E. Warren Perry, Jr.

Newsweek's Pop Vox quotes Warren Perry on legacy of Michael Jackson vs. Elvis

 

August 24, 2009 - Newsweek's  Pop Vox by Sarah Ball quotes Warren Perry, who is curating one (Echoes of Elvis) and co-curating a second (Elvis at 21) major Elvis Presley exhibition next year about the recent death of Michael Jackson and whether Jackson's legacy will be anything like that of Elvis Presley. Perry is also a co-author of the upcoming book Elvis 1956, to be released November 2009.

Click here to access the Newsweek article, "Drugs Officially Killed Michael Jackson -- But It Doesn't Matter."

Echoes of Elvis will open at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC in January 2010, and Elvis at 21, a traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, will open in Los Angeles, CA at the new Grammy Museum in December 2009.

Swift to My Wounded now available, published by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

Warren's play Swift to My Wounded: Walt Whitman and the Civil War, first commissioned and produced by the National Portrait Gallery in 2007, has been published by the Smithsonian. Printed copies have just arrived today. The play is available for order now on Amazon and will be for sale at the NPG bookstore.  

Click here to download a short clip of the 2007 production.

Article in CHICAGO SUN-TIMES about Ekphrasis

August 7, 2009. Check out the fantastic article in today's Chicago Sun-Times (Stage section - Curtain Call) by reporter Mary Houlihan. Warren was interviewed about his new play Ekphrasis: Cave Walls to Soup Cans, produced by Sideshow Theatre Company and opening at the Viaduct Theatre in Chicago on August 13.

Here is the link to the full article: 'Ekphrasis' frames great art in a new light: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Stage

Come see the show if you are in Chicago!