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Past Events

Conference: American Literature Association 23rd Annual Conference

May 24, 2012 until May 27, 2012, Hyatt Regency, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA

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Join us for the 23rd Annual American Literature Association Conference!

To download the conference program or for information on procedures, paper proposals, fees, and other topics, please visit the 2012 conference page.

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Performance: The Matchmaker

May 12, 2012 until October 27, 2012, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Ontario N5A 6V2

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With his eye ever fixed on the bottom line, wealthy merchant Horace Vandergelder can’t see the value of love – even as he searches for a wife. His matchmaker, Dolly Levi, however, is making her own plans for him, while his clerks pursue their hearts’ desires in the big city. Directed by Chris Abraham.

For more details, please visit The Matchmaker performance page on the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s website.

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Performance: The Skin of Our Teeth

April 19, 2012 until May 5, 2012, Roselle Center for the Arts, Newark, DE

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Wilder’s groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning satire is a wild and raucous tour of humanity through the ages. George Antrobus (inventor of the wheel), his devoted family, and his saucy maid find themselves facing one spectacular disaster after another – climate change, war, flood, famine, and economic collapse. From wooly mammoths to an Atlantic City beauty contest to the aftermath of global war, extinction and survival race to the finish line in a joyous, inspiring, and spectacular celebration of humanity’s resilience. Wildly entertaining, this American classic is shockingly contemporary and more pertinent than ever before. Directed by Sanford Robbins.

For more details, please visit The Skin of Our Teeth performance page on REP’s website.

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Festival: 7th Annual Thornton Wilder Short Play Festival

March 23, 2012 until March 31, 2012, Words Players Theatre Rochester, MN

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For students, life-long learners, professional academics, and the newly curious. The world’s only known festival dedicated to producing all of the short plays of American playwright Thornton Wilder. A goal that will be accomplished this year: 39 short plays produced.

What you can expect at this year’s Festival:

• Performances of seven short plays: Entertaining, family friendly and more every day than academic.
• An opportunity to thumb through galley proofs of a yet-to-be released Wilder biography — the first major academic biography of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
• A fun cafe-style atmosphere in a newly renovated theatre space in downtown Rochester.

To purchase tickets and for further details, please visit the Thornton Wilder Short Play Festival page on the Words Players Theatre website.

Complete Festival Schedule:
Friday, March 23
Thornton Wilder Short Play Festival
7PM – 9PM

Saturday, March 24
Thornton Wilder Short Play Festival Continued
7PM – 9PM

Friday, March 30
Thornton Wilder Short Play Festival Continued
7PM – 9PM

Saturday, March 31
Thornton Wilder Symposium
9AM – 4PM
Thornton Wilder Short Play Festival Continued
7PM – 9PM

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Lecture: Thornton Wilder’s Arizona Days

March 8, 2012, Elsie S. Hogan Community Library, Willcox, AZ

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Wilder, in 1962, weary of being a public intellectual, settled in Douglas, AZ, where he read voluminously, wrote incessantly, and hit the bars nocturnally. Eighteen months later, rejuvenated by his relative anonymity, he returned east, his literary skills re-energized. The presentation explores Wilder‘s Arizona sojourn, showing its importance in his literary life and America’s literature. This unknown slice of Arizona’s recent past reveals the crossroads of a small border town with the American literary establishment. Drawn from Miller’s July 2009 Smithsonian piece. For more info, e-mail Tom Miller at tlmolinero@msn.com.

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Lecture: Thornton Wilder’s Arizona Days

February 28, 2012, Copper Queen Library, Bisbee, AZ

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Wilder, in 1962, weary of being a public intellectual, settled in Douglas, AZ, where he read voluminously, wrote incessantly, and hit the bars nocturnally. Eighteen months later, rejuvenated by his relative anonymity, he returned east, his literary skills re-energized. The presentation explores Wilder‘s Arizona sojourn, showing its importance in his literary life and America’s literature. This unknown slice of Arizona’s recent past reveals the crossroads of a small border town with the American literary establishment. Drawn from Miller’s July 2009 Smithsonian piece. For more info, e-mail Tom Miller at tlmolinero@msn.com.

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