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543 events on Saturday, October 17, 2026. Free: 36. Busiest venues: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Governors Island, Metrograph.

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Chicago

Ambassador Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
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The Lion King

Minskoff Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
Open run

Wicked

Gershwin Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
Open run

The Book of Mormon

Eugene O'Neill Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
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Aladdin

New Amsterdam Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
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Hamilton

Richard Rodgers Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Lyric Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
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Hadestown

Walter Kerr Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
until Jan 3

SIX: The Musical

Lena Horne Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
Open run

MJ The Musical

Fans of Neil Simon Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
until Jan 3

& Juliet

Stephen Sondheim Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
Visual arts
until Feb 7

Caroline Kent: A short play about watching shadows move across the room

Caroline Kent

Queens Museum · Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
- Visual arts
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Visual arts
until Jan 10

Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
Open run

The Outsiders

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
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The Great Gatsby

Broadway Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
until Jul 10

Oh, Mary!

Lyceum Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
Open run

Maybe Happy Ending

Belasco Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
Open run

Operation Mincemeat

John Golden Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
Open run

Buena Vista Social Club

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
Visual arts
until Feb 7

Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200

Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
- Visual arts
until Jan 3

Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Marquis Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
$60–$270 Tickets
Open run

Just in Time

Circle in the Square Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
Visual arts
until Feb 21

Odili Donald Odita: Songs from Life

Odili Donald Odita

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Midtown Manhattan
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Apr 4

Greetings from Staten Island: A Postcard Tour

Historic Richmond Town · Richmondtown, Staten Island
- Visual arts
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until Jan 10

Collection in Focus | Modern European Currents

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Sep 16

Shoes: Two Centuries of Style and Function

Historic Richmond Town · Richmondtown, Staten Island
- Visual arts
until Aug 22

New York, New York: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection

The New York Historical (New-York Historical Society) · Upper West Side
until Nov 29

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

Longacre Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
Visual arts
until Oct 19

The Modern Window: Julien Ceccaldi

Julien Ceccaldi

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Midtown Manhattan
- Visual arts
Other
until Jan 18

Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs

American Museum of Natural History · Upper West Side
Visual arts
until Jan 17

Ecologies of Painting

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Aug 8

The Infinite Artistry of Japanese Ceramics

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jun 27

Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860–1930

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 26

Celebrating the Year of the Horse

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 8

Luminous Color

The Morgan Library & Museum · Murray Hill
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Hortensia Mi Kafchin: Through Different Eyes

Hortensia Mi Kafchin

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art · SoHo, Manhattan
- Visual arts
$10
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Visual arts
until Feb 7

About Us: The American Imaginary

Queens Museum · Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 16

David Lamelas: The Machine

David Lamelas

Dia Chelsea · Chelsea
- Visual arts
until Apr 1

Kapwani Kiwanga: BLEED

Kapwani Kiwanga

The Studio Museum in Harlem · Harlem
- Visual arts
until Jan 3

Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body

Museum of the Moving Image · Astoria, Queens
- Cinema
Visual arts
until May 31

Flip Sides: Seeing Korean Art Anew

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
until Jan 3

A Legacy Continued: Recent Acquisitions

Asia Society Museum · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
until Jan 3

Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller

Asia Society Museum · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
until Jan 3

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon

Asia Society Museum · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
until Jan 3

Busy, Busy Towns

Asia Society Museum · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
until Feb 28

The Rocky Horror Show

Studio 54 · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
Open run

The Lost Boys

Palace Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Shu Lea Cheang: LOVER LOVE

Shu Lea Cheang

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art · SoHo, Manhattan
- Visual arts
$10
until Apr 4

Schmigadoon!

Nederlander Theatre · Theater District
- Theatre
Tickets
until Nov 1

From Monarchy to Modernity: Travel, Identity, & the Czechoslovak First Republic (1918–1938)

Poster House · Chelsea
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 8

Hyundai Card First Look: Joan Snyder

Joan Snyder

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Midtown Manhattan
- Visual arts
until Nov 1

Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime

Poster House · Chelsea
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 18

Hyundai Card First Look: Sheree Hovsepian

Sheree Hovsepian

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Midtown Manhattan
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 15

Before New York: The Bronx (traveling pop-up exhibition)

New York Botanical Garden · Bedford Park, Bronx
- Visual arts
until Oct 19

Andy Warhol Family Album

Andy Warhol

Whitney Museum of American Art · Meatpacking District
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 8

Common Sense

Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Oct 25

Friends Who Came to See Me: Drawings from John Ashbery’s Collection

The Morgan Library & Museum · Murray Hill
- Visual arts
until Mar 19

The Occupied City

Museum of the City of New York · East Harlem
until May 9

Light and Stone: Revisiting Noguchi’s 1986 Venice Biennale

Isamu Noguchi

The Noguchi Museum · Long Island City, Queens
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 10

Costume Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side
- Visual arts

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