BARDISMS, STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS & More Set For Drama Book Shop Upcoming Events

"Bardisms" with Barry Edelstein
Tuesday, April 14 at 6:00 p.m. -- Free Event!

BARDISMS

In addition to waxing about the bard, Edelstein will talk about his work with the Public Theater and how a director is a combination of literary figure and practitioner. With BARDISMS: Shakespeare for All Occasions Barry Edelstein, a noted scholar and director of Shakespeare, gathers together Shakespearean gems for life's momentous events as well as the more personal, trying, or intimate moments.

Organized by occasion and presented with lively and accessible background material, BARDISMS shows how to weave the Bard's musings into any simple and elegant speech. Barry Edelsteinis a theater director noted for his productions of the plays of William Shakespeare. In addition to staging many contemporary and classical plays, he has directed over half of the Bardâ?(TM)s works at theaters around New York City and the U.S. including As You Like It, starring Gwyneth Paltrow; Julius Caesar starring Jeffrey Wright for New Yorkâ?(TM)s Shakespeare in the Park. He has taught Shakespeare at the Juilliard School, the Graduate Acting Program at NYU, the Public Theaterâ?(TM)s Shakespeare Lab, and in lectures and master classes around the U.S. and abroad. He lives in Williamsburg with his wife, Hilit.

Stephen Adly Guirgis
Friday, April 17 at 6:00 p.m.
Free talk and book signing

An Evening with playwright Stephen Guirgis, Maggie Flanigan and LAByrinth Theater

Actor/playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis will be at the shop along with fellow LAByrinth company members and LAB acting coach Maggie Flanigan in support of the publication of Guirgis' latest play, The Little Flower of East Orange.

Mr. Guirgis and other LAB members will read from Little Flower before speaking to their collaboration with Ms. Flanigan and taking questions from the audience. Copies of Little Flower as well as Mr. Guirgis' other works will be available for purchase and to be signed afterward. Stephen Adly Guirgis(Playwright) has been a LAByrinth Company Member since 1994.

His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States. His most recent play, The Litttle Flower of East Orange, starring Ellen Burstyn and directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, just completed an extended run at The Public Theater. Other plays include Our Lady of 121st Street (10 best plays of 2003; Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Best Play Nominations), Jesus Hopped the "A" Train (Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award, Laurence Olivier Nomination for London's Best New Play), In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings(2007 LA Drama Critics Best Play, Best Writing Award), and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot(10 best Time Magazine & Entertainment Weekly), produced by LAByrinth in collaboration with The Public Theater in 2005. MAGGIE FLANIGANhas been teaching professional acting classes in New York City for almost 30 years and is the Artistic Director and Master Teacher of the Maggie Flanigan Studio.

Maggie trained as an actor and teacher of the Meisner work with William Esper and taught at his studio for 20 years. She also served, with particular distinction, on the faculty of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Professional Actor Training Program (Rutgers University) for 18 years. She established the Maggie Flanigan Studio to offer smaller classes and give individual attention to serious actors in a conservatory-based program. Maggie shares top honors for Best Acting Teacher in New York City 2006 and 2008 and Best Acting Coach 2008 (Backstage Readership Poll). Maggie is known and loved for her gift of clarity, her eye for truth and her ability to inspire actors and demand excellence from them. She is currently working on a manual based on her writings and teaching experience.

Star of Broadway's Mary Stuart:
Harriet Walter
Monday, May 4 at 6:00 p.m.
Free Reading and Book Signing

Harriet Walter:
One of the great actresses of our time.

Harriet Walter, who plays Elizabeth I in the new production of Mary Stuart on Broadway, talks about her book Other People's Shoes and the new translation of Schiller's play, with Chief Theater Critic of Theatermania, David Finkle. "Harriet Walter is a striking Elizabeth in every respect, steely but uncertain, conscious of her womanhood in a masculine world, flirtatious but duty-bound, hiding her feelings beneath an iron mask of determination." -The Stage, UK Harriet Walter (Elizabeth I). New York credits: All's Well That Ends Well (RSC, Broadway 1983), Three Birds Alighting on a Field (MTC, 1994). UK theatre roles include Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Hedda Gabler, the Duchess of Malfi; leading roles in Dinner, Yasmina Reza's Life (x) 3, Stoppard's Arcadia, Kaufman/Ferber's The Royal Family. Films include The Young Victoria(upcoming), Atonement, Babel, Sense and Sensibility, Milou en Maiand Bright Young Things. TV: best known for Lord Peter Wimsey, Law & Order: UK (2009). Books: Other People's Shoes(available at the Drama Book Shop). Awards: Olivier Award (three roles, RSC), Evening Standard Award (Mary Stuart/Donmar).

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