Arts & Culture

Novelist John Brandon, a 2001 MFA graduate of Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16. Brandon is the author of Arkansas, a darkly comic novel about rural drug-distribution, which was published last spring by McSweeney’s Rectangulars imprint.

Novelist Zachary Lazar, author of “Sway” (2008) and “Aaron Approximately” (1998), will read from his work 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, for the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences. The talk — part of The Writing Program’s fall Reading Series — is free and open to the public and takes place in Duncker Hall, Room […]

Though no scores are included in his published works, William Shakespeare frequently employed music in his plays, writing poems for new songs and adopting existing ballads. Numerous characters allude to then-popular tunes while composers such as Thomas Morley and Robert Johnson also contributed original compositions. Next week, the acclaimed period music trio Ensemble Chaconne, joined […]

The acclaimed period music trio Ensemble Chaconne, joined by mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal, will present a concert of songs associated with the work of William Shakespeare at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, in Edison Theatre.

Novelist Zachary Lazar, author of “Sway” (2008) and “Aaron Approximately” (1998), will read from his work 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, for the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences.

Trey McIntyre, one of today’s most innovative and sought-after choreographers, will make his St. Louis debut with the Trey McIntyre Project at 8 p.m. Oct. 10 and Oct. 11 as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series.

Terry SmithThe phrase “modern art” has become so associated with historical movements that it has ceased to describe the many new and different forms being made today. So argues Terry Smith, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh, who will discuss “Contemporary Art and the Contemporaneity Question” at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Oct. 13.

The Saturday afternoon jazz series, a set of four free concerts in conjunction with the “Birth of Cool Exhibit” at Kemper Art Museum begins Sept. 27 with the BAG Trio.

Aliens and dinosaurs, inner space and outer space. On Oct. 3-4, L.A. Theatre Works, the nation’s foremost radio theater company, returns to Edison Theatre for special back-to-back productions of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Lost World.”

Three aspiring playwrights will present staged readings of their works Sept. 26-27 as part of the 2008 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival, sponsored by the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences.