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Signature Event
Sunday, April 17, 2016
2:00pm
Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016
6:30pm
Until the late 18th century, Shakespeare’s works were known in America only on the page – and not the stage. Felicia Hardison Londré,...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016
6:30pm
Take Shakespeare’s mistaken-identity farce, The Comedy of Errors. Give it a modern, hip-hop flavor. And you get The Bomb-itty of...
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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...
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
6:30pm
The acclaimed 2010 film Black Swan offers a strange and terrifying interpretation of the dance world, revolving around a bal...
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
6:30pm
Cote Smith sets his debut novel in the prison town of Leavenworth, Kansas, drawing from his experiences growing up there....
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Monday, March 14, 2016
6:30pm
For two years, Harvard University social sciences professor Matthew Desmond embedded himself in two poor neighborhoods in Milwaukee,...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016
6:30pm
Cassandra Clare, creator of the internationally best-selling Mortal Instruments series, now towers as an author of young-adult fantas...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache of...
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Thursday, March 24, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Democrats have occupied the White House for 15 of the past 23 years, and Thomas Frank pointedly asks: What do they have to show for i...