Never say no to cheap Shakespeare

Professor Margaret Soltan was interviewed last night on the Lehrer News Hour about Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing. Here’s the interview: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ . Follow the link on the lower right of the page. For a full account of the adventure, see Professor Soltan’s blog University Diaries. Share on FacebookTweet

The Religion Thing, a world premiere comedy by GW playwriting professor Renee Calarco, kicks off Theater J’s “Locally Grown: Community Supported Art/From Our Own Garden” Initiative. In it, according to Theater J, Mo and Brian are a picture-perfect DC couple: they’re smart, they’re witty, and they have a beautifully remodeled kitchen. But when Mo’s best…

Writer Randall Kenan Join the English Department in welcoming Randall Kenan, the last speaker in this fall’s Jenny McKean Moore readings series. Kenan will read from his work on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the Marvin Center, Room 310.  Kenan’s fiction includes the novel A VISITATION OF SPIRITS and the short-story collection LET…

Here is the tentative schedule for the spring meetings of the GW Medieval and Early Modern Seminar (or GW MEMS, as we like to call it). The seminar is open to anyone who is interested in attending. Anyone not on our email list who would like to be may contact the seminar’s rapporteur, Lowell Duckert…

Come hear Lytton Smith deliver a talk entitled “The Unending Medieval and the Edges of Poetry” and read from his work. Details here. And, for your poetry reading pleasure, here is movement III of Smith’s sequence “Monster Theory,” from The All-Purpose Magical Tent. (I can’t get the spacing to work out so I’ve ruined the…

If you are a GW student money is probably on your mind. With the extreme tuition and high prices of DC, finding anything to do for free is a godsend. Luckily, The Shakespeare Theater Company understands this and offers a free play every fall. This year the selection is slightly ironic though since the money-obsessed…