A CONVERSATION WITH GEOFFREY COWAN AND ROBERT SHRUM
GEOFFREY COWAN, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy
ROBERT SHRUM, Senior Fellow, NYU Wagner; Political Consultant; Author, No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003
February 25, 2010 | 8:00 PM Performance | 9:30 PM Discussion
THE LEARNED AND UNLEARNED LESSONS OF THE VIETNAM WAR AND THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION
JONATHAN SCHELL, Author and Journalist
ORVILLE SCHELL, Arthur Ross Director, Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003
February 28, 2010 | 7:00 PM Performance | 8:30 PM Discussion
AFTERWORDS WITH JACK DOULIN AND THE CAST
Please join the cast of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers as they discuss the process of creating the play.
Panel moderated by Jack Doulin, Casting Director, New York Theatre Workshop
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003
March 2, 2010 | 7:00 PM Performance | 8:30 PM Discussion
THE LANGUAGE OF TORTURERS:
THE PENTAGON PAPERS, THEN AND NOW
DAVID RUDENSTINE, Author, The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers; Former Dean, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
TODD GITLIN, Author, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage; Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia University
Panel moderated by STEVE WASSERMAN, Acting Director, New York Institute for the Humanities
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003
March 3, 2010 | 8:00 PM Performance | 9:30 PM Discussion
AN EVENING WITH HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
MARCUS BRAUCHLI, Executive Editor, The Washington Post
TIM WEINER, Pulitzer prize-winning Journalist and Author, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
BRIAN ROSS, Chief Investigative Correspondent, ABC News
Panel moderated by CARROLL BOGERT, Associate Director, Human Rights Watch
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003
March 4, 2010 | 8:00 PM Performance | 9:30 PM Discussion
USC ANNENBERG BENEFIT
JILL ABRAMSON, Managing Editor, New York Times
CARL BERNSTEIN, Legendary Investigative Reporter
NORM PEARLSTINE, Chief Content Officer, Bloomberg L.P.
Panel moderated by GEOFFREY COWAN, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy
Welcoming remarks by STEPHEN GRAHAM, Founding Trustee of New York Theatre Workshop and son of Katharine Graham
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003
March 6, 2010 | 8:00 PM Performance | 9:30 PM Discussion
A SALUTE TO ROY AARONS
A special program celebrating the legacy of Leroy Aarons, acclaimed journalist, author, activist, and co-writer of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers.
MONICA ALBA, Junior Fellow, USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy; USC Annenberg alumni
GEOFFREY COWAN, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy
CHARLES KAISER, Author, Full Court Press; Founder and Former President, New York Chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
REBECCA MILLER, Actor, Prayers for Bobby
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003
March 7, 2010 | 2:00 PM Matinee | 3:30 PM Discussion
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM, THEN AND NOW
WILLIAM E. BUZENBERG, Executive Director, Center for Public Integrity
SHEILA CORONEL, Director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia University; Founder, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
BILL KOVACH, Chairman, Committee of Concerned Journalists
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003
March 11, 2010 | 8:00 PM Performance | 9:30 PM Discussion
TRUTH AND FICTION IN THE DOCUDRAMA
GEOFFREY COWAN, Playwright, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers; Director, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy
GREG PIEROTTI, member, Tectonic Theatre Project, co-creator of The Laramie Project, The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, and Goldberg Scholar, SUNY Empire State College
JESSICA BLANK AND ERIK JENSEN, creators of 2002’s acclaimed docu-play The Exonerated and Aftermath, an original piece drawn from interviews with Iraqi civilians, which premiered at NYTW in fall 2009.
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003
March 12, 2010 | 8:00 PM Performance | 9:30 PM Discussion
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW BENEFIT PERFORMANCE
DANIEL ELLSBERG, Former Defense and State Department official who gave the Pentagon Papers to the Washington Post
LESLIE GELB, Journalist; Diplomat; President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
JAMES GOODALE, Former Vice Chairman and General Counsel, The New York Times
NICHOLAS LEMANN, Dean, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Discussion moderated by VICTOR NAVASKY, Chairman, Columbia Journalism Review; Delacorte Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism SchoolNew York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003
March 16, 2010 | 7:00 PM Performance | 8:30 PM Discussion
WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP IN THE NEWS INDUSTRY
LIZA GROSS, Executive Director, International Women’s Media Foundation
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003
March 17, 2010 | 8:00 PM Performance | 9:30 PM Discussion
CONFIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT INFORMATION IN THE INTERNET AGE: ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF COURTS, THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH, AND THE MEDIA
CHIEF JUDGE MARK L. WOLF, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
PROFESSOR BURT NEUBORNE, Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties, New York University, and Legal Director, Brennan Center for Justice
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th St. NY, NY 10003
March 27, 2010 | 8:00 PM Performance | 9:30 PM Discussion