Yorinks, a North Salem resident who has also written for the stage, screen and opera, said that the plays would be presented in workshop form before their formal premieres as co-productions of such other theaters as the Houston Grand Opera and the Kennedy Center. The company will be in residence here and perform in Theater B as part of the Performing Arts Center's next Familyfare series, beginning in October. Both men expressed their excitement at being able to present sophisticated plays, operas and musical comedies to children in productions developed especially for the Night Kitchen. With him at the announcement, which was made in March, was Arthur Yorinks, a prize-winning author of children's books himself, who is the associate artistic director of the new theater company.
Maurice Sendak, the author and illustrator of such books as "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen," took the podium on the stage of Theater B to describe to an invited audience his new venture, the Night Kitchen: A National Children's Theater.
He also introduced a literary figure as beloved to parents as to the children who happily snuggle up with his books. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.CHRISTOPHER BEACH, director of the Performing Arts Center here on the campus of the State University of New York, did more than name-drop when he announced the center's impressive lineup of artists for next season. In 2003, Sendak received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an annual international prize for children’s literature established by the Swedish government. In 1970 he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration, in 1983 he received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association, and in 1996 he received a National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in America.
He received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are and is the creator of such classics as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, Higglety Pigglety Pop! and Nutshell Library. Maurice Sendak’s children’s books have sold over 30 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages.
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