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PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
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Celebrating 30 Years of PAJ : A Journal of Performance and Art

Join us for a celebration of three decades of publishing by PAJ, looking back and looking forward, with readings and discussions featuring editor Bonnie Marranca and special guests.

For three decades, PAJ, originally named Performing Arts Journal, has been an influential voice in the international theatre community, and admired for its thoughtful essays and interviews on contemporary culture and the arts. In charting the directions of new work in performance, video, installations, dance, photography, media, film, and music, PAJ integrates theatre and the visual arts. Together with over 140 books, PAJ has published more than 1000 plays and performance texts from over twenty languages, and several important volumes of critical essays.

The 84th issue of PAJ will be published in September, with essays on performance and the photographic document, occult theatre, Chinese video, and dancers Meg Stuart, Yvonne Rainer, and Stephen Petronio, with a new play by Naomi Wallace. Coming this winter is a special section on performance and science, American playwrights on Beckett’s influence, and Pasolini’s theatre manifesto and Oedipus text. PAJ Publications returns to book publishing in the spring of 2007, with Letters from Cuba and Other Plays by Maria Irene Fornes, Act French: Contemporary Plays from France edited by Philippa Wehle, and Performance Histories, a collection of essays and interviews by Marranca.

Bonnie Marranca is co-founder of PAJ Publications/PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, which she has continued to edit since 1976. She studied theatre at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Instead of writing a dissertation she founded PAJ in 1976 after finishing her exams. Marranca is the author of Ecologies of Theatre and Theatrewritings, which received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and editor of several books, including Plays for the End of the Century, Conversations on Art and Performance, American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard, and The Theatre of Images. A Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar, she is on the faculty of Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School.

6:30 p.m., Monday, November 15, 2006, Martin E. Segal Theatre. Free. P

Playing with Canons - An Anthology from The New York Theatre Experience, Inc.

New Works from Great Literature by America’s Indie Playwrights
Playing with Canons is an anthology of 18 plays by emerging American playwrights, all based on or inspired by classic works of literature and drama. The collection is published by The New York Theatre Experience, Inc.; Martin Denton, editor. The works that have inspired plays in this collection range from those of Shakespeare to Old Testament Bible stories to the classic Greek myths to modern literary standards by authors such as Melville, Dostoyevsky, and Jane Austen.

Readings from Story of an Unknown Man by Anthony P. Pennino, Persians by Waterwell, and Want’s Unwisht Work by Kirk Wood Bromley will be followed by a Q & A with Martin Denton, Anthony P. Pennino, Tom Ridgely and Arian Moayed of Waterwell, and Kirk Wood Bromley.

The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. (NYTE) is a nonprofit corporation with a mission to build audience for and interest in theatre in New York City, with a particular emphasis on emerging artists. NYTE operates the nytheatre.com website, a complete information resource guide to theatre in New York City. http://www.nyte.org/

Martin Denton (Editor) is the founder and editor of the website nytheatre.com and the Executive Director of NYTE. He is the editor of all seven volumes of the annual Plays and Playwrights anthology series. Anthony P. Pennino (Playwright, Story of an Unknown Man) is a professor of English at New Jersey City University. He holds degrees from Columbia University and the University of London. Tom Ridgely and Arian Moayed (Playwrights, Persians) are the cofounders of the theatre company Waterwell. Tom Ridgely currently serves as Oskar Eustis’s assistant at The Public Theater, and Arian Moayed teaches acting and film acting at the Professional Performing Arts High School. Kirk Wood Bromley (Playwright, Want’s Unwisht Work) is a recipient of the Berilla Kerr Award and the first Caffé Cino Award. He is the founder and artistic director of Inverse Theater.

6:30 p.m., Monday, November 20, 2006, Martin E. Segal Theatre. Free.


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