My Urban Sherpa

Wintuk at Madison Square Garden

Cirque du Soleil offers a magical evening or afternoon; full of acrobatics, aerobatics, music, dance, skateboarding, BMX tricks, and fun.

Through January 4 — see if you can secure seats online.

Radio City Christmas Spectacular

The Radio City Rockettes are celebrating their 75th Anniversary – and there is good reason why this show continues to delight audiences year after year – the Radio City Christmas Spectacular is spectacular.

Tickets are available through December 30.

Pinkalicious at the Bleecker Street Theater

Pinkalicious the musical, from Pinkalicious the children’s book by sisters Elizabeth and Victoria Kann, is a delicious day at the theater for all pink lovers, ages 3 and up.

With a 1:00 performance Sunday, November 16.

Reserve tickets here.

Give my regards

The celebrated thoroughfare of Broadway has seen its share of firsts. Between Vesey and Murray Streets in the mid-1700s, Broadway featured New York’s first brick sidewalk. In 1793, it saw the first numbered houses. The first gas lighting debuted on Broadway in 1825 followed by the city’s first electric arc lights in 1882.

For an idea of what the storied street was like in the 1880s, it was claimed that you could “stand on the corner of Broadway and Houston Street and fire a shotgun in any direction without hitting an honest man.”

Today, you probably couldn’t do it without hitting a fashion model…or a tourist aiming a digital camera at the fashion model.

Shakespeare In The Park

How thou doth procrastinate! Five performances remain in the Public Theater’s production of Hamlet, directed by Oskar Eustis, June 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 at 8:30 PM at The Delacorte Theater, located at the southwest corner of the Great Lawn, mid-park at 80th Street.

Click here to order tickets.

Free Music Concerts and Summer Theater in New York, 2007

The list of things that money can’t buy, like the happiness of playing ball with your best friend, grows in the summer in New York provided you have patience, suntan lotion, and good reading material. Free concerts and summer theatre abound if you are willing to set out early to stake a claim for a spot.

THEATRE
For theatre, the highlight of the summer is Shakespeare in the Park, a program from the Public Theatre offering Romeo and Juliet, June 5 – July 8, 2007 and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, August 7 – September 9, 2007.

Tickets are distributed free starting at 1:00 pm on the day of the performance, though the line starts forming at 1:00 am the night before.

If you don’t want to spend the day standing in line, you can buy wonderfully affordable tickets to the Mostly Mozart festival at Lincoln Center, which for 2007 is basically Beethoven. Highlights look to be Mark Morris from August 15th – 18th and Christian Tetzlaff, August 10th and 11th.

OPERA
Join the Metropolitan Opera in Central Park for complimentary performances of La Boheme on June 12th and Faust on June 13th, at 8:00pm.

DANCE
Midsummer Night Swing offers great music, dancing and dance lessons under the stars in the Plaza of Lincoln Center on select nights from June 19th to July 21rd. $78 for a six night pass, $225 for the season – per couple.