Keep watching this space for more special events during this rare holiday season when the first night of Hanukkah falls on Christmas Day. A very happy and merry to all!!
Through December 22
Mark Morris Dance Group: The Hard Nut, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, $54 - $175
Through December 30
A Christmas Carol the Musical 2024, the Players Theatre, $34 - $102
Through January 4
Elf the Musical, Marquis Theatre, $162.50 - $422
Through January 5
Lightscape, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, $12 - $32
Holiday Lights, Bronx Zoo, $26.95 - $56.95
Through January 6
Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche, Metropolitan Museum of Art, free with museum admission
Eastern European Silver Menorah from the Moldovan Family Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 554, free with museum admission
Through January 18
Holiday Train Nights, New York Botanical Garden, $32-$52
Through January 22
The Origami Holiday Tree, American Museum of Natural History, free with museum admission
Through February 2025
Holiday Train Show, New York Transit Museum Gallery, Grand Central Terminal, free
Sunday, December 15
Hanukkah Family Day, Jewish Museum, ages three and up, $15 adults, free for children eighteen and under, 11:00 am - 3:30 pm
Holiday Julbord 2024 at Björk, traditional Christmas Table, Scandinavia House, $45 - $139, noon & 3:00
HoliGay Cabaret, Brooklyn Art Haus, $30, 7:00
Works & Process Rotunda Holiday Concert: Charles Turner & Uptown Swing with Jasmine Rice LaBeija, Guggenheim Museum, $21 - $76, 7:00
Sunday, December 15, 12:00 & 4:00
Wednesday, December 18, 7:00
Sunday, December 22, 2:30
Gingerbread Lane Village & Workshops, the Shops at Columbus Circle, $35
Monday, December 16
Poetry + Sip: Celebrating the Holiday Season, Inwood Library, free, 2:00
Matt Wilson Christmas Tree-O, Dizzy’s Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, $20 - $55, 7:00
An Irish Christmas with Keith & Kristyn Getty and Friends, Carnegie Hall, $29 - $120, 7:30
The Classical Theatre of Harlem presents Harlem Holidays Concert, with Brandon Victor Dixon, hosted by Kara Young, Red Rooster Harlem, $50 – $241.94, 8:00
Tuesday, December 17, 24, 31
Storytime at the Met Cloisters — Celebrate the Holidays, Met Cloisters, free with museum admission, 11:30 am
Thursday, December 19
Open Art Space: Gingerbread House of the Future Competition, drop-in program for LGBTQ+ high school students and their allies, MoMA, Education Center, Mezzanine, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, free, 4:30
Hanukkah Lights, TV Nights, and Kosher Bites, Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, free ($36 for kosher Chinese food), 5:00
Thursday, December 19
through
Sunday, December 22
Francis Patrelle’s The Yorkville Nutcracker, Gerald W. Lynch Theater, $70-$80
Friday, December 20
through
Thursday, January 2
The Holidays at Metrograph: Carol, Eyes Wide Shut, Phantom Thread, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Little Women, 2046, Willow, Edward Scissorhands, An Affair to Remember, Metrograph, $17
Saturday, December 21
Kwanzaa: A Regeneration Celebration, with Abdel R. Salaam’s Forces of Nature Dance Theatre and FIYAA: Forces Incredible Youth Arts Alliance, hosted by Olabamidele Husbands, Apollo Theater, $23 - $68, 2:00 & 7:30
Pop-Up Performances: VocalSouL Carolers, Brooklyn Museum, free with museum admission, 2:30-4:00
Dzieci Theatre: Fools Mass, Synod Hall, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, free with suggested donation, 3:00 & 5:00
Tuesday, December 24
Joel Chasnoff: Christmas Eve for the Jews, with Talia Reese, Marcus Lustig, and more, City Winery, $32 - $65, 7:00
A Very Jewish Christmas!, Gotham Comedy Club, $34.50, 7:00 & 9:30
Wednesday, December 25
through
Sunday, December 29
Lektrik: A Festival of Lights, Queens Museum, $24.90 - $33.90
Wednesday, December 25
through
Wednesday, January 1
The 8 Nights of Hanukkah with Yo La Tengo (and special guests), Bowery Ballroom, $50, 7:30
Thursday, December 26
through
Monday, December 30
Celebrate Kwanzaa, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, $15
Sunday, December 29
Stamp a Dreidel Activity, South Street Seaport Museum, free with advance RSVP, 3:00
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