Will Smith: An Evening of Stories with Friends on 11/9 | Presented by Kings Theatre and Greenlight Bookstore

KINGS THEATRE AND GREENLIGHT
BOOKSTORE PRESENT
WILL SMITH: AN EVENING OF
STORIES WITH FRIENDS
ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
OCTOBER 21, 2021 – NEW YORK, NY- Grammy Award-winning rapper and Academy Award-nominated actor and producer Will Smith will make a stop in Brooklyn, NY at Kings Theatre on November 9, 2021 at 8p ET (doors at 6:30p) during his five-city tour to support his memoir, Will (on sale November 9, 2021.) Tickets are available to purchase now at the Kings Theatre box office or via Ticketmaster here.
WILL SMITH: An Evening of Stories with Friends will launch in Smith’s hometown of Philadelphia, PA on November 8th and also includes stops in Chicago, London, and Los Angeles. For the first time, Smith opens up fully about his life, tracing his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Joined by special guests, this will be an unforgettable evening sharing the profound journey that self-knowledge brings.
Fitbit is the title tour sponsor in support of Smith’s path towards growth, his recent fitness journey, and the many “steps” that go into an international book tour.
Each ticket for WILL SMITH: An Evening of Stories with Friends includes a copy of Will Smith’s memoir, Will, written with the help of Mark Manson, author of the multimillion-copy bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.
Will Smith is an actor, producer, and musician, and a two-time Academy Award nominee and Grammy and NAACP award winner, who has enjoyed a diverse career encompassing films, television shows, and multi-platinum albums. He holds many box office records, including the most consecutive $100 million–grossing movies (eight). He and his wife founded the Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation to improve lives by providing invaluable resources to accelerate the growth of initiatives that focus on deepening individual and collective empowerment in the areas of arts and education, social empowerment, health and wellness, and sustainability.
More about Will Smith’s forthcoming book, WILL (on sale November 9)
Will Smith’s transformation from a fearful child in a tense West Philadelphia home to one of the biggest rap stars of his era and then one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood history, with a string of box office successes that will likely never be broken, is an epic tale of inner transformation and outer triumph, and WILL tells it astonishingly well. But it’s only half the story.
Will Smith thought, with good reason, that he had won at life: not only was his own success unparalleled, his whole family was at the pinnacle of the entertainment world. Only they didn’t see it that way: they felt more like star performers in his circus, a seven-days-a-week job they hadn’t signed up for. It turned out Will Smith’s education wasn’t nearly over.
This memoir is the product of a profound journey of self-knowledge, a reckoning with all that your will can get you and all that it can leave behind. WILL is the story of how one person mastered his own emotions, written in a way that can help everyone else do the same. Few of us will know the pressure of performing on the world’s biggest stages for the highest of stakes, but we can all understand that the fuel that works for one stage of our journey might have to be changed if we want to make it all the way home.
The combination of genuine wisdom of universal value and a life story that is preposterously entertaining, even astonishing, puts WILL the book, like its author, in a category by itself.
About Will Smith
Will Smith is an actor, producer, and musician, two-time Academy Award nominee, Grammy Award and NAACP Image Award winner who has enjoyed a diverse career encompassing films, television, and multi-platinum records. Launching his media company in 2019, Westbrook Inc., Smith pushes for projects that focus on empowering artists to tell stories that connect with a global audience.
Starting as a rapper in 1985, Smith is best known for his acting roles in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” I AM LEGEND, the BAD BOYS and MEN IN BLACK film series, HITCH and most recently, ALADDIN. His vast filmography also includes transformative portrayals of true-life icons in ALI and THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, both which garnered him Academy Award nominations, as well as his role in CONCUSSION. Smith recently produced and starred in 2020’s biggest box office hit, BAD BOYS FOR LIFE, in addition to producing and appearing in HBO Max’s emotional “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” 30th Anniversary Reunion special. He also executive produced and hosted Netflix’s six-part docuseries “Amend: The Fight for America,” which explores the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution with an inclusive array of contemporary thought-leaders and experts.
Next up, Smith will produce and star as Richard Williams, the infamous father of American icons Venus and Serena Williams, in Warner Brothers’ KING RICHARD, which will release on November 19th. Smith is in production on Apple’s upcoming scripted action thriller EMANCIPATION, directed by Antoine Fuqua, and produced by his Westbrook Studios.
Westbrook Inc. houses Westbrook Studios, Westbrook Media, the digital content studio, social media management, and creative brand incubator, and direct to consumer business, Good Goods. Smith and his wife also founded the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation to benefit inner-city community development, youth educational projects and underprivileged children and their families.
Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok: @WillSmith
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