Arts & Culture

In Richard Neutra’s Miller House, Leet traces the house from conception to realization and examines the complex relationships involved.

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.

PhillipsPoet Carl Phillips, professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected — for the second time in a relatively short literary career — as a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award in poetry. Phillips was nominated for his seventh collection of poetry, “The Rest of Love: Poems,” published in February by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The National Book Awards are considered one of the most prestigious prizes in American literature.

John StadlerMale characters played by women, female characters played by men, a dutiful matron who morphs into a vulnerable gay man, a patriarchal husband who becomes a mischievous five-year-old girl. In November, Washington University’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present an all-new production of Cloud Nine, the classic, gender-bending satire of colonial and sexual conquest by London playwright Caryl Churchill.

Edison Theatre and Dance St. Louis will present The Kansas City Ballet Nov. 12-14.Dance St. Louis and the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series will co-present three performances by the renowned Kansas City Ballet at Edison Theatre Nov. 12-14. The program will feature Six Solos, a suite of rarely seen 20th century masterpieces restored by William Whitener, the company’s artistic.

Matthea HarveyPoet Matthea Harvey, author of Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form and Sad Little Breathing Machine, will read from her work for Washington University’s Writing Program Fall Reading Series at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4.

Hugh MacDonaldMusicologist Hugh Macdonald, the Avis H. Blewett Professor of Music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will lecture on “Berlioz’s Lost Roméo et Juliette” at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5.

In his most recent book, The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, published in 2004, author and poet Peter Balakian describes the systematic deportation and murder of as many as 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks during World War I. The book was a New York Times Notable Book and a New York Times best seller.

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.