Ensemble Pi: Banned Books
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Presents:
ENSEMBLE PI: BANNED BOOKS
Monday, May 15, 2023, 6-7:30 p.m.
The Music and Recorded Sound Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023
United States
Directions, Here
Program
And Tango Makes Three by Richard Brooks: inspired by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell’s children’s book of the same name, with illustration by Henri Cole.
Truth is What Is by Louis Goldford: inspired by stand-up comic Lenny Bruce’s texts
New Kid by Laura Jobin-Acosta: inspired by Jerry Craft’s graphic novel of the same name
Reading Nafisi by Laura Kaminsky: inspired by Azar Nafisi’s Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
The Banned by Tamar Muskal: inspired by Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus
Praise Pecola! by Damian Norfleet: inspired by Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye