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Nixon's Nixon - 8/19/2008
Just in time for the presidential elections, Writers' brings back its critically acclaimed, award-winning production of Nixon's Nixon. This box office record-breaking production returns to our most intimate theatre for a limited engagement. Artistic Director Michael Halberstam will once again direct William Brown and Larry Yando as they reprise their tour-de-force performances as Kissinger and Nixon in this thrilling, hilarious and brilliantly imagined story of what might have happened in the Lincoln sitting room the night before Nixon resigned.
Runs August 19- September 28, 2008.
Writers' Theatre performs in two performance spaces in Glencoe–its 50-seat venue at Books on Vernon, 664 Vernon Ave, and its 108-seat theatre at 325 Tudor Court in the Woman's Library Club. Subscriptions and Memberships are available at the Box Office, 376 Park Avenue, Glencoe, 847-242-6000 and www.writerstheatre.org.
Memphis - 8/19/2008
At La Jolla Playhouse
Daniel Radcliffe to Be Times Talks Guest - 8/19/2008
On Tuesday, August 19, 2008 Daniel Radcliffe will participate in the New York Times' Times Talks.
Daniel Radcliffe: Screen to Broadway Stage
From the boy wizard in the "Harry Potter" films and Rudyard Kipling's ill-fated son in the TV drama "My Boy Jack," to the disturbed teenager in the London and Broadway revivals of Peter Schaffer's play "Equus," Daniel Radcliffe is an actor of diverse talents. Hear him discuss his Broadway debut in the drama, which starts previews on September 5, and also how he's been able to move from screen to stage so seamlessly. Interviewed by Julie Bosman, New York Times culture reporter.
The event is sold out.
In EQUUS, psychiatrist Martin Dysart investigates the blinding of six horses, a savage act committed by a mild-mannered stable boy, Alan Strang, whose home life is filled with bigotry and religious fervor. As Dysart reveals the mysteries behind the boy's demons, he realizes he is confronting his own.
Directed by Thea Sharrock, EQUUS is produced on Broadway by The Shubert Organization and Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Roger Berlind, John Gore, Hirschfeld Productions, Bill Kenwright, Emily Fisher Landau, Arielle Tepper Madover, Peter May, Chase Mishkin and Spring Sirkin.
'Fantasticks' Cast and Creative Team To Ring NYSE Closing Bell 8/19 - 8/19/2008
Writer Tom Jones joined by cast members Nick Spangler and Margaret Anne Florence, of the Broadway musical The Fantasticks, will visit the New York Stock Exchange and ring The Closing Bell on Tues., August 19.
The Fantasticks is the longest-running musical in the world. The original production ran for 17,162 performances at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village. The Fantasticks is the only Off-Broadway musical to win a Tony Award (for Excellence in the Theater). It is also the most frequently produced musical with over 11,000 performances in the United States in over 3,000 cities and towns. It has played all fifty states, plus Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia. (Source: The Fantasticks)
The Fantasticks is a captivating and simple love story about a boy, a girl, two fathers and a wall. The audience uses its imagination to follow El Gallo as he creates a world of moonlight and magic, and then pain and disillusionment, until the boy and girl find their way back to one other. The score, which includes "Try To Remember," "They Were You" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain," is as timeless as the story itself.
