Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ 2026 Summer Gala is set to be legendary.
John Legend will help kick off the Summer for the City festival on June 1 with a performance at David Geffen Hall in Manhattan, Billboard can exclusively reveal. The EGOT-winning, Billboard Hot 100-topping artist joins the roster of a gala that is set to fete ballet trailblazer Misty Copeland (the first Black woman promoted to principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre) with the inaugural Lincoln Center luminary award, as well as honor Andreas C. Dracopoulos, co-president of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, for his…
