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Please subscribe to our Mailing List for periodic updates. Title of Event: David Henry Hwang, Edward Albee and Francis Jue
When: Thursday, December 10, 2009 5:30 PM
Location: The Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018
Description: Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 5:30 p.m.
David Henry Hwang, Edward Albee, and Francis Jue: YELLOW FACE
FREE Talk, Reading and Book Signing
David Henry Hwang in conversation with Edward Albee, and reading from YELLOW FACE with the playwright and actor, Francis Jue. A book signing will follow.
The event is free. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
David Henry Hwang is the author of the Tony Award–winning M. Butterfly, a finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. Other plays include Golden Child, FOB, The Dance and the Railroad, and Family Devotions; his opera libretti includes three works for composer Philip Glass. He was appointed by President Clinton to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
Edward Albee was born on March 12, 1928, and began writing plays 30 years later. His plays include THE ZOO STORY (1958), THE AMERICAN DREAM (1960), WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1961-62, Tony Award), TINY ALICE (1964), A DELICATE BALANCE (1966, Pulitzer Prize; 1996, Tony Award), ALL OVER (1971), SEASCAPE (1974, Pulitzer Prize), THE LADY FROM DUBUQUE (1977-78), THE MAN WHO HAD THREE ARMS (1981), FINDING THE SUN (1982), MARRIAGE PLAY (1986-87), THREE TALL WOMEN (1991, Pulitzer Prize), FRAGMENTS (1993), THE PLAY ABOUT THE BABY (1997), THE GOAT OR, WHO IS SYLVIA? (2000, 2002 Tony Award), and OCCUPANT (2001). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council, and President of The Edward F. Albee Foundation. Mr. Albee was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980, and in 1996 received the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts.
Francis Jue has had the great honor to appear in David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face (receiving Obie and Lortel Awards, plus Drama Desk and Drama League nominations), and M. Butterfly. In NYC, Francis has originated roles in Coraline, Thoroughly Modern Millie, A Language of Their Own, Victor Woo, and No Foreigners Beyond This Point. He has won awards for performances in Miss Saigon, Cabaret, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Into the Woods, The Illusion, Red, and The King & I.
About the YELLOW FACE:
“It’s about our country, about public image, about face,” says David Henry Hwang about his latest work, a mock documentary that puts Hwang himself center stage as it explores both Asian identity as well as race in America. The play begins with the 1990s controversy over color-blind casting for Miss Saigon, before it spins into a comic fantasy, in which the character DHH pens a play in protest and then unwittingly casts a white actor as the Asian lead. Yellow Face also explores the real-life investigation of Hwang’s father, the first Asian American to own a federally chartered bank, and the espionage charges against physicist Wen Ho Lee. Adroitly combining the light touch of comedy with weighty political and emotional issues.
“Hwang’s lively and provocative cultural self-portrait lets nobody off the hook” —The New York Times.
Yellow Face
by David Henry Hwang
TCG, 2009
Paper: $13.95
The DRAMA BOOK SHOP, Inc.
250 West 40th Street
New York, NY 10018
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Stage Casting Notices
Courtesy of Show Business Weekly
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Each week our staff recommends one play that's new, interesting, or just flat-out fantastic. We aim to encourage dialogue and broaden your horizons, so we frequently try to choose plays of which you may not be aware.
Order a copy, read it, then e-mail us and let us know what you think: info@dramabookshop.com.
THIS WEEK'S PICK
The Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom by Enda Walsh
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The Walworth Farce and the New Electric Ballroom
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Walsh, Enda
Praise for "The Walworth Farce": "Complex, dark, and emotionally rich. . . . The central conceit, that this is a farce within a tragedy, is a master stroke of meta-theatricality. . . . It rewards with a theatrical experience that claws at the imagination for days afterwards."-"Variety" Praise for "The New Electric Ballroom": "For the second year in a row at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe] Enda Walsh supplied the most intoxicating and original piece of writing with his pitch-dark but tender-hearted play. . . . "The New Electric Ballroom" affirms his growing reputation as a contender to take his place in the long, distinguished line of great Irish playwrights."-"The New York Times" This volume brings together two masterworks by the London-based Irish playwright Enda Walsh: unmistakably Irish, galloping gothic comedies about the use of theater and oral traditions to warp family history. In "The Walworth Farce," one-play-playwright Dinny forces his adult sons Sean and Blake to enact his own version of why they are living in a rotting London flat, in exile from their native Cork. "The New Electric Ballroom" is set in a small fishing village in Ireland, where spinster sisters Breda and Clara, and their much-younger sibling Ada, replay a scandalous incident at a dance hall when they were in the bloom of their youth. Enda Walsh has been recognized by numerous awards for his plays, which include "Disco Pigs," "Bedbound," "Small Things," and "Chatroom." He also wrote the screenplay for "Hunger," winner of the Camera d'Or award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. |
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The only experiential rewards program created for you, Broadway's biggest and most loyal fans and membership is FREE!
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FINAL DRAFT, version 7, bundled with THE HERO'S 2 JOURNEYS
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Final Draft, Version 7 & The Hero's 2 Journeys, Special Drama Book Shop Bundle, Software and DVDs
Final Draft, Version 7: The Industry Standard
You have a story to tell. Use Final Draft to write it.
Use your creative energy to focus on the content; let Final Draft take
care of the style. Final Draft is the number-one selling word processor
specifically designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics and stage
plays.It combines powerful word processing with professional script formatting
in one self-contained, easy-to-use package. There is no need to learn about
script formatting rules – Final Draft automatically paginates and formats
your script to industry standards as you write.
The Hero's 2 Journeys
The Hero's 2 Journeys contains 3 DVDs with over four hours
on writing techniques and story analysis by Michael Hauge, author of Writing
Screenplays that Sell, and Christopher Vogler, author of The Writer's
Journey.For the first time, two of Hollywood's top studio script consultants;
story experts and authors unite to reveal the tools and principles you must
know to move your screenplay, novel or film project from the rejection pile
to the production slate. In this special 3-DVD set, designed for storytellers
and filmmakers in all disciplines, these two renowned writers and teachers provide
their unique insiders' understanding of the ways story structure, character
arc, and theme must combine with myth, archetype, identity, and transformation
to touch the widest possible audience.
Special Drama Book Shop bundle Price: $299.00 |
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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Hamlet's Dresser: A Memoir
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Smith, Bob
The true story of a boy whose life was saved by literature, "Hamlet's Dresser" is a portrait of a person made whole by art. Bob Smith's childhood was a fragile and lonely one, spent largely caring for his handicapped sister, Carolyn. But at age ten, his local librarian gave him a copy of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice, " and it transformed him. In Bob's first look at Shakespeare's penetrating language -- "In sooth I know not why I am so sad" -- he had found a window through which to view the world. Years later, when the American Shakespeare Festival moved into Stratford and Smith was hired as Hamlet's dresser, his life's passion took shape.Blending tragedy and comedy, Smith gracefully weaves together his childhood memories with his experiences backstage and teaching the plays. The result is a gorgeous, tender, infectious book about the restorative powers of literature and art. |
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