Kids & Family Programs at Lincoln Center

Kids & Family Programs at Lincoln Center include family programming within Lincoln Center Presents, which features Mainstage Presentations across contemporary and classical music, dance, theater, and multidisciplinary artforms. Every season, Lincoln Center's resident organizations present family-friendly shows, classes, and workshops as part of these offerings. Relaxed Performances within these programs are designed for people with autism, sensory, and communication disorders or learning disabilities. Each Lincoln Center Presents series focuses on one art form, one body of work, one theme, or one historic moment in time.

• Ages: 7–18 years old
• Price: "Choose-What-You-Pay" Mainstage Presentations; "hundreds of FREE and Choose-What-You-Pay events" at Summer for the City.

Summer for the City includes hundreds of FREE and Choose-What-You-Pay events centered on movement, contemporary artistry, and international voices, and its outdoor spaces transform through designs by Clint Ramos, Lincoln Center’s Artist-in-Residence and Summer for the City Visual Director. The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center, a resident organization, is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education, and advocacy. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Lincoln Center West Initiative incorporates extensive community feedback from an ongoing participatory process that began in 2023. The School of American Ballet, another resident organization, trains students aged 6 to 18 for careers in classical ballet and is the official academy of New York City Ballet.

Last updated April 17, 2026.