ADAM GOPNIK TO HOST ONE-NIGHT-ONLY “TALK THERAPY” WITH THEATRE ASPEN
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
THEATRE ASPEN
TO PRESENT
ADAM GOPNIK’S
“TALK THERAPY”
FOR ONE-NIGHT-ONLY
ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28
AT PAEPCKE AUDITORIUM
To download key art, click here.
Aspen, CO (January 28, 2026) – Today, Theatre Aspen proudly announced that acclaimed New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik (Paris to the Moon, The Real Work) will be bringing his newly crafted one-person show, Talk Therapy, to Theatre Aspen’s Paepcke Auditorium on Saturday, February 28 at 6:30 PM.
In this revealing and deeply personal piece produced by Academy®, Grammy®, and Emmy® Award winner Steve Martin and 13-time Tony® Award winner James L. Nederlander, Gopnik reflects on his early years as a young writer finding his footing in the wilds of New York City—and the mentors, friendships, and formative encounters that shaped his path. Best known as an acclaimed writer for The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik has spent more than three decades crafting essays, memoirs, and cultural criticism. He now turns his sharp eye and signature wit to the stage.
“Nothing makes me happier than coming back to Aspen to do my comic-poignant show, Talk Therapy,” said Gopnik. “After many years of coming to Aspen to opine and persuade, it is a joy to come back to amuse and inspire. Though the show is about one life in New York, it’s truly about how all of our lives turn out to have circular shapes, seen clearly only when we at last look back on them in wonder and discovery. I hope to make you laugh, think, and maybe, feel.”
Tickets for Talk Therapy range from $65 for standard seating to $95 for premium seating. The performance runs 70 minutes.
To purchase tickets and for more information, please visit https://theatreaspen.org/adam-gopniks-talk-therapy/.
To download Adam Gopnik’s headshot, click here.
ABOUT ADAM GOPNIK
Adam Gopnik’s New York played at Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theatre in the spring and summer of 2025. His musical, Our Table, opened in 2017, at the Long Wharf Theatre, in New Haven.
A staff writer at The New Yorker, he has been contributing to the magazine since 1986. During his tenure, he has written fiction, humor, criticism, book reviews, personal essays, Profiles, and reported pieces from abroad. He was the magazine’s art critic from 1987 to 1995 and the Paris correspondent from 1995 to 2000. From 2000 to 2005, he wrote a journal about New York life.
His books, ranging from essay collections about Paris and food to children’s novels, include Paris to the Moon, The King in the Window, Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York, Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food, Winter: Five Windows on the Season, At the Strangers’ Gate: Arrivals in New York, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, and The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery.
Gopnik has won three National Magazine Awards, for essays and for criticism, and also the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. In March of 2013, Gopnik was awarded the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, and in 2021 he was made a Chevalier of the Legion d’honneur. He lectures widely, and, in 2011, delivered the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s fiftieth-anniversary Massey Lecture.
ABOUT THEATRE ASPEN
As Theatre Aspen enters its 43rd season in 2026 it continues to rekindle a sense of discovery in audiences who live in and visit the Roaring Fork Valley by producing big theatre in a small space with intimate storytelling. Each season, Theatre Aspen promises to bring world-class theatre dramatically closer, with innovative and imaginative productions of both plays and musicals. These productions are complemented by an assortment of community events, including cabarets, educational programs and performances, collaborations with other Aspen arts organizations, and new works presentations. Theatre Aspen also boasts an impressive Apprentice Program, one of the largest in the country, devoted to training the next generation of theatrical artists and administrators. For more information on Theatre Aspen, visit TheatreAspen.org or call (970) 925-9313.
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