Until Mon 10 May
Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, a Pop art retrospective.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Free
Things to do in New York City on Thursday 24 December: 174 events, among them 113 in exhibitions and museums, 16 in theatre, 13 in worship, 6 in concerts, 6 in festivals and street parties, 4 in talks and readings and 16 others.
Until Sat 27 Feb
from 10:00
Constantin Brancusi: the sculptor's studio at MoMA.
The Museum of Modern Art
Price unknown
Until Sun 3 Jan
Imitation of Life: musical by Lynn Nottage and John Legend.
The Shed
Price unknown
Until Thu 31 Dec
from 22:00
Singer-songwriter Jane Handcock live: intimate modern R&B.
Apollo Theater
from $60
Until Sun 3 Jan
A Christmas Carol: Dickens's Tony-winning musical.
Perelman Performing Arts Center
$61
Until Sun 10 Jan
Shakespeare's witty comedy with Hiddleston and Atwell.
Winter Garden Theater
from $235
Until Mon 10 May
Hot Dog with Ketchup: Alex Da Corte's public artwork.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Free
Until Thu 29 Apr
La Bohème: Puccini's opera at the Metropolitan Opera.
Metropolitan Opera
from $69
Until Sun 10 Jan
Costume Art: garments and artworks on the dressed body.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Price unknown
Until Sun 25 Apr
Arthur Jafa's acclaimed video montage of Black life.
Gladstone Gallery
Price unknown
Until Sun 3 Jan
Blue Man Group's wordless, visually striking holiday show.
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Price unknown
Until Sun 28 Feb
Bank of America Winter Village: holiday market and ice rink.
Bryant Park
Price unknown
Until Sat 23 Jan
Jasper Johns Recent Drawings: new works on paper.
Matthew Marks Gallery
Price unknown
Thu 24 Dec
Holiday market with artisan gifts in Vanderbilt Hall.
Grand Central Terminal
Price unknown
Until Sun 10 Jan
Here There Are Blueberries, a Pulitzer-finalist play.
Ethel Barrymore Theater
from $147
Until Fri 8 Jan
Pre-Existing Condition: new play with Lupita Nyong'o.
Greenwich House Theater
from $62
Until Sun 11 Apr
Donald Moffett's IMPEACH: John Lewis's 1998 speech as sound.
Brooklyn Museum
Price unknown
Until Sun 10 Jan
Downstate: Bruce Norris's play about life after prison.
Booth Theatre
from $55
Until Sun 5 Sep
No Ordinary Light: Akari at 75, Noguchi's light sculptures.
The Noguchi Museum
Price unknown
Until Sun 10 Jan
Pop art exhibition with Cattelan and Kusama, 1960 to now.
Matthew Marks Gallery
from $19
Until Sun 14 Mar
PROPS from Barakei: Hosoe's Mishima photos, answered by Wee.
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Free
Until Thu 31 Dec
from 07:00
Set in Stones: Michael Donald's Rolling Stones photos.
Chelsea Market
Price unknown
Until Sun 9 May
Noguchi's 1986 Venice Biennale, seen through his archive.
The Noguchi Museum
Price unknown
Until Sun 10 Jan
The Lost World: visionary art by Minnie Evans.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Price unknown
Until Sun 3 Jan
Lightscape: a light trail through Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
from $15
Until Sat 23 Jan
101 Drawings: Matisse, Picasso, Pollock at Matthew Marks.
Matthew Marks Gallery
Price unknown
Until Wed 31 Mar
Charles Burchfield: Elemental, Whitney watercolors.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Price unknown
Until Thu 31 Dec
Collective Witness: books that witnessed America's birth.
The New York Society Library
Price unknown
Until Sun 3 Jan
Midnight: Todrick Hall's musical of lives in the old South.
Daryl Roth Theatre
from $58
Until Sun 24 Jan
Broken: sculpture fragments from Michelangelo to Bourgeois.
Matthew Marks Gallery
Free
Until Sun 7 Feb
Sacred Splendor: Jewish and Christian treasures of Prague.
The Jewish Museum
Free
Thu 24 Dec · 17:00
Winter Lantern Festival: glowing lanterns at night.
Snug Harbor
from $18
Until Sun 4 Apr
Schmigadoon!: Tony-winning Golden Age musical spoof.
Nederlander Theatre
from $62
Until Mon 7 Jun
First Mondays: writers read new work, with Sarah Schulman.
Performance Space 122
Price unknown
Until Sun 7 Mar
Nike: Form Follows Motion, five decades of sneaker design.
Museum of Arts and Design
Price unknown
Until Sun 28 Feb
Dreams of This Future: art from Cafritz's bequest to Harlem.
The Studio Museum In Harlem
Price unknown
Until Sun 3 Jan
It's A Wonderful Life, Capra's classic as a 40s radio play.
Broadhurst Theater
from $155
Until Wed 30 Dec
Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey: botanical photography.
Rick Wester Fine Art
Price unknown
Until Sun 28 Mar
Saya Woolfalk: The WoodsWoman Method, a utopian exhibition.
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Free
Until Sun 17 Jan
Martin Puryear: sculpture and drawings.
Matthew Marks Gallery
Price unknown