Beast Event at NYTW

Although I didn't give Michael Weller's Beast the most amazing rave of all time in the New York Press, I want to bring this event at New York Theatre Workshop (press release below) to the attention of everyone.

NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP PRESENTS
A PRE-PERFORMANCE FILM AND CONVERSATION
IN CONNECTION WITH ITS PRODUCTION OF
BEAST
FEATURING DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER NINA BERMAN
AND PLAYWRIGHT MICHAEL WELLER

New York Theatre Workshop will host a pre-performance event showcasing the influence of documentary photographer Nina Berman’s work on the origin of Michael Weller’s play Beast on Friday, Oct. 10, at 6:30pm. A short film about Berman’s Purple Heart photograph collection—photos of soldiers injured in the Iraq War, some of which have been featured in The New York Times Magazine—will be shown, followed by a conversation with Berman and Weller, who serves as a mentor for the Iraqi War Veterans Writers Project. The event will take place in the 3rd Floor Rehearsal Studio at New York Theatre Workshop at 83 East 4th Street. This event is free and is being offered in conjunction with the Workshop’s production of Michael Weller’s play Beast, a fever dream in six scenes about two disfigured Iraq War veterans who go on a marauding adventure across America.

To reserve a seat for this event, email marketing@nytw.org. To purchase tickets for Beast, visit www.telecharge.com. For more information on Nina Berman and her photographs, visit www.ninaberman.com.

Nina Berman is a documentary photographer with a primary interest in political and social landscape. Her first monograph was “Purple Hearts—Back From Iraq” a collection of photographs and interviews with U. S. soldiers wounded in the war. The book was made into a documentary film of the same name. Her 2006 “Marine Wedding” portrait, which shows a disfigured marine with his young bride on their wedding day, is an iconic image of life during wartime. Berman is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography in New York City. She is the recipient of two World Press awards and numerous Pictures of the Year awards.

Michael Weller is widely known for his plays Moonchildren, Fishing, Loose Ends, Spoils of War and What the Night is For. His films include Hair, Ragtime and Lost Angels. Weller helped establish (and now serves as Supervising Mentor of) The Mentor Project of the Cherry Lane Theatre. Weller has won multiple awards including a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, an N.A.A.C.P. Outstanding Contribution Award and a Critics Outer Circle Award. He has also received an Academy Award nomination.

Beast plays through Sunday, October 12, at New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East 4th Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery. The regular performance schedule is Tuesday at 7:00pm, Wednesday through Friday at 8:00pm, Saturday at 3:00pm and 8:00pm, and Sunday at 2:00pm and 7:00pm. Tickets are $65 and may be purchased online at www.telecharge.com, 24 hours a day, seven days a week or by phoning Telecharge.com at (212) 239-6200. For exact dates and times of performance, call Telecharge.com. For more information about Beast, visit www.nytw.org.

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New York Theatre Workshop Holds a Panel Discussion!

I also received this PR today:

NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP TO HOLD PANEL DISCUSSION
“TWO-AND-A-HALF DECADES OF SERVING THE ARTIST”

MONDAY, MARCH 24, AT 7:30PM

PANELISTS INCLUDE LISA KRON AND DOUG WRIGHT

PART OF 25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON PUBLIC PROGRAMS

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Acting Managing Director Fred Walker have announced that the next event in NYTW’s special series of twenty-fifth anniversary public programs will be “Two-and-a-Half Decades of Serving the Artist,” a discussion exploring the “workshop” component of the theatre’s activities on Monday, March 24 at 7:30pm, at NYTW, 79 East 4 Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery.

The evening will begin with a conversation between James C. Nicola and literary agent, educator, Usual Suspect, and former Associate Artistic Director Morgan Jenness, who together will map the evolution of “workshop” initiatives at NYTW, including the Curators, the Playwright’s Circle, the Mondays @ 3 reading series, the Usual Suspects, the Larson Lab, and the Summer Residencies at Vassar College and Dartmouth College.

A panel discussion focusing on the Vassar and Dartmouth residencies will follow, featuring moderator Linda Chapman (NYTW Associate Artistic Director) and panelists Peter Hackett (Chair of Dartmouth’s Theatre Department), Christopher Grabowski (Director of Theatre at Vassar and former NYTW Associate Artistic Director), Doug Wright (playwright, NYTW Trustee, and Usual Suspect), Lisa Kron (playwright, performer, and Usual Suspect), and Leila Buck (writer, performer, NYTW teaching artist and Usual Suspect).

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), now celebrating its 25th season, is a leading voice in the world of Off-Broadway and within the theatre community in New York and around the world. NYTW has emerged as a premiere incubator of important new theatre, honoring its mission to explore perspectives on our collective history and respond to the events and institutions that shape our lives. In addition, NYTW is known for its innovative adaptations of classic repertory. Each season, from its home in New York's East Village neighborhood, NYTW presents four to six new productions, over 80 readings, and numerous workshop productions, for over 45,000 audience members. Over the past twenty-five years, NYTW has developed and produced over 100 new, fully staged works, including Jonathan Larson's Rent, Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul, Doug Wright's Quills, Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde, Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla, and Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away, and A Number. The 2002 remounting of Martha Clarke's seminal work Vienna: Lusthaus and subsequent American tour was one of the longest-running productions in NYTW's history. NYTW supports artists in all stages of their careers by maintaining a series of workshop programs including work-in-progress readings, summer residencies, and minority artist fellowships. In 1991, NYTW received an Obie Award for Sustained Achievement and in 2000 was designated to be part of the Leading National Theatres Program by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Public Programs at New York Theatre Workshop are supported in part by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Senator Thomas K. Duane, The Grand Marnier Foundation, and the Edith C. Blum Foundation.

Tickets to this event are free to all NYTW members, students, and the general public. To reserve your tickets, please visit the NYTW Box Office at 79 East 4th Street (between Second Avenue and Bowery) on Tuesdays – Saturdays between 1pm – 6pm. For more information about New York Theatre Workshop, please visit www.nytw.org.

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