STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP

08/24/2010 6:30 pm
Elliott Bay's Drama Book Group, Stages, meets once a month to read, enjoy and discuss great plays and dramatic works, contemporary and classic, from the U.S. and around the world. Our selection for August is the newest Pulitzer Prize-winner Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey, newly published in book form. "No show on Broadway right now makes as a direct grab for the heart—or wrings it as thoroughly—as Next to Normal does. . . . [It] focuses squarely on the pain that cripples the members of a suburban family, and never for a minute does it let you escape the anguish at the core of their lives. Next to Normal does not, in other words, qualify as your standard feel-good musical. Instead this portrait of a manic-depressive mother and the people she loves and damages is something much more: a feel-everything musical, which asks you, with operatic force, to discover the liberation in knowing where it hurts." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times. Please join us for this evening's lively discussion.

Next to Normal (Paperback)

$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781559363709
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Theatre Communications Group, 6/2010

Location: 
Street:
The Elliott Bay Book Company
Additional:
1521 Tenth Avenue
City:
Seattle
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Province:
Washington
Postal Code:
98122
Country:
United States