Drama Book Shop to Welcome David Ives for Signing

The Drama Book Shop will host award-winning playwright David Ives, who will sign and discuss his new play collection. The playwright will appear at the famed Drama Book Shop at 5pm on January 14th, 2016.

David Ives is probably best known for his evenings of one-acts, collected as All in the Timing (Vintage Books) and Time Flies (Grove Press). His full-length work to date has been collected in Polish Joke and Other Plays (Grove). He is also the author of two young-adult novels, Monsieur Eek and Scrib. Most recently, his Lives of the Saints began in previews Off-Broadway at Primary Stages in February 2015, running through March 27, 2015. Directed by John Rando, Lives of the Saints consists of seven short plays. The plays are: Enigma Variations, The Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage, Babels in Arms, Soap Opera, Lives of the Saints, Arabian Nights, and Captive Audience. Several of the plays had been produced previously. The Lives of the Saints was produced with five of the plays at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge, Massachusetts in August and September 1999. Currently, the playwright is collaborating with legendary composer Stephen Sondheim on a new musical.

Ives' new collection, which he will be signing and discussing at the Drama Book Shop, features adaptations of Pierre Cornielle's The Liar, Jean-Francois Regnard's The Heir Apparent and Alexis Prion's The Metromaniacs.

The Tony Award-winning Drama Book Shop, currently celebrating 99 years in business, is located at 250 West 40th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues. For more info on the legendary shop, please visit www.dramabookshop.com.