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Halloween, but make it classy with Suite Mysterioso: A Halloween Ballet. The new production is premiering Thursday, October 29, at Tarrytown Music Hall (13 Main St.). Performed by NYC-based Continuum Contemporary Ballet, the family-friendly show uses expressive choreography to whisk audiences from a shadowy forest to a vintage ballroom and other mysterious settings. As for the music, think melodies of ragtime and suspenseful silent movies. It’s designed to enchant younger audience members without leaving adults bored to tears. And since costumes are welcome, you can make an evening of it by dressing up for the occasion. Consider it a Halloween treat for anyone who prefers their frights with a little finesse.

The show starts at 7pm, and tickets range from $38 to $43, inclusive of fees.

Bryant Park’s free spooktacular annual Halloween event, Tricks and Treats, makes its grand return to the Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park on Friday, October 30. The event kicks off with a 4pm magic show from Chris Capehart and a 5pm science show from Crazy Science—both at The Deck. Over at Le Carrousel, families can enjoy face painting, pumpkin decorating and arts and crafts, plus $5 rides with the Headless Horseman. Festivities run from 4 to 6pm.

Beware: All of the eerie fun is first-come, first-served and weather permitting, so it's best to consult the event's website ahead of the event.

Are you ready to rock? The Little Mermen & the Princess Pals sure is, and Halloween is their time to shine. This Disney classics tribute band is putting on a show, Friday, October 30, turning SoHo Live (94 Lafayette St) into a spooky, nostalgia-filled night out. Part rock concert, part sing-along and part costume party, guests are encouraged to lean into the soundtrack of their childhoods at this 21+ event. The set list includes bengers from Mulan, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Lion King and more, plus some beloved Disney Channel throwbacks mixed in.

Advanced planning will get you $18 tickets, but waiting until the last minute will only run you $7 more (both prices are not including fees). Doors open at 7pm and the show runs from 7:30 to 10pm.

NYC’s biggest running event is back with the 2026 TCS New York City Marathon, which will see thousands of runners from all over the world compete in a 26.2-mile race that spans all five boroughs. It’s impressive, to say the least! Even if you’re not running in the event, turning out to cheer on the athletes is time well spent.

In our 2026 NYC Marathon guide, we've answered your most pressing questions about the TCS NYC Marathon so you can plan accordingly. 

Get spooky under the sea at the American Museum of Natural History on October 31, when the annual Halloween Celebration takes over the Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life under the iconic Blue Whale. The family-friendly festivities include themed arts and crafts, face painting, balloon animals and a live marine biology experience with Island Fish and Scale. Kids can also trick-or-treat throughout the first floor and join a costume parade, showing off this year's trendiest character costumes. The celebration runs from 11am until 4pm, and while costumes are encouraged, organizers kindly ask you leave the Halloween masks at home.

The spooktacular festivities cost $25 per person, or $15 for member—that's on top of regular admission fare for the day (pay-what-you-wish for NY state residents, non-residents: $37 per adult, $22 per child, $30 students and seniors).

We're throwing the spookiness into high gear with our list of events for Halloween in NYC. From costume parties to haunted houses, and corn mazes to parades (even ones made for dogs), we're so ready! Whether you're looking for last-minute plans for the kiddos or seeking out a fun hotel party to attend, this list has got you covered.

La Catrina and a troupe of larger-than-life skeleton puppets are descending upon the New York Botanical Garden for Día de los Muertos. Created by artists Lucrecia Novoa and Mascara Viva, the elaborate puppets will wander the Garden October 31 through November 2, from 1pm to 5pm, bringing one of Mexico’s most recognizable cultural symbols to life through movement and storytelling. La Catrina originated as a satirical illustration by Mexican printmaker Jose Guadalupe Posada before becoming an enduring symbol of Día de los Muertos. Catch the colorful artwork as part of NYBG’s fall celebration in the Bronx.

Good news: There's no added ticket needed to view the puppets, they can be found around the garden for all who paid admission.

It may be third in the Olympics, but bronze is No. 1 at The Frick Collection. "Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500" brings together roughly 40 works exploring how Sienese sculptors turned the metal into objects of extraordinary beauty and technical sophistication. The exhibition features masters including Donatello, Vecchietta and Francesco di Giorgio, with many works that are rarely seen outside of Tuscany. Beyond the artistry, the show examines the technical hurdles and political complications that shaped bronze production in 15th-century Siena, revealing the ingenuity behind these intricate creations. It’s a chance to see Renaissance sculpture through a fresh lens and appreciate just how much craftsmanship goes into making something look effortless.

Tickets for The Frick Collection run between $17 (student) and $30 (adult) depending on the ticket you qualify for.

Art history gets a shake-up in Roméo Mivekannin’s first New York solo exhibition, Porteurs de feu (Bearers of Fire). At Southern Guild in Tribeca (75 Leonard St), the artist reimagines iconic works by the likes of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Winslow Homer, inserting his own likeness into paintings on black velvet to challenge how Black histories, migration and cultural identity are represented. An expansive portrait installation inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk rounds out this thought-provoking show. Catch it through October 29.

Some films are important regardless of their cinematic quality. They have an urgency and a relevance that go beyond aesthetic consideration. This new film from Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the filmmakers behind Palestinian-Israeli Oscar-winner No Other Land, is one of those. And it’s one of the year’s best.

The film consists of the testimony of 24 anonymous ex-members of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). The interviews take place in the dark on rooftops in Tel Aviv, overlooking apartment buildings and streets where the night-time traffic passes. Abraham questions his subjects and listens to what they have to say—they are anonymous shapes in the dark with quiet reasonable voices. 

NAZA puts together a restrained, intelligent, articulate, precise and utterly damning case against Israel’s actions in Gaza and their ongoing actions throughout the region. As a work of cinema, it is exemplary. As a work of journalism, it is inarguable.

Read more of John Bleasdale's review here.

In cinemas worldwide October 15.