Julia Ward Howe News

Metropolitan Playhouse, Obie Award winner for exploring American culture through theater, hosts The TranscendentalFest, the theater's tenth Living Literature Festival inspired by the lives and works of American writers. Performances take place daily from January 11 to 24, 2016 at the Metropolitan Playhouse. The opening reception will be held January 11 at 9:00 pm.

Based on the promotion of their new duo show, Revolution (a four-show run that ends at the Duplex tonight at 6:30), you might have gotten the impression that Dawn Derow and Kathleen France would be engaging in a zany bit of fluff poking fun at American military politics in a Bob Hope USO Show kinda way. But while there is definitely some frivolity and even some biting satire along the way, the women also convey a serious sense of patriotism and reverence for those who have fought and died in America's many wars. In fact, a portion of the audience cover charge is being donated to the Wounded Warrior Project (www.woundedwarriourproject.org).

Ron Cordes, a Unitarian Universalist in Bedford, MA, has created a six-DVD series tracing UU history from early Christianity through the present day. Newcomers and lifelong UUs will learn something from this wonderful resource, described in UU World as one of the most important video resources for teaching and learning UU history.

Two of New England's most venerable cultural institutions, the Handel and Haydn Society (H&H) and the Museum of African American History (MAAH), team up for the Jubilee Concert on New Year's Eve, an afternoon of music and storytelling observing the 151st anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, a Civil War order granting freedom to enslaved men, women, and children living in states in rebellion.

ASKING FOR IT, a one-woman show by Joanna Rush, will play on Thursday, March 29 at 8:30 pm at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center as part of the Target® Free Thursdays program to mark Women's History Month. Admission is free.

The Michael O'Neal Summer Singers have announced a special summer event through the Sundays on the Square program, outdoors at the Historic Roswell Square. The Chamber Singers celebrate summer with a diverse choral concert including popular folk songs, lively hymns and hits from musical theatre. The program is part of the City of Roswell's Sundays on the Square series, and takes place at the Historic Roswell Square at the intersection of Marietta Highway 120 and South Atlanta Street in Roswell, Georgia 30075. Admission is free.

The Michael O'Neal Summer Singers have announced a special summer event through the Sundays on the Square program, outdoors at the Historic Roswell Square. The Chamber Singers celebrate summer with a diverse choral concert including popular folk songs, lively hymns and hits from musical theatre. The program is part of the City of Roswell's Sundays on the Square series, and takes place at the Historic Roswell Square at the intersection of Marietta Highway 120 and South Atlanta Street in Roswell, Georgia 30075. Admission is free.

The Michael O'Neal Summer Singers have announced a special summer event through the Sundays on the Square program, outdoors at the Historic Roswell Square. The Chamber Singers celebrate summer with a diverse choral concert including popular folk songs, lively hymns and hits from musical theatre. The program is part of the City of Roswell's Sundays on the Square series, and takes place at the Historic Roswell Square at the intersection of Marietta Highway 120 and South Atlanta Street in Roswell, Georgia 30075. Admission is free.

The Michael O'Neal Summer Singers have announced a special summer event through the Sundays on the Square program, outdoors at the Historic Roswell Square. The Chamber Singers celebrate summer with a diverse choral concert including popular folk songs, lively hymns and hits from musical theatre. The program is part of the City of Roswell's Sundays on the Square series, and takes place at the Historic Roswell Square at the intersection of Marietta Highway 120 and South Atlanta Street in Roswell, Georgia 30075. Admission is free.