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The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged
<p>Three nimble actors take on all of Austen’s beloved heroines, friends, and love interests—and her incisive social satire—in just 80 minutes. Emma, Elinor, Mr. Darcy, and more.</p><p>Written by Jessica Bedford, Kathryn MacMillan, Charlotte Northeast, and Meghan Winch.</p><p>Featuring Jo Jordan, Jessica Link, and Aaron Stonerook. Directed by Rachel Korach Howell. Featuring designs by Chris Rich, Karlē Meyers, and Stephen Polchert. A fast and funny literary romp for the City of Literature.</p><p>Thursday, May 12 @ 7:30pm<br>Saturday, May 14 @ 2:00pm<br>Saturday, May 14 @ 7:30pm <br>Sunday, May 15 @ 2:00pm</p><p>Thursday, May 19 @ 7:30pm<br>Saturday, May 21 @ 2:00pm<br>Saturday, May 21 @ 7:30pm <br>Sunday, May 22 @ 2:00pm</p><p>Thursday, May 26 @ 7:30pm<br>Saturday, May 28 @ 2:00pm<br>Saturday, May 28 @ 7:30pm<br>Sunday, May 29 @ 2:00pm</p> 2022-05-22 20:50:00 -0500
5/22/227:30 p.m.Riverside TheatreIowa City -
The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged
<p>Three nimble actors take on all of Austen’s beloved heroines, friends, and love interests—and her incisive social satire—in just 80 minutes. Emma, Elinor, Mr. Darcy, and more.</p><p>Written by Jessica Bedford, Kathryn MacMillan, Charlotte Northeast, and Meghan Winch.</p><p>Featuring Jo Jordan, Jessica Link, and Aaron Stonerook. Directed by Rachel Korach Howell. Featuring designs by Chris Rich, Karlē Meyers, and Stephen Polchert. A fast and funny literary romp for the City of Literature.</p><p>Thursday, May 12 @ 7:30pm<br>Saturday, May 14 @ 2:00pm<br>Saturday, May 14 @ 7:30pm <br>Sunday, May 15 @ 2:00pm</p><p>Thursday, May 19 @ 7:30pm<br>Saturday, May 21 @ 2:00pm<br>Saturday, May 21 @ 7:30pm <br>Sunday, May 22 @ 2:00pm</p><p>Thursday, May 26 @ 7:30pm<br>Saturday, May 28 @ 2:00pm<br>Saturday, May 28 @ 7:30pm<br>Sunday, May 29 @ 2:00pm</p> 2022-05-26 20:50:00 -0500
5/26/227:30 p.m.Riverside TheatreIowa City -
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The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged
<p>Three nimble actors take on all of Austen’s beloved heroines, friends, and love interests—and her incisive social satire—in just 80 minutes. Emma, Elinor, Mr. Darcy, and more.</p><p>Written by Jessica Bedford, Kathryn MacMillan, Charlotte Northeast, and Meghan Winch.</p><p>Featuring Jo Jordan, Jessica Link, and Aaron Stonerook. Directed by Rachel Korach Howell. Featuring designs by Chris Rich, Karlē Meyers, and Stephen Polchert. A fast and funny literary romp for the City of Literature.</p><p>Thursday, May 12 @ 7:30pm<br>Saturday, May 14 @ 2:00pm<br>Saturday, May 14 @ 7:30pm <br>Sunday, May 15 @ 2:00pm</p><p>Thursday, May 19 @ 7:30pm<br>Saturday, May 21 @ 2:00pm<br>Saturday, May 21 @ 7:30pm <br>Sunday, May 22 @ 2:00pm</p><p>Thursday, May 26 @ 7:30pm<br>Saturday, May 28 @ 2:00pm<br>Saturday, May 28 @ 7:30pm<br>Sunday, May 29 @ 2:00pm</p> 2022-05-28 20:50:00 -0500
5/28/227:30 p.m.Riverside TheatreIowa City -
The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged
<p>Three nimble actors take on all of Austen’s beloved heroines, friends, and love interests—and her incisive social satire—in just 80 minutes. Emma, Elinor, Mr. Darcy, and more.</p><p>Written by Jessica Bedford, Kathryn MacMillan, Charlotte Northeast, and Meghan Winch.</p><p>Featuring Jo Jordan, Jessica Link, and Aaron Stonerook. Directed by Rachel Korach Howell. Featuring designs by Chris Rich, Karlē Meyers, and Stephen Polchert. A fast and funny literary romp for the City of Literature.</p><p>Thursday, May 12 @ 7:30pm<br>Saturday, May 14 @ 2:00pm<br>Saturday, May 14 @ 7:30pm <br>Sunday, May 15 @ 2:00pm</p><p>Thursday, May 19 @ 7:30pm<br>Saturday, May 21 @ 2:00pm<br>Saturday, May 21 @ 7:30pm <br>Sunday, May 22 @ 2:00pm</p><p>Thursday, May 26 @ 7:30pm<br>Saturday, May 28 @ 2:00pm<br>Saturday, May 28 @ 7:30pm<br>Sunday, May 29 @ 2:00pm</p> 2022-05-29 20:50:00 -0500
5/29/227:30 p.m.Riverside TheatreIowa City -
Afternoon Tea with M.B. Henry
<p>Join us for a conversation with Cedar Rapids-native author M.B. Henry on Sunday, July 17 at 1 PM.</p><p>About M.B. Henry<br>M.B. Henry is a lifelong student of history, especially military history, having visited battlefields and historical sites all over the world. She has a degree in Cinema and Comparative Literature, and has served as a historical consultant and researcher on films and television in Los Angeles. She lives with her husband and two cats in Indiana.</p><p>About All the Lights Above Us<br>Across Europe, on what history will call D-Day, five unforgettable women from all walks of life strive to survive the most terrifying night of their lives.</p><p>Told in alternating viewpoints, this unforgettable debut is perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Pam Jenoff.</p><p>June 6, 1944. Allied forces hit the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Among the countless lives shattered are those of five spirited women with starkly different lives. As the war reaches its tipping point, each of the women fight for the survival of themselves, their countries, and their way of life during one of the most pivotal days in history.</p><p>American expatriate Mildred, better known as Axis Sally, has a thriving career as a Nazi radio propagandist, but her conscience haunts her. Meanwhile, across the English Channel, young medical volunteer Theda is pushed to her limit as shiploads of casualties dock in Portsmouth. Closer to the front, intrepid Flora aids the French resistance, while she seeks out her vanished parents. Iron-willed Emilia has climbed the Gestapo ranks, but she is now bent on betraying them. Finally, dignified Adelaide’s faith is shaken when she is forced to quarter German soldiers.</p><p>Now, during the most perilous twenty-four hours of their lives, all five women must summon courage they never knew they had, as they confront the physical dangers of war, alongside treacherous family secrets, heartbreak, and the ability to trust themselves. For these women, their inner strength is their only hope. But is it enough? How far can one person go for the things they believe in?</p> 2022-04-13 14:00:00 -0500
7/17/221:00 p.m.Craft'dCedar Rapids -
Art Lovers Book Club: Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Durer and How Art Imagines Our World by Philip Hoare
<p>In 1520, Albrecht Dürer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale.<br>Dürer was the first artist to truly employ the power of reproduction. He reinvented the way people looked at, and understood, art. He painted signs and wonders; comets, devils, horses, nudes, dogs, and blades of grass so accurately that even today they seem hyper-real, utterly modern images. Most startling and most modern of all, he painted himself, at every stage of his life.<br><em>Albert and the Whale</em> explores the work of this remarkable man through a personal lens.</p> 2022-03-17 17:00:00 -0500
6/16/224:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids -
Art Lovers Book Club: Back to Japan: The Life and Art of Master Kimono Painter Kunihiko Moriguchi by Marc Petitjean
<p>As a young decorative arts student in the 1960s, Moriguchi rubbed shoulders with the cultural elite of Paris and befriended Balthus, who would profoundly influence his artistic career. Discouraged by Balthus from pursuing design in Europe, he returned to Japan to take up his father’s vocation. Once back in this world of tradition he had tried to escape, Moriguchi contemporized the craft of Yūzen (resist dyeing) through his innovative use of abstraction in patterns.<br><br>With a documentarian’s keen eye, Petitjean retraces Moriguchi’s remarkable life, from his childhood during the turbulent 1940s and 50s marked by war, to his prime as an artist with works exhibited in the most prestigious museums in the world.</p> 2022-03-17 17:00:00 -0500
9/15/224:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids -
Art Lovers Book Club: The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley
<p>In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews—pillars of an embattled community—invested their fortunes in France’s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country’s army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps.<br><br>In this rich, evocative account, James McAuley explores the central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the<em> fin-de-siècle</em>. Weaving together narratives of various figures, some familiar from the works of Marcel Proust and the diaries of Jules and Edmond Goncourt—the Camondos, the Rothschilds, the Ephrussis, the Cahens d'Anvers—McAuley shows how Jewish art collectors contended with a powerful strain of anti-Semitism: they were often accused of “invading” France’s cultural patrimony. The collections these families left behind—many ultimately donated to the French state—were their response, tragic attempts to celebrate a nation that later betrayed them.</p> 2022-03-17 17:00:00 -0500
10/20/224:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids