Ursula Werner reads from The Good at Heart, a novel based on her great grandfather's reluctant participation in Hitler's cabinet from 1933 to 1945. "Powerfully portrays the inner struggles of ordinary people moved to do extraordinary things in the name of family, God, and country."--Booklist Based on the author’s discoveries about her great-grandfather, this stunning […]
Showings at 1 & 7pm For one evening, the Bolshoi takes on a new challenge with audacity in Hans Van Manen's Frank Bridge's Variations, Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot's Short Time Together and Alexei Ratmansky's Russian Seasons. This encounter between some of the best dancers in the world and masters of contemporary choreography results in […]
Showings at 1 & 7pm For one evening, the Bolshoi takes on a new challenge with audacity in Hans Van Manen's Frank Bridge's Variations, Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot's Short Time Together and Alexei Ratmansky's Russian Seasons. This encounter between some of the best dancers in the world and masters of contemporary choreography results in […]
On April 4, 2017, over 180 art house movie theatres across the country in 165 cities and in 43 states, plus five locations in Canada, one in England, and one in Swedenftower will be participating collectively in a NATIONAL EVENT DAY screening of the 80's movie 1984 starring John Hurt, who sadly died last month. […]
Launch party for her new picture book, Escargot, a charming, funny, interactive picture book that is ideal for picky eaters and animal lovers alike. Dashka Slater has written several picture books, including Baby Shoes and The Sea Serpent and Me, which was a Junior Library Guild Selection. She is also an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, The New York Times […]
Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare's classic comedy of mistaken identity. A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and […]
Reading from new collections, Body, in Good Light and This Sweet Haphazard, respectively. About Erin Rodoni’s Body, in Good Light: Throughout this debut collection, Rodoni distills experience for its essence, rendered in language that is fierce, tender, penetrating in its precision, and astonishing in its turns of phrase. Whether describing “turncoat cells” of cancer, the half-smile scar […]
Edie Meidav in Conversation with Larry Bensky discussing Meidav's story collection, Kingdom of the Young. "Ambitious, original, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the cronicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino."--Carolyn Cooke, author of Daughters of the Revolution The dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure, work, love, absolution, better chances elsewhere. In a […]
Antonio Pappano conducts an impressive cast led by Ermonela Jaho in Puccini's deeply poignant opera. Puccini's Madama Butterfly is one of the most popular of all operas, with ravishing music and a heartbreaking story of a loving geisha deserted by a callous American husband. Much-loved soprano Ermonela Jaho sings the title role for the first […]
Joan Frank reads from her new novel, All the News I Need, winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction admiistered by UMass Press. "A deep dive into the heart of friendship, of memory and regret, of aging and loss... redemptive and wholly satisfying surprises...Joan Frank has gifted us with two unforgettable characters in a novel […]
"An artist's interest in gardening is to produce pictures without brushes." Anna Lea Merritt Following the smash hit Painting the Modern Garden: movement followed its own path which over a thirty-year Monet to Matisse from Season 3 comes a new film based on the hugely popular exhibition 'The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden […]
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, The Woman in Black), Joshua McGuire (The Hour) and David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Witness for the Prosecution) star in Tom Stoppard's brilliantly funny situation comedy, captured live from The Old Vic theatre in London. Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take […]
Jacqueline Winspear reads from her latest Maisie Dobbs adventure, In This Grave Hour. "A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks […]
Bernie Peyton, Robert Lang, and Linda Mihara - Local contributors to New Expressions in Origami: Masterworks from 25 Leading Paper Artists present a beautiful overview of the most outstanding paper craft being made in the world today.
Come out for a weekend of fun: Click here for Full List of Sales We have so many wonderful things planned for the Block Party: May 6th-7th Sales (1) - check out all the amazing sales and promotions at our stores Free Muppet Movie at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood at noon on Saturday Musicians 1-5 Saturday & Sunday […]
W. Kamau Bell (OFFSITE TICKETED EVENT @ STARLINE SOCIAL CLUB) presents The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6′ 4″, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian. Tickets only at Eventbrite: $40, includes book. A very limited number of tickets available without book. […]