Town Hall has played an integral part in the electrifying cultural fabric of New York City for more than 90 years. Disclosing a tale of a vibrant group of suffragists (The League for Political Education) whose fight for the 19th Amendment led them to build a meeting space to educate people on the important issues of the day.
During completion of the building the 19th Amendment was passed (women's right to vote), and on January 12, 1921 The Town Hall opened its doors and took on a double meaning: as a symbol of the victory sought by its founders, and as a spark for a new, more optimistic climate.
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since 1921, town hall has been new york’s gathering place where people from all walks of life can come together to engage in the arts. Our sustaining Membership offers exclusive benefits including:
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By becoming a sustaining Member, you are helping us continue our rich tradition of bringing the widest range of voices and performers from all over the world to new york city audiences.
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97th A NN u AL g ALA
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 • 4PM
the trustees and the Friends of town hall extend this invitation for members to join us at the PrINCETON CLub OF NEW YOrk, 15 West 43rd street, nyc, for a concert with SOFIA rEI, ANAT COHEN, and EDMAr CASTANEDA, followed by a Cocktail reception and Dinner & Award Presentation honoring this year’s recipients of The Town Hall Friend of the Arts Award:
LAurIE ANDErSON | Multimedia Performance Artist
CHArLES HuLL | theaterWorksUsA co-Founder
rObErT HurWITZ | nonesuch records’ Long-time President
T h ETO w N h A ll. OR g/ g A l A
town hall’s young Patrons circle (yPc) is a special membership group for patrons, ages 21-40, that engages in social and educational activities through exciting events, performances, and programming. Brought together by a shared love of the arts, a deep interest in social change and civic engagement, and a desire to become a part of a growing group of like-minded individuals, members are provided with a meaningful opportunity to develop a closer relationship with town hall and its historic role in the fabric on nyc’s arts community.
For more information about the Young Patrons Circle, please contact Jacquie Maddox, Director of Development | development@thetownhall.org
GLOBAL ICONS
s aT urday, o c T ober 27, 2018 • 6pm
MUSIC IN TWELVE PARTS
Composed by Philip glass
Performed by Philip glass and the Philip glass Ensemble
Philip glass’ Music in Twelve Parts, one of the milestones of contemporary music, returns to The Town Hall, the stage where it premiered in 1974, for a rare performance beginning at 6pm.
Written between 1971 and 1974, Music in Twelve Parts was originally an "open score", meaning it could be played by various ensembles but, by the time of the premiere, the instrumentation was set: three winds (flutes and saxophones). three keyboards (electric organs), and soprano voice. Running over 4 hours, it’s the longest and most ambitious concert piece written for the Philip glass Ensemble
In fact, Music in Twelve Parts marked the last time Glass, now 81, would write an extended piece of purely instrumental music for his own ensemble.
The Guardian’s classical music critic Christopher Fox, who attended a performance of Music in Twelve Parts, was so moved by the experience that he wrote that it “changed the way I thought about music."
Tickets Start at $55
Thursday, November 15, 2018 • 8pm
BE l A F l ECK, ZAK i R h USSA i N & ED g AR MEYER
Three masterful genre-benders and the leading virtuosos on their respective instruments--banjo, tabla and double bass--Béla Fleck, Zakir hussain and Edgar Meyer move with ease among the worlds of classical, bluegrass and world music. Three of the most limitless creators and composers in the history of music, Fleck, Hussain and Meyer touch every geographical and stylistic corner of the world in this musical journey.
Tickets Start at $50
F riday, F ebruary 22, 2019 • 8pm
FARRUQU i TO
Farruquito (juan Manuel Fernández Montoya), is the greatest flamenco dancer of this new century (The New York Times). As the principal inheritor of one of the great Gypsy flamenco bloodlines, Farruquito has made it his life’s mission to share the purest form of flamenco on stages all around the world while further broadening his influence by collaborating with the most paramount film directors, conductors and artists of our time.
With this new performance, Farruquito unveils his most personal side – staying true to the traditional roots, while also presenting the current state of Flamenco. This performance is an original creation of music, lyrics and choreography.
Tickets Start at $50
s aT urday, a pril 27, 2019 • 8pm
Dj AN g O A- gO - gO 2019
French guitarist Stephane wrembel and guests celebrate the music of Django Reinhardt
Now in its 12th edition, the festival started by Stephane Wrembel has grown into a major event that takes the music of Django Reinhardt as a starting point and celebrates the constant evolution of Gypsy Jazz. The program’s repertoire celebrates the Django canon but emphasizes re-interpretation, improvisation and interplay between master musicians from various backgrounds.
Tickets Start at $45
s u N day, m ay 5, 2019 • 7pm
ANOUS h KA S h ANKAR
Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar is a singular figure in the Indian classical and progressive world music scenes. Her dynamic and spiritual musicality has garnered several prestigious accolades including six Grammy® Award nominations. A range of recordings from Indian classical ragas to her more creatively experimental work has already produced 10 highly acclaimed albums and a DVD film score to the Indian silent movie epic, Shiraz (1928). In her new program, Anoushka Shankar reflects on her journey so far; drawing on classical ragas, referencing some of the experiences she’s built along the way and experimenting with new ideas in a cross cultural dialogue that showcases the versatility of the sitar across musical genres.
Tickets Start at $43
BROADWAY
B y th E YEAR ®
m o N day, Feb ruary 25, 2019 • 8pm
Th E B ROAD wAY M US i CA l S OF 1928 & 1935
Act 1: 1928 - Present Arms, The New Moon, Blackbirds of 1928, Animal Crackers, Whoopee, and more!
Act 2: 1935 - Porgy and Bess, At Home Abroad, Jubilee, May Wine, Jumbo, and more!
m o N day, m ar ch 25, 2019 • 8pm
Th E B ROAD wAY M US i CA l S OF 1943 & 1951
Act 1: 1943 - Oklahoma!, Something for the Boys, Artists and Models, Carmen Jones, and more!
Act 2: 1951 - The King and I, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Flahooley, Bagels & Yox, Paint Your Wagon, and more!
m o N day, m ay 20, 2019 • 8pm
Th E B ROAD wAY M US i CA l S OF 1965 & 1978
act 1: 1965 - Do I Hear a Waltz?, Flora, the Red Menace, The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Man of La Mancha, and more!
Act 2: 1978 - On the Twentieth Century, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Working, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Eubie!, Ballroom, and more!
m o N day, Ju N e 17, 2019 • 8pm
Th E B ROAD wAY M US i CA l S OF 1987 & 2015
Act 1: 1987 - Stardust, Starlight Express, Les Miserables, Into the Woods, and more!
Act 2: 2015 - An American in Paris, Dames at Sea, Finding Neverland, It Shoulda Been You, Hamilton, and more!
M ONDAY, jU lY 22, 2019 • 8pm
BROAD wAY Ri S i N g S TARS
A national showcase that introduces New York audiences to the next generation of up-and-coming talent as chosen by a panel of discerning judges from among the most outstanding new graduates from acclaimed institutions.
Town Hall's signature series, broadway by the Year, begins its record breaking 19th season in February, 2019.
This altogether original series, created, written, directed, and hosted by Scott Siegel, has been that rare concert creation: beloved by both critics and audiences throughout its remarkable history as a vehicle for today's great stars to honor the brilliant songs of Broadway's storied past.
Critically acclaimed by the likes of Playblll.com, The Village Voice, and The New York Times, Broadway by the Year has earned accolades while also giving its audiences the chance to see such stars as Sutton Foster, Marc Kudisch, jessie Mueller, Stephanie j. Block, Brian d'Arcy james, Emily Skinner, Robert goulet, Cheyenne jackson, Sierra Boggess, and so many other Broadway luminaries at a fraction of the price of a Broadway musical. The combination of talent, entertainment, and Scott Siegel's penchant for extraordinary surprises, has made Broadway by the Year a beloved New York institution.
With Musical Director and Host SETh RUDETSKY
Music director and host Seth Rudetsky welcomes the greatest Broadway performers for an up-close and personal conversation and concert. Join us as Audra McDonald, Kelli O'hara and jeremy jordan chat with Seth and sing a dozen songs from their storied careers and personal journeys. The format of each concert will be a seamless mix of intimate behind-the-scenes stories prompted by Rudetsky’s funny, insightful and revealing questions – and the music from the star’s stellar Broadway career. This new series promises three different evenings of show-stopping songs and hilarity not to be missed.
This series will be raising funds for Sandy hook Promise. For more info visit sandyhookpromise.org
m o N day, November 12, 2018 • 8pm
A UDRA M C D ONA l D holds the record for more Tony Award Best Performance wins than any other actor in history, earning Tonys for Carousel, Master Class, Ragtime, A Raisin in the Sun, The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. She won critical acclaim as the Mother Abbess in NBC’s live telecast of The Sound of Music, and won her first Emmy as the host of PBS’ Live From Lincoln Center. Audra has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama.
m o N day, Ja N uary 14, 2019 • 8pm
K E lli O’ hARA won the Tony Award for The King and I and was nominated for Tonys for The Bridges of Madison County, Nice Work If You Can Get It, South Pacific, The Pajama Game, and The Light in the Piazza. She appears in the Netflix’s series 13 Reasons Why and has been seen on Sex & The City 2, Martin Scorsese’s The Key to Reserva, Showtime’s Master of Sex, CBS All Access’ The Good Fight, Blue Bloods, Alexander Hamilton, N3mbers, Car Talk, and received an Emmy nomination for The Accidental Wolf. In 2019 Kelli will star in the Broadway revival of Kiss Me Kate opposite Will Chase.
m o N day, m arch 11, 2019 • 8pm
jEREMY jORDAN was nominated for a Tony Award for Newsies and has also starred on Broadway in Rock of Ages, West Side Story and Bonnie & Clyde. Jeremy starred in The CW drama Supergirl opposite Melissa Benoist as well as NBC's hit series Smash. He also starred in the film adaptation of The Last 5 Years opposite Anna Kendrick, Joyful Noise opposite Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah, and Disney’s live filmed stage production of Newsies. This fall he will star on Broadway opposite Kerry Washington in the drama American Son
s u N day, o c T ober 28, 2018 • 7pm
Th E lANTERN T OUR C ONCERT F OR M I g R a NT aN d R EFU g EE Fa MI l IES
With E MMY l OU hARR i S , jACKSON B RO w NE , Sh Aw N C O lvi N , l il A D O w NS , gRA h AM N AS h & S PEC i A l gUESTS
An intimate evening of acoustic music to benefit the Women’s Refugee Commission and their advocacy on behalf of migrant and refugee families seeking safety at the U.S. border.
T i CKETS START AT $50
W ed N esday, N ovember 7, 2018 • 8pm
KCR w 's LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER
Hosted By jOS h B ARRO
With A NA M AR i E C O x and Ri C h lO w RY
Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, KCRW's weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn't lack personality. Featuring four of the most insightful news analysts anywhere, this weekly love-hate relationship of the air reaches about 50,000 of the most influential radio listeners in Southern California.
T i CKETS S TART AT $25
SHOOTS & SCORES: FI l MS IN CONCERT
Thursday, a pril 25, 2019 • 8pm
A THOUSAND THOUGHTS
A Live Documentary by SAM gREEN and KRONOS QUARTET
Written and directed by S AM gREEN and jOE Bi N i
Oscar-nominated filmmakers Sam g reen and j oe Bini have teamed up with Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet for a wildly creative new live multimedia performance piece that explores the power of music through the lens of Kronos Quartet’s past, present, and future. Transcending the typical live music and film event, this collaboration quickly becomes a meditation on music itself – the act of listening to it closely, the experience of feeling it deeply, and the power that it has to change the world.
T i CKETS START AT $45
Tuesday, d ecember 11, 2018 • 8pm TAY l OR MAC'S 24-DECADE HISTORY: HOLIDAY SAUCE
Christmas as calamity— 2017 MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Taylor Mac, takes on the holidays in this latest installment of the artist’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music project. Celebrating the holiday season in all of its dysfunction, Taylor Mac, is joined by longtime collaborators designer Machine Dazzle, music director Matt Ray and a band of eight to reframe the songs you love and the holidays you hate.
T i CKETS START AT $49
s aT urday, Ju N e 29, 2019 • 8pm j O h N CAMERON M i TC h E ll + STEP h
EN TRASK
THE ORIGIN OF LOVE | 50th Pride Edition T HE S ONGS AND S TORIES OF H EDWIG
john Cameron Mitchell, the double Tony Award winning, Golden Globe-nominated co-creator of Hedwig & the Angry Inch reunites with collaborator Stephen Trask and a slew of very special guests for an exclusive 50th Pride Celebration, performing songs from their groundbreaking rock musical and regaling audiences with stories from 20 years of Hedwig. So put on some make-up, turn up the eight-track and pull the wig down from the shelf – for a night of post-punk, neoglam rock – a collective quest for love, hope and identity.
“A glorious celebration of genderqueer culture, a tribute to tearing down walls and revealing every angry inch of one's true self.” - The Music
“Origin of Love is an extraordinary show by an electrifying talent!” - Canberra Times
T i CKETS START AT $40
LITERARY EVENTS
Tuesday, s ep T ember 25, 2018 • 7pm
A N Ab SOLUTELY R EMAR k A b LE T HING
hANK gREEN
With Guest jO h N gREEN
In this special multimedia event, hank green introduces and discusses his thoroughly original debut adult novel. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing grapples with big themes, including how the social internet is changing fame, rhetoric, and radicalization; how our culture deals with fear and uncertainty; and how vilification and adoration spring from the same dehumanization that follows a life in the public eye.
AN ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE THING is published by Dutton
Presented In partnership with Barnes & Noble
TIC k ETS STA r T AT $36
Tuesday, o c T ober 30, 2018 • 8pm
I M IGHT
R
EGRET T HIS A C ONVERSATION WITH A BB i jACOBSON
A hilarious and poignant collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are -- all told in the sharp, wildly funny, and relatable voice that has endeared Broad City co-creator and co-star Abbi jacobson to critics and fans alike.
Presented in Partnership with Strand Books
TIC k ETS STA r T AT $38
s aT urday, m ay 4, 2019 • 8pm l i NDA R ONSTADT
"A Conversation with linda” is a spectacular, big screen multimedia journey through the life of linda Ronstadt, featuring the iconic singer’s personal recounting of her four-decade career. In this special evening, Linda shares videos, music, rare personal photos, and behind-the-scenes events that shaped her uniquely eclectic musical style, expanding on her moving autobiography Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
