Events
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Start: 2:00 pm
Sat 1/19/13 2pm-3pm
A Conversation
with Anne Bogart, theatre director and author of Conversations
with Anne: Twenty-Four Interviews
Noted theatre director Anne Bogart will discuss
interviews she conducted with major artists and cultural thinkers – including
Oskar Eustis, Richard Foreman, Julie Taymor and Paula Vogel – that led to the
publication of her book, Conversations
with Anne: Twenty-Four Interviews. The talk will be followed by a book
signing.
Anne Bogart is the Artistic Director of SITI Company,
which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992 in New York
City. She is a professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate
Directing Program, and is the author of three other books: A Director Prepares,
The Viewpoints Book (with Tina Landau) and And Then, You Act.
Start: 7:00 pm
Sat 1/19 7pm-8pm
Author Hal Johnson
reads from his new young adult novel, Immortal
Lycanthropes
Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) hc $16.99 9780547751962 YA fiction
"A shameful fact about humanity is that some people
can be so ugly that no one will be friends with them. It is shameful that
humans can be so cruel, and it is shameful that humans can be so ugly."
So
begins the incredible story of Myron Horowitz, a disfigured thirteen-year-old
just trying to fit in at his Pennsylvania school. When a fight with a bully
leaves him unconscious and naked in the wreckage of the cafeteria, Myron
discovers that he is an immortal lycanthrope--a were-mammal who can transform
from human to animal. He also discovers that there are others like him, and
many of them want Myron dead.
Immortal Lycanthropes was an American Booksellers
for Children 2012 New Voices Selection.
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