The play, by Tony award winner Rupert Holmes, presents an intimate portrait of late Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg. Michelle Azar stars as Ginsburg, under the direction of Laley Lippard.

The performance will take place at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 6.

The Jamestown performance is made possible by a collaboration between Reg Lenna Center for The Arts and The Robert H. Jackson Center.

The Jackson Center also will present a tie-in event on May 6 before the performance.

“Notorious RBG” author Irin Carmon and Jackson scholar John Q. Barrett will be featured in a free public discussion and book signing at 2:30 p.m. The discussion will focus on Justice Ginsburg’s and Justice Jackson’s connections to influential constitutional scholar Robert E. Cushman.

Tickets to “All Things Equal” may be purchased online at reglenna.com or at the Reg Lenna Center for The Arts box office by calling 716-484-7070.

Information about the Jackson Center program can be found at roberthjackson.org/events.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Jan. 1

NEW YORK – Gov. Andrew Cuomo was sworn in for his 3rd term as Governor Tuesday, using it as an opportunity to attack several of President Donald Trump’s policies and pledging New York will lead the nation forward with the most progressive agenda in state history.

The Democrat began 2019 and his third term with the inaugural address on Ellis Island, saying “America’s only threat is from within.”

“As our nation once confronted a great economic depression, we now confront a great social depression,” the governor said. “People’s frustration is turning to fear and the fear is turning to anger and the anger is turning to division. It is impossible to overstate how dangerous, how malignant this condition is. It is like a cancer that is spreading throughout our society, a disease that causes one cell in the body politic to attack other cells, to turn one against one another.”

The governor also said he doesn’t blame the leaders of the federal government for the fear that his gripped the nation, but he does blame them failing to properly address it.

“Like looters during a blackout, they didn’t cause the darkness, but they exploited it. People’s fear and frustration is caused by real problems in their lives and there are two options for government leaders to take. The hard, but true path is to confront and actually solve the problem. The easy, but false path is to use the anger to blame someone else, and the easiest target to blame is always the people who are different.”

Cuomo said that within the first 100 days of his new term, he will propose “the most progressive agenda this state has ever seen, period.”

“From voting reforms, to Roe v. Wade for New York, to protecting a woman’s right to choose,” said Cuomo. “To better gun laws, to healthcare protection, to legalizing marijuana, to protecting the labor movement, to a green new deal, to real criminal justice reform – we will make history and New York will move forward. Not by building a wall, my friends, but by building new bridges, and building new airports, and creating new middle class jobs and an economic future for the next generation and showing us how good we can be at our best when we are together.”

Cuomo also made it clear that he chose to deliver the nearly 30-minute speech from a famous landmark linked to immigration that remains open, along with the nearby Statue of Liberty, despite a partial federal government shutdown because of money supplied by the state.

And the governor highlighted the immigrant roots of many prominent Americans, including Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

With the battle over immigration policy raging nationwide, the speech’s location is likely to encourage speculation that Cuomo may run for president, though the 61-year-old has said he has ruled out the idea.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will speak on Monday, July 22, in the Hall of Philosophy at 3:30 p.m., and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will speak the following Monday, July 29, at 10:45 a.m. in the Amphitheater.

Justice Kennedy, who last spoke at Chautauqua in the summer of 2009, will be speaking on the Week Five theme, “The Pursuit of Happiness.” Justice Ginsburg will be speaking on the Week Six theme, “Crime and Punishment,” with a special lecture on portrayal of the law in opera—as she combines her two passions.

The appearance by Justices Kennedy and Ginsburg comes on the heels of a visit to Jamestown by Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., who was on hand in May to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Robert H. Jackson Center.