An Evening of Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra  
Darko Tresnjak and Jeffrey Horowitz, actors to be announced
Mon, Mar 3, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
 
A Celebration of the Schools Project: Donald Antrim, Jessica Hagedorn, Nicole Krauss, Frank McCourt, Rebecca Pawel and John Edgar Wideman   Free !
Mon, Mar 17, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
 
Israel at 60: A Festival of Hebrew Literature  
Meir Shalev and Etgar Keret / Curated by David Grossman
Mon, Mar 24, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
 
Anne Carson  
Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
 
The Tenth Muse with Paul Muldoon  
Featuring Emily Fragos, Matthea Harvey and Brenda Shaughnessy
Mon, Mar 31, 2008, 8:15pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
 
Andrew Motion and Wendy Salinger  
Mon, Apr 7, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
 
Imre Kertész  
With musical performance by András Schiff Thu, Apr 17, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
 
Andrew Sean Greer and Meg Wolitzer  
Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
 
The Poets' Theatre II: Gilgamesh  
Adapted by Yusef Komunyakaa and Chad Gracia. Directed by Robert Scanlan
Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
 
PEN World Voices Festival: The Three Musketeers Reunited: Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie and Mario Vargas Llosa  
Fri, May 2, 2008, 7:30pm
 
Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest Winners  
Mon, May 5, 2008, 8:15pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
This contest is endowed by Joan L. and Dr. Julius H. Jacobson, II.
 
A Celebration of Maurice Sendak with Tony Kushner  
Mon, May 12, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
 
The Lyricist’s Voice: Paul Simon with Billy Collins  
Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 8:00pm, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street

Merchant of Venice
Event Description/Details: Seton Hall Theatre --l The Merchant of Venice -- by William Shakespeare, directed by James McGlone Perhaps Shakespeare's most controversial play... an uneasy blend of tragedy, comedy and prejudice. 

Date: 02/29/2008 @  07:30 PM  and 03/02/2008 02:00 PM
Campus Off-Campus
Location: SOPAC
Cost: Regular Admission - $15
Phone: (973) 313-6338
URL for Additional Info: artsci.shu.edu/artscouncil 

Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road

From November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008
D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall (First Floor)
Humanities and Social Sciences Library, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
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This exhibition will explore the life and career of the Beat writer and poet Jack Kerouac, including the evolution of On the Road and other works; his unique amalgam of Christian and Buddhist spirituality; and his attitude to the movement that he felt had forsaken its beatific roots and purpose. The exhibition will draw on the contents of the Jack Kerouac Archive, housed in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, and will display many of Kerouac’s unpublished manuscripts, drafts and notes for published works, diaries, journals, correspondence, drawings and paintings; his minutely detailed fantasy baseball and fantasy horse racing materials; and unpublished photographs of him and his family. Punctuating the exhibition at various points will be the objects that Kerouac treasured throughout his life, including the crutches he used after suffering a football injury while playing for Columbia University, his harmonicas, Buddhist bells, and his railroad track lantern.

At the heart of the exhibition lies On the Road itself, fifty years after its initial publication. The exhibition showcases its three extant typescript drafts, including the famous scroll, on loan from James Irsay, and many of its manuscript proto-versions. Scores of the thousand or so substantive emendations that Kerouac made in the novel’s various drafts will be on view, showing how the published text differs dramatically from the scroll’s, but also demonstrating that Kerouac’s advocacy of “spontaneous prose” and the principle of “first thought, best thought” was qualified not only by the demands of his editor, but, often, by his own critical eye, at least at this point in his writing career.