Gotham City #10: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Don’t Say We Didn’t Tell You
UPTOWN SHAKESPEARE: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
July 6–28, 2024
Richard Rodgers Amphitheater, Marcus Garvey Park
Mount Morris Park West & W 122nd St, Harlem
Tuesday–Sunday at 8:30 pm (Fridays at 9 pm)
Free Admission
For those who like their Shakespeare served with a side of soul, head uptown for A Midsummer Night’s Dream—reimagined through the lens of the Harlem Renaissance. The Classical Theatre of Harlem brings its signature flair to this free outdoor production at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park. Expect jazz-infused mischief, lush period costumes, and a lively crowd gathering under the stars.
BERLINDIA!
July 5–27, 2025
The Tank, 312 W 36th St, Manhattan
Evenings and weekend matinees
Tickets from $28
A slyly surreal theatrical odyssey, Berlindia!—written by Daniel Holzman and directed by Noah Latty—debuts as part of The Tank’s summer core productions. You wake up to find your mother gone. Shes in Berlin? Shes in Berlin because of Techno? Berlin is now in India? What follows is a shapeshifting journey through the hazy borders of memory, migration, and meaning. Cafés melt into nightclubs, couches into continents, as a brother and sister unpack the absurdities of modern displacement.
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK
Year‑round
32‑01 Vernon Blvd, Long Island City, Queens
Free Admission
Once a derelict landfill, this 4-acre waterfront oasis was reborn in 1986 as a radical open-air studio and exhibition space—today it's New York’s largest outdoor site devoted to sculpture and large-scale installations. Offering sweeping East River and Manhattan skyline views, the park hosts rotating artist commissions, public art workshops, seasonal fitness classes, and family programs—from sculpture-making to yoga and kayaking—all year long.
DIANE ARBUS: CONSTELLATION
Through August 17, 2025
Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave, Manhattan
Tickets from $25; free for Armory & IDNYC members
Step into a vast, dreamlike archive at Constellation, the most expansive Diane Arbus exhibition ever mounted in New York. More than 450 photographs—some never before seen—are scattered across the cavernous Wade Thompson Drill Hall, inviting visitors to wander freely through Arbus’s world of outsiders, oddities, and everyday revelations.
RUN DON’T WALK
Sunset Wednesdays return to Wave Hill this July with open-air concerts in the garden at dusk with sweeping Hudson River views.
Take a breathtaking 24-minute journey through the history of our galaxy at the Hayden Planetarium’s newest immersive space show, “Encounters in the Milky Way”, narrated by Pedro Pascal.
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, screening in a new 4K restoration at Film Forum July 4–15, is a riveting behind-the-scenes portrait of the chaotic, near-catastrophic making of Apocalypse Now.
Rolling Stone Presents AMPLIFIED at ARTECHOUSE, an immersive, multimedia celebration of rock history—featuring 1,000+ iconic photos, 200 videos, and 1,300 magazine covers.
Greeley Square Park is home to Blue Grass Jam Sessions the second Tuesday of every month through September 9.
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