World Premiere in Altadena: 'Evenings With the Boys in the Backroom'

Playwright Peter Adum and Joyce Fante, widow of noted novelist and screenwriter John Fante, have written a play showing interactions between some of the bygone hot shots in the Los Angeles writing scene.

On Sunday May 5, attendees will get to peek into that world at an Altadena Library staged reading of the play Evenings With the Boys in the Backroom.

The Moveable Theatre Company, who is presenting the staged reading, shared the following about the production:

Set in 1938-40, this original work chronicles the friendships between Hollywood bookstore owner Stanley Rose and some of his most famous customers: John Fante, William Saroyan, Nathanael West and Carey McWilliams.  John Fante's widow, Mrs. Joyce Fante shared the intimate details of the conversations that occurred in Stanley Rose's backroom behind the book shop, where some of the most famous figures in American literature during the 1930s talked, drank, played cards and discussed ideas which would inspire their most famous works.

See more about Evenings With the Boys in the Backroom at the Altadena Library here on Patch’s events calendar.