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Performance followed by talkback: 7:00pm | $20 General Admission

Literature to Life adapts F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic work as their newest title in their Signature Performance series. The Great Gatsby takes place on Long Island and New York City in the early twentieth century, at the height of the Jazz Age and the Prohibition Era. The novel touches on the treatment of different social classes, “old money” versus “new money” ideology, gender, race, environmentalism, and the price of the American Dream.

United Palace of Cultural Arts presents
Literature to Life stage presentation of
The Great Gatsby 

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Performed by Bryce Foley

Adapted and Directed by Kelvin Grullon

Based on the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, © 1925

Bryce Foley is an American actor from Ypsilanti, Michigan. He received his B.A. in Drama from the University of Michigan and is a recent graduate of the Terry Knickerbocker studio. He has performed at UofM (Pass Over, Twelfth Night, The Bacchae), Davis Shakespeare Festival (The Reaper & The Whale), and is pleased to make his New York theatre debut in The Great Gatsby with Literature to Life.

“It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.”

LITERATURE TO LIFE (LTL) is a performance-based literacy program that presents professionally staged verbatim adaptations of American literary classics. LTL’s mission is to perform great books that inspire young people to read and become authors of their own lives. LTL was founded more than three decades ago as the educational program of the American Place Theatre. Now an independent organization, this mighty collective of artists and educators brings the voices of diverse authors to thousands of students and audiences nationwide, giving them the tools to become the empowered “voices worth hearing” of our future.