MCC Theater has announced its fall slate for their popular "Tuesday Night Talk Backs," a free post-performance guest speaker series at Nixon's Nixon. This season's lineup includes Kurt Andersen, Fred Hochberg, Richard Reeves, Allan Buchman, and Andy Borowitz.
The MCC "Tuesday Talk Backs" series will take place immediately following the 7 PM performances of
Nixon's Nixon on October 10, October 17 and October 24. The political satire is written by Russell Lees, and directed by Jim Simpson.
The limited engagement runs through October 28th. Opening night is tonight, October 4th, at 7 PM.
"The night before President Richard M. Nixon announced his resignation, he summoned Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to the White House.
Nixon's Nixon imagines the conversation of a secret meeting between Nixon (Gerry Bamman) and Kissinger (
Steve Mellor) in the Lincoln Sitting Room that very night."
The "Talk Backs" schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, October 10
Kurt Andersen (host of WNYC Radio's
Studio 360 and author of
Turn of the Century) and Fred Hochberg (Dean of New School University's Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy).
Tuesday, October 17
Richard Reeves (author of
President Nixon: Alone in the White House).
Tuesday, October 24
Allan Buchman (artistic director of NYC's The Culture Project) and Andy Borowitz (political satirist, author of
The Republican Playbook, and
theborowitzreport.com).
The show plays Off-Broadway's Lucille Lortel Theatre, located at 121 Christopher Street at Bedford, between Bleecker and Hudson Streets.
Single tickets are $55, and may be purchased through
TicketCentral.com, or by calling 212-279-4200.
For more information, visit
MCCTheater.org.
