From the Stage to the Page: When Playwrights Write Prose (In Person)
Kim Merrill (Red Girl Jumping), Steven Fechter (The Big Breeze), and Alvin Eng (Our Laundry, Our Town), three accomplished writers who began in the theater, discuss their journeys from playwriting to fiction and memoir. What is lost and what endures? How do playwrights translate the immediacy of performance into the interiority of prose? What happens […]
Worlds within Worlds presented by the Whiting Foundation
The New Yorker staff writer Helen Shaw talks with Whiting Award-winning writers Shayok Misha Chowdhury (Public Obscenities), whose eloquent bilingual play, exploring what desire, language, and memory reveal and obscure, was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (The King of Hell’s Palace), whose witty and politically acute work exploring whistleblowing amidst the pressures […]
Care and Crisis Through Theatre
Care and Crisis through Theatre presented with the Whiting Foundation. Join us for a discussion with Will Arbery (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), Amy Herzog (4000 Miles), Lynn Nottage (Ruined, Sweat), and Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) – moderated by Soraya Nadia McDonald, award-winning cultural critic for The Undefeated, ESPN’s premiere platform covering race, […]
– POSTPONED – Literature to Life Presents: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (In Person)
LTL’s thrilling adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel chronicles the life of Oscar, an overweight science-fiction enthusiast who dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien. Growing up in Paterson, he obsesses over fantasy novels, falling in love, and the curse that has plagued his family for generations. Encapsulating magical realism and Dominican-American history, […]
INFECTION MELODIES + SILENCE: Theodore (ted) Kerr & Michael R. Jackson (In Person)
Writer and organizer Theodore (ted) Kerr and Tony award-winning playwright, composer, and lyricist Michael R. Jackson present an informal and far-reaching conversation. Together, they will explore their shared love of 1990s female songwriters, tackle the limits and possibilities of using culture to discuss social issues, and examine the role silence plays in their work. ISSUE […]