NOVEMBER 2010 The Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center Also this month: Lennon, Sondheim and The Big Apple Circus ON THE COVER The Tisch WNeT STudioS At Lincoln Center IN THE ApRIL issuE of THIRTEEN, we announced the grand opening of WNET.ORG’s studios at Lincoln Center, a new production facility and broadcast studio located at the corner of 66th Street and Broadway. We are pleased to announce that the venue has been named The Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center. “The Studios are a shining example of Jim and Merryl’s WNET.ORG /(C)2010 NNOTT i commitment to public television in New York,” said Neal Shapiro, President and CEO of WNET.ORG. “Their generosity S : JOSEPH will help us to continue our mission of delivering media photo James S. Tisch, experiences that educate, inspire and change lives.” chairman of Need to Know and Reel 13 are among the WNET.ORG TECTURE i WNET.ORG’s productions currently taping at the Studios, and it was also aRCH i + Board of Trustees, the setting for SundayArts’ recent Fashion Week specials with a © ): and his wife, Paula Zahn and Christina Ha. Famed sportscaster Bob Costas GE a P S Merryl H. Tisch taped intros for our local documentary series Baseball: A New i TH York Love Story at the new facility, and pilots for Metrofocus, & ER v Vine Talk and a new film series with New York University O (C NG Professor Richard Brown are also in the works. i ER d N RE FEATuRED THIS MONTH com . BOBGRUEN . www / UB RUEN La G N ia OB , WNET.ORG 2010 , WNET.ORG LL © B Gi OF OF nnott Si ourtesy ourtesy oseph C C J BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY “JOHN was IN love with this city, gala 80th birthday tribute to Broadway head over heels,” Yoko Ono has said composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim of John Lennon’s passion for New York that was one of the hottest tickets of City. Lennon’s life in New York with Ono Lincoln Center’s 2010 season. Hosted and their son Sean during the 1970s is by david Hyde Pierce, it features the subject of Lennon NYC (Mon 22nd, Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin, 9 p.m.), a new American Masters film Patti LuPone, donna Murphy, Elaine premiering this month on THiRTEEN. Stritch, audra Mcdonald, and other The film includes never-before- Broadway greats performing with the released studio recordings and concert New York Philharmonic. footage, home movies, and exclusive Finally, THiRTEEN takes you behind interviews with Ono, Elton John and the scenes at the Big apple Circus in other artists who worked with Lennon Circus (Wed 3rd, 10th and 17th, 9 p.m.), during the last decade of his life. The a six-part series revealing the joys and result is an intimate portrait of Lennon challenges of life in the ring. From the as a devoted father, husband, activist, big top to the back lot, meet clowns, artist, and New Yorker. acrobats, and other members of the Big Great Performances salutes another apple family who know that in spite of legendary New Yorker in Sondheim! The professional and personal crises, the Birthday Concert (Wed 24th, 9 p.m.), a show must go on. Online extras and more: thirteen.org/americanmasters • thirteen.org/gperf • thirteen.org/circus Great Performances: Sondheim! The Birthday Concert is funded by the irene diamond Fund, the National Endowment for the arts, vivian Milstein, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, the duBose and dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, public television viewers and PBS. American Masters is made possible by the support of the National Endowment for the arts and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. additional funding for American Masters is provided by Rosalind P. 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