November 16, 2022
November 16, 7:30 p.m. The Lambs’ Foundation presents as part of its Award Winners Series: Estelle Parsons in conversation with Foster Hirsch. She was described by Frank Rich in the New York Times as having “an artistic impulse that is both passionate and rare.” An Academy Award winner, Miss Parsons… Continue reading →
October 28, 2022
Sept 28, 2022 Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History of Little Shop of Horrors, scholar Adam Abraham. Book talk, book signing, and songs. [Video below] How many hit musicals are based on films that were shot in two days at a budget of $30,000? The answer is one: Little Shop… Continue reading →
October 19, 2022
Oct 19, 2022 – Hal Linden and his director Dan Wackerman will be in conversation at The Lambs, with Foster Hirsch. Part of The Lambs’ Award Winners Night series from the Lambs’s Foundation. Linden is in the off Broadway play Two Jews Talking. The event begins 7:00 p.m. sharp on the 9th floor of 3 West 51st… Continue reading →
June 22, 2022
NewYork 6-21-22 [Video link below] Mimi Hines’ enduring career as a singer and a comedienne started on August 28, 1958 when she and her partner, Phil Ford, appeared on The Tonight Show for the first time. Mimi sang “Till There Was You”, Jack Paar cried and Ford and Hines were in… Continue reading →
June 8, 2022
New York: June 7, 2022 [vidceo below] Ed Dixon won the 2017 Drama Desk Award and recieved an Outer Critics Circle Nomination for Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose, which he wrote and in which he starred. Ed has been featured on Broadway in Anything Goes, Mary Poppins, Sunday in… Continue reading →
May 24, 2022
May 23, 2022 – New York [Video below] The son of a celebrated Hollywood director emerges from his father’s shadow to claim his own place as a visionary force in American culture. George Stevens, Jr. tells an intimate and moving tale of his relationship with his Oscar-winning father and his… Continue reading →
May 11, 2022
New York – May 10, 2022 [Video below] Kate Burton is a theater, television and film actress. She can currently be seen in Inventing Anna on Netflix as Nora Radford, The Dropout on Hulu as Rochelle Gibbons, and The First Lady on Showtime as Hillary Clinton. She recently played the Ghost… Continue reading →
April 27, 2022
New York 4-27-2022 [Video below] Maxwell L. Anderson was named for his grandfather, the renowned Pulitzer-Prize winning dramatist whose plays include WHAT PRICE GLORY, WINTERSET, ANNE OF A THOUSAND DAYS, ELIZABETH THE QUEEN, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTLAND, VALLEY FORGE, BOTH YOUR HOUSES, KEY LARGO, JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM, and THE BAD SEED. Anderson collaborated… Continue reading →
April 8, 2022
The Lambs’ Virtual Conversation Charles J. Shields A life Behind A Raisin in the Sun Thursday, April 7th – 8 PM (Video below) Author Charles J. Shields, the New York Times bestselling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, tells the moving story of the life of Lorraine Hansberry,… Continue reading →
March 11, 2022
From the coauthor of The World Only Spins Forward comes the first cultural history of Method acting — an ebullient account of creative discovery and the birth of classic Hollywood. [Video below] On stage and screen, we know a great performance when we see it. But how do actors draw from… Continue reading →
February 17, 2022
February 16, 2022. [Video Below] On February 15th, Knopf will publish a major biography BUSTER KEATON: A Filmmaker’s Journey by acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis—the first in more than two decades, of the legendary comedian and filmmaker who elevated physical comedy to the highest of arts and whose ingenious films remain as startling, innovative,… Continue reading →
January 12, 2022
Lamb Foster Hirsch talks with author Nick Davis about his book “Competing with Idiots: A Dual Portrait,” a fascinating, complex dual biography of Hollywood’s most dazzling – and famous – brothers, and a dark, riveting portrait of competition, love and enmity that ultimately undid them both. [Video below] One most… Continue reading →
December 15, 2021
Lambs Foster Hirsch, a professor of film and note film historian, revisits the director Otto Preminger, as noted in his biographical book “Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would be King.”
November 30, 2021
November 30, 2021 – New York Jimmy Ryan is an American artist, composer, producer, and author with a career that has spanned six decades. Beginning at seventeen, he and his college band, The Critters, had their first top forty hit, “Younger Girl,” and in the next few years landed three charting albums and… Continue reading →
November 24, 2021
New York – November 22, 2021. Linda Gray is an award-winning actress, an accomplished director, a former United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and one of the world’s most recognized and admired stars. [Video below] Her award-winning portrayal of ‘Sue Ellen’, in the blockbuster TV series Dallas, brought her worldwide stardom and… Continue reading →
November 8, 2021
10-23-21 New York celebrates the official naming of Tin Pan Alley Day. Many past members of The Lambs, including Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, and others were all part of what was known as Tin Pany Alley. The Lambs Foundation was one of the event sponsors.
October 18, 2021
Theater, film and television director, librettist and playwright James Lapine has won three Tony Awards for best book of a musical – for Into the Woods, Passion and Falsettos. A frequent collaborator with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn, he is also the recipient of 9 Tony Award nominations, 5 Drama… Continue reading →
September 11, 2021
The Lambs marks to passing of Shephard Bruce Brown serving 2000-2008. Prior to that Bruce served as the Boy, and as Corresponding Secretary. He joined The Lambs in 1970, and oversaw the return of many items that now adorn our 5th Floor quarters. He is survived by his wife, Enid,… Continue reading →
July 14, 2021
NY: July 13, 2021 The upcoming Lambs’ virtual conversation is with an actor who starred in one of the most iconic films in cinema: Keir Dullea, who portrayed astronaut David Bowman in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick, and his actress-wife, Mia Dillon. Dullea, born in Cleveland,… Continue reading →
July 8, 2021
The upcoming Lamb’s virtual conversation is with an actor who appeared in scores of Hollywood classic As the son of a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl and a Broadway stage manager, Donald Patrick Murray was literally born into show business. Don Murray appeared on Broadway in the original production of Tennessee Williams’… Continue reading →
July 8, 2021
The Lambs presents our first post pandemic play presentation, Edward Albee’s “The Zoo Story” – featuring Peter Kingsley and Danilo Ottaviani. We’ll offer encore performances in the fall.
June 3, 2021
6-2-2021 New York Corky Hale (Pianist, Harpist and Vocalist) has performed at The White House with Tony Bennett, soloed with Barbra Streisand in Central Park and at the Hollywood Bowl, and performed with Björk on her MTV Special in London. Hale has also appeared with George Michael at London’s Royal Albert… Continue reading →
May 28, 2021
May 26, 2021 – New York From David Thomson, the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film–an essential work on the preeminent, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged, and continues to forge, the landscape of modern film. Directors operate behind the scenes,… Continue reading →
April 27, 2021
April 26, 2021 – New York [Regrettably there was an error and the Zoom video recording failed for this event.] THE UNTOLD STORIES OF BROADWAY, VOLUME 4 from Dress Circle Publishing is the latest in a series by acclaimed historian and producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper. This landmark multi-volume series tells the stories of all of… Continue reading →