'CALL ME WILLIAM' Set for The Alden in McLean, 4/19
The life and times of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather are explored in the show, "Call Me William: The Life and Loves of Willa Cather" by Prudence Wright Holmes. Holmes, who also stars in the production, will perform the show at The Alden in McLean at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 19. Tickets are $20 for the general public and $15 for McLean tax district residents. The theatre is located inside the McLean Community Center at 1234 Ingleside Avenue.
Actor and author Holmes' one-woman show is based on the life of Cather, who was a courageous pioneer of the LGBT community. Cather dared to dress like a man in a small Nebraska town in the 1890s and was almost expelled from The University of Nebraska for it - that and her love affair with her classmate, Louise Pound. Directed by Nora Deveau Rosen, "Call Me William" follows Cather's life through unhappy love affairs and her "Boston marriage" to winning a Pulitzer Prize for Literature for "One of Ours" in 1923.
"You're in the hands of a master storyteller." Associated Press
"Prudence Wright Holmes is outstanding." Backstage.
Tickets are on sale now. For more information or to purchase tickets online, visit: www.aldentheatre.org or call 703-790-0123, TTY: 711.
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