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The Art of the Adaptation

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Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. COURTESY BAY STREET THEATER

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. COURTESY BAY STREET THEATER

authorStaff Writer on Mar 27, 2023

Bay Street Theater will present “Page to Stage: The Craft of Adaptation,” a New Perspectives Series panel discussion with playwright and director Vincent Murphy and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan on Sunday, April 23, at 5 p.m. The conversation immediately follows the culmination of the one-day creative writing workshop, “Page to Stage,” led by Murphy from 1 to 4 p.m., and will be facilitated by Bay Street Theater Artistic Director Scott Schwartz.

The panel centers on a discussion of the art of adaptation — taking different types of literature and adapting it into plays and films. Two heavyweights of the art form discuss their respective approach: Vincent Murphy, the celebrated playwright and director, and the renowned playwright and Sag Harbor resident Robert Schenkkan, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for “The Kentucky Cycle” and Tony Award for Best Play for “All the Way.” Scott Schwartz, who has written several adaptations himself and has shepherded numerous new works from conception to production throughout his career, will join the conversation.

Robert Schenkkan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, Tony Award-winning, Writer’s Guild Award-winning, three-time Emmy-nominated writer of stage, television, and film. He is the author of 14 original full-length plays, two musicals and a collection of one-act plays. He co-wrote the feature film “Hacksaw Ridge” (six Academy Award nominations) and “The Quiet American,” and his television credits include “All the Way,” “The Pacific,” “The Andromeda Strain” and “Spartacus.”

Vincent Murphy is an internationally recognized playwright, director and artistic director and the author of “Page to Stage: The Craft of Adaptation.” He has worked at several major theaters including Sundance and the London Actors Center.

Tickets are a suggested donation of $20 and available at baystreet.org or by calling 631-725-9500. To register for the “Page to Stage” workshop led by Vincent Murphy, which takes place Sunday, April 23, from 1 to 4 p.m. visit baystreet.org or contact Allen O’Reilly, the theater’s director of education, at allen@baystreet.org.

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