New York Quarterly Benefit Festival Honors William Packard
By: BWW News Desk Nov. 22, 2004
Thursday and Friday evenings (Dec. 9 & 10) feature one-act plays inspired by Packard's writing and teaching. Saturday evening (Dec. 11) features poets published in The NYQ reading from their work. Ira Joe Fisher of CBS, a NYQ poet, will host Thursday's opening. The Festival features the work of playwrights William Packard (1933-2002), Gail Miller and Philip Cioffari.
Obie Award winning actor Arthur French will be starring in one of the featured plays.
The late William Packard's literary career spanned nearly 50 years and resulted in the publication of six volumes of poetry, including To Peel an Apple, First Selected Poems, Voices/I hear/voices, and Collected Poems. His plays include The Killer Thing, directed by Otto Preminger, Sandra and the Janitor, produced at the HB Playwrights Foundation, The Funeral, The Marriage, and War Play, produced and directed by Gene Frankel. For his work with The New York Quarterly Mr. Packard was called "one of the great editors of our time" by poet and novelist James Dickey.
The New York Quarterly was established in 1969 by William Packard out of a growing concern for the pure craft and technique of poetry writing. Every issue of The NYQ includes a cross-section of contemporary poetry, a Craft Interview with an outstanding poet on the general subject of style, prosody and technique, and informational articles on poets and poetry. The New York Quarterly earned a reputation for excellence by publishing poems and interviews with the prominent poets W. H. Auden, John Ashbery, Paul Blackburn, Richard Eberhart, Stanley Kunitz, Anne Sexton, and W.S. Merwin, among many others.
AMERICAN THEATRE OF ACTORS CHERNUCHIN THEATRE, NYC
314 West 54th Street, (between 8th & 9th Avenue)
Performances: December 9 – December 11, 2004 @ 8pm Donations accepted at the door benefit The New York Quarterly.
Reservations: 212-480-2728
Trains: C, E to 50 St., B, D to 7 Ave., N, Q, R, W to 57 St.
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