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ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Huntington Avenue Theatre

September 20, 2019 | 12:00 am - October 20, 2019 | 12:00 am
Huntington Avenue Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115 United States
$25

Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning Best Play arrives in a marvelously funny, spectacularly beautiful new production. This modern-day classic tragicomedy imagines the lives of two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. As the story unfolds, they voice their confusion about the play that’s being performed without them, untangling bigger questions about life and death, reality […]

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3:00 pm

Katrina Forrester presents IN THE SHADOW OF JUSTICE: POSTWAR LIBERALISM AND THE REMAKING OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY at Harvard Book Store

September 27, 2019 | 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Free

Harvard Book Store and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics welcome KATRINA FORRESTER—Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University—for a discussion of her new book, In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy. She will be joined in conversation by BRANDON M. TERRY, Assistant Professor of African […]

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7:00 pm

Maaza Mengiste presents THE SHADOW KING at Harvard Book Store

September 27, 2019 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Free

Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed author, Fulbright scholar, and professor MAAZA MENGISTE for a discussion of her latest novel, The Shadow King. About The Shadow King With the threat of Mussolini’s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster’s household. Kidane, an […]

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Reading: Caroline Maguire WHY WILL NO ONE PLAY WITH ME?: THE PLAY BETTER PLAN TO HELP CHILDREN OF ALL AGES MAKE FRIENDS AND THRIVE at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

September 27, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Free

In-demand parenting expert and former Hallowell Center coach Caroline Maguire has worked with thousands of families dealing with chronic social dilemmas, ranging from shyness to aggression to ADHD. In this groundbreaking book, she shares her decade-in-the-making protocol–The Play Better Plan– to help parents coach children to connect with others and make friends. With compassion and […]

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