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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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Music from the Thoreau Family Library
The Old South Meeting House and the Boston Literary District invite you to experience the intersection of politics, music, and Thoreau family life in this dynamic performance by the ENDICOTT CHAMBER PLAYERS. Specialists in performing on historical instruments, the Players will perform songs, marches, and dances from a collection of printed music and manuscripts that […]
Find out more »Author/environmentalist BILL McKIBBEN at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes celebrated author and environmentalist BILL McKIBBEN—founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement—for a discussion of his debut novel, Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance. This event is co-sponsored by 350 Mass. Tickets: $5 for only entrance into the event itself; $23.75 for the book & entrance into the event. Tickets […]
Find out more »Music from the Thoreau Family Library at the Old South Meeting House
Join us to experience the intersection of politics, music, and Thoreau family life in this dynamic performance by the ENDICOTT CHAMBER PLAYERS, including the abolitionist song, The Captive’s Lament." Specialists in performing on historical instruments, the Players will perform songs, marches, and dances from a collection of printed music and manuscripts that Henry’s sister Sophia […]
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.