tuesday
thru 8/23: hip to hip theatre company: hip to hip theatre company’s annual season brings the tempest and hamlet at eight parks in queens, long island, and jersey city. free admission. >>
thru sat (season ends saturday): lincoln center’s fourth annual summer for the city: lincoln center’s annual arts festival brings two months of free and choose-what-you-pay music concerts, performances, dance parties, film screenings, and more to its upper west side campus. this week: social dances with judy santos (weds 6:30pm) and cait jones (fri 6:30pm), silent discos with dj lucha (thurs 9pm) and hourglass (fri 10pm), kim changwan band and touched (weds 7:30pm), brooklyn rider string quartet 20th anniversary performances (thurs-sat), a double dutch fusion freestyle + open jump with the national double dutch league (thurs 5pm), ruidosa fest (sat 4pm), and more. >>
tues various times (weather permitting): free outdoor movies:
love + basketball at bella abzug park (hell’s kitchen) >>
the hundred foot journey on the rooftop at pier 17 (lower manhattan) >>
the mitchells vs the machines at colonel david marcus playground (midwood) >>
twisters at hunter’s point south park (lic) >>
tues 7pm: score: ‘interpreting epic cinema through comedy and dance’: a swarm of cinephile stand-ups discuss classic cinema and popcorn pleasers as emmy harrington (the marvelous mrs. maisel) brings each film’s score to life through dance. tonight’s edition targets the silence of the lambs, forrest gump, the matrix, and a league of their own. hosted by jimmy schatz. eris mainstage (williamsburg), $16.88+. >>
tues 7pm (tuesdays thru 8/17): live at the gantries: kupferberg center for the arts presents live at the gantries, an annual outdoor concert series at gantry plaza state park (lic) showcasing local artists. tonight: malika zarra. free admission. >>
tues 7:15pm + 8pm: the chess fight: brooklyn action theater makes its debut with the chess fight, a reimagining of a chess match from the perspective of the pieces themselves. staged outdoors at brooklyn bridge park’s harbor view lawn, the ‘knight’ out features dramatic and comedic moments, plus stage combat with 10 different weapons. free admission (tips are encouraged). >>
tues 7:30pm (season ends tonight): naumburg orchestral concerts: 2025 season: the naumburg orchestral concerts series returns for its 120th season at historic naumburg bandshell in central park. tonight: east coast chamber orchestra (ecco), a self-conducted chamber orchestra, performs works by j.s. bach, george gershwin, david ludwig, jennifer higdon, and john adams. hosted by wqxr’s terrance mcknight. all concerts will be broadcast live. free admission. >>
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wednesday
weds thru sun: 14th annual greenpoint film festival: the greenpoint film festival returns with five days of narrative and documentary shorts and features, animated shorts, and more. broadway stages, $15. >>
weds + thurs 5pm doors (thru 8/17): rise up nyc: the rise up nyc summer concert series returns with 10 free outdoor concerts across the five boroughs. this week’s bronx edition features luis vargas, josé alberto, el blachy, and george lamond (weds) and a boogie, epmd, and rakim (thurs) at orchard beach. >>
weds various times (weather permitting): free outdoor movies:
a minecraft movie at sunset park (brooklyn) >>
butch cassidy + the sundance kid at pier i at riverside park south (uws) >>
ferris bueller’s day off at pier a park (hoboken) >>
laura at elizabeth street garden (nolita) >>
migration at carl schurz park (yorkville) >>
ruby gillman, teenage kraken at peter’s field (gramercy) >>
shahid at brooklyn commons park (downtown brooklyn) >>
the smurfs at prospect park (brooklyn) >>
sponsored: whatever happened to baby jane? at parklife (gowanus). note: food/drink purchase required. >>
weds 5-8pm: sva artist residency programs open studios: session ii: explore the creative spaces of 40 residency participants from school of visual arts’s painting, mixed media, illustration and visual storytelling programs. sva flatiron gallery, free admission. >>
weds 6pm (wednesdays thru 8/13): summer concerts at hudson yards: the annual concert series returns to the public square + gardens at hudson yards for eight weeks. tonight: singer–songwriter mxmtoon with an opening set by dj chachi. free admission. >>
weds 7pm: next slide please: a powerpoint comedy show: from data-driven rankings of the best manhattan street corners for first-date make-outs to passionate defenses of the 2003 jessica alba vehicle honey, expect anything when a lineup of comedians deliver side-splitting powerpoint presentations on whatever topic they choose. hosted by reed kavner. caveat (les), $18.76 with promo code ‘projector’ (reg. $24+). >>
weds 7pm: bpl’s plaza concert series: 20-piece swingtime big band takes over brooklyn public library’s plaza (prospect heights) with the sounds of count basie, glenn miller, duke ellington, and many others. free admission >>
weds 7pm (wednesdays thru 8/13): jazz at pier 84: jazz up your evening with the jazz foundation of america’s free outdoor concerts at hudson river park’s pier 84 (hell’s kitchen). the season continues tonight with ginetta’s vendetta. >>
weds 8pm: written in brooklyn storytelling series presents: ‘take me baby or leave me’ edition: join host carly ann filbin at farm.one, a hydroponic farm and brewery in prospect heights, for an evening of true stories about begging to be seen + longing for love, hard goodbyes + new hellos, and more. $17.85 with promo code ‘skint’ (reg. $28.52). >>
weds 8pm: ambush comedy show: the ambush comedy show buzzes into hellrazor barber shop in williamsburg with a lineup featuring shalewa sharpe (comedy central), onika mclean (hbo), ali oneil (worthless clowns), andrew casertano, and ryan ergo. hosted by josh johnson, brittany cardwell, and lucas connolly. byob. bonus: rsvp enters you in a raffle for $200 towards a tattoo from stefano’s tattoo studio. free admission. >>
thursday
thurs thru 9/14 (previews 8/7-20): free shakespeare in the park: twelfth night: the public theater’s free shakespeare in the park returns to central park’s revitalized delacorte theater with a star-studded production of twelfth night directed by saheem ali and starring lupita nyong’o, junior nyong’o, sandra oh, khris davis, peter dinklage, jesse tyler ferguson, daphne rubin-vega, moses sumney, john ellison conlee, and b. five ways to get free tickets: in-person at the theater in the park, at an in-person lottery at the public theater in noho, in-person at select distribution points in the five boroughs on specific dates, in-person standby line at the theater in the park, and via a digital lottery on the todaytix app. >>
sponsored: thurs thru 8/17: chain nyc film festival: the chain theatre is thrilled to announce the 2025 chain nyc film festival. a cinematic celebration of bold voices and original storytelling, this year’s festival features over 160 films from around the globe—narratives, documentaries, shorts, web series, and animated works—plus panels, filmmaker events, and an awards ceremony. chain theatre (garment district / hell’s kitchen), $13+. >>
thurs various times (weather permitting): free outdoor movies:
soul at the softball fields in morningside park >>
the spongebob squarepants movie at coney island beach at w 12th street >>
the sun is also a star at 145th st and the hudson in riverside park (west harlem) >>
the taking of pelham one two three at union square park >>
the wild robot at wright brothers playground (washington heights) >>
the wild robot at thomas mcgovern park (jersey city) >>
the wizard of oz at brooklyn bridge park – pier 1 harbor viewn lawn >>
thurs 5pm doors: z100 summer bash ’25: iheartradio’s z100 summer bash returns to hudson yards with an outdoor concert featuring live performances by lewis capaldi, julia michaels, dom innarella, magnus ferrell, and deleasa. free admission. >>
thurs 6pm doors: 47th annual bric celebrate brooklyn! festival: new york city’s longest-running, free, outdoor performing arts festival returns to prospect park’s lena horne bandshell for two months. tonight: yup’ik choreographer emily johnson presents a performance of movement, sound, and story — set on 4,000 square feet of hand-stitched quilts by ojibwe artist maggie thompson. >>
thurs 7pm: econlol: an economics-themed comedy show: bringing together comedians and sometimes real-life economists, luke strathmann’s economics-themed comedy show doesn’t promise to teach you anything about the economy, but it will give you a chance to laugh at it. featuring liz glazer (fallon), shafi hossain (peacock), taylor kay phillips (last week tonight), ikechukwu ufomadu (ziwe), and zach zimmerman (after midnight). caveat (les), $15.67 with promo code ‘skint’ (reg. $24-25). >>
thurs 7pm: john and scott: two person improv: former 30 rock cast members scott adsit and john lutz pair up for an improv show at ucb theatre (east village). $10 adv, $15 day of. >>
thurs 7pm (+ 8/14, 8/28): the queens jazz trail concert series: inspired by the queens jazz trail map highlighting the homes of jazz legends, the annual the queens jazz trail concert series presents seven free jazz concerts in queens parks. tonight: kim clarke + friends at travers park in jackson heights. >>
thurs 7pm: bilal: in concert: grammy award-winning singer and songwriter bilal plays a free outdoor concert at downtown’s waterfront robert f. wagner park. >>
thurs 7pm doors: summerstage: ballet hispánico: nyc-based latinx dance company ballet hispánico returns to central park’s rumsey playfield for tonight’s summerstage presentation. free admission. >>
thurs 7:30pm: authors across romance: in honor of bookstore romance day (august 9), greenlight bookstore hosts authors kristina forest (the greene sisters series), adriana herrera (las léonas series), and marie rutkoski (the winner’s trilogy) for a panel discussion on romance—from ya to adult, romantasy to literary fiction, contemporary romance, and more. a wine reception will follow. greenlight bookstore (fort greene), free admission. >>
thurs 7:30pm: the parlor reading series: the parlor, an interdisciplinary, community-based reading series, hosts its summer installment at brooklyn artery (flatbush/ditmas park). books and drinks will be available for purchase. free (suggested donation $15). >>
ongoing
our roundup of 70+ ongoing events and attractions: summer restaurant week, friday night fireworks in coney island, free outdoor fitness classes, and more. >>
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