Food for Thought

Food for Thought is a lunch hour one-act play reading series that’s drawing some of Broadway’s top talents, including Patricia Neal, Cliff Robertson, Rita Moreno, Elaine Stritch, Tammy Grimes, Kathleen Turner, and Treat Williams. Audiences enjoy a 30-minute play reading, a “gourmet box lunch” and a talk with the actors and/or playwrights.

Readings take place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
from 1:00pm to­ 2:00pm and are accompanied by a gourmet
buffet lunch provided by the National Arts Club. Immediately following each reading, audience members are invited to participate in a question and answer session with the actors, playwright and director of the reading.

Upcoming readings:

September 19 and 20:
Four by Ten by Tennessee Williams

September 23:
The Hairdresser by Susan Charlotte
The Doctor by David Mamet
September 25:
Some Kind of Love Story by Arthur Miller

September 26:
The Patient by Agatha Christie
October 3:
Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard

October 7:
The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco
October 9:
Tone Clusters by Joyce Carol Oates
Life with No Joy by David Mamet
October 16:
Roman Fever by Edith Wharton (adapted by Sandra Kazan)
The Stronger by August Strindberg
October 17:
Auto Da Fe by Tennesse Williams
The Lesson by Max Wiseman (adapted by Edward Pomerantz)
October 21:
Some Kind of Love Story by Arthur Miller
October 23:
The Patient by Agatha Christie
October 24:
The Shoemaker / A Broken Side by Susan Charlotte
Shoeshine by David Mamet
October 28:
Tone Clusters by Joyce Carol Oates
October 30:
Remembrance by Richard Wesley
Testimonies by August Wilson
November 4:
Taken / Out of Context by Susan Charlotte
The Doctor by David Mamet

November 13:
Tango Finish by Susan Charlotte
Where O Where by George Malko
November 18:
Remembrance by Richard Wesley
Testimonies by August Wilson
November 20:
A Life with No Joy in It by David Mamet
Tone Clusters by Joyce Carol Oates
November 21:
The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco
November 25:
Red Eye of Love by Arnold Weinstein
On the Edge by Craig Pospisil
I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow by Tennesse Williams
December 4:
When the Women Come Out to Dance by Elmore Leonard (adapted by Susan Charlotte)
December 5:
Tone Clusters by Joyce Carol Oates
December 9:
The Cabbie by Susan Charlotte
The Doctor by David Mamet

December 11:
Shenanigans by Robert Downey, Sr.
December 12:
Some Kind of Love Story by Arthur Miller

December 16:
When the Women Come Out to Dance by Elmore Leonard (adapted by Susan Charlotte)
December 19:
Preview of next season