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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Thursday, May 26, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Take Shakespeare’s mistaken-identity farce, The Comedy of Errors. Give it a modern, hip-hop flavor. And you get The Bomb-itty of...
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
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The late 19th- and early 20th-century millionaire businessman Henry Clay Folger and his wife Emily spent a lifetime tracking down one of literature’s...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
In the fall of 1918, more than a million U.S. soldiers faced a better trained and more experienced German army on the Western Front of World War I....
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
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 ti...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
John Hay and Samuel Clemens grew up some 50 miles apart along the Mississippi River and became acquainted early in their respective careers – Hay a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Alexander von Humboldt was, in his time, one of the most interesting men in the world.
The 19th-century explorer and naturalist climbed volcanoes...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 1, 2016
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists read from Peter Brown’s story of individuality and self-expression, revolving around an all-too-dignified tig...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Winston Churchill wasn’t overtly religious. But he subscribed to divine destiny, telling a classmate at age 16 that he foresaw a day when “London w...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Stephen Locke and Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg find beauty in bad weather – in thunderstorms and tornadoes, wall clouds...