New Group Presents Eric Bogosian in 'DRACULA' Reading 3/8

The New Group presents Eric Bogosian in DRACULA: The Vampire Play in Three Acts, Dramatized by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston adapted from Bram Stoker's classic novel, Dracula.

The special reading will take place March 8th, 2009 at The Acorn @ Theatre Row 410 West 42nd Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues) at 7pm.

The New Group promises an evening of Gothic horror as Dark Nights at The New Group presents Eric Bogosian in Dracula. Mr. Bogosian will discuss his fascination with Dracula and read excerpts from the classic stage version, directed by The New Group Artistic Director, Scott Elliott.

The evening will be hosted by renowned Gothic Horror and Dracula expert Professor Richard Kaye of Hunter College and will include a Q&A with the audience.

This event is FREE to Subscribers.

Tickets to the general public and Subscriber companion tickets are $20.

Reservations are a must and can be made by visiting www.ticketcentral.com.

Eric Bogosian is best known for writing and starring in the play and the film adaptation of the play, Talk Radio (NYSF - 1987). For this work he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and received the Berlin Film Festival "Silver Bear Award." Recently revived on Broadway starring Liev Schreiber, Talk Radio was nominated for two 2007 Tony Awards. He is also well known for his six solo performances Off-Broadway (Men Inside, FunHouse, Drinking in America, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead, Wake Up and Smell The Coffee) between 1980 and 2000, for which he received three Obie awards and a Drama Desk Award. In addition to Talk Radio, Bogosian has written a number of full-length plays including subUrbia (LCT), Griller (Goodman), Red Angel (Williamstown Theater Festival), Humpty Dumpty (McCarter) and 1 + 1 (NY Stage and Film). He is the author of two novels, Mall and Wasted Beauty and a novella, Notes from Underground, His third novel, "Perforated Heart" will be published by Simon and Schuster in May. As an actor, Bogosian has appeared in numerous films and television programs, starring in Robert Altman's The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Atom Egoyan's Ararat, Under Siege II and Wonderland. He currently stars in "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" as Capt. Danny Ross.

Richard Kaye is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of The Flirt's Tragedy: Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction and the forthcoming Voluptuous Immobility: St. Sebastian and the Decadent Imagination. He is editing a collection of essays on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. He has published articles on Thackeray, the Brontes, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, and Wallace Stevens; His essays and reviews have appeared in Studies in English Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/Modernity, Arizona Quarterly, The Wallace Stevens Journal, College Literature, Postmodern Culture, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Review, and The Village Voice. In 2002-2003 he was the recipient of an Andrew H. Mellon Faculty Fellowship. In 2007 he was a consultant on and appeared in the BBC documentary Ian Rankin Presents: Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, filmed in Edinburgh, Scotland.