John Freeman

PEN America convenes an Emergency World Voices Congress to address the invasion of Ukraine and the role of the writer in times of turmoil and brutality, and Ukrainian author and PEN Ukraine President Andrey Kurkov delivers the 2022 Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, on May 13.

Goodwill Cultural Ambassador Ronald Rand, during his 20th year touring around the world to 25 countries will perform at the Theatre of Changes' 17th International Festival of Making Theater in his celebrated solo play, LET IT BE ART! as Harold Clurman, 'the Elder Statesman of the American Theatre,' on August 2nd at Theatre of Change, 19a Tritus Septemuriou Street in Athens, Greece.

The SALA Festival is over for another year and finished with 8195 artists participating in over 668 exhibitions across Adelaide, throughout regional SA and online.

Due to popular demand, Molière in the Park has extended the run of its critically acclaimed live stream recording of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Wilbur's translation of Molière's TARTUFFE, directed by Molière in the Park's Founding Artistic Director Lucie Tiberghien, through Sunday, July 12 on their YouTube channel.

Four-time Tony Award-nominee and Obie Award-winner Raúl E. Esparza and Emmy and SAG Award-winner Samira Wiley will star in a live stream presentation of Richard Wilbur's translation of Molière's TARTUFFE.

PEN America will present the 2020 PEN World Voices Festival: These Truths, celebrating literature's deep illumination of cultural, historical, political, and emotional truths in a complex moment when 'truth' is destabilized by the constant undermining of a common set of facts, 'objective' histories are being interrogated and upended, and radical candor about lived experiences is fueling powerful social movements. Today, PEN America announced highlights of the festival, which brings together fiction and nonfiction writers, poets, translators, thinkers, and activists for an array of conversations, interviews, readings, and musical performances on this infinitely prismatic subject.

New Amsterdam Singers (NAS), led by Music Director Clara Longstreth, will present Through the Seasons, featuring Robert Paterson's 'I Go Among Trees' - a World Premiere commissioned by NAS in honor of its 50th anniversary. The three-movement work by the New York-based award-winning composer is written for chorus and marimba on texts by Wendell Berry, May Sarton, and John Freeman; Makoto Nakura is the marimba soloist. The concert will be performed twice: Friday, March 20, 2020, at 8:00 pm at Broadway Presbyterian Church, Broadway at 114th Street, and Sunday, March 22, 2020, at 4:00 pm at The Theater of St. Jean Baptiste, 184 East 76th St.

Victory Gardens Theater Artistic Director Chay Yew, Executive Director Erica Daniels and Director of New Play Development Skyler Gray announce the lineup for the 11th Anniversary IGNITION Festival of New Plays, including The Tasters by Meghan Brown; The Gradient by Steph Del Rosso; [hieroglyph] by Erika Dickerson-Despenza; #NEWSLAVES by Keelay Gipson; Reckoning: Furies from a New Queer Nation by Geraldine Inoa; and They Could Give No Name by Exal Iraheta. The 2019 Festival runs August 2 -4, 2019 at Victory Gardens Theater, located at 2433 N Lincoln Avenue.

AmerIcon Monroe, in conjunction with Robo & Bash Productions and Cryptic Entertainment, proudly presents the timeless comedy, Bus Stop, by William Inge. The play, directed by Vanessa Waters, is taking place at the Avery Schreiber Playhouse in North Hollywood. The play opens February 8, 2019, and will run Friday through Sunday for three weekends. Showtime on Fridays and Saturdays is at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm. The play will close February 24, 2019.

With 60+ Events Across New York City, the United States' Leading International Literary Festival, Curated by Chip Rolley, Turns Its Global Lens on Its Home Country

First performed in London in 1989 at the Piccadilly Theatre (with stars including the inimitable Brian Blessed), the musical version of Metropolis (by Joe Brooks and Dusty Hughes) has been revived for a short Off West End run at Ye Olde Rose and Crown in Walthamstow.

All Star Productions has announced the cast for METROPOLIS. The cast includes Rob Heron as Steven, Miiya Alexandra as Maria / Futura, Gareth James as Freeman, Kitty Whitelaw as Warner, Michael Levi as George, Alex Ely as Jeremiah, Marc Mackinnon as Groat, with Annabel Edwards, Kieran Wynne, Tami Stone, Michael Larcombe, Laura Hyde, Mikey Wooster, Natalie Jayne Hall, Tom Blackmore, Freya Tilly, and Shannon Kavanagh in the Ensemble.

Continuing their commitment to producing rarely produced works, All Star Prodcutions are thrilled to announce the staging of the first London revival of METROPOLIS.

The celebratory 15th season of Pen Parentis Literary Salons closes with a spectacular lineup of emerging authors at the glamorous Andaz Wall Street in Lower Manhattan.

On Tuesday, March 21, the Onassis Cultural Center New York will kick off a dynamic, cross-disciplinary spring season of public programs, presented in conjunction with the major new exhibition A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC - 200 AD.

After finding that the inaugural Springfest sparked joy across Chicago, the Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) has revealed its full line-up for its second annual Springfest, Stuff.

Symphony Space, New York's "cultural town square" on the Upper West Side, is proud to announce its 38th season of innovative programming, running from September 2016 to June 2017.

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 31, 2015 /PRNewswire/ Phil Blair, Executive Officer of Manpower-West and author of Job Won! 500,000 Hires and Counting, has added 'best-selling author' to his professional credits by becoming a #1 best-selling author on Amazon in two major employment-related categories job hunting and vocational guidance.

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ Despite encouraging signs that the nation's job market has turned around, an air of uncertainty still lingers for those who have yet to land that coveted full-time job or landed a better job that fits their skill level and experience.

On Tuesday, October 28, 2014, the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) will present its 13th annual An Enduring Vision benefit at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The Foundation welcomes back award-winning CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who will host the event for a seventh year.