Theatre for a New Audience will present a live taping of the podcast Person Place Thing, hosted by Randy Cohen, with guests two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Sarah Ruhl and Tony-nominated actor Jessica Hecht on Monday, June 8, at 7:00pm at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place. Tickets are $15.
Person Place Thing ( www.personplacething.org) is an interview show based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to them.
The result? Surprising stories from great talkers.
Randy Cohen, for twelve years, wrote "The Ethicist," a weekly column for the The New York Times Magazine. Mr. Cohen's first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for "Late Night with
David Letterman," for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on
Michael Moore's "TV Nation." He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. His new book is Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything.
Jessica Hecht made her Broadway debut in The Last Night of Ballyhoo and has appeared on Broadway in After the Fall, Julius Caesar, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, A View From the Bridge (which garnered her a Tony nomination), Harvey, and The Assembled Parties. Ms. Hecht has starred in numerous off-Broadway plays, including last year's productions of
Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss at
Playwrights Horizons (which earned her an Outer Critics Circle nomination), and last summer's Shakespeare in the Park production of King Lear, alongside
John Lithgow and
Annette Bening.
Sarah Ruhl, one of the most produced playwrights in America, is the author of The Oldest Boy; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; The Clean House; Passion Play; Dead Man's Cell Phone; Melancholy Play; Eurydice; Orlando; Late: a cowboy song; Dear Elizabeth; and Stage Kiss. She has been a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Tony award nominee. Her plays have been produced on Broadway at the Lyceum by
Lincoln Center Theater, off-Broadway at
Playwrights Horizons,
Second Stage, and at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater. Her plays have been produced regionally all over the country, often with premieres at Yale Repertory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, the Goodman Theater, and the Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago.
Tickets for the live taping of the podcast Person Place Thing with
Randy Cohen are $15. Tickets may be purchased online at
www.tfana.org/personplacething or by phone at
866-811-4111, or in person at the Theatre for a New Audience Box Office at 262 Ashland Place. Box office hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 1:00pm to 6:00pm.
Person Place Thing is produced with the JCC in Manhattan and sponsored by WAMC Northeast Public Radio in partnership with the New York Council for the Humanities.
Currently on stage through June 20 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center is Theatre for a New Audience's presentation of Fiasco Theater's The Two Gentlemen of Verona by
William Shakespeare, directed by
Jessie Austrian and
Ben Steinfeld and featuring
Jessie Austrian,
Noah Brody,
Paul L. Coffey, Zachary Fine,
Andy Grotelueschen and
Emily Young.
"Frolicking...Beguiling...Expansive...Fiasco has quickly become a force to reckon with in American theater," wrote The New York Times'
Ben Brantley, who declared it a Critic's Pick.
Support for Theatre for a New Audience's Polonsky Shakespeare Center and its endowed programs has been provided through a public-private partnership. Public support for this project was provided by the City of New York through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York City Council, and the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President. Leadership private support has been provided by Cleary, Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, the Elayne P. Bernstein Education Fund, The Howard Gilman Foundation, The Irving Harris Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation,
Theodore C. Rogers, and the SHS Foundation.
Principal support for Theatre for a New Audience's season and programs is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies, The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The SHS Foundation.
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