1) A Christmas Carol closes at Alliance Theatre.
2) School House to White House continues at the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum.
3) Synchronicity Performance Group’s The Snow Queen continues at Actor’s Express.
4) I’ve Loved You So Long continues at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.
5) The Sound of Music continues at Center Stage Theatre.
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As we mentioned in our “5 things to do today” round-up this morning, author Stephen L. Carter will be appearing tonight at 7 p.m. at the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum to discuss his political thriller Palace Council.
Nice timing; on my way home from work Friday I heard an interview of Carter by “All Things Considered” co-host Michelle Norris, which I’ve linked here. The Yale law professor and bestselling author (New England White) in his new novel threads a mystery through several decades and through some potent historical figures:
Carter’s plot wraps in real historical personages, including Langston Hughes, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Those figures play important roles as the plot unfolds — especially Nixon, whom Carter describes as “one of the most fascinating and enigmatic — and in many ways, scary — figures in American political history.”
“He embodied something about America, but something that’s scary about America — and that is that we love winners,” Carter says. “We don’t ask how they won unless somebody — usually a journalist — rubs our nose in it. And then we say, ‘We had no idea he was taking steroids’ or whatever it may have been. And then we turn in a fury on this person, but we don’t ask, we don’t inquire how people win. We love that they win.”
Here’s an excerpt from the novel, also courtesy NPR.
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