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The Humanities Forum explores the context and significance of the play with a leading expert. Past forums have featured historians Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals) and Beverly Morgan-Welch (Museum of African-American History), playwrights Paula Vogel and Lydia R. Diamond, Boston Globe columnists, and accomplished scholars. The Humanities Forum is presented following the 2nd Sunday matinee of the run.
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| Doris Kearns Goodwin, Paula Vogel, and Charles Haugland. |
2011-2012 Dates:
All events occur following the 2pm performance. Speakers To Be Announced.
Sunday January 29, 2012
Featuring Boston Globe columnists Meredith Goldstein ("Love Letters") and Robin Abrahams ("Miss Conduct").
Meredith Goldstein is an advice columnist and entertainment reporter for The Boston Globe. Her column "Love Letters," a daily dispatch of wisdom for the lovelorn, receives approximately one million page views every month on Boston.com. "Love Letters" appears in print every Saturday. Penguin/Plume will release her first novel, The Singles, on April 24, 2012. A story about complicated relationships, it has been optioned for film by Lime Orchard Productions, which is run by actress Jami Gertz. Ms. Goldstein was born in New Jersey, raised in Maryland, went to Syracuse University, and now lives in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Robin Abrahams writes the popular "Miss Conduct" social advice column for The Boston Globe Sunday magazine, and is the author of the book Miss Conduct's Mind Over Manngers, a guide to social life in 21st century America. She is involved in the local theatre scene as a board member for Underground Railway Theater and associate producer for Blood Rose Rising. Ms. Abrahams works as a researcher at Harvard Business School and has co-authored artivles in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Reviews, and The Wall Street Journal. A Cambridge resident with a PhD. in research psychology from Boston University, she hosts a regular segment called "Social Studies" on WGBH radio's "Emily Roony Show," appears frequently on radio and television and in print venues and maintains two blogs: robinabrahams.com and boston.com/missconduct. Her first book, Miss Conduct's Mind Over Manners, is available.
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