Featured Events in Broadway in January, 2025 (March Updated)

An evening with the internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show to celebrate his new novel. Featuring Graham Norton in conversation with editor Rakesh Satyal, followed by a signing. PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. This event is mixed seated/standing. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm. Book purchase required to enter signing line. From the internationally bestselling author and host ofThe Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping story about love, bravery, and what it means to live a significant life. Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take center stage—after all, life had already judged her harshly. Now old, Frankie finds it easier to forget the life that came before. Then Damian, a young Irish caretaker, arrives at her London flat, there to keep an eye on her as she recovers from a fall. A memory is sparked, and the past crackles into life as Damian listens to the story Frankie has kept stored away all these years. Traveling from post-war Ireland to 1960s New York—a city full of art, larger-than-life characters and turmoil—Frankie shares a world in which friendship and chance encounters collide. A place where, for a while, life blazes with an intensity that can’t last but will perhaps live on in other ways and in other people. Photo by Sophia Spring Graham Norton is the award-winning host of The Graham Norton Show, one of the most popular programs on BBC America. He is the author of the novels Holding, A Keeper, Home Stretch, and Forever Home, as well as the bestselling memoirs So Me and The Life and Loves of a He Devil. He lives in London. Rakesh Satyal (pronoun inclusive) is the author of the novels Blue Boy and No One Can Pronounce My Name. He is currently an Executive Editor at the HarperOne Group/HarperCollins. He is also a cabaret performer and speaks often on the topics of writing and publishing. He lives with his husband in Brooklyn. Information Source: Rizzoli Bookstore | eventbrite

Sarah Silverman: Postmortem is an event taking place at Beacon Theatre in New York City on January 18, 2025. The theater is located at 2124 Broadway @ 74th St, New York, NY, 10023. This event will provide attendees with the opportunity to reflect on the career and impact of the renowned comedian Sarah Silverman. The evening promises to be a thought-provoking and insightful look at Silverman's contributions to the world of comedy. Don't miss this chance to delve into the legacy of one of the industry's most influential figures.

Kelan Nee will be in conversation with the poet, writer, and playwright Nick Flynn to celebrate his collection Felling, winner of the 2023 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. Nee’s poems are magnificent, hard-earned, and have the resonance of art that intends to last. —Carl Phillips, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Their conversation will be followed by a signing. Copies of Felling as well as Nick Flynn's latest, Low (Graywolf, 2023), will be available for sale. PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm. This collection is a record of one man’s navigation of loss, addiction, and labor. At once a meditation on the allure of a legacy in self-destruction and a giving over to hope, Felling is an exploration in honesty. Rendered in direct language and through clear eyes, this book, as its title indicates, is concerned with tensions of agency, creation, and destruction— upward and downward motion. “After the 1940 publication of Native Son, Richard Wright shared some of his stylistic goals in the novel. ‘I wanted the reader to feel that Bigger’s story was happening now,’ he writes, ‘like a play upon the stage or a movie unfolding upon the screen. Action follows action, as in a prize fight.’ Kelan Nee’s poetry delivers the immediacy and punch that Wright demanded of literature. Nee has the head for poetry, the heart for poetry, and above all, the guts. This debut collection holds back nothing and leaves me reeling with high hopes for Nee’s future in the craft.”—Gregory Fraser, judge and author of Designed for Flight and Answering the Ruins Kelan Nee is a carpenter, and poet from Massachusetts. His debut collection Felling was released in May 2024 by and was the winner of the 2023 Vassar Miller prize. His work has appeared in Poetry, the Paris Review, the Yale Review, Adroit Journal and elsewhere. He lives in Houston where he is a PhD candidate in critical poetics and the Editor of Gulf Coast Journal. Low explores the jaggedness of memory and what is salvageable when the past is broken by loss, violence, and trauma. Punctuating Nick Flynn’s signature lyric poems are prose pieces and sequences, veering toward essays, including “Notes on a Calendar Found in a Stranger’s Apartment,” a truly strange experience of cataloging a deceased neighbor’s belongings and how quickly they become worthless; “Notes on Thorns & Blood,” a study of time and wounds; and “Notes on a Year of Corona,” a loose sonnet crown about the early stages of the pandemic and the unrest after racist police violence. Despite its existential reverberations, Low is a celebration of desire in all its forms—the desire for home, the desire to be held, the desire for people to be kind to one another, the desire to understand where we are from and what we can do to make the best of that. But how do we create a home, these poems ask, in a world of satellites and atom bombs and algorithms, those things designed to dehumanize and reduce us? To get low is to reconnect with the earth, to engage with the emotional state of the planet, to remember that “the cure all along grows beside us.” Flynn’s collection is a prismatic, even prophetic, experience, with new complexity and ardor at every turn. Nick Flynn (writer, playwright, and poet) is the author of thirteen books, including Low (Graywolf, 2023) and Some Ether (Graywolf, 2000), winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. His bestselling memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004) was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro (Focus Features, 2012) and has been translated into fifteen languages. Stay: Threads, Collaborations, and Conversations (Ze Books, 2020), documents twenty-five years of his collaborations with artists, filmmakers, and composers. Information Source: Rizzoli Bookstore | eventbrite

A generous and instructive memoir of radical art in the twentieth century, from fearless Conceptual artist Doug Hall. In conversation with Eric Fischl, followed by a signing. PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm. Can't attend? Order your signed copy(please specify that you would like it signed in the comments box at checkout). Even if you know Doug Hall’s work, you don’t know “this” Doug Hall: the little boy afraid of bears in Boston who became the love-smitten art student who grew into a fearless Conceptual artist challenging many of our most beloved assumptions. Although lavishly and be a utifully illustrated, this is not a book only to be looked at but one to be thoroughly read and enjoyed. In an account at once intimate and historical, Doug Hall writes eloquently about his development as a person and an artist. He situates his story within the broader conflicts of the latter part of the twentieth century and shows how these often absurd forces influenced a generation of artists to adopt radical art practices—video, performance, and installation—as a counter to the modernist aesthetics that preceded them. From his hilarious and troubling descriptions of the Altamont Free Concert (1969) and his disorienting confrontation in Berkeley with an LSD-tripping Indian Saddhu to his thoughts about teaching, making art, and the thinking behind some of his most important projects, Hall’s writing is generous and instructive for all those interested in our humanity and how it is nurtured through the arts. Doug Hall became known in the mid-1970s for his innovative works in performance, video, and media installation, both as an individual artist and as a founding member of the T. R. Uthco Collective. In 1979 Hall expanded his studio practice to explore radical aesthetic practices with students at the San Francisco Art Institute where he taught from 1979 to 2008. He lives and works in San Francisco. Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor. His artwork is represented in many distinguished museums throughout the world and has been featured in over one thousand publications. His extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Information Source: Rizzoli Bookstore | eventbrite