Explore Manhattan’s Theater District, from neighborhood favorites to unique curated events. Start with the best-known things to do, then check out "What's happening" for upcoming limited events in the Theater District.
These special events are sourced from the web and social media, then carefully curated based on cool and unique events you might enjoy doing in the Theater District.
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A character you know from a film can lead you to a collected story at Midtown Comics Times Square, without requiring a command of decades of comic-book continuity. The West 40th Street shop carries new comics, graphic novels and manga, with weekly releases arriving on Wednesdays. Compare the artwork across individual issues and collected volumes; the latter let you follow a longer story in one book.
Working industry teachers lead classes at Broadway Dance Center, where you can practice theater dance rather than leave all the movement to the cast. The West 45th Street studio’s Broadway Choreography Series teaches original choreography from stage shows. Its wider class program includes ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical and contemporary dance, as well as street jazz, floor flow and vogue.
The Great Gatsby brings ensemble choreography and a jazz- and pop-influenced score to Broadway Theatre. You can see Marc Bruni’s direction and Dominique Kelley’s choreography unfold in a 1,765-seat house built for entertainment on a large scale.
Code-cracking and tests of observation put you to work at SPYSCAPE & SPYGAMES, near the northern end of this group of stops. The museum explores deception, hacking, surveillance, intelligence, encryption and special operations through real stories, artifacts and equipment. Lie-detection equipment supplies a physical counterpart to the deception challenge, while a briefing tests what you noticed and remembered.
Soloists and full ensembles share Carnegie Hall’s calendar, which reaches across classical music and other musical traditions. You can make a recital the focus of your evening or hear a larger ensemble in Stern Auditorium, the main room known for its acoustics. Five curved seating levels surround its stage, placing the scale of the hall around the performers.
Big bands, guitarists and vocalists give you different ways to spend an evening at Birdland Jazz Club, back in the western theater cluster on West 44th Street. Its programming includes the Birdland Latin Jazz Orchestra, Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Eternity Band and John Pizzarelli Swing 7. The calendar ranges across standards, New Orleans jazz traditions and visiting artists.
Find upcoming street fairs, performances and other unique events in the Theater District.
4 things worth doing in the next 7 days · Friday, October 16th – Thursday, October 22nd
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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 Birdland Big Band | Fri, Oct 16 | Birdland Jazz Club, Theater DistrictTheater District · Manhattan | Fridays 5:30pmPrice not listed |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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 Eighth Avenue Fall Fair | Sat, Oct 17 | 8th Avenue from 42nd to 52nd StTheater District · Manhattan | 10am-6pm |
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| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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 A Walk Through Fashion, History, and Immigration: Garment District | Tue, Oct 20 | 1411 Broadway, btwn 39th St & 40th St, Garment District, Manhattan, 10018Theater District · Manhattan | 10:30am |
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| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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| A Doll's House: Modern Adaptation of Ibsen's Classic Drama | Thu, Oct 22 | Bank Street TheaterTheater District · Manhattan | 7:30pm |
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Birdland's big band features weekly guest musicians from television bands and pop tours.
🚇 42 St-Port Authority Bus Terminal (A C E) · 2 min walk
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Eighth Avenue hosts a fall street fair.
🚇 50 St (1 C E) · 4 min walk
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Mike leads you on a walking tour of the Garment District.
🚇 Times Sq-42 St (1 2 3 7 N Q R S W) · 2 min walk
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See a modern adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House at Bank Street Theater.
🚇 7 Av (B D E) · 4 min walk
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A music hall that has been staging performances for well over a century.
4.7★ from 10,018 Google reviews
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A comic book store stocking back issues, graphic novels, manga, magazines, T-shirts and apparel, statues, action figures, collectibles, and gaming and trading cards.
4.6★ from 9,648 Google reviews
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You rent bikes and ride, either on your own or on a guided tour, from one of two locations — 56 W 56th St near Central Park and 79 Chambers St near the Brooklyn Bridge.
4.8★ from 6,196 Google reviews
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The museum floor is divided into sections on deception, hacking, special ops, surveillance, intelligence and encryption, with artefacts and lie-detection equipment.
4.5★ from 5,838 Google reviews
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A 1,765-seat Broadway house at 1681 Broadway currently showing The Great Gatsby, a musical directed by Marc Bruni with choreography by Dominique Kelley and a jazz- and pop-influenced score.
4.7★ from 5,459 Google reviews
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Birdland runs two rooms — the Jazz Club and the Birdland Theater — with several sets a night, the earliest at 5:30pm.
4.7★ from 5,032 Google reviews
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You board at Pier 78 and ride a loop of the harbour while a guide points out what you're passing.
4.8★ from 3,809 Google reviews
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You pick up bikes at 870 7th Avenue and ride into Central Park, either on your own or on a guided tour.
4.8★ from 3,559 Google reviews
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The shop is at 240 West 56th Street, a two-minute walk from the Columbus Circle park entrance and five from the Hudson River Greenway, so you're riding almost immediately.
5★ from 3,472 Google reviews
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This is a working ferry terminal at Pier 79, West 39th Street and 12th Avenue, not an attraction — you come here to catch a boat.
4.6★ from 2,864 Google reviews
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4.3★ from 1,907 Google reviews
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This is a working ferry terminal run by NY Waterway rather than somewhere to spend an afternoon, though you can ride a ferry from here across to Port Imperial and other New Jersey destinations.
4.5★ from 1,507 Google reviews
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A shop renting out bikes and scooters, which it also sells.
4.2★ from 911 Google reviews
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A one-screen cinema with a balcony, programming independent and foreign-language films.
4.4★ from 628 Google reviews
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A neon-lit bar with private rooms for karaoke, plus cocktails and pub food if you'd rather stay out at the main bar.
4.5★ from 609 Google reviews
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A hall built for classical performance, with red velvet seating and balconies stacked in tiers.
4.9★ from 599 Google reviews
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4.8★ from 427 Google reviews
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A bar and kitchen at the front showing major sports, with a theatre-style back room used for comedy shows, karaoke, games nights and private parties.
4.6★ from 399 Google reviews
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You play on an arena floor of lighted square tiles: each level gives you a time limit to step on the blue tiles while avoiding the red ones, which cost you a life.
5★ from 356 Google reviews
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One of the performance spaces within Carnegie Hall, used for recitals and smaller-scale events.
4.7★ from 325 Google reviews
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A drop-in dance studio running classes in jazz, lyrical, contemporary, theater, tap, street jazz, floor flow and vogue, taught by working industry faculty.
4.3★ from 303 Google reviews
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A record shop on West 54th Street where you flip through more than 20,000 new and used records — jazz, rock, classical, pop, opera and musicals, from the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac to Olivia Rodrigo and Kendrick Lamar.
4.6★ from 255 Google reviews
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A supper club staging three cabaret performances each evening.
4.5★ from 213 Google reviews
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You rent bikes here and ride into Central Park — the shop is steps from the park's south entrance and the full loop is the ride on offer.
4.9★ from 185 Google reviews
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4.3★ from 182 Google reviews
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A smaller performance space inside Carnegie Hall.
4.7★ from 165 Google reviews
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You melt your own wax, blend fragrances and pour a candle to take home, in a small-group workshop in a Hell's Kitchen studio.
5★ from 147 Google reviews
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4.7★ from 53 Google reviews
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A secondhand clothing shop.
4.9★ from 49 Google reviews
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These are free public pickleball courts on Pier 76, open to anyone without a permit.
4.6★ from 39 Google reviews
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A pottery studio that has been running for many years, set in an open, high-ceilinged space.
4.4★ from 16 Google reviews
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Near the theaters, these restaurants offer either coal-fired pizza and Italian dishes or a long-running theater-district dining room.
Follow the history through a museum timeline or hear theater stories while walking among Broadway’s buildings.
You can watch synchronized billboard art near midnight or hear Max Neuhaus’s sound installation at any hour.
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