Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 6:00pm at Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck, NY
6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY 12572
Event is FREE / RSVP is requested
Rhinebeck, NY – Playwright Richard Nelson will talk with Michael Rhodes, artistic director of the Tangent Theatre Company (based in Tivoli, NY), about his intimate and landmark series, The Gabriels, which follows the Gabriel family of Rhinebeck, New York, through the momentous and divisive 2016 election year. While preparing meals in their kitchen, together they grapple in real time with issues of money, history, art, politics and family, as well as the fear of having been left behind. Twenty percent of the proceeds from book sales during the evening's event will be donated to support the Tangent Theatre Company.
The evening will also celebrate the March WNET/Channel 13 broadcast of Nelson's highly acclaimed translation (with Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky) of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, also directed by Nelson for New York's Hunter Theater.
Richard Nelson’s plays include Nikolai and the Others, Farewell to the Theatre, Conversations in Tusculum, How Shakespeare Won the West, Frank’s Home, Rodney’s Wife, Franny’s Way, Madame Melville, Goodnight Children Everywhere, New England, The General from America, Misha’s Party (with Alexander Gelman), Two Shakespearean Actors and Some Americans Abroad. He has written the musicals James Joyce’s The Dead (with Shaun Davey) and My Life with Albertine (with Ricky Ian Gordon), and the screenplays for the films Hyde Park-on-Hudson and Ethan Frome. He has received numerous awards, including a Tony (Best Book of a Musical for James Joyce’s The Dead), an Olivier (Best Play for Goodnight Children Everywhere) and two New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards (James Joyce’s The Dead and The Apple Family). He is the recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; he is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Oblong Books & Music is co-owned by the father and daughter team of Dick and Suzanna Hermans. Founded in 1976, Oblong is now the largest independent bookstore between New York City & Albany, serving the Hudson Valley with locations in Millerton, and Rhinebeck, NY. Whenever possible Oblong seeks to partner with and support local not-for-profits and other community organizations. oblongbooks.com
Known for their compelling dramas, popular pub-readings and their NEWvember New Plays Festival, the Tangent Theatre Company ensemble is made up of local and regional talent. Tangent was founded in New York City in 2000 by Hudson Valley natives Andrea and Michael Rhodes and Keith Teller, where they produced main-stage plays such as our original Subway Series and a 50th anniversary production of Samuel Beckett's classic Waiting for Godot, to name a few. Tangent relocated from NYC to Northern Dutchess County in 2009. tangent-arts.org
For over 55 years, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for U.S. theatre, has existed to strengthen, nurture, and promote the professional not-for-profit theatre. TCG’s constituency has grown from a handful of groundbreaking theatres to over 700 Member Theatres and affiliate organizations and more than 12,000 individuals nationwide. TCG offers its members networking and knowledge-building opportunities through conferences, events, research, and communications; awards grants, approximately $2 million per year, to theatre companies and individual artists; advocates on the federal level; and through the Global Theater Initiative, TCG's partnership with the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, serves as the U.S. Center of the International Theatre Institute. TCG is North America’s largest independent publisher of dramatic literature, with 16 Pulitzer Prizes for Drama on the TCG booklist. It also publishes the award-winning American Theatre magazine and ARTSEARCH®, the essential source for a career in the arts. In all of its endeavors, TCG seeks to increase the organizational efficiency of its Member Theatres, cultivate and celebrate the artistic talent and achievements of the field, and promote a larger public understanding of, and appreciation for, the theatre. www.tcg.org.#TCGBooks