On Golden Pond playwright speaks at the Kate on May 22
The Katharine Hepburn Museum welcomes Academy Award-winning author and playwright Ernest Thompson for a talk about working with Katharine Hepburn titled, “Hepburn/Thompson – Game On: On Golden Pond, On Broadway, On a Life Well-lived,” on Monday, May 22, 2023 at 7:00 pm at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main Street, Old Saybrook. Mr. Thompson will reminisce about his experiences making the film with Miss Hepburn and their collaboration on the Broadway production of his play West Side Waltz. He will also read from his debut novel, The Book of Maps, which will be available for purchase and autographed by the author.
Thompson has won an Oscar, two Golden Globes, a Writers Guild Award and a Broadway Drama Guild Award for Best Play. His work has been nominated for a Tony, an Emmy and a British Academy Award. His more than 35 plays have been seen in theatres around the world. The most enduring, On Golden Pond, which he wrote at the age of 28, earned him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. It has since been translated into 30 languages and played in more than 40 countries including three runs on Broadway, the most recent starring James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams.
Among other plays are The West Side Waltz (starring Katharine Hepburn and Dorothy Loudon), A Sense of Humor (Jack Lemmon and Estelle Parsons), Ax of Love, Amazons in August, Murdering Mother, White People Christmas, The Elixir, and Human Beings. His other films include Sweet Hearts Dance (Susan Sarandon and Jeff Daniels), The Lies Boys Tell (Kirk Douglas), 1969 (Robert Downey Jr. and Bruce Dern), The West Side Waltz (Shirley MacLaine and Liza Minnelli), Out of Time, and the live On Golden Pond (Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer), the last four of which Ernest also directed, as he has his latest films, Time and Charges and Heavenly Angle.
For information and tickets, visit www.thekate.org or call 860-510-0453.
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