About this Event
Moderating this discussion is award winning playwright Anna Ziegler. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.
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The first play collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Auburn, including his most popular plays as well as his latest Broadway hit in print for the first time.
"The strength of David Auburn’s plays lies in part in the fact that his characters are ambiguous, their fates not assured, not least because they are unclear about themselves. They are frequently capable of denial, unsure of who they are or how they relate to those around them." Chris Bigsby
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning author David Auburn is an American dramatist who never fails to write astute and compelling dramas that grapple with large questions. In this collection of his work spanning 23 years his celebrated plays are anthologised together for the first time, showing him to be one of the most important contemporary dramatists of his generation.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof (2000) to his latest Broadway smash-hit Summer 1976, published for the first time, this collected works offers a comprehensive overview to Auburn's work for Broadway and beyond.
Proof: "An exhilarating and assured new play that turns the esoteric world of higher mathematics literally into a back porch drama, one that is as accessible and compelling as a detective story." New York Times
The Columnist: "Vital, present and telling ... a trip back to an era when Washington was a small town and everybody kept everybody's secrets. Until they didn't." Chicago Tribune
Lost Lake: "A melancholy portrait of two strangers reaching for a tentative connection across the divide of their damaged lives." Hollywood Reporter
The New York Idea: "A brisk, streamlined treatment of this classic American play, which caused a sensation in its day." Variety
Summer, 1976: "A story of profound connection and awakening disquiet... It’s sharply observant, too, and subtly, insistently feminist." New York Times
David Auburn is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director. His plays include Summer 1976, The Adventures of Augie March, Lost Lake, The Columnist, and Proof. Film work includes The Girl in the Park (writer/director), Georgetown, Proof, and The Lake House. He is Associate Artistic Director at the Berkshire Theatre Group, where he has directed many productions. Other directing credits include Long Day's Journey into Night (Court, Chicago) and the Off-Broadway world premiere of Michael Weller’s Side Effects. He teaches screenwriting at Columbia University School of the Arts and is a former Guggenheim Fellow.
Anna Ziegler is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her new plays Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) and Evening All Afternoon premiered this season at The Public Theater in New York and London's Donmar Warehouse respectively. Her recent play The Janeiad, produced at The Old Globe and The Alley Theatre, was a finalist for the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and received a Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award Citation. Her acclaimed Photograph 51, starring Nicole Kidman at the Noël Coward Theatre, won London's WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play and was named one of the year's best by The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, and The Telegraph. It is also available on Audible.com Ziegler’s other plays have been produced at major theaters including London's West End, Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and The Geffen Playhouse, as well as internationally. Her work has received honors including the Ovation Award for Playwriting, the San Diego Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Play, and a nomination for the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award. Among other of her plays, Methuen Drama has published Photograph 51 in its Modern Classics series and two collections, Anna Ziegler: Plays One and Anna Ziegler: Plays Two. Ten of her full-length plays are published by Dramatists Play Service. A graduate of Yale University, she holds master's degrees in poetry from the University of East Anglia and in dramatic writing from NYU/Tisch. annabziegler.net
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States
USD 13.61 to USD 42.57
