WRITE OUT LOUD Continues to Celebrate 2024 NEA Big Read with Community Events
Write Out Loud - an organization founded in 2007 with a commitment to inspire, challenge and entertain by reading short stories aloud for a live audience continues to celebrate the 2024 NEA BIG READ with community events. These community events celebrate the novel Circe by Madeleine Miller and Mythology by Edith Hamilton.
Write Out Loud Receives $20,000 NEA Big Read Grant
Write Out Loud has received a grant of $20,000 to host the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read in San Diego. Write Out Loud is one of 62 nonprofit organizations in the US selected to receive an NEA Big Read grant to support a community reading program.
LYSISTRATA, Aristophanes' Comedy on the Eternal Battle of the Sexes
For a two-week special event, The City Theatre Company presents the comedic satire Lysistrata. With wars raging, the distressed women of Athens take matters into their own hands, refusing to make love until there is peace. This social spoof, written in 411 BCE., is as relevant to modern concerns - and humor - of today as it was in ancient Greece.
BWW Review: THE TROJAN WOMEN at Taffety Punk Theatre Company
Riot Grrls, the all-women arm of Taffety Punk Theatre Company, made the brilliant decision to take on THE TROJAN WOMEN, a play written by Euripides and translated into English by Edith Hamilton. Although the play itself is practically as old as time, the story remains jarringly relevant in today's time. It is directed by Kelsey Mesa.
Theatre@First Presents TROJAN WOMEN, Now thru 11/22
Theatre@First wraps up its 10th anniversary season with a triumphant production of Euripides' Trojan Women, at Unity Somerville, tonight, November 14-22. J. Deschene, who directed Lysistrata for Theatre@First in 2013, brings Edith Hamilton's elegant translation to life with a stellar cast.
Theatre@First to Present TROJAN WOMEN, 11/14-22
Theatre@First wraps up its 10th anniversary season with a triumphant production of Euripides' Trojan Women, at Unity Somerville, November 14-22. J. Deschene, who directed Lysistrata for Theatre@First in 2013, brings Edith Hamilton's elegant translation to life with a stellar cast.