Old Globe Offers Post Show Chat with 'SIX DEGREES' Scribe Guare 2/10

Old Globe Executive Producer Lou Spisto announced today that the Theatre will present a special one-night Post Show Forum with John Guare, playwright of Six Degrees of Separation. The event will feature the Obie and New York Drama Critics Circle Award-winning playwright of such plays as House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation (which won London's Olivier Award as Best Play and for which he also wrote the screenplay), and Landscape of the Body, and Executive Producer, Lou Spisto in the Old Globe Theatre on Tuesday, February 10 at 8:30pm, following the performance of Six Degrees of Separation at 7pm.

Ticket holders are invited to remain after the performance for an informal and enlightening question-and-answer session with Mr. Guare, and Lou Spisto. Lou Spisto will be chatting with Mr. Guare about the genesis of the play, its continuing importance and the current production on the Globe stage, with a Q&A from audience members to follow.

John Guare is the Obie and New York Drama Critics Circle Award-winning playwright of such plays as House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation (which won London's Olivier Award as Best Play and for which he also wrote the screenplay), Landscape of the Body, A Few Stout Individuals, as well as his Oscar-nominated screenplay for Louis Malle's Atlantic City. He won a Tony for his libretto to the musical Two Gentlemen of Verona and was nominated for a Tony for his play Four Baboons Adoring the Sun and his libretto to Sweet Smell of Success. His adaptation of His Girl Friday premiered to great acclaim at London's National Theater. He co-edits the Lincoln Center Theater Review, teaches playwriting at Yale School of Drama, is a council member of the Dramatists Guild, a trustee of PEN America and received the 2004 Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The NY Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater will produce his new play, A Free Man of Color, next season.

Tickets for the February 10th performance range from $29 to $66. Tickets are currently available online at www.TheOldGlobe.org and at the Old Globe Box Office, in person or by phone at 619-23-GLOBE.

Six Degrees of Separation, by John Guare (The House of Blue Leaves, Landscape of the Body), directed by Trip Cullman, will run in the Old Globe Theatre January 10 - February 15. Broadway veteran Karen Ziemba, who will play "Ouisa," won the Tony for the musical Contact and was nominated for her work in Steel Pier, Never Gonna Dance and Curtains!. Tickets are available by calling (619) 23-GLOBE, online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, or by visiting the Globe Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.

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