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World Science Festival- Forever Young: The Promise of Human Regeneration

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

  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 [...]

$20 – $100

World Science Festival- The Social Synapse: Neuroscience And The Roots Of Human Connections

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

  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 [...]

$20 – $100

World Science Festival- Pondering the Imponderables: The Biggest Questions of Cosmology

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

  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 [...]

$20 – $100

World Science Festival- Much Ado About Nearly Nothing: Nanotech And The Future Of Energy

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

  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 [...]

$20 – $100

Platanos and Collard Greens

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

“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!

$30 – $60

Lincoln Center Festival: Opening Skinner’s Box

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

  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 [...]

$35 – $75

Lincoln Center Festival: Opening Skinner’s Box

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

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 [...]

$35 – $75

Lincoln Center Festival: Opening Skinner’s Box

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

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 [...]

$35 – $75

Lincoln Center Festival: Cloud River Mountain

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

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 [...]

$25 – $55

Lincoln Center Festival: Cloud River Mountain

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

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 [...]

$25 – $55

Lincoln Center Festival: While I Was Waiting

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

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 [...]

$35 – $75

Lincoln Center Festival: While I Was Waiting

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

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 [...]

$35 – $75

Lincoln Center Festival: While I Was Waiting

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

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 [...]

$35 – $75

Lincoln Center Festival: While I Was Waiting

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

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 [...]

$35 – $75

Lincoln Center Festival: To The End Of The Land

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

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 [...]

$65 – $85

Lincoln Center Festival: To The End Of The Land

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

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 [...]

$65 – $85

Lincoln Center Festival: To The End Of The Land

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

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 [...]

$65 – $85

Lincoln Center Festival: To The End Of The Land

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

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 [...]

$65 – $85

Lincoln Center Festival: Le Trio Joubran

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

“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 [...]

$30 – $40

American Repertory Ballet presents Carmen

Gerald W. Lynch Theater 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY

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 [...]

$35 – $55