The American Theatre Wing Presents The Play That Changed My Life America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them
Edited by Ben Hodges
Foreword by Paula Vogel
Dec. 15th at 5:30 p.m.
The Drama Book Shop
250 W. 40th Street
between 7th & 8th Ave.
New York City
Join editor Ben Hodges and executive director of the American Theatre Wing Howard Sherman at The Drama Book Shop in New York City on December 15th as they discuss The Play That Changed My Life: America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them. Books will be available for purchase, and Mr. Hodges and Mr. Sherman will be happy to sign them. Please mark your calendars.
*Review copies are available
*Editor is available for interview
What was the play that changed your life? What was the play that inspired you; that showed you something entirely new; that was so thrilling or surprising, breathtaking or poignant, that you were never the same? Nineteen of today's most gifted playwrights respond in this most revealing and personal book, published by Applause Books and presented by the American Theatre Wing, founder of The Tony Awards.
From Edward Albee's 1935 visit to New York's Hippodrome Theatre to see Jimmy Durante (and an elephant) in Rodgers and Hart's Jumbo to Diana Son's twelfth-grade field trip in 1983 to see Diane Venora play Hamlet at The Public Theater, from David Henry Hwang's seminal San Francisco encounter with Equus to a young Beth Henley's epiphany after seeing her mother in a Green Bean Man costume, The Play That Changed My Life offers readers a unique peek into the theatrical influences of some of the nation's most important dramatists. The book is filled with tributes, memories, anecdotes and other insights that connect past to present and make this volume an instant must-have for anyone who adores the theatre. Also in the book are pieces by David Auburn, Jon Robin Baitz, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Charles Fuller, A. R. Gurney, Tina Howe, David Ives, Donald Margulies, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl, John Patrick Shanley, ReGina Taylor, and Doug Wright, as well as an introduction by Paula Vogel. All together, the playwrights featured here have won more than 40 Tony Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, Obies, and MacArthur genius grants.
Ben Hodges is the editor of the Theatre World series and of Forbidden Acts: Pioneering Gay & Lesbian Plays of the 20th Century.
Best known for creating The Tony Awards, now presented with The Broadway League, The American Theatre Wing is dedicated to celebrating excellence and supporting education in the theatre through a wide variety of programs and activities.
December 2009 $18.99 Paperback Original ISBN: 978-1-55783-740-0
200 pages 6 x 9 40 B&W photos
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, an imprint of Hal Leonard
http://www.applausepub.com/
