Sunday Scoop Week of 2/15/26 What's Happening This Week and More

A) Beginning Performances

In New Jersey

1) A Doll's House

2) Curtesy - A Royal Comedy

3) Dial M For Murder 

4) Samantha Inside Out

In New York

5) Ballet national de Marseille - LA HORDE's Age of Content

6) Burnout Paradise 

7) Cold War Choir Practice 

8) Every Brilliant Thing

9) Fork's Amazing Day

10) Lyon Opera Ballet

11) Puppetopia

12) Richard III

13) Spread

In Pennsylvania

14) Starstuck

B) Cast Changes

In New York

15) MJ

16) Operation Mincemeat

C) Classes

In New York

17) Broadway Workshop

D) Closing Soon

18) Going Bacharach: Songs of an Icon

E) Run Extension

In New York

19) The Porch on Windy Hill 

20) You Got Older

F) Tickets on Sale 

In New Jersey

21) The Black Crowes  and Whiskey Myers

NJPAC 6/20

22) Floetry Tour

NJPAC 4/9

In New York

23) Artechouse

G) What Else is Happening

In New Jersey

24) NJPAC Upcoming Events

In New York

25) 92NY Harkness Dance Theater Presents What Flows Between Us

A Festival of India's Classical Arts in Cross-Cultural Dialogue 2/21

26) Hell's Kitchen Final Encore Sessions Featuring Alicia Keys & OBC Cast Members

2/21

27) Kaatabaan Cultural Park Presents The Bang Group New Work Preview

2/20

28) Lunar New Year Celebration at Lincoln Center

2/233

29) Teatown Lake Reservation Meet the Animals Program Reptile Rules

2/22

30) The Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation 11th Annual Harlem Gymnastics Invitational

2/20 - 2/22

Other 

31) Fathom Entertainment Presents Homecoming: The Tokyo Series

2/23 - 2/24

32) Paul McCartney Man on the Run in Cinemas One Night Only

2/19

A) Beginning Performances

In New Jersey

1) A Doll's House

“What is worth saving?” This question still echoes nearly 150 years after Henrik Ibsen first constructed A Doll’s House. With this sensational story about a dark secret that threatens to destroy a family, Ibsen created the drama's very first feminist. And in its heroine, Nora Helmer, Ibsen brought the struggle for personal liberation to vivid life. 

Two River Theater (21 Bridge Ave., Red Bank)

2/21 - 3/15

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit tworivertheater.org/whats-on/a-dolls-house.

Courtesy of VIP Theatricals

2) Curtsey - A Royal Comedy

Set in 1939 and inspired by actual events, CURTSEY tells the unbelievable (but true!) story of what happened when the King and Queen of England visited Red Bank, New Jersey. As the ladies of the Red Bank Women’s Club prepare to meet royalty, nerves unravel, etiquette lessons go awry, and social disaster looms.

Etiquette is tested. Nerves are frayed. History is made—slightly incorrectly. After all… how hard can meeting the Queen be?

Navesink Library Theatre (149 Monmouth Ave., Atlantic Highlands)\

2/21 - 3/1

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit viptheatre.booktix.com

Courtesy of Centenary Stage Co.

3) Dial M For Murder 

Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the original by Frederick Knott, Dial “M” for Murder is a new version of the celebrated murder mystery that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s cinematic masterpiece. Tony is convinced that his wife Margot has been cheating on him. Though the affair appears to be over, Tony’s jealousy drives him to spin a web of suspicion and deception that tightens around them both, leading to danger, recrimination, and murder.

Sitnik Theatre of Centenary University Campus (715 Grand Ave., Hackettstown)

2/20 - 3/8

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.centenarystageco.org

4) Samantha Inside Out

Samantha, a woman of a certain age has had it with her current life. She’s a high school English teacher, mother of grown kids, and the wife of a cruel, pompous, philandering college professor. After a humiliating encounter with him at a party, Samantha flees the scene and lands in the host’s daughter’s bedroom. Feeling sorry for herself, she opens up, revealing secrets and reviewing the wreckage of her life.

NJ Rep (179 Broadway, Long Branch)

2/19 - 3/15

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit njrep.org

In New York

5) Ballet national de Marseille - LA HORDE's Age of Content

As hyperrealistic avatars and endless streams of images flood our screens, the line between our physical bodies and virtual selves has begun to blur. In Age of Content, the French multidisciplinary collective (LA)HORDE and Ballet national de Marseille explore how identity is fractured in the digital age, asking what remains singular about the living, breathing body.

Peter Jay Sharp Building, Howard Gilman Opera House 

(30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn)

2/20 - 2/22

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.bam.org/age-of-content

Courtesy of Vivacity Media Group

6) Burnout Paradise 

Four performers mount treadmills. What begins as a simple wager between performer and audience, becomes a thrilling attempt to complete a series of escalating tasks that challenge the performers’ spirits, bodies, and minds. Burnout Paradise combines all the things New Yorkers hold dear: people watching, competition, rolling up one’s sleeves to get the job done, cheering on the underdogs, a three-course meal, and an unreplicatable evening out. With potency and showmanship, Pony Cam enacts the recklessness, euphoria, and optimism that comes before burnout – while activating a collective experience with the audience that could not otherwise be had… and won’t happen exactly that way ever again.
 

Astor Place Theatre (434 Lafayette St.,)

2/18 - 6/28

Opening Night 3/5

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit burnoutparadise.com.

7) Cold War Choir Practice 

In Cold War Choir Practice, a young girl is embroiled in intrigue when her estranged uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays. Cold War Choir Practice is an explosion of roller disco, Reaganomics, espionage, and cults, underscored by the cryptic Syracuse, NY, chapter of the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus.

MCC Theater's Newman Mills Theatre (511 W. 52nd St.)

2/21 - 3/29

Opening Night 3/10

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit mcctheater.org/tix/cold-war-choir-practice.

Courtesy of Vivacity Media Group

 

8) Every Brilliant Thing

Every Brilliant Thing is an exhilarating and heartwarming play, in which a man looks back at his life and the glimmers of hope that carried him through. All told through a list of every wonderful, beautiful, and delightful thing—big, small, and everything in between—that makes life worth living. This one-of-a-kind solo show, which has been performed across the globe in over 80 countries on stages of all sizes—and for an HBO Special starring co-creator Jonny Donahoe—makes its long-awaited Broadway premiere following a hit season @sohoplace in London’s West End, where it is currently running with Minnie Driver through November 8.

Hudson Theatre (141 W. 44th St.)

2/21 - 5/24

Opening Night 3/12

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit  everybrilliantthingbway.com

Courtesy of Spincycle NYC

9) Fork's Amazing Day

Fork is your average dog. Fork loves to go to Walk. Fork loves the place where-good-smells-come-from. And he loves Little One (the weaker, smaller version of Big One). Fork’s life is upended when Big One and Little One abruptly flee the home they live in, leaving Fork trapped with the neglectful and abusive HIM. He’s no longer taken on Walk, he’s lost the companionship of The Little One, and HIM forgets to feed Fork. Fork’s keen observations lead him to a fresh conclusion: if HIM were gone, the Little One would return, as would the normal rituals. As Fork stands at the top of the stairs, looking down at the bent and forever still HIM, Fork begins an awful transformation… but that’s only the start of FORK’S AMAZING DAY.

Theatrelab (357 W. 36th St., 3rd Fl.)

2/20 & 2/21

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit 

theaterlabnyc.com (https://theaterlabnyc.com/forks-amazing-day).

10) Lyon Opera Ballet

Kicking off the second year of the Dance Reflections Festival by Van Cleef & Arpels is Lyon Opera Ballet, one of the world’s foremost contemporary dance companies. This exhilarating double bill brings together two striking works from both sides of the millennium: Merce Cunningham's seminal masterpiece BIPED and the US premiere of Christos Papadopoulos's Mycelium.

BIPED returns to New York for the first time since 2011, blending Cunningham’s clean, exact, and mercilessly complex movement with live and recorded music by Gavin Bryars and groundbreaking digital art, as algorithmic patterns layer live dancers with projected imagery in a seamless fusion of dance and technology. Complementing this rigorously futuristic vision, Christos Papadopoulos—first winner of the Rose International Dance Prize—draws on nature in Mycelium, a hypnotic work of jaw-dropping precision in which choreography unfolds like a living, underground network: rooted, interconnected, and constantly evolving, set to the atmospheric electronic score of Coti K.

New York City Center (131 W. 55th St.)

2/19 - 2/21

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.nycitycenter.org/events-tickets/dance-at-city-center

11) Puppetopia

Here Arts Center (145 6th Ave.)

Parched

In the far-flung future, water scarcity has led to humanity’s extinction. A sentient mushroom, inhabiting plastic bottles like a hermit crab, is scouring the wastes for water. Getting lost in a sandstorm she stumbles upon a remnant of human technology, a deep well drill, and manages to turn it on. The earth trembles as the machinery is resurrected, succeeding in extracting some water, but also awakening something forgotten, buried deep in the sand. Something with an insatiable thirst…

 

Performance scheduled in the Mainstage

2/17 - 3/1

Ruby & Charlie

Ruby & Charlie is an award-winning piece of puppet theater featuring live music celebrating swing dance and the music of Ray Charles. Mining the iconic music’s themes of longing, love,  and heartbreak, the work centers on a young couple in the 1950s brought together by swing dance. Highlighting the puppetry talents of Victor Ayala, Tau Bennett, Maria Camia, Monica Lerch, Kayta Thomas, and Ashley Winkfield, Ruby & Charlie follows the pair through a whirlwind courtship and the tensions of establishing a life together. Musicians Jordyn Davis, Jeremiah Flack, and Milton Suggs, drive the show which culminates in a swing dance celebration on stage with the audience.

Performances scheduled in the  Dorothy B. William Theatre

2/17 - 2/21

The Magnificent Ms. Pham

The world’s first-ever Vietnamese American water puppet show, bringing the millennium old Vietnamese tradition to these shores to tell new stories in a disobediently untraditional way, The Magnificent Ms. Pham is a fantastic retelling of the true story of boatperson Kim Pham and her unwitting journey to becoming American. Moving fluidly between lived experience, memory, literature, and myth, this work reframes her exodus from Saigon to Houston as a Country Western Musical with original songs and music direction by downtown theatre marvel MUR and additional music by Vietnamese American composer Hao Le. This story of self-discovery and resilience is told through humor, spectacle, and song, celebrating the bonds of sisterhood and feminine power. 

Performances scheduled in the Dorothy B. Williams Theatre 

2/25 - 2/28

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.here.org

12) Richard III

Three months ago, Henry VI was murdered. The new king, Edward—dangerously suggestible, self-destructively decadent, and irrevocably shattered by the recent civil war—is still trying to drink his way out of depression. And, in the shadows, his youngest brother is counting down the minutes until the sun finally sets on the endless party. Come meet Richard: Shakespeare’s first great villain. He wants the crown. He knows exactly how many people are in his way. And he’s already looking forward to killing them all. Henry VI was just the warmup. (It may have crossed your mind that this is not ideal king material. That’s occurred to other people too. Feel free to discuss it with their severed heads.) The party is almost over. Time to come to the dark side.

the wild project (195 E. 3rd St.)

2/17 - 3/1

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit  https://thewildproject.org.

13) Spread

At a high school in Austin, Texas, four ninth-grade boys gather at lunchtime to make “spread,” or “Texas prison brick” from their snacks – dry ramen, hot chips, beef jerky, beans, hot water, all cooked in a bag. Jeffrey, Andrew, Chris, and Jordan play fight, tease, talk shit, and try their absolute best to be friends to each other on the brink of adulthood. Spread offers a glimpse inside the fullness of all a ninth-grade lunchtime might contain: all the brutal, sweet ways we might try to be with one another.

Intar Theatre (500 W. 52nd St.)

2/21 - 3/22 

Opening Night 3/2

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.intartheatre.org.

In Pennsylvania

Courtesy of Feldshur Horowitiz PR

14) Starstuck

“Starstruck” is a sharp and surprising new musical comedy set in the mountain town of Sawtooth, Idaho, where the night sky looms large and the stars have never felt closer. Astronomer Cyd DeBerg is determined to secure Dark Sky Reserve status for the town — but not if bar owner JD’s neon sign has anything to say about it. When a nationally known NPR podcaster arrives to cover the conflict, small-town tensions lead to revelations about connection, change, and unexpected attraction. With a book by Tony Award–nominee Beth Malone and Mary Ann Stratton and music by Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls, “Starstruck” shines as a luminous new musical that sparkles with heart.

Bucks County Playhouse (70 S. Main St.)

2/19 - 3/21

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit bcptheater.org/shows/starstruck

B) Cast Changes

In New York

15) MJ

The role of Little Marlon is now being played by Blake Channing Taylor.

Neil Simon Theatre (250 W. 52nd St.)

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit tickets.broadwaydirect.com 

16) Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat announced that the original, all-British company currently on Broadway (including the creators of the musical) will pass their roles on to an all-American cast on Tuesday, February 24 as it begins its second year on Broadway.  After playing more than 1,000 performances in Operation Mincemeat since its inception, David Cumming, Natasha Hodgson, Zoë Roberts, Tony Award winner Jak Malone, and Claire-Marie Hall will play their final performance on Sunday, February 22 at 7 p.m.

Golden Theatre (252 W. 45th St.)

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.operationbroadway.com

C) Classes

In New York

17) Broadway Workshop

Casey Likes Masterclass

Sunday March 8

10:15 AM - 12:45 AM

Ages 12- 19

Ripley Grier Studios (520 8th Ave.)

Casey, along with Marc Tumminelli and a Broadway Workshop musical director, will work with each student on audition technique and song interpretation in this special one-day master class. We will focus on giving students the opportunity to bring their audition and performance skills to the next level. Students will break down their song material with one-on-one coaching in a fun-filled class setting. Students will also have the opportunity to be part of a Q&A with Casey and the Broadway Workshop team.

For more information or to register, visit https://campscui.active.com/orgs/BroadwayWorkshop

D) Closing Soon

In New York

18) Going Bacharach: Songs of an Icon

Who in this world doesn’t have a favorite Burt Bacharach song? Rediscover the soundtrack of a lifetime with Going Bacharach, a vibrant new revue celebrating the legacy of one of America’s most iconic composers. Three powerhouse vocalists backed by a five-piece band take audiences on a melodic journey through the timeless songs spanning Bacharach’s extraordinary career. Joyful and illuminating, Going Bacharach offers fresh, sophisticated, and original interpretations.

The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre (10 W. 64th St.)

Closing 2/22

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.goingbacharach.com

E) Run Extension

Courtesy of JT PR

In New York

19) The Porch on Windy Hill 

Conceived and directed by Sherry Stregack Lutken, the play is set against the rolling landscape of the Blue Ridge Mountains and infused with timeless American folk music. The Porch On Windy Hill tells a tender, funny, and deeply moving story of family, belonging, intolerance, and the hope of redemption -- and the power of music to heal wounds that words alone cannot.

Urban Stages/30th St. Theater (259 W. 30th St.)

Now closing 3/8

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.urbanstages.org

20) You Got Older

After losing both her job and her boyfriend (comes with the territory when you're dating your boss), an unmoored and unsettled Mae (Alia Shawkat) returns to her small Washington hometown to take care of her ailing father. When she unexpectedly meets a mysterious stranger, she has the startling realization that maybe the intimacy she’s been craving is easier with the unknown, rather than with her own family. Blending reality and fantasy, You Got Older reunites Obie Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Clare Barron with Obie Award winner and Tony Award nominee Anne Kauffman for this tender and darkly comic play about family, illness, and cowboys — and how to remain standing when everything you know comes crashing down around you.

Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce St.)

Now closing 4/12

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cherrylanetheatre.org

F) Tickets on Sale 

In New Jersey

21) The Black Crowes  and Whiskey Myers

Prudential Center (25 Lafayette St., Newark)

Saturday, June 2,0 8:00 PM

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit ww.prucenter.com

22) Floetry Tour

Since their emergence in the early 2000s, Floetry has held a singular place in contemporary R&B. At a time when the genre was rapidly evolving, the duo expanded its expressive boundaries by formally bringing spoken word and rap-inflected poetic cadence into the emotional core of R&B. Their platinum-selling debut Floetic introduced audiences to a sound that centered vulnerability, intellect, and lyrical intimacy—pairing Marsha Ambrosius’ rich, soulful vocals and songwriting with Natalie Stewart’s poetic delivery.

Natalie “The Floacist” Stewart has long identified herself as a poet, rooted in spoken-word tradition, performance poetry, and narrative storytelling. Her rhythmic phrasing—often compared to rap for its cadence—served as a bridge between poetry and hip-hop without abandoning its literary foundation. Together, Floetry offered a new blueprint for how lyricism, poetry, and soul could coexist on mainstream stages.

The duo’s influence remains unmistakable. Floetry helped normalize poetry as a lead voice in R&B—not an interlude or embellishment—opening doors for artists who value emotional truth, depth, and language as much as melody. Nearly two decades later, their catalog continues to resonate across generations, soundtracking love, healing, and introspection.

NJPAC, Prudential Center, Betty Wold Johnson Center (One Center St.)

Thursday, April 9, 8:00 PM

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.njpac.org

In New York

23) Artechouse

This spring, ARTECHOUSE NYC treats New Yorkers to two digital spectaculars to be experienced on its cutting edge, 270-degree, floor to ceiling, 18K-resolution digital canvas. The latest edition of its annual spring exhibition, Blooming Wonders: A Celebration of Spring, will launch March 12. Blooming Wonders invites guests to experience the fleeting beauty of springtime blooms in a way that only ARTECHOUSE can deliver. Featuring immersive, interactive, technology-driven installations, guests of all ages can enter a world where pixels bloom and nature, technology, and art collide.

Artechouse NYC (Chelsea Market, 439 W. 15th Street, NYC) 

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.artechouse.com/nyc-explore

G) What Else is Happening

In New Jersey

24) NJPAC 

Upcoming Events

Courtesy of Buzzword PR

Patrizio Buanne, the world's favorite Neapolitan pop crooner 

20th Anniversary Pop World Tour

NJPAC, Victoria Theater (One Center Street, Newark)

Friday, February 20, 8:00 PM

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit  www.njpac.org/tickets-events

Buanne will also be appearing in New York City at

Adler Hall, New York Society for Ethical Culture (2 W. 64th St.)

Saturday, February 21, 8:00 PM

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.eventbrite.com.

Courtesy of Prana PR

A WICKED EVENING WITH THE WIZARD: 
STEVEN SCHWARTZ, POPS ORCHESTRA & FRIENDS AT NJPAC 

It is a musical evening with composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz—the creative force behind the music of Broadway show and movie, Wicked—celebrating Schwartz’ extraordinary career, which spans over five decades and includes some of the most beloved Broadway and Hollywood musicals. 

This special evening features a symphonic tribute to Wicked's remarkable 22 years on Broadway and the upcoming film, Wicked: For Good.

Accompanied by a twelve-piece pops orchestra, a lineup of talented stars to be announced will perform cherished selections from Schwartz’s acclaimed works, including Godspell, *Pippin*, *Wicked*, and much more. Prepare to be enchanted by the gravity-defying music of this legendary songwriter. 

NJPAC, Prudential Hall (One Center St.)

Saturday, February 21, 7:30 PM

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.njpac.org

 

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In New York

Courtesy of Michelle Tabnick PR

 25) 92NY Harkness Dance Center Presents 

What Flows Between Us: A Festival of India’s Classical Arts in Cross-Cultural Dialogue

Curated by Rachna Nivas

Festival Includes the New York Premiere of

SPEAK

Featuring Rachna Nivas, Rukhmani Mehta, Michelle Dorrance, Dormeshia, and additional guests

Saturday, February 21

Festival: 11 am – 6:30 pm

SPEAK: 7 pm – Kaufmann Concert Hall

 92NY Harkness Dance Center announces What Flows Between Us: A Festival of India’s Classical Arts in Cross-Cultural Dialogue, a day-long immersion into the depth, rigor, and expansive imagination of the Indian classical arts. Curated by renowned kathak artist, choreographer, educator, and 92NY Artist in Residence Rachna Nivas, the festival gathers extraordinary women from North and South Indian classical music, dance, percussion, and poetry—artists whose lifelong devotion to mastery is matched by their thoughtful engagement with cross-genre collaboration. Vendor markets will be active throughout the day, offering traditional food and artisanal goods and the festival culminates with the New York premiere of SPEAK, a groundbreaking rhythmic conversation between kathak and American tap featuring Nivas, Fulbright scholar Rukhmani Mehta, MacArthur Fellow Michelle Dorrance, and tap legend Dormeshia.

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26) FINAL ENCORE SESSIONS CELEBRATION FEATURING ALICIA KEYS

& ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST MEMBERS

AT BROADWAY’S AWARD-WINNING

 

In celebration of the final weekend of performances at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre, the “rare must-see” (New York Times) HELL’S KITCHEN, the Grammy Award-winning hit musical featuring the powerhouse music of 17-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys, announces the return of Encore Sessions for one final, unforgettable celebration on Saturday, February 21.

 

For one night only, Keys will reunite with original Broadway cast members Tony and Grammy Award Winner Maleah Joi Moon and Grammy Winner and Tony Nominee Shoshana Bean, as well as Grammy Winner and Tony Nominee Brandon Victor Dixon who recently returned to his Tony nominated role as “Davis.”

 

Honoring the brilliant cast and devoted fans, these special sessions have offered a rare and up-close encounter with the creative forces who bring HELL’S KITCHEN to life. During earlier Encore Sessions, Keys treated audiences to powerful renditions of some songs from the album that didn’t make it into the musical—including “Unbreakable,” “A Woman’s Worth,” “Diary,” “Underdog” and more—performed alongside members of the cast.

 

VIP packages will be available for the Saturday, February 21 evening performance. The VIP experience will include premium ticket locations, a merchandise bundle and the opportunity for a meet and great with Alicia Keys. Tickets for HELL’S KITCHEN are available at HellsKitchen.com and Telecharge.com through Sunday, February 22, 2026. Tickets can also be purchased at the Shubert Theatre box office.

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27) FREE New Year Celebration at Lincoln Center returns with full day of performances, activities, food, and more!

 

On Sunday, February 22, Lincoln Center’s third annual Lunar New Year Celebration returns to David Geffen Hall to celebrate the Year of the Horse. This day-long event welcomes families and New Yorkers of all ages to enjoy FREE interactive performances, workshops, art-making, food, and more.

Beginning at 11:00am on February 22, visitors can move freely through David Geffen Hall for performances and installations including:

 

• A storytime with award-winning author Monique Truong, sharing Mai’s Áo Dài (co-authored with Thái Nguyễn and illustrations by Dung Ho), a story about tradition, family, and identity centered around Tết, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year (with special thanks to our friends at Yu and Me Books).

 

• A high-energy K-pop dance party from Brooklyn-based collective BIAS with DJ KA WAI and Not Shy Dance Crew

 

• Insun Park & Generals (fresh off their globalFEST debut) brings their groundbreaking fusion of shamanic rock music and mask dance rhythms back to campus for a performance on the Grand Promenade  

 

• Tai Look Lion Dance Company returns for an exhilarating performance

 

• Step into Covers: Music, Memory, and Migration of the Korean Diaspora: An interactive pop-up installation and zine-making experience in the Sidewalk Studio with artist Prisca Choe

 

• Craft stations presented by the Shanghai Museum, food vendors, and hands-on activities throughout the day

 

Also – on Friday February 20 at 7:30pm, we kick off the weekend with a free Lunar New Year Dance Party in the David Rubenstein Atrium, featuring international DJ star and producer Gia Fu.

For more information and a complete schedule, visit www.lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/lunar-new-year-celebration

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Courtesy of Michelle Tabnick PR

28) Kaatsbaan Cultural Park Presents

The Bang Group

New Work Preview

 Friday, February 20, 2026 at 6PM

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park presents a New Work Preview from The Bang Group in Studio 2, Studio Complex, on Friday, February 20, 2026 at 6PM. Tickets are free and can be reserved here.

The Bang Group, directed by choreographer David Parker and dancer Jeffrey Kazin, are known to Kaatsbaan audiences for Nut/Cracked, their uproarious retake on The Nutcracker. During the rest of the year, the company produces works that reveal a vital and robust commitment to rhythm, using tap dance, body percussion, voice, and movement.

For this New Work Preview, the company will show brand-new works-in-progress that are part of a project called Sodbusters. The piece breaks up traditional ideas about tap and percussive dance with humor, invention, gesture, and endless rhythmic play.

Featured in these new works is a duet choreographed by Parker and renowned choreographer and educator Sara Hook. The pair have worked together for decades and are developing a new contemporary dance duet about the collision of past and present performances in the bodies of seasoned dancers. With all this rhythmic work, The Bang Group definitely marches to the beat of its own drum!

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29) Teatown Lake Reservation's Upcoming Event

Meet the Animals Program

 Reptile Rules

Reptiles Rule will take place on Sunday, February 22 from 11 am to 12 pm) will celebrate the consummate environmental educator, snake whisperer and crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin. Guests will meet Teatown’s reptilian animal ambassadors and hear a story about these scaly creatures. 

Teatown Lake Reservation (1600 Spring Valley Rd., Ossining) 

For more information or to register, visit www.teatown.org/events/reptiles-rule-families

 

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30) The Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation - 11th Annual Harlem Gymnastics Invitational

For the last 30 years, the Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation (WHGF) has provided free and low-cost gymnastics to over 25,000 youth ages 3 to 17 in underserved communities in Harlem and Detroit. Ahead of the foundation’s upcoming Harlem Gymnastics Invitational February 20-22, I wanted to share details on the event, which is free to the public.

The 11^th annual competition will feature various levels of gymnasts competing in Rhythmic Gymnastics, Trampoline & Tumbling and Girls' Artistic Gymnastics. In addition, the foundation will again host its signature “Showtime in Harlem” performance where WHGF students and athletes will highlight the foundation’s mission and perform exciting routines on Sunday, February 22 at 5 p.m.

The weekend’s attendees must fill out the entry form provided here.

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Other 

31) Baseball’s Meteoric Rise and Success as a Global Game Explored In Homecoming: The Tokyo Series, a New Documentary In Theatres February 23-24; BD4, Supper Club, Fathom Entertainment, and MLB

Studios Join Forces To Bring Film To Audiences

Premiering Through Fathom Entertainment, the Film Reveals How Japan’s Culture, Craft, and Devotion to Baseball Have Helped Shaped The Game’s Evolution Culminating with the 2025 MLB World Tour Featuring the Los Angeles Dodgers And Chicago Cubs

  

The 2025 MLB World Tour Featured A Historic Homecoming for Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki, Seiya Suzuki, and Shōta Imanaga, Reflecting The Country’s Deep and Lasting Influence on The Game

BD4, Banijay Americas’ premium documentary label, Fathom Entertainment, the leading specialty distributor of content to theatrical partners worldwide, and MLB Studios, Major League Baseball’s (MLB) EMMY^® Award-winning production label, today announced Homecoming: The Tokyo Series, a feature documentary directed by EMMY^® Award winning filmmaker Jason Sterman and produced by Supper Club.

Coming to movie theatres February 23–24, 2026, the film captures Major League Baseball’s 2025 World Tour, when the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs opened the regular season in Japan and five of the country’s biggest baseball superstars took the field on home soil for the first time together since joining MLB. For the Dodgers, it was the beginning of a season that culminated in winning back-to-back World Series titles.

View the Homecoming: The Tokyo Series trailer here.

Tickets for Homecoming: The Tokyo Series are available at Fathom Entertainment and participating theatre box offices (theatre locations are subject to change). For more information and to sign up in order to be notified when tickets go on sale, visit Fathom Entertainment.

  

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32) Paul McCartney: Man on the Run

The New Documentary Chronicling Paul McCartney and Wings’ 1970s Ascension, Directed by Morgan Neville

 

Theatrical Trailer Unveiled | Watch Here

 

See It First In Cinemas Thursday, 19th February

via Trafalgar Releasing

 

Tickets On Sale at manontherun.film

What happens when you wake up the morning after leaving the most important rock band of all time? Paul McCartney: Man on the Run, the intimate new feature documentary by Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning director Morgan Neville, explores Paul McCartney’s creative rebirth after The Beatles’ breakup. The film is released in cinemas for one night only by Trafalgar Releasing on Thursday 19th February 2026. Tickets are on sale today at manontherun.film. The theatrical trailer is now available to watch here.

Paul McCartney: Man on the Run is released theatrically in select territories worldwide. In addition to the film, each theatrical screening includes a bonus conversation between Paul McCartney and director Morgan Neville, exclusive to cinemas. All participating cinemas and ticket listings can be found at manontherun.film

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