Phillip Seymour Hoffman to Appear at Joe's Pub January 20
By: Robert Diamond Dec. 26, 2010
On January 20, 2010 Lapham's Quarterly celebrates the release of its Winter 2011 issue "Celebrity" at Joe's Pub. Featuring art and writing from antiquity to the present, the Quarterly has been deemed "brilliant and much-needed" by Dave Eggers and described by Vanity Fair as "lavishly detailed, handsomely produced, and conceptually brilliant." Join the Quarterly's editor Lewis Lapham and The Public Theater's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis for a conversation about celebrity. Academy Award-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman will read lively selections from the magazine, whose pages include excerpts from Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Dickinson, Billy Wilder, John Lennon, and Truman Capote, among others.
Hoffman will next be seen on Broadway in Death of a Salesman. Previously on Broadway Philip Seymour Hoffman has earned two Tony nominations, as Best Actor (Play) in 2000 for a revival of Sam Shepard's "True West" and as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) in 2003 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill (I)'s "Long Day's Journey into Night". His other acting credits in the New York theater include "The Seagull" (directed by Mike Nichols for The New York Shakespeare Festival), "Defying Gravity", "The Merchant of Venice" (directed by Peter Sellars), "Shopping and F*@%ing" and "The Author's Voice" (Drama Desk nomination). He is the Co-Artistic Director of theLAByrinth Theater Company in New York, for which he directed "Our Lady of 121st Street" byStephen Adly Guirgis. He also has directed "In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings" and "Jesus Hopped the A Train" by Guirgis for LAByrinth, and "The Glory of Living" by Rebecca Gilman at the Manhattan Class Company.
Photo Credit: Walter McBride/WM Photos
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