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BETTE SILER is an actor, director and playwright. Her plays have been produced at the Edinburgh Fringe, New Jersey Repertory, NYC’s Estrogenius Festival, Vermont Playwrights, NYC’s Emerging Artists and Westchester Collaborative Theatre. Staged readings of Bette’s work have been performed at the McCarter Theater Centre and the George Street Playhouse. Bette has directed in New York, Scotland and at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. She has performed at Arena Stage, the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, California Actors’ Theater and in Off-Broadway showcases in NYC.

Everyone is welcome to this free event. Donations are suggested. Please RSVP.

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As the Nuremberg trials are set to begin, a U.S. Army psychiatrist gets locked in a dramatic psychological showdown with accused Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring.
Release date – November 7, 2025 (USA)
Director – James Vanderbilt
Producers – James Vanderbilt, Richard Saperstein, Brad Fischer · See more
Running time2h 28m
Story by Jack El-Hai

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Join us at the shop for a discussion of Kill the Beast by debut author Serra Swift.

To participate in our meeting, you must purchase the novel at Big Red Books, and you will receive a 15% discount.

Everyone is welcome, whether you’ve finished the book or not.

Feel free to bring a snack or beverage.

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Seth S. Tannenbaum is an assistant professor of sport studies at Manhattanville University where he teaches Baseball and American Society, Spectators and Fans, Urban Sport, and American Sport History. He earned a PhD in American History at Temple University and a BA in History at Vassar College. Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites: Democracy and Divisionat the Twentieth Century Ballpark is his first book. His other scholarship has been published in The Journal of African American History, The Journal of Sport History, Nine: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture, the Washington Post, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Explore challenges and opportunities in strengthening poems. Please bring a poem you are working on that could benefit from further examination.

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Composer Richard Rogers and lyracist Lorenz Hart worked together on 28 musicals and more than 500 songs, many of which are legendary classics of the Great American Songbook, among them My Funny Valentine, The Lady is a Tramp, Manhattan, and the song of the film’s title, Blue Moon. Blue Moon takes place in 1943 on opening night of the smash hit, Oklahoma!,  Rogers’ and his new writing partner, Oscar Hammerstein’s first musical. Hart has left the theater after watching only the first half, retiring to theater district hang out, Sardi’s, to contemplate his life while waiting for the show to end and Rogers to appear for his congratulations. Directed by Richard Linklatter, with Ethan Hawke, Bobby Cannavale, Andew Scott, Margaret Qualley, 2025, USA, 100 minutes.

Discussion with the novelist and screenwriter, Robert Kaplow, who is an Oscar nominee for this film.

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