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PCSC Members Receive up to $10 off
Discount applies to Silver ($75) and Bronze ($50) level seating only.  Tickets subject to availability. Not valid on previously purchased tickets. Other restrictions may apply. No refunds, cancellations or exchanges.  Offer not available at Ticketmaster outlets. 

To receive $10 off, select regular priced $75 tickets from the drop down menu, enter number of tickets under the Promotions and Special Offers header, then enter promotional code. For $10 off Silver Level Seating use promotional code: MCSS1 (now expired)

To receive $5 off, select regular priced $50 tickets from the drop down menu, enter number of tickets under the Promotions and Special Offers header, then enter promotional code.  For $5 off Bronze Level Seating use promotional code: MCSS2  (now expired)

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Joan Didion Monday, May 7, 2007, 8:00 P.M.   In 2005, Joan Didion won the National Book Award for The Year of Magical Thinking, which she has adapted into a successful Broadway play. A novelist, essayist and non-fiction writer she has authored 13 books, and she and her late husband John Gregory Dunne co-authored a number of noted screenplays. She is a contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Throughout her career she has received many awards, and in 2005 received the Gold Medal for Belles Lettres from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is the highest honor the Academy bestows upon a writer and is given once every six years. Fareed Zakaria Monday, May 14, 2007, 8:00 P.M. The editor of Newsweek International, PBS host of Foreign Exchange and analyst for ABC News, Zakaria is widely respected for his ability to spot economic and political trends around the world. As the editor of Newsweek International, he oversees eight editions of Newsweek throughout Asia, Latin America, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. His column appears in Newsweek (USA), Newsweek International, and often, The Washington Post. He is the author of the international best seller, The Future of Freedom. Trained as an academic at Yale and Harvard, Zakaria, at age 28, became the youngest managing editor of Foreign Affairs, the leading journal of international politics and economics. He has received honors for his work including the Overseas Press Club Award, the National Press Clubs’ Edwin Hood Award and the Deadline Club Award for best columnist. Norman and John Buffalo Mailer Thursday, June 7, 2007, 8:00 P.M. Norman Mailer an innovator of creative nonfiction as well as a journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. He received several nominations for the Nobel Prize for Literature and was one of the founders of The Village Voice. He won a National Book Award and two Pulitzer Prizes. Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, based on his personal experiences during World War II, was named one of the "100 best novels" by the Modern Library. Some of his other works include: Advertisements for Myself, The Presidential Papers, An American Dream, Of a Fire on the Moon, Marilyn, Ancient Evenings, Harlot's Ghost, and Oswald's Tale. A Castle in the Forest Mailer's latest book was published in January. His son playwright and author, John Buffalo Mailer has made a name for himself as the author of the socially conscious plays Hello Herman and Crazy Eyes. Active in the theater circuit, he is also Founder of Back House Productions in New York City. He served as Executive Editor for the infamous High Times magazine where he helped re-launch the independent magazine. In addition, he has written several screenplays, one short play, and freelanced for Playboy, New York, Stop Smiling, and Lid magazines. In 2005 the Mailers The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God Boxing Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America was published. Bob Woodward Friday, June 8, 2007, 8:00 P.M. Bob Woodward is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. He has won nearly every American journalism award. The Pulitzer Prize was given to the Post in 1973 for the reporting of Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal. In addition, Woodward was the lead reporter for the Post’s articles on the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks that won the National Affairs Pulitzer Prize in 2002. Woodward has co-authored or authored twelve nonfiction books; ten have been number one national bestsellers, more than any other contemporary American writer, and the other two were on the national bestseller list for months. Woodward’s latest book State of Denial chronicles the inner debates in the White House after the September 11th attacks, the invasion of Afghanistan, and the subsequent decision to invade Iraq.