Einstein's Dreams

Thursday, May 29, 2008, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM,

Science & the Arts at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York presented the stage adaptation of Alan Lightman's internationally acclaimed book Einstein's Dreams, performed by Boston's Underground Railway Theater.

The play, an inventive and charming work, was the inaugural event in a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Underground Railway Theater, conceived to develop new plays about science.

The performance was followed by an informal discussion with Alan Lightman, author of the book that inspired the play, and Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein: His Life and Universe.

[NOTE: Other performances of this play will ran on Friday, May 30 (post-performance discussion with Alan Lightman) and on Saturday, May 31 (post-performance discussion with Alan J. Friedman). Program details can be found on the web site of Science & The Arts.]

Participants

Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of Time Magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, as well as biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger. read more

Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman's novel Einstein's Dreams was an international bestseller and has been translated into thirty languages. Both a distinguished physicist and an accomplished novelist, Lightman was the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the humanities. read more

Venue:

Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY