Just got this email from Mike Daisey:

Hello All,

As part of the reopening of HOW THEATER FAILED AMERICA at the Barrow Street Theatre we’re hosting a series of roundtable discussions after select performances on the state of theater in America. These feature luminaries like Robert Brustein, Rocco Landesman, Gregory Mosher, Oskar Eustis, James Bundy and more in direct conversation with working actors, do-it-yourself producers, arts funders, theatrical bloggers, and you…the schedule is below, and I hope you’ll come and be part of the conversation.

HOW THEATER FAILED AMERICA ROUNDTABLES

DOWNTOWN, MIDTOWN, EVERYTOWN

Sun May 18th:

Robert Brustein (founder of Yale Repertory Theatre and American Repertory Theatre)

Jonathan West (Milwaukee-based actor and blogger)

Emily Ackerman (actor and ensemble member of The Civilians)

Leonard Jacobs (national editor for Back Stage)

Sheila Callaghan (playwright, Dead City)

DO-IT-YOURSELF OR BUST

Sat May 24th:

Greg Kotis (playwright, Urinetown)

Jason Eagan (Artistic Director, Ars Nova)

Erez Ziv (Managing Director, Horse Trade Theater)

John Clancy (founder of the New York International Fringe Festival)

Scott Shepherd (The Wooster Group)

Lisa Kron (actor, solo performer and playwright, Well)

YOU ARE WHAT YOU WATCH

Sun June 1st:

Jim Nicola (Artistic Director for New York Theatre Workshop)

Mark Russell (founder of PS122 and the Under The Radar Festival)

Steve Bodow (head writer of the Daily Show and Elevator Repair Service member)

Morgan Jenness (literary agent, former literary manager of the Public Theater)

David Cote (theatre editor for Time Out New York)

Isaac Butler (Freelance director and theatre blogger)

FOR PROFIT, NON-PROFIT, NO PROFIT

Sun June 8th:

James Bundy (dean, Yale School of Drama; Artistic Director, Yale Repertory Theatre)

Dan Fields (Disney Imagineer and freelance director)

Stephanie Weisman (founder and director of The Marsh in San Francisco)

Dave Greenham (executive director, The Theatre at Monmouth)

Tommy Thompson (veteran Broadway production stage manager)

Diane Ragsdale (Mellon Foundation)

ASSEMBLING ENSEMBLES

Sun June 15th:

John Collins (Artistic Director of Elevator Repair Service, The Sound and the Fury)

Tanya Selvaratnam (collaborator with Jay Scheib and The Builder’s Association)

Colleen Werthmann (actor and Elevator Repair Service ensemble member)

Heidi Schreck (collaborator with 2-Headed Calf, Seattle’s Printer’s Devil)

Scott Walters (former Artistic Director of Illinois Shakespeare Festival and blogger)

Hal Brooks (freelance director, Thom Paine and No Child…)

THEATER IN 2033

Sun June 22nd:

Rocco Landesman (Tony-award winning producer, Angels in America, The Producers)

Gregory Mosher (Tony-award winning director, former head of Lincoln Center)

Oskar Eustis (Artistic Director of the Public Theater)

Richard Nelson (playwright, Conversations in Tusculum)

Paige Evans (director, Lincoln Center’s new LCT3 program)

Garrett Eisler (Village Voice theater critic and blogger)

Tickets are still available:

http://tinyurl.com/6okczw

HOW THEATER FAILED AMERICA

a monologue about theater, failure, passion, and hope

Created and Performed by Mike Daisey

Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory

“A powerful sense of the wonder of theater.”

NEW YORK TIMES

“An exhilarating show…incandescent wit and a gift for virtuoso storytelling.”

GOTHAMIST

“Surprising and poetic…this piece should reach anyone who believes in live performance.”

VARIETY

“His transfixing delivery underscores his central point: theatre is a wave, not a particle, and the current system isn’t doing it–or us–justice.”

THE NEW YORKER

“Not only vastly entertaining, it’s also a call to action.”

TIME OUT NEW YORK

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT

May 16th to June 22nd

Fridays and Saturdays @ 7:30pm, Sundays @ 7:00pm

BARROW STREET THEATRE

27 Barrow Street @ 7th Ave. South