WordTheatre’s 2014 Fall Series Presents … Allan Gurganus
September 4, 2014
WordTheatre’s 2014 fall serie
s at Chapman University brings America’s finest short story writers to Orange for celebrity and student performances.
On Monday, September 22,
Hollywood actors – Bruce Vilanch, Stephen Tobolowsky, Gethin Anthony and Chapman Theater Major, Morgan Lauff (’15)
, will bring to li
fe acclaimed short stories by author
Allan Gurganus (best known for his novel, The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All)
.
Author Allan Gurganus is best known for his novel “The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All,”
which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and spent eight months on the New York Times bestseller list. The CBS adaptation of the work, starring Donald Sutherland and Diane Lane, won four Emmy Awards, including a Best Supporting Actress Emmy for Cicely Tyson as the freed slave Castalia. Gurganus’s other works include his two novels “White People” (Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Pen-Faulkner Finalist) and “Plays Well With Others,” as well as two collections of novellas. Gurganus was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the recipient of an Ingram Merill Award.
This is the first of WordTheatre performances for 2014
and will take place at 7 p.m. in the Fish Interfaith Center at Chapman University.
Admission is Free.
