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  • Lucas Wittmann takes the helm of the Unterberg Poetry Center

    Bryan Cranston reads The Power Broker with Robert Caro and Stacy Schiff. Molly Ringwald and Griffin Dunne join bestselling writers Sloane Crosley, Jay McInerney, and John Burnham Schwartz on the legacy of Truman Capote. Alice McDermott discusses her new novel to Amor Towles. In his first season as Executive Director of the Unterberg Poetry Center, Lucas Wittmann is gathering a blend of some of the greatest writers of our moment with leadings actors and critics …

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  • Amber Iman on the spellbinding Nina Simone

    Nina Simone was a music icon and Civil Rights activist, celebrated for hits like “Feeling Good” and “My Baby Just Cares for Me,” and her commitment to change. Her voice and vision influenced artists from Aretha Franklin to John Legend. Now, Tony nominee Amber Iman, who played Simone in her Broadway debut, brings her legacy to life in REBEL WITH A CAUSE: The Artistry and Activism of Nina Simone (Dec 7-9) …

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  • Dancing between generations with Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie

    Since 2018, award-winning breakdancer and choreographer Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie’s dance company has worked with School Engagement in the Arts’ Discover Dance program to offer curriculum, workshops, and performances to NYC public school students from all five boroughs …

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  • A dream fulfilled: Two fans’ journey to meet Kelly Bishop

    It was a night to remember for British fans Megan Craig and Amanda Bolland, who finally saw a long-held dream come true. On Tuesday night (Sep 17), they were invited backstage to meet none other than Gilmore Girls icon Kelly Bishop, just before her sold-out talk on the David Geffen Stage at 92NY …

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  • Art education in NYC takes flight at 92NY

    92NY’s School Engagement in the Arts plays an outsized role in bringing the arts to public school students in NYC. They serve thousands of students and teachers every year with in-depth classroom visits from top teaching artists and innovative curriculum design; they program concerts and dance performances on 92NY main stages with some of the most respected artists in the world …

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  • Remembering Dr. Ruth

    We are saddened by the passing of the incomparable Ruth Westheimer – cultural trailblazer, and a treasured friend of 92NY for more than 40 years. Dr. Ruth first appeared on our stage in June 1983. “Sexually Speaking,” her live call-in radio show, had risen to the Number 1 spot in the New York market and Susan Engel, Executive Director, Recanati-Kaplan Talks, invited her to come for a talk …

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  • A conversation with new Jazz in July artistic director Aaron Diehl

    Pianist Aaron Diehl, new artistic director of 92NY’s Jazz in July, is one of the most distinctive and respected artists in jazz. Championed by and touring with Wynton Marsalis early in his career, Diehl has also been pianist and music director for Cécile McLorin Salvant and collaborated with jazz legends including Benny Golson and Jimmy Heath …

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  • Adam Gopnik’s Upper East Side

    Ahead of his upcoming Roundtable course on the literary history of the Upper East Side beginning Friday, July 17 — featuring inspired, insightful readings of Edith Wharton’s New York stories, John O’Hara’s BUtterfield 8, Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, J. D. Salinger’s Nine Stories and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities, Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, Sarah Schulman’s The Cosmopolitans, and others …

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  • Reviving Dylan Thomas — a conversation with Christopher Monger and Matthew Rhys

    Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and his relationship with 92NY, is the stuff of legend. In 1953, at the invitation of John Malcolm Brinnin (the Poetry Center’s director at the time), Thomas premiered his now classic Under Milk Wood, a “play for voices,” to great acclaim on our stage — only six months before his death. Brinnin’s subsequent memoir about Thomas, published two years later, was a scandal — depicting Thomas as a self-destructive alcoholic and a poetic genius in equal measure. …

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  • 150 years of 92NY on Jeopardy!

    What is 92NY? A category on an episode of Jeopardy! Next Friday, March 8, in the semifinals of the Tournament of Champions, the classic trivia show will put your knowledge of 92NY history to the test in a category called 150 YEARS OF THE 92ND STREET Y. …

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  • Black artistry at 92NY

    In celebration of Black History Month, we're looking back at ten of the iconic Black artists who have presented audacious, innovative, ingenious work on our stages — some of the most definitive American art and creative thought of the last century — a tradition that continues to this day …

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  • Mitch Albom tells the truth

    Ahead of his conversation with Malcolm Gladwell next Sunday, February 4, writer Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie) sat down with us to talk about his new novel, The Little Liar — and his perspective on why his books have resonated with millions of readers all over the world …

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  • The art of the interview with Josh Horowitz

    MTV’s Josh Horowitz has hosted countless interviews and screenings at 92NY with the biggest stars in the Hollywood firmament — the actors and filmmakers who define movies, TV, and comedy today — in live recordings of his hit podcast, Happy Sad Confused …

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  • Best of 2023

    Our marquee Recanati-Kaplan Talks series continued to set the bar for conversation in America — a joyful, raucously entertaining, critically informative forum that defines our society. This week, we invite you to watch — or watch again — some of our programming team’s favorite talks of the year, for free. A small way to thank you for being part of our community again in 2023 …

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  • Israeli folk dance fever

    Ruth Goodman, founder and director of the Israeli Dance Institute and the Parparim Ensemble of Israeli Dance and Song, has been leading 92NY’s popular Israeli Folk Dance program for over 40 years. What sustains her passion? …

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  • Darius de Haas on the genius of Stevie Wonder

    The songs of music icon and 25-time Grammy Award winner Stevie Wonder fill the soundtrack of our lives. As Lyrics & Lyricists gears up for IN THE KEY OF LIFE, a celebration of Wonder’s extraordinary songbook and legacy, the show’s artistic director and featured performer, Broadway’s Darius de Haas, talked with us about his deep connection to Stevie Wonder’s music, its place in the American Songbook, the song that’s particularly meaningful to him, and more …

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  • The Torque of Consciousness: Merve Emre on Helen Garner

    Ahead of her upcoming conversation with Helen Garner, The New Yorker’s Merve Emre sat down to talk to the Unterberg Poetry Center’s new director Sarah Chihaya about the great Australian novelist — Garner’s exquisite powers of description, her growing popularity in the US, the arc of her career, and more …

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  • Subverting the obvious with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

    Ahead of her upcoming reading with Sandra Cisneros, we talked to acclaimed poet and sound artist LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs about her strikingly personal new book, Village, the poetry of grief, her singular performance style, expecting the unexpected, and more

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  • A Conversation with Joshua Redman

    Revered saxophonist Joshua Redman opens the 2023/24 Tisch Music Season with music from his lyrical new album where are we. Ahead of his September 27 concert, he talked with us about the project and sharing the melodic spotlight with a vocalist for the first time, his wide musical lens, taking on The Boss, and more …

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  • Searching for the great healers with Kay Redfield Jamison

    Ahead of her upcoming conversation with #1 New York Times bestselling author and surgeon Atul Gawande (Being Mortal) on September 22, we talked to Pulitzer Prize finalist Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind, Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire) about the fascinating history of psychotherapy, her changing perceptions of mental illness in America, how artists have contributed to our understanding of mental health, and her new book, Fires in the Dark. …

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  • Sandra Guzmán on language, lineage, and Daughters of Latin America

    Ahead of our upcoming landmark reading in celebration of Daughters of Latin America — hosted by Rosie Perez and including contributors Jamaica Kincaid, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Esmeralda Santiago, and many more — editor Sandra Guzmán talked to us about the joyful work of curating the anthology, the relationship between language and survival, the importance of bringing marginalized voices to the center of our literary conversation, and much more …

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  • Ricardo Alberto Maldonado on 16 years at the Poetry Center

    Poetry Center Co-Director Ricardo Alberto Maldonado joined 92NY 16 years ago, and his contributions to our institution’s literary culture have been immeasurable — he’s served as a crucial force in the curation of our reading series, organized our writing workshops and literary seminars, administered the Discovery Poetry Contest, and much more …

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  • An appreciation of Sheldon Harnick – Broadway legend and longtime 92NY friend

    Broadway lost an icon, the world a gifted mensch, and The 92nd Street Y a treasured friend with the recent passing of Sheldon Harnick. One of musical theater’s most celebrated lyricists, Harnick’s creations include the Pulitzer Prizewinning Fiorello!, She Loves Me, and his groundbreaking nine-time Tony Award-winning Fiddler on the Roof – Broadway’s original longest-running show and one of the world’s most performed and enduring musicals …

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  • Roslyn Ruff on why Maud Martha stands the test of time

    Ahead of her upcoming reading of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha, we talked to acclaimed actress Roslyn Ruff about her connection to the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s sole novel, how she’s transforming text into performance, her longtime affinity for poets, and more …

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  • An appreciation of Marshall Weinberg – classical music lover; treasured supporter and friend

    Behind the Marshall Weinberg Classical Music Season that comes to a close next weekend – a season bookended with performances by premier violinist Joshua Bell and the superstar trio of violinist Stefan Jackiw, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and pianist Daniil Trifonov – is a man who plays no instrument but has been instrumental to every note. Marshall Weinberg is among the most generous supporters of classical music in the history of The 92nd Street Y …

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  • Under Milk Wood at 70

    Seventy years ago tonight, on May 14, 1953, the lights dimmed in 92NY’s Kaufmann Auditorium for the premiere of poet Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood — an audaciously inventive “play for voices,” as Thomas called it, blurring the line between poetry and theater …

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  • Colm Tóibín on adapting Seamus Heaney for the stage

    Colm Tóibín has written that Seamus Heaney “was not merely a central figure in the literary life of Ireland, but in its emotional life, in its dream life, in its real life. His skill at playing with rhythm, pushing phrases and images as hard as they will go, offered the poems an undertone, a gravity—a space between the words that allowed them to soar or shiver” …

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  • Just announced: Our new summer music festival!

    From John Coltrane to Jimmy Heath to Joshua Redman, Sarah Vaughan to Dianne Reeves to Cécile McLorin Salvant, Thelonious Monk to Bill Evans to Hank Jones to Kenny Barron – for nearly 70 years, The 92nd Street Y has been a home to the greatest artists in jazz …

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  • Carl Phillips and the Poetics of Privacy

    Ahead of his reading with Ama Codjoe on April 10, Carl Phillips — a defining poet of his generation and the author of 16 collections of poetry — talked to us about his two new books, Then The War: New and Selected Poems, 2007-2020 and My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing, his influence on emerging writers, the unexpected joys of writing prose, and more …

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  • Kafka, Unearthed

    Ahead of acclaimed actor Josh Hamilton’s reading from Franz Kafka’s magnetic, riveting diaries on Monday, March 13, we talked to translator Ross Benjamin — who has brought Kafka’s complete diaries into English for the first time ever — about the inherent drama of Kafka’s style, why it demands performance, how translating has altered Benjamin’s perception of the writer, and more …

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  • The New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham on reviving Maud Martha

    Ahead of Roslyn Ruff’s upcoming reading of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks’ only novel, Maud Martha, we talked to New Yorker staff writer and theater critic Vinson Cunningham about how he abridged the text for the performance — and why Brooks and Maud Martha deserve to be heard by a new generation …

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  • Octavia E. Butler’s plausible vampires

    Ahead of their upcoming Roundtable seminar on the groundbreaking science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler’s final novel, Fledgling, we talked to acclaimed author Nisi Shawl — editor of the Library of America edition of Butler’s collected works — about creating plausible vampire stories, the prophetic nature of Butler’s writing, their close friendship, and much more …

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  • A conversation with Branford Marsalis

    NEA Jazz Master and triple Grammy Award winner Branford Marsalis is one of the most defining artists in jazz today. He is also one of music’s most expansive talents, performing Debussy with symphony orchestras, writing for film and theater (scores for George C. Wolfe films; a Tony nomination for Broadway work). He has collaborated with Sting and jammed with the Grateful Dead. But his musical home is with his renowned quartet – more than three decades in, one of the leading and most influential ensembles in all of music …

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  • Dylan Thomas and the birth of the audiobook

    You never know what might happen at a 92nd Street Y event. That’s true today and it was very much the case in 1952. One February night that year, two young Hunter College grads — Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Roney — came to a Dylan Thomas reading at 92NY, and their actions that night would change the course of their lives — and his …

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  • Tessa Hadley and the art of the short story

    Ahead of her upcoming Roundtable seminar on the short story — which offers incisive, close readings of three masterful stories by Elizabeth Bowen, Mavis Gallant, and Alice Munro — award-winning writer Tessa Hadley (author of Free Love, Late in the Day, The Past, and many others) talked to us about the mysteries of the form, the personal shock of reading Munro for the first time, why she loves reading in a group, and much more …

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  • Lifting her voice –
    The NYC mainstage debut of J’Nai Bridges

    “Every artist brings their POV to a program they create,” says Amy Lam, Vice President of Tisch Music, “and the platform of a song recital is, I think, the best vehicle to really appreciate an artist for who they are. Through the selection of works, you come away with what makes an artist a great one, but also an appreciation of the human aspect and the values they stand for …

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  • Matthew Hollis on the eternal spring of The Waste Land

    Ahead of his upcoming Roundtable seminar on T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, running in celebration of the great poem’s 100th anniversary — and Ralph Fiennes’ sold out staged reading — we talked to celebrated poet and critic Matthew Hollis about his new book The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, the truth about “difficult” poetry, why Eliot’s voice sounds as fresh as it’s ever been, and much more …

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  • Dance as democracy in action —
    Meet Harkness Artist in Residence, teacher and mentor Sameena Mitta

    One evening last May, six young dance students – our 92NY Recanati-Kaplan dance scholars – sat in the front row of Kaufmann Concert Hall as their teacher and mentor Sameena Mitta and her company MeenMoves performed on stage as part of our Future Dance Festival. Mitta was one of 21 artists from around the world selected by an independent jury to showcase their work on the stage where some of the greatest luminaries in dance first presented their own …

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  • The enduring shock of Colette

    We sat down with New Yorker writer and National Book Award-winning biographer Judith Thurman ahead of her Roundtable seminar on Colette’s Chéri and The End of Chéri to discuss the enigmatic, mordantly funny, taboo-flouting French writer — her inherent contradictions and dark humor, what Americans often miss when they read her, and why she still has the power to surprise us …

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  • In the audience

    Liza Donnelly, the New Yorker staff cartoonist and author of eighteen books, is a regular participant at 92NY events — whether that’s appearing on our stage, or joining us as a member of the audience. And when she does, she often shares a cartoon of the action onstage …

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  • “Voice and the Violin”:
    Joshua Bell, violin and Larisa Martínez, soprano

    Superstar violinist Joshua Bell, internationally acclaimed soprano Larisa Martinez, and renowned multi-genre pianist Peter Dugan open our Tisch Music 2022/23 season on Thu, Oct 20 with a sparkling program of arias, solos, and duets – specially arranged for these extraordinary artists – and including a brilliant West Side Story medley …

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  • A conversation with Tisch Music VP Amy Lam

    Amy Lam joined The 92nd Street Y, New York in November, 2021 as Vice President of Tisch Music, coming to us following more than two decades as Artistic Director of the renowned Celebrity Series of Boston. 92NY just announced the first concert season under Amy’s helm – a season so distinctive and exciting, it prompted Crain’s New York Business to name her one of their “5 New Yorkers to Know” in last week’s issue. We sat down with her to talk about the new season …

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  • New York Stories

    Sara Becker’s Sounds of NYC project captures quintessential New York stories — and 100% of its profits go directly to The 92nd Street Y, New York. She talked to us about her inspiration for the project, the power of audio storytelling, why she wanted to support 92NY, and more …

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  • Art from the Ashes of the Plague

    Ahead of his upcoming class on Boccaccio’s Decameron for The 92nd Street Y, we sat down with critic, author, and Bard College professor of comparative literature Joseph Luzzi to talk about art’s relationship with historical disaster, the line between high culture and pop culture, why fiction can be just as useful as journalism, and more …

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  • What can art illuminate about war?

    On April 6, in one of the most anticipated events of the New York City dance season, the Paul Taylor Dance Company brings choreographer Kurt Jooss’ 1932 antiwar masterpiece The Green Table to the stage where modern dance was born – ours …

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  • Who Is Othello?

    Ahead of her conversation with actors André Holland, Chukwudi Iwuji and John Douglas Thompson on the challenges of playing Othello in the 21st century — co-moderated with James Shapiro — renowned Shakespeare scholar Ayanna Thompson sat down with us to talk about the nuances of the role, the shifting politics of race in its performances, how Shakespeare and the very idea of race “grew up as contemporaries,” and more …

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  • Baye & Asa and Passion Fruit Dance Company

    On Thursday, Feb 24 at 8 pm, our Harkness Artists in Residence, Baye & Asa and Passion Fruit Dance Company, will present their dynamic choreographic work, showcasing a variety of hip-hop, African, and street dance styles onstage in Kaufmann Concert Hall

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  • Fern Mallis remembers an evening with André Leon Talley

    The fashion industry is a quirky and unusual world, filled with great talents, huge egos, and bigger personalities. It is a fragile ecosystem that creates personas and cults that are sometimes larger than life. There are a handful of players often called crazy or obsessed, mentors or muses, gurus or guardians. I was so thrilled to host one of these very special individuals at Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis in 2013: André Leon Talley …

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  • Our Year in Books

    Reading and sharing ideas about books has become a crucial source of connection for the 92Y community during the pandemic. The Poetry Center’s Ricardo Maldonado and Sophie Herron, who are heavily involved in programming and moderating many of our literary programs at 92U, got together with Editorial Manager Daniel Poppick to talk about the books they loved most in 2021, how the pandemic has changed their reading habits, the poetry and 92U literary seminars they’re most looking forward to in 2022, and more …

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  • The violinist who is “set to inspire a generation” — Classic FM

    Ahead of his highly anticipated first major New York City recital, we sat down with Randall Goosby, one of the most acclaimed classical artists of his generation. The 25-year-old Sphinx Competition winner, Itzhak Perlman protégé, and violin sensation shared thoughts on the music he champions, the greatest lesson he learned from “Mr. P,” and his passion for making classical music representative and accessible …

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  • The Search

    Ahead of her 92U course on Swann’s Way, the first volume in Marcel Proust’s monumental In Search of Lost Time, we sat down with award-winning literary critic and novelist Lila Azam Zanganeh to discuss her love of fairy tales, the connection between the essence of existence and cookies, her favorite contemporary writers, and much more …

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  • SWING TIME!

    Our adult dance offerings just got an extra jolt of joy with new Lindy Hop classes led by three of the dance style’s most brilliant practitioners. Bessie Award-winning dancer and choreographer Caleb Teicher and swing dance masters Nathan Bugh and Gaby Cook have been leading New York City’s hottest and most in-demand Lindy Hop classes in pop-ups around the city. Now Harkness School of Dance Director Alison Manning has provided a home for them …

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  • Talking to the Discovery Poetry Contest Winners, 2021: Ina Cariño

    We’ve been chatting with each of the four 2021 Discovery Poetry Contest winners ahead of their reading on October 22. This week, Ina Cariño tells us about the feeling of dislocation in writing poetry between the US and the Philippines, grappling with blank spots in their ancestry in their poem “Ancestors for Sale,” the power of live poetry readings, and more …

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  • Talking to the Discovery Poetry Contest Winners, 2021: Kenzie Allen

    We’ve been chatting with each of the four 2021 Discovery Poetry Contest winners ahead of their reading on October 22. This week, in the last conversation in our series, Kenzie Allen tells us about finding poetry in community, looking for joy in Indigenous ancestry in her poem “Quiet as Thunderbolts,” and more …

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  • Dance Returns to a Historic Stage – Ours

    “The pioneers of modern dance were creating their work and taking risks on the stage of Kaufmann Concert Hall before anyone had even heard their names,” says Harkness Dance Center Director Taryn Kaschock Russell. “I thought, ‘There are amazing artists who are pushing the art form forward now. They need to be on this stage …

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  • Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis celebrates Iris Apfel’s 100th birthday

    Fern Mallis writes: At one hundred years old, the self-proclaimed “world’s oldest teenager” and “geriatric starlet” is busier than anyone in New York City. She makes the Kardashians look like they are asleep. Tickets to our evening at the 92Y sold out in record time, twice! (thanks to an unplanned rain delay) … …

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  • Talking to the Discovery Poetry Contest Winners, 2021: Alexandra Zukerman

    For over six decades, 92Y’s Discovery Poetry Contest has introduced exceptionally gifted young poets to a large audience early in their careers — including John Ashbery, Lucille Clifton, Mark Strand, Larry Levis, and Solmaz Sharif, to name but a few. This year, final contest judges Rick Barot, Mónica de la Torre, and Patricia Spears Jones selected four winning poets — Alexandra Zukerman, Kenzie Allen, Ina Cariño, and Mag Gabbert. Each receives a reading at 92Y, publication in The Paris Review Daily, a stay at the Ace Hotel in Manhattan and $500 …

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  • Stepping into the Limelight with Theater for Young Audiences

    Theater for Young Audiences was established at 92Y to create professional productions geared toward children — to introduce families to the joy of musical theater and inspire the next generation of dancers, singers, and theater-loving dreamers in an intimate setting. Theater for Young Audiences gives families up-close access to the magic of the art form that can be lost in the large-scale spectacle of a Broadway musical …

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  • Jazz returns to 9N2Y!

    On Tuesday, July 20, Jazz in July returned to 92Y’s historic Kaufmann Concert Hall with a show of standards by two-time Grammy winner Kurt Elling — to the delighted our full-capacity audience …

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  • Musical Theater and the Art of Empathy

    Director of Musical Theater Megan Doyle recently talked to us about why she thinks teaching children to work together is more important than teaching them to dance and sing, bringing Peter Pan to life during the pandemic, and what's in store for musical theater at 92Y in the coming months …

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  • Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis
    The Archive: The CFDA Presidents

    Fern Mallis, the fashion industry doyenne most recognized as the founder of New York Fashion Week, is making previously unreleased content on her digital platform Fashion Icons: The Archive, a playlist available on our 92Y YouTube. The Archive is the exclusive digital destination for Mallis’ popular — and often sold-out — conversation series, Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis …

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  • Marvin Gaye: What's Going On

    May 21 marks 50 years since the release of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, universally regarded as one of the most iconic, enduring and resonant albums in all of music. A concept album centered on Gaye’s protest against racial and social injustices and a call for compassion, few could have imagined how relevant and urgent its messages would remain half a century later …

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  • John Lithgow on William Maxwell’s So Long, See You Tomorrow

    Shortly after recording his reading of William Maxwell’s classic novel So Long, See You Tomorrow for 92Y, award-winning actor John Lithgow sat down with us to discuss his personal relationship with the book, his reading habits, the perils and pleasures of voice acting, being moved to tears in the recording booth, and more. The conversation has been edited and condensed …

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  • Black mothers changed the world: A conversation with Anna Malaika Tubbs

    Ahead of her 92U class, Black Mothers and the Civil Rights Movement — and just in time for Mother’s Day — sociologist and author Anna Malaika Tubbs talked to us about the erasure of Black women from the history books, shedding a light on the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin, and her new book, The Three Mothers …

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  • Instrument of change

    A spotlight on the passions of world-renowned clarinetist Anthony McGill before his May 11 concert on our stage and “Inside the Concert” talk with former WQXR host Naomi Lewin April 29 …

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  • Writing around the rules

    Before her conversation with Ezra Klein on Wednesday, April 21 for 92Y, writer and actress Mira Sethi talked to us about breaking out of binary systems of thought, the challenges of writing about Pakistan for a Western readership, and her acclaimed debut story collection Are You Enjoying? …

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  • About Face: A Conversation with Justine Bateman

    1980s darling Justine Bateman shot to fame alongside Michael J. Fox on the smash hit sit-com Family Ties. Last year, her book Fame: The Hijacking of Reality gave us a remarkable insight into what it’s like to experience extraordinary fame, what fame does to a person, and what happens when fame starts to fade. Her new book tackles the topic of beauty. Face: One Square Foot of Skin takes a radical look at why – even after decades feminism, the body positivity movement, a shift in civic values — society deems that natural beauty, unenhanced by surgery or dermatological procedures, is not possible for women after age 50. In advance of her April 1 conversation with actress Carrie-Anne Moss, she answered some of our questions about her ideas on the subject of beauty

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  • The city that rebuilt America’s greatest architect: Frank Lloyd Wright and New York

    Frank Lloyd Wright called New York an “unlivable prison,” “a crime of crimes” and more, but the city gave him refuge from crippling personal and professional troubles and revitalized both his life and career. We talked with Anthony Alofsin, world-renowned authority on Wright, prizewinning author and Roland Roessner Centennial Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin about Wright’s complex relationship with New York – the subject of his acclaimed latest book, and his 92U online class this week …

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  • Diving Into Adrienne Rich

    Hilary Holladay, author of the acclaimed new biography The Power of Adrienne Rich – a New York Times Top Book of 2020 – talks to us about why the iconic American poet was ahead of her time, the story behind the National Book Award-winning breakthrough Diving Into the Wreck, and her upcoming class Reading Adrienne Rich at 92U – 92Y’s new destination for online learning …

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  • Shamel Pitts and TRIBE

    Dancer, choreographer and performance artist Shamel Pitts and his Brooklyn-based arts collective TRIBE is a 92Y Harkness Dance Center Artist in Residence for 2020/21. We talked with him about his new digital art experience Black Hole 360°, how a dynamic, movement-based global artist has dealt with the stillness of quarantine, and how that’s making its way into his art …

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  • Behind the scenes with the nominees

    Golden Globe nominations are out … who’d get your vote? We were honored to host many of the nominees on our stage. For today’s sweet treat, we’re sharing some of the most fun and inspiring moments from our star-studded archives …

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  • A Year with Toni Morrison

    92U and the Unterberg Poetry Center present an immersive series of lectures on all of the Nobel laureate’s novels, led by some of the nation’s most celebrated Black literary scholars …

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