Fordham University’s Theatre Program has partnered with the New York Drama Desk to host “Anatomy of a Breakout,” a Nov. 13 panel discussion at the Lincoln Center campus.
The event will focus on the 2011 New York theatre season’s surprising number of critically acclaimed new plays.
Samuel L. Jackson, who is acting on Broadway as Martin Luther King. Jr. in The Mountaintop, will be joined on the panel by actors, directors, playwrights and composers from the Broadway or Broadway-bound productions of Chinglish, Lysistrata Jones and Venus in Fur.
Award-winning critic Randy Gener and Drama Desk’s vice president, Leslie Hoban Blake, will moderate the panel.
The event is open to the public. Tickets can be purchased on site at the Pope Auditorium box office or at (212) 636-6340. Discounts are available for Drama Desk members, as well as students and members of the Fordham community.
TIME: 6:30 to 8 p.m.
DATE: Sunday, Nov. 13
PLACE: Pope Auditorium, Lowenstein Center, Lincoln Center campus
The 2011 Broadway season includes several new plays and musicals that have received critical acclaim and major awards at venues across the country before landing on the Great White Way. These include:
• Chinglish, a comedy by Tony Award-winner David Henry Hwang, which comes to Broadway following a run at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago;
• Venus in Fur, which originally ran off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company;
• The Mountaintop, which played at London’s Theatre 503 in 2009 and then at London’s West End before coming to Broadway; and
• Lysistrata Jones, which originated in a Transport Group production at Judson Church in Greenwich Village and which will move to Broadway in December.
Joining Jackson will be author Douglas Carter Beane, director/choreographer Dan Knechtges and composer Lewis Flinn from Lysistrata Jones; director Leigh Silverman, actor Jennifer Lim and playwright David Henry Hwang from Chinglish; Venus in Fur playwright David Ives and The Mountaintop director Kenny Leon.
RSVPs are recommended at DramaDeskRSVP@aol.com.
