A Little Bit of Everything at Lincoln Center’s “Summer for the City”

The initiative, which fills the gap left by the much lamented Lincoln Center Festival and Mostly Mozart Festival, is of the little-bit-of-everything variety. As Shanta Thake, the center’s chief artistic officer, said recently, “we believe that more is better.” Accordingly, the busy schedule includes almost nightly dance parties on the plaza, along with film screenings, poetry readings, civically minded discussions, augmented-reality experiences, musical performances, and more, spread across the complex’s open and indoor spaces. The vast majority of events are free; select indoor performances are pay-what-you-wish.