Paige Grant News

It is mere coincidence that Anaïs Mitchell’s remarkable, Tony Award-winning Hadestown, now being given a solid production at the Kennedy Center’s Opera House, debuted on Broadway just before our twenty-month plague began, but it fits. Mitchell’s story is at bottom a moral call to arms, which cleverly mines the saddest tale in all of mythology and marries it to a still older myth – one which was designed to explain the seasons.

The National Tour of the Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's THE KING AND I brings its parade of adorable children, a pair of star-crossed lovers, an imperial ruler, and a strong-willed, warm-hearted educator to the Boston Opera House through April 23rd. One of the grande dames of the 1950s, THE KING AND I retains its exalted place in the R & H pantheon, thanks to the artistry of Director Bartlett Sher, a songbird by the name of Laura Michelle Kelly, and a flawed King of Siam for our times, Jose Llana.

In its first 50 years, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded more than $5 billion in grants to recipients in every state and U.S. jurisdiction, the only arts funder in the nation to do so. Today, the NEA announced awards totaling more than $27.6 million in its first funding round of fiscal year 2016, including an Art Works award of $15,000 to The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis toward the production of Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing this spring.

Saturday, January 25 1pm • Sharon Rhutasel • Living by Ear Kids share part of their lives with a wayward teacher. More » 3pm • Armistead Maupin • The Days of Anna Madrigal Suspenseful, comical & profoundly moving. 92 year old Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her 'logical family' in San Francisco. More »

Saturday, January 18 1pm • Carol Smith • From the Heart Albuquerque poet reads from her work. More » 3pm • Maxine Davenport • Murder Times Two Mystery with a female detective, set in Ada, Oklahoma, during the 1960s. More »