Lincoln Center

They returned to New York City as the San Francisco troupe was winding down and Irving served as artistic director of Manhattan’s Lincoln Center from 1965 to 1972.

The two knew each other from San Francisco, and Symonds had moved to New York from California to work as Irving’s associate director at the Lincoln Center.

The night before his 2013 debut feature “Fruitvale Station” hit theaters, director Ryan Coogler sat down for a wide-ranging talk hosted by Film at Lincoln Center.

In his runup to becoming New York Philharmonic music director in 2026, he closes that orchestra’s 2024-25 season next month in Lincoln Center, launches its summer series in Central Park and opens its new season in September.

There are scenes whose dialogue, with a little adjustment, could have served Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, or Carole Lombard and John Barrymore; it’s the world as once scripted by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur or Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, if not quite to that level, and the combination of theatrical speech and location shooting — in and around New York’s Lincoln Center and the Palais Garnier and Salle Favart in Paris — makes for something interesting.