New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo have announced that they will present Wright/Rush, a conversation between Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Doug Wright. The one-night-only event to benefit NYTW takes place Monday, May 11, at 8:00pm, at NYTW, 79 East 4 Street.
Geoffrey Rush, who has just received triumphant reviews for his star turn in Ionesco's Exit the King, will sit down with renowned playwright
Doug Wright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Wife, for an intimate conversation. Doug and Geoffrey first became acquainted on the set of the film Quills, written by Doug and based on his play that premiered at NYTW. The discussion will focus on what it is like to simultaneously live in the worlds of theatre and film. With these two gentlemen, it is guaranteed to be a lively, spirited evening.
New York Theatre Workshop, now celebrating its 26th season, is a leading voice in the world of Off-Broadway and within the theatre community in New York and around the world. NYTW has emerged as a premiere incubator of important new theatre, honoring its mission to explore perspectives on our collective history and respond to the events and institutions that shape our lives. In addition, NYTW is known for its innovative adaptations of classic repertory. Each season, from its home in New York's East Village neighborhood, NYTW presents three to five new productions, over 80 readings, and numerous workshop productions, for over 45,000 audience members. Over the past 26 years, NYTW has developed and produced over 100 new, fully staged works, including
Jonathan Larson's Rent,
Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul,
Doug Wright's Quills,
Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde,
Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla, and
Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away, and A Number. The 2002 remounting of
Martha Clarke's seminal work Vienna: Lusthaus and subsequent American tour was one of the longest-running productions in NYTW's history. NYTW supports artists in all stages of their careers by maintaining a series of workshop programs including work-in-progress readings, summer residencies, and minority artist fellowships. In 1991, NYTW received an OBIE Award for Sustained Achievement and in 2000 was designated to be part of the Leading National Theatres Program by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information about New York Theatre Workshop, please visit
www.nytw.org.
Tickets are $250, which includes an exclusive post-show party with the artists at New York Theatre Workshop; and a very limited amount of $75 tickets, for the interview portion of the evening only. All proceeds benefit NYTW. $25 of each $250 ticket and $10 of each $75 ticket is not tax-deductible. For more information or to book tickets please contact Shannon Fillion at (212) 780-9037
