Events for November 4, 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 […]
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Film Screening: Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive draws on the rich palette of Poe’s evocative imagery and sharply drawn plots to tell the real story of the notorious author. The film features Tony Award-winning and Emmy-nominated actor Denis O’Hare and will air on American Masters (PBS) later this year. This program is presented in partnership with the […]
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Best-selling author DICK LEHR (Black Mass) at More Than Words
Join More Than Words on Saturday, November 4th at 2:00PM for a special event with New York Times best-selling author DICK LEHR. The co-author of Black Mass brings us a gripping YA novel inspired by a true story of a young man’s false imprisonment for murder – and those who fought to free him. […]
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Afternoon tea with author Laura Shapiro
Culinary historian LAURA SHAPIRO will read from and discuss her critically acclaimed new book What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories. It’s a diverse collection of women, including Rosa Lewis, the Cockney caterer who cooked her way up the social ladder; Eleanor Roosevelt, protector of the worst cook in White […]
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PAUL LEWIS: A is for Asteroids, Z is for Zombies: A Bedtime Book about the Coming Apocalypse
The Boston Public Library is pleased to host local author/Boston historian PAUL LEWIS. Paul Lewis’s fascination with gothic fiction and horror films prepared him to publish “The Funeral Game” in Crazy Magazine while he was in graduate school, coin the word “Frankenfood” at the dawn of the GMO era, and write A Is for Asteroids, […]
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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.