# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Ayad Akhtar (presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 09:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: Tickets are available for in-person attendance or streaming options – starting at $10 for Pay What You Can!

When a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is pulled toward revelation—and into a scandal that could destroy everything. Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar’s most daring work yet: The Radiance is visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture.

What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into something stranger and more profound — erotic entanglement, a buried family secret, and an uncanny pull toward the metaphysical. Moving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the cosmic, The Radiance asks not only what has broken, but what radiance remains.

Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other honors. Akhtar is the author of the novels American Dervish, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, and Homeland Elegies, named one of 10 Best Books of 2020 by The New York Times. He has also authored the plays McNeal, Junk, Disgraced, The Who & The What, and The Invisible Hand. Akhtar was named the New York State Author in 2021.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/seattle/ayad-akhtar-presented-by-seattle-arts-and-lectures/200030668071425
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, performances, Theatre, Entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Seattle
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Town Hall Seattle
- **lat**: 47.60901
- **long**: -122.32994
- **full address**: Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave,Seattle,WA,United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Ayad Akhtar (presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures) being held?
  - **A:** Ayad Akhtar (presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures) takes place on Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave,Seattle,WA,United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Ayad Akhtar (presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures)?
  - **A:** Ayad Akhtar (presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures) is organized by Seattle Arts & Lectures.

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