The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
6:30pm
Was the Bard an old-school Jay Z?
Shakespeare’s theatre isn’t as far removed from modern-day hip hop as you might think. Both represent energetic...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 16, 2016
6:30pm
Erik Didriksen, a New York musician and Tumblr poet featured in Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, and the A.V. Club, has cleverly reimagined more than 1...
Signature Event
Monday, June 13, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Early on, the women in Shakespeare’s works tended to be simple caricatures – shrews to be tamed or sweet little things with no discernible independent...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
6:30pm
When librarians in a township in northern France began wondering late in 2014 whether their centuries-old book of Shakespeare’s works might be a rare...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
6:30pm
His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...
Signature Event
Friday, May 27, 2016
6:30pm
The son of migrant farm workers in California, Juan Felipe Herrera traces his love of poetry to childhood and singing songs about the...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Author Sean Gorman has spent 20 years navigating wrestling circuits. Evolving from an introverted, small-town kid in New England i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
6:30pm
While Shakespeare wasn’t a composer, he made his love of music apparent. “How sweet sour music is,” he wrote for instance in Richard II, “(w)hen time...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
6:30pm
More than 400 years have passed since William Shakespeare penned his last play. And yet his prose, plots, and characters are as alive today as they we...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 12, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
They’re artifacts, nearly 400 years old, and only 233 are known to have survived to today. But what else has driven collectors to pay as much as $6 mi...