The Players Present A CONVERSATION WITH ZOE CALDWELL

Zoe Caldwell has been entertaining audiences as a cold-hearted Upper East Side matron in David Adjmi's intimateElective Affinitives. Meanwhile she has been seen as an affectionate grandmother in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, one of this year's Academy Award nominees for Best Picture. Caldwell has earned four Tony Awards, most recently as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's Master Class. She has portrayed such heroines as Lady Macbeth and Medea, not to mention Lillian Hellman and Miss Jean Brodie, and she has worked with such legends as Dame Judith Anderson, Dame Edith Evans, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Charles Laughton, and Paul Robeson. She has also directed stars such as Eileen Atkins, Glenda Jackson, James Earl Jones, Christopher Plummer, and Vanessa Redgrave. Caldwell is now writing a sequel to I Will Be Cleopatra, a memoir about her early years in Australia, and she'll share a few highlights from her most memorable encounters with Shakespeare with President of the Shakespeare Guild, John Andrews, OBE. and answer questions from the audience.

WHERE:  The Players Club
       16 Gramercy Park South (E. 20th Street between Park and Irving)

WHEN:   Tuesday, February 28, 2012
       6:45 PM Media Check-in
       7:00 PM Program Begins

In 1888, Edwin Booth, America's pre-eminent Shakespearean actor, and 15 other
incorporators, including Mark Twain and General Tecumseh Sherman, founded The
Players.  Its purpose:  "The promotion of social intercourse between members of
the dramatic profession and the kindred professions of literature, painting,
architecture, sculpture and music, law and medicine, and the patrons of the
arts."  Today, The Players continues to preserve its heritage by remaining a
repository of both American and British theater history, memorabilia and
theatrical artifacts.

For more information: http://www.theplayersnyc.org.