, September 28
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Starring Amanda Majeski, Marlis Petersen, Isabel Leonard, Peter Mattei, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by James Levine. From October 18, 2014.Tuesday, September 29
Mozart’s Così fan tutte
Starring Susanna Phillips, Isabel Leonard, Danielle de Niese, Matthew Polenzani, Rodion Pogossov, and Maurizio Muraro, conducted by James Levine. From April 26, 2014.Wednesday, September 30
Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito
Starring Lucy Crowe, Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, Kate Lindsey, Giuseppe Filianoti, and Oren Gradus, conducted by Harry Bicket. From December 1, 2012.Thursday, October 1
Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
Starring Golda Schultz, Kathryn Lewek, Charles Castronovo, Markus Werba, Christian Van Horn, and René Pape, conducted by James Levine. From October 14, 2017.Friday, October 2
Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Starring Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Mojca Erdmann, Ramón Vargas, Mariusz Kwiecień, Luca Pisaroni, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From October 29, 2011.Saturday, October 3
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Starring Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Susanne Mentzer, Dwayne Croft, and Bryn Terfel, conducted by James Levine. From November 11, 1998.Sunday, October 4
Mozart’s Idomeneo
Starring Elza van den Heever, Nadine Sierra, Alice Coote, Matthew Polenzani, and Alan Opie, conducted by James Levine. From March 25, 2017.More information about Metropolitan Opera streaming
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Replays
All Balanchine Program
New York City Ballet
Watch New York City Ballet perform landmark works by George Balanchine, including Concerto Barocco (2004 broadcast) and the third act of the comic story ballet Coppélia (1978 broadcast). Part of the Live from Lincoln Center schedule of virtual performances.
- 8pm, and on demand after
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel
Live From Lincoln Center offers a different play or musical most weeks. Last weekend it was the memorable recent revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, hailed by Time Magazine as “the best musical of the 20th Century,“ now available on demand.
The New York Philharmonic presents a stunning staged production of this iconic American work, featuring a star-studded cast including Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Stephanie Blythe, Shuler Hensley, Jason Danieley, Jessie Mueller, Kate Burton, John Cullum and New York City Ballet dancers Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck.
Carousel is one of my personal favorites, with one of the most beautiful and poignant songs ever written – You’ll Never Walk Alone. It brings me to tears every time I hear it.
- Watch on Lincoln Center’s YouTube channel and Facebook page.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
loved., a New Site-Specific Piece As a way of processing and reflecting on the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, Brooklyn Botanic Garden offers loved., a site-specific sound installation created by NYC-based composer Michael Gordon to honor those we have lost.
The meditative composition for seven vibraphones plays on Cherry Esplanade every hour on the hour.
