The Greene Space to Live-Stream Encores! Unscripted Event with Sheldon Harnick, Jeanine Tesori and More

Watch it live! New York City Center and The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC will live-stream the upcoming City Center Encores! Unscripted event on Monday, December 14 at 7pm at thegreespace.org.

This new series of conversation and performances about the glorious, complicated legacy of the Broadway musical goes beyond the "talkback" -- and beyond nostalgia -- for a smart, unsentimental look at how musicals have reflected and shaped American life.

The series kicks off with "Sexism. Racism. Show Tunes. Discuss." hosted by Encores! Artistic Director Jack Viertel.

The phrase "golden age of Broadway" conjures up visions of romantic innocence, but the original scripts of many classic American musicals, from Babes in Arms to Annie Get Your Gun, are full of troublingly sexist and racist attitudes. How can we make sense of an art form that has produced so many beautiful songs and perpetuated so many ugly stereotypes?

Encores! Unscripted will explore that question with the help of Tony Award winners Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Jelly's Last Jam), and Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home), with performances by Margo Siebert (Rocky) and J.D. Webster (Porgy and Bess).

Artists and programs subject to change. All shows will be webcast live and available as archived videos and podcasts.

For more information visit thegreenespace.org.