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Thu, October 26
@ 5:30 PM
Register here! Credited with popularizing the label “ex-wife”; in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life balance, and a host of new challenges facing modern women. Her best-selling books (many of them set in New York City), Hollywood film deals, marriages and divorces, and run-ins with the law made her a household name. Marsha Gordon, author of Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott, wi…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Fri, October 27
@ 6:30 PM
Online
This event is online only. For over 50 years, the Theatre Library Association (TLA) has honored significant 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 2022. The virtual TLA Book Awards Ceremony will include remarks from this year's winning authors, presentation…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online Only
Adults
Sat, October 28
@ 12:30 PM
The Hālāwai Film Festival endeavors to celebrate, showcase and cultivate talent and cultural resources of the Pacific Islands in the New York metropolitan area. Experience performances and films centered around the cultural dances of the Pacific Islands. Join the journey to becoming the best of the best in hula, and take an unvarnished look at the impacts of the commercialization of hula and Hawaiian culture. Register Featured films include Ka Huaka'i, directed by Gerard Elmore which follo…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Mon, October 30
@ 6 PM
Register here! In the grassy gardens of princely Italian villas, a boisterous George Frideric Handel found himself surrounded by the greatest thinkers and artists of his day. During weekend meetings playfully called Conversations, ideas would be passed around and passionately examined about love, death, loss, virtue—timeless notions that continue to challenge us. In this makeshift Eden, the young Handel experimented and pushed his art to its farthest reaches. Reimagining these 18th-century mee…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Tue, October 31
@ 6 PM
Register here! This event previously scheduled for Monday, October 23 unfortunately had to be rescheduled for Tuesday, October 31. We hope you can join us for this new date. Members of the creative and producing teams of the Broadway hit Wicked will gather on its 20th anniversary to remember the process of launching the original production and reflect on what has happened in the two decades since. Guests include composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz, book writer Winnie Holzman, and producer David…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Wed, November 1
@ 1 PM
Online
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 Sinéad O'Connor: I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got **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…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Wed, November 1
@ 5 PM
Online
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 Sinéad O'Connor: I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got **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…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Sat, November 4
@ 2:30 PM
Silent Clowns Film Series
Register here! Silent Clowns, New York’s longest-running regularly scheduled silent film showcase hosts an afternoon of hoots and hijinks! Presenting the silent comedies of Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, Lloyd, and many others, all with live musical accompaniment by renowned silent-film accompanist Ben Model. Every program features a spoken introduction and Q&A by film historians Steve Massa and Model. For classic-film fans young and old alike! Marion Davies is best-remembered today…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Mon, November 6
@ 6 PM
The author of more than 40 shows, Otto Harbach revolutionized Broadway with his integrated musical theater. This hybrid lecture and concert focuses on Harbach’s work in such shows as The Desert Song and No, No, Nanette—and reveals the lyrical genius behind “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” and “Yesterdays.” Bradley Rogers, an expert on Harbach, traces how Harbach remains a force in contemporary musical theater, not only through the works of his protégé Oscar Hammerstein, but also through the aesthetic i…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Thu, November 9
@ 6 PM
Register here! The C4: Choral Composer/Conductor Collective, an award-winning collective ensemble focused on choral music written in the last 25 years, presents an evening of new choral works composed by members of the Collective and inspired by items from the Library for the Performing Arts' collections. SEATING POLICY | Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requested. Check-in line forms 45 minutes before the advertised start time. Registered guests are given priority che…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Mon, November 13
@ 6 PM
The Jerome Robbins Dance Division is delighted to host a celebration of 93-year-old choreographer, dance icon, activist, and pioneer, Nat Horne. In addition to being the first enlisted African-American to dance for the U.S. military Special Services, Horne was an original member of Alvin Ailey Dance Theater and performed in the original production of Revelations. Having appeared in 12 Broadway shows, he was one of the founders of New York’s “Theatre Row” on 42nd Street. Live dance and musical p…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Wed, November 15
@ 6 PM
Register Inspired by hip-hop groups like De La Soul and Public Enemy, rappers Phonte and Big Pooh, and producer 9th Wonder, based in Durham, North Carolina, formed Little Brother to carry on the tradition of developing hip-hop music set forth by their “big brothers.” Now, a new documentary tells their story—May The Lord Watch: The Little Brother Story follows the rise, breakup, and reunion of Little Brother. A music documentary in the tradition of films like Beats Rhymes & Life or Zappa, M…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Thu, November 16
@ 6 PM
Register In 2022, the Billy Rose Theatre Division offered its past Across a Crowded Room participants the chance to apply for a fellowship to continue development of their work created in that workshop. The musical theatre collaboration of A.J. Freeman, Gil Varod, and Jonathon Lynch received that fellowship for their piece The Carousel of Inevitability and Certain Foreboding. In this first performance, they will showcase what they have been up to since receiving the fellowship. The musical cen…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Fri, November 17
@ 6 PM
League of Professional Theatre Women: Oral History Project
Register The League of Professional Theatre Women presents a conversation with director and choreographer Susan Stroman. Five-time Tony Award-winning director and choreographer, Stroman’s work has also been honored with Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, and a record six Astaire Awards. Stroman will speak with actress and writer Sharon Washington. For the past three decades, The League of Professional Theatre Women has partnered with the Library for the Performing Arts…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Sat, November 18
@ 11 AM
Register here! For nearly ten years, the Library for the Performing Arts’ summer musical theatre writing program has brought together lyricists, composers, bookwriters, and performers to form new collaborations and write 20-minute musicals with advice from experts in the industry. At the end of each program, the artists present their new musical theatre works to the public. Join us for this special first performance of these works! 11:10 am - Max and Millie Mark S. Meritt, Mary Darcy, and Mic…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Mon, November 20
@ 6 PM
The Mourning Dove is an unfinished playlet by Jerome Robbins in which he aligns the tragic death of John F. Kennedy—an event he felt could be perceived in time as of quasi-mythical nature—with the unique form of Noh, the Japanese theatrical tradition that Robbins regarded as a possible model for his own dramatic vision. The script and the spare poetry of his text mirror, in fact, the structure and patterns of a Noh play—an alignment that is to be intended as a way to express with extreme economy…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Wed, November 22
@ 11 AM
*This tour is first come, first served and requires no registration. Take a free tour of the exhibition with Library staff to discover how the crossing of borders contributed to the creation of a new American art form—modern dance. Immigrant artists and artists of color, marginalized and excluded in their own lands, have largely been erased from dance history despite their pivotal contributions to contemporary performance. Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, 1900–1955 illum…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Shelby Cullom Davis Museum, Donald and Mary Oenslager GalleryAdults
Mon, November 27
@ 6 PM
Register The Library for the Performing Arts celebrates the life and multifaceted career of Regina Resnik, international opera star, Tony-nominated actress, stage director, and filmmaker. Alongside our exhibition opening September 21, we will screen the documentary Regina Resnik: New York Original, which traces the remarkable 70-year career of the Bronx-born Jewish cultural figure. The film features interviews with opera stars Martina Arroyo and Teresa Stratas; Broadway legends Harold Prince an…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Wed, November 29
@ 1 PM
David Vaughan's The Dance Historian Is In
Register here! Continuing the Library’s ongoing efforts to recognize the artists featured in the exhibition Border Crossings, the Jerome Robbins Dance Division welcomes Carmen de Lavallade, Leo Holder and Zita Allen to discuss the collaboration between Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder and its impact on the field of dance. De Lavallade is a legendary dancer, choreographer, actress and teacher, whose career of over 70 years includes having ballets created for her by Lester Horton, Geoffre…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium
Online
Adults
Thu, November 30
@ 6 PM
Canceled
This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. The Ivalas Quartet, the Graduate Resident String Quartet at The Juilliard School, perform rarely heard music by women composers, some of which has not been played in 100 years. This program will highlight some of the Music and Recorded Sound Division scores recently cataloged through the generous donation of the Achelis & Bodman Foundation. The quartet will play music by composers Helen Crane, Mary Howe, Marion Bauer, Madel…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Fri, December 1
@ 6 PM
Register Dance scholar and former Chief Dance Critic for the New York Times, Alastair Macaulay, takes us on a deep dive into one of the most beloved ballets of all time, Giselle, in company with the Giselle scholars and stagers Marian Smith and Doug Fullington. Following a timeline from the original choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot in 1841 through to some later productions, Macaulay and his colleagues will trace the evolution of the work into the form audiences recognize today. Ph…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Mon, December 4
@ 6 PM
Register The musical Legs Diamond told the story of a true-life gangster, Jack "Legs" Diamond, who always wanted to be on Broadway. Peter Allen’s Tony-nominated 1988 Broadway musical, written by Charles Suppon and Harvey Fierstein, only lasted for 64 performances, but it has since developed a huge cult following. It received several Tony Award nominations, and Willa Kim was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for her fantastic costume design. Broadway World's Richard Ridge modera…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Tue, December 5
@ 1 PM
Online
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 A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records **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 mus…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Tue, December 5
@ 5 PM
Online
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 A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records **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 mus…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Thu, December 7
@ 6 PM
Register Choreographer, writer, and performer Jack Ferver stars in the dance film, Nowhere Apparent, by filmmaker Jeremy Jacob. The film creates a kaleidoscopic world of queer isolation, theatricality, and abandonment in response to disappeared parental figures and the failed response to the AIDS crisis. Both Ferver and Jacob were Dance Research Fellows with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division in 2019, working with the Division’s AIDS Legacy Project. A screening of the film will be followed by a…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Sat, December 9
@ 2:30 PM
Silent Clowns Film Series
Registration is closed, but we will give out stand-by tickets based on availability. Silent Clowns, New York’s longest-running regularly scheduled silent film showcase hosts an afternoon of hoots and hijinks! Presenting the silent comedies of Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, Lloyd, and many others, all with live musical accompaniment by renowned silent-film accompanist Ben Model. Every program features a spoken introduction and Q&A by film historians Steve Massa and Model. For classic-f…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Mon, December 11
@ 6 PM
Register here! The Billy Rose Theatre Division celebrates five decades of one Broadway’s most brilliant actors, André De Shields. In this discussion with De Shields, we screen video clips of his many performances and explore his illustrious career from the 1969 Chicago production of Hair to his critically praised turn as Ben Loman in the 2022 revival of Death of a Salesman. André De Shields in the Red Shoes photo series by Kenn Duncan. Billy Rose Theatre Division. SEATING POLICY | Program…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Thu, December 14
@ 6 PM
Culminating a semester of research and creative experimentation, students from The New School's College of the Performing Arts, led by acclaimed saxophonist and composer Jane Ira Bloom, present new music collaborative works inspired by and incorporating the Library's archives. The concert will be followed by a discussion with the composers to discuss their process from research to performance. Register SEATING POLICY | Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requested. Che…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Wed, December 27
@ 11 AM
This event will take place in person at the Library for the Performing Arts. *This tour is first come, first served and requires no registration. Take a tour of the exhibition with Library staff to discover how the crossing of borders contributed to the creation of a new American art form - modern dance. Immigrant artists and artists of color, marginalized and excluded in their own lands, have largely been erased from dance history despite their pivotal contributions to contemporary perf…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Shelby Cullom Davis Museum, Donald and Mary Oenslager GalleryAdults
Wed, December 27
@ 1 PM
David Vaughan's The Dance Historian Is In
This event will take place in person at The Library for the Performing Arts, as well as livestreamed online on Zoom, as a hybrid event. Register Filmmaker and choreographer Omonike Akinyemi takes us through the career of the incredible Puerto Rican-born dance artist Manuel Alum. A star dancer and director of the Paul Sanasardo Dance Company, Alum went on to run his own company and had a prolific career as a choreographer. Photo Credit: Philip Hipwell This event will take place online via Zo…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium
Online
Adults
Wed, January 3
@ 1 PM
Online
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 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band **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 L…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Wed, January 3
@ 5 PM
Online
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 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band **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 L…
ONLINEAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Sat, January 6
@ 11 AM
Register For nearly ten years, the Library for the Performing Arts’ summer musical theater writing program has brought together lyricists, composers, bookwriters, and performers to form new collaborations and write 20-minute musicals with advice from experts in the industry. At the end of each program, the artists present their new musical theatre works to the public. Join us for this special first performance of these works! SEATING POLICY | Programs are free and open to all, but registrat…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Sat, January 20
@ 2:30 PM
Silent Clowns Film Series
Register Laurel and Hardy came together in 1927—the characters, relationships, and the cinematic style that they began to develop during that seminal year would stay with them for years to come. In 2023, Lobster Films and Flicker Alley completeda major restoration project of the 1927 silent films to commemorate the beginning of their collaboration. Scouring the film archives and collectors from around the world, they created the most complete and best-looking versions of these early entries. O…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Fri, January 26
@ 10 AM
Register Join the Jerome Robbins Dance Division for its annual symposium, where the current class of Dance Research Fellows will present their projects on Martha Graham and her legacy as her company celebrates its centennial anniversary. The Jerome Robbins Dance Division’s annual symposium is the culmination of the Dance Research Fellowship, an annual cohort of dance scholars and artists invited to research a specific aspect of dance. This year’s class features Michael Byrne, Kim Jones, Alex…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Sat, January 27
@ 1:30 PM
Commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year with an event that highlights the creative process behind current New York's Holocaust-related theater. In partnership with the National Jewish Theater Foundation's Holocaust Theater International Initiative, we are joined by NJTF President, producer, director, and educator Arnold Mittelman who will interview the creators of current shows such as Harmony, Our Class, and Here There Are Blueberries. This program illuminates how artists…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults
Wed, January 31
@ 11 AM
*This tour is first come, first served and requires no registration. Please note that the Library does not open until 11am on this day, Wednesday, January 31st. Take a tour of the exhibition with Libary staff to discover how the crossing of borders contributed to the creation of a new American art form - modern dance. Immigrant artists and artists of color, marginalized and excluded in their own lands, have largely been erased from dance history despite their pivotal contributions to conte…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Shelby Cullom Davis Museum, Donald and Mary Oenslager GalleryAdults
Wed, January 31
@ 1 PM
Online
Register For this Dance Historian Is In, Dance artists, Merián Soto and Viveca Vázquez co-host a screening of their new film ¡Fenomenal!, Rompeforma 1989-1996, a documentary which uses archival materials, explores the history of the experimental Latinx festival, Rompeforma—a dance, performance, and visual marathon held in Puerto Rico from 1989 to 1996. Following the film Soto and Vázquez will engage in an in-depth conversation with public participation on the process of creating the documentar…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium
Online
Adults
Fri, February 2
@ 10 AM
Online
Register This is an online-only event. Registrants will recieve the link via email the morning of the program. Join the Jerome Robbins Dance Division for its annual symposium, where the current class of Dance Research Fellows will present their projects on Martha Graham and her legacy as her company celebrates its centennial anniversary. The Jerome Robbins Dance Division’s annual symposium is the culmination of the Dance Research Fellowship, an annual cohort of dance scholars and artists invi…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online Only
Adults
Mon, February 5
@ 2 PM
Register Ahead of our 10th anniversary celebration of Disney's film adaptation of Into the Woods, we screen the film in its entirety. Directed by Rob Marshall, and starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Johnny Depp, and many others, the film tells the story of a witch who tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree. SEATING POLICY | Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requested. Check-in line…
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter AuditoriumAdults