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Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen featuring Peter Riegert

Photo courtesy of The Museum of Jewish Heritage

“Person Place Thing” is an interview show based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place and one thing with particular meaning to them. This installment will feature a conversation between host Randy Cohen and actor Peter Riegert with music by Hubby Jenkins.

Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for “Late Night With David Letterman” for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s “TV Nation.” He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, his first play, “The Punishing Blow,” ran at New York’s Clurman Theater. He is currently the creator and host of “Person Place Thing,” a public radio program.

 

This is an in-person event that is being held on Thursday, December 21 at 6:30 p.m. Register here.