Robert Graves News

The State Theatre Center for the Arts welcomes The Bach Choir of Bethlehem to its stage for the first time on March 17, 7:30 PM, for A Celebration of the Choral Art.

RosettaBooks adds to its William Manchester catalog with the ebook releases of Portrait of a President and One Brief Shining Moment.

Bestselling author and medieval English historian Ian Mortimer has gathered selected articles and speeches on writing history and historical fiction into one collection titled, What Isn't History?

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) presents 'The Perfect American,' a Chicago premiere opera by American composer Philip Glass. Based on American novelist Peter Stephan Jungk's 2001 novel, 'Der Konig von Amerika,' Glass' opera imagines the last three months of Walt Disney's life.

As the world alternately mourns or celebrates the passing of one of the most dynamic and controversial leaders of the 20th century, Fidel Castro's legacy is memorialized in his famous words, History Will Absolve Me. Brian Latell, a CIA analyst who studied and tracked Castro since the 1960s, recently released his third book on Cuba and the Castro brothers, which breaks considerable ground with new material provided by declassified files.

Transferring from its critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Finborough Theatre earlier this year where it was nominated for seven OffWestEnd Awards including Best New Play, Best Male Performance, and Best Director, the world premiere production of It Is Easy To Be Dead by Neil McPherson opens at Trafalgar Studio 2, for a strictly limited four week limited season.

This play took me 28 years. 1988 marked the 70th anniversary of the end of the First World War. To commemorate it, an 'Armistice Festival' was held in London, which, like the Edinburgh Festival, included a fringe open to anyone. I am ashamed to admit that I was a rather precocious 18 year old, and called the director of the festival, Tim McHenry, to suggest to him my idea of a one-man play about war poet Wilfred Owen.

Transferring from its critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Finborough Theatre earlier this year, the world premiere production of It Is Easy To Be Dead opens at Studio 2, Trafalgar Studios, for a strictly limited four week limited season from 9 November to 3 December.

This season, Trinity Church Wall Street's music program continues to minister to New Yorkers through an unparalleled array of free, ambitious musical offerings.

Transferring from its critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Finborough Theatre earlier this year where it was nominated for seven OffWestEnd Awards including Best New Play, Best Male Performance, and Best Director, the world premiere production of It Is Easy To Be Dead by Neil McPherson opens at Trafalgar Studio 2, for a strictly limited four week limited season.

NEW YORK, NY - On the first morning Wendy E. Simmons was in North Korea the news broke: the controversial film, 'The Interview,' starring James Franco and Seth Rogen had set off an international flurry with North Korea promising 'merciless retaliation' against America. She watched the news on the hotel TV and then the screen went black. And then like Lewis Carroll's Alice, Wendy Simmons found herself dropped through to another reality.

NEW YORK, NY - There's nothing like starting a new book series. And series books are not just reserved to the romance and mystery genre. You can also find several new and popular book series in the science fiction, history and nonfiction genre.

NEW YORK, NY - James Dean's death in a car crash at age 24 immortalized him as a cultural icon of youthful rebellion and teenage angst. Truman Capote was one of the most talented fiction writers of his generation, and also one of the most troubled. Winston Churchill was one of the most inspiring wartime leaders of modern history. These three people each have a unique story brought to life in the pages of books for generations of fans to read.

NEW YORK, NY - This month, RosettaBooks, the leading independent eBook publisher, marks the three-year anniversary of opening its UK Office, led by Jonathan Ward.

NEW YORK, NY - RosettaBooks, digital publisher of Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, today announced the release of Right Away and All at Once, authored by Emmy award winning turnaround CEO Greg Brenneman.

NEW YORK, NY - Now through Feb. 14, readers can get lost in the pages of their favorite novels from bestselling romance authors Barbara Taylor Bradford, M.C. Beaton, Sharon Sala, Linda Lael Miller and Anne Hampson during RosettaBooks' Valentine's Day #RomanceReaderAtHeart eBook promotion. Each day, a select title will be set free in the Amazon Kindle store.

NEW YORK, NY - Faced with horrific choices, Warren Adler's newest thriller, Torture Man, takes the reader on a suspense-filled weekend where Wall Street kickbacks, deceit, corruption, and jihad collide on the Upper East Side of New York City.

The Undermain Theatre is proud to announce that playwright Gordon Dahlquist's play, Tomorrow Come Today, has won the prestigious international James Tait Black prize for drama.  This is Britain's oldest literary award. The world premiere of Tomorrow Come Today, directed by Katherine Owens, was developed and presented at the Undermain in the fall of 2014. Previous winners of this award include Zadie Smith, Cormac McCarthy, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Robert Graves, and D.H. Lawrence.