Please enter your email address below if you would like to receive email updates for our upcoming events. Add Remove   Jeff Koons   Monday | January 7, 2008 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM JEFF KOONS Big Art, Big Ideas Contemporary artist Jeff Koons has been all over town – from his "Puppy" in Rockefeller Center to his big silver rabbit at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Hear him talk about his career creating sky-high art with sky-high prices. Interviewed by Carol Vogel, New York Times art critic     Address: TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City       Philip Bosco Theodore Mann (photo: Sergei Bermeniev)   Frances Sternhagen Patricia Cohen   Tuesday | January 8, 2008 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM LAURA LINNEY, PHILIP BOSCO, THEODORE MANN, FRANCES STERNHAGEN New American Theater: Circle in the Square Leading actors of one of the most successful New York theater companies join its producer to celebrate the history of Circle in the Square, as described in the new memoir, "Journeys in the Night." Interviewed by Patricia Cohen, New York Times culture reporter.         Jon Hamm John Slattery Janet Maslin   Tuesday | January 8, 2008 8:00 PM - 9:15 PM MATTHEW WEINER, JON HAMM, JANUARY JONES, ELISABETH MOSS, JOHN SLATTERY "Mad Men" and the Sixites The creator and cast members of TV’s new hit series discuss how they capture the zeitgeist of the early 1960s, from Madison Avenue to the bedroom. Interviewed by Stuart Elliott and Janet Maslin. SOLD OUT - Tickets may be available at the door up to one hour before the event begins.   Address: TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City       Mark Morris Daniel J. Wakin   Wednesday | January 9, 2008 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM MARK MORRIS Modern Dance Master The acclaimed dancer/choreographer/director on his extraordinary career and new directions in dance. Interviewed by New York Times culture reporter Daniel J. Wakin.         Julian Schnabel Lynn Hirschberg   Wednesday | January 9, 2008 8:00 PM - 9:15 PM JULIAN SCHNABEL Film, Art, Life The artist and filmmaker - named best director at Cannes last May - talks about his work, the connection between painting and film, and his latest movie, the biopic "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly." Interviewed by Lynn Hirschberg, New York Times Magazine editor at large. SOLD OUT - Tickets may be available at the door up to one hour before the event begins.       Tom Brokaw   Thursday | January 10, 2008 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM TOM BROKAW Chronicling Our Times The distinguished television news journalist and author of the best sellers "Boom!: Voices of the Sixties" and "The Greatest Generation" on covering almost a half-century of national and world news. Interviewed by Rick Berke, New York Times assistant managing editor. SOLD OUT - Tickets may be available at the door up to one hour before the event begins.   Address: TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City       Martha Stewart (photo: Scott Duncan) Kim Severson   Friday | January 11, 2008 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM MARTHA STEWART Megabrand The innovative, sometimes controversial, entrepreneur on conquering entertaining, media and merchandising - and becoming an icon known worldwide by her first name. Interviewed by Kim Severson, New York Times food reporter. SOLD OUT - Tickets may be available at the door up to one hour before the event begins.       Wynton Marsalis John Rockwell   Friday | January 11, 2008 8:00 PM - 9:15 PM WYNTON MARSALIS Music Man The outstanding jazz and classical musician and trumpeter, big band leader, composer, arts advocate, educator, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center riffs on orchestrating it all. Interviewed by John Rockwell, former New York Times Arts & Leisure editor.         Alex Wolff Nat Wolff Polly Draper   Michael Wolff Jacques Steinberg   Saturday | January 12, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM NAKED BROTHERS BAND Rock 'n' Reality Alex and Nat Wolff of the kids' rock band behind the popular Nickelodeon show talk about fame, friends, music and fun, joined by show-and-real-life parents Polly Draper and Michael Wolff. Interview by Jacques Steinberg, New York Times television reporter.         Paul Auster Nicole Krauss   Rick Moody Bill Goldstein   Saturday | January 12, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM PAUL AUSTER, NICOLE KRAUSS, RICK MOODY Literary Brooklyn Award-winning authors who live and work in Brooklyn discuss the burgeoning borough's climate for writers and creativity. Interviewed by Bill Goldstein, founding editor of NYTimes.com/Books.         Feist Jon Pareles   Saturday | January 12, 2008 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM FEIST Indie Music Scene Canadian-born, globe-trotting indie-rock musician Leslie Feist talks about her exploding career, touring the world and the independent music scene today. Interviewed by Jon Pareles, New York Times chief pop music critic.     Address: TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City       Thomas Schumacher Ashley Brown   Henry Hodges Lila Coogan   Sunday | January 13, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM "MARY POPPINS," "THE LITTLE MERMAID," THOMAS SCHUMACHER Behind the Scenes and On Stage - Talk with Performances by Ashley Brown, Henry Hodges, Lila Coogan and others. Disney producer and author of "How Does the Show Go On?" reveals how a big Broadway musical gets to the stage, with performances by the stars of "Mary Poppins" and "The Little Mermaid." Fun for children of all ages. Interviewer to be announced.         Sunday | January 13, 2008 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM BOB DROGIN, JOHN GANNON, LESLIE GELB The CIA and U.S. Intelligence The author of "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA," the 2007 winner of the National Book Award, talks with Bob Drogin, author of "Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War," Leslie Gelb, president emeritus and board senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, and John Gannon, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council and deputy director of the CIA, about the state of U.S. intelligence and how intelligence-gathering will shape American foreign policy under the next president. Interviewed by Tim Weiner, New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.     Address: TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City       James Levine Anthony Tommasini   Sunday | January 13, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM JAMES LEVINE Perpetual Motion Maestro The most famous American conductor of his generation talks about leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his music direction of the Met and what's next. Interviewed by Anthony Tommasini, New York Times chief classical music critic.         Cornel West Frank Rich   Sunday | January 13, 2008 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM CORNEL WEST Political Dialogue The Princeton professor of Religion and African American Studies talks about American society, race, politics and class. Interviewed by Frank Rich, New York Times Op-Ed columnist. SOLD OUT - Tickets may be available at the door up to one hour before the event begins.       Mel Brooks Susan Stroman Campbell Robertson   Sunday | January 13, 2008 8:00 PM - 9:15 PM MEL BROOKS, SUSAN STROMAN, MEGAN MULLALLY OF "YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN" Screen to Stage: It's Alive! The talent on stage and behind the scenes of the new musical "Young Frankenstein" on creating a new Broadway musical. Interviewed by Campbell Robertson.         Sean Combs Phylicia Rashad   Kenny Leon Patricia Cohen   Monday | February 4, 2008 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Sean Combs, Kenny Leon, Phylicia Rashad “A Raisin in the Sun”: The Legacy of Playwright Lorraine Hansberry See a special preview screening of the “ABC World Premiere Movie Event: A Raisin in the Sun.” Then hear about the continuing relevance of this landmark work from the director and cast of the award-winning 2004 Broadway revival and new television movie adaptation. Moderated by Patricia Cohen, New York Times reporter     Address: TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City       Jill Abramson Jane Mayer   Don Van Natta, Jr. Charles Savage   Tuesday | February 5, 2008 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM INSIDE THE NEWS Nearly Seven Years After 9/11: Are We Safer Now? Are we more vulnerable to terrorism today, or less? How effective are our anti-terrorist measures? What’s the next big threat to our security? Is the issue being used as political fodder? Hear Times journalists and guest experts debate this issue vital to our future. Moderated by Jill Abramson, New York Times assistant managing editor and former Washington bureau chief, with New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer, New York Times assistant editor Don Van Natta, Jr. and Boston Globe Washington correspondent Charles Savage. Tickets: $25     Address: TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City       Richard Berke Elisabeth Bumiller David Leonhardt   Michael R. Gordon Robin Toner   Tuesday | March 4, 2008 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM INSIDE THE NEWS The Issues & The Elections: Where Do The Candidates Stand? Where do the candidates stand on complex issues such as the war on terror, human rights, the budget, health care, immigration, intervention abroad and the Mideast? Find out what Times reporters have discovered about what the candidates are promising, and how they say they will deliver on their pledges. Moderated by Rick Berke, assistant managing editor of The Times, with Elisabeth Bumiller, former Washington bureau chief, business columnist David Leonhardt, chief military correspondent Michael R. Gordon and political reporter Robin Toner. Tickets: $25     Address: TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City       Susan Chira John Burns   Dexter Filkins George Packer (photo by Greg Martin)   Tuesday | April 8, 2008 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM INSIDE THE NEWS Iraq: What are the Viable Exit Strategies? Withdrawing from Iraq will take planning, money and time -- and continued loss of life. What are the most promising strategies? Listen in as Times journalists and their guest expert examine the issues and the options. Moderated by Susan Chira, New York Times foreign editor, with former Baghdad bureau chief John Burns, former Baghdad reporter Dexter Filkins and George Packer, author of "The Assassins Gate: America in Iraq." Tickets: $25     Address: TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City       Nicholas Kristof Roger Cohen   Ben Kiernan Samantha Power   Tuesday | May 6, 2008 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM INSIDE THE NEWS Can the West Stop Genocide? Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur, Chad, eastern Congo -- where next? The situation in Darfur alone has led to the U.N. calling it the ?worst humanitarian disaster? anywhere. Times reporters and their guest expert discuss the prospects for Western intervention to stop the genocide there and elsewhere around the world. Moderated by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Op-Ed columnist, with Roger Cohen, editor-at-large and opinion columnist for The International Herald Tribune, Ben Kiernan, director of the genocide studies program at Yale and author of "Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur" and Samantha Power, author of "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide." Tickets: $25     Address: TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City

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