Contact information
Name:
Professor Youshaa Patel
Email:
pately@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Where:
Colton Chapel
Presenter:
Ayad Akhtar
Price:
Free and open to public
Join us for a Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winning playwright, Ayad Akhtar.
The conversation will cover a range of timely and relevant issues that define America today — from the place of Muslims in America to the ways Wall Street has shaped our perceptions of money, and to the enduring role of theater in American culture.
Akhtar’s play, Disgraced, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, ran on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre, and was also performed at Lafayette College, to great acclaim, Spring 2018.
Akhtar's new play is Junk: The Golden Age of Debt. Set in the eighties, it puts a corporate takeover onstage. Junk premiered on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, produced by the Lincoln Center Theater.
Support for this project is funded, in part, by the Staubi Family Theater Fund and Association of Performing Arts Professionals’ Building Bridges: Arts, Culture and Identity, a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.
Sponsored by:
Tapestries, Religious Studies, Economics, Theater, English, Anthropology & Sociology, Provost's Office, Office of Religious & Spiritual Life, Intercultural Development