In the era of populism, Christopher Dickey, World News Editor of The Daily Beast, and David Hare, British playwright renowned for his state of the nation dramas, discuss the implications of the Trump regime in the US and Brexit in the UKRead more
Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. A deeply felt meditation on race, sex, class and American culture, it describes the contradictions of her comparatively privileged upbringing among Chicago's upper-class Black community. She is alsoRead more
Dickens' own edited version of his beloved ghost story read by three professional actors in Dickensian attire. The cast is headed up by English stage actor James Dyne who has traveled the past 15 Christmas seasons with his classic characterizationRead more
Madeline Miller's Circe - an uncompromising portrait of a super-heroine who wields divine power - makes Homer pertinent to the 21st century. The novel has garnered praise equal to her previous work of fiction based on Homer's epic poem, the Orange PrizeRead more
John Avlon, author and Senior Political Analyst at CNN, Elliot Ackerman, novelist and former Marine who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Lynsey Addario, photojournalist who has documented every major conflict of her generation, discuss the desire to communicate andRead more
Join the Charleston Symphony for an evening of Chamber music at the picturesque City Gallery at Joe Riley Waterfront Park. This performance features an eclectic program featuring musicians from every section of the Charleston Symphony and explores the vast colors and styles of someRead more
