Arts

Wilkes University will host the third annual LitFest, sponsored by the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, from June 17 to 22 as part of the program’s annual June residency. The celebration of the written word features literary readings and book signings from program alumni, faculty and guest artists. …

The Creative Center for the Arts will feature the world premiere of “A Ticket to the Circus” by playwright Bonnie Culver. Directed by Michelle Danner and starring Anne Archer, the one-woman show is based on the memoir of the same name by Norris Church Mailer, the sixth and last wife…

The Wilkes University English Department will conclude the 2023 Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series with a reading by Amy E. Earhart at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12, in the Kirby Hall Salon. Earhart is an associate professor of English and affiliated faculty of Africana Studies at Texas A&M…

Five Wilkes University theatre majors were selected among thousands of applicants to audition at the highly selective Southeastern Theatre Conference convention in Lexington, Kentucky the first week in March. Jack Flynn of Doylestown, Kasey Karoll from Stewartstown, Madeline Meier of Mobile, Alabama, Jahel Duran-Diaz of Galloway, New Jersey and Jay’na…

The Wilkes University English Department and the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series will host a reading by Ann E. Wallace at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 15, in the Karambelas Media and Communication Center, Room 135.  Ann E. Wallace, PhD, is Poet Laureate of Jersey City, New Jersey. A…

Wilkes University Theatre invites audience members to fall in love with Sweet Charity at 8 p.m. on Feb. 23, 24 and 25, and 2 p.m. on Feb. 25 and 26, at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 S. River St., Wilkes-Barre. Sweet Charity, with a book…

The Wilkes University English Department will open the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series with a reading by Zakes Mda at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15, in the Kirby Hall Salon.  Mda is a South African and American-African Appalachian writer, painter and music composer. He has published 24…

February is Black History Month, and Wilkes University is celebrating with a variety of lectures and events. Events are free and open to the public and presented by the Division of Global Cultures: History, Languages and Philosophy, the Center for Global Education & Diversity and the Sordoni Art Gallery. Art…

The Wilkes University-affiliated press will release “American Mother,” based on the true story of murdered journalist James Foley, in Jan. 2024. Etruscan Press, founded in 2001 and affiliated with Wilkes University since 2006, will release the first work of nonfiction of National Book Award winner Colum McCann. Set to be…

A series of musical concerts are scheduled at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center from Dec. 4-11, 2022. CIVIC BAND, Sunday, Dec. 4, 3 p.m. The Civic Band concert, conducted by Philip G. Simon, will perform “Scherzo for Band” by Gioachino Rossini, “Rhosymedre” by Ralph Vaughan Williams, “Riften Wed” written by…