Playwrights’ Center Producing Artistic Director Jeremy B. Cohen and Artistic Director of San Francisco's legendary American Conservatory Theater, Carey Perloff. They will be discussing Perloff's new book Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater, writing, community, and much more. Boneshaker Books will be selling copies of the book.
Beautiful Chaos is a lively and revealing memoir of Perloff’s twenty-plus years at the helm of American Conservatory Theater, and delivers a provocative and impassioned manifesto for the role of live theater in today’s technology-infused world.
This event is FREE
details here: https://pwcenter.org/event/discussion-carey-perloff
Praise for Beautiful Chaos:
"Beautiful Chaos is an extraordinary journey of Carey Perloff and her theatre, ACT. Their continued evolution and ability to define and re-define themselves with courage, tenacity, and bravery allow them to confront what seem like insurmountable odds. This continues to shape and inspire Carey and those who work with her."—Olympia Dukakis, Academy Award-winning actress
"Carey Perloff's lively, outspoken memoir of adventures in running and directing theatre will be a key document in the story of playmaking in America."—Tom Stoppard, Playwright
"Carey Perloff, quite literally, raised a vibrant new theater from the rubble of an old one. This refreshingly honest account of her triumphs and misfires over the past two decades is both a fascinating read and an invaluable handbook for anyone attempting such a labor of love."—Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City
"Carey Perloff's marvel of a book is part memoir of a working mother, a passionate artist, a woman flourishing in a male-dominated craft- and part lavish love letter to theater. It is as lively, thoughtful, and insightful an account I have ever read about the art form. This one is for any person who has ever sat in the dark and been spellbound by the transformative power of theater."—Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner
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