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Putting Saul Bellow’s ‘Adventures Of Augie March’ Onstage — Can It Work In 2019?

THEATRE Posted: May 8, 2019 9:03 am

In Chicago, where Bellow spent his life, playwright David Auburn (who won the Pulitzer for Proof) has reshaped the hefty novel into a single-evening play with 13 actors portraying 40 characters. But will today’s audiences relate to a story by an author who, as one of his biographers puts it, is “lucky he did not live to see the #MeToo movement”? – The New York Times

THEATRE Published: 05.07.19

Read the story in New York Times Published: 05.07.19

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