Spend An Evening With Fran Lebowitz at Landmark on Main Street

The Jeanne Rimsky Theater plays host to Fran Lebowitz, the purveyor of urban cool, witty chronicler of the "me decade" and the cultural satirist whom many call the heir to Dorothy Parker. The evening takes the form of a conversation; in the role of conversational partner and interlocutor is local author, wit and suburban chronicler Susan Isaacs.

Fran Lebowitz remains one of the foremost advocates of the Extreme Statement. She offers insights on timely issues such as gender, race, gay rights, and the media as well as her own pet peeves - including celebrity culture, tourists and strollers.

Here's Lebowitz on aging: "At a certain point, the worst picture taken of you when you are 25 is better than the best picture taken of you when you're 45," and "What everyone says when you turn 60 is, 'It's better than the alternative.' If the only thing worse than being 60 is death, that's pretty bad."

Her writing - pointed, taut and economical - is equally forthright, irascible, and unapologetically opinionated. Fran Lebowitz's first two classic books of essays, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, have been collected in the Fran Lebowitz Reader. She is also the author of the children's book, Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas. A documentary film about Fran Lebowitz, Public Speaking, directed by Martin Scorsese, premiered on HBO in November 2010.

About Susan Isaacs The Washington Post said, "Nobody does smart, gutsy, funny, sexy women better." Isaacs is the author of thirteen novels, including Past Perfect, Any Place I Hang My Hat, Long Time No See, and Red, White and Blue, and one nonfiction title. She is a former editor of Seventeen, a freelance political speechwriter and a scintillating conversationalist.

Tickets for An Evening with Fran Lebowitz are on sale through Landmark's Box Office, 516-767-6444 and online at www.landmarkonmainstreet.org.

All seats $25 (Friends $20).*

This performance is sponsored by Ilene & Steven Silberstein. Series sponsored by Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel and David Leiman.

Our 2016-17 Season is made possible thanks to our Partners in Performing Arts: Harding Real Estate, Peter & Jeri Dejana Family Foundation, Peter A. Forman Charitable Foundation, Town of North Hempstead and Winthrop University Hospital.

*All ticket prices include a $2 facilities fee for capital improvements.

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