Live from NY's 92nd Street Y comes to Barrington Stage

 

Live From NY’s 92^nd Street Y, a series of seven compelling conversations, begins Thursday evening with Michael Lewis and Ira Glass discussing the global financial crisis. Presented by Barrington Stage Company (BSC) and Knesset Israel (KI), both in Pittsfield, Mass., the satellite broadcast programs can be seen at BSC’s Mainstage Theatre located at 30 Union Street. Featuring authors, entertainers, experts, and public figures such as Shirley MacLaine, Anna Quindlen, Fareed Zakaria, and Arianna Huffington, the series will cover topics ranging from Islam to the war in Iraq to cooking, politics, and philosophy. Six of the programs are interactive; audience members will have the opportunity to submit questions via e-mail.

 

Thursday, February 3, at 8

Michael Lewis discusses his best-selling book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, what happened during the global financial crisis, and what is being done to prevent a future collapse. Lewis is the author of such best sellers as Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, Moneyball, The Blind Side and Home Game.

 

Laurie Goodstein, Moderator

Thursday, February 17, at 8

Atheist, author, and commentator Christopher Hitchens and scholar Tariq Ramadan debate one of the most pertinent questions of our modern age. Christopher Hitchens is the author of several books, the most recent of which is God Is Not Great. He is visiting professor of liberal studies at The New School in New York and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University , California . Tariq Ramadan is professor of Islamic Studies on the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University and author of What I Believe. Laurie Goodstein is the national religion correspondent for the New York Times. Please note: This event is pre-recorded.

 

Wednesday, March 2, at 8

Arianna Huffington is the cofounder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that has become one of the most widely read and frequently cited media brands on the Internet. She is also a nationally syndicated columnist, a frequent guest commentator on the Sunday morning news programs and the author of 13 books, the latest titled Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream.

Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University in New York and chair of Columbia University 's Committee on Global Thought. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. Stiglitz was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995 and served as its chair from 1995-1997. He then became chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank from 1997 to 2000. His latest book is Freefall: America , Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy.

 

Eliot Spitzer, Moderator

Thursday, March 10, at 8

Fareed Zakaria is host of “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN, editor at large at Time, and a regular columnist for the Washington Post. In naming him “one of the 21 most important people of the 21st century,” Esquire magazine described him as “the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation.” Before joining Time, Zakaria was editor of Newsweek International, overseeing all the magazine's editions abroad from 2000 to 2010. He is the author of a national best seller titled The Post-American World.

 

Wednesday, March 23, at 8

America's favorite hostess will talk with writer Anna Quindlen about her successful ventures in retail, television and publishing. Her newest book is Barefoot Contessa: How Easy Is That? Fabulous Recipes and Easy Tips. Quindlen's books have appeared on fiction, nonfiction and self-help best-seller lists, and her columns in the New York Times and Newsweek have won journalism's most prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent novel is the New York Times best-seller Every Last One.

 

Leonard Lopate, Moderator

Monday, April 11, at 8

Shirley MacLaine talks about her life lessons and what she wants to impart to the world. MacLaine is an Oscar, three-time Emmy and 10-time Golden Globe-winning actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films and has been nominated for an Academy Award six times, winning Best Actress for Terms of Endearment. She is the author of 10 international best sellers: Sage-ing While Age-ing, Out on a Leash, Don't Fall Off the Mountain, and most recently, I'm Over All That (And Other Confessions).

 

Tuesday, May 3, at 8

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world. The author of 25 books, including, most recently, Truth, Beauty and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the 21st Century. David Brooks is an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times and an acclaimed author.

 

Tickets are $10 each (general admission). To purchase tickets or for more information, call the Barrington Stage Box Office at 413-236-8888 or visit barringtonstageco.org.