Manhattan's Little Island has revealed its summer lineup of free concerts, performances, and events at the public park on the Hudson River waterfront. The evenings will be hosted in The Glade, the park's outdoor performance venue. Zack Winokur presents the series as producing artistic director of the 2025 summer season.
A handful of Broadway talents will offer performances in the lineup. Performing June 22 at 10 PM is composer and pianist Timo Andres, whose orchestrations were most recently heard on Broadway in Justin Peck鈥檚 2024 production of Sufjan Stevens鈥檚 Illinoise.
Broadway's Charity Ang茅l Dawson, Aisha Jackson, and Jennie Harney-Fleming will perform a "Ladies of Jazz" concert July 27 at 10 PM, honoring iconic Black female jazz singers who have shaped music history.
Tony Award nominee Whitney White will present her new song cycle The Case of the Stranger June 26 at 10 PM. With a score rooted in soul, jazz, and diverse geographical soundworlds, it takes its title from a passage in Shakespeare鈥檚 Sir Thomas Moor鈥� one of the earliest known pleas for a compassionate refugee policy.
Tony Award-winning playwright Suzan Lori-Parks will bring her band SLP & The Joyful Noise to Little Island for two performances on July 23 at 10 PM and July 24 at 10 PM.
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