The 2010 North American Jules Verne Society Annual Meeting will be held from May 20-22 at the Hilton Columbia Hotel in Columbia, MD. The event will include a discussion and live performance of Mark Brown’s”Around the World in Eighty Days. This year’s theme will be “Voyaging to America with Verne.”
An play based on Samuel Delany’s Dhalgren, entitled Bellona, Destroyer of Cities is scheduled to debut at the Kitchen in New York on Delany’s birthday, April 1. The play has been adapted for the stage by Jay Scheib, who is also directing. Scheib has previously adapted the novel into a German play. The play is scheduled to run through April 3.
This year will see multiple science fiction and fantasy plays in Chicago. Currently, a stage adaptation of Cory Doctorow’s Hugo-nominated novel Little Brother is being performed at the Athenaeum Theatre. The production opened on June 14 (during Duckon) and will run through July 19.
Late this year, a musical, “The Addams Family,” will open in Chicago on November 13 (during Windycon) and will run through January 10, 2010. Starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, the musical will be staged at the Ford Center/Oriental Theatre.
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