Good morning. It’s Friday. We’ll get an update on the continuing drama involving an arts group and the church that was its home — until the church evicted it. We’ll also get details on an appeals court ruling that dropped the half-billion-dollar fine in the fraud case against President Trump.
The next act in a continuing landlord-tenant drama will feature a big-name cast — Alec Baldwin, Robert Downey Jr., Nathan Lane, Julianne Moore, Gwyneth Paltrow, Wendell Pierce and Mark Ruffalo, among others — in a staged adaptation of the screenplay from “All the President’s Men,” the 1976 movie about the Watergate scandal.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who as Washington Post reporters uncovered the abuses of power that led to President Richard Nixon’s downfall, will introduce the reading and take part in a discussion moderated by Baldwin after the performance on Monday in East Hampton, N.Y.
Tickets cost $1,000 each.
The money will go to a scrappy arts group on the Upper West Side that says part of its mission is to prevent the demolition of the landmark church it was recently evicted from. “We don’t have to be in the building to continue to work to save it,” said Debby Hirshman, the executive director of the group, the Center at West Park.
Last month, the group moved out of its longtime home, the West Park Presbyterian Church at Amsterdam Avenue and West 86th Street, after losing a court case against the church. The building has been surrounded by a sidewalk shed for years, and the church says that its tiny congregation cannot afford the structural repairs that are needed. The church and the Center are at odds about how much work is actually necessary.
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