Space Databases

“A company without a space is like a football team without a field.”
-John Clancy, Obie-winning director & co-founder,
New York International Fringe Festival

Performing artists need space.  It’s that simple.  Without it, they cannot create or present their work.

To help resolve artists’ constant and changing needs for workspace, NYC Performing Arts Spaces developed three websites — free online databases providing useful details about hundreds of spaces where artists living in and coming to New York City can rehearse and perform.

Since its debut in 2001, NYC Music Spaces has enabled musicians — instrumentalists and vocalists, emerging and established bands, soloists and orchestras — to easily search for workspace that suits their artistic needs and budget.

After the success of NYC Music Spaces, we launched NYC Dance Spaces, designing it to serve the space needs of all ranges and genres of dance.

NYC Theatre Spaces debuted in March 2007.  In addition to listing spaces for theatre rehearsals and performances, it also serves the needs of New York's literary community, enabling them to find spaces suitable for readings.

All three databases may be searched for a variety of space uses:

• Rehearsals
  
• Performances
  
• Auditions
  
• Photo/film/video shoots
  
• Recording
  
• Classes
  
• Events/parties

All three databases provide:

• Basic space information, such as rental rate(s), size and/or location.
• Facility details, such as amenities (storage, equipment provided, dressing rooms, etc.), permitted uses and nearby transportation.
• Contact information for the space: we give you the info, you book the space yourself.

Change is constant in New York City, so we update our listings weekly and make our databases accessible to listed facilities for editing purposes 24/7.

Our services benefit arts communities by:

• saving performing artists time and money — we help you easily locate the spaces that best meet your budgetary and artistic needs;
• enabling facilities to generate much-needed income — we publicize your rentable spaces online free of charge.  More than half of our listed facilities are non-profits.

Performing artists — from New York City, the U.S. and abroad — find our websites to be easy to use, reliable, and time- and cost-saving.  We’re proud that our services have received applause and positive feedback from so many of our users.

NYC Performing Arts Spaces also collects data and publishes studies on performing arts workspace availability and need.