An Evening with Alice Hoffman: Practical Magic Film Screening

The Owens sisters are back! Lovestruck Books couldn't let October pass without hosting the fabulous Alice Hoffman at The Brattle Theatre for another magical screening of Practical Magic. In conversation with author Laura Zigman, Alice will discuss her witchy cult classic. This year, each ticket includes a of Practical Magic, pre-signed with bookplates by Alice Hoffman. Books will be available for pickup at check-in.

GENERAL ADMISSION

General admission tickets include event entry at The Brattle Theatre for the conversation with Alice and screening of Practical Magic. Additionally, each ticket includes a hardcover edition of the book, pre-signed by Alice Hoffman.

VIP TICKETS

VIP guests are invited to a private after-party at Lovestruck Books! These tickets include:

• One complimentary alcoholic beverage (featuring a themed margarita cocktail!)
• Access to a VIP-only tarot card reader
• Exclusive after-hours shopping at the bookstore
• In-store scavenger hunt. Prizes to go along with this fun activity.
• Witch hats provided, of course
• ...and some more surprises!

5:30 PM – Doors open at The Brattle Theatre. Check in, pick up your pre-signed Practical Magic hardcover, grab drinks and popcorn from concessions, and fill out our Trivia Sheet — complete our Practical Magic-themed trivia for a special gift from Lovestruck Books if you get the highest score!

6:45 PM – Author Laura Zigman will join Alice Hoffman for a conversation about Practical Magic — and maybe even some fun insights into Practical Magic 2 !

7:15 PM – The screening of Practical Magic begins.

9:00 PM – Film ends.

9:05 PM – VIP guests head to Lovestruck Books for a private after-party featuring themed cocktails, tarot readings, late-night shopping, scavenger hunt, and more!

Tickets are limited, so grab yours now! If the event sells out, you can join the waitlist. Should any spots open up, you’ll have 24 hours to register before it’s offered to the next person.

The Brattle Theatre’s main seating area is wheelchair and handicapped accessible, with adjacent companion seating. The box office and lobby/concessions area are accessible from street level by ramp (see below), and an elevator is provided for access to the main floor of the theater. There are two dedicated wheelchair positions with companion seating at the front of the theater, as well as flexible seating at the rear adjacent to the elevator door. Bathrooms are handicapped/wheelchair accessible. Balcony level seating is not wheelchair accessible.

Ramp Access: Use the walkway on the left side of the building and follow the ramp toward the rear of the building, where it will switch back toward the box office window, lobby and elevator entrance. The manager on duty will assist you in using our elevator to access the theatre.

The Brattle encourages you to contact them or call 617 876-6837 ahead of your visit if you or anyone in your party would benefit from special assistance.

If you purchased a book with your event ticket but can’t make it to the event—and don’t request a refund—we’ll happily hold your book for pickup for up to 30 days after the event date.

We’ll be in touch via the email you provided at checkout to help coordinate pickup. After 30 days, if we haven’t heard from you or made other arrangements, we’ll consider the book abandoned property and may donate it or return it to inventory so it can find a new home.

Thanks so much for your understanding and for supporting our events—we love doing this with you!

Alice Hoffman is the highly acclaimed author of over thirty novels for readers of all ages, including The Dovekeepers, The World That We Knew (winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize), The Marriage of Opposites, Practical Magic, Incantation, The Foretelling, and most recently, When We Flew Away. Her previous novels for Scholastic Press are Aquamarine, which was made into a major motion picture, Indigo, Green Witch, and Green Angel, which Publishers Weekly, in a boxed, starred review, called "achingly lovely." Practical Magic 2, the sequel to Practical Magic (Warner Brothers, 1998) is due to be released in September 2026. She lives outside of Boston.

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost as if by magic...

Laura Zigman is the author of six novels, including Small World, Separation Anxiety (which was optioned by Julianne Nicholson and the production company Wiip (Mare of Easttown) for a limited television series); Animal Husbandry (made into the movie Someone Like You, starring Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd), Dating Big Bird, Her, and Piece of Work. She has ghostwritten/collaborated on several works of non-fiction, including Eddie Izzard's New York Times bestseller, Believe Me; been a contributor to the New York Times. She lives in Cambridge, where she helps clients via Zoom, phone, and sometimes in person with their writing and is at work on two new novels.

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