Theatre & Music
The forty Broadway houses, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, the Apollo in Harlem, and the basement jazz rooms that never closed.
5 placesBroadway Theatre District
Forty-one theatres between 41st and 54th, only four of which are actually on Broadway. Here is how the tickets work and where the cheap ones are.
Carnegie Hall
Opened in 1891 with Tchaikovsky conducting, nearly demolished in 1960, and saved by a violinist. The acoustics are the reason it still matters.
Lincoln Center
Sixteen acres of performing arts built on the cleared remains of the neighbourhood that West Side Story was filmed in. The plaza and the fountain are free.
Radio City Music Hall
The largest indoor theatre in the world when it opened in 1932, with a proscenium designed to look like a sunset and a stage that still works on 1930s hydraulics.
The Apollo Theater
Amateur Night has run since 1934 and launched Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown and Lauryn Hill. The audience still boos people off, and that is the point.