[AMS-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: Symposium: Life and Times of Cole Porter, Westport CT, 15 June 2008

[Announcements for the AMS]

Westport Country Playhouse Symposium Discusses
“The Life and Times of Cole Porter”


Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, and Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) will present a Sunday Symposium on “The Life and Times of Cole Porter” following the Sunday, June 15, 3 p.m. matinee performance of the musical “Hot ‘n Cole:  A Cole Porter Celebration!”

Sunday Symposium speakers will be Gail Miller Armondino, musicologist and soprano, and Shirley Kaplan, playwright, director and designer.

The Playhouse Sunday Symposium program, free and open to the public, provides the audience with guest speakers’ in-depth insights and observations about the production, followed by an interactive dialogue.  Debra Baron, Westport Country Playhouse education director, will moderate the Sunday Symposium.  It is open to all, including those who attend a performance of “Hot ‘n Cole” at another time.  The Sunday Symposium is supported, in part, by the White Barn Program of the Lucille Lortel Foundation.

Full details: 

http://www.westportplayhouse.org/