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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Signature Event
Saturday, July 30, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Jane Austen remains famous today for Pride and Prejudice and other novels in which she reflects on the life of the British land gentry at the end o...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Many Americans see life in Cuba in black and white terms, as either a David-vs.-Goliath story of survival over nearly 50 years or constant oppressi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but to some, the identity of William Shakespeare is not positively decided.
They ha...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 7, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Derek Cressman has fought for more than 20 years to remove big money from politics, among other things seeking reversal of Citizens U...
Signature Event
Monday, June 27, 2016
1:30pm
In Person
Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 16, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Erik Didriksen, a New York musician and Tumblr poet featured in Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, and the A.V. Club, has cleverly reimagined more tha...
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
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
When her daughter was born nearly four months premature, Deanna Fei confronted a shattering question: Had she delivered a child or...
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...