Winters are a little harder to get through without the annual Richard Foreman play at the Ontological-Hysteric; although his last play, Idiot Savant, opened at the Public Theater back in 2009, it’s really been longer than that since we’ve seen an echt Foreman production (Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland of 2007 was the last time Foreman could be seen at the control panel of one of his own productions; Astronome, his 2008 collaboration with John Zorn, seemed a little more Zorn than Foreman). I’ve been writing about Foreman’s work for the last six or seven years; since 2009, he’s been continuing to work in film and other media, but for now he is staying away from the stage.

But not away from the Public Theater, which will feature a conversation with Richard Foreman at its Public Forum series on Wednesday, 19 January, at Joe’s Pub. Foreman will sit down with Jeremy McCarter to talk about his upcoming projects as well as a wide range of other topics. Tickets are $25 (with a $12 food or drink minimum per person), and more information about the evening is available here.