November 13 through 19

President Havel attended a perfomance of Temptation at the Brick Theater on Friday to celebrate the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.

Following a performance, Uncle Moon played music from The Velvet Underground and Nico (aka, The Banana Album). If you missed it, they will be playing the complete album (with special guest Michelle Shocked singing the Nico songs) at our closing event, at Joe's Pub on December 4 at 9:30. Buy tickets. Note: Tickets to this event are not included with a festival pass.

Another highlight of the week is the Saturday screening of Citizen Havel Goes on Vacation, a documentary by Jan Novak, whose translations are featured throughout the festival. Join Mr. Novak at he presents his fascinating movie about Havel's closely monitored life in Communist Czechoslovakia, showing at 5pm at The Brick Theater (after the performances of Mistake and Novak's new translation of The Garden Party).

And of course, our roster is filled to the brim with performances. This week alone, 16 of Havel's 18 plays are featured, many in multiple performances.

President Havel with Trey Kay of Uncle Moon on the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Photo by William Sullivan Niederkorn.

In case you missed some of the outstanding feature articles about the festival:

Eric Grode has a wonderful and very in-depth piece, The Playwright President, in the New York Sun.

Randy Gener of Time Out New York previews the festival in Bounced Czech.

The Village Voice has an article about Havel and his relationship with New York City in Foreign Intelligence by Andy Propst.

and

Michael Criscuolo of NYTheatre.com sat down for a podcast interview with with Edward Einhorn, Henry Akona and Ian W. Hill.

Henry Akona, assistant artistic director, Edward Einhorn, artistic director and President Havel at the celebration on the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution at the Brick Theater. Photo by William Sullivan Niederkorn.