{"title": "Bill Russell Memoir Launch", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "NYC LGBT Community Center", "address": "West 13th Street 208, 10011", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir", "stage/musical"], "description": "Bill Russell Memoir Launch is a book event celebrating still, bill, a memoir by musical theatre writer Bill Russell. Russell, author of Side Show, elegies for angels, punks and raging queens, and Pageant, tells how an effeminate boy from the Black Hills of South Dakota made his way to Broadway and the West End. The memoir traces his path from grade school fairy-tale productions to writing books and lyrics for internationally produced musicals. 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Writers Dwayne Washington and Brandon Jackson, fresh off a sold-out run at Green Room 42 and a developmental reading of their first public work Influenced with ATC Theater in Pittsburgh, present a high-energy show. The Juilliard- and Berklee-trained collaborators draw on world music, R&B, jazz, classical, and hip-hop, and feature songs from three musicals in development celebrating Black joy, bold storytelling, and a fresh take on what Broadway can sound like. 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In partnership with McNally Jackson Books, poet, writer and performer Patti Smith joins Swiss writer Nelio Biedermann to discuss Smith's latest memoir, Bread of Angels, and Biedermann's acclaimed English-language debut, Lázár. 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Cast and creative guests are to be announced. Chicago, with a book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse and music by John Kander, is the story of Roxie Hart, a 1920s nightclub dancer who hires a slick criminal lawyer to turn her crime into sensational headlines.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/broadway-on-the-radio-chicago-57489/", "official_url": "https://wnyc.org/events/broadway-on-the-radio-chicago", "image": ""}, {"title": "Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Night Egg at the Culture Club", "address": "", "price": "USD 65", "price_from": "65.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["art/comics/manga", "stage/musical"], "description": "Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen is a new musical adapted from Moyoco Anno's hit manga graphic novel, the first English-language musical adaptation of a manga. 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Premiering off-Broadway in 1968, the groundbreaking play examines friendship, identity, self-acceptance and the struggles of gay men in the late 1960s, and won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-boys-in-the-band-53004/", "official_url": "https://www.heightsplayers.org/the-boys-in-the-band", "image": "https://noky.io/images/81c0264e8cfd648cffe6b8b65ded2df023d3da0f61b0ab1a61c788f8339975c4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Jeff Ament & Barry Ament + Roberta Bayley: Since Forever", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Strand Building", "address": "826 Broadway, New York, NY 10003", "price": "89.09 USD", "price_from": "89.09", "price_to": "89.09", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir", "music/rock"], "description": "This is a book release event for 'Since Forever', a photographic memoir by Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, filled with more than 250 black-and-white photographs of the band's early years. Ament joins his brother, designer Barry Ament, in conversation moderated by photographer Roberta Bayley, hosted on the 6th Floor of the Strand Building. Doors at 6:30 PM.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jeff-ament-barry-ament-roberta-bayley-since-forever-86950/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc5d2c479ae7a2f0c7a347017059458c1827bbe6bb453b5a9f90cac509067bf0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Midnight", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Daryl Roth Theatre", "address": "", "price": "USD 58", "price_from": "58.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/musical"], "description": "Midnight is an original musical about twelve interconnected lives in the American South of the 19th century. It was written by, and stars, Todrick Hall, who also directs it and wrote its songs. Six Black and six white characters navigate divisions of class and race as their country changes around them, with friendships, romances and beliefs tested. A sung-through score spanning gospel, rhythm and blues, pop, rock, folk, opera and musical theatre carries love, identity and empathy across boundaries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/midnight-71916/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b210ed6b487dc41dd06c08cc7886aa4b8656f430761762d0fc3be9a5d60f38a0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "School Pictures", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cherry Lane Theatre", "address": "Commerce Street 38, 10014 New York", "price": "0", "price_from": "74.00", "price_to": "74.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/musical"], "description": "School Pictures is a solo musical about the New York City school system. Written and performed by Milo Cramer and directed by Morgan Green, it documents parenting, inequality, and the cruelty of puberty with humor and wit. Returning to New York after a sold-out run at Playwrights Horizons, it follows characters like Faith, who hates reading, and Javier, who sees no point in studying because of climate change. 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Lichtenstein's third book in a trilogy about America, it shares stories of struggle, sacrifice and redemption through intimate portraits and first-person testimony. The talk covers the people and stories in the book and his collaborative approach, and is followed by an audience Q&A, with books available for purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/andrew-lichtenstein-this-short-life-51499/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7669a18a43b98154fe0217ca8bed7028d52841c3d14c209f72c2f04e696c6ac6-2000.webp"}]}