535: Gregory Mosher
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 »

Next Live Show: Janis Siegel
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Next Live Show: Janis Siegel

She sang lead on some of Manhattan Transfer’s biggest hits (“Chanson D’Amour”), wrote some of their arrangements (“Birdland”), and for all I know, drove the tour bus. (A GMC, I irresponsibly conjecture.) Is there anything she can’t do? She’ll perform, accompanied by guitarist Sean Harkness. Produced with the Village Trip.Thursday, May 29, 6:00 La Lanterna di … 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 »