SummerStage Schedule 2024

SummerStage Schedule 2024

Here’s the 2024 Central Park season of the City Parks Foundation SummerStage, New York City’s iconic outdoor performing arts festival. The festival will once again showcase established and emerging artists from across the globe, highlighting forward-thinking...
New Year’s 2024 Midnight Run & Fireworks in Central Park

New Year’s 2024 Midnight Run & Fireworks in Central Park

  Kick off a fun and healthy new year with friends and family at a four-mile race through Central Park. The emphasis on this race is fun, not competition! Music, live entertainment, and a costume party will warm you up, and fireworks will give your run an added...
The Tempest – Free Shakespeare in Central Park

The Tempest – Free Shakespeare in Central Park

With music and lyrics by Benjamin Velez and directed by Obie Award winner and Director of Public Works Laurie Woolery, this ambitious work of participatory theater explores the grief of being cut off from community, the desire for retribution, and the healing power of...
Shakespeare in the Park Will Stage ‘Hamlet’ Summer 2023

Shakespeare in the Park Will Stage ‘Hamlet’ Summer 2023

Returning once again to Free Shakespeare in the Park, director Kenny Leon commands The Delacorte stage with a nine-week, tour-de-force production of the Bard’s masterpiece, HAMLET, a riveting, contemporary present-day take on Shakespeare’s classic tale of family and...
SummerStage 360° VR Tour

SummerStage 360° VR Tour

Take a virtual walk through the beautiful new SummerStage Venue in Central Park.  The iconic park venue has been updated with a new stage, new sound system, increased lighting, upgraded backstage areas, raised seating, and an improved concert-going experience for all...
Shakespeare in the Park – Coriolanus

Shakespeare in the Park – Coriolanus

Delacorte Theater – July 16 – August 11 For the first time since 1979, Free Shakespeare in the Park presents CORIOLANUS, the Bard’s blistering drama about a general voted into power by a populace hungry for change, and the unraveling that follows. Tony Award...