Prepare yourself for sleighing belles, rabid yells, and tidings of joy from New York’s most iconic “nonagenarian” lounge act, Kiki (Justin Vivian Bond) and Herb (Kenny Mellman).

A dance-theater mix by Annie-B Parson, artistic director of Big Dance Theater, featuring music by Holly Herndon. In this mythic, piercing story, five sisters gather in their childhood Los Angeles home in 1980.

Spike Lee—Academy Award-winning filmmaker and cultural icon—comes to BAM for an expansive conversation celebrating his life, career, and the launch of his book, SPIKE. He is joined by his brother, David Lee.

Join us in person or via livestream for this beloved Brooklyn tradition, which honors Dr. King’s radical spirit with music, dance, and an invigorating call to action, led by keynote speaker Dr. Imani Perry.

Coinciding with BAM’s annual remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Reggie Wilson brings Fist & Heel Performance Group home to Brooklyn for a dance experience connecting American Black and Shaker traditions.

BAM President Emerita Karen Brooks Hopkins and Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater, explore her new page-turning memoir—a paean to the arts and her beloved Brooklyn.

Choreographer Pam Tanowitz, with composer Kaija Saariaho and painter Brice Marden, builds on T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, performed live by Tony-nominated Kathleen Chalfant in this must-see NYC debut at BAM.

An Untitled Love, set to Grammy-winning R&B by D’Angelo by choreographer Kyle Abraham—MacArthur “genius” Fellow and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award winner—is a creative exaltation of Black love and unity.

From Hype Williams to Nora Ephron, 90s New York cinema saw artists from across the five boroughs telling uniquely New York stories.

As a farewell to producing physical theater, acclaimed SITI Company revisits its first devised work, inspired by the writings of media theorist Marshall McLuhan (“the medium is the message”).

Hailed as Mark Morris’s undisputed masterwork since its US premiere here at BAM in 1990, L’Allegro conjures with radiant simplicity a mythic landscape of graces, gods, and lovers.

Seven Latinx and South American artists reflect on home, family (biological and chosen), memory, and more. | Siete artistas Latinxs y sudamericanos reflexionan sobre hogar, familia, (biológica o elegida), memoria y más.

Paradise Parados—a site-specific, permanent, reflective steel sculpture by internationally acclaimed, Brooklyn-based artist Teresita Fernández—is part of BAM’s Robert W. Wilson Public Art Initiative.