Arts & Sciences

It’s election season once again, but the political fun continues even after votes are cast. On Thursday, Nov. 9, the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will host “Playwrights and Politics: Two Acts on the National and International Scene.” The symposium will examine the nature of political theatre and the impact of the arts on national and international politics.

Set in pre-revolutionary Russia, the play tells the story of Tevye, a hardworking milkman who must find suitable husbands for his three eldest daughters.

Speakers will include William H. Gass, Richard “Red” Watson, Margarita Boyers and Robert Boyers.

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The Department of English in Arts & Sciences will host a memorial reading in honor of Charles Newman, an acclaimed writer and longtime faculty member, who passed away last March at the age of 67. Speakers will include William H. Gass, Richard “Red” Watson, Margarita Boyers and Robert Boyers.

The fourth week of October will feature an actor, a graphic novelist, and a mathematician.

Eric Woolsey*Fiddler on the Roof*The Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences will present Fiddler on the Roof, one of Broadway’s most beloved musicals, in Edison Theatre Oct. 27 to Nov. 5. Set in pre-revolutionary Russia, the play tells the story of Tevye, a hardworking milkman who must find suitable husbands for his three eldest daughters. Yet the girls are strong-willed and, breaking with custom, prefer to make their own matches…

The program includes several of his most popular chamber works, including “Cello Sonata in D minor, op. 40”; “Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 57”; and two scenes from the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

Millhauser is the author of 10 novels and story collections, including Martin Dressler, The Tale of an American Dreamer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1997.

William Jay Smith is writing a book about his friendship with classmate Tennessee Williams, the great playwright.