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Concert
Lunchtime Organ Recitals. Murray Forbes Somerville. Adolphus Busch Hall, 12:15 p.m. Free.
Exhibitions
Busch-Reisinger Museum. Through Dec. 12. "The Sketchbooks of George Grosz." Exploring the many sides of the former dada activist through more than 80 of his previously unexhibited sketchbooks.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Through Nov. 15. "Works and Texts: Twenty-Five Proofs and Nine Screen-prints." Featuring works by Tom Phillips from Dante's Inferno.
Fogg Art Museum. Through Nov. 14: "American Painting at Mid-Century: Highlights from a Private Collection." Considers the vital moment in history of avant-garde painting in New York by artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning and Frank Stella. Through Nov. 11: "Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest." Featuring works by artists such as William Blake, Aubrey Beardsley and John Constable. Through Jan. 6: "The Art of Time: Clocks, Watches, and Other Timepieces from Harvard Collections." Includes many historically significant pieces seldom seen in public. The inner works of each timepiece will be displayed outside the case to help viewers appreciate the clockmakers' art. Through Jan. 9. "An Offbeat Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings." Featuring 20 works from the 16th-and 17th century Netherlands, all drawn from a private collection.
Sackler Museum. Through Jan. 23: "Buddhist Art: The Later Tradition." A survey of Buddhist art from the 8th through the 18th centuries, emphasizing works from China, Korea and Japan but also including ones from Nepal and Tibet. Through Nov. 21: "Rothko's Harvard Murals." Five monumental abstract murals painted for the University.
Schlesinger Library. Through Dec. 3: "Votes for Women: An Exhibition of Suffrage Posters." Original British and American suffrage movement posters.
Film
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Welfare" at 7 p.m. The nature and complexity of the welfare system is examined by sequences illustrating the various problems that constitute welfare.
Talk
What Happens After I Die: Jewish Views on Life After Death. Rabbi Rifat Sonsino, Temple Beth Shalom, Needham. Riesman Center, 74 Mt. Auburn St., 7:30 p.m.
Theatre
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Through Nov. 28. By Edward Albee. This dazzling comedy presents one of the most memorable of married couples--George and Martha--in a searing night of dangerous fun and games with their two guests, Nick and Honey, who innocently become their foil. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m. $19-$32. Call 496-8400 for tickets and more information.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood. A dark leading man, a romantic ingenue, an opium vendor, twins from Ceylon, a pious reverend and a cockney laborer. Which one of these people killed Edwin Drood? The audience decides when the cast and crew of the Gilbert and Sullivan Players presents an evening of musical murder and intrigue. Agassiz Theatre, 8 p.m. $3-$7 for students.
No Second Troy. The author of "Reproducing Georgia," has created yet another captivating drama which reconstructs the myth of Polyxena and Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess/princess cursed to never be believed. On the eve of the fall of Troy, the doomed sisters, armed with visions of a future feminist world, Diet Coke and therapists, wonder if they can somehow change their fate. Leverett Old Library, 8 p.m. $4 for students; $3 for Leverett residents.
Rites. A feminist reworking of a Bacchanalian celebration set in a public toilet in London. Loeb Ex, 7:30 and 9 p.m. Free. 12 November Friday
Benefit
Voices Louder than Words. A benefit for the homeless presented by the New England Booksellers. Sanders Theatre. Call 496-2222 for tickets and more information.
Concert
Cabot House Music Society. Pianist Jerome Rosen of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, clarinetist Julie Vaverka, and soprano Ellen Archer perform music by Brahms, Schubert and Schumann. Cabot House, 5:30 p.m. Free.
Harvard University Jazz Band. Big and small group jazz by Duke Ellington, Oliver Nelson, Ken Schaphorst, Allen Feinstein and Lester Young. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. $3 for students.
Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares. Sanders Theatre, 8:30 p.m. $19.50 plus $.50 restoration fee. Call 496-2222 for more information.
Film
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Love Wanders in the Night" at 7 p.m. Two sisters, both virgins, live in an apartment in Athens, totally isolated. Approaching their forties, they are entirely dependent upon each other, until they are visited by their cousin, a painter who has been living in Paris. "The Price of Love" at 9 p.m. The faithful depiction of an impoverished member of the gentry and a girl of humble origins being in love.
Theatre
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Through Nov. 28. See Thursday listing. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m. $19-$32. Call 496-8400 for tickets and more information.
Merlyn. The story of a young Merlyn the magician and the legendary history of fourth century Britain. The first original musical on the Mainstage in years. We have it all: love, war, sex, death, symbolic dreams and spectacular magic. Loeb Mainstage, 8 p.m. $5 for students.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood. See Thursdaylistings. Agassiz Theatre, 8 p.m. $3-$7 forstudents.
NO Second Troy. See Thursday listings.Leverett Old Library, 8 and 10 p.m. $4 forstudents; $3 for Leverett residents.
Rites. A feminist reworking of aBacchanalian celebration set in a public toilet inLondon. Loeb Ex, 7:30 and 9 p.m. Free.13 November Saturday
Banquet
Oxfam Hunger Banquet. In addition tospeakers, music and a slide show, participantsdraw lots to determine whether they will eat ameal similar to that eaten each day by one of theworld's "upper income," "middle income," or "lowerincome" peoples. Dudley House, Dining Room, 7 p.m.$5. Tickets are available by calling 495-2255.
Concert
Harvard-Radcliffe Callbacks and Din andTonics. Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m.
Film
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Theophilos" at 7 p.m. A poeticvisualization of the life and work of the famousGreek folk painter Theophilos Jadjimichael, awandering artist who searched all the time for thequintessence of the modern Greek spirit.
"Voyage to Cythera" at 9 p.m. A politicalrefugee returns to Greece almost forty years afterthe Civil War.
Talk
Feng Shui: The Art of Dwelling in theWorld. A brown-bag lunch with architects andrelated professionals. 34 Concord Ave., noon. Call868-3282 to register.
Theatre
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? SeeThursday listings. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 5 and 9p.m. $19-$32. Call 496-8400 for tickets and moreinformation.
Merlyn. See Friday listings. LoebMainstage, 2 and 8 p.m. $5 for students.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood. See Thursdaylistings. Agassiz Theatre, 2 and 8 p.m. $3-$7 forstudents.
No Second Troy. See Thursday listings.Leverett Old Library, 8 p.m. $4 for students; $3for Leverett residents.
Rites. A feminist reworking of aBacchanalian celebration set in a public toilet inLondon. Loeb Ex, 7:30 p.m. Free.14 November Sunday
Concert
Boston Philharmonic. Performs works byBeethoven and Nielsen. Sanders Theatre, 4 p.m.Call 496-2222 for more information.
Masterworks Chorale. Performs works byBrahms, Mendelssohn, and Schubert. SandersTheatre, 8 p.m. Call 496-2222 for moreinformation.
Film
Harvard-Epworth Film Series. JohnGriffith Wray's "Anna Christie." Harvard-EpworthUnited Methodist Church, 1555 Mass Ave., $3.
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Deserter" at 3 p.m. Afresco of desolate life in a small provincialtown, focused on the homosexual relationshipbetween two young men, seen through the eyes ofone of them. "Invincible Lovers" at 7 p.m.A most personal lyrical travelogue involving atwelve-year-old boy and the thirty-year-old womanwhom he meets by coincidence. "The Woman WhoDreamed" at 9 p.m. Anna continually recountsher dreams and nightmares to her husband, a lawyerso wrapped up in his work that he fails to realizethat they are drifting apart.
Theatre
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? SeeThursday listings. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 2 and 7p.m. $19-$32. Call 496-8400 for tickets and moreinformation.
Merlyn. See Friday listings. LoebMainstage, 8 p.m. $5 for students.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood. See Thursdaylistings. Agassiz Theatre, 2 and 8 p.m. $3-$7 forstudents.15 November Monday
Concert
Dudley House Music Society. Presentspianist Beth Levin performing music by Beethoven,Debussy, Brahms, Chopin and Alan Campbell. LehmanHall, Dudley House, 8 p.m. $4 for students.
Film
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Silvia and the Phantom"at 5:30 p.m. An adolescent girl who lives in anold castle fully believes herself in love with theresident ghost. "Perfumed Nightmare" at7:30 p.m. A semi-autobiographical fable by a youngPhilippino about his awakening to, and reactionagainst, American cultural colonialism. "JamesBroughton and Sidney Peterson" at 9:30 p.m.
Poetry Reading
Peter Dale Scott. Lamont Library,Farnsworth Room, 5:30 p.m. Refreshments.16 November Tuesday
Film
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Craig's Wife" at 5:30p.m. A portrait of a housewife who walls herselfup, brick by brick, in a tomb of her own making."Devil in the Flesh" at 7:30 p.m.Recollections of the young warrior who, during theArmistice celebrations in 1918, follows hisgirlfriend's funeral at a distance. "Night ofthe Hunter" at 10 p.m. Portrayal of the ordeal anunscrupulous man inflicts on two children in orderto find where their deceased father has hidden$10,000.
Poetry Reading
Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Lamont Library,Farnsworth Room, 5:30 p.m. Refreshments.
Theatre
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? SeeThursday listings. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m.$19-$32. Call 496-8400 for tickets and moreinformation.17 November Wednesday
Film
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center."Death in Venice" at 5 p.m. An artist whosesearch for purity and beauty leads him to Venicewhere his infatuation with a young boy's beautyrobs the man of his dignity. "Notorious" at7:30 p.m. Ingrid Berman plays an American agentwho travels to South America and marries a memberof a German spy ring in order to obtainintelligence about their plans. "Night of theHunter" at 10 p.m.
Talk
Norton Lecture Series. Luciano Berio.Sanders Theatre, 4:30 p.m. Call 496-2222 for moreinformation.
Theatre
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? SeeThursday listings. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m.$19-$32. Call 496-8400 for tickets and moreinformation
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