Monday, Oct. 1 at 7pm
Joe’s Pub at The Public Theatre, 425 Lafayette Street, NY, NY 10003
THE PUBLIC FORUM is a high-profile series of lectures, debates, and conversations inspired by plays in The Public Theater season. Curated by Jeremy McCarter, the Forum features leading voices in politics, media, and the arts. Alec Baldwin, Anne Hathaway, Cynthia Nixon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sam Waterson, and NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman have hosted its programs, which have featured the insights of Kurt Andersen, Carl Bernstein, David Brooks, Arianna Huffington, Bill Irwin, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, Francine Prose, Stephen Sondheim, and young veterans of the war in Afghanistan – plus performances by Anne Hathaway, Michael Friedman, Gabriel Kahane, and Michael Ceveris, among others.
To mark the rededication of The Public Theater this fall, The Public Forum will present a special series of “Duet” conversations. Each Duet will pair an artist who has been important to the life of The Public with a leading voice from outside the world of theatre, reaffirming Joe Papp’s mission to keep The Public in touch with society at large.
Alec Baldwin (Macbeth at The Public, Jack Donaghy on NBC’s 30 Rock, host of the WNYC podcast Here’s the Thing) will trade views about American politics and culture with New York Times columnist David Brooks (author of The Social Animal, On Paradise Drive, and Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There).
For more information, please visit, http://www.publictheater.org/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,141/id,1062.