Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre has announced the full slate of shows in its 2022-23 season, which kicks off in the fall. Four plays make up the lineup at the Pershing Square Signature Center, including an Off-Broadway-premiere play and three world premieres by acclaimed writers.
Jun. 13—Prize-winning African-American poets Jericho Brown and Michael Kleber-Diggs will read separately this week from their widely-praised work. Brown, the first Black, gay poet to win the Pulitzer Prize, will be at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist, 511 Groveland Ave., Mpls., at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 19, in a hybrid event offering in-person and virtual attendance. The location and date of .
By Suleika Jaouad
Random House: 368 pages, $28
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“Write as if you were dying,” Annie Dillard advised in her 1989 book “The Writing Life.” It’s a piece of wisdom Suleika Jaouad has taken to heart. Diagnosed at 22 with myeloid leukemia, she spent four years in the country of the sick and dying before returning to the landscape of the well. But is there really a divide between health and illness? “We are all terminal patients on this earth,” Jaouad reminds us. “[T]he mystery is not ‘if’ but ‘when’ death appears in the plotline.”