Journalist and author Katherine Boo will discuss her award-winning book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, during a rescheduled talk and book signing at the University of Illinois Springfield Brookens Auditorium. Behind the Beautiful Forevers tells about the courageous lives of those living in an Annawadi, Mumbai slum in the shadows of luxury hotels near the Mumbai […]
Pulitzer Prize
Posted inArts & Culture
Laughter and love
Locals Johnny Molson and Mary Young star in the Lanford Wilson Pulitzer Prize-winning play Talley’s Folly at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, March 14-16 and 21-23. Set in Missouri during 1944, Matt Friedman is a Jewish accountant from St. Louis who has returned to a rural boathouse where he met Sally Talley to profuse […]
