Chief Washington Correspondent David E. Sanger Comes To Weston Playhouse 8/16

David E. Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times, returns to the Weston Playhouse at 8 p.m. on Monday, August 16 to discuss "Obama After 18 Months: Has America Changed?" In his much anticipated appearance, Sanger will discuss the spectrum of national and international politics. He will also sign copies of the revised paperback edition of his best-selling book, "The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power," and take questions from what has always been a highly engaged audience.

Sanger spends part of every summer in Vermont, and his annual appearances at The Playhouse have become a tradition. Area residents and visitors alike have packed the house to hear his insider commentary on everything from the nuclear confrontations with Iran and North Korea to the future of Afghanistan and Pakistan and efforts to stem the financial crisis.

Sanger is among this nation's most experienced and respected journalists. In a 28-year career at the Times, he has reported from New York, Tokyo and Washington, covering a wide variety of issues surrounding foreign policy, globalization, Asian affairs and, for eight years, the arc of the Bush presidency. Before covering the White House, Sanger wrote extensively on how issues of national wealth and competitiveness have come to redefine the relationships between the U.S. and its major allies. While serving as the Times bureau chief in Tokyo, he wrote many of the first stories about North Korea's secret nuclear weapons program in the 1990's.

Twice Sanger has been a member of reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize. His other awards include the Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting for his coverage of the Iraq and Korea crises; the Aldo Beckman prize, awarded by the White House Correspondents Association for coverage of the presidency; and the Merriman Smith Memorial Award, awarded to him on two separate years for coverage of the emergence of a new national security strategy. In 2004, he and four other colleagues shared the American Society of Newspaper Editors' top award for deadline writing, for team coverage of the Columbia disaster.

Sanger appears regularly on PBS' Washington Week, Charlie Rose, Face the Nation, This Week, and a variety of National Public Radio shows. A graduate of Harvard College, Sanger is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.

Sanger will appear exclusively in Weston for one night only. All proceeds will benefit the non-profit Weston Playhouse Theatre Company. Reserved seating begins at $25 and is available by phone at 802-824-5288 (Tuesday - Sunday, 10am to 6pm), online 24/7 at westonplayhouse.org, or at The Playhouse box office (Tuesday - Sunday, 10am to 6pm or through intermission on performance nights). The Cafe at the Falls Restaurant will serve dinner from 5:30 - 6:30. Reservations are required and can be made by calling the WPTC box office.

The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company is a non-profit organization supported in part by funds from the Vermont Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and an ever-growing family of individuals who believe in the impact that the performing arts can have on its community.

 

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