New York City Center

Dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, City Center seeks to create a welcoming environment and engage audiences with inspiring programming that reflects the eclecticism, energy and spirit of New York City. New York City Center provides special services to the many companies that perform here annually including Alvin Ailey® American Dance Theater and American Ballet Theatre. City Center presents, co-presents, and commercially rents the Mainstage theater, and is the long-time home for Manhattan Theatre Club, with its full season of plays and "Spring Boards" series in City Center's Stage I and Stage II theaters. The jewels in City Center's producing crown are the Encores!® Great American Musicals in Concert series, introduced in 1994 and the Fall for Dance Festival, introduced in 2004, both to critical and audience acclaim. Consistently attracting the best Broadway talent and discovering the stars of the future, Encores! has garnered a fistful of awards, including the 2000 Tony® Honor for Excellence in Theatre, the Lucille Lortel, and the Outer Critics Circle. When the 1996 Encores! production of Chicago (with Bebe Neuwirth, Ann Reinking, James Naughton) was remounted on Broadway it received six Tony awards, the most ever given to a musical revival.