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Big Umbrella Festival returns! Tickets on sale now
Annually each spring, the Big Umbrella Festival welcomes kids, teens, and adults for a dynamic series of programming, designed with and for neurodiverse audiences. The 2025 festival will span three weeks in April, offering distinct events and activations each weekend. Explore the calendar here »Upcoming events
April 04 at 12:30 pm
Big Umbrella Festival
Kids, Teens, and Families
When the World Turns
Polyglot Theatre and Oily Cart
Lincoln Center Presents
April 04 at 12:30 pm
Clark Studio Theater, Rose Building
Become part of a wild place of the senses where you can see, hear, touch, smell, and feel this living, breathing world as it reveals itself.
AGES 5+
THEATER
RELAXED PERFORMANCE
April 04 at 3:30 pm
Big Umbrella Festival
Kids, Teens, and Families
When the World Turns
Polyglot Theatre and Oily Cart
Lincoln Center Presents
April 04 at 3:30 pm
Clark Studio Theater, Rose Building
Become part of a wild place of the senses where you can see, hear, touch, smell, and feel this living, breathing world as it reveals itself.
AGES 5+
THEATER
RELAXED PERFORMANCE
April 04 at 7:30 pm
Lincoln Center Presents
American Songbook
Tribute to The Slits
April 04 at 7:30 pm
David Rubenstein Atrium
Celebrate the pioneering UK experimental punk band The Slits with an evening of music, performed by an array of musical luminaries paying their respects.
MUSIC
PUNK
April 04 at 8:00 pm
Big Umbrella Festival
Comedy Night With ReelAbilities
Lincoln Center Presents
April 04 at 8:00 pm
Kaplan Penthouse, Rose Building
The largest festival in the world dedicated to showcasing ground-breaking work by and about people with disabilities returns.
COMEDY
RELAXED PERFORMANCE
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Be inspired by musicians who defy expectations
American Songbook: Singer Outsiders, curated in collaboration with Tamar-kali and Kathleen Hanna, uplifts women and nonbinary musicians who have shaped the modern landscape of music and continue to drive conversations on gender, identity, and empowerment. This spring series features a bold lineup of powerhouse voices from across the punk, pop, jazz, classical, R&B, and theater worlds—including Tarta Relena, Los Sara Fontan, and Cocanha; Gossip; Ana Tijoux; A Tribute to The Slits, and more—all for free or Choose-What-You-Pay.
Catch international premieres on the New York stage
In collaboration with the New York Philharmonic, Rubén Blades' large-scale musical work Maestra Vida—a soaring, genre-defying urban drama centered on the Latin American lived experience—will be presented in the U.S. for the very first time. The U.S. premiere of the UK’s most celebrated Hip-Hop dance theater company, Boy Blue, brings movement at its most fluid, distilled, and skilled with Cycles. A contemporary circus company celebrates human interconnectedness in the New York premiere of Backbone, a thrilling event for all ages!
Celebrate 15 years of FREE events at the Atrium
The David Rubenstein Atrium has offered 15 years of dynamic, free programming—opening our world to culture that addresses today’s most pressing issues and explores our common humanity. To celebrate the occasion, we're bringing back fan-favorites and welcoming Lincoln Center debuts to light up the stage this season! Featured events include: Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché film screening, Pascuala Ilabaca, a Brooklyn Maqam and Haza Party, and comedy show and dance party Don't Text Your Ex.Be the first to know!
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Fast Track reservations open Mondays at noon
In addition to General Admission, we’re offering a FREE Fast Track option for most Lincoln Center Presents events—giving you priority access. Bookmark this page »Free at the Atrium
April 4
American Songbook
April 5
Celebrating Women in Hip-Hop
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