Gerald W. Lynch Theater

REVEALING THE MIND: THE PROMISE OF PSYCHEDELICS
2019-05-30 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Gerald W. Lynch Theater, 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY, 10019, United States
Nearly every culture throughout history has used chemicals that alter consciousness for spiritual exploration. In the 20th century, these drugs caught the attention of scientists. Psychedelics, as they were named, proved effective at treating intractable illnesses like depression and addiction. And they became a tool for studying the mind, opening “the doors of perception,” as Aldous Huxley wrote. But those doors slammed shut when President Nixon declared psychedelics dangerous and medically useless. Join scientists and “psychonauts” who are now picking up where research left off 50 years ago, experimenting with LSD, psilocybin, DMT and other psychedelics to heal—and reveal—the mind.

PHYSICS IN THE DARK: SEARCHING FOR THE UNIVERSE’S MISSING MATTER
2019-05-29 20:00 - 21:30
If you believe the world’s leading physicists, the vast majority of matter in the universe is hiding in plain sight. For nearly a century, evidence has mounted that the gravitational pull necessary to keep clusters of galaxies intact, as well as stars within galaxies from flying apart, requires far more matter than we can see—matter, according to the experts, that has eluded our telescopes, because it does not give off light. Problem is, such “dark matter” has also eluded one specially designed detector after another that researchers have deployed to catch it. Which raises the big question: What if we have failed to find dark matter because it isn’t there? Join leading physicists on a scientific treasure hunt that has proved more challenging than anyone expected, and may ultimately require rethinking some of our most fundamental ideas about the universe.

Success Academy Harlem North West presents ART OF STEPPING
2019-05-17 18:00 - 20:00
Success Academy Harlem North West presents The 4 Elements of Nature – Air / Water / Earth/ Fire. This end of the year performance will showcase the following genres: Ballet (AIR), Jazz (WATER), Modern (EARTH) and Hip Hop (FIRE) performed by members of the dance electives powered by Art of Stepping via their customized dance program. Event is open to the public and free!
For ticket information please contact Jessica@RemoInc.com

MY NEXT GUEST NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION presents SHAH RUKH KHAN
2019-05-16 16:00 - 19:00
David Letterman, the longest-serving host in U.S. late-night television – the original host of Late Night (NBC) and The Late Show (CBS) – returns for the second season of his Emmy nominated series for Netflix. Letterman will host Superstar Shah Rukh Khan at Gerald W. Lynch Theater on May 16 at 4 pm.
Shah Rukh Khan, also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality. Referred to in the media as the “Badshah of Bollywood”, “King of Bollywood” and “King Khan”, he has appeared in more than 80 Bollywood films and earned numerous accolades, including 14 Filmfare Awards.

The College of Performing Arts at The New School presents a Mannes Opera production of Kurt Weill’s STREET SCENE
2019-05-04 19:30 - 22:30, 2019-05-03 19:30 - 22:30
Considered by Weill himself to be an “American opera” – a synthesis of European opera and American musical theater – Street Scene combines a rigorous operatic style with a distinctively American story. As a meditation on how communities shift and tear as they accommodate new worldviews, it’s a remarkably modern and prescient piece – sometimes painfully so. Set against our home, New York City, and with a cast that embraces diversity, difference, immigration, and identity, it is impossible to experience Street Scene without seeing ourselves in the characters, with all of their glorious triumphs, hidden desires, and learned prejudices.

Maimouna Keita School of African Dance Inc. presents THE 27TH ANNUAL DANCE CONCERT
2019-04-20 20:00 - 22:00
Maimouna Keita School of African Dance Inc. presents THE 27TH ANNUAL DANCE CONCERT: SILA DJIGUIBA, PATH OF HOPE
Tickets can be purchased through Saturday at 4 pm at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration 1368 Fulton ST. Brooklyn NY 11216

John Jay Campus Activity Board presents KINGS & QUEERS Fashion Show
2019-04-16 19:00 - 21:30
Doors Open at 6 pm
Hosted by Stephanie’s Child
Sounds by @DJEUGENE_EDO
Performances by @CONNELLTHOMPSONSAX

Seeing Rape: This is America
2019-04-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-04-11 13:40 - 15:40, 2019-04-10 19:00 - 21:00
Seeing Rape: This is America is a performance written by John Jay College students. This group of men and women playwrights represents sexual violence in their own words, dialects, and languages in engaging and novel ways. In short plays, the way rape intersects with hyper-masculinity, the opioid epidemic, the workplace, immigration at the Southern border, and dating will be examined through drama. Join us for what promises to be some of the most innovative theater with many of the most talented actors in NYC. There will be a discussion with actors, playwrights and special guests immediately following each performance.
Generous financial support for this year’s program has come from John Jay College’s Student Council, the New York City Council, and many John Jay College academic departments and centers, including President Karol Mason’s office.

JAC-ENNEDY Events, Living Life Laughing Production Inc. and Namoworldwide present NAIJA NO DEY CARRY LAST
2019-04-06 19:00 - 21:30
For One. Night. Only.
Multi-talented Comedian, Writer and Actor, Yvonne Orji (Creator of Sitcom “First Gen Show” and ‘Molly’ on Insecure HBO) headlines this hilarious night of stand–up comedy, featuring comedian Foxy P (Producer/Lead Performer of the African Princes Of Comedy Tour) and Hollywood-based Humor Prince, Chinedu Unaka (starring on Showtime’s It’s A Party, HBO’s The Big Chop) with comperé extraordinaire NaMÓ celebrating his 20th-year on stage, and world-renowned celebrity DJ, DJ Zimo.

TEDxCUNY 2019: What Matters Now
2019-04-05 09:00 - 17:00
“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”- Lucy Maud Montgomery
In light of change – however uncomfortable, necessary, or unanticipated – people across the globe grapple with ever-important questions as they look toward the future. The questions we ask ourselves prompt us to search for, do, and be better in pursuit of a world we can be proud of. Millions of people’s passions and ideas lead them to dedicate countless hours to various causes, and their collective action helps to inspire others.
TEDxCUNY 2019 will celebrate how and why these passionate and determined individuals are seeking out more than themselves, all while encouraging others to do the same. Whether in engineering, politics, art, science, or entrepreneurship, people decide what is meaningful to them – and they act. Across disciplines, we all wonder what matters now. What matters to you?

The Israeli Dance Institute presents THE 68TH ANNUAL ISRAEL FOLK DANCE FESTIVAL AND FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
2019-03-24 15:00 - 18:00
A Day-Long Celebration featuring dancers from across the United States with special performances by Galgaley Rishon, an inspiring wheelchair dance troupe from Israel!
RIVKALEH’S FAIR 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
Community dancing and activities for all ages, Judaica and crafts vendors, kosher food and snacks.
FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE 3:00 pm
Dancers and singers from communities across the United States and Israel join together on one stage!
Embracing the theme, “Looking Back – Stepping forward,” the Festival will feature outstanding dance groups from Israel who will be joined by generations of performers from across the United States as they share the diversity of music and dance moods and styles that constitute Israel’s evolving culture. The performers’ generous love and enthusiasm for the culture quickly spread to the audience, creating a shared celebration.

The Kresge Foundation, CUNY, & The New Press present UNLIKELY
2019-03-14 18:00 - 21:00
Unlikely Logo Stacked Red
Join Us In New York City For The Red Carpet Premiere Of UNLIKELY, A Feature-Length Documentary That Investigates The College Dropout Crisis And The Systemic Barriers Students Face In Their Pursuit Of An Education And Livable-Wage Career.
Doors will open at 6:00 PM and the program will begin at 6:30 PM, with the discussion immediately to follow. Invitations are non-transferable.
In the US, fewer than 50% of students who start college ever finish, making America’s college completion rates among the worst in the world. Now there are more than 35 million Americans who started college but never finished, leaving them saddled with debt, and behind their peers in earning power. Featuring interviews with LeBron James, Howard Schultz, and our nation’s leading voices in education, this penetrating and personal new film investigates America’s college dropout crisis through the lives of five diverse students as they fight for a second chance at opportunity and highlights the innovators reimagining higher education for the 21st century.
Directed by Jaye & Adam Fenderson
Executive Producer: Christopher Gebhardt

LIGHT FALLS: SPACE, TIME & AN OBSESSION OF EINSTEIN
2019-02-20 19:30 - 21:00, 2019-02-19 19:30 - 21:00
Live taping for invited audience only. Doors close at 7:15 pm SHARP!
Brian Greene and an ensemble cast perform this new theatrical work tracing Albert Einstein’s electrifying journey toward one of the most beautiful ideas ever conceived – the General Theory of Relativity. With state-of-the-art animation and innovative projection techniques, Light Falls illuminates Einstein’s breakthrough moments, near misses, agonizing frustrations, and final emergence into the light, as one intrepid mind took on the universe…and won.
“A CEREBRAL SPECTACLE THAT DELVES INTO EINSTEIN’S THEORIES, WITH A THEATRICAL TWIST.” – NEW YORK TIMES
First 5 lucky people to present their John Jay ID to an usher outside the theater will get in FREE with a guest! FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED, starting at 6:30 pm

The CUNY Dance Initiative and John Jay College, in collaboration with Rocha Dance Theater, present the World Premiere of Half-Heard
2019-02-15 20:00 - 22:00
Integrating dance, theatrical parody and architectural costume design, Half-Heard shows a satirized version of one woman’s struggle to be heard in the workplace. An all-female identifying — and at times, drag cast — opens a veritable Pandora’s box of the absurdity of gender roles and human behavior. Half-Heard traverses themes of gender stereotypes, commodification, and identity – issues that have been exponentially heightened by the #Metoo movement–and is influenced by Rocha’s work for The Painted Ladies, her cabaret dance troupe.
Half-Heard is choreographed and directed by Jenny Rocha, composed by Joseph Rivas, and is performed by Courtney Drasner, Nicole Lemelin, Shoko Fujita, Nikki Ervice, Dervla Cary-Jones, Jamie Graham, Chelsea Escher, and Rocha herself. The costumes, also designed by Rocha, are an integral part of the piece’s theatricality. Experiences with being invisible, forced gender identity, and deflated ambition are illuminated through costuming that dictates the movement: performers drag balloons, hide behind hats, and sport an overwhelming amount of pink bows and tulle.
Ticket Price: General Admission $25 ($26.87 with service fee)
Rocha Dance Theater’s residency and performance at John Jay College is part of the CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI), a program that opens the doors of CUNY campuses to professional choreographers and dance companies.
Cultural, informational, and visual arts presentations are made possible in part with funds allocated by Council Member Helen Rosenthal and the New York City Council.

MY NEXT GUEST Needs No Introduction with DAVID LETTERMAN
2019-02-05 16:00 - 19:00
David Letterman, the longest-serving host in U.S. late night television – the original host of Late Night (NBC) and The Late Show (CBS) – returns for the second season of his Emmy nominated series for Netflix.
Each hour-long episode includes a long-form conversation between Letterman and a singular guest – as well as segments with his guests, and others, shot outside the studio. The series has Letterman combining two interests for which he is renowned: in-depth conversations with extraordinary people, and in-the-field segments expressing his curiosity and humor.

Prototype Festival, New Vision for Opera NYC presents: MILA, GREAT SORCERER
2019-01-13 13:00 - 15:30, 2019-01-12 13:00 - 15:30
Folk hero, singer, and spiritual teacher, Milarepa has been venerated for one thousand years. But as a child, directed by his mother, he wields black magic against the aunt and uncle that stole his inheritance, and destroys his entire village. His remorse sends him on a life journey from mass murder to enlightenment. Set to lush orchestration melding Eastern and Western sounds, his transformation and redemption into the most revered teacher of Tibetan Buddhism offer hope and spiritual wayfinding to all who regret acts of consequence and seek higher ground.
Composed by Andrea Clearfield
Libretto by Jean-Claude van Itallie & Lois Walden
Directed by Kevin Newbury
Conducted by Manoj Kamps
Featuring the Knights
Commissioned by Gene Kaufman and Terry Eder Kaufman
“Ms. Clearfield’s consonant and melodic style, and the ease with which she moves between graceful tracery and lively, rhythmically vital writing, suits these instruments and players perfectly…”
— Alann Kozinn, The New York Times
“Clearfield is a natural musical dramatist.”
— Joshua Rosenblum, Opera News Magazine
“The audience is drawn to participate with the actors in a kind of eucharist.”
— Walter Kerr, The New York Times
Referred to as “one of the great things about being in New York City in January” by Opera News, the 7th annual festival of PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now returns January 5-13, 2019. The pioneering festival features eleven presentations that, characteristically, “shift the whole paradigm of what opera is and can be” (New York Observer).

International Society for the Performing Arts presents TRANSITIONS: Today's Future for the Arts
2019-01-08 13:00 - 17:00
Transitions: Today’s Future for the Arts
While we often speak of living in the moment, the reality is most of our work requires years of planning. Be it curation, facility development or anticipating new technological advancements, we need to be highly intuitive if not clairvoyant! How do we create the future today? As we adjust for ever-changing political environments, infrastructure renewal and development, technological change, and leadership development, how do we address challenges and opportunities of which we may not even be aware? The performing arts has many unique aspects but can we also learn from other sectors? Join 500 colleagues from around the world as we shape our future together.
11:30 am – 3:00 pm: Registration/Check-in and Information Desk
1:15 pm: Provocation
1:45 pm: Session 1: PARALLEL UNIVERSE: STORYTELLING IN DIVERSE SECTORS
3:00 pm: Break/Tea and Coffee
3:25 pm: Regional Update
3:40: Performance
3:45-5:00: Session 2: THE (META) PHYSICAL SPACE

MY NEXT GUEST Needs No Introduction with DAVID LETTERMAN
2018-12-17 16:00 - 19:00
David Letterman, the longest-serving host in U.S late night television – the original host of Late Night (NBC) and The Late Show (CBS) – returns for the second season of his Emmy nominated series for Netflix.
Each hour-long episode includes a long-form conversation between Letterman and a singular guest – as well as segments with his guests, and others, shot outside the studio. The series has Letterman combining two interests for which he is renowned: in-depth conversations with extraordinary people and in-the-field segments expressing his curiosity and humor.

Dance Ministry Institute presents: NATIVITY: BIRTH OF A KING
2018-12-16 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-12-16 14:00 - 16:00, 2018-12-15 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-12-15 14:00 - 16:00
NATIVITY: BIRTH OF A KING is a full-scale dance drama that unveils the events surrounding the birth of Jesus Christ through the artistic expressions of dance and song. This theatrical production incorporates 100 cast members (representing over 50 churches), 20 dance scenes, pre-recorded and live music, featured soloists and a 50-voice choir to convey the cultural conditions surrounding the birth of Christ.
Come and Experience the Love, Joy and Excitement of the Christmas Season. There’s four opportunities to witness the true meaning of Christmas through the artistic expressive of dance and song! People are flocking to this creative interpretation of the birth of Christ! Don’t miss it!
December 15 at 2 pm and 7 pm
December 16 at 2 pm and 7 pm
Ticket Price: Orchestra $60, Balcony $45
Group Tickets of 10 or more: Orchestra $55, Balcony $40
For Group Purchase, call at 917-727-9331

John Jay Haitian-American Students Association Presents: ANNUAL "Black Power" Pouvwa Nwa 2018
2018-12-10 19:00 - 21:30
Hosts: SHIGGY creator of the ” In my Feelings Challenge ” & LIVE PERFORMANCE from Haitian Band 5lan
Time : Doors open 6:30pm
Show starts 7:00pm-9:30pm
This is a CUNY-Wide Event & OPEN TO PUBLIC
Music provided by DJ CHAOS & CUTTY PALANCE
In Collaboration with John Jay’s BSU, ASA, STUDENT COUNCIL, CAB, NYU HASA, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HASA, BROOKLYN COLLEGE HASA, HUNTER HASA, LALIN 1804
FREE ENTRY **** FREE FOOD TO FOLLOW AFTER EVENT *****
ENJOY DANCE PERFORMANCES, SPOKEN WORD AND MUCH MORE

Mannes School of Music Presents: Tchaikovsky’s EUGENE ONEGIN
2018-12-08 14:00 - 17:00
Eugene Onegin, an opera composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, featuring young artists of The Mannes Opera and The Mannes Orchestra. Conductor: Julian Wachner; Stage Director: Jordan Fein
Ticket Price: General: $25
Students/Seniors: $10
Running Time: 3 hrs
Intermission: 15 minutes
Language: This performance will be sung in Russian

Mannes School of Music Presents: Tchaikovsky's EUGENE ONEGIN
2018-12-07 19:30 - 22:30
