Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn: Fought and Remembered
2026-04-24 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-05-01 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Join the Center of Brooklyn History for a free tour of The Battle of Brooklyn: Fought and Remembered.
In August of 1776, the first and largest battle of the American Revolution took place in what is now Brooklyn, NY. The Battle of Brooklyn: Fought and Remembered uses primary source material from the Center for Brooklyn History’s collection to relay the story of this turning point in American history, sharing the events of this battle with new relevance.
On this in-depth tour of the exhibition, visitors will get a tour of the exhibition, featuring artifacts, archival documents, artwork, and exclusive access to rare maps that bring the summer of 1776 alive, 250 years later. This tour will also offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the process of putting together this exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History.

Hamlet
2026-04-24 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-25 13:30 - 15:30, 2026-04-25 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-26 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-28 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-29 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-30 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-05-01 19:30 - 21:30 and 2 more dates
Kicking off an ongoing partnership between BAM and London’s National Theatre, director Robert Hastie (Operation Mincemeat) brings his witty, fearlessly contemporary take on Hamlet across the Atlantic for a four-week run. Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) stars in this sharp, darkly funny reimagining of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.

Moby Dick
2026-04-29 20:00 - 21:40, 2026-04-30 20:00 - 21:40, 2026-05-01 20:00 - 21:40, 2026-05-02 20:00 - 21:40, 2026-05-03 15:00 - 16:40
Regarded as one of the greatest of all American novels, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick comes to BAM in a new production created by the iconic avant-garde director Robert Wilson for Germany’s Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. This classic tale of obsession and vengeance becomes enigmatic and new in Wilson’s mix of tart dialogue with indie-rock riffs and soaring ballads by British singer-songwriter Anna Calvi.

Bang on a Can Presenting Long Play Festival - goat (jp)
2026-04-29 20:00 - 22:00
Japanese band goat (jp) plays at Roulette, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
Perhaps the tightest band in existence, goat (jp) takes the micro-precision of computer music and reinterpret it on live instruments. Founded in 2013 in Osaka, goat have redefined minimalism by prioritizing pure percussive interplay over melody—using guitar, bass, drums, and percussion. Their intricate rhythmic architectures blur the line between mechanical precision and organic fluidity, using harmonics outside standard tonality, muted bass tones, and interlocking drum patterns. The result is a relentless, hypnotic sound—one that pulses like an urban ritual, at once tribal and futuristic.
In their much-anticipated New York return, goat can be counted on to make a devilish display of interlocking, pointillist guitar, bass, drums and sax, conjuring musical textures that have destroyed audiences from Japan to Europe and most recently the West Coast.
You can get access to this show with Long Play Supporter Pass or single-event ticket from Roulette.

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes. Roulette Members get 20% off full Long Play festival passes! Email development@roulette.org for more information.

Mizik Ayiti! Residency Spring Series | Twoubadou Lakay
2026-04-30 18:00 - 21:00
Join Haiti Cultural Exchange on Thursdays for the Mizik Ayiti! Residency Series. The Spring residency will be held by Twoubadou Lakay.
Twoubadou Lakay is a collective of master musicians rooted in the rich traditions of Haitian music. The ensemble blends the storytelling spirit and dancing guitars of Haitian Twoubadou with deep Haitian rhythms, jazz sensibilities, and improvisational dialogue. Twoubadou Lakay is tradition reimagined through a contemporary lens. Their sound is both intimate and expansive—grounded in lakou culture, yet reaching across the diaspora—creating a musical space where heritage, memory, and innovation meet.
Twoubadou Lakay’s Haiti Cultural Exchange residency will feature core members Bobby Raymond, Markus Schwartz, Gary Josama, Gama Josama, Joe Montour, Camille Hostin and Roland Cameau in revolving formations. Twoubadou Lakay invites audiences into a living, breathing experience of Haitian musical expression—honoring the past while shaping its future.
Twoubadou Lakay’s five-week residency at HCX will feature unique performances weekly.

Practicing Brooklyn NOW: Working Locally in a Global City
2026-04-30 18:30 - 20:00
What does it mean to build a practice rooted in Brooklyn? This panel highlights architects and designers whose work is deeply embedded in Brooklyn’s neighborhoods. Speakers will discuss building a local practice, working with community clients, and balancing local impact with broader professional pressures.
Brooklyn NOW! 2026, presented at BPL’s Library for Arts & Culture, celebrates the design forces actively shaping our borough today. Opening in April 2026, the exhibition highlights how architects, builders, and visionaries are reimagining Brooklyn’s streets, homes, and civic spaces. The exhibition will be accompanied by five in-person public programs, including a gallery opening that invites visitors to engage directly with the ideas and people behind the work.

CBH Talk | Confronting Climate Change Part 1: Understanding Deniers
2026-04-30 18:30 - 20:00
Confronting Climate Change is a three-part series that explores one of the most urgent issues of our times. Join leading thinkers, scientists, journalists, and advocates for these vitally important conversations.
Part One: Understanding Denial—Manufacturing Doubt, Shaping Debate
Part One of Confronting Climate Change examines the rise and persistence of climate denial, asking how doubt about the well-established scientific consensus has been deliberately cultivated, and to what effect. This conversation explores the networks of influence behind denial, from fossil fuel industry funding to media ecosystems that amplify skepticism, as well as the social and political forces that have entrenched resistance to climate policy in public life.
The conversation features environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben, whose decades of work have helped define how we understand the climate crisis and the opposition to addressing it. He is joined by Ricky Bradley, Executive Director of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, who brings a strategist’s perspective on how beliefs are formed, how misinformation spreads, and what it takes to build political will for climate action across ideological divides.
The program is moderated by Rebecca Hersher, correspondent on NPR’s Climate Desk, whose reporting on climate science, extreme weather, and human adaptation offers a clear-eyed view of how these debates play out in real time. Together, they unpack how denial has been organized and sustained, and consider what it will take to move beyond it.
To learn more about and register for Part 2 of Confronting Climate Change click here and for Part 3, click here.

The Center for Fiction Presents Tom Perrotta on Ghost Town with Teddy Wayne
2026-04-30 19:00 - 21:00
Join The Center for Fiction for an evening with celebrated author Tom Perrotta (Little Children, The Leftovers, Election) as he discusses his new novel, Ghost Town, a darkly nostalgic and gripping tale of grief, adolescence, and the long shadows of the past.
In Ghost Town, Perrotta brings his signature insight and wit to a story, set in 1970s suburban New Jersey, that explores the complicated terrain of memory, class, and coming of age. The novel follows Jimmy Perrini, who, in the wake of a personal tragedy at the end of eighth grade, drifts into troubling friendships with a local burnout and an eccentric girl whose Ouija board offers an escape from grief. Narrated by a much older Jimmy, the book examines how the past lingers, how childhood ghosts shape adulthood, and how we reckon with the choices and events that define us.
Perrotta will be joined in conversation by award-winning novelist Teddy Wayne (The Winner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine) for an exploration of memory, writing suburbia, and how fiction highlights the small dramas and profound losses of our lives.

DAVE - The Boy Who Played the Harp Tour
2026-04-30 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-05-01 20:00 - 22:00
British rapper Dave is coming to Brooklyn Paramount as part of The Boy Who Played the Harp Tour!

Bang on a Can Presenting Long Play Festival - Suzanne Bocanegra Rerememberer
2026-04-30 20:00 - 22:00
Suzanne Bocanegra’s Rerememberer (all the threads) is a translation of an old Danish peasant fabric into a performance / installation. Bocanegra wanted to apply the instructions for the creation of a simple, honest textile to sounds, actions, lighting and staging, transforming a small, flat scrap of material into an hour of noise and unearthly atmosphere.
The show is a part of Long Play 2026. You can get access to this show with Long Play Supporter Pass or single-event ticket from Roulette.
Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes. Roulette Members get 20% off full Long Play festival passes! Email development@roulette.org for more information.

First Novel Friday: Liar's Dice, Abundance, and Odessa
2026-05-01 18:00 - 20:00
On the first Friday of the month, join The Center for Fiction as they celebrate and launch a selection of the best debut novels published today. Be among the first to discover boundary-pushing and world-expanding work from exciting new voices in fiction.
Kick off the weekend with a happy hour at the cash bar for ticket holders in our Members Lounge starting at 6pm. Then, at 7pm, the party will move to the auditorium for readings from the featured debut novelists, followed by a short moderated conversation. (If auditorium seating reaches capacity, guests will be invited to watch the livestream of the readings and conversation on a large screen in our Members Lounge.) The party continues with book signings and signature cocktails to round out the night. Go home with something new—a book, a friend, a favorite Friday night tradition.
This month, The Center for Fiction welcomes debut novelists Juliet Faithfull (Liar’s Dice), Hafeez Lakhani (Abundance), and Gabrielle Sher (Odessa). All three featured books portray families torn apart by forces beyond their control, as well as the interplay between grief and illness across decades and continents. Naeem Murr, award-winning author of Every Exit Brings You Home, will join as the evening’s moderator.
Two in-person ticket options are offered: the $5 Community Ticket and the $40+ Supporter Ticket. Both provide the same access, but if you’re able, we kindly suggest registering for the Supporter Ticket to help sustain the programs for emerging writers. You can also attend online by purchasing the access to livestream at $5.

Bang on a Can Presenting Long Play Festival at Roulette
2026-05-01 19:00 - 22:30
Three performances in one night at Roulette, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
7 pm – Chris Ryan Williams Vibration Trio
8:15 pm – Billy Hart Quartet
9:30 pm – BlankFor.ms with Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore
Chris Ryan Williams is an artist and musician based in Brooklyn, NY whose work unfolds through electroacoustic composition and performance installation. His EP Live earned praise from Jazz Right Now and The Quietus for its “dazzling collaged pieces that ricochet between improvised passages and written material”. His debut LP Odu: Vibration II, praised by Pitchfork and named one of NPR’s Best New Albums, reimagines a journey through Plato’s Cave.
NEA Jazz Master Billy Hart commands the whole spectrum of musical possibility: His drumming is still as fresh as tomorrow. Early on, Hart performed in D.C. with soul artists such as Otis Redding and Sam and Dave, and then later with Buck Hill and Shirley Horn. Hart has recorded with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, McCoy Tyner, and most other modern jazz legends. The Billy Hart Quartet includes Mark Turner on saxophone, Ethan Iverson on piano, and Ben Street on bass.
BlankFor.ms is a Brooklyn-based artist who creates richly textured music with degraded tapes, analog circuitry, and spinet piano. He composes for film and video games, with contributions including Academy Award Best Picture-nominated film Nickel Boys. In this collaboration, he is joined by MacArthur Fellow pianist, composer, and educator Jason Moran and innovative drummer Marcus Gilmore–two of the most highly-regarded jazz performers of our time.

You can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass or single-event ticket from Roulette.

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes. Roulette Members get 20% off full Long Play festival passes! Email development@roulette.org for more information.

Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at Roulette
2026-05-02 12:00 - 23:30
Five performances in one day at Roulette, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
12:00 pm – David Longstreth
2:00 pm – Michael Brook Cobalt Blue
7:00 pm – David Lang: Mystery Sonatas with Emma Meinrenken
8:00 pm – Julia Wolfe Anthracite Fields with the Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trinity Choir
10:30 pm – Contemporaneous plays Gavin Bryars Jesus’ Blood and The Sinking of the Titanic
David Longstreth is the founder and songwriter behind Dirty Projectors, a mainstay in the pop and indie rock worlds since the band’s inception in 2002.
Cobalt Blue is an album by the Canadian musician Michael Brook, released in 1992. Brook supported the album with a North American tour, playing some shows with John Cale. The album was reissued in 1999, with an additional disc of live material.
Originally premiered as part of a Carnegie Hall residency, mystery sonatas are inspired by a remarkable set of violin pieces from the 1670s by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Rather than the original fiery sonatas depicting Jesus’ life story, Lang created intimate spiritual works, divided into ‘joy,’ ‘sorrow,’ and ‘glory,’ performed here by virtuoso Emma Meinrenken.
Long interested in labor in America, Julia Wolfe dove deeply into the coal mining country of her childhood for Anthracite Fields. In researching the piece, she went down into coal mines, visited patch towns and the local museums, and interviewed retired miners. Wolfe says, “My aim with Anthracite Fields is to honor the people who persevered and endured in the Pennsylvania Anthracite coal region during a time when the industry fueled the nation, and to reveal a bit about who we are as American workers.”
One of the experimental double-bassist’s best-known early works is Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, which uses a recorded loop of a homeless man singing an improvised fragment, with rich string harmonies layered on top. A recording of the piece was made in 1993 with Tom Waits. Here, Contemporaneous brings the piece to life again.

You can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass.

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes. Roulette Members get 20% off full Long Play festival passes! Email development@roulette.org for more information.

Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at TFANA
2026-05-02 14:00 - 22:00
Three performances in one night at Theatre for a New Audience, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
2 pm – Amina Claudine Myers
4 pm – Matthew Shipp The Cosmic Piano
6:30 pm – David Murray, Dezron Douglas, Nasheet Waits
8:30 pm – Morton Feldman String Quartet No. 1 performed by Quatuor Bozzini

You can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass.

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.

Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at Roulette
2026-05-03 14:30 - 23:30
Four performances in one day at Roulette, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
2:30 pm – Morton Feldman Three Voices with Charlotte Mundy
5:00 pm – Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant avec Folie à Quatre
7:30 pm – Philip Glass Glassworks with Bang on a Can All-Stars
10:00 pm – Secret Chiefs 3
For Feldman’s 100th birthday, Charlotte Mundy performs Three Voices, which was written as an homage to three of his friends: Philip Guston, Frank O’Hara, and Joan La Barbara. The live singer’s voice intertwines with pre-recordings of the other two parts, mostly without text, but with the occasional blowing in of O’Hara’s “Wind.”
Long Play presents Seances by Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant avec Folie à Quatre. Two previous albums had been released by Trio-Convulsant (Mary Halvorsen, Ches Smith, and Trevor Dunn). In this third installment Trevor adds a string and winds quartet with cellist Tomeka Reid, the violin/viola of Carla Kihlstedt, flutist Anna Webber and Oscar Noriega on bass clarinet and clarinet.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars premiere a brand-new arrangement of Glassworks, via Glass’ longtime collaborator Michael Riesman. In 1982 Philip Glass became the first composer since Aaron Copland to join the CBS Masterworks label. His first album for the label, Glassworks, tripled all sales projections, pleasing audiences, critics and Glass himself.
Secret Chiefs 3 is an American experimental rock group led by guitarist/composer Trey Spruance, performing a wide range of musical styles, mostly instrumental, including surf rock, Persian, neo-Pythagorean, Indian, death metal, film music, and electronic music. Spruance has expressed interest in, and drawn inspiration from, various mystical or occult systems such as Sufism, Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and alchemy.

You can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass.

Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes. Roulette Members get 20% off full Long Play festival passes! Email development@roulette.org for more information.
