A.C.T. Continues Visiting Artist Series W/ Danner, Groag 3/8

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) continues its 2008-09 season Koret Visiting Artist Series with "Glory, Poetry, Immortality: A Special Preview of War Music," a conversation event with Mark Danner, internationally acclaimed war correspondent and journalist, Lillian Groag, the creative force behind A.C.T.'s War Music, and University of California, Davis classicist and leading Homer scholar Seth Schein.

In anticipation of the world premiere of War Music, Groag will discuss her staging of Christopher Logue's modern adaptation of the Iliad, while Schein and Danner add their own perspectives on the relevance of the Trojan War story to the modern reality of war, including U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Moderated by Artistic Director Carey Perloff, the conversation will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience. The hour-long event is free and open to the public and takes place on the A.C.T. stage Sunday, March 8, 2009, at 4:30 p.m., following the matinee performance of Souvenir. Doors will open at 4 p.m. For more information, please visit www.act-sf.org/koret.

"War Music encompasses three thousand years of questions and ideas about how human beings behave when faced with aggression, war, and political rhetoric," says Perloff.