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LuPone, Redgrave, Reddy, et al. Set for NYC Barnes & Noble Appearances

Lynn Redgrave
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
Lynn Redgrave
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)

Patti LuPone, Lynn Redgrave, and Helen Reddy will be among the performers appearing this month at New York City Barnes & Noble stores.

The chain’s Lincoln Triangle store (Broadway and 66th Street) will host outgoing Metropolitan Opera head Joseph Volpe reading from his memoir The Toughest Show on Earth (May 12), Chris Lemmon reading from A Touch of Lemmon, his new book about his father, the actor Jack Lemmon (May 18), and the Tony Award-winning LuPone giving a lunchtime performance from her new CD, The Lady With the Torch (May 19).

The Union Square store on East 17th Street will be the home for a staged reading of Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day, featuring a cast headed by Judith Malina, Henry Stram, and Angelica Torn (May 8). On May 15, Redgrave, who’s currently starring in The Importance of Being Earnest at BAM, will appear with her daughter Annabel Clark for a signing of Journal: A Mother and Daughter’s Recovery from Breast Cancer. Reddy, the popular recording artist who appeared on Broadway in Blood Brothers will visit the Chelsea store (Sixth Avenue and 22nd Street) on May 4 to sign her book The Woman I Am and her CD of the same name.

Other celebrities making appearances this month at various stores include actors Teri Hatcher and Jim Belushi, singer William Nelson, TV host Rachael Ray, and photographers Patrick McMullan and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. For a complete list and more information, visit www.bn.com