2024 New Yorker Festival Includes Talks With Audra McDonald and Sara Bareilles, Preview Screening of The Piano Lesson, More | Playbill

On the Rialto 2024 New Yorker Festival Includes Talks With Audra McDonald and Sara Bareilles, Preview Screening of The Piano Lesson, More

Lots of Broadway favorites will make appearances at the 25th annual event.

Audra McDonald, Sara Bareilles, and Samuel L. Jackson

A schedule has been revealed for the 2024 New Yorker Festival, set to be held October 25-27—and Broadway will be fully represented. The three-day event, originally started in 2000 to celebrate the magazine's 75th year, will feature New Yorker writers and editors taking the stage with a host of pop culture powerhouses for a full slate of panels, live performances, film screenings, master classes, and more.

Broadway fans will be able to catch an interview between Tony winner Alan Cumming and Emily Nussbaum, McNeal playwright Ayad Akhtar with Mohsin Hamid and Parul Sehgal, Hacks star Jean Smart and Emma Allen, six-time Tony winner (and soon to be Gypsy star) Audra McDonald and Michael Schulman, and more. Waitress songwriter and star Sara Bareilles will also sit for a chat with Rachel Syme, along with performing.

An "On Stage and On Screen" panel is scheduled to include multi-genre writers Annie Baker, Heidi Schreck, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins in conversation with Helen Shaw.

The festival will also include an advance screening of the upcoming film adaptation of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, to be followed by a discussion with director Malcolm Washington and cast members Danielle Deadwyler and John David Washington, and Jelani Cobb.

Tickets for all festival events are currently on sale. Find those tickets plus a full schedule at NewYorker.com.

 
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