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Time and Space and Philip Glass: The Iconic Artist Talks at BAM from 2012-09-14T10:03:09
In 1976, the New York premiere of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s “Einstein on the Beach” captivated audiences, polarized critics and put both artists on the map of contemporary performance art...
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Unhappy Family: Geoffrey Rush and Fred Schepisi Discuss "The Eye of the Storm" at the 92nd Street Y from 2012-09-13T11:24:57
Geoffrey Rush is one of Australia’s most celebrated exports, a protean character actor whose roles have ranged from the mentally frail pianist David Helfgott (his Oscar-winning performance in “S...
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Wanting What You Can't Have: Happy Ending at Joe's Pub from 2012-09-05T11:47:35
Host and curator Amanda Stern concluded this season’s Happy Ending Music& Reading series at Joe’s Pub on July 11 with an evening themed around “communication.”
Stern’s themes are almo...
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Fighting Words: Churchill's Granddaughter Offers a Model for Leadership from 2012-06-12T11:25
“If you are going to go through hell, keep going.” This is just one of the many robust adages coined by Sir Winston Churchill during World War II.
A new exhibition at the Morgan Library&am...
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A Reporter's Perspective on War at PEN World Voices from 2012-05-29T09:47
The PEN America Center’s organizational focus is the effect of world events on the safety and freedom of expression of writers, so the topic of war naturally looms large in its cultural conscio...
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Rushdie Talk on Censorship Wraps Up PEN Festival from 2012-05-23T00:00
The 2012PEN World Voices Festivalended with a talk about censorship at the Cooper Union by novelist Salman Rushdie (Midni...
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Getting Your Irish On at the PEN World Voices Festival from 2012-05-16T00:00
Comparisons are invidious, but Hugo Hamilton is clearly a successor to the late Frank McCourt, author of the celebrated “Angela’s Ashes,” in the tradition of Irish memoir.
Hamilton read f...
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Jennifer Egan on How to Create Your Own Rules at PEN from 2012-05-15T00:00
Earlier in May, Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief for the Slate group, and author Jennifer Egan discussed Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, genre-busting novelA Visit from the Goon Squad,a...
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Doctorow, Atwood and Amis on America and its Role in Global Political Culture from 2012-05-11T00:00
One of the highlights of this year'sPEN World Voices Festival of International Literaturewas a talk between writers E.L. Doct...
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Who Will Rule Britannia? Patrick Jephson Weighs in at Bonham’s from 2012-05-09T00:00
Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 86th birthday on April 21, and the entire Commonwealth is preparing to honor her on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee on June 5.
So a look at the future...
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The Jane Hotel's Connection to the Titanic Draws a Crowd from 2012-04-09T00:00
New York City has no shortage of sites that have a direct connection to the Titanic. (See our handy map of some of them below.)
One such landmark is the Jane Hotel, formerly known as the A...
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Authors Conjure Up 'Strange Places' in Readings at Happy Ending from 2012-03-23T09:36
The theme for the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series at Joe's Pub in March was Strange Places. Listen to the extraordinary — and absurd — environments that authors Jessica Anthony, Ameli...
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Bringing At-Risk Teens Closer to Home: A Forum on Juvenile Justice at The New School from 2012-03-05T00:00
The Center for New York City Affairs hosted a forum on February 2 to review the connection between child welfare and juvenile justice in New York City and the state.
The event, entitled “<...
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The Fire in Him: John Hurt Sets Krapp's Record Straight from 2011-12-23T00:00
If there is a lesson to be learned from the post-curtain talk between John Hurt — who has just finished a limited run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater in Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last...
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Talk to Me: Behaving Badly at Happy Ending from 2011-12-22T00:00
TheHappy Ending Music and Readingseries has formed a partnership with the arts colonyYaddolocated in Saratog...
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Connected by a 'River of Smoke': Amitav Ghosh and Jonathan Spence at The Asia Society from 2011-11-30T14:24:58
The Asia Society inaugurated its new Asian Arts& Ideas series this month with “The ‘Chindia’ Dialogues,” a three-day forum that examined the confluence of the world’s two most powerful devel...
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Lovely Bones: Celebrating Anne Sexton at the Cornelia Street Café from 2011-11-22T14:09:19
The poet Anne Sexton took her own life in 1974, but had she lived, this year would have marked her 83rd birthday. Reason enough, thought the actor Paul Hecht, to organize an elegant tribute to h...
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Oxymoron: Frustration at Happy Ending from 2011-11-11T00:00
With the three-month wait for the re-opening of newly renovated Joe’s Pub over at last, you’d think there would be cause for celebration. But Happy Ending Music & Reading series host and cur...
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Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger Have High School Reunion at KGB Bar from 2011-11-07T16:55:30
Two famed poets, essayists and translators — Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger — recently read from new work at the Tr...
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The Asia Society Presents Oral Histories from Burma from 2011-10-24T00:00
While diplomats and academics met at the General Assembly of the United Nations on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, the Asia Society hosted "Voices from Burma," an event honoring the stories ...
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Janet Malcolm and Ian Frazier Talk Shop at The New Yorker Festival from 2011-10-18T14:07:03
Late last month, journalist Janet Malcolm had a conversation with New Yorker writer Ian Frazier at Listen
Wrestling with Words: Poet Philip Schultz Talks about Dyslexia from 2011-10-17T12:04:30
Philip Schultz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Failure," among other books of verse, has written an unexpected work of prose called "My Dyslexia."
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The Call of Things: Jane Bennett Talks About Hoarders at the Vera List Center from 2011-09-26T18:17:12
“Les chose sont contre nous” ("Things are against us") is the wry slogan of Paul Jennings’ parodic philosophy resistentialism*. But Professor Jane Bennett of Johns Hopkins University d...
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Game of Thrones: Sir Peter Hall and Michael Boyd in Conversation from 2011-08-05T15:42:01
In honor of its 50th birthday, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) brought together company founder Sir Peter Hall and current Artistic Director Michael Boyd in conversation at the Park Avenue A...
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'Speak the Speech I Pray You': Directors Weigh in on Bringing Shakespeare to the Stage from 2011-07-18T13:35:11
The second of four panel discussions held in conjunction with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) residency at Listen
The Word as Sword: Reza Aslan at Poet's House from 2011-07-12T16:19
As the Middle East continues to feel the tremors of revolution from all across the landscape, Dr. Reza Aslan’s book “Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East” offers a tim...
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Shakespearean Sages: Peter Brook and Michael Boyd in Conversation from 2011-07-12T11:37:31
Peter Brook was a legendary director with the Royal Shakespeare Company (R.S.C.) in the 1960s and 1970s; Michael Boyd is the current Artistic...
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Talk To Me: A Happy Beginning for Happy Ending from 2011-06-15T11:39:41
The Happy Ending Music & Reading Series is celebrating a happy beginning. The series performance on June 8 at Joe’s Pub marked the l...
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Talk to Me: Happy Endings, Modern Myths and Legends from 2011-05-23T14:23:29
Not all legends begin with the words, “Once upon a time,” or take place a long time ago. The Happy Ending Music and Reading Seri...
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Working Words: Writers Try to Fix It at the PEN World Voices Festival from 2011-05-12T11:01:15
Is the pen mightier than the sword, or any number of other challenges? That’s what “A Working Day,” at the PEN World Voices Festival set out ...
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Talk to Me: New Orleans as Paradox from 2011-05-11T17:55:34
New Orleans manages to leave a mark, good or bad, on its tourists, natives, and those who've decided to take up roots there. Most people who visit have a great time, but many can attest to how t...
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Talk to Me: The PEN World Voices Festival Takes on Corporate Publishing from 2011-05-10T12:26:08
While PEN is often at the forefront of debates and initiatives to do with the more obvious forms of oppression against writers — isolation, censorship, imprisonment — it is also ready to tackle ...
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Talk to Me: Oh, Really? Happy Ending at Joe's Pub from 2011-05-09T00:00
Reality. "Some people live in it, some people don't," observed Happy Ending host and curator Amanda Stern on Wednesday, May 4 at Joe's Pub before introducing three writers with different tak...
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Private Voices in a Public Place: Diaries at the Morgan Library from 2011-05-06T14:08:10
Bloggers? Tweeters? My Space? Facebook? Fahgedabodit. Hundreds of years before everyone got on a digital soapbox, diarists used this intimate form to confide their loves, longings, and ...
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Talk to Me: From Russia with Love at the Greene Space from 2011-05-06T12:09:45
Are you craving a little continental culture? Do you need a good book recommendation? Both were on offer on Tuesday, April 26, when New York Public Radio's Jerome L. Greene Space hosted a litera...
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Talk to Me: China in Two Acts from 2011-05-05T12:05:54
China watchers and writers Ian Buruma, Yan Lianke, Linda Polman, David Rieff, and Zha Jianying spoke at the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature about human rights in China at t...
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Behind 'War Horse': The Puppeteers at The New School from 2011-04-29T18:19:55
One of the most powerful aspects of “War Horse,” which opened at Lincoln Center on April 14, is, of course, the astonishing puppets. Minutes ...
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Cornelia Street Café Says Happy Birthday to Shakespeare from 2011-04-29T11:25:59
It’s a good thing that William Shakespeare was born in the spring—April 26—because his sonnets are crammed with sumptuous images of ripe nature bursting its bounds. And for a good many years the...
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Talk to Me: Stranger Performances from 2011-04-27T00:00
A large swatch of artist Laurel Nakadate's work features performances in which she performs acts with strangers—and videotapes them. Nakadate recently discussed her work at Listen
Talk To Me: Art, Pornography and Censorship from 2011-04-18T00:00
On Thursday, a conversation about censorship, art and morality took place at the New School's Arnold Hall between two American authors and a pair of French philosophers. The discussion was part ...
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Talk to Me: Loss and Memory and Happy Ending from 2011-03-14T14:27:05
A more predictable personality than Happy Ending Music and Reading series host and curator Amanda Stern would have programmed her evening at Joe’s Pub around love stories, given that it fell two...
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Talk to Me: The Yale Review Celebrates 100 Years from 2011-03-11T12:03:03
On Saturday, May 26, "The Writers Studio Reading Series" celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ...
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Talk to Me: Celebrating 100 Years of Tennessee Williams from 2011-03-09T11:44:28
Tennessee Williams, perhaps best-known for his plays "Streetcar Named Desire," "The Glass Menagerie," and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," is the author of a "massive body of work," in the words of N.Y....
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Talk to Me: Story Prize: Short Stories, Big Prizes from 2011-03-07T00:00
Anticipation was high at the Story Prize event at The New School's Tishman Auditorium last week. The three Story Prize finalists—Anthony Doerr (Listen
Talk to Me: Bill Callahan's Letters to Emma Bowlcut from 2011-02-07T12:27:29
Nearly two feet of newly fallen snow proved little obstacle for fans to clap their eyes on musician Bill Callahan on a recent winter's night. Callahan, known to many by the name Smog, drew a hip...
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Talk to Me: Zadie Smith and Gemma Sieff from 2011-02-07T00:00
English writer Zadie Smith has accomplished so much in the past 11 years. Her first novel, White Teeth, was published in 2000 before she even turned 25. Now, she's got two additional ...
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From Belarus with Love and Pain: The Belarus Free Theatre at Le Poisson Rouge from 2011-01-21T15:38:59
"World leaders need to answer to artists." This was the rallying cry of Natalia Kaliada, artistic director of the Bela...
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True Story Non-Fiction: Vivian Gornick on Work from 2011-01-18T00:00
At last month's True Story: Non-Fiction at KGB Bar, famed essayist, journalist and critic Vivian Gornick talked about womanhood, working and life as a woman worker. KGB curator Erin Edmison intr...
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Talk to Me: Old Friends and New Friends at Happy Ending from 2011-01-10T15:20:41
Two is a famously bad age for toddlers, but it seems to be a prime number for a reading series marking a rite of passage—in this case, the celebration this past Wednesday of the Happy Ending Mus...
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Talk to Me: Celebrating Wallace Shawn at CUNY from 2010-12-22T00:00
If the meek are going to inherit the earth, then Wally Shawn will be in the vanguard. The diffident playwright and essayist, known for such works as "My Dinner with Andre," "Aunt Dan and Lemon,...
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