Arts Roundup

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 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.