January 15, 2023
Thanks to all who came to the Frolic Friday night, January 13. Our theme was “Winter White, Winter Ice. Kudos to our Collies, Melody Cohen and Tara Isabella Burton for planning such a fun night. It was a really terrific time! A lot of old and new friends. Check the calendar for our next Frolic… Continue reading →
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 has distinguished herself in all… 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 of Horrors. Roger Corman’s monster… 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 Street, the Solarium. [Video below]… 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 instant demand, frequently appearing on… 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 the Park with George, How… 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 own distinguished career in Hollywood… 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 of Christmas Past to Bradley’s… 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 with Kurt Weill on two… 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, the woman behind A Raisin… 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 their bodies and minds to… 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, modern, and irresistible, today as… 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 famous for having written Citizen Kane (with… Continue reading →
December 16, 2021
The Lambs welcomed Pulitzer Prize winner Debby Applegate, author of the bestselling new book Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age to the clubhouse. She gave a talk and Q&A at our first in-person author night since the pandemic began. She was introduced by author Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, historian-librarian of The… 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.”