The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is home to one of the largest performing arts archival collections in the world, located within the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan's Upper West Side. As one of the New York Public Library's four public research facilities, the library showcases an enormous amount of material related to theater, music, dance, and other performing arts throughout the city, the United States, and the world, including the renowned Theater of Film and Tape Archive, which preserves live recordings of Broadway and off-Broadway productions. Original theatrical and musical manuscripts and scores are also held by the library, along with prompt books, set and costume design materials, playbills and posters, and other theatrical ephemera. Periodic free special event programming includes lectures, film screenings, and live performances.
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, Phone: 212-870-1605
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