Drew Lichtenberg, SHAKESPEARE IN THE THEATRE (with James Magruder)

Bird in Hand is thrilled to present an evening of conversation on the history of American theater, led by Drew Lichtenberg Artistic Producer/Resident Dramaturg at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., and centered around his new book Shakespeare in the Theatre. This new volume is a behind-the-scenes account of the premier classical theatre company in the U.S., and its evolution against the changing social and economic landscape of Washington, D.C. James Magruder, author of the recent The Play’s the Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theater (1966-2016), will join Lichtenberg in conversation.

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Drew Lichtenberg is Artistic Producer/Resident Dramaturg at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. He has also worked in London, on and off Broadway, and at regional theatres around the country. He teaches at Catholic University and the STC Academy for Classical Acting, and has taught previously at Yale University and the New School. As a guest essayist, his work has appeared in The New York Times and other publications. Shakespeare in The Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company is his second book. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his partner, Rebecca, and their children Dylan and Noah.

James Magruder is a fiction writer, playwright, and translator. His adaptations of Dickens, Marivaux, Molière, Gozzi, Lesage, Labiche, Giraudoux, and Hoffmanstal have been staged across America, and in Japan, England, and Germany. His Three French Comedies was named an “Outstanding Literary Translation” by the American Literary Translators Association. He has published four books of fiction (Sugarless, Let Me See It, Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall, and Vamp Until Ready), and written the books for two Broadway musicals (Triumph of Love and Head Over Heels, the blank verse mash-up of Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia and the song catalog of the Go-Go’s. His first–and last–book of nonfiction, The Play’s the Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theater (1966-2016), was published three months ago by Yale University Press.