Calendar: Week of December 5
Here’s a look at the week ahead on our “Sunday Morning” Calendar:
On Monday, veteran actor Joel Grey receives the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre.
- 2016 Oscar Hammerstein Award Gala, December 5 at 6:00 p.m. at Asia Society, New York City | Get tickets
- York Theatre Company
Watch Joel Grey perform “Willkommen” from “Cabaret” on the 1967 Tony Awards:
Tuesday sees the lighting of the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree -- an 80-foot Engelmann Spruce from Idaho.
On Wednesday. Time Magazine reveals its Person of the Year.
Thursday’s the day our own Nancy Giles hosts the annual New York Women in Film and Television Muse Awards gala.
- 36th Annual Muse Awards, December 8, 11:30 a.m., at the Hilton New York
- New York Women in Film and Television
On Friday actor, producer, director and writer Kirk Douglas celebrates his one hundredth birthday!
And Saturday brings dual Nobel Prize ceremonies in Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm, Sweden -- with Literature Prize-winner Bob Dylan NOT scheduled to attend due to a prior commitment.
- Nobel Prize ceremonies (December 11)
- Bob Dylan wins 2016 Nobel Prize in literature
- Bob Dylan finally breaks his silence on Nobel Prize honor
- 3 share Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries on strange states of matter
- Harvard, MIT economists win 2016 Nobel honor
- Chemistry Nobel goes to makers of world’s smallest machines
- Nobel Prize in medicine for Japanese scientist who unraveled cell recycling system
- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos wins Nobel Peace Prize