Events for November 3, 2017
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ArtsEmerson: KISS
When a young, aspirational theatre troupe discovers and performs what they believe is a Syrian soap opera, they come to realize just how much they got wrong. Kiss is a brilliant play-within-a-play that shows how misunderstanding cultural cues can reveal blind spots you never knew you had. Chilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderón brings his […]
Find out more »12:00 pm
“An Angel of Light”: Thoreau’s Plea for Captain John Brown
On November 1, 1859, Thoreau delivered a speech in Boston that sparked the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator to comment that John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia “seems to have awakened the hermit of Concord.” Delivered at Tremont Temple, this speech praised Brown’s character in the aftermath of his attempt to incite an armed slave […]
Find out more »7:00 pm
200th Dire Literary Series with TILLMAN, HUDON and PAIGE
The Dire Literary Series is back with his 200th event, as always at the Out of the Blue Too Gallery, featuring TILLMAN, HUDON AND PAIGE. AARON TILLMAN is a fiction writer, Associate Professor of English at Newbury College, and Director of Newbury's Honors Program. His short story collection, Every Single Bone in My Brain, was […]
Find out more »8:00 pm
Robyn is Happy presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston
What happens when what you want for your friends isn’t what they want for themselves? Lifelong pals Robyn, Trudy and Hannah’s friendship is put to the ultimate test when Robyn falls in love with an unlikely suitor. Hannah and Trudy are convinced that Robyn has made a horrible choice that could ruin her life and […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.