Edward Albee & Tom Stoppard backstage at Times Talks: A Conversation with Tom Stoppard at the Times Center in New York City. Photo

From: Photo Coverage: Times Talks - A Conversation with Tom Stoppard

Some of the brightest names in film, television, theater, books, advocacy and awareness are sitting down with New York Times journalists for TimesTalks events at TheTimesCenter this month. Participants include Yale University professor David W. Blight, filmmaker Ken Burns, and historian Adam Goodheart; actor-producer Bradley Cooper; Tony Award-winning stars of the upcoming Roundabout Theatre revival of 'Anything Goes,' Sutton Foster and Joel Grey with director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall; Tony Award-winning British playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard; two-time Golden Globe winner, Academy Award and Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner; and Academy Award-winning director Gerardine Wurzburg with the two men featured in her new documentary 'Wretches & Jabberers,' Larry Bissonnette and Tracy Thresher, and Autism Society president and CEO Lee Grossman. Moderators for upcoming TimesTalks offerings include theater reporter Patrick Healy; arts columnist Dave Itzkoff; Jamie Malanowski, lead writer of NYTimes.com's award-winning Opinionator series, 'Disunion;' and Editorial Page editor Andrew Rosenthal.