Author: Liam Otten

Aquila Theatre Company will present a new stage adaptation of H.G. Wells’ timeless morality tale The Invisible Man Oct. 29-30.

Both events are sponsored by the Department of English and The Writing Program, and are free and open to the public.

This year marks the 50th and 100th anniversaries, respectively, of the deaths of Charles Ives and Antonín Dvořák. At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, more than 20 St. Louis musicians — drawn largely from the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences — will present A Chamber Music Concert Celebrating Anniversaries of Antonín Dvořák and Charles Ives. The concert will feature songs and rarely performed works by Ives and Dvorák’s beloved “Serenade for Winds in D minor.”

Acclaimed fiction writer Tony Earley, visiting Washington University as a Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will speak on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, and will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28.

Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger, Gerhild Scholz Williams, Lynn O. McCloskey and Michelle L. Milligan are taking on new roles.

Photo by Joe AngelesThe Sam Fox Arts Center held the “Festival of the Arts” to spotlight construction of the Kemper Art Museum and Walker Hall.

The Reduced Shakespeare CompanyConfused by Confucius? Thrown by Thoreau? Wish Swift was swifter or Tennyson tinier? Not to worry! The world renowned Reduced Shakespeare Company, those “bad boys of abridgement,” will return to Edison Theatre Nov. 19 and 20 for the St. Louis premiere of All the Great Books (abridged), an action-packed literary romp through everything you should have read in high school but probably didn’t.

Acclaimed fiction writer Tony Earley, visiting Washington University as a Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will speak on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, and will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28.

Courtesy PhotoAmazones: The Women MasterDrummers of Guinea will present a pair of Edison Theatre shows Oct. 23.

Detail of the 1899 plan for Washington University’s Hilltop Campus.One hundred years ago, the eyes and ears of the world turned to St. Louis — and the newly built campus of Washington University — for the 1904 World’s Fair. On Oct. 17, Washington University will honor that centenary with a performance by the Saint Louis Wind Symphony. A Grand Concert of Band Music Performed at the 1904 World’s Fair will feature a representative sampling of music heard at the fair, including works by Philip Sousa, Peter I. Tchaikovsky, Johann Strauss, Jr., and Carl Maria von Weber.