Season 40 2015 - 2016

Billy Porter, star of the Broadway hit "Kinky Boots," performs songs from his 2014 "Billy's Back on Broadway" album and is joined by "Kinky Boots" composer Cyndi Lauper.

Star of "Porgy and Bess," "Les Miserables" and most recently "The Phantom of the Opera," Norm Lewis is a performer of breathtaking range and power. The many facets of his artistry shine forth in this concert special, which charts a musical course from gospel to Marvin Gaye.

The New York Philharmonic launches a new season with its inaugural performance at David Geffen Hall; with pianist Lang Lang.

Both a cultural and artistic watershed, this groundbreaking musical concerns the lives, loves and heartbreaks of three generations of show folk on the Mississippi. Its impact remains unparalleled, pointing the way toward a new synthesis between music and spectacle. With an all-star cast led by Vanessa Williams, Julian Ovenden, Norm Lewis, Lauren Worsham, Jane Alexander and Fred Willard.

Composer Danny Elfman, Tim Burton's prolific musical collaborator, descends on Lincoln Center with an 88-piece orchestra, 44-voice choir, and a colorful assortment of fans and fanatics. The program captures all the excitement of this cultural invasion, climaxing in performances of Elfman's most beloved Burton scores from films like Batman, Beetlejuice, Big Fish, and Edward Scissorhands.

Few have captured the magic of the theater better than Moss Hart, a poor kid from the Bronx who went on to become a lion of Broadway. Now another lion of the theater, James Lapine, reinvents Hart's memoir for the stage, creating a world as vivid and transformative as the stage itself. The first-rate cast, led by Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin, anchors the play's magic in real human emotion.

Christina Aguilera, Chris Botti, Fantasia, Sutton Foster, Bernadette Peters and Sting perform songs associated with Frank Sinatra at this gala celebrating his 100th birthday. Seth MacFarlane hosts and also performs.

The New York Philharmonic, led by Alan Gilbert, rings in the New Year at David Geffen Hall with a concert that features a Parisian theme, including works by Ravel, Offenbach and Saint-Saëns. Joining them are mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and pianists Inon Barnatan and Makoto Ozone.