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Oscar-nominated actor and Pulitzer-winning playwright Sam Shepard will appear at the renowned storytelling collective The Moth in an event entitled Toil and Trouble…Stories of Experiments Gone Wrong, at Symphony Space on Thursday, May 29. The event is part of The World Science Festival, to run at various New York City venues, May 29-June 1.
The storytellers will each take to the stage to tell tales of heroic failures, miscalculations, and experiments — scientific and otherwise — gone wrong. In keeping with Moth traditions, each story must be true, must be told live with no script or notes, and must be told in ten minutes. Participants will also include Nathan Englander, Jim Gates, Lucy Hawking, and Michael Turner.
The festival will also include choreographer Karole Armitage’s The Elegant Universe, to be presented as part of Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum on May 30-31, Alan Alda in a reading of the play Q.E.D. at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre on May 31, and Tony Award-winner Anthony LaPaglia in Alda’s Dear Albert, based on the letters of Albert Einstein, on June 1 at the Miller Theatre.
For more information, visit www.worldsciencefestival.com.
