Arts & Culture

**Eddie Shapiro,_Here’s to the Ladies: Con­ver­sa­tions with More of the Great Women of Musi­cal Theater_** A fascinating look at the careers of some of Broadway’s greatest female performers in their own words. In this follow-up to _Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater_ , journalist Eddie Shapiro sits down for […]

**Margalit Fox, **author of **_The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum:_** **_The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss_** is our featured speaker for Book Club Night. Enjoy an array of charcuterie foods, including cheese with gluten free crackers, and desserts with your book club and other readers at tables while hearing from the featured author. Followed […]

_The Performance,_ based on the short story by Arthur Miller, premiere feature film starring Emmy Award® winner Jeremy Piven (_Entourage_). Followed by a Q&A with director Shira Piven. **About the Film:** In 1937, while on a European tour, American Jewish tap dancer Harold May is scouted by a German attaché to headline an exclusive performance […]

_The Performance,_ based on the short story by Arthur Miller, premiere feature film starring Emmy Award® winner Jeremy Piven (_Entourage_). Followed by a Q&A with director Shira Piven. **About the Film:** In 1937, while on a European tour, American Jewish tap dancer Harold May is scouted by a German attaché to headline an exclusive performance […]

A moving, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers. Judge David S. Tatel (U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit), spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity. **In Conversation with Amanda K. Rice, Issues […]

While the tabloids and fan publications portrayed the Nimoys as a “close family,” to his son Adam, Leonard Nimoy was a total stranger. Discover how the son of Spock learned to navigate this tumultuous relationship—from Shabbat dinners to basement AA meetings— and how he was finally able to reconcile with his father—and with himself in […]