In todat’s New York Times is a review of Hal Holbrook’s memoir — whom we hosted on September 7 — and John Lithgow’s memoir, Drama: An Actor’s Education, whom we host on October 6. Ticket info here...

An excerpt from the review on Lithgow’s book:

“Drama” is a brisk book, packed with funny stories. Lithgow returns to America from a Fulbright grant in London as “an insufferable Shakespeare snob” with a British accent. “Wot acksnt?” he asks when called on it. After he botches the job as curtain puller for Marcel Marceau, “predictably, the famous mime said nothing.” Especially entertaining are the stories of Lithgow’s encounter with an amorous dog while trying to impress a powerful casting director, his micromanagement of a costume for his third-grade production of “The Sleeping Beauty” and a catalog of the devious scene-stealing tricks of an older co-star named “Rock Masters.” (Masters and other anonymous figures in this book are delightfully easy to unmask through a little online ­sleuthing.)