Events

In telling the tale of this large and complex event, this Theatreworks show focuses on the smaller stories of some of the soldiers who are caught up in it, including, Zak, a runaway slave who demands the right to fight his own fight; Will, his former best friend and “master;” Johnny, an Irish immigrant who volunteers to defend his new home; and Jackie, a girl who becomes a drummer boy. Appropriate for Grades 3 – 9

C.K. Williams has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth Lilly Prize. He currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

With a career that spans over three decades, John Hammond is one of a handful of white blues musicians who was on the scene at the beginning of the first blues renaissance of the mid-’60s.