MTC Announces Participants for 'After Words: Time Stands Still'

Manhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce guests and dates for the upcoming sessions of After Words, the popular discussion panels held after selected Saturday matinees at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). The first two offerings of the season will focus on the New York premiere of TIME STANDS STILL by Donald Margulies, directed by Daniel Sullivan.

The Saturday, January 9 edition of After Words will feature Sebastian Junger, bestselling author of The Perfect Storm; Jack Saul, PhD, assistant professor at Columbia University and director of the International Trauma Studies Program; and TIME STANDS STILL director, Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan. The panel will be moderated by David Shookhoff, MTC's Director of Education.

On Saturday, January 16, After Words will feature award-winning war photographer James Nachtwey and TIME STANDS STILL playwright Donald Margulies. The discussion will feature NPR's Brooke Gladstone as guest moderator.

After Words is part of MTC's continuing effort to deepen and enrich the play-going experience for its audiences. Held after selected Saturday matinees, these panels, featuring writers, cultural critics and journalists, provide provocative and illuminating insights into the political, cultural, and artistic contexts of the work MTC produces.

For more information on After Words, or to download a podcast of past After Words, please visit: www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com.

BIOGRAPHIES
BROOKE GLADSTONE is host and Managing Editor of NPR's "On the Media." Brooke started out in print journalism, writing on defense policy, strip-mining, broadcasting and cable TV. Her freelance pieces (on topics ranging from org*smic Russian faith healers to the aesthetics of Pampers to NPR's near fiscal crash) have appeared in the London Observer, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and The American Journalism Review among others. She also covered public broadcasting for Current.org, wrote and edited theater, film and music reviews for The Washington Weekly. In 1987, NPR's Scott Simon asked her to fill in as senior editor for his still-new program, "Weekend Edition Saturday." Eventually they gave her the job, and a couple years later, she became senior editor of the daily news magazine, "All Things Considered." She was awarded a Knight Fellowship at Stanford in 1991 and a year later she was in Russia, reporting on the bloody insurgency of the Russian Parliament and other stories for NPR. In 1995, NPR created its brand new media beat and gave it to Brooke, who covered it for six years from NPR's New York office in midtown Manhattan, until she was tapped by WNYC several subway stops downtown to help re-launch "On The Media." The program was reborn in January of 2001. It has since tripled its audience and won quite a few awards by brazenly showing how the journalism sausage is made. Brooke has won several awards too, including an overseas press club award and a Peabody. Recently, the Milwaukee Press Club bestowed on her the Sacred Cat Award for lifetime achievement, but sadly, "On the Media's" staff stubbornly refuses to perform any of the associated rituals.

SEBASTIAN JUNGER is the author of three New York Times bestselling books including The Perfect Storm which was turned in a major motion picture. As a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and as a contributor to ABC News, he has covered major international news stories in Kosovo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan. His work has also appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, and Men's Journal. He has been awarded the National Magazine Award for reporting for his October 1999 Vanity Fair article, "The Forensics of War," and an SAIS Novartis Prize for Journalism. He is also the recipient of a 2009 Alfred I. duPont Award. The documentary, Restrepro, which he co-directed with Tim Hetherington, is an official selection of the 2010 Sundance Film festival.

JAMES NACHTWEY'S career as a war photographer began in 1981 when he covered civil unrest in Northern Ireland. Since then he has photographed more than 25 armed conflicts as well as dozens of critical social issues. He has received the Robert Capa Gold Medal, World Press Award, Magazine Photographer of the Year, and I.C.P. Infinity Award multiple times. He has been named recipient of the TED Prize, the Heinz Foundation Award for Art and Humanities, The Common Wealth Award and the Dan David Prize. War Photographer, a documentary about his work, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2002. His photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, among others. Nachtwey has been a contract photographer with Time Magazine since 1984 and is a founding member of the photo agency VII.

JACK SAUL, Ph.D is an assistant professor of clinical population and family health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and director of the International Trauma Studies Program, a research and training institute. As a psychologist he has created a number of programs in New York City and abroad for populations that have endured war, torture and political violence and is known for his
innovative work integrating testimony, healing, media, and the performing arts. Dr. Saul consults to news organizations on staff welfare and provides therapeutic services for journalists and others returning from war and other humanitarian crises. He has a private practice in Manhattan.

INFORMATION ON TIME STANDS STILL
Manhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of TIME STANDS STILL by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies will start previews Tuesday, January 5 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). The production, directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan, will open Thursday, January 28.

 

The cast will feature acclaimed actor and playwright Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio, "Law & Order: CI"), Tony Award nominee Brian d'Arcy James (Shrek, Off-Broadway's Next to Normal), Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Laura Linney ("John Adams," Sight Unseen on Broadway), and Golden Globe Award nominee Alicia Silverstone (Clueless, "Miss Match").

Sarah (Laura Linney) and James (Brian d'Arcy James), a photographer and a journalist, have been together for years and share a passion for documenting the realities of war. But when circumstances compel them to return home to New York and their circle of friends (Eric Bogosian and Alicia Silverstone), the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life. TIME STANDS STILL marks the fourth collaboration for Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies and Tony Award®-winning director Daniel Sullivan.

The creative team for TIME STANDS STILL includes John Lee Beatty (scenic design), Rita Ryack (costume design), Peter Kaczorowski (lighting design), Darron L West (sound design), Peter Golub (original music), and Thomas Schall (fight direction).

Special thanks to the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporting new American plays at Manhattan Theatre Club.

TICKETING INFORMATION FOR TIME STANDS STILL
Single tickets to TIME STANDS STILL are available via www.Telecharge.com; by telephone at (212) 239-6200 or (800) 432-7250 if outside the NY metro area; and at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre box office (261 West 47th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue).
TIME STANDS STILL tickets range in price from $57.00-$97.00.