CAAL Members participated in a night at Time Stands Still, hosted in partnership with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  After the performance, they took part in a talkback with Columbia Journalism professor Helen Benedict, a specialist on the Iraq War and women's issues.

Emmy Award-winning actress Laura Linney returned to the Manhattan Theatre Club for yet another collaboration with playwright Donald Margulies (Sight Unseen), who premiered his latest play, Time Stands Still, at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Linney, known for her work in films such as The Savages and the HBO TV miniseries John Adams, last appeared on Broadway in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Time Stands Still, a new drama that poses questions about our ability to enjoy happiness in a world filled with so much despair, premiered in early 2009 at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.  Brian D'Arcy James, Eric Bogosian, and Alicia Silverstone also starred in this production.

In Time Stands Still, James and Sarah, a journalist and a photographer, have been together for nine years and share a passion for documenting the realities of war. But when injuries force them to return home to New York, the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life. Time Stands Still is a blazingly important new work about responsibility – to ourselves, to our loved ones, to our community, and to our world.

Professor Helen Benedict is a novelist and journalist specializing in the Iraq war, women's issues, race, and literature. She published The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq in April 2009 by Beacon Press. In November, 2009, her new novel, The Edge of Eden, was released by Soho Press. Her play, "The Lonely Soldier Monologues," was produced in March at a New York City theater, and will be performed twice more in September, 2009 at La Mama E.T.C. in New York.

To read the recent review in the New York Times, please click here.

Mark Bhasin, ’04GSAPP
Ernest Brod, ’58CC, ’61LAW
Faye Brooks, ’78BUS
Bernadette Cullen, ’81JRN
Kevin Daly, ’95GSAPP
Dimitra DeFotis, ’08JRN
Linda Freeman, ’76PS
Luis Garcia-Flores, ’03LAW
Alexander Goldberg, ’07BUS
Molly Grodin, ’09SIPA
Christopher Hand, ’82GS
Marietta Lavicka, ’94SIPA
Stasi Lubansky, ’80NRS
Eleanor Milburn, ’06CC
David Ostwald, ’68JRN
Ellen Perlstein, ’79TC
Tracy Quinn, CU Staff
Walter Reichel, ’59CC
Juliette Riviere, ’06LAW
Natalie Rodriguez, ’09JRN
Jessica Siegel, ’92JRN
Sydney Steinhardt, ’02JRN
Amanda Tennery, ’09JRN
Barbara Weinreich, ’85GSAPP
Melissa Welsh, CU Staff
Sharon Werner, ’87LAW
Marti Wheat, ’97GS
Elaine Zimbler, ’91LS