Helen Whitney News

The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture has announced its 2018 Fall/Winter season, a rich program of theater, film, music, poetry, art, and talk events featuring artists and thought leaders including Princeton professors Cornel Westand Robert P. George; Grammy Award winner George Winston; two-time Tony Award nominee, Grammy nominee, and author Reg E. Gaines; Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and Oscar-winning writer and director John Patrick Shanley; Pulitzer Prize winning poet Sharon Olds; the Tony-nominated star of Harry Potter & The Cursed Child, Jamie Parker;Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche with special guests The Indigo Girls; Benedictine nun and former Hollywood leading lady Mother Dolores Hart, O.S.B.; Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York; and events tackling topical national themes including civility on college campuses; police and refugee relations; and race, faith and identity politics.  

PBS announced today the premiere of INTO THE NIGHT: PORTRAITS OF LIFE AND DEATH, a new documentary from Oscar-nominated, Emmy, Peabody and DuPont award-winning film producer Helen Whitney, on Monday, March 26, at 9 pm ET.

PBS announced today the premiere of INTO THE NIGHT: PORTRAITS OF LIFE AND DEATH, a new documentary from Oscar-nominated, Emmy, Peabody and DuPont award-winning film producer Helen Whitney, on Monday, March 26, at 9 pm ET.

Juilliard's Center for Innovation in the Arts, under the direction of Edward Bilous, presents Beyond the Machine 13.1 with four free performances featuring multimedia and interdisciplinary works tonight, March 27 (7:30 PM), Thursday, March 28 (8 PM), Friday, March 29 (8 PM), and Saturday, March 30 (8 PM) in Juilliard's Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater. The three works include a theatrical adaptation of a short film, Versions (2010) directed by Oliver Laric; Preferred Project(ion); a multimedia dance-theater work directed and choreographed by Juilliard dancer Jenna Pollack; and a screening of The Projectionist (2003) directed by Michael Bates.

Juilliard's Center for Innovation in the Arts, under the direction of Edward Bilous, presents Beyond the Machine 13.1 with four free performances featuring multimedia and interdisciplinary works on Wednesday, March 27 (7:30 PM), Thursday, March 28 (8 PM), Friday, March 29 (8 PM), and Saturday, March 30 (8 PM) in Juilliard's Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater. The three works include a theatrical adaptation of a short film, Versions (2010) directed by Oliver Laric; Preferred Project(ion); a multimedia dance-theater work directed and choreographed by Juilliard dancer Jenna Pollack; and a screening of The Projectionist (2003) directed by Michael Bates.

As part of the tenth year rememberance of 9/11, Judson Memorial Church and Thom Fogarty present a staged reading of a stirring new play, IN THE NAME OF GOD by Peter-Adrian Cohen, based on the PBS/Frontline documentary FAITH AND DOUBT AT GROUND ZERO, by Emmy winner and Academy Award nominee Helen Whitney.

As part of the tenth year rememberance of 9/11, Judson Memorial Church and Thom Fogarty present a staged reading of a stirring new play, IN THE NAME OF GOD by Peter-Adrian Cohen, based on the PBS/Frontline documentary FAITH AND DOUBT AT GROUND ZERO, by Emmy winner and Academy Award nominee Helen Whitney.

Full Spectrum and New York Theatre Workshop will present THE SKEPTICS, a panel discussion with six creators whose work explores the ground between belief and uncertainty.