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Nebraska Wesleyan Theatre is showcasing unproduced music by current New York City composers. NWU audiences will be the first to hear this exciting new music including solos, duets, trios and other creative performances.

All music was workshopped between the composers and NWU students. 

Tickets are $7.50 and must be reserved in advance to establish social distance. Masks are required. No intermission.

O'Donnell Auditorium is located inside the Rogers Center for Fine Arts at 50th Street and Huntington Ave.

The William C. Kloefkorn Nebraska Writers Series begins with a co-reading by authors Ruth Williams and David Philip Mullins. 

Williams is the author of a poetry collection, Flatlands (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), and two chapbooks, Nursewifery (Jacar Press, 2019) and Conveyance (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Originally from Lincoln, Ruth currently lives in Kansas City, where she is an associate professor of English at William Jewell College and an editor for Bear Review.

Mullins is the author of The Brightest Place in the World, a novel, and Greetings from Below, a story collection that won both the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and the International Walter Scott Prize for Short Stories.  He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Cimarron Review, Ecotone, Third Coast, Fiction, Folio, Post Road, Gulf Coast, and the anthology Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest.  He has received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothy and Granville Hicks Residency in Literature from Yaddo, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, the Stanley Elkin Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, an Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature from the Nebraska Arts Council, and the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.  He is an associate professor of English at Creighton University.

The writers series will held held virtually at https://zoom.us/j/99246488170

The Visiting Writers Series continues with author Marc Rahe. 

Rahe is the author of The Smaller Half (Rescue Press, 2010), On Hours (Rescue Press, 2015), and Gravity Well (Rescue Press, 2020). His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, jubilat, MAKE Literary Magazine, PEN Poetry Series, Sixth Finch, and other literary journals. He lives in Iowa City.

This event will be held virtually via Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/96628463477