Lincoln Center Thetare's Platform Series Continues with Pre-Performance Talks with NIKOLAI AND THE OTHERS

By: Apr. 24, 2013
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Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series, a forum for public discussion between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers, continues its 15th season on Wednesday, May 1 at 6:00 pm with Richard Nelson, the playwright of NIKOLAI AND THE OTHERS, currently in previews at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.

Platform Series events take place in the early evening in the lobby of the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65th Street). Admission is free and open to all; however, seating in the lobby is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis only, beginning at a half hour before the talk (Speakers and schedules are subject to change. Call 212-362-7600 to confirm on the day of the event).

It's 1948 and during a spring weekend in Westport, CT. a close-knit group of Russian émigrés, including choreographer George Balanchine (Michael Cerveris), composer Igor Stravinsky (John Glover), conductor Serge Koussevitsky (Dale Place), painter/set designer Sergey Sudeikin (Alvin Epstein) and composer Nikolai Nabokov (Stephen Kunken), gather to eat, drink and talk. In NIKOLAI AND THE OTHERS playwright Richard Nelson reimagines, during the course of this weekend, the creation of Balanchine and Stravinsky's historic collaboration, the ballet Orpheus, and explores the interesting and controversial ways American art was funded at the outset of the Cold War.

Richard Nelson LCT: Two Shakespearean Actors, Some Americans Abroad. Plays include The Apple Family Plays (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry and Regular Singing), Farewell to the Theatre, Conversations in Tusculum, Frank's Home, Rodney's Wife, Franny's Way, Madame Melville, Goodnight Children Everywhere, The General From America, New England. Musicals: James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey), My Life With Albertine (with Ricky Ian Gordon). Screenplays: Hyde Park on Hudson and Ethan Frome. Translations include Molnar's The Guardsman and a series of Russian plays co-translated with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Awards include a Tony and an Olivier. Richard is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He Lives in Upstate New York.

Lincoln Center Theater's Platform series was introduced in the summer of 1998. Transcripts of the previous talks are available on-line at www.lct.org.



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