Thu, May 09
|Segal Theatre
An Evening with Marvin Carlson: 60 Years of Theatre Studies
Join us to celebrate Marvin Carlson and his upcoming book, 10,000+ Nights: Memories of the Theatre Before the Plague, 2011-2019
Time & Location
May 09, 2024, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Segal Theatre, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA
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About the event
An Evening with Marvin Carlson: 60 Years of Theatre Studies
May 9, 2024
The Segal Theatre
6:30 pm
Join us for an evening honoring Marvin Carlson, GC CUNY Theatre Professor Emeritus and newly-elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Carlson will initiate his global lecture tour at the Segal Center, covering six decades of theatre studies. Segal Center Publications will additionally celebrate Carlson’s latest book 10,000+ Nights: Memories of the Theatre Before the Plague, 2011-2019—a follow-up to his book of essays Ten Thousand Nights: Highlights from 50 Years of Theatre-Going. Followed by a conversation with Frank Hentschker.
Marvin Carlson is the Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre, Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies. He has taught Arabic Theatre at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York. His research and teaching interests include dramatic theory and Western Europe- an theatre history and dramatic literature, especially of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. He is the founding editor of the Segal Center’s free and open online journals www.ArabStages.org and www.EuropeanStages.org. His best-known book, Theories of the Theatre (Cornell University Press, 1993), has been translated into seven languages. His 2001 book, The Haunted Stage (University of Michigan Press )won the Callaway Prize. Other publications Hamlet’s Shattered Mirror: Theatre and the Real (Michigan, 2016), Ten Thousand Nights: Highlights from 50 Years of Theatre-Going (Michigan, 2017).
Presented by the Segal Theatre Center in collaboration with the Ph. Program in Theatre and Performance.