PERSON PLACE THING With Randy Cohen In Association with Tribeca PAC Featuring Guest Jack Kleinsinger Friday, October 20th at 7 p.m. Tickets  |
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The BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center is
proud to partner with host Randy Cohen for his "Person Place Thing"
podcast and radio show. The first featured guest is Jack Kleinsinger on Friday, October 20 at 7 p.m. Tickets to the recording are $10 and available online, at the door and by phone at (212) 220-1460.
Upcoming shows in this series include Woody King, Jr. (March 6, 2018) and Randy Weston (April 3, 2018).
"Person
Place Thing" is an interview show recorded around New York and based on
this idea: People are particularly engaging when they speak not about
themselves, but about something they care about. Guests talk about one
person, one place and one thing that is important to them. The result?
Surprising stories from great talkers. This show is taped and will
broadcast at a later date on public radio throughout the Northeast
(WNYE, 91.5 FM in NYC), as well made available online.
Randy Cohen,
creator and host of "Person Place Thing" began his career writing humor
pieces, essays and stories for newspapers and magazines such as The New
Yorker, Harpers and The Atlantic. He won three Emmys for his writing on
"Late Night With David Letterman" and a fourth Emmy for his work on
Michael Moore’s TV Nation. For 12 years he wrote "The Ethicist," a
weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, his first play,
“The Punishing Blow,” ran at New York’s Clurman Theater. His most recent
book, "Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything," was
published by Chronicle.
 Jazz impresario Jack Kleinsinger was
awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of North
Florida and is a former Assistant Attorney General of the State of New
York. Kleinsinger started producing "Highlights in Jazz" — the
longest-running, continuous jazz series in the history of New York City —
45 years ago. He has produced many concerts in New York City schools,
colleges and prisons, and co-produced programs for the Newport and New
York Jazz festivals as well as for the Jazz Festival in Nice, France.
His honors and awards include the 1997 JVC Jazz Festival concert,
"Thanks to Jack Kleinsinger for 25 Years of Highlights in Jazz,” the
Charlie Parker Memorial Award presented at the 52nd Street Americana
Festival, and a proclamation by Manhattan Borough President C. Viginia
Fields designating February 5 as Jack Kleinsinger Day in the borough.
BMCC Tribeca PAC is
Downtown Manhattan’s premier presenter of the arts, reaching audiences
from the college community, downtown residential and business
communities, local schools, families and audiences of all ages. BMCC
Tribeca PAC strives to present a broad global perspective through the
presentation of high-quality artistic work in music, theatre, dance,
film and visual arts. Located on the Borough of Manhattan Community
College campus, 199 Chambers Street
(between Greenwich Avenue and West Street, the theatre is convenient to
the 2/3, A/C/E and R/W subway lines and the New Jersey Path Train. For
more information visit www.tribecapac.org.
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