Performance

The Five Boroughs

1 upcoming performance in New York

“The Five Boroughs” arrives at Symphony Space as a live, documentary-minded portrait of New York told through voice and song. The program draws on the city’s patchwork of neighborhoods and histories, using a rotating roster of performers that includes Ani DiFranco, Tony Trischka, Abby Jimenez, Annabelle Gurwitch, and Caro Claire Burke. In a town where so much art is built on self-mythology, the piece works best when it lets specific details carry the weight. Its significance lies in treating the boroughs as lived places, not branding.