Bushnell At The Palace:

‘Sex And The City’ Author To Open Speaker Series

WATERBURY — The Palace Theater will welcome Candace Bushnell as the debut speaker in 2006-07 Signature Conversations, a brand new speaker series making its debut at the theater in January.

Innovative as well as informative, the series promises to stimulate and educate with a diverse roster of names and topics spanning the world of literature, politics, business and more. The series will include speakers who represents a current facet in today’s society and will entertain audiences through thoughtful and memorable dialogue.

The Signature Conversations series will open on Wednesday, January 24, at 7:30 pm, when Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell breaks down the bedroom doors of New York City’s rich and beautiful, sharing encounters, relationships and good-byes that provide an often humorous, sometimes bleak, but always honest look at what it means to be single in a city where “Cupid has flown the coop.”

Then, on Thursday, March 15, at 7:30 pm, widely published poet and best-selling author of the now-classic Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes will reach out to audiences about taking chances, living in Italy, the pleasures of food, wine, gardens and the voluptuous Italian life.

Each Signature Conversation event offers a VIP pre-show wine and cheese reception for 100 patrons. The party will be attended by the evening’s guest speaker, who will informally sign books for the private audience. Directly following the event, all patrons are invited to attend a post-show book signing in the theater’s lobby. Barnes & Nobles Booksellers will be on site, offering a variety of the presenter’s titles for sale.

Tickets are $27 to $80, and can be purchased by phone at 203-755-4700 or online at PalaceTheaterCT.org. Groups of 20 or more receive at ten percent discount. The Palace’s box office is at 100 East Main Street in Waterbury.