Brooklyn Boy Playwright to Appear at Drama Book Shop February 25

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donald Margulies will discuss his new play Brooklyn Boy on Friday, February 25 at 6:00 PM in the Arthur Seelen Theatre at The Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street, New York, NY. The event will be moderated by David Finkle, Chief Drama Critic for TheaterMania, and will be followed by a book signing. Free and open to the public, seating for the discussion is limited and reservations are recommended. Please call (212) 944-0595 ext 417 or email info@dramabookshop.com to reserve your place.

Brooklyn Boy, currently enjoying its world premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club's Biltmore Theatre, is a marvelously rich, wonderfully funny and deeply moving new work about a novelist who's finally hit the big time, with a bestselling book primed for a Hollywood adaptation. But when his father's health brings him back to the Brooklyn of his childhood, he is forced to reconcile the boy he was with the successful man he has become.

DONALD MARGULIES (Playwright) was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner with Friends, which also won the Outer Critics', Lucille Lortel, and Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner awards and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award. His other plays include God of Vengeance (based on Sholem Asch's 1906 Yiddish classic; A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle); Collected Stories (HB Studio/Lucille Lortel Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Repertory, Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award, L.A. Ovation Award, Drama Desk nominee, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner finalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist); The Model Apartment (Primary Stages, Obie Award, Drama Desk nominee, Hull-Warriner finalist); Sight Unseen (MTC/Orpheum Theatre, SCR, Obie and Hull-Warriner Awards, Drama Desk nominee, Pulitzer Prize finalist); The Loman Family Picnic (MTC, Drama Desk nominee); What's Wrong With This Picture? (MTC, Jewish Rep, Brooks Atkinson Theatre); Found a Peanut (New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre); Broken Sleep: Three Plays (Williamstown Theatre Festival); July 7, 1994 (Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival); Pitching to the Star (West Bank Cafe). He received the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for outstanding achievement in the theatre by a playwright. Grants: CAPS, New York Foundation of the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts. Instructor, Yale University. Council member, Dramatists Guild of America.

Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere production of Brooklyn Boy is directed by Tony® Award-winner Daniel Sullivan. The sensational cast includes Adam Arkin ("Chicago Hope," "Northern Exposure," "The West Wing") Polly Draper (Four Dogs and a Bone at MTC, "thirtysomething"), Ari Graynor (Mystic River), Ayre Gross (Minority Report, "Ellen"), Kevin Isola (Everett Beekin at Lincoln Center Theater), Mimi Lieber (I'm Not Rappaport) and Allan Miller ("Knot's Landing").

Tickets ($79 - $26) for Brooklyn Boy are available by calling TeleCharge.com at 212-239-6200 or at www.telecharge.com or at the Biltmore Theatre box office (261 West 47th