He was also a member of the Dean's Council of Baruch College's Weissman School of Arts and Sciences; his generosity funded the Joel Segall Great Works Reading Series at the College.
And for a theater like Playwrights Horizons, which does only new work, readings often provide a welcome opportunity to get to know a writer a little better.
Be it standup acts, stage performances, site-specific work, readings or anything else, we want to hear about your best ever experiences in the Scottish capital's summer craze of arts and culture.
They went to Barbados for quite a while … But I don't know why, because if the personalities aren't working, should you actually spend that time trying to make them work?" Reading on mobile?
I plan to read them both (one was a much-appreciated Christmas present, the other picked up for a quid at the Hay festival last May), but deadlines, work-reading and, in the case of the West, weight, have, until now, dissuaded me.
+ A 91-year-old visitor to the Neues Museum Nürnberg scandalized museum employees when she whipped out a ball point pen and filled in the blanks of the Fluxus artist Arthur Köpcke's crossword-style work, Reading-Work-Piece, in what can only be described as the perfect accidental performance of a Fluxus event.
I had the thought that I can't live long enough to wear out the works' alternate readings.
Between those works came readings of short poems written by Joséphine Bacon, Yann Martel, Marie-Claire Blais and Wajdi Mouawad, variously inspired by Beethoven's turbulent Ninth Symphony, which concludes with the famous setting of Schiller's "Ode to Joy".
So 33 days and 2 stages will be in use from tonight through Nov. 5 as Ensemble Studio Theater presents Octoberfest 2002, its 22nd annual harvest of staged works and readings.
Mr. Collins's popularity, fueled by Random House and his willingness to promote his work through readings, also contributed to his selection.
