Fort Tryon Park

The Daily Plant : Tuesday, October 9, 2001

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS IN THE ACTOR’S STUDIO

Photo by Spencer (Flasher) Tucker

At Mayor Giuliani’s behest, New Yorkers did their civic duty and attended the theater on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, October 2 and 3. From a spotlight on the stage of the Actor’s Studio, Commissioner Henry J. (StarQuest) Stern addressed the audience. "You might ask: what’s a Park Commissioner doing in a black box? I’m celebrating the link between New York’s architecture and literature in our efforts, with the Library of America, to preserve both." Actors, Estelle Parsons, Margaret Colin, Louis Zorich, Betty Buckley, and Kristen Cerelli, and Literary Critic, Mel Gussow, read to a packed house from classic scripts by Tennessee Williams. Proceeds from the event will benefit Parks’ Historic House Trust. The evening also celebrated the publication by the Library of America of a new collection of writings by Tennessee Williams.

Great New York Writers in Great New York Places continues with readings Dawn Powell on November 14 at the Empire State Building. For more information, please contact Anna (Glen Ridge) Carey at (212) 360-1336. Thanks to committee members Amy (Friday) Freitag, Jill (Mainsail) Mainelli, Pi Gardiner and Max (Literary Lion) Rudin who organize the series.

For the seventeenth year, Fort Tryon Park was remade in the image of a fourteenth century village on Sunday, September 30 when the Washington Heights Inwood Development Corporation staged a Medieval Festival for 40,000 on the grounds of the park and the Cloisters Museum. In spite of rain, guests turned out in large numbers and in costume to view the festival’s highpoint: the joust.

In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Commissioner Henry J. (StarQuest) Stern joined Donald (Tower) Trump, Evelyn H. Lauder, Elizabeth Hurley, and Debra (Zebra) Krulewitch, Director of the Board of the Historic House Trust to illuminate the Trump building and the adjacent Pulitzer Foundation with pink light on Tuesday, October 2. Their objective is to catch the attention of passersby by changing the environment around them.

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As part of the "New Prospects" music series in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, the Bolivian group Sukay will play native wind and string instruments spanning the musical heritage of South America on Sunday, October 16 at 3 P.M.

The concert will be held at the Prospect Park Picnic House. To get there, enter the park at 3^rd Street and Prospect Park West, and follow the park drive to the right. The Picnic House is the first building on the left.

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