High 5 is a non-profit organization that offers teenagers $5 tickets to arts events in and around New York City. Whether it’s dance, theater, music, film, art or spoken word you’re into, tickets are available.
Museum Passes High 5 Museum passes are always available!Passes are 2-for-$5 ($2.50 per pass). Museum passes can be used for a single visit and are valid for 30 days from the day of your purchase. Click the links below for passes: |
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Brazilian Jazz & Tango Special Tribute to Jobim & Piazzolla feat. World Renowned Guitarist Andres Laprida Introduced to the public at a young age by the Brazilian music masters Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, and Toquinho, prolific performer, composer and producer Andres Laprida has racked up rave reviews from audiences, musicians and critics worldwide for his brilliant guitar skills. **PLEASE NOTE: A $10 food and/or beverage minimum per person is standard for table seating during shows.** Visit highlineballroom.com for more! Click the date for tix: Highline Ballroom |
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The Fresh Fruit Festival The Fresh Fruit Festival is presented by All Out Arts to celebrate the LGBTQ community’s unique perspective, creativity & diversity, and to build links between the LGBTQ artistic communities, be they local or international. RACHEL – Full Musical DEVASTATED NO MATTER WHAT World Premiere When Tristan and Riley are tested by a visit from Riley’s long estranged and conservative mother, the stage is set for a crucial discussion of identity as it comes to the surface that Tristan is transgender. All audience members will see resonances with their own lives as the play touches on issues of identity, family, transition and the people that we love. By Grace Connolly; Andrew May (acclaimed star of War Horse) AFTER TARTUFFE – A play in verse By Judy Klass. An adaptation of Moliere’s “Tartuffe,” set in a post-apocalyptic future America which has become a Christian Fundamentalist state. A fallen televangelist takes advantage of the good will of a stupid but rich businessman, plotting to marry the daughter while making passes at the wife and son. When the son tries to tell his father what is going on, he winds up coming out to his father as gay, and is thrown out of the house. Will the Oracle (.net) help the son switch to a better alternate universe? Visit www.freshfruitfestival.com for more info! The Wild Project |
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New shows @ B.B. King’s
Liberate Your Party! 45 RIOTS
45 Riots is a modern collective of first-call performing, recording, and touring musicians, operating with resolute focus, attention-to-detail, veteran experience, and artistic verve. 45 Riots recreates contemporary and classic covers from multiple genres including hip-hop, house, top 40, soul, funk, R&B, pop, rock, reggae, and jazz, all with a vibrant and unique sound. BRAZILIAN MUSIC SOUL feat. Vanessa Falabella, Carlos Dias & Guests Brazilian vocalist Vanessa Falabella has a repertoire as great as her charm and charisma, singing everything from traditional samba and bossa nova, to jazz, MPB (Brazilian popular music), soul, and R&B. **Please note: $10 Minimum Per Person, For All Tables** Visit www.bbkingblues.com for more! BB Kings Blues Club
237 West 42nd St., Manhattan A, C or E to 42nd St. @ 8th Ave.; N, R, Q, 1, 2, 3, or 7 to 42nd St. @ 7th Ave. |
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NEWS TO ME – An Original Teen Musical Revue “ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO SING!” Move over, Newsies! Hero-rats, robot dogs, squatters and squirrels leap from page to stage at The Times Center, in this special one night presentation. The 2015 culminating showcase performance for Prospect’s Summer Intensive Program features an array of brand-new songs inspired by stories ripped from the pages of the newspaper, and penned by some of New York’s most exciting writers of new musical theater. Visit www.prospecttheater.org for more info! Click the date for tix: Prospect Theater Company |
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The Quantum Eye: Magic & Mentalism **Sales close Friday, July 24 @ 11am** Awarded the world record for the longest running, one man, Off-Broadway magic show! The Quantum Eye is Sam Eaton’s entertaining and fascinating exploration of mentalism, magic, perception and deception, where extraordinary ability and humor blend with the audience to make for a different performance every time. Join Sam on a journey past the limits of possibility in a show that you will never forget! **The Maximum Group Size for this show is 4** Visit www.TheQuantumEye.com for more! Click dates for tix: Theatre 80 |
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Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind
Same time each week. Different show each week! With its ever-changing “menu” of plays, Too Much Light… is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes—an original concept by Greg Allen. The audience is fully part of the act, deciding the order that these plays are performed. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work. The single unifying element of these plays is that they are performed from a perspective of absolute honesty. Read more about what it means to be a “Neo-Futurist.” Please note: May contain adult themes Visit nyneofuturists.org for more info! Click the dates for tix: The Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street, Manhattan F to 2nd Avenue; N/R to Astor Place; B/D/F/M to Broadway Lafayette |
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Bargemusic
Experience why critics call Bargemusic “the perfect chamber-music hall” and why artists say it is “unlike any other place in the world to perform.” Since 1977, Bargemusic has presented chamber music in an unlikely and startlingly beautiful venue—a floating barge at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. Both established and emerging musicians perform at Bargemusic on a small stage with the dramatic backdrop of the East River and lower Manhattan skyline. Visit www.bargemusic.org for more! Click dates for tix: Bargemusic
Fulton Ferry Landing, 1 Water St., Brooklyn A, C to High St.; F to York St. |








