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AuthorsLive: James Shapiro Lecture and Book Talk

Celebrated Theatre scholar and historian James Shapiro comes to the Greenwich Library to discuss his new book The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War. Called, "An engrossing read…and the present-day echoes of Dies's culture-warring are unambiguous" by The New York Times, "The Playbook" is  a brilliant and daring account of a culture war over the place of theater in American democracy in the 1930s, one that anticipates our current divide.

James will give a 30-minute lecture followed by an extended Q & A and book signing.

Date:
Monday, September 16, 2024
Time:
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
Marx Family Black Box Theater
Audience:
  Adult  
Categories:
  Author Talk     Book Discussion     Lecture and Conversation     Theater and Performance  
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James Shapiro is Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He has written several award-winning books, including Shakespeare in a Divided America, The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, and 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, and the New York Review of Books, among other places. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and The New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. In 2011, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He currently serves as a Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at the Public Theater in New York City.