A highlight of the New York holiday season for a century-and-a-half, OSNY presents its milestone 150th consecutive holiday Messiah.

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Messiah

Carnegie Hall

New York International Music Competition

Since the release of his 2004 critically acclaimed CD When I Fall In Love, Chris Botti has become the largest-selling American instrumental artist.  His success has crossed over to audiences usually reserved for pop music and his ongoing association with PBS has led to four #1 jazz albums, as well as multiple Gold, Platinum and Grammy Awards.  Most recently, his latest album Impressions won the Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Album.  Performing worldwide and selling more than four million albums, he has found a form of creative expression that begins in jazz and expands beyond the limits of any single genre.

Chris Botti

Blue Note Jazz Club

Running towards a new life, Jacob Jankowski hitches a ride on a mysterious train. He finds himself in the heart of a traveling circus, the Benzini Bros Most Spectacular Show On Earth, with a new job, a new home, and a new family. When charismatic ringmaster August brings Rosie the elephant on as the new star attraction, Jacob and August’s wife Marlena join forces to train her. As Jacob and Marlena’s shared compassion develops into love, August’s cruel nature surfaces, threatening to derail Jacob’s life once more.

Water for Elephants

Imperial Theatre New York

During the holiday period, the entire Company is immersed in activities surrounding George Balanchine's The Nutcracker®. All 90 dancers, 62 musicians, 40 stagehands, and more than 125 children in two alternating casts from the School of American Ballet join forces to make each performance as magical as possible.

George Balanchine's The Nutcracker

Lincoln Center

Oratorio Society of New York

### Eureka Day - Manhattan Theatre Club

**Event:** Eureka Day  
**Venue:** Samuel J. Friedman Theatre  
**Dates:** Fall 2024 on Broadway  
**Playwright:** Jonathan Spector  
**Director:** Anna D. Shapiro  

**Description:**
Join us for the highly anticipated Broadway production of "Eureka Day," a play that is both wildly relevant and bitingly funny. Written by Jonathan Spector and directed by Anna D. Shapiro, this new production follows an acclaimed run in London. 

Set in a private California elementary school, "Eureka Day" centers around a Board of Directors that prides itself on its commitment to inclusion. However, when a mumps outbreak occurs, the community is forced to confront the school's liberal vaccine policy. As the number of cases rises, the board faces the difficult task of making a decision that is bound to displease some members of the community.

**Ticket Information:**
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**Production Credits:**
"Eureka Day" is produced by special arrangement with Sonia Friedman Productions, Wagner Johnson Productions, and Seaview.

Don't miss this thought-provoking and timely play that challenges the notions of community and individual choice. Subscribe now to ensure you don't miss out on this compelling theatrical experience.

Eureka Day

Manhattan Theatre Club

In this eloquent and moving family story by Pulitzer Prize winner Katori Hall (The Hot Wing King, The Mountaintop), four sisters gather at their childhood island home off the coast of Georgia for their annual reunion. They are creating a family quilt to honor their recently deceased mother. But when their reunion turns into a reading of their mother’s will, everyone must grapple with a troubling inheritance. Stitched with history, ritual, laughter and tears, will their “blood quilt” bind the family together or tear them apart forever? Directed by Resident Director Lileana Blain-Cruz (Flex, Pipeline, White Girl in Danger).

The Blood Quilt

First Comes Love. Then comes Marriage. Then comes…WTF!
Dive into the hilarious, chaotic world of a new Mom and Dad with THAT PARENTING MUSICAL! Laugh along as two sleep-deprived parents navigate their new reality, juggling a danger-prone toddler, an overlooked younger sibling, and the ever-present "official mom uniform"—yoga pants. This new musical explores the joys, challenges, and absurdities of parenthood, and so much more.

That Parenting Musical

Theatre Row

In this unique annual tradition, local audiences and holiday visitors from around the world come together at Carnegie Hall for a special 7 PM Christmas Eve concert by the New York String Orchestra. The youthful ensemble delights listeners with the timeless majesty of an all-Mozart program, performed without intermission. Featured as soloist in the beloved Clarinet Concerto is Afendi Yusuf, principal clarinetist of The Cleveland Orchestra—an ensemble that The New York Times recently called “the nation’s finest.”

New York String Orchestra

A beloved New York holiday tradition, Mozart’s enchanting musical fairy tale returns in the Met’s abridged, English-language production by Julie Taymor—the Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s The Lion King. With dazzling puppets and a colorful setting, the Met’s Magic Flute is one of the city’s ultimate seasonal sensations for family audiences.

The Magic Flute—Holiday Presentation

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Peter Brainin is a 3x Grammy and Latin Grammy winning saxophonist, composer and educator who has toured internationally with Mongo Santamaría, Valery Ponomorev, Hilton Ruiz, Bebo Valdez, Chico O’Farrill, Bobby Sanabria, Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (with whom he’s featured on 2 Grammy winning CD’s), Joris Teepe, Willie Colon & Legal Alien, Samuel Torres, the Mambo Legends Orchestra and John DiMartino as well as with his own quartet and as a guest artist and clinician. In the U.S. he has performed and/or recorded with Wynton Marsalis, Benny Golson, Randy Weston, Harold Mabern, Idris Muhammad, Jerry Gonzalez, Paquito D’Rivera, Israel “Cachao” López, Sheila E., Eddie Palmieri and many other Jazz and Latin Jazz legends. Peter has appeared on over 200 albums including his own as co-leader with Steve Johns (which also feature contributions by Conrad Herwig, George Cables and Ben Monder) and with the quartet Native Soul. A native of the Bronx, he twice received the BRIO (Bronx Recognizes its Own) award for music composition from Bronx Council on the Arts.

The Harlem Jazz Session w/ Peter Brainin & Friends 2024

Room 623

For three weeks this holiday season, enter the satirical, skilled, and slapstick corner of the ballet world with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo! The company returns to The Joyce celebrating its 50th anniversary as the world’s foremost gender-skewing comic ballet company. Parodying the conventions of romantic and classical ballet with hilarious reimaginings, The Trocks are sure to deliver “the funniest night you’ll have at the ballet” (The Guardian). With two unforgettable programs, highlights include the New York premiere of Durante Verzola's Symphony, inspired by George Balanchine's Symphony in C, as well as Giselle (Act 2), Raymonda’s Wedding, Swan Lake (Act 2), and more!

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

The Joyce Theater

Join Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at New York City Center as the Company’s extraordinary dancers bring to life world premieres and new productions by numerous choreographers for whom Alvin Ailey paved the way, reminding us that dance is both a reflection of our past and a guide to our future.

New York City Center 2024

New York City Center

The beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo) In 1950, two determined Puerto Rican revolutionaries on a train from New York to Washington, D.C. discuss their plan to strike in the name of Puerto Rican independence. However, the lock to their compartment is broken, and each time the door swings open, they are interrupted by figures from art and history—visions that reflect what their homeland means to them and its complex relationship with the United States. As the borders of their reality blur and the train continues its journey, the two must finalize their course of action and decide how they want their sacrifice to be remembered.

A World Premiere Run

Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (PRTT)

Fill your hearts with circus cheer—the merry daredevils of Cirque Mechanics (Zephyr, 2023) are back with an industrial-strength spectacular for you and your kin. Sparkling with holiday spirit, the ever energetic ensemble of acrobats transforms a drab assembly plant into a holly jolly Yuletide Factory! From the wonder of the German wheel to festive flips from the trampoline wall, they dash and dance through a pageant of powerhouse stunts with grins and goodwill. It’s high-flying fun, comfort and joy for the whole family!

Yuletide Factory

New Victory Theater

American Protégé Winners Recital

Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis (“Forrest Gump”; “Cast Away”) reunite for “Polar Express,” an inspiring adventure based on the beloved children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg. When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.

The Polar Express

St. George Theatre

New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realizes that there’s no one to save the hostages — but him.

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