Author: Liam Otten

Courtesy photoMary Jo BangPoet Mary Jo Bang, associate professor of English in Arts & Sciences, will read from her latest collection, The Eye is Like a Strange Balloon (2004), at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, for The Writing Program Reading Series.

The world-renowned Reduced Shakespeare Company, those “bad boys of abridgement,” are returning here Nov. 19-20.

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra will perform music of Rossini, Liszt and Tchaikovsky at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14. The performance is free and open to the public and takes place in the university’s Graham Chapel, just north of the Mallinckrodt Student Center, 6445 Forsyth Blvd. For more information, call (314) 935-4841.

Courtesy photoWUSTL printmaking is the focus of the exhibition Printmaking: A Contemporary Tradition at Southern Illinois College.

British tenor Paul Elliott will join Washington University’s Kingsbury Ensemble for a concert titled “Love and War: Music of the Early Italian Baroque” at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20.

Soprano Emily Heslop, library assistant at Washington University’s Gaylord Music Library, and tenor James Harr, voice instructor in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, will present a voice recital 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 22.

Argentine tango maestro Pablo Alonso will host a week of dances and workshops Nov. 19-26 for The Tango Group at Washington University.

Courtesy photoAmy HempelAuthor Amy Hempel, widely recognized as one of America’s finest writers of short fiction, will host a colloquium on the craft of fiction at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17. In addition, Hempel will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18.

It’s a classic gender-bending satire of colonial and sexual conquest; performances will be Nov. 12-14 and 19-20 in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.

Courtesy photoWil HaygoodWil Haygood, one of the nation’s leading biographers of African American life, will read present a pair of events Nov. 9 and 10, as a part of The SmartSet Series: Where Great Writers Read, sponsored by Washington University’s Center for Humanities in Arts & Sciences.