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 […]
Find out more »#Read4Refugees is an annual, worldwide read-in to support refugees. By staying in to read a book on a night of their choice between October 1st and 15th and donating what they would have spent on a night out, readers around the world will help bring critical resources to vulnerable refugees in Africa and around the […]
Find out more »Costanza Ansaldo, a half-Italian and half-American translator, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband, an eminent writer, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy times in her youth, and there she meets, first, Andrew Weissman, an acutely sensitive seventeen-year-old, […]
Find out more »Want to learn more about ArtWeek and speak directly to a team member, or even other members of Massachusetts’s creative community? Attend one of our Spark Sessions! After a brief “ArtWeek 101” introduction, we will open the discussion for dialogue and questions for the ArtWeek Team. Join us briefly for part, or stay for the […]
Find out more »Karen Chase New Work In Progress: Oedipus in the Backseat and Patrick Donnelly Little Known Operas The lush, lexically gorgeous and emotionally complex poems of Little-Known Operas guide us through the terrain of love, sex, same-sex marriage, illness, death, and art. “MARIA CALLAS WENT TO HAMBURG” from Little-Known Operas In 1959 when Maria Callas went […]
Find out more »Are you a poet who’s looking to deepen your craft? Ever wanted to try your hand at poetry? Join local poet, editor, and literary coach Sara Letourneau for this 4-week workshop series that’s designed to inspire and energize you to write new poems, learn new techniques, and see your work in a new light. Each […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store and Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics welcome renowned legal scholar MARTHA MINOW—former dean of Harvard Law School—for a discussion of her latest book, When Should Law Forgive?. About When Should Law Forgive? Crimes and violations of the law require punishment, and our legal system is set up to punish, but […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes NAOMI KLEIN—award-winning, internationally bestselling author and journalist—for a discussion of her latest book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. She will be joined by JULIET B. SCHOR, Boston College professor and former Guggenheim fellow. This event is co-sponsored by 350 Mass, Cambridge Forum, The Intercept, The Leap, and […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.