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Arts & Culture
Signature Event
Friday, May 27, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The son of migrant farm workers in California, Juan Felipe Herrera traces his love of poetry to childhood and singing songs about...
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
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
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 14, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Learn to duel – safely, of course. The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival offers an interactive presentation of stage combat te...
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...
Signature Event
Friday, May 6, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Students from Community School #1 perform poems and songs from the album Free to Be…You and Me, compiled by Marlo Th...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 1, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists read from Peter Brown’s story of individuality and self-expression, revolving around an all-too-dignified...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 24, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special programming surrounding o...