
"WordTheatre is a great, freewheeling, passionately engaged interpreter of contemporary short fiction. Whereas other such enterprises are content to cherry pick a few classics in a predictable setting, WordTheatre finds work that can bring about great performances in its constituency of first-rate performers, always in search of the ineffable and the uncanny that are at the heart of the very best in world literature. Their ambition is for the new, the challenging, and the emotionally rich. In my own case, I have never heard such wonderful and illuminated performances of my own work." - Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm
Novel and Memoir Beginnings
May 28, 2008 @ M Bar
Nancy Bell |
T. Coraghessan Boyle |
Kyle Chandler |
Autumn Chiklis |
Catherine Dent |
Evan Handler |
Dinah Lenney |
Kerry Madden |
Mozhan Marno |
Joel David Moore |
Natalija Nogulich |
Scott Phillips |
Rachel Resnick |
Carolyn See |
Parry Shen |
Diana Wagman |
WordTheatre partnered with American Bookseller's Association to present our annual Novel and Memoir Beginnings! The first few juicy pages of new and upcoming novels and memoirs were performed on stage among the lush velvet tapestries and glittering chandeliers of M Bar in Hollywood on Wednesday, May 28th.
The show included the work of Carolyn See, Joseph Olshan, Scott Phillips, Rachel Resnick, Dinah Lenney, Kerry Madden, Ronald Alexander, Diana Wagman, Evan Handler and T.C. Boyle, all of whom will be in attendance.
Program:
Doors open at 7 PM and readings start at 8 PM. Published titles will be available at the show from Small World Books (a BookSense Book Store). Tickets are $20, $25 at the door. M Bar has a $10 food minimum. Cash Bar.
Produced by Cedering Fox and Lisa Doctor
Directed by Cedering Fox.
*appearances subject to availability