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| Theater Events, Fall 2007 Preview |
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| Tickets/Registration: 212.415.5500 |
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| Media Contact: Emily Gewitz, 212.415.5455, email |
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| FALL 2007 THEATER EVENTS |
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| New York, NY, August, 8, 2007—The 92nd Street Y offers a wide selection of theater-related events this fall, including a vocal master class with Tony Award-winner Victoria Clark, a chat with playwright Christopher Durang, and a theatrical celebration of poet William Blake's 250th birthday. Also included is a preview of theatrical events coming to the Y in spring of 2008. |
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Sun, Sep 23, 7:30pm, $26 — Alan Alda with Roger Rosenblatt: Talking About Talking
Most widely known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce on the television series M*A*S*H, Alan Alda won a Drama Desk Award in 2005 for his performance in Glengarry Glen Ross, and is a three-time Tony Award nominee. His most recent book is Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, a follow-up to his bestselling memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed. He appears in discussion with Roger Rosenblatt, who is an award-winning essayist, author and playwright.
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Wed, Oct 24, 1pm, $20 — Afternoon Night Table: Christopher Durang
OBIE Award-winner Christopher Durang, author of more than 30 plays, including Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, Baby with the Bathwater and Miss Witherspoon, joins award-winning journalist Roger Rosenblatt at the Y's Afternoon Night Table. In this series of intimate afternoon discussions, writers talk about their work, their passions and the books on their night tables.
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Sun, Nov 11, 7pm, $25 — Master Class: Victoria Clark
Tony Award-winning singer and actress Victoria Clark has appeared in such Broadway productions as Titanic, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Cabaret, Guys and Dolls and Sunday in the Park with George. She has also created the musical staging for many operas and musicals, including Don Giovanni and Regina for the Chautauqua Opera. This November, Ms. Clark shares her expertise with advanced students in a vocal master class at the 92nd Street Y.
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Mon, Dec 3, 8pm, $18 — The Poets' Theatre: William Blake at 250,
A One-Person Show by
Ruth Rosen (American Premiere)
The 92nd Street Y Poets' Theatre is an ongoing series of verse dramas, plays and theatrical adaptations of literary texts designed to emphasize language and the aural experience of theater. In the first performance of the season, Ruth Rosen, one of Britain's leading theater actors, draws from William Blake's poems, letters and prose to create a dramatic presentation of Blake as an artist, poet and visionary. Time Out London called the show "an inspired theatrical performance of great power and beauty." A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Ms. Rosen has collaborated with Harold Pinter, Andrew Motion, Yehuda Amichai and D.M. Thomas.
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| COMING IN SPRING 2008 |
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Mon, Jan 21, 8pm, $18 — Seven (cast to be announced)
Seven award-winning playwrights— including Anna Deveare Smith and Susan Yankowitz— created monologues based on interviews with and oral histories of seven women from Russia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Guatemala and Cambodia. Each monologue tells the story of a woman who overcame injustice to emerge as a leader in her community.
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Wed, Feb 20, 8 pm, $18 — The Lyricist's Voice: Paul Simon with Billy Collins
This season of The Lyricist's Voice, the Y's series of conversations focused on the literary aspects of lyric-writing, opens with a conversation between two of today's most talented wordsmiths. Twelve-time Grammy Award-winner Paul Simon talks about the art of lyric writing with former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, who was recently called "a modern-day Robert Frost" by Entertainment Weekly.
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Mon, Mar 3, 8pm — An Evening of Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra
In 2008, two-time Tony Award-winner Christine Baranski is scheduled to star in the Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. She joins other members of the cast at the Y in a reading of scenes from the play. Following the performance, Darko Tresnjak, the play's director, talks with Jeffrey Horowitz, TFANA Artistic Director, and the performers.
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Mon, Apr 28, 8pm — The Poets' Theatre: Gilgamesh, Directed by Robert Scanlan
The 92nd Street Y Poets' Theatre is an ongoing series of verse dramas, plays and theatrical adaptations of literary texts designed to emphasize language and the aural experience of theater. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa and dramaturge Chad Gracia bring their adaptation of the Sumerian epic Gilgamesh to the Y's stage. The dramatic reading will be directed by Robert Scanlan, whose previous Poetry Center productions include Dante's Inferno and Samuel Beckett at 100: Three Plays.
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| ABOUT THE 92nd STREET Y |
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Founded in 1874 by a group of visionary Jewish leaders, the 92nd Street Y has grown into a wide-ranging cultural, educational and community center serving people of all ages, races, faiths and backgrounds. The 92nd Street Y's mission is to enrich the lives of the over 300,000 people who visit each year — both in person and through the Y's satellite, television, radio and Internet broadcasts. The organization offers comprehensive performing arts, film and spoken word events; courses in the humanities, the arts, personal development and Jewish culture; activities and workshops for children, teenagers and parents; and health and fitness programs for people of every age. Committed to making its programs available to everyone, the 92nd Street Y awards nearly $1 million in scholarships annually and reaches out to 7,000 public school children through fully-subsidized arts education programs. For more information, please visit www.92Y.org. |
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