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Signature Event
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
6:30pm
Beginning with a silent short released in 1903, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has intrigued both filmmakers and viewers. Lewis Carroll’...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
6:30pm
Time magazine theater critic Richard Zoglin grew up watching Bob Hope’s movies and followed the comedian’s rise to multim...
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Monday, May 8, 2017
6:30pm
Yaa Gyasi’s emotionally powerful Homegoing continues to resound a little more than a year after its publ...
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Thursday, November 2, 2017
6:30pm
As the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, Hollywood was struggling financially and the longtime studio system was collapsing. Into the vacuum step...
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Thursday, October 10, 2019
6:30pm
In a discussion of her new memoir Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares, Aarti Shahani walks th...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018
6:30pm
Drawing from her poignant new memoir – one of 10 nonfiction works on the longlist for a 2018 National Book Award – Sarah Smarsh discu...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
8:30pm
Henry Adams unfolds a poignant personal drama that provides new insights into two of the greatest artists of the 20th century wh...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016
6:30pm
Ernest Hemingway had one constant in the last 27 years of his life: his fishing boat Pilar. The 38-foot vessel became the writer’s sanctuary after...
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Tuesday, October 3, 2017
6:30pm
Steve Paul, a longtime writer and editor at The Kansas City Star, examines a transformative time in the life of an iconic wr...
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
6:30pm
Father and son Henry and Tom Bloch discuss the founding of H&R Block and explain how the company transitione...