The Library for the Performing Arts Play Club [VIRTUAL]

Play Club is like a book club, but for plays! Whether you are familiar with the art of reading plays, or looking to expand your appreciation for dramatic literature, this book club is an opportunity to read plays you have been meaning to explore or have never considered reading before. Learn about new works, discover new playwrights, and make friends!

This group will read one playscript from the Library for the Performing Arts circulating collection every month, and then come together to discuss the work. We will read one scene from the play together and discuss the text in a book club discussion format.

This program will take place virtually on Zoom Webinar. If you would like to participate in

Content warning: This play discusses incest. This program is intended for adult patrons.

Monday March 17th at 6:30pm -

In this month’s Play Club, we will read and discuss How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel. The story of a woman who learns the rules of the road and life from behind the wheel. Vogel’s play is a wildly funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival, a sexual coming of age through the 60s, 70s and 80s as seen through the provocative lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man.

Paula Vogel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose plays include Indecent (Tony Award nomination for Best Play), How I Learned to Drive (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award nomination, the Lortel Prize, OBIE Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle, and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for Best Play), The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot’n’Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, The Oldest Profession, and A Civil War Christmas.

We have a few copies of the play available at the Library for the Performing Arts, but if you are looking for additional copies, the Drama Book Shop has graciously set aside copies of the play at a discounted price of 10% off for Play Club attendees, while supplies last. Please visit the Drama Book Shop to purchase your copy.

Photo Credit: From left, Kevin Cahoon, Marnie Schulenburg, Norbert Leo Butz, Jennifer Regan and Elizabeth Reaser in How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel. Photograph by Joan Marcus, 2012. Billy Rose Theatre Division.

ASSISTIVE LISTENING AND ASL | ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing [email protected].

Host or Publisher New York Public Library for the Performing Arts