Lehman Center for the Performing Arts

Specialties

The mission of Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is a simple one: to produce the best possible cultural attractions and to offer them at the lowest ticket prices for the whole family to enjoy!

Lehman Center offers a full and varied line-​up of performances that stay true to bringing the best headliners, dance, music and cultural attractions.

History

Established in 1980.

The creation of Lehman Center was a dream of Lehman College’s first president, Leonard Lief, who wanted a professional performance arts center for the college. A performance by the New York Philharmonic ushered in the music house on Bedford Park Boulevard in 1980.

Meet the Manager

Eva B.

Manager

With its 35^th season under way, Lehman Center for the Performing Arts continues its tune as a cultural showcase, largely catapulted by Eva Bornstein, its longtime executive director. This is Bornstein’s 11^th year with Lehman Center. Before taking the reins, she managed theaters in New Jersey, Chicago and Toronto. Bornstein was introduced to the arts as a child when her parents took her to the ballet and classical concerts in her native city of Krakow, Poland, then under communist rule.