New York City Center

The annual Flamenco Festival returns to showcase a wide range of variations on the Spanish form at a dozen New York venues. The heart of the programming is at City Center, where this year's lineup includes: Alfonso Losa and Patricia Guerrero (Mar 6) in the NYC premiere of Alter Ego, joined by vocalists Sandra Carrasco and Ismael “El Bola” and guitarist Jose Manuel Martinez “El Peli"; Compañía Manuel Liñán (Mar 7) in the NYC premiere of Muerta de Amor (Dead in Love), featuring seven dancers and five musicians; and Compañía Eva Yerbabuena (Mar 8–9) in Yerbagüena (Oscuro Brillante), in which one of Flamenco's most celebrated figures draws from what she's learned in her 40-year career to combine and contrast old and new forms of the art. The festival also includes music, dance and film events at locations including Joe's Pub, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Le Poisson Rouge and Instituto Cervantes. Information and ticketing for all shows can be found on Flamenco Festival's Spanish-language website.

Dance titan Twyla Tharp returns to City Center to mark her company's 60th anniversary with a pair of diamonds: her long 1998 piece Diabelli, which rides the changing moods of Beethoven's challenging Diabelli Variations; and her new work, Slacktide, set to Philip Glass’s Aguas da Amazonia (arranged and performed live on custom-designed instruments by members of Third Coast Percussion). The ensemble includes Renan Cerdeiro, Angela Falk, Miriam Gittens, Zachary Gonder, Oliver Greene-Cramer, Kyle Halford, Daisy Jacobson, Marzia Memoli, Nicole Ashley Morris, Molly Rumble, Alexander Peters and Reed Tankersley. 

City Center's invaluable concert-staging series Encores! continues its 2025 season with this 1948 rarity by Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner, directed by Victoria Clark. Kate Baldwin and Nicholas Christopher star in this high-concept tale of an American family that, à la The Skin of Our Teeth, spans 150 years of American history without aging. The score includes "Here I'll Stay" and "I Remember It Well" (which Lerner later repurposed for Gigi); Rob Fisher conducts the orchestra.

The final installment of this year's Encores! season at City Center was meant to be Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party, but scheduling issues kicked it forward to next year. In its place, the musical-theater staged-concert revival series offers another look at the 1953 musical comedy Wonderful Town, which it first presented 25 years ago in a production that wound up transferring to Broadway three years later. The show features music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; the story, adapted by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov from short stories by Ruth McKenney, follows two sisters—played here by Anika Noni Rose and Aisha Jackson—who move from Ohio to Greenwich Village to pursue their dreams and maybe find love along the way. Zhailon Levingston (Cats: The Jellical Ball) is the director and Mary-Mitchell Campbell is the music director.