Afterward, Kline will participate in a Q&A session with Jonathan Michaelsen, chair of the Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance.
Media School professors of practice Robby Benson and Karla DeVito, who both performed on stage with Kline in his Tony-winning performance, “The Pirates of Penzance,” will be present on stage at the discussion session, according to a press release from the IU Cinema.
The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required and will become available Aug. 26 at the IU Auditorium box office. There is a limit of four tickets per person.
Kline received his bachelor’s degree in 1970 from the theater department at IU and later continued his studies at Julliard.
He was awarded two Tony awards, one in 1978 for “On the Twentieth Century” and the other in 1981 for “The Pirates of Penzance.”
Kline also performed in a variety of films, winning an Academy Award in 1988 for “A Fish Called Wanda” and a Screen Actor’s Guild Award for “As You Like It.”
Along with the ceremony and discussion at IU Auditorium, Kline is also scheduled to attend a special screening of “A Fish Called Wanda” at the IU Cinema Sept. 15 and participate in a Q&A session after the screening.
IU Cinema will also be screening a variety of Kline’s work as part of a special film series to celebrate his visit.
The schedule is as follows:
7 p.m. Sept. 2, “The Big Chill”: This 1983 film tells the story of a group of seven former college friends who reunite for a weekend in South Carolina after the death of one of their close, mutual friends.
3 p.m. Sept. 14, “Silverado”: A western-style film about four friends who travel to the city of Silverado and bring peace and equality to the city.
6:30 p.m. Sept. 14, “My Old Lady”: Set to release in September, the film tells the story of an American man who inherits a Parisian apartment, only to find that the apartment already houses a tenant.
7 p.m. Sept. 15, “A Fish Called Wanda”: This 1988 film follows a group of four very different people as they team up to commit an armed robbery, only to double-cross each other in the end.
7 p.m. Sept. 16, “The Ice Storm”: Kline takes a lead role in this 1997 film, telling the story of a family of four experiencing problems such as alcoholism and nymphomania when an ice storm hits and creates even more problems.
7 p.m. Sept. 23, “The Extra Man”: This comedy follows an escort for wealthy New York widows who takes a lowly playwright under his wing.
7 p.m. Sept. 30, “Dave”: When the president is in a coma, an agency decides that in order to avoid a scandal, they will put a man with uncanny resemblance in his place.
Alison Graham
