BLOOD AND GIFTS Announces 11/10 Pre-Performance Talk

Lincoln Center Theater's free-to-the-public Platform Series, a forum for public discussion between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers, continues its 14th season on Thursday, November 10, at 6:00pm with a pre-performance talk with J.T. Rogers and Bartlett Sher, the Playwright and Director of LCT's new production of Blood and Gifts currently in previews at the Mitzi E. Newhouse. Commissioned by LCT, and presented last year at The National Theatre in London, Blood and Gift tells the story of the secret spy war behind the official Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s.

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 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.)

J.T. Rogers is the author of Blood and Gifts, which was commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater and had its premiere last fall at The National Theatre in London. His other plays include The Overwhelming, Madagascar, and White People. His works have been staged throughout the United States and in Germany, Canada and Israel, and are published by Faber and Faber and Dramatists Play Service..

Bartlett Sher, Resident Director at Lincoln Center Theater, directed the LCT productions of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Tony nomination), South Pacific (Tony Award), Awake and Sing! (Tony nomination,) and The Light in the Piazza (Tony nomination). Former Artistic Director of Seattle's Intiman Theater, his other NY credits include productions at Playwrights Horizons and Theatre for a New Audience. His opera credits include the MET productions of The Barber of Seville, The Tales of Hoffman and Comte d'Ory.

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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