Little Island
No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin at Little Island: Hudson River Greenway
Little Island Pier 55, Hudson River Greenway, NYCJune 21st- June 25, 2025 Part devotion, part defiance — Meshell Ndegeocello’s Grammy-winning album arrives at Little Island as a live experience that blurs the line between concert, ritual and tribute. Celebrating 100 years of James Baldwin, No More Water weaves together voices, text and sound with urgency and love. Propulsive rhythms, spoken word and choral textures […]
The Gospel at Colonus at Little Island: Hudson River Greenway
Little Island Pier 55, Hudson River Greenway, NYCJuly 8-26, 2025 The epic myth of Oedipus is reborn as a Pentecostal ritual that remakes prophecy as testimony and brokenness as transcendence. A man condemned from birth searches for grace. A choir lifts him up. The congregation – the audience – bears witness to his tale. But here, tragedy is not an ending – […]
The Tune Up at Little Island: Hudson River Greenway
Little Island Pier 55, Hudson River Greenway, NYCJuly 30-Aug. 3, 2025 A Punk-Couture Medicine Show for the People Suzan-Lori Parks' nine-piece band, SLP & The Joyful Noise, is her test kitchen. In The Tune Up – Parks’ new series blending short plays, music and high-voltage performance — she throws a party in that kitchen, alongside starry guests and exceptional newcomers. This is a bring-your-drinks, […]
Radio Lab Live at Little Island: Hudson River Greenway
Little Island Pier 55, Hudson River Greenway, NYCAugust 7, 2025 Big questions, wild ideas, and the joy of curiosity. Radiolab co-hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser take over the island and bring a live radio show to The Amph mixing storytelling, play, and surprise in an evening full of the unexpected. For more information
Seven Scenes at Little Island: Hudson River Greenway
Little Island Pier 55, Hudson River Greenway, NYCAugust 22-28, 2025 In this new evening of dance and music, two boundary-breaking duos—choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith & Or Schraiber, and composer/musicians Caroline Shaw & Danni Lee Parpan (known together […]
Arthur Russell: The Platform on the Ocean at Little Island: Hudson River Greenway
Little Island Pier 55, Hudson River Greenway, NYCAugust 10, 2025 The music of multi-hyphenate icon Arthur Russell echoes throughout the Island in a marathon event curated by Thomas Bartlett, embracing the full breadth of Russell’s work from art-pop to folk to disco, and crescendoing in this headline performance by a starry array of artists exemplifying Russell’s groundbreaking, genre-bending legacy.NYT : "A marathon evening […]
Play: Galas at Little Island: Hudson River Greenway
Little Island Pier 55, Hudson River Greenway, NYCSeptember 6-28 When playwright Charles Ludlam invented the iconic opera singer at the center of his ridiculous comedy Galas, he likely never imagined a real prima donna in the role. With […]