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New York Magazine called him “the best verse playwright in America,” and his work has been staged on six continents, raising the question: why not Antarctica? Trouble? Some kind of polar trouble? This July, the Classical Theatre of Harlem presents his Memnon. Music: Emery Mason, Melissa Mosley. Tuesday July 1, 7:00 Harlem School of the Arts 645 St. Nicholas … Continue reading »

Theater

535: Gregory Mosher

He led Chicago’s Goodman Theatre and pretty much created theater at Lincoln Center. “The happiest moments of my life have been in rehearsal rooms.” Well, yeah. In there with him? David Mamet, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett. Sequentially, not simultaneously. Presented with Hunter College. Accompanist: Elijah Caldwell.  Continue reading »

Scholars

528: Emmanuel Lachaud

This historian, in CCNY’s Black Studies Department, says, “If I want to have a good writing day, I take the train an hour and fifteen minutes to somewhere I love, the quietest place in New York.” Silence and thought. Music: Birsa Chatterjee, saxophone; Raul Reyes, bass; Victor Gould, piano. (Not silent, much appreciated.) Continue reading »