JON ROBIN BAITZ AND JO BONNEY TO TEACH AT THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA IN SPRING 2009
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| Jon Robin Baitz |
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The New School for Drama has announced that two award-winning artists, playwright Jon Robin Baitz and director Jo Bonney, will be joining the faculty for the Spring 2009 semester. Baitz will be teaching Playwriting with the second-year playwrights, while Bonney will be instructing a course on Directing Short Plays with the first-year directors.
“Baitz and Bonney are examples of the high caliber professionals that the New School for Drama is able to attract through its strong ties to the New York theater world,” said Robert LuPone, director of The New School for Drama. “Their success proves that there is still room for imaginative, risky, and, most important, original plays. For our students, this is an outstanding opportunity to learn from shining lights in the field. We look forward to having them join us this spring.”
Baitz's plays include The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, Three Hotels, A Fair Country, Ten Unknowns, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, a new version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, which was produced on Broadway in 2001, and The Paris Letter. He is the creator of the hit ABC TV show Brothers & Sisters, which he also produced for the first two seasons. He is a Pulitzer finalist, a Guggenheim and NEA fellow, an American Academy of Arts & Letters Award winner, and a founding member and a former artistic director of New York's Naked Angels theatre company. His new play Love & Mercy will be produced next season on Broadway. His work has been produced in New York by Playwrights Horizons, the Roundabout Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, and Second Stage.
Bonney’s directing work includes Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, A Soldier's Play, On the Mountain, Fat Pig, Living Out, Anna in the Tropics, Slanguage, Fifth of July, Adoration of the Old Woman, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Humpty Dumpty, suburbia, Funhouse; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails into the Floor with My Forehead, and Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. Other credits include, Philip Ridley’s The Fastest Clock in the Universe and Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s The Flatted Fifth (The New Group), and Warren Leight’s Stray Cats (Naked Angels). She is the recipient of a 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Direction and is the editor of Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century (TCG).
FACULTY MEMBERS PUBLISH NEW BOOKS
Noah Isenberg, associate professor of Literary Studies & University Humanities at Eugene Lang College and The New School for General Studies, has published two new books, Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era (Columbia University Press, December 2008), and Detour, (British Film Institute September 2008.)
Weimar Cinema, is a new volume of essays which discusses 16 remarkable films that represented the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde and fantasy films, sexual intrigues and love stories, the classics of silent cinema and Germany's first talkies, each chapter illuminates, among other things: the technological advancements of a given film, its detailed production history, its critical reception over time, and the place it occupies within the larger history of the German studio and of Weimar cinema in general.
Isenberg’s study of Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour (1945), long considered an unpolished gem of film noir, draws on a vast array of archival sources, unpublished letters and interviews, to provide an animated and thorough account of the film’s production history, its critical reception, its afterlife (including various remakes), and the different ways it has been interpreted since its release.
Val Vinokur, assistant professor of Literary Studies and director of Jewish Studies at Eugene Lang College has published, The Trace of Judaism: Dostoevsky, Babel, Mandelstam, Levinas (Northwestern University Press, November 2008.)
The defining quality of Russian literature, for most critics, is its ethical seriousness expressed through formal originality. The Trace of Judaism addresses this characteristic through the thought of the Lithuanian-born, Franco-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Steeped in the Russian classics from an early age, Levinas drew significantly from Dostoevsky in his ethical thought. Vinokur links new readings of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Babel, and Osip Mandelstam to the work of Levinas, to ask: How does Judaism haunt Russian literature? In what ways is Levinas' ethics as "Russian" as it is arguably "Jewish"? And more broadly, how do ethics and aesthetics inflect each other?
THE UNIVERSITY WRITING CENTER MOVES
The University Writing Center is moving to the ninth floor of 71 Fifth Avenue, effective mid-January 2009. For more information, email writingcenter@newschool.edu.
2009 UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT ANNOUNCED
The New School will hold its 73rd Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 22, 2009, at 2:30 p.m., at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden, located at Seventh Avenue and 32nd Street in NYC. As The New School has done in the past, divisions will also hold their own ceremonies prior to the main University Commencement Ceremony. Information for graduates, guests, divisional ceremonies, and tickets can be found on the university commencement website.
DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY TEACHING AWARDS FOR 2009
Students and faculty are invited to nominate outstanding faculty for this year's teaching excellence awards. Awardees will be notified in late spring, and will receive their awards formally at convocation in September 2009.
Eligibility: Faculty members who have taught at The New School for at least four semesters and who are available to receive the award at the fall 2009 convocation.
How to Nominate: See detailed information about the criteria and submit your nominations at www.newschool.edu/duta. All nominations must be submitted online.
Nominations must include the following information:
- Name of faculty member being nominated.
- Nominator's name, school, and contact information.
- Description of the nominee's relevant merits, giving specific examples using criteria related to the nominee's impact on and involvement with, students and colleagues (maximum of 500 words).
Deadline for all nominations is Friday, February 27, 2009. If you have questions or need further information please email FordD@newschool.edu.
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost.
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| William Copley aka CPLY Untitled (Think) 1972 Polyester Fabric 50" x 72" Location: David M. Schwartz Fashion Education Center 560 7th Avenue (lobby stairwell) |
William Copley's Untitled (Think), 1972, is still a radical statement. In the waning years of the sixties revolution, the angry desecration of the symbols of power and conformity—such as the burning of draft cards, flags, and bras—was a direct assault on the societal structures and norms that were so essential to the "establishment." Copley's thoughtful desecration of the American flag is more of an intellectual provocation than an "in your eye" gut twister like some of the other more spontaneous and confrontational performance pieces which often ended in violence.
Copley deflates his desecration of the American flag by constructing it with the same care, craftsmanship, and material of any commercially produced flag. By doing this he allows the viewer to freely associate the word "Think" with the image, without making a value judgment. What makes this piece relevant today is that it asks the viewer to reassess the meaning of the symbol, which supports the artist's message without directly undermining it. The message, both linguistically explicit and symbolically implicit, is that we have a civic duty to use our minds and actively participate in our own governance, including the now accepted notion of questioning authority.
For more information about Copley and his work in the New School Art Collection, please contact the collection curators, Silvia Rocciolo (Rocciols@newschool.edu) and Eric Stark (Starke@newschool.edu).
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL LIBRARIES
The Fogelman Library will remain open at 65 5th Avenue until Tuesday, December 23, 2008.
The Library will reopen to the public in Arnhold Hall at 55 W. 13th St. on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. Please go to the library website for exact hours.
During the period while Fogelman is closed, faculty may drop off reserve materials at the Gimbel Library circulation desk. The Gimbel Library is located at 2 W. 13th Street, 2nd Floor.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
NEW SCHOOL JAZZ FACULTY AND ALUMNAE AMONG JAZZ IMPROV MAGAZINE TOP CD PICKS OF 2008
New York City-based Jazz Improv magazine, in its end of the year round-up, has selected New School Jazz faculty member, Jane Ira Bloom, and alumnae Anat Cohen, Roy Hargrove, and Brad Mehldau among the top jazz CD picks of 2008.
Saxophonist and composer, Jane Ira Bloom’s CD Mental Weather (Outline OTL139), released January 30, 2008, was still on the mind of critics in December as 2008 comes to a close. Bloom recorded outside of her music box, choosing not to work with her usual trio. On Mental Weather, Bloom on soprano saxophone and live electronics, is joined by Dawn Clement, piano, Fender Rhodes and Mark Helias, bass, and Matt Wilson, drums.
When Mental Weather was released last year, All About Jazz described it as, “Cleverly skirting the edges of the avant without losing sight of the importance of melody,Mental Weatheris a compelling evolutionary set for Bloom, whose career continues to be marked by gradual but inexorable growth.”
New School Jazz alumnae also made Jazz Improv’s Top CD Picks of 2008: Anat Cohen for Notes from the Village, Roy Hargrove for Earfood, and Brad Mehldau for Live.
JIMMY OWENS AND THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC’S IMPROVISATION ENSEMBLE TO PERFORM AT DIZZY’S CLUB COCA COLA
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The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music’s Improvisation Ensemble presents a tribute to Dizzy Gillespie and Tom McIntosh under the direction of Jimmy Owen with special guest Wycliffe Gordon on trombone on Monday, December 15, at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Lincoln Center, with sets at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
A Jazz faculty member, Jimmy Owens has over 45 years of experience as a jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, and music education consultant. He has performed with Count Basie, Hank Crawford, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Max Roach, Herbie Mann, Charles Mingus, Billy Taylor, and many others. The New School’s Improvisation Ensemble features students Ari Karason on trumpet; Faiz Lamouri, tenor; Drew Brown, guitar; Axe Laugart, piano; Chris Smith, bass; and Marc Beland, drums.
Jazz at Lincoln Center is located at Broadway at 60th Street. General admission is $15 with a $10 food minimum; students: $10 with $10 food minimum.For phone reservations please call: 212.258.9595. Reservations for Dizzy's Club Coca-Colacan also bemade through www.OpenTable.com. For more information, please call 212.229.5896 x4591, or email jazzevents@newschool.edu.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH AND
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES
FACULTY PUBLISHES ARTICLES ON VIOLENCE AMONG CHINESE IMMIGRANTS
Xiaochun Jin, assistant professor in Psychology at The New School for General Studies Bachelor's Program and The New School for Social Research, recently published, with Morris Eagle and Jane Keat, "Hostile Attributional Bias, Early Abuse, and Social Desirability in Reporting Hostile Attributions among Chinese Immigrant Batterers and Non-violent Men" in Volume 23, Number 6 (December 2008) of Violence and Victims. Professor Jin’s "The Effects of Change in Spousal Power on Intimate Partner Violence Among Chinese Immigrants," co-written with Jane Keat is forthcoming in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Professor Jin first joined The New School for General Studies in 2001 as an adjunct faculty member. He has taught a range of psychology courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. A recipient of several research grants including an award from the National Institutes of Health, Jin’s areas of research include attachment behavior, domestic violence, HIV-AIDS risks, and cross-cultural psychology with a focus on Asian mental health.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA
DRAMA ALUM TO MAKE MAJOR FILM DEBUT
Sari (Wagner) Lennick, class of 2005, has just completed filming Ethan and Joel Coen’s new movie A Serious Man, along side of Adam Arkin, Richard Kind, and Michael Stuhlbarg. A black comedy set in 1967, the story is centered on Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg), a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife (Wagner) prepares to leave him because she has fallen in love with one of his colleagues. In addition, his inept brother (Kind) won't move out of the house, his son is a discipline problem, and his daughter Sarah is stealing money from him.
Lennick auditioned in March 2007, and in June was called back where she then auditioned for the Coens. “I read for them once. My call back was only 12 minutes, but they laughed at all my jokes,” she muses. She got the fateful call in August.
“From the moment I met Joel and Ethan, they made me feel totally comfortable,” she recalls. “They are truly astounding in that they trust their actors and believe we have the answers. They treated me as though I knew Judith [Lennick’s character] better than they did, as if I were an expert on her. They are remarkable directors, and their confidence in me allowed me to be my absolute best and surprise myself.”
Thinking about her “big break” Lennick affirms, “I don’t know what will happen with this film or my career, but I can say, today, I have had the opportunity and experience of a lifetime and I am so, so grateful.”
A Serious Man is planned to open next year.
NEWS FROM MANNES COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC
MANNES FACULTY TO PERFORM ON BROADWAY
Mannes piano faculty member Diane Walsh will be the on-stage pianist in the Broadway production of a new play 33 Variations by Moisés Kaufman, starring two-time Academy Award winner Jane Fonda.
The play tells the story of Beethoven's fascination with a trivial waltz, which led to the composition of his 33 Variations on a Waltz of Diabelli, and the modern-day musicologist Katherine Brandt (Jane Fonda) who sets out to discover the root of Beethoven's obsession. It is scheduled to begin previews on February 9 and will open March 9 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater.
33 Variations played pre-Broadway tryouts at Arena Stage and the La Jolla Playhouse; Ms. Walsh was the pianist in both productions.
On Wednesday, December 17, at 8:00 p.m., the Mannes Orchestra led by David Hayes, conductor and director of orchestral and conducting studies will perform at the Mannes Concert Hall, Mannes Building, 150 West 85th Street. Admission is free, and no tickets or reservations are required.
The orchestra will perform Torke's December; Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, op. 33 (David Himmelheber, cello); and R. Strauss' Symphony for Winds in E-flat major, op. posth. “Fröliche Werkstatt.”
For more information call 212.580.0210 x4817.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES
FACULTY MEMBERS AND UPCOMING GUEST AUTHORS WIN PRESTIGIOUS RECOGNITION
The latest publications by two members of the New School MFA Writing Program have been singled out by the Los Angeles Times as exceptional books of 2008.
Benjamin Taylor's novel The Book of Getting Even was chosen as a Favorite Book of 2008 and Honor Moore's The Bishop's Daughter was selected as one of the top 100 books of 2008. The Los Angeles Times also acknowledged the latest collection of poems, All of It Singing, by Linda Gregg, who will be a guest author in The New School for General Studies Summer Writers' Colony in the 2009.
The New York Times recognized MFA faculty member Brenda Wineapple's book White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, naming it as one of the 100 notable books of 2008 in the nonfiction category. The Times also honored top books of 2008 by authors that will participate in upcoming readings at The New School in the spring of 2009 hosted by the Writing Program. The first, poet Mary Jo Bang, author of Elegy will be at The New School on February 5. Annette Gordon-Reed will read on March 23, and is the author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, which just won a National Book Award at the ceremony held at The New School on November 18.
NEWS FROM PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
ILLUSTRATION STUDENTS RE-IMAGINE ICONIC CHAIR
Design Within Reach recently tasked illustration students with re-imagining an iconic chair designed by legendary architect Frank Gehry. This was the second annual collaboration between Parsons’ Beyond Editorial class and Design Within Reach, a classic furniture dealer and design house.
This year, the students redesigned the Superlight chair, a lightweight chair originally developed by Emeco for the U.S. Military and redesigned for home furnishing by Gehry in 2004. The students were allowed to re-imagine the chair free of restriction. The resulting work, which was on view at Design Within Reach’s flagship Meatpacking District studio from December 10-13, incorporated elements of drawing, painting, sculpture, and mixed media.
This is the second year that Beyond Editorial students have partnered with Design Within Reach to redesign an iconic chair. Last year, students created new versions of the Bellini Chair, which were also exhibited in the Chelsea studio.
The Design Within Reach project is one example of the many ways that Parsons’ Illustration program trains students to look beyond traditional print illustration. For more information on this or other projects, please visit the Parsons Illustration blog.
NEWS FROM EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS
2008 LANG FALL DANCE PERFORMANCE
On Friday, December 19, at 8:00 p.m., Lang students will present the fall 2008 dance performance at Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street (at Ninth Avenue). Admission to this event is $5.
The performance will include top student works from choreography classes taught by faculty and New York City choreographers Ben Munisteri, Rebecca Stenn and Karla Wolfangle. Students spent an entire semester preparing these pieces, honing their craft through a process of improvisation, discussion, showings, and collaboration with their peers. Each work promises to showcase the fresh, rich, diverse, and adventurous spirit of the class in which it was created.
NEWS FROM PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN AND
EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS
NEW SCHOOL ALUMNUS TO PUBLISH CHILDREN’S BOOK
New School alumnus Duncan Smith (BFA Integrated Design / BA Writing, ‘08) is having his first children’s book, Dear Primo, A Letter to My Cousin, published in 2009. Smith is a graduate of The New School’s signature BAFA program, which allowed him to pursue a design degree from Parsons focused on illustration and photography while simultaneously earning a liberal arts degree in writing from Lang.
Smith integrated these skills into his senior thesis work, a short graphic novel titled Journey of a Mixteco, which led to the opportunity to write and illustrate Dear Primo. Julia Gorton, a Parsons professor and children’s book illustrator who critiqued Smith’s thesis show, was impressed by his work and shared it with her publisher, Harry Abrams. After meeting with him, Abrams eventually agreed to publish another of Smith’s stories, Dear Primo.
Dear Primo explores the lives of two cousins—one in New York and one in Mexico—and their contrasting experiences. The book is illustrated in the style of ancient Mexican art, and was especially influenced by the Mixtec codex. A native of Mexico, Smith uses illustration to explore the stories of Mexican immigrants in New York City.
NEWS FROM STUDENT SERVICES
MAKE A DIFFERENCE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON
The Student Services’ Office of Student Development and Activities is supporting two holiday drives organized by New York Cares, a nonprofit organization dedicated to meeting the pressing community needs by mobilizing caring New Yorkers in volunteer services.
For the fifth year in a row, The New School participated in New York Cares’Winter Wishes Toy Drive. This year, The New School community helped fulfill the wishes of 45 needy children in New York City by providing them with holiday gifts.
The New School is also participating in New York Cares’ 20th Annual Winter Coat Drive. Coats can be dropped off at the Office of Student Development and Activities (OSDA) at 55 West 13th Street, ground floor or placed in the boxes labeled NY CARES COAT DRIVE in New School building lobbies. The coat drive ends on Friday, December 19. For more information about the coat drive, contact OSDA at 212.229.5687, and for more information about New York Cares, please visit their website.
A third holiday drive, organized by the Student Services’ office of International Student Services, will benefit the Food Bank For New York City, a nonprofit organization that is struggling to meet the needs of 1.3 million people in the five boroughs—mostly women, children, seniors, the working poor, and people with disabilities. The food drive runs through December 18 and donations of non-perishable goods can be dropped off in the lobby of 6 East 16th Street. For more information about the drive, please contact International Student Services, and for more information about the Food Bank for New York City, please visit their website.
ENDING A CRISIS AND FINDING A CURE:
WORLD AIDS DAY AND AIDS AWARENESS MONTH
In recognition of World AIDS Day on December 1 and AIDS Awareness Month in December, several Student Services’ offices as well as the recognized student organization OPEN (Out, Proud, Environment at The New School) planned events to bring attention to the HIV/AIDS crisis both internationally and specifically in New York City where the rate of HIV/AIDS cases is three times the national average. The offices of Student Development and Activities and Student Health Services along with OPEN brought a 12' x 12' panel of the AIDS Memorial Quilt to The New School, which was displayed in the lobby of the Albert List Center during the weeks of December 1 and December 8. Since its inception in 1987, the quilt continues to serve as a powerful visual reminder of the AIDS epidemic. More than 44,000 individual 3-by-6-foot memorial panels—most commemorating the life of someone who has died of AIDS—have been sewn together by friends, lovers, and family members.
In addition to the quilt display, the 1989 Academy Award-winning documentary film Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt was screened on December 4. Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, the film tells the story of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and focuses on several people who are represented by panels in the quilt, combining personal reminiscences, along with footage of various politicians, health professionals, and other people with AIDS.Also on Thursday, December 4, the Student Services’ office of International Student Services (ISS) hosted their weekly Coffee and Tea event with the theme of Stop AIDS! Keep the Promise! in an effort to bring attention to the global AIDS epidemic.
STUDENTS INVITED TO COMPETE IN PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT CONTEST
The Responsibility Campaign invites you to create a 30-second public service announcement (PSA) on the negative consequences of underage drinking. The PSA's content should address binge drinking and deter underage drinkers from purchasing and/or consuming alcoholic beverages. The winning PSA will creatively and artistically capture this message.
First prize is $1,000; second prize is $500; and third prize is $250.
Prizes will be awarded to the top three submissions and announced at a special reception for the finalists hosted by the Responsibility Campaign.
For contest details, rules, and applications visit the NYU website. The deadline for submissions has been extended to Sunday, February 1.
The Responsibility Campaign was created to form an alliance among New York City's elected officials, Community Boards Two and Three, New York University, The New School, Cooper Union, student groups, and local bar owners to develop a framework for responsibility and safety for university students and others involved in NYC nightlife.
Through these partnerships, the Responsibility Campaign has established working relationships with students and bar/club operators to proactively work towards the prevention of underage and binge drinking.
USE YOUR FREE ADMISSION TO DROP IN ON MOMA’S AFTER HOUR MONDAY NIGHTS
Monday, December 8, 2008, marks the first of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA’s) Monday Nights, a series of Monday evenings over the next six months when the Museum will remain open until 8:45 p.m. We encourage New School students and employees to drop in after work and enjoy access to the entire Museum. In order to receive your free admission, go to the lobby information desk and show them your valid New School ID. Students, faculty, and staff receive one free admission for themselves. Faculty and staff may also obtain an additional two tickets for their guests.
There will be live entertainment as well as drinks and cocktails available for purchase. MoMA is located at 11 West 53rd Street, New York City. Enjoy!
TIME OUT NEW YORK DISCOUNT OFFER
Start your year off being in the know about things free or fancy. Time Out New York is offering all students, faculty, and staff at The New School a full year's subscription for just $20! That's 51 issues for the entire year and only 39c an issue. Steal this deal for yourself or a gift to another.
THE BEST DEAL FOR AFFORDABLE THEATER, Dance, and concert TICKETS:
THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND
An exciting spring theater, music and dance season is under way: Why pay $100 or more, when you can pay $20-$36 for Broadway shows and Off-Broadway shows, dance performances and concerts? An inexpensive way to enjoy the best of New York culture is to join Theatre Development Fund (TDF).
To be eligible, you must be a full-time student or teacher, senior citizen (62+), civil servant, union member, staff member of a not-for-profit organization, performing arts professional, or member of the clergy or armed forces. Annual membership fee is $27.50, and you can join online.
A small sampling of performances recently available to TDF Members for $20-36 per ticket include: 13-A New Musical, The 39 Steps, Absinthe at the Spiegeltent, Altar Boyz, American Ballet Theatre, August: Osage County, Avenue Q, Ballet NY, Beast, Big Apple Circus, Boeing Boeing, The Fantasticks, Flamingo Court, Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab, Fueerzabruta, Gypsy, Hairspray, Irena's Vow, Legally Blonde, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Marvelous Wonderettes, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Phantom of the Opera, Speed the Plow, Spring Awakening, The Seagull, To Be Or Not To Be and Xanadu.
So don't miss this great opportunity to see great theater at great prices.
The New York Times is offering a 60 percent discount ($.40/per day Monday-Saturday, $2.00 on Sunday) for home or office subscriptions to all faculty, staff, and students.
Here's how it works. Unlike traditional subscriptions, the education rate can be set up by semester or in a combination that best reflects your schedules for both delivery and billing. New School faculty, staff, and students can have a subscription Monday-Friday, Sunday only, weekends only, or any combination.
To take advantage of the special discount to the Times or to change a current subscription, students, faculty (full-time and part-time), and staff should contact the customer service center at 888.NYT.COLL, to order a single subscription or a classroom subscription of up to eight copies for required reading in the classroom.
To order a classroom subscription of eight or more copies for required reading in the classroom, contact the education program's customer service center at 800.631.1222.
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