reminder: MFA Community Event (for current students)

Three workshops--Susan's translation, Nicole's poetry, and John's thesis--will all gather on Tuesday night for an end-semester reading celebration. 6:30 pm

CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POLITICAL THEATRE AND

... "THE GREAT GAME": TRICYCLE THEATRE'S NICOLAS KENT
Nicolas Kent, Artistic Director of London's Tricycle Theatre, joins us for a discussion of contemporary political theatre in the UK and around the world. Called "Britain's foremost political theatre" by The Guardian, The Tricycle Theatre has established a unique reputation for presenting plays that reflect the cultural diversity of its community; in particular plays by Black, Irish, Jewish, Asian and South African writers, as well as for responding to contemporary issues and events with its ground- breaking ‘tribunal plays’ and political work. Presented with the support of the British Council, in conjunction with Tricycle's concurrent run of The Great Game at the Public Theater, in association with NYU Skirball Center.
Date:
December 16, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org
Admission:
Free

A Flurry of Events...

**AN EVENING WITH JOHN GUARE**
U.S. playwright John Guare returns to the Segal for an intimate evening. His new play, A Free Man of Color, weaves a Don Juan narrative into the lush, lawless melting pot of early 19th Century New Orleans on the eve of the Louisiana Purchase. Guare will discuss the production, running concurrently at the Lincoln Center Theater in a production directed by George C. Wolfe, with Distinguished Professor and Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre David Savran (Graduate Center, CUNY).
Date:
December 6, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue 
Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org

**OHIO THEATRE: 29 YEARS OF DOWNTOWN THEATRE**
Join us for an evening with Robert Lyons, Artistic Director of the two-time OBIE Award-winning Soho Think Tank/Ohio Theatre, as we look back on the Ohio's extraordinary history, now closing its doors after 29 remarkable years. Lyons and guests will share stories, images, and video from the many productions that helped make this converted Soho factory one of Lower Manhattan's great cultural centers. Although the building has closed, the Ohio's programming now continues off-site through the Ohio Interrupted series.
Date:
December 8, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue 
Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org

**THE LAST QUEEN OF EGYPT: STACY SCHIFF ON CLEOPATRA**
Join the Leon Levy Center for Biography for a night of discovery and insight with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff, who will discuss her new biography, Cleopatra: A Life. Schiff has created "a cinematic portrait of a historical figure far more complex and compelling than any fictional creation, and a wide, panning, panoramic picture of her world," says Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times. "Schiff offers not just Cleopatra's story but the story of an amazing era," notes Azar Nafisi, "one that has vanished but still affects us, questioning the way we look at myth, history and ourselves."
Date:
December 10, 2010
Time:
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue 
Manhattan
Building:
CUNY Graduate Center
Room:
Elebash Recital Hall
Phone:
212-817-2008
Website:
http://www.leonlevycenterforbiography.org

A POLITICAL THEATER FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: RESTAGING ANGELS IN AMERICA

December 2, Thursday, 5:00pm, The Skylight Room (9100)
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, in conversation with Steven Kruger (English, Queens College and The Graduate Center), David Savran (Theatre, The Graduate Center), and Alisa Solomon (School of Journalism, Columbia), as they discuss the politics of restaging of Angels in America in the current moment and the potential for vital political theater in the twenty-first century.

THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
THE CUNY GRAD CENTER
365 FIFTH Ave. (btwn 34 and 35 St.)
Manhattan

TENDENCIES: POETICS AND PRACTICE

December 9, Thursday, 7:00pm, The Skylight Room (9100)
Co-sponsored by CLAGS, the PhD Program in English, and the Poetics Group
This series of talks by and about contemporary poets and artists, curated by Tim Peterson (Trace) and titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship between queer theory, poetic manifesto, poetic practice, and pedagogy. This event will feature poets Abigail Child, Michael D. Snediker, and Timothy Liu. Abigail Child is a poet, director, producer, and writer of a number of films; her most recent book is This is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film (2005). Michael D Snediker is the author of Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions (2009) and the poetry collection Nervous Pastoral (2008). Timothy Liu is the author of eight books of poems, most recently Polytheogamy and Bending the Mind Around the Dream’s Blown Fuse (2009); he has also edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry (2000). Visit http://tendenciespoetics.com for commentary and sample recordings from past events, as well as news about upcoming events.

THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
THE CUNY GRAD CENTER
365 FIFTH Ave. (btwn 34 and 35 St.)
Manhattan