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New York, NY — March 27, 2023 — The 92nd Street Y, New York (92Ny), one of New York’s leading cultural venues, presents Drew Petersen, piano, plays Chopin, Schumann, Ravel, and more, on April 20, 2023 at 7:30pm Et. The concert will also be available for viewing online for 72 hours from time of broadcast. Tickets for both the in-person and livestream options start at $25 and are available at 92ny.org/event/drew-petersen-piano.

Pianist Drew Petersen makes his NYC recital debut in 92Ny’s newly renovated Buttenwieser Hall. At the heart of his program: piano masterworks by Ravel and Schumann in Gaspard de la nuit and Schumann’s love letter in music, the C-Major Fantasie. A selection of Chopin Études is preceded by John Corigliano’s Etude Fantasy, a set of five studies in the form and character of a fantasy, creating an arc from the program’s start to finish that reflects the thoughtfulness of Petersen’s artistic conception.

newportFILM on Wednesday unveiled its lineup of documentaries for its annual summer series newportFILM Outdoors.

The sunset screenings in the resort Rhode Island city kick off Thursday with Morgan Neville’s crowd-pleaser Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and run through Sept. 6, with weekly Thursday night screenings, accompanied by pre-film live music and post-screening filmmaker conversations, moderated by high-profile film and arts journalists from around the country.

This year's attendees include Oscar winner Neville (Twenty Feet From Stardom), Matt Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor), Nathaniel Kahn (My Architect) and best-selling author Andrew Solomon (Far From the Tree: Parents, Children ...

newportFILM on Wednesday unveiled its lineup of documentaries for its annual summer series newportFILM Outdoors.

The sunset screenings in the resort Rhode Island city kick off Thursday with Morgan Neville’s crowd-pleaser Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and run through Sept. 6, with weekly Thursday night screenings, accompanied by pre-film live music and post-screening filmmaker conversations, moderated by high-profile film and arts journalists from around the country.

This year's attendees include Oscar winner Neville (Twenty Feet From Stardom), Matt Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor), Nathaniel Kahn (My Architect) and best-selling author Andrew Solomon (Far From the Tree: Parents, Children ...

Tomorrow’s Pen literary gala, held under the Museum of Natural History’s luminescent whale, may well be the most interesting in the free-speech organization’s nearly century-long history. Little more than a week ago, six “table hosts” withdrew from the gala over Pen America’s plan to bestow its Freedom of Expression Courage Award to Charlie Hebdo, the Muhammad-mocking French newspaper whose staff members were massacred by extremists in January. Last Wednesday, we sat down in Pen’s airy but functional offices with its new president, the writer Andrew Solomon, to get his perspective. Just two hours before we met, an email petition had been released, bearing the signatures of 35 Pen members vowing to “disassociate” themselves from the decision. Since then, that list has grown past 200; Pen has found replacement hosts (including Neil Gaiman and Art Spiegelman); and Solomon and Pen executive director Suzanne Nossel have published an op-ed...

Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”…

Josh Hamilton: Book: Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon. Record: The Clean — Anthology.

Movies: Dance of Reality and Two Days, One Night.

Lavallee: At this year’s Sundance, you’ve got a brief appearance in the Experimenter (working with a seasoned pro) but you find yourself (not unlike a “little” Sundance debut film called The House of Yes) working for a newbie. I was wondering if you could first describe your first impressions about Matt Sobel’s text, subtext, dialogue, themes and character set and if there is an added layer of profundity when you find yourself drawn to a project coming from a new voice?

Hamilton: When I first read Matt’s script, I was struck by the delicate yet unmistakable level of tension and unease that existed among these people. In any piece about families- where the layers...

Pen American Center and nearly 50 distinguished novelists, playwrights and authors are the latest group imploring Sony to release “The Interview,” in an open letter posted Monday.

“Pen is appalled at the intrusive, criminal and profoundly menacing reprisals and threats that Sony Pictures has endured as a result of producing and planning to distribute ‘The Interview,'” said the letter, which was signed by the likes of Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman, Jennifer Egan and Tony Kushner.

See photos: Sony Hack Attack Timeline: From First Cyberbreach and Leaks to ‘The Interview’ Dropped (Photos)

“Pen has long stood with writers and creators who...

Lea Michele dated Matthew Morrison, Whoopi Goldberg never minded people thought she was lesbian, Boy Scouts lower maximum age for youth members.

Deadspin has a stunningly detailed piece about how competition amongst the groups in the Lgbt Sports Coalition nearly sank the orchestration of Derrick Gordon’s coming out. Athlete Ally and Hudson Taylor are not exactly painted as villains, but definitely not team players. It’s a great look at how the business of activism can sometimes get in the way of the goal of activism.

Georgia Gop Congressional candidate Jody Hice thinks that gays have shorter lifespans, prey on children and plan to sodomize them. Seriously, Georgia, knock this guy out in the runoff election because I don’t want to have to cover his brand of crazy again.

St. Andrew Catholic Elementary School sent out invitations to their Oscar-themed 8th grade school dance that featured Ellen Degeneres holding an Oscar.

It is good,” opined Charles Darwin in an 1857 letter to the botanist J. D. Hooker, “to have hair-splitters and lumpers.” He was talking about how best to classify varieties of flora; being Darwin, he managed to establish an enduring intellectual distinction in a parenthetical aside. A century and a half later, his observation still holds. Splitters, focusing on difference, make sense of the world by dividing it into many small categories. Lumpers, focusing on likeness, sort it into a few big groups.Andrew Solomon is a lumper. His previous book, The Noonday Demon, was an extraordinarily lovely and exceptionally thorough account of clinical depression: its history, literature, anthropology, epidemiology, biochemistry, treatment, and, in the middle of the panorama, its intermittent but terrifying grip on Solomon’s own life. His new book, Far From the Tree, is about parents who are raising children with, as he puts it, extraordinary needs. Here...