92NY Talks

Most parents would readily agree that they'd do anything to protect their child—but what happens when that child is accused of the unthinkable? Chris Evans and Michelle Dockery star in Apple's limited series  Defending Jacob , about the seemingly idyllic Barber family and the upheaval they experience when their son Jacob (Jaeden Martell) is charged with murder. Based on William Landay's 2012 bests...

Netflix's The Innocence Files with Alex Gibney, Roger Ross Williams, Liz Garbus, Cynthia Littleton, Peter Neufeld, Vincent Southerland and Derrick Hamilton How do innocent people end up in prison? The Innocence Project has been exploring this problem—and combating it—for decades. And now a new Netflix documentary series,  The Innocence Files , is pulling back the veil on their work. Join us for an...

Entertainment Weekly's Gerrad Hall discusses the Netflix series Queer Eye with Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, and Jonathan Van Ness, and look back on some of the show's most poignant –– and hilarious! –– moments. After five seasons, countless French tucks, seven Emmys, and lots of tears, their message of acceptance and equality is as relevant as ever. The conversation was s...

When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an "illegal knife" in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated "roughly" as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma from which he would never recover. In the wake of a long history of economic inequality and racial injustice in Baltimore, this tragedy...

Join celebrated director Gina Prince-Bythewood ( Love & Basketball ,  Beyond the Lights ) and rising star KiKi Layne ( If Beale Street Could Talk ) for a conversation with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins about Prince-Bythewood's brilliant new Netflix movie  The Old Guard . A tough and thoughtful action thriller starring Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne,  The Old Guard  is already being...

We all know that Martin Luther King made his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington but the march was much more than that speech. All three TV networks covered it live (using the exotic new Telstar satellite) and the March helped lead to passage of the Civil Rights Act and later the Voting Rights Act. Join Harry Belafonte - one of the organizers of the March and financial supporters fo...

The second season of  Shrill , Hulu's powerful, acclaimed comedy, drops January 24—and who better to sneak a peek at an episode and mull over the backstory than with its star, exec producer, and co-writer Aidy Bryant? Join the  SNL  cast member for an in-depth conversation about her return to the show as Annie, the millennial on a body-positivity journey of self-acceptance. We'll dig in to the iss...

Join Emmy Award-winning comedian John Mulaney, along with co-writers Marika Sawyer and Eli Bolin, Director Rhys Thomas, and actress Shereen Pimentel as they discuss Mulaney's new Netflix special,  John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch —a variety show packed to the gills with song, dance, existential hilarity, special celebrity guests, and a bunch of kids ages 8–13 who John thinks are more talented t...

Apple TV+  Little America  Executive Producers Lee Eisenberg, Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, Joshuah Bearman, and Alan Yang with Lola Ogunnaike With a 100% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes,  Little America  is shaping up to be a major hit for Apple TV+. Inspired by true stories of immigrants in America, first published in  Epic Magazine , the anthology series is written and produced by Emmy-nomi...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns to 92Y with Zach Woods and director Jim Rash for clips and conversation about her film, Downhill , in which she stars opposite Will Ferrell. Join the multiple award-winning actress and the Oscar-winning director to hear behind-the-scenes stories and about the movie—a biting comedy of a married couple thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives afte...

Issa Rae, Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated creator and star of  Insecure , and writer and director Stella Meghie, join author Roxane Gay for a discussion of their new film,  The Photograph —a powerful multigenerational story of love, family history, and art. Already generating buzz for the project from critics and audiences alike, Rae and Meghie discuss the making of the film and Rae's effortless c...

Join Kevin Kline, Tony award winner for  On the Twentieth Century ,  The Pirates of Penzance  and  Present Laughter , and Oscar winner for  A Fish Called Wanda , along with legendary Oscar-winning producer-director Irwin Winkler ( Rocky ,  Raging Bull ,  The Right Stuff ,  Goodfellas ,  The Irishman ), and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jay Cocks ( The Age of Innocence ,  Gangs of New York ) as they...

High Maintenance , the critically acclaimed series that made the leap from web series to TV in 2012 and now in its fourth season, was recently hailed as one of 2019's "Best Shows of 2019" by  The New Yorker . Created by Katja Blichfeld (Emmy®-winning casting director of  30 Rock ) and Ben Sinclair ( Maniac ,  Home Again ), the series centers around The Guy, a marijuana dealer who traverses the cit...

HBO's The Plot Against America with David Simon, Zoe Kazan, Winona Ryder, Morgan Spector and John Turturro Simon and cast members will sit for a conversation after a screening of the first hour of the six-part miniseries, which premiered on March 16. The conversation is moderated by NPR's Peter Sagal. Set in 1940s New Jersey, The Plot Against America imagines an alternate American history in which...

You've watched countless hours of the  Bon Appétit Test Kitchen  on YouTube. Now catch them IRL. Join Adam Rapoport in conversation with Andy Baraghani, Brad Leone, Carla Lalli Music, Chris Morocco, Christina Chaey, Claire Saffitz, Gaby Melian, Molly Baz, Priya Krishna, and Sohla El-Waylly to hear firsthand what it's really like to work inside the BA Test Kitchen, share behind-the-scenes stories,...

Legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld joins the film and television director Barry Sonnenfeld, to launch his new memoir, Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker . Outrageous and hilarious, the book traces Sonnenfeld's idiosyncratic upbringing in New York City, his breaking into film as a cinematographer with the Coen brothers, and his unexpected career as the director behin...

Award-winning producer and writer Richie Jackson and Netflix's Queer Eye star Antoni Porowski discuss Jackson's new book, Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son , with an introduction by Jordan Roth. Jackson reflects on his life as a gay man and compares it to the world his 18-year-old gay son is growing up in now. Being gay is a gift, Jackson says, but with its gains in jeopardy, the gay communi...

Edie Falco discusses her acclaimed career and her new role as the title character of CBS's new series, Tommy, with Michelle Miller. Falco is already generating buzz for her nuanced portrayal of the first female chief of the LAPD––a character navigating between her job in a male-dominated field, a fractured relationship with her estranged adult daughter and her life in the LGBTQ community. The conv...

Noah Centineo discusses his breakout role in Netflix's To All The Boys I've Loved Before and its sequel To All the Boys: PS I Still Love You with Evan Real. The conversation was recorded on January 24, 2020 in front of a live audience at New York's 92nd Street Y.

Ezra Klein, the co-founder of Vox, discusses his groundbreaking new book, Why We're Polarized , with bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell. Their conversation explores how and why American politics have become polarized around identity, why the system has become so toxic, why we participate in it, and what it means for our future. The conversation was recorded on January 30, 2020 in front of a live...

The stars of Outlander - Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton, and Richard Rankin - are joined by author Diana Gabaldon and moderator Julie Kosin from ELLE magazine to discuss the trajectory of the series so far, adapting the story from Gabaldon's beloved books, stories from behind the scenes, and much more. The conversation was recorded on February 11, 2020 in front of a live audience at...

Ariel Foxman interviews Academy Award-winning writer and director of Fox Searchlight's Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi, and the film's producer Carthew Neal about their brilliant and darkly hilarious World War II satire. Waititi and Neal discuss the film's nomination for a Best Picture Academy Award, the joys of making anti-Nazi comedy, stories from behind the scenes, and much more. The conversation wa...

Moderator Annette Insdorf interviews Jonathan Pryce and director Fernando Meirelles about their Netflix film, The Two Popes . Pryce plays Pope Francis –– a liberal humanist from Argentina –– alongside Anthony Hopkins as his conservative predecessor Pope Benedict. The conversation was recorded on December 17, 2019 in front of a live audience at New York's 92nd Street Y.

Zadie Smith, beloved author of White Teeth , On Beauty , NW and Swing Time , reads from her first book of short fiction, Grand Union , and sits for a conversation with fellow novelist Jennifer Egan. The conversation was recorded on December 5, 2019 in front of a live audience at New York's 92nd Street Y.

Superstar chef and fresh food champion Jamie Oliver brings his signature effervescence and passion for pure, unprocessed, flavor-packed food as he talks with Carla Hall about his book, Ultimate Veg . From burgers and fritters to gorgeous curries to pies and bakes, Oliver shares his recipes, tips, and philosophy that veg-based food is no longer an "alternative" –– it's for us all. The conversation...