Friday, October 2, 2026

This month at Lincoln Center


October at Lincoln Center

People walking through the Lincoln Center plaza at night

Celebrate the performing arts with
Lincoln Center all month long!


This Month's Highlights

Three dancers in leotards on a dark stage

Buddy Bradley with Patricia Burke. Photo by Kurt Hutton. Picture Post via Getty Images.

Monday, October 5 at 6:00 pm

Buddy Bradley shaped legends from Balanchine to Robbins. A group of dance artists heads to the Library for the Performing Arts to discuss the influence of the innovative jazz dancer and choreographer along with live demonstrations.

Three dancers in leotards on a dark stage

Photo © Erin Baiano

October 7–16

Alexei Ratmansky’s profoundly moving Solitude returns on a stylistically diverse program alongside Christopher Wheeldon’s streamlined Continuum and George Balanchine’s charming BourrĂ©e Fantasque.

A dark, abstract oil painting of Abraham Lincoln standing in a cemetery

Illustration by David McConochie

October 19–November 14

George Saunders’s Booker Prize–winning novel arrives at the Met in operatic form, with music by composer Missy Mazzoli—hailed by The New Yorker as a “once-in-a-generation magician of the orchestra”—and libretto by Royce Vavrek.

A man in a blue suit playing the trumpet

October 23 & 24 at 7:30 pm

Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra explore the enduring connections between jazz and the African diaspora. Featuring selections from three of Marsalis’ original suites with guests Pedrito Martinez and Weedie Braimah on drums, and vocalist Shenel Johns.

A group of dancers in all black on a dark stage

October 28–30 at 7:30 pm

In this cross-genre collaboration, Aszure Barton and Ambrose Akinmusire share a provocative world, full of puzzling beauty and raw, physical emotion. All tickets are Choose-What-You-Pay!

The New York Philharmonic playing in David Geffen Hall in front of a movie screen

October 28–31

Spend Halloween weekend with Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning Get Out — featuring Michael Abels’s haunting score performed live by the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Anthony Parnther.

A woman playing the piano

Friday, October 30 at 7:30 pm

In an incredible night of piano trios, Debussy’s early Trio in G major is offered as a companion work to Chaminade’s Trio No. 1 in G minor, and DvoÅ™Ă¡k’s farewell to his homeland, the beloved "Dumky" Trio. Tickets start at just $38.


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