Clurman Festival to Include Goldberg, Rashad, Sorvino, Jones and Epstein
By Adam Hetrick
23 Sep 2008
Mira Sorvino, Phylicia Rashad, Alvin Epstein and Whoopi Goldberg will take part in the Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts, which begins Oct. 17.
Presented by the Stella Adler Studio, the Harold Clurman Festival runs through Oct. 27. The ten-day festival officially gets underway with the symposium "Art and Social Activism: Spotlight on Africa," which includes guests Nima, Elbagir, Mira Sorvino, Winter Miller, Melissa Fitzgerald and John Prendergast.
Among the festival's theatre presentations are Alvin Epstein, Elizabeth Parrish and Michael Howard in Samuel Beckett's All That Fall and Don K. Williams new play, What Shall I Give My Children?, which will be directed by Tom Oppenheim.
A concert performance of Hedwig and the Angry Inch — featuring Jason S. Little, Mark Fiffer, Kate Pazakis, Mary Ann McSweeney, Greg Utzig and Ray Marchica — is also on the bill.
Additional panels and discussions: "Wherever Green is Worn: Ecology and Antiwar," with Amiri Baraka, Forrest Gander, James Sherry, Marcella Durand, and Jonathan Skinner; and Leonard Lopate moderating a panel on educational justice featuring Herbert Kohl, Maxine Greene, William Ayers and Frances Lucerna.
Tony Award-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones joins Margie Gillis, Beth Konopka and Irene Dowd for "Movement: a Universal Language." The final symposium of the festival, "Art and Educational Justice," will include Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie Perez, Phylicia Rashad and Anna Deavere Smith.
For tickets and scheduling, visit StellaAdler.com
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