Featured Events


Friday 26 April 2024:
Purple Rain Friday 26 April 2024

Symphony Space, New York
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Purple Rain , join us for a special screening of this Grammy and Academy Award-winning film which marked the electrifying movie debut of Prince as The Kid, a Minneapolis club musician as alienated as he is talented.
"The smartest, most spiritually ambitious rock 'n' roll movie ever made." - Rolling Stone


Saturday 27 April 2024:
Selected Shorts on Tour: Port Angeles, Washington Saturday 27 April 2024

Sat 27 Apr 2024, 19:30 - Symphony Space, New York

The hit public radio series Selected Shorts takes the stage at Field Arts & Events Hall in Port Angeles, Washington, in partnership with the Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher Creative Writing Festival. Actors Dion Graham ( The Wire ), Zach Grenier ( The Good Wife ), and Kirsten Vangsness ( Criminal Minds ) perform extraordinary short stories and poetry by four masters of the form: T. C. Boyle

Monday 29 April 2024:
I'll Leave It to You Monday 29 April 2024

Mon 29 Apr 2024, 19:00 - Symphony Space, New York
Noel Coward was determined to be the 'new Shaw’. Sending this play to George Bernard Shaw for comment, Shaw wrote back "I’m already taken. Be yourself!" In response, we have this rarely seen early comedy of manners, sex, and society, I'll Leave It to You.


Wednesday 1 May 2024:
Love & Justice: Beethoven´s Rebel Opera Wednesday 1 May 2024

Wed 1 May 2024, 19:00 - Symphony Space, New York
The Love & Justice: In The Footsteps of Beethoven´s Rebel Opera film on May 1st is being co-sponsored by Project Music Heals Us (PMHU) https://www.pmhu.org/ , a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide encouragement, education and healing through bringing high-quality live music performances and interactive programing to marginalized communities, with a focus on elderly, disabled, incar

Saturday 4 May 2024:
Wall to Wall Prince Saturday 4 May 2024

Symphony Space, New York
, and the full Purple Rain album is performed live as we end the Prince extravaganza with an all-out

Monday 6 May 2024:
Thalia Book Club: Rachel Khong, Real Americans Monday 6 May 2024

Mon 6 May 2024, 19:00 - Symphony Space, New York
The award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin presents her latest, an exuberant multigenerational novel about inheritance-and finally coming home. Real Americans follows a fractured family from Y2K to the present day, spotlighting their struggles to strive amid conflicts of class, race, and identity. Constance Wu ( Crazy Rich Asians ) will moderate the conversation and read an excerpt from the nove
Celebrating Duke Ellington´s 125th Birthday In The City Of Jazz Monday 6 May 2024

Mon 6 May 2024, 20:00 - Symphony Space, New York
Presented by the Duke Ellington Center for the Arts in Association with the American Tap Dance Foundation
Co-hosted by Mercedes Ellington & Tony Waag
A celebration of the 125 th birthday of jazz great Duke Ellington with The Duke Ellington Center Big Band under the musical direction of Eli Yamin. Special guest artist and eight-time Grammy Award winner Arturo O’Farrill will be featured in t

Tuesday 7 May 2024:
The Art of Small Talk with Casey Wilson and Jessica St. Clair Tuesday 7 May 2024

Tue 7 May 2024, 19:30 - Symphony Space, New York
). The dynamic duo comes to Symphony Space to launch their brand new audiobook, The Art of Small Talk
... on chit-chat Casey Wilson ( Bitch Sesh , Happy Endings ) and Jessica St. Clair ( Veep , Space Force

Wednesday 8 May 2024:
Selected Shorts: History’s Clown Car with Andy Borowitz Wednesday 8 May 2024

Wed 8 May 2024, 19:00 - Symphony Space, New York
The beloved author and comedian returns to Symphony Space for an evening of short stories about
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Selected Shorts is produced by Symphony Space and broadcast on more than 130 stations around... smartphone or tablet, please visit bit.ly/SymphonySpace_Captions .
... the country. The series began in 1985 and enjoys sold-out performances to this day. Selected Shorts

Thursday 9 May 2024:
Great Art on Screen: The Immortals Thursday 9 May 2024

Thu 9 May 2024, 13:00 - Symphony Space, New York
Jeremy Irons narrates this fascinating journey inside the secret world of Egyptian mythology, religion, and funerary culture, interweaving the story with the history of the oldest museum in the world, the Museo Egizio in Turin, founded in 1824.







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