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Date/TimeTitle/DescriptionLocationAudience
Tue, September 6
@ 10:30 AM
Canceled
Outdoor
This event will take place outdoors at the Library for the Performing Arts. Our colleagues at the Riverside Library are bringing their wildly popular storytimes across the street to the Library for the Performing Arts Library's Outdoor Reading Room. Join a Children's Librarian for stories, songs, and other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Recommended for children 1 year old and up. Dates: Outdoor Family Storytimes will be held on Tuesdays at 10:30am and 11:15am from Ap…
OutdoorsChildren
Tue, September 6
@ 11:15 AM
Canceled
Outdoor
This event will take place outdoors at the Library for the Performing Arts. Our colleagues at the Riverside Library are bringing their wildly popular storytimes across the street to the Library for the Performing Arts Library's Outdoor Reading Room. Join a Children's Librarian for stories, songs, and other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Recommended for children 1 year old and up. Dates: Outdoor Family Storytimes will be held on Tuesdays at 10:30am and 11:15am from Ap…
OutdoorsChildren
Wed, September 7
@ 1 PM
This event is online only. 53rd Street Library is continuing our successful remote music series in collaboration with the Library for the Performing Arts. This disc discussion will focus on Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska **How to Register: Please click HERE** We are offering a monthly music club (1PM & 5PM options) via Google Hangouts/Meetup selecting and focusing on a classic album with a distinct cultural impact. To give the club an intimate feel--Like a book club for music. An LP Club!--a…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Wed, September 7
@ 5 PM
This event is online only. 53rd Street Library is continuing our successful remote music series in collaboration with the Library for the Performing Arts. This disc discussion will focus on Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska **How to Register: Please click HERE** We are offering a monthly music club (1PM & 5PM options) via Google Hangouts/Meetup selecting and focusing on a classic album with a distinct cultural impact. To give the club an intimate feel--Like a book club for music. An LP Club!--a…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Sat, September 10
@ 2:30 PM
Silent Clowns Film Series
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Please click here to register. A movie poster for Our Hospitality, (1923) In the latest silent film series, Silent Clowns, with live piano accompaniment, we pay tribute to Buster Keaton. Trains frequently play important parts in Keaton films, particularly in Our Hospitality (1923). Buster’s second feature film is set in 1831 and has him take a slow train from rural New York City to end up embroiled in the middle…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman CenterAdults
Mon, September 12
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Register Carol Rosegg and Joan Marcus. Photo: © Amy Klein Over the last 30 years, Joan Marcus and Carol Rosegg have been two of the most prolific photographers of Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre. Between the two of them, they photographed nearly a thousand productions, documenting many of the most iconic theatrical moments of a generation. The Billy Rose Theatre Division acquired their collections in 2018, co…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman CenterAdults
Tue, September 13
@ 10:30 AM
Outdoor
This event will take place outdoors at the Library for the Performing Arts. Our colleagues at the Riverside Library are bringing their wildly popular storytimes across the street to the Library for the Performing Arts Library's Outdoor Reading Room. Join a Children's Librarian for stories, songs, and other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Recommended for children 1 year old and up. Dates: Outdoor Family Storytimes will be held on Tuesdays at 10:30am and 11:15am from Ap…
OutdoorsChildren
Tue, September 13
@ 11:15 AM
Outdoor
This event will take place outdoors at the Library for the Performing Arts. Our colleagues at the Riverside Library are bringing their wildly popular storytimes across the street to the Library for the Performing Arts Library's Outdoor Reading Room. Join a Children's Librarian for stories, songs, and other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Recommended for children 1 year old and up. Dates: Outdoor Family Storytimes will be held on Tuesdays at 10:30am and 11:15am from Ap…
OutdoorsChildren
Thu, September 15
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. To register, please click here. left: Jeanine Tesori, right: John Weidman In this intimate conversation Jeanine Tesori will interview writer, librettist, and advocate John Weidman, discussing his body of work including Assassins, Pacific Overtures, Road Show, his collaboration with Stephen Sondheim, his upcoming projects, and more. In anticipation of the Dramatists Guild's upcoming Dramatist magazine issue dedi…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman CenterAdults
Fri, September 16
@ 3:30 PM
Outdoor
From 1947 to 1968, the New York Public Library's Music Division hosted free public listening events in Bryant Park to offer access to the growing "record library" of discs donated by record labels like Columbia and Decca. It was among the first listening events of its kind – drawing an average of 2,000 visitors to the park on weekdays from noon to 2 pm. Today the "record library" contains over 700,000 recordings and forms part of the Music & Recorded Sound Division at the Library for the Per…
OutdoorsAdults
Mon, September 19
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Please click here to register. Caption: Photo of Bijayini Satpathy by Arun Kumar. A continuum of interlacing arts and embodied traditions to a postmodern performance pedagogy of a young independent republic. As the Republic of India celebrates its 75th anniversary of independence this year, Bijayini Satpathy maps the journey of Odissi from the pre-Christian period to the global dance that Odissi is today, addre…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman CenterAdults
Tue, September 20
@ 10:30 AM
Outdoor
This event will take place outdoors at the Library for the Performing Arts. Our colleagues at the Riverside Library are bringing their wildly popular storytimes across the street to the Library for the Performing Arts Library's Outdoor Reading Room. Join a Children's Librarian for stories, songs, and other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Recommended for children 1 year old and up. Dates: Outdoor Family Storytimes will be held on Tuesdays at 10:30am and 11:15am from Ap…
OutdoorsChildren
Tue, September 20
@ 11:15 AM
Outdoor
This event will take place outdoors at the Library for the Performing Arts. Our colleagues at the Riverside Library are bringing their wildly popular storytimes across the street to the Library for the Performing Arts Library's Outdoor Reading Room. Join a Children's Librarian for stories, songs, and other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Recommended for children 1 year old and up. Dates: Outdoor Family Storytimes will be held on Tuesdays at 10:30am and 11:15am from Ap…
OutdoorsChildren
Wed, September 21
@ 1 PM
David Vaughan's The Dance Historian Is In
Kathak artist, Rachna Nivas, curates a video journey highlighting the evolution of her renowned lineage of North Indian classical dance. Kathak dance performing artist, educator, and advocate, Rachna Nivas, curates a riveting video journey, highlighting a world-renowned legacy of North Indian classical dance. Co-founder of nationally-based Leela Dance Collective and Academy, and Director of Leela’s New York chapter, Nivas is a senior lineage-bearer of legendary kathak master Pandit Chitresh Das…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Thu, September 22
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at the Library for the Performing Arts. Join us for a performance of Kindersang, written by Deirdre Gribbin and performed by soprano Amanda Boyd and violinist Michelle Ross, including works from the 17th century in addition to traditional Jewish folksong. The evening includes performances of Heinrich Biber’s solo violin work based on the traditional hymn “God, Give me an Angel,” Bach’s poignant cantata seeking ‘“peace and quiet rest”’ and Joseph Pinkhof’s so…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Bruno Walter Auditorium
Adults
Fri, September 23
@ 3:30 PM
Outdoor
From 1947 to 1968, the New York Public Library's Music Division hosted free public listening events in Bryant Park to offer access to the growing "record library" of discs donated by record labels like Columbia and Decca. It was among the first listening events of its kind – drawing an average of 2,000 visitors to the park on weekdays from noon to 2 pm. Today the "record library" contains over 700,000 recordings and forms part of the Music & Recorded Sound Division at the Library for the Per…
OutdoorsAdults
Tue, September 27
@ 10:30 AM
Outdoor
This event will take place outdoors at the Library for the Performing Arts. Our colleagues at the Riverside Library are bringing their wildly popular storytimes across the street to the Library for the Performing Arts Library's Outdoor Reading Room. Join a Children's Librarian for stories, songs, and other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Recommended for children 1 year old and up. Dates: Outdoor Family Storytimes will be held on Tuesdays at 10:30am and 11:15am from Ap…
OutdoorsChildren
Tue, September 27
@ 11:15 AM
Outdoor
This event will take place outdoors at the Library for the Performing Arts. Our colleagues at the Riverside Library are bringing their wildly popular storytimes across the street to the Library for the Performing Arts Library's Outdoor Reading Room. Join a Children's Librarian for stories, songs, and other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Recommended for children 1 year old and up. Dates: Outdoor Family Storytimes will be held on Tuesdays at 10:30am and 11:15am from Ap…
OutdoorsChildren
Thu, September 29
@ 1 PM
Outdoor
This event will take place outdoors at The Library for the Performing Arts. Are you a dancer in NYC? Have you ever visited the Performing Arts Library? The Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the Library for the Performing Arts has partnered with Dance/NYC to be a Dance Industry Census polling site. The Dance Industry Census is the first comprehensive research study that aims to better understand the size, makeup, health and state of the dance ecosystem in the metropolitan New York City area in…
TerraceAdults
Sat, October 1
@ 2 PM
This event will take place in person at the Library for the Performing Arts. This afternoon of song and vocal chamber ensemble celebrates contemporary musical creation inspired by Middle English and Elizabethan Mystical Poetry. A concert of song and vocal chamber ensemble, "The Faucon" is a tribute to mid-20th-century and contemporary composers that created new works inspired by "mystical" Middle English and Elizabethan poetry. The project is a collaboration with the ensemble 2Flutes, and is a…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Bruno Walter Auditorium
Adults
Tue, October 4
@ 12 PM
This event will take place in person at the Library for the Performing Arts. After a two year hiatus the Gotham Jazzmen are back! Spend your lunch break listening to a live set of traditional jazz music. Using your “library voice” does not apply! The Gotham Jazzmen features Pete Sokolow on piano, Lee Lorenz on cornet, James Lincoln Collier on trombone, Ernie Lumer on clarinet, Ed Bonoff on drums, and Skip Muller on bass. The Library encourages mask wearing in all public spaces.
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Thu, October 6
@ 5:30 PM
16mm Film
This event will take place in person at the Library for the Performing Arts. Please click here to register. A subsidiary element of the women’s liberation movement of the late 1960s, the issue of childcare - why it’s needed and how it should be provided - has persisted. Join us for an evening of film and discussion with the independent filmmakers who have brought these questions to the fore, featuring the documentary Through the Night (2020), about a 24-hour daycare center in New Rochelle…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Fri, October 7
@ 4:30 PM
These events will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Please click here to register. Participants of this workshop will learn about this visual effect (VFX) commonly used in Hollywood and will test out the process using various color hues other than green. This workshop will also involve experimenting with the post-production technique of compositing, a method of layering images and video. By the end of the class, participants will create their own time-based…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman CenterAdults
Thu, October 13
@ 10:30 AM
16mm Film
Kids of all ages are welcome to join us for a regular screening of children's films this fall. Short works will be shown in the cafe at the Library for the Performing Arts on our 16mm film projector. If your little one loves machines, dinosaurs, barking and learning to love reading, this series is for them! Series dates: Thurs Oct 13 Thurs Nov 10 Thurs Dec 15 Late winter/2023 TBD
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Cafe
Children,

Infant (0-18 months),

Toddlers (18-36 months),

Pre-schoolers (3-5 years)
Fri, October 14
@ 4:30 PM
These events will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Please click here to register. Participants of this workshop will learn about this visual effect (VFX) commonly used in Hollywood and will test out the process using various color hues other than green. This workshop will also involve experimenting with the post-production technique of compositing, a method of layering images and video. By the end of the class, participants will create their own time-based…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman CenterAdults
Fri, October 14
@ 6:30 PM
Online
This event is online only. Please click here to register. For over 50 years, the Theatre Library Association (TLA) has honored great accomplishments in performing arts research and scholarship with its annual book awards. The Theatre Library Association invites all to the annual presentation of the TLA Book Awards, honoring English-language works of scholarship on live and recorded performance published in 2021. The virtual TLA Book Awards Ceremony will include remarks from this year's…
Online onlyAdults
Sat, October 15
@ 2 PM
A musical program of uplifting and inspiring songs performed by singer Jenny Lynn Stewart. The program includes such popular songs such as “Manhattan,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street” and many other show stoppers including an audience sing-a-long of “New York, New York.” Register Photo: Jenny Lynn Stewart by Bill Westmoreland. While tickets to all events at the Library for the Performing Arts are free, seating is granted on a first come first serve basis. Five minutes before showtime, s…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Bruno Walter Auditorium
Adults
Mon, October 17
@ 12 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Please click here to Register. His peers have frequently spoken about Stephen Sondheim’s lyric writing, but comparatively little attention has been dedicated to his music. In this panel of Broadway songwriters, moderated by lyricist and DG President Amanda Green, composers Jason Robert Brown and Tom Kitt will discuss the craft behind the legendary writer's music, as well as how Sondheim mentored a generation of t…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Mon, October 17
@ 6 PM
League of Professional Theatre Women: Oral History Project
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Please click here to register. Tony Award-winning producer Pat Addiss will be interviewed by critic and journalist Roma Torre in this next installment of the League of Professional Theatre Women's (LPTW) ongoing series which chronicles and documents the contributions of significant women in theatre. The League of Professional Theatre Women (a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization) has been championing women and…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Thu, October 20
@ 7 PM
Works & Process
LayeRhythm (on the Move) with Sun Kim Dance Theater, Works & Process in collaboration with 92NY, and community partner Hi-ARTS. Embodying the continuum of concert and social dance, LayeRhythm led by Mai Lê Hô weaves a singular mix of freestyle dance, live music, and audience interaction, celebrating the vibrancy of street and club dance cultures. Spotlighting Popping and Sun Kim Dance Theater, the evening will feature choreographed work from the company alongside improvisations by musicians…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, LPA CafeAdults
Fri, October 21
@ 4:30 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Please click here to register for the 4:30 - 5:30pm Q&A Session. Light in the Attic and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts invite you to a special event celebrating the inaugural release in Light in the Attic’s ongoing Lou Reed Archive Series: Words & Music, May 1965, which will be released on Friday, October 21. The event will include a panel discussion featuring Laurie Anderson, Lou Ree…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium
Adults
Fri, October 21
@ 4:30 PM
These events will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Please click here to register. Participants of this workshop will learn about this visual effect (VFX) commonly used in Hollywood and will test out the process using various color hues other than green. This workshop will also involve experimenting with the post-production technique of compositing, a method of layering images and video. By the end of the class, participants will create their own time-based…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman CenterAdults
Sat, October 22
@ 5 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Visitors will receive special access to the Lou Reed Listening Room, a fully-immersive acoustic, visual, and lighting experience, designed to recreate Reed's groundbreaking composition for gallery visitors from his exact acoustic perspective while performing it live onstage, as well a wide variety of music and content not previously available to the public. The exhibition designers from Arup will demonstrate the L…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Library for the Performing Arts, Astor Gallery
Adults
Mon, October 24
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Please click here to register. image: Gregory Hines (left) and George C. Wolfe (right). photo by Martha Swope (1992) Any list of the most important plays and musicals to open in New York in the last 30 years would include at least several works by George C. Wolfe. His reimagining of Shuffle Along, his revival of The Iceman Cometh, and his celebration of the work of Jelly Roll Morton in Jelly's Last Jam exempli…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Wed, October 26
@ 1 PM
David Vaughan's The Dance Historian Is In
Dance historian and educator Wendy Perron discusses Pina Bausch’s years in New York from 1959-1961. Dance historian and educator Wendy Perron discusses Pina Bausch’s years in New York from 1959-1961. Topics include her time as a student at Juilliard, the ensuing year when she chose to stay in New York, danced in the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and a piece by Paul Taylor, and collaborated with Paul Sanasardo and Donya Feuer. Perron will screen excerpts of the final spring concert at Juilliard in 1…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Thu, October 27
@ 7 PM
Works & Process
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. In conjunction with the Guggenheim Museum’s Alex Katz retrospective, Alex Katz: Gathering, join Paul Taylor Dance Company Artistic Director Michael Novak, celebrated Taylor alumnae and educators Carolyn Adams and Susan McGuire, and artist, critic, and curator Robert Storr as they discuss the lasting resonance of Alex Katz’s collaborations with dancemaker Paul Taylor. Select archival video highlights from their s…
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Tue, November 1
@ 1 PM
This event is online only. 53rd Street Library is continuing our successful remote music series in collaboration with the Library for the Performing Arts. This disc discussion will focus on the Talking Heads: Remain in Light **How to Register: Please click HERE** We are offering a monthly music club (1PM & 5PM options) via Google Hangouts/Meetup selecting and focusing on a classic album with a distinct cultural impact. To give the club an intimate feel--Like a book club for music. An LP C…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Tue, November 1
@ 5 PM
This event is online only. 53rd Street Library is continuing our successful remote music series in collaboration with the Library for the Performing Arts. This disc discussion will focus on the Talking Heads: Remain in Light **How to Register: Please click HERE** We are offering a monthly music club (1PM & 5PM options) via Google Hangouts/Meetup selecting and focusing on a classic album with a distinct cultural impact. To give the club an intimate feel--Like a book club for music. An LP C…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Thu, November 3
@ 6 PM
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. Please click here to register. For over thirty years, Daryl Roth has been one of the most influential producers on Broadway. She has produced seven Pulitzer prize winning works, and numerous Tony winners. Like other producers documented in our collections, such as Joseph Papp and Harold Prince, Roth has managed to bridge the sometimes wide gap between commercially-motivated and artistically-minded and has brought…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium
Adults
Mon, November 7
@ 7 PM
Works & Process
Dance Conversations Intergenerational Memories of New York City Club Dancers with Ephrat Asherie Monday, November 7, 7 pm, Bruno Walter Auditorium In conjunction with the premiere of UNDERSCORED, choreographer Ephrat Asherie is working with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division to collect and archive oral histories from elders who helped create and usher in NYC’s underground dance scene in the 1970s and 1980s. In this program, legendary elders from the underground dance community, such as Mich…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults