Clayburgh, Durang, Jenkins, Thomas, Torn, et al. to Appear at Makor in November

Jill Clayburgh, Christopher Durang, Capathia Jenkins, Richard Thomas, and Angelica Torn are among the artists who will appear next month at Makor (35 West 67th Street), a division of the 92nd Street Y.

Clayburgh and Thomas, who are curently starring in the Roundabout Theater production of A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, will be joined by the play’s author Richard Greenberg and its director Doug Hughes at 7:30pm on Sunday, November 6 for a panel discussion to be moderated by Anita Gates, a culture writer for The New York Times.

The event is the first in a series of discussions co-presented by the 92nd Street Y and the Roundabout. On December 12 at 7:30pm, TheaterMania’s Peter Filichia will moderate a discussion of the new play Mr. Marmalade featuring actor Michael C. Hall, director Michael Greif, and playwright Noah Haidle. Future panel discussons, which will take place at the 92nd Street Y, will focus on the Roundabout productions of The Pajama Game (January 5), A Touch of the Poet (January 8), and The Threepenny Opera (TBA).

Among the other theater-oriented events upcoming at Makor: Christopher Durang will discuss his new play Miss Witherspoon, set to open next month at Playwrights Horizons, with Emily Mann, who will direct the production. The talk will take place on Monday, November 7 at 7:30pm and will also be moderated by Gates.

Capathia Jenkins, who has been seen on Broadway in Caroline, or Change and The Look of Love, will appear with composer-lyricist Louis Rosen on Sunday, November 13 at 8pm and Thursday, November 17 at 7pm. The performance will include the premiere of Rosen’s newest work, South Side Stories (which was written for Jenkins), plus selections from his song cycles Dream Suite (based on the poetry of Langston Hughes) and Twelve Songs on Poems by Maya Angelou.

On Sunday, November 20 at 7pm, Dead Poets Live will feature Angelica Torn performing excerpts from Edge, a play about Sylvia Plath; Amy Freed reading from her play The Psychic Life of Savages, about the poets Ted Hughes (Plath’s husband) and Robert Lowell; and Jennifer Gibbs in excerpts from her solo show Edna St. Vincent Millay Speaks to the Committee on Immortality, which played at this year’s New York International Fringe Festival.

Tickets to these events range in price from $15 to $20. For information about the Roundabout events, call 212-415-5500 or visit www.92Y.org; for all other Makor events, call 212-601-1000 or visit www.makor.org.