World Premiere Of “Drinks With Dead Poets” Play Featuring Poet Glyn Maxwell To Be Presented By Phoenix Theatre Ensemble

Photos: Phoenix Theatre Ensemble NEW YORK – Having previewed the play in October as part of its Phoenix Live Arts Festival in Nyack, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, led by Craig Smith and Elise Stone, will present the world premiere of “Drinks With Dead Poets” by Olivier Nominated author, playwright and poet Glyn Maxwell from February 2 to 11 at Gural Theatre of A.R.T/New York Theatres, 502 West 53rd Street.  The play is adapted from the author’s celebrated 2016 novel of the same name.  It invites its audience into a phantom tavern in Nyack where spirits of deceased poets join the living for a drink and conversation. Attilio Rigotti directs. In the play, Maxwell resurrects iconic American authors including Poe, Frost, Ginsberg, Hart Crane, Sylvia Plath, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dorothy Parker and Emily Dickinson through their own words.  With dialogue drawn from their poems, correspondence and other writings, the play explores their lives and legacies, celebrating their language, creativity and the enduring impact of their poetic voices across generations. Maxwell, a British poet, playwright, librettist and critic, is author of numerous plays.  He is a Resident Playwright of Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, who have previously staged his “Broken Journey,” “Wolfpit,” “The Lifeblood,...