Talks & Entertainment

Rodrigo Amarante

with Big Search

The Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist sings his stripped-down and tender songs to our Downstairs stage.

Candice Bergen

In Conversation with Madhulika Sikka

In A Fine Romance, Candice Bergen shares with humor, honesty and wisdom the big events of her life: her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, Murphy Brown, widowhood, falling in love again, and watching her daughter blossom.

Jennifer Teege

Holocaust Remembrance Day Program

In 2008, Teege, a German-Nigerian woman who was given up for adoption as a child, discovered that she is the granddaughter of the Nazi commandant portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List. My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me recounts the shocking discovery that profoundly disrupted her sense of herself.

Andrea Gibson

with Amber Tamblyn

Now on her fifth full-length album, Flower Boy, and her second book, The Madness Vase, Gibson’s raw fearlessness has led her to the forefront of the spoken word movement.

The Hot Sardines

The Sardine sound—wartime Paris via New Orleans—is steeped in hot jazz, salty stride piano, and the kind of music Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, and Fats Waller used to make: straight-up, foot-stomping jazz.

An Evening with Vijay Iyer Trio

Levine Music Jazzfest 2015

The GRAMMY-nominated group updates the sound of their classic jazz piano trio, creating a powerful, cutting-edge new music firmly grounded in groove and pulse, but also rhythmically intricate and highly interactive.

Nora Pouillon

In Conversation with Nancy McKeon

Spanning the last forty years of our culinary history, My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today tells the story of the natural foods pioneer who, earlier than anyone else, made it her mission to bring organic foods to the American table.

Elvis Perkins

with KINSEY

The folk rock recording artist has earned comparisons to Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.

Ellen McCarthy

In Conversation with Rabbi Shira Stutman

The Real Thing: Lessons on Love and Life from a Wedding Reporter’s Notebook is a collection of insights—on dating, commitment, breakups, weddings, and marriage—that gives us a window into the mystery, the science, and the secrets of how we find love and make it last.

David Brooks

In The Road to Character, the New York Times op-ed columnist tells the story of ten great lives that illustrate how character is developed, and how we can all strive to build rich inner lives, marked by humility and moral depth.