SEAS graduates are invited to tour the private underground cheese-curing caves at Murray's Cheese Shop (New York's oldest) with an affineur (or cheese ager), who cares for hundreds of cheese wheels, turning and washing them regularly to distribute the butterfat and improve flavor while they... | Learn More

Teaching more than 7,000 students a year, Gotham Writers' Workshop is the leading creative writing school in NYC and the United States.  Gotham is offering CAAL Members a night of FREE writing workshops in four different areas: fiction writing, screenwriting, memoir writing, and article... | Learn More

Two of New Orleans' finest: they both left the cradle of jazz, matriculated into Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and then helped show the world that the Big Easy is not only the cradle of jazz itself but the nexus of a vibrant scene of modern music. Leading their own groups, these two very... | Learn More

The Scottsboro Boys is a new musical that explores the infamous 1930s 'Scottsboro Case,' in which a group of innocent African-American teenagers were falsely accused of a terrible crime — ultimately provoking a national outrage that sparked the American Civil Rights movement.

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CAAL members have the opportunity to take a FREE guided tour of the Standard Hotel in New York, the creation of real estate mogul and hotelier Andre Balazs ('79JRN).  The tour will include visits to private spaces and rooms, as well as the roof (based on... | Learn More

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, known for commissioning new works by the world's most sought after choreographers, returns to The Joyce with an exceptionally talented corps of fifteen "wonderful performers, adept at picking up different styles and always impressive in their articulation and... | Learn More

The Pitmen Painters is a humorous, deeply moving and timely look at art, class, and politics. In 1934, a group of Ashington miners hired a professor to teach an art appreciation evening class. Rapidly abandoning theory in favor of practice, the pitmen began to paint. Within a few years the most... | Learn More

Artist Edward Hopper lived and worked in a fourth-floor studio at 3 Washington Square North from 1939 to 1965. Portions of his studio are preserved in that building (which is now the School of Social Work) to this day. Many of Hopper's artifacts are in place, including an easel, a hand-press, a... | Learn More

Join fellow CAAL members for this spectacular program with the New York Philharmonic.  The program features Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila (Glinka), Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky), Nocturnes (Debussy), and Suite from The Firebird (Stravinsky).  After the performance, join CAAL... | Learn More

“I think Don Carlo is the quintessential Verdi opera,” says director Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys, The Madness of King George), who makes his Met debut with this new production, which was greeted with popular success when it opened in London. “Right through this opera there... | Learn More