A Broader Way with Michel Martin

Friday, September 19, 2014

7:00 PM

Join NPR host Michel Martin for a conversation on the changing Broadway landscape. She'll sit down with award-winning playwrights from diverse walks of life to explore how artists are challenging a canon that has traditionally been by, for and about the White experience.

Featuring David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), Bruce Norris (Clybourne Park), Lydia Diamond (Stick Fly), and Kristoffer Diaz. Tony-Award nominee Stephen McKinley Henderson will perform an excerpt from August Wilson’s American Century Cycle.

Stay for an after-party celebrating the launch of Michel Martin's ten-city tour, featuring live music by Cuban pianist Elio Villafranca. A beer and wine bar and hors d'oeuvres will be available.