Gerald W. Lynch Theater

Nativity: Birth of a King
2017-12-17 19:00 - 22:00, 2017-12-17 14:00 - 17:00, 2017-12-16 19:00 - 22:00, 2017-12-16 14:00 - 17:00 UTC | Gerald W. Lynch Theater, 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY, 10019, United States
NATIVITY: BIRTH OF A KING
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.
NATIVITY is packed with visually arresting and spiritually moving dance performances that minister to your heart, mind, and spirit. With compelling choreography, beautiful lighting, and creative costumes, NATIVITY engages audiences from beginning to end.
Celebrate this Christmas season by sharing the gift of music, dance and drama with your family and friends. Purchase tickets today for NATIVITY: Birth of a King.
Tickets available at www.nativitybirthofaking.com/tickets/
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Mannes School of Music presents Le nozze di Figaro
2017-12-10 14:00 - 17:00, 2017-12-09 19:30
Mannes School of Music: Le nozze di Figaro
This four-act comedic opera tells the story of how the servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna and teaching him a lesson in fidelity.
Learn more at: https://events.newschool.edu/event/mannes_opera_presents_mozarts_le_nozze_di_figaro#.WhMQcFWnGM8

Lincoln Center's White Light Festival: Dancing Voices
2017-10-21 19:30 - 20:30
Iconoclastic composer and performer Meredith Monk looks to the future through an intergenerational production with the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. The “body sings and the voice dances” in this program that captures the kinetic energy and pioneering philosophy of Monk’s six-decade exploration of the human voice as an instrument, transmitted and luminously present in this multidimensional, multiperceptual work.

Lincoln Center's White Light Fesitval: Dancing Voices
2017-10-21 15:00 - 16:30, 2017-10-20 19:30 - 20:30

Teatro Grattacielo presents Il Grillio Del Focolare
2017-10-14 20:00 - 22:00
Charles Dickens’ beloved Christmas classic comes to life with full symphonic orchestral forces, choir and world-class soloists. Zandonai’s first produced lyric theater work, this passionate, opera in concert will awaken your senses with visceral, dramatic music.

American Repertory Ballet presents Carmen
2017-10-05 20:00 - 22:00
American Repertory Ballet Carmen at its debut appearance at the highly regarded Gerald W. Lynch Theater, located on the campus of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York City. The program opens with Kirk Peterson’s The Eyes that Gently Touch, set to the driving rhythms of Philip Glass’ Mad Rush, culminating in a dance replete with romance and thrilling movement. Next is Mary Barton’s Straight Up with a Twist, a work set to the eclectic sounds of Kaila Flexer and Third Ear which showcases the versatility of ARB’s dancers and Barton’s choreographic genius. The performance concludes with another company premiere: Peterson’s Carmen. Based on Georges Bizet’s opera, Peterson tells the tale of Carmen, a passionate, free-spirited woman, the fickle Don José and her love triangle between Don José and popular bullfighter Escamillo.

Lincoln Center Festival: Le Trio Joubran
2017-07-29 20:00 - 21:30
“Among the most inventive musicians in the Arab world,” (Guardian, U.K.) Nazareth-born brothers Samir, Wissam, and Adnan Joubran seamlessly blend traditional Arabic music with inflections derived from jazz, rock, and flamenco. At this intimate performance, they pay tribute to one of their most influential collaborators—the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish who died in 2008. Reading his poem “The Dice Player,” among others, Darwish’s recorded voice floats over the trio’s winding melodies while images and the poem’s words are projected, sparking a soulful dialogue between worlds.

Lincoln Center Festival: To The End Of The Land
2017-07-27 19:30 - 21:30, 2017-07-26 19:30 - 21:30, 2017-07-25 19:30 - 21:30, 2017-07-24 19:30 - 21:30
A theater phenomenon that played to sold-out houses around Israel, this drama based on David Grossman’s critically acclaimed novel explores the intertwining threads of love and family between Ora, Ilan, and Avram, who meet as teenagers in a hospital during the Six-Day War in 1967.
Decades later, when Ora’s son volunteers to go to the Lebanese front, she escapes with Avram to Galilee, clinging to the superstitious hope that if she can’t be found, she can’t be “notified” of her son’s death. In director Hanan Snir’s poignant staging, the characters’ ultimately aimless journey, with no defined destination and a constant intrusion of the past, becomes a conduit for the unrelenting sense of existential fragility at the heart of the human condition.

Lincoln Center Festival: While I Was Waiting
2017-07-22 14:00 - 16:00, 2017-07-21 20:00, 2017-07-20 20:00 - 22:00, 2017-07-19 20:00 - 22:00
Digging into the story of one middle-class Damascus family, the celebrated Syrian team of playwright Mohammad Al Attar and director Omar Abusaada offer a gripping portrait of a country trapped in a gray area between hope and despair.
Brutally beaten at a checkpoint, 30-year-old Taim is admitted to the hospital in a coma. As his loved ones gather around him, they must face a reality defined by uncertainty and absence. What happened to Taim? Will he ever wake up? How has their vibrant, modern city become so strange and cruel? Unable to communicate, Taim lingers on the stage, an observer and commentator, as long-buried secrets and complicated relationships are revealed.
Inspired by a true story, the play weaves together different layers of consciousness, humanizing the situation in Syria and collapsing the distance between the Syrian people and the rest of the world.

Lincoln Center Festival: Cloud River Mountain
2017-07-15 20:00 - 21:30, 2017-07-14 20:00 - 21:30
Enter the world of the gods, spirits, and shamans of ancient Chinese myths and poetry in this evening-length work co-composed by Lao Luo and Bang on a Can Co-Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe.
Your guide is the extraordinary Chinese vocalist Gong Linna, whose dynamic voice travels across vast terrains of sonic colors. Her adventurous artistic range that embraces Chinese folk, pop, and avant-garde art music has drawn comparisons to Björk. Singing in both Mandarin and English, she joins the ever-intrepid Bang on a Can All-Stars for a thrilling cross-cultural voyage through dramatic musical landscapes, from groove-driven melodies and lyrical meditations to punk back beats and stratospheric vocalizations.

Lincoln Center Festival: Opening Skinner's Box
2017-07-12 20:00 - 22:00, 2017-07-11 20:00 - 22:00, 2017-07-10 20:00 - 22:00
Why do we love? When would we kill? How do we learn? Why do we believe in the unbelievable?
With their trademark mix of wit, insight, and inventive stagecraft, Britain’s Improbable Theatre takes us on a “fascinating, if at times alarming” (Times, U.K.) tour of ten famous 20th-century psychological experiments, starting with B.F. Skinner’s notorious rat boxes. Inspired by Lauren Slater’s acclaimed book, Opening Skinner’s Box is a time-traveling dialogue with the audacious scientists who set out to unlock the secrets of human behavior. Amidst ethically questionable methods, shocking results, and blinding biases, one thing becomes abundantly clear: Everything we thought we knew about ourselves is wrong.

Platanos and Collard Greens
2017-06-24 19:00 - 20:30
“Absolutely laugh out loud tears in your eyes funny!” – The Amsterdam News
Can love between Blacks and Latinos survive? A tale of secret lovers from different cultures who fall in love at first sight, until mom finds out!
Updated with new moments, current politics, and new laughs, it’s funnier than ever!

World Science Festival- Much Ado About Nearly Nothing: Nanotech And The Future Of Energy
2017-06-03 20:00 - 21:30
MODERATOR
Walter Isaacson
PARTICIPANTS
Sanjoy Banerjee, Yury Gogotsi, Patricia Holden, Paul Weiss
The biggest challenge of our time, meeting the energy demands of an exploding population on a warming planet, may well be met by manipulating matter on the tiniest of scales — revolutionizing how we power the planet. Join world-class nanoscientists and environmental leaders to explore how the newfound capacity to harness molecules and atoms is accelerating spectacular inventions — including light-weight “wonder materials,” vital energy-storage technologies, and new sources of renewable energy — which promise to redefine the very future of energy.
The Kavli Prize recognizes scientists for their seminal advances in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. The series, “The Big, the Small, and the Complex,” is sponsored by The Kavli Foundation and The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

World Science Festival- Pondering the Imponderables: The Biggest Questions of Cosmology
2017-06-03 14:00 - 15:30
MODERATOR
Jim Holt
PARTICIPANTS
David Z. Albert, George F. R. Ellis, Alan Guth, Veronika Hubeny, Andrei Linde
Physicists and cosmologists are closing in on how the universe operates at its very core. But even with powerful telescopes and particle accelerators pushed to their limits, experimenters struggle to keep up as theoreticians march forward, leaving grand theories untested. Is our universe unique or one of many? Was there a before the Big Bang? Why is there something rather than nothing? Some argue that if these deep questions can’t be answered empirically, they’re not relevant to science. Are they right? Join world-leading cosmologists, philosophers and physicists as they tackle the profound questions of existence.
The Big Ideas Series is supported in part by the John Templeton Foundation.

World Science Festival- The Social Synapse: Neuroscience And The Roots Of Human Connections
2017-06-02 20:00 - 21:30
MODERATOR

John Donvan
PARTICIPANTS
Louise Barrett, Agustín Fuentes, Kevin Laland, Kevin Ochsner, Dietrich Stout
We humans work together on enormous scales, build complex tools as large as cities, and create social networks that span the globe. What is the key to this innately social profile? How did it evolve? This program will examine the development of the human brain — and the brains of other animals — asking how neurons and synapses orchestrate communal behavior and guide group interactions, demonstrating how our social nature is key to our humanity.
The Big Ideas Series is supported in part by the John Templeton Foundation.

World Science Festival- Forever Young: The Promise of Human Regeneration
2017-06-01 20:00 - 21:30
MODERATOR
Emily Senay
PARTICIPANTS
Dany Spencer Adams, Stephen Badylak, Doris Taylor
Synthetic blood mass-produced to meet supply shortages. Livers and kidneys “bioprinted” on demand. Missing fingers and toes re-grown with a jolt of bioelectricity. Regenerative medicine promises to do more than just treat disease, injuries, or congenital conditions. It holds the potential to rejuvenate, heal, or completely replace damaged tissue and organs. If successful, regenerative medicine will have immense impact on how we care for the injured, sick, and aging — and how we think about death. This program will explore mind-boggling medical advances as well as the societal and economic implications of a future in which everybody may truly be forever young.
The Big Ideas Series is supported in part by the John Templeton Foundation.
