IRONWEED: An Evening of Art & Humanity

Four-time Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo and two-time Tony Award nominee Jessica Hecht come together for an evening featuring excerpts from a new play adapted from William Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. IRONWEED: An Evening of Art & Humanity offers a heartbreaking look at a man’s end-of-life reckoning during the Great Depression. Set on All Hallows' Eve in 1938 on the streets of Albany, the play follows one man's journey through purgatory and his struggle for redemption, bringing to life the poetry, humor, and heartbreak of Kennedy’s prose. The evening includes select readings of scenes from a new stage version of the novel, adapted by Kennedy and Markell. A discussion moderated by The New Yorker writer and author Vinson Cunningham will follow, addressing the timeliness of IRONWEED and the current crisis of the unhoused. This exclusive one-night event offers a memorable, moving experience of the power of creative expression to illuminate the human condition.