Broadway legend Chita Rivera will promote her upcoming memoir with a series of events featuring three other luminaries of the stage, Playbill reports.
Rivera’s memoir, Chita, co-written with arts journalist Patrick Pacheco, is scheduled for publication on April 25 by HarperOne. The book chronicles the life of the 90-year-old actor, who originated the role of Anita in West Side Story and has been nominated for 10 Tony Awards, winning three. A critic for Kirkus wrote of the book, “The author is honest and outspoken in life and on the page, and fans of musical theater and dance are in for a real treat.”
Rivera will appear in conversation with Nathan Lane (The Producers, Angels in America) at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center in New York City on April 24. On April 30, she will talk with Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy, Hairspray) at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie, New York.
And on May 4, she will appear at Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival in New Jersey, in conversation with Laura Benanti (Gypsy, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown).
Rivera will also have two events with co-author Pacheco, one at the First Congregational Church in Madison, Connecticut, and another at the Drama Book Shop in New York City.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
