In 2007 the UNIVERSITY CLUB OF WASHINGTON became another host for SOS
programs, providing the venue for a luncheon gathering with actor Roger
Rees.
We launched our season in January at the SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY with
RAFE ESQUITH, a charismatic teacher
from southern California whose work had inspired The Hobart Shakespeareans,
an award-winning PBS documentary. We then proceeded to the CORCORAN GALLERY
for a riveting conversation with an even more famous educator,
E. R. BRAITHWAITE, whose memoir To Sir, With Love, had provided
a famous film role for Sidney Poitier. Next up was a NATIONAL ARTS CLUB
gathering in New York with actress KATE
FORBES, who discussed several roles she'd played at THEATRE FOR A NEW
AUDIENCE. We then enjoyed a delightful NAC conversation with New Yorker
critic ADAM GOPNIK, who talked
about Through the Children's Gate, a book about his family's return
to New York after several years in Paris. In April we returned to D.C. for
a fascinating dialogue with the multitalented ROGER
REES, who reflected only about his new one-man show, What You Will,
but about his work as Artistic Director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival
in the Berkshires.
In October we launched a busy autumn at the NATIONAL ARTS CLUB with
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM, who talked about his dual roles as Barabas in The
Jew of Malta and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice under the
aegis of Theatre for a New Audience. In November playwright
KEN LUDWIG reminisced about such hits as Lend Me a Tenor,
Crazy for You, and Leading Ladies. And in December actor
ALVIN EPSTEIN discussed not only
the Shakespearean roles he has played, but his work in classics by dramatists
such as Samuel Beckett and Kurt Weill.
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2000, 2001,
2002, 2003,
2004, 2005,
2006, 2008,
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2011, 2012,
2013, 2014,
2015, 2016,
2017, 2018,
2019, and 2020.
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