e. e. cummings News

Just in time for the holiday season, The New York Public Library will display Charles Dickens personal prompt copy of his classic tale A Christmas Carol from December 5, 2008 through January 4, 2009 in the free display A Literary Christmas Miscellany which includes a selection of holiday material from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. The display is on view in the Humanities and Social Sciences Library's Rose Main Reading Room located at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Charles Grodin, Joanna Gleason and Chris Sarandon were among the all-star cast reading classic, contemporary and humorous love poems in 'Come Be My Love….Love Spoken Here,' which took place on Saturday February 10, 8 p.m., at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, CT.

For more information and tickets, call the box office at (203) 227-4177, or for out-of-town callers toll-free at 888-927-7529, or visit the box office at 25 Powers Court, off Route 1, Westport. Information about the Playhouse is also available at www.westportplayhouse.org.

Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason and Oscar-nominee Chris Sarandon, new residents of Fairfield, have joined previously announced local cast members Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman of Westport, and Eartha Kitt and Charles Grodin, both of Weston, to read classic, contemporary and humorous love poems in 'Come Be My Love….Love Spoken Here'

Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Eartha Kitt, Charles Grodin and others to be announced will read classic, contemporary and humorous love poems in 'Come Be My Love….Love Spoken Here,' on Saturday February, 10, 8 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse.

Jennifer Gibbs' solo play remembers the charmed life of a symbol of the free-living and sexually charged Bohemian lifestyle of the 1920's