Cyndi Lauper, Robin Wiliams, OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES and More Set for 92Y and 92YTribeca's Fall 2012 Theater Events

92Y and 92YTRIBECA have announced their fall 2012 theater lineup, featuring Cyndi Lauper, Judy Gold, Robin Williams with David Steinberg, Peter Bogdanovich, Ben Brantley, Playwrights Horizons, Old Jews Telling Jokes and more!

92YTRIBECA – 200 Hudson Street

Mon, Sep 10, 7:30 pm, $15

Playwrights Horizons 2012/2013 SEASON PREVIEW

Catch a preview of Playwrights Horizons’ 2012/13 season from the featured playwrights themselves and hear the back stories of each production’s journey to the stage. Playwrights include Lisa D’Amour (Detroit); Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale);Amy Herzog (The Great God Pan); Annie Baker (The Flick); Tanya Barfield (The Call); and Tony Award-winner Richard Greenberg (Far From Heaven, a new musical) with Tony Award nominees Scott Frankel (music) and Michael Korle (lyrics). The event is moderated by Michael Schulman of The New Yorker.

92YTRIBECA - 200 Hudson Street

Thu, Sep 13, 3-4 pm, tickets from $21

ON Irving Berlin’S AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER

Irving Berlin rose from the teeming immigrant community on the Lower East Side to become one of the most influential and accomplished composers in American musical theater history. Hear about Berlin’s prolific career, from his rags-to-riches tale to the anti-Semitism directed at the composer of “White Christmas.” Jeffrey Magee is the author of Irving Berlin’s American Musical Theater.

92YTRIBECA - 200 Hudson Street

Fri, Sep 14, 12-1 pm, tickets from $21

OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES: A CONVERSATION WITH THE CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

You’ll laugh, you’ll plotz! Based on the web series of the same name, the play Old Jews Telling Jokes pays tribute to and reinvents classic jokes of the past and present. If you’ve ever walked into a bar with a priest, a rabbi and a frog, join us for conversation with the show’s conceivers/producers Peter Gethers and Daniel Okrent,and vignettes from the show with cast members TBA.

92Y – 1395 Lexington Avenue

Wed, Sep 19, 8 pm, tickets from $29

Cyndi Lauper with Valerie Smaldone

She has dazzled millions “time after time,” and this time Cyndi Lauper is gracing 92Y’s stage to share her new book, Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir (Atria Books; September 18, 2012). Enjoy never-before-told stories from the Grammy and Emmy Award winner as she talks to celebrity interviewer Valerie Smaldone about her remarkable 25-year career. Lauper wrote the music and lyrics for the new Broadway production of Kinky Boots, with a book by Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein and directed by Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell.