Amazing. This is yet another Monday on which men- and women-about-town will find something above-average to do. The noted playwright, or if you prefer the Most Important Living Playwright, Tom Stoppard stars in the 2006 Global Voices lecture at the Guthrie; and I believe it’s being moderated by Joe Dowling. This gives damn good excuse to all the haters out there. If you’ve been too busy complaining about the Guthrie’s 2006-07 season, and thus haven’t made it to one of the plays and stepped out onto the enchanting “bridge to nowhere” (or, as I hear Charles Mee wanted to call it, the “playwrights’ leap”), here’s your chance. I have no idea what Stoppard will actually cover this evening. Perhaps he’ll discuss his new project, The Coast of Utopia, a trilogy of plays set to mid-19th century Russia. (The New York Times gave it a required reading list.)
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