Jonathan Gruber
Health Care Reform
In his new book, Obama advisor and MIT economist Jonathan Gruber uses comics to make current and proposed policies accessible. Get the full perspective on Health Care Reform - what it is, why it's necessary and how it works.
Tuesday, January 10, 7:00 pm

A.C.T.'s Carey Perloff
In Conversation with Reverend Alan Jones
A.C.T.'s Artistic Director discusses her creative process and her latest play. Set in Israel, Higher is the story of a high-powered Jewish architect who discovers his lover is his rival in a design competition.
Thursday, January 19, 7:00 pm

Giants of Jazz on Film: Treasures from the Archive
Master jazz film archivist Mark Cantor continues to delight audiences with clips that include Count Basie, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Benny Goodman and Ella Fitzgerald.
Saturday, January 21, 8:00 pm

Shalom Auslander
With Eli Horowitz, McSweeney's
Auslander's cutting, comically anxious novels "approximate what David Sedaris would sound like if his neuroses revolved entirely around matters of Orthodox Judaica." (Esquire)
Wednesday, January 25, 7:00 pm

Peter Yarrow in Concert
Of Peter, Paul and Mary
Do you remember the first time you heard "Puff the Magic Dragon," "Day is Done" or "The Great Mandala?" Anthems of the civil rights and peace movements, the songs of Peter Yarrow are woven into the fabric of the American experience.
Saturday, January 28, 8:00 pm

The Rivalry by Norman Corwin
Robert Parsons and Josh Clark star in Norman Corwin's riveting theatrical depiction of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, using original dialogue to bring to life their fierce competition as they tackled the searing controversy of the era: slavery and the American concept of freedom.
Sunday, January 29, 4:00 pm

Humor in Hitler's Germany
With Rudolph Herzog, author of Dead Funny
Herzog shows that Germans, both oppressed and oppressors, used comedy to deal with the reality of living under The Third Reich. He argues that Germans knew much about the actions of their government, joked about it occasionally and failed to act.
Wednesday, February 1, 7:00 pm

Martha Graham Dance Company
Dance is a Weapon
Featuring the work of Jane Dudley, Eve Gentry, Isadora Duncan, Sophie Maslow and Martha Graham.
Saturday, February 11, 8:00 pm
Sunday, February 12, 2:00 pm

Fear & Hope in Zimbabwe
With Peter Orner & Peter Godwin
Godwin and Orner join in a discussion about the astonishing courage and resilience of a people who challenged a violent dictatorship, and the power of storytelling to fight tyranny.
Monday, February 13, 7:00 pm

Nathan Englander
New Yorker contributor and PEN/Malamud award-winner for his first collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges,  Englander discusses his new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, eight short stories that grapple with the great questions of modern life.
Tuesday, February 14, 7:00 pm

Super Chef Gabrielle Hamilton
In Blood, Butter and Bones, Hamilton charts her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a top chef and owner of the renowned Prune restaurant in Manhattan. She provokes us to consider how we approach our meals and our families.
Thursday, February 16, 7:00 pm

The Klez-X
Concert and Dance Party
Michael Tilson Thomas calls The Klez-X "extraordinary" for a masterful and imaginative combination of Klezmer music, Yiddish folk and art song and modern jazz that renders a brilliantly original sound.
Saturday, February 18, 8:00 pm

Up From The Stacks
New Music-Theater from Cartoonist Ben Katchor and Composer Mark Mulcahy
Katchor and Mulcahy return with a new multimedia pop opera blending animation and big-screen projection with live vocalists and musicians.
Thursday, February 23, 8:00 pm

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