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Eating Their Words announces menu for Tailor Event on Nov. 3

The only theatrical or culinary event of its kind, Eating Their Words weds a seasoned chef with prominent playwrights for an integrated and sophisticated evening of new cuisine and new plays. At “The Tailor Event” on Monday, November 3^rd, Chef Sam Mason will collaborate with tour de force playwrights Beau Willimon (Farragut North), Sarah Treem (HBO’s “In Treatment”), and Jonathan Marc Sherman (Things We Want) under the theme “Defying Perception.” The evening’s cast features Tony Award nominee Isabel Keating (The Boy from Oz), renowned Broadway and film actor, David Margulies (Angels in America, “The Sopranos”), Austin Lysy (A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Public), and Julie Fitzpatrick (Close Ties, RiddleLikeLove). A first for the company, acclaimed mixologist, Tailor’s Eben Freeman, will join the evening’s creative whirlwind. Eating Their Words founder, Artistic Director Marlo Hunter (Williamstown, Long Wharf, Ensemble Studio Theatre), will direct the World Premieres.

 

The Tailor Event’s program includes the World Premieres “Appetizer” by Jonathan Marc Sherman, “The Deal” by Beau Willimon, and “The Dinner Date” by Sarah Treem. The plays inspired this original food and cocktail menu by Sam Mason and Eben Freeman:

 

 

Sam Mason, chef and partner of Tailor, is known for creatively combining sweet and savory flavors in his unique and playful dishes. He received much acclaim as the pastry chef at wd-50 before venturing to open his own establishment. Mixologist Eben Freeman has created one of the most celebrated cocktail programs in the city at Tailor, inspired by his “chef-driven” style of bartending.

Willimon’s play, Farragut North, will receive its World Premiere this November at the Atlantic Theater starring Chris Noth, and is currently being adapted as a feature film for Warner Brothers, with George Clooney attached to direct. Sarah Treem’s credits include A Feminine Ending at Playwrights Horizons. She is a writer and producer on HBO’s award-winning “In Treatment”. Jonathan Marc Sherman, best known for his hit comedy, Women and Wallace, was most recently represented by Things We Want.  He founded the Malaparte Theatre Company with Ethan Hawke, which produced new work for ten years.

A culinary treat, a cultural fix, and a supper-club social, Eating Their Words offers attendees the World Premiere of three new plays written explicitly for their evening, coupled with the inherent theatricality of a one-of-a-kind meal inspired by the writers' work. The event's forum is the chef's restaurant.  The intimate evening delivers these plays, set at a dinner table, an arm’s length away from audience members. Attendees surround the performance table, voyeuristically overhearing a “conversation” at a neighboring table. Following each play, set over a meal, the audience indulges in the course they just watched the actors experience. Each course is created by the chef, and accompanying cocktail pairings by the mixologist, after reading and interpreting the playwrights’ scripts.

Tickets for the November 3^rd “Tailor Event” ($250) are limited and can be purchased through the Eating Their Words website at www.eatingtheirwords.com.   VIP tickets ($285) ensure that attendees will be seated with a playwright or actor throughout the evening. Tailor is located at 525 Broome Street, in Manhattan."