Featuring music and conversation with Jason Treuting, Angélica Negrón, and Jherek Bischoff as well as a conversation with composer and festival curator, Judd Greenstein.

Arthur Miller's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Death of a Salesman, in a new production directed by eight-time Tony Award(r) winner Mike Nichols and starring Academy Award(r) winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, Obie Award winner Linda Emond as Linda Loman and Andrew Garfield (The Social Network, The ...

Be a part of New York City’s emerging music scene at the Battle of The Boroughs in The Greene Space. Come hear great music and inspiring stories from a wide range of talented up-and-coming artists.

Sir Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time (1941) is a unique oratorio, combining subject matter from the events leading up to Kristallnacht, ...

Bassist-composer Ben Allison is one of a few band leaders working in jazz today who has developed his own instantly identifiable sound. Known for his lyrical melodies, inventive ...

Winner of two 2011 Latin GRAMMY® Awards for “Best Latin Jazz Album” and Best Classical Contemporary Composition.”

Cuban-born saxophonist and clarinetist Paquito’s performances transcend musical genres, where he is equally at home performing cool jazz, hot Latin sounds or even a classical concerto.

A film retrospective of Gary Oldman will be held for 3 consecutive nights with 6 of Oldman’s best roles, including his Oscar nominated performance for TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY.   Two films per night will be screened including SID & NANCY, THE CONTENDER and JFK.  A Q&A is planned with ...

Rosie Perez hosts an event to tell the story of a group of women who challenge the prevailing wisdom that girls don’t play rough. 

A night of romance with Michael Amante. 

Explore the classical side of acclaimed singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright in this very special one-night-only event!

With Golden Globe nominee/Grammy-winning film composer, musician Terence Blanchard and writer and prizewinning translator from New Orleans and current Chair of the PEN Translation Committee, Susan Bernofsky. 

Join Leonard Lopate for An Evening with Dave Isay, to discuss his new book, “All There Is: Love Stories From StoryCorps.” We’ll listen together to excerpts from the oral history project and talk to couples who participated and share your stories.

Get an inside look at the Broadway production of the humorous and heartbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, with cast members Cynthia Nixon, Greg Keller and Carra Patterson. Conversation hosted by WNYC’s Amy Eddings.

A panel discussion co-sponsored by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Review of Books, and the Fritt Ord Foundation of Oslo.

Edmund Phelps, Paul Krugman, George Soros, and Jeffrey D. Sachs discuss the number one issue of the day: the financial crisis facing the world. Each panelist will ...

Join WNYC and New York EasyDates for a speed-dating party for single New Yorkers 40 and under. Or just mingle with other fans of public radio.

Alan Gilbert conducts with Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato

Like countless creative collaborations, the one between Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes was fruitful but ultimately ended in acrimony. 

2010 Olivier Award nominated play makes its North American premiere at the Barrow Street Theatre

Tribes follows Billy, a deaf man raised inside the fiercely idiosyncratic and unrepentantly politically incorrect cocoon of his home of his parents' house. He has adapted brilliantly to his hearing family’s unconventional ways, but they’ve ...

Robert Glasper draws together his parallel passions for hip hop and jazz on his latest release, “Black Radio.” In addition to his formal jazz training, the pianist has long navigated the nebulous territory between the two genres – working with artists like Q-Tip, Mos Def, and Erykah Badu. For this ...

Set in the 1920s, Their Eyes Were Watching God is the story of Janie Crawford – free-spirited and in search of life and her authentic self – as she undertakes an unexpected journey that includes marriages to three different men, challenging the morals and social expectations of the ...