HUNGER GAMES' Lynn Cohen Featured in Barrow Group's THE SECRET WISDOM OF TREES Reading

The Drama Desk Award winning Barrow Group Theatre Company will present a staged reading of THE SECRET WISDOM OF TREES by Christine Toy Johnson on Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 6 p.m.

The reading will star Lynn Cohen (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) as 'Abby Green', an intrepid and fiercely funny octogenarian who sets out to prepare herself and her family for her journey into Alzheimer's by planting trees in the locations of her biggest memories.

Also featured are Ron Cohen, Sarah Corey, Bob Kirsh, Jacob Heimer, Benjamin Russell and Nicholas Anderson. Lee Brock, co-artistic director/co-founder of The Barrow Group, directs.

Lynn Cohen is best known for playing "Magda" in the HBO series Sex and the City, as well as the film of the same name, and "Mags" in the feature film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Seating is limited. Reservations can be made here.

The Barrow Group is located at 312 West 36 Street, on the 3rd floor. Founded in 1986 by TBG co-Artistic Directors Seth Barrish and Lee Brock, The Barrow Group has become one of the preeminent performing arts training centers and theatre companies in New York City and the world. In 1995, TBG won a Drama Desk Award for off-off Broadway Excellence. In 2005, TBG was nominated for Drama Desk Award for Best Play. In 2013, TBG won a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show.

Christine Toy Johnson is an award-winning writer, actor, director and advocate for inclusion. Her plays and musicals have been developed/produced at such places as The Roundabout Theatre Company, The Barrow Group Theatre Company, Crossroads Theatre, Village Theatre, The Weston Playhouse, CAP21, Leviathan Lab and Prospect Theater Company. A collection of her work is included in the Library of Congress Asian Pacific American Performing Arts Collection. She is the 2013 recipient of the Rosetta LeNoire Award from Actors' Equity Association for "outstanding artistic contributions to the universality of the human spirit in the American theatre."

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