Food lovers are in for a treat this Thursday night at Merkin Hall. Famed food writer, former NY Times Restaurant Critic and former editor of Gourmet magazine Ruth Reichl will host In Your Face New York. Reichl will sit with Danny Meyer, CEO of the Union Square Hospitality Group and the man who catapulted Shake Shack into the burger stratosphere. The two will be joined by violinist Kelly Hall-Tomkins, Tony nominee Karen Akers, author Anand Giridharadas (Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World) and others.

Aidan Redmond may not be a household name, but the steadily working actor boasts an impressive list of credits. Since graduating from the Samuel Beckett Centre at Trinity College Dublin, the Irishman has been performing in both his native land and the United States. In 2014, he made his Broadway debut in Martin McDonagh‘s The Cripple of Inishman with Daniel Ratcliffe.

Christine Andreas is going to kill you. At least that’s what is written on her website by NY Times Reviewer Stephen Holden. Of Andreas, he  writes that “she delicately kills with the sheer beauty of her voice.” He’s not wrong. The New Jersey native has recently released a brand new recording entitled Piaf: No Regrets. The album, recorded with a 36 piece orchestra,  coincides with live performances of her show, which Andreas based on the book No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf by Carolyn Burke. Her husband, Grammy-nominated composer Martin Silvestri accompanies her  on the piano and accordian on the album  In October, she took the show to London’s Pheasantry and brought it to New Yorkers last month. This past weekend, San Francisco audiences were treated to this exquisite piece at The famed Venetian Room.