Arts Roundup

SocaFest fills the Brooklyn Museum, Robyn packs Barclays with Yaeji opening, and Molière in the Park premieres a free Don Juan in Prospect Park — all in the final stretch before Carnival takes Eastern Parkway. Metrograph closes out two series it promised last week, and a Bushwick gallery keeps the small rooms in the conversation.

A seven-year Broadway hit and a four-night Whitney Biennial stage fantasia end the same weekend, two New York-rooted albums drop on the same Friday, and the city turns toward Eastern Parkway for the summer's real finale.

As Green-Wood and Prospect Park mark 250 years since the Battle of Brooklyn and Film Forum runs its Coppola catalog on 35mm, an AI-paranoia play splits critics off-Broadway, Kehlani fills Barclays Center, and a musical about the woman who finished the Brooklyn Bridge takes its final bow in Fort Greene.

As Ragtime, Death of a Salesman, and the Joyce's Misty Copeland-curated ballet festival all close out the same weekend Ferragosto reaches Little Italy, Queens throws its own borough-wide dance finale and a black-metal band returns to Brooklyn after twelve years away.

Cats: The Jellicle Ball takes its final Broadway bow the same night Willem Dafoe's Late Fame asks what it means to be remembered too late, while Misty Copeland curates ballet instead of dancing it and a new Lincoln Center Butoh commission closes out the week outdoors.

Cats: The Jellicle Ball closes five months ahead of schedule despite three Tony wins, five venues split a centennial tribute to critic John Berger between them, and Harlem opens its 52nd summer festival — a week about what the city decides to keep.

Bob Dylan weathered a tornado warning at Forest Hills, three jazz veterans took over the Vanguard for a week, and a former Ridgewood sweater factory hosted its first-ever show — this week's thread wasn't age, it was who was willing to open a new room.

From a delayed, guest-stacked JAY-Z finale at Yankee Stadium to a Giglio carried by a hundred shoulders in Williamsburg, this week's NYC arts scene kept passing its stories to more than one voice at a time.

Paul Simon returns to the ballfields of his Queens adolescence, Ross McElwee returns to the film that made him thirty years ago as an elegy for his son, and Williamsburg gets ready to lift the Giglio again — a week when the city's arts scene kept returning to itself on purpose.

As Macy's stages its biggest fireworks show in 50 years and IFC Center reopens a decade of 1980s indie cinema for the semiquincentennial, the week's real argument about independence plays out smaller — at Union Pool, at MCC Theater, and in a South Bronx film from 1983.

Four major productions close their doors simultaneously on June 28 as the new season is already underway — A Walk on the Moon in previews at the Laura Pels, Giulia making its world premiere at PAC NYC, and Cymande at Sony Hall for the Blue Note Festival's final weekend.

An all-Black La Cage aux Folles at City Center Encores!, flamenco's African origins traced to Alice Tully Hall, and free shows in Prospect Park all fell within the orbit of a Juneteenth that shaped the week's programming from Wednesday to Sunday.

The Philharmonic played every borough in four nights, Carter Brey made his farewell solo appearances before retirement, and the stages previewed a week ago are now open and drawing their first reviews.

The 79th Tony Awards closed last night at Radio City; this week, the city's attention turns to a free Romeo and Juliet at the Delacorte, an inaugural guitar festival across Greenpoint and Prospect Park, and a Pride theater season that puts Arab queer voices at the center.