Did Ray Bradbury see Donald Trump coming?

In 1952 the sci-fi author wrote of a time traveler who goes to the Cretaceous Period after Americans reject a brash, authoritarian “anti-intellectual, anti- everything” candidate for President, steps on a butterfly, and returns home to find society altered and the election results reversed. It’s just one example of how Bradbury’s fiction is seeming more relevant than ever.

Ray Bradbury’s Pillar Of Fire is a 50-minute one act; (very) theatrical reading of an early Bradbury classic which opened in Los Angeles to sold-out houses in a production directed by Ezra Buzzington. It won an Ernest Kearney Platinum Medal and was named Best Solo Show Of Hollywood Fringe 2015 by Bitter Lemons. The New York stage debut allows east coast audiences to see Oberst Jr.’s “superior” and “brilliant” performance where “Oberst does not perform the role of Lantry, he exists in it.”

The NYC debut is part of the United Solo Theatre Festival.