Arts and Entertainment
October 14, 2023
From: Regina A. Quick Center for the ArtsOpen Visions Forum | Bennett Center For Judaic Studies
Art Spiegelman
“Surviving Maus: Visualizing the Unimaginable”
Tuesday, October 17 | 7:30 p.m.
Pulitzer Prize-winning artist, illustrator and author Art Spiegelman will discuss how his works impacted the role and influence of comic books in our lives. His Maus broke boundaries for comic literature, masterfully crafting a Holocaust narrative which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, and was called “the first masterpiece in comic book history” by The New Yorker.
Theatre Fairfield
DollHouse
A Drama by Theresa Rebeck
Based on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
October 17-21
This contemporary adaptation tells the story of Nora in the tony suburbs of Connecticut, where her children are cared for by a nanny, her husband's best friend is in love with her, and her stifling marriage is crumbling. Nora also has a secret, the revelation of which irrevocably sets her life on a new course.