Jean Stein

JAW Festival Of New Plays Line Up Announced!

Discover the exciting lineup for the JAW Festival of New Plays, featuring innovative works from emerging playwrights.

Mark Twain House & Museum Moves Percival Everett Event to a Larger Venue

The Mark Twain House & Museum's free upcoming Trouble Begins lecture series event featuring Pulitzer Prize finalist Percival Everett on his latest novel James has been moved to a larger location due to unprecedented demand. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Inis Nua Theatre to Kick-Off 20th Anniversary Season With ONCE UPON A BRIDGE East Coast Premiere

Inis Nua Theatre Company is celebrating the company's 20th Anniversary season with the East Coast premiere of Once Upon a Bridge, written by one of Ireland’s most popular playwrights right now, Sonya Kelly.

See Literary Icon Percival Everett In Chicago For Book Launch At Studebaker Theater

Literary icon Percival Everett will be in Chicago for a book launch on March 28 at Studebaker Theater.

Performance Space New York Reveals Fall 2023 Programming For Themed Series Invisible Cultures

Performance Space New York has announced its Fall 2023 programming for Invisible Cultures, its latest series of thematically coalescing interdisciplinary work. Learn more about the full lineup here!

Meet New York Times Bestselling Authors At Segerstrom Center For The Arts For In Conversation Series

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is calling all book lovers to come and enjoy two discussions with distinguished New York Times bestselling authors this Fall as part of its In Conversation Series in Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.

World Premiere of BE HOLDING Girard College Explores Black Genius, Justice, and Joy

From May 31 to June 3, Girard College will open its doors to the public for the World Premiere of Be Holding, an original performance created by celebrated, boundary-pushing artists in collaboration with students at the historic North Philadelphia school.

Video: Tina Fey, Erika Dickerson-Despenza & More Honored at 2023 PEN America Literary Awards

Watch video of Tina Fey and more being honored at the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards!

PEN America Announces 2022 Literary Awards Finalists

PEN America today announced the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards finalists—a list of 54 authors and 11 translators recognized for exceptional works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, translation, and more published in 2021.

NWS Announces I DREAM A WORLD: THE HARLEM RENNAISANCE AND BEYOND

The New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy and Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas have announced I Dream a World: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, a multi-disciplinary, multi-tiered festival that celebrates the history and influence of this cultural movement.

VIDEO: The Crossing Releases New Film OBLIGATIONS

The Crossing today released a new 13-minute film Obligations, recorded at home by the artists in isolation. In-house sound designer Paul Vazquez worked with composer Paul Fowler to overlay over 300 sound files and text by Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier to bring to life Fowler’s chamber-like, transparent score for 24 individual voices

The Crossing Releases New Film OBLIGATIONS

Obligations completes a trilogy of pandemic-time collaborations with filmmaker Brett Snodgrass and serves as a transition from works produced in isolation to the return of live singing as The Crossing prepares for The Month of Moderns 2021, opening June 3 and running through June 19 - all in person outdoors in Pennsylvania.

MPAC and Dodge Poetry Program Present Free Virtual Poetry & Protest Reading

Mayo Performing Arts Center in collaboration with the Dodge Poetry Program presents a free virtual Arts in the Community event, a?oeI am deliberate and afraid/ of nothing: Poetry & Protest,a?? featuring Pulitzer Prize winning writer Tyehimba Jess, Tuesday, June 30 at 8 pm.

Kerry Butler, Tom Stoppard, Candice Bergen and More Attended the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Hosted by Seth Meyers

Last night, PEN America spotlighted diverse voices and bestowed $330,000 of transformative support to writers and translators at the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards, hosted by Late Night's Seth Meyers at The Town Hall, the biggest venue in the Awards program's 56-year history. The show demonstrated the evolution of the Awards in recent years from a modest auditorium event for winners and their families into a preeminent gathering of writers and publishing luminaries, stars of the stage and screen, and passionate book lovers-or, as Meyers referred to it, 'The Oscars for books.'

MPAC and Dodge Poetry Program to Present Free Event With Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Tyehimba Jess

Mayo Performing Arts Center in collaboration with the Dodge Poetry Program presents a free Arts in the Community event, 'I am deliberate and afraid/ of nothing: Poetry & Protest,' featuring Pulitzer Prize winning writer Tyehimba Jess, Thursday, March 19 at 7 pm at St. Peter's Parish Hall (across from MPAC) at the corner of Miller Rd and Maple Avenue in Morristown. This event is free.

Seth Meyers to Host 2020 PEN America Literary Awards

Today PEN America announced 'Late Night' host, comedian, and 'influential recommender of books' (The New York Times) Seth Meyers as host of the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony, honoring exceptional works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, translation, and more published in 2019.

THE JUNGLE Comes To St. Ann's Warehouse For American Premiere

St. Ann's Warehouse will present the U.S. Premiere of The Jungle, the immensely acclaimed Good Chance Theatre co-production with the National Theatre and Young Vic. Currently opening a five-month run at London's Playhouse Theatre on the West End, The Jungle comes to St. Ann's beginning December 4, 2018.

Palm Beach Poetry Festival Returns To Delray Beach In January

Susan R. Williamson, Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival (PBPF), today announced that the 14th annual festival is returning to Old School Square for six days, January 15-20, 2018.