Who, in Gore Vidal's estimation, is our best comic novelist? Who, according to Diana Trilling, was one of the wittiest women around and really said the funny things for which Dorothy Parker gets credit? Who escaped Ohio for New York in 1918 and lived here for 47 years, a self-anointed permanent visitor, distilling the city into dizzying and inventive writings?
	So why have you maybe never heard of Dawn Powell, author of fifteen novels, at least ten plays, and hundreds of short stories, most of which take place in New York City? Beats us! Which is why we're hosting PERMANENT VISITOR, a six-week festival of plays, readings, discussions and celebrations toasting Powell's life and work. Dawn Powell, consummate Greenwich Villager -- yet another reason to be proud to be a New Yorker. Join us January 18 through March 9 and see what too many of us have been missing for too long. -Sightlines Theater Company Executive Producer