Working Theater presents The Poetry of Philip Levine with Jeffrey Eugenides, André De Shields, Gene Gillette and Lisa Ramirez on May 7

Photos L to R: Philip Levine (photo © Michael Lionstar), André De Shields (photo © Lia Chang), Gene Gillette,
Lisa Ramirez (photo © Rose Callahan), Jeffrey Eugenides (photo © Ricardo Barros)

On Monday May 7, 2012, Working Theater presents a night of the poetry of 2011 US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip Levine featuring guest readers Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, André De Shields, Gene Gillette and Lisa Ramirez, at the 32BJ SEIU 5th Floor Conference Center, 25 West 18th Street, 5th Floor (between 5th and 6th Aves) in New York at 7pm.

Tickets are $15 at smarttix.com, students with ID: $10. Includes a wine & cheese reception following the event

Upcoming for Working Theater
Monday, May 14:
Sick? by Zakiyyah Alexander (staged reading)

Monday, May 21:
2012 Annual Awards Ceremony Gala
honoring Mike Fishman, President of 32BJ SEIU at Sardi’s Restaurant

June 14-17:
The Best of TheaterWorks!: Stories from the 99%
(off-Broadway premiere)

Now in its 27th season, Working Theater is New York’s only professional Off-Broadway theatre company dedicated to producing plays for and about the working men and women of New York. Past productions include Lisa Ramirez’s play about nannies, EXIT CUCKOO directed by Colman Domingo; Roberto Aguirre Sacasa’s KING OF SHADOWS; Stephanie Zadravec’s HONEY BROWN EYES; Israel Horovitz’s HENRY LUMPER; and Rob Ackerman’s CALL ME WALDO, TABLETOP, and DISCONNECT.

Other Articles on Working Theater:
Photos: Working Theater’s Production of Rob Ackerman’s CALL ME WALDO at Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex
Papermag.com: An Emerson-Loving Electrician Takes the Stage in Call Me Waldo
1199SEIU President George Gresham to receive Labor Leadership Award at 2011 Working Theater Annual Awards Ceremony
André De Shields & Alison Fraser Star in Reading of Michael Aman’s The Unbleached American at Theater Row on 5/9
Working Theater Presents Staged Reading of Chay Yew’s Visible Cities at The Studio Theatre on Theatre Row
Photos:The Working Theater’s Off-Broadway production of HONEY BROWN EYES by Stefanie Zadravec at The Clurman
Lia Chang Photo Slideshows of Productions in the Working Theater’s 25th Anniversary Season
Multimedia: Photos of Ed Cardona, Jr.’s American Jornalero at the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre
Photos of André De Shields in Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: From Douglass to Deliverance
Achieving the American Dream, Professional Charmer Andre De Shields Sees Theater is a Way to Life
André De Shields Celebrates Black History Month Starring in The Working Theater’s Production of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory at The Abingdon in February 2010
Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive and here for the Lia Chang Photography Website.

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Lia Chang is an actor, a performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multi-platform journalist. In 2010, the Library of Congress established The Lia Chang APA Theater Portfolio in the Asian Pacific American Performing Arts Collection housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian Pacific American Islander Collection.

All text, graphics, articles & photographs: © 2000-2011 Lia Chang Multimedia. All rights reserved. All materials contained on this site are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of Lia Chang. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content. For permission, please contact Lia at lia@liachangphotography.com.

Lia Chang: Derek Walcott’s White Egrets Due Out March 2010

Derek Walcott © Photo by Lia Chang

I had the great fortune to work with Derek Walcott last summer in a reading of his play Marie Laveau, presented by New Federal Theatre in the Gurfein Foundation/Ntozake Shange Play Reading Series at Castillo Theatre in New York.

The Nobel Laureate turns 80 on January 23, and in March, his new collection of poems, White Egrets is due out. Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career—the Caribbean’s complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the passing of time, the always strange joys of new love, and the sometimes terrifying beauty of the natural world—with an intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, Walcott creates an almost surflike cadence, broadening the possibilities of rhyme and meter, poetic form and language.

White Egrets is a moving new collection from one of the most important poets of the twentieth century—a celebration of the life and language of the West Indies. It is also a triumphant paean to beauty, love, art, and—perhaps most surprisingly—getting older.

Click here to preorder a copy of White Egrets.

Other Articles by this Author
Photo Call: Derek Walcott’s Marie Laveau
Multimedia: Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: From Douglass to Deliverance Opening Night Photos: Andre De Shields, Mercedes Ellington and Alfred Preisser
Achieving the American Dream, Professional Charmer Andre De Shields Sees Theater is a Way to Life
La MaMa e.t.c. Presents Alfred Preisser and Randy Weiner’s CALIGULA MAXIMUS at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre, March 12-April 4
André De Shields Celebrates Black History Month Starring in The Working Theater’s Production of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory at The Abingdon in February 2010
Director Alfred Preisser Sets His Sights on a New World Stage
Multimedia: Living Colour in Concert at the Highline Ballroom Photos
Photo Call: Derek Walcott’s Marie Laveau
Multimedia: Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe Opening Night Party Photos
RED opening reception at Gouverneur Healthcare Services
AAJA member Lia Chang’s RED photographic exhibit part of Chinese New Year celebration

All text, graphics, articles & photographs: © 2000-2010 Lia Chang Multimedia. All rights reserved. All materials contained on this site are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of Lia Chang. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content. For permission, please contact Lia at liachang@hotmail.com.

Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive.

Lia Chang

Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer, an award-winning multimedia journalist.

As a photographer and videographer, Lia collaborates with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive and social media presence. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden.

This year, selections of Lia’s archive of Asian Pacific Americans in the arts, fashion, journalism, politics and space will become part of newly created LIA CHANG THEATER PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.

Lia’s portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, VIBE, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Broadwayworld.com, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, thelmagazine.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog.