Lighthouse Talks
Through the Public Art Series, Playwrights Horizons is thrilled to launch our Lighthouse Project. Named for its reliable guidance through dark and stormy times, the Lighthouse is an eclectic series of performances, installations, events, and you-name-it that seeks to rediscover the way our building can be used, and to find new opportunities to engage with our city. To set this project in motion, we invite you to join us for a series of online conversations, designed to examine the function of theater in our culture, and to frame our new initiative.
All free digital events will stream right here on this page, in addition to our Facebook and YouTube pages. We invite you to sign up below to receive reminders from our staff and to submit questions for each panel in advance.
Archived Events
Lighthouse Talk: In the Future Our Asian Community is Safe
On June 3, Associate Artistic Director Natasha Sinha, Adriel Luis (Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s Curator of Digital and Emerging Practice), and Wo Chan (poet and drag performer) explored the public art installation by filmmaker, muralist, and poet Jess X. Snow. The four participated in a conversation about envisioning safety for communities of color, and how public art can inspire this action.
Lighthouse Talk: Profiled
On March 3, visual artist Ken Gonzales-Day discussed Profiled, his public art installation at Playwrights Horizons. Led by Associate Artistic Director Natasha Sinha, Gonzales-Day joined Obie Award-winning director Lileana Blain-Cruz and Tony Award-winning designer Clint Ramos in a discussion about perspective, representation, and curation via juxtaposition.
Lighthouse Talk: Public Art / Public Space
On January 21, Artistic Director Adam Greenfield spoke with street and subway artist Jilly Ballistic, artist, activist, and writer Avram Finklestein, and interdisciplinary artist and core member of the lesbian feminist art collective "fierce pussy" Joy Episalla about the driving ideas of Ballistic's newest piece, created to inaugurate our Public Art Series, and to examine the meaning of public art and public space. Check out the archived livestream below:
Lighthouse Talk: Theater and Society
On January 14, our Associate Artistic Director Natasha Sinha led a lively inquiry into why theater exists in the first place. Joined by Pulitzer-winning playwright Michael R. Jackson, playwright/performer Heather Raffo, Artistic Director of the famous Cornerstone Theater in Los Angeles Michael John Garcés, and MacArthur Fellow and scenic designer Mimi Lien, Natasha moderated a conversation that asks, “What is the role of a theater in society?” Check out the archived livestream below: