About
Reflecting and serving the multicultural city we call home, New Victory is committed to arts access for all communities of New York to experience and engage with the exemplary international shows on its stages.
Bringing kids to the arts and the arts to kids since 1995, New Victory is powered by the nonprofit New 42. At school performances, student tickets still cost only $2 a ticket, and seats for public shows often start as low as $25. Also, through a special ticket initiative with New York City Housing Authority, 2,000 free tickets are provided to low-income families each season.
New 42 and New Victory have been honored by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, by Americans for the Arts with a Arts Education Award, and by the Drama Desk for “providing enchanting, sophisticated children’s theater that appeals to the child in all of us and for nurturing a love of theater in young people.” In 2025, New 42 received a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre.
Your 3-year-old is too young for The Lion King and will likely be turned away at the door. But really, your child’s first experience of theater should be at the New Victory Theater.
