Vanessa Redgrave to Read From Joan Didion's Memoir Blue Nights

Tony- and Drama Desk-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave will perform a reading of Blue Nights, a memoir by Joan Didion, at a benefit event on November 17 at he Cathedral of St. John the Divine. At Redgrave’s request, the evening will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Cathedral Community Cares.

Blue Nights is an account of the death of Quintana Roo Dunne, Didion's daughter with husband John Gregory Dunne. Redgrave and Didion share the experience of having adult children precede them in death. Didion lost Quintana in 2005. Redgrave's daughter, Natasha Richardson, died in 2009.

Redgrave will be joined by guest artist Jimmy Owens, 2012 NEA Jazz Master and leader of Jimmy Owens Plus, on the trumpet-flügelhorn.

In 2007, Redgrave won a Drama Desk award for her performance in an adaptation of Didion’s earlier memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking.

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