Viewers will also get the chance to hear several performances. The cellist Ma and the pianist Emanuel Ax will play following a chat with Alex Ross, The New Yorker’s music critic. Fiona Apple, who released her first album in nearly a decade last spring, will perform after a chat with Emily Nussbaum, who profiled her in March.
Maya Rudolph, the actor and comedian who portrays the Democratic vice-presidential contender Kamala Harris on “Saturday Night Live,” will be interviewed alongside Natasha Lyonne, who starred in the Netflix series “Russian Doll.” And Elizabeth Alexander, the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will talk with the civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson about social justice, in a free community event.
The festival will also host the premiere of Regina King’s directorial debut, “One Night in Miami,” at the Queens Drive-In on Oct. 11, at 8 p.m. The film, which explores a pivotal moment in the early life of Muhammad Ali, will be followed by a prerecorded conversation between King, Kemp Powers (who wrote the screenplay and the stage play the film is based on) and The New Yorker’s editor, David Remnick.
Attendees in the New York area can also order a dinner created by the Harlem-based chefs Pierre Thiam and JJ Johnson any day that week. Streaming access to a prerecorded conversation with Thiam, Johnson and The New Yorker’s food critic, Hannah Goldfield, is included with the purchase.
Events will be available to stream through Oct. 13. A full lineup is at newyorker.com/festival.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/arts/new-yorker-festival-chris-rock-elizabeth-warren.html
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