FREE Celebration: Plays & Playwrights 2009

Time: Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:00 p.m.
Location: The Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018
Title of Event: FREE Celebration: Plays & Playwrights 2009

Plays and Playwrights 2009 comes to the Drama Book Shop Free Reading, Reception and Book Signing.

A celebration of the publication of The New York Theatre Experience, Inc.'s new anthology, Plays and Playwrights 2009, featuring the best of New York City's indie theater scene, at the Drama Book Shop.

The event will feature performances of excerpts from the following plays:

• A FIRE AS BRIGHT AS HEAVEN by Tim Collins An epic solo tour de force chronicling the past seven years of American upheaval. Performed by Tim Collins.

• TRACES/FADES by Lenora Champagne A meditation on Alzheimer’s and our national inability to remember history. Joining her will be original cast members Joanne Jacobson and Amelie Lyons.

Following the performances, the book’s editor, Martin Denton, will moderate a Q&A talkback with the featured playwrights, after which there will be a book signing and reception.

This event is totally FREE. Books will be available for sale for $19 at the event. ___________________________________________________

Plays & Playwrights 2009
The New York Theatre Experience, Inc., 2009
Edited and with an introduction by Martin Denton
Foreword by Garth Wingfield
2009, Paper.$19.00