Chicago—Following the success of December’s Traffic Jam, Steppenwolf’s Traffic Series presents best-selling author and social observer, Sarah Vowell (Assassination Vacation), for a one-night only engagement in the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre on Monday, February 27, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. $35 tickets are on sale January 20, 2006. Tickets are available online at www.steppenwolf.org or by calling (312) 335-1650.
Sarah Vowell, “a cranky stylist with talent to burn” (Newsweek), best known for her monologues and documentaries for public radio’s This American Life, presents a one-night only reading of Assassination Vacation (now available in paper-back) with social commentary, audience question & answer and book-signing.
Sarah Vowell is:
-the best-selling author of Assassination Vacation, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Radio On: A Listener’s Diary and Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
-a critic and reporter, who has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers, including GQ, Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Spin, The New York Times Book Review, TIME and Salon.com
the voice of teenage superhero Violet Parr in Pixar Animation Studio’s The Incredibles
a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University
a regular on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and has made numerous appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Traffic series brings together artists of all disciplines and casts them as storytellers on the Steppenwolf stage. Traffic provides an intimate and unique intersection of language, lyrics, poetry and music, creating a fresh perspective on expressing the American story.
Committed to the principle of ensemble performance through the collaboration of a company of actors, directors and playwrights, Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s mission is to advance the vitality and diversity of American theater by nurturing artists, encouraging repeatable creative relationships, and contributing new works to the national canon. The company, formed in 1976 by a collective of actors, is dedicated to perpetuating an ethic of mutual respect and the development of artists through on-going group work. Steppenwolf has grown into an internationally renowned company of thirty-five artists whose talents include acting, directing, playwriting, filmmaking and textual adaptation.
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