Also this issue: Anniversary Party The Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village celebrates 20 years of artistic wonders. -Robin Rice artquicks More stuff going on this week... Cities Without Citizens -Lori Hill 10-Minute Play Festival -Andrew Parks Blue Man Group The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight A.L.T.: A Memoir Looking Over The President's Shoulder -David Anthony Fox Songs For A New World -David Anthony Fox

July 24-30, 2003

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An Artist's Workshop staged reading

Theater

Is there really such a thing as universal learning? Azuka Theatre Collective will certainly pose that question this week, with a staged reading of their new project, An Artist's Workshop. Conceived by Raelle Myrick-Hodges and Alden Moore, it aims to startlingly reflect on the impact of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, an Austrian Jew who taught painting and drawing to children imprisoned with her in the Terezin labor camp during World War II. But writer and director Myrick-Hodges, a recipient of the 2000 NEA/TCG Emerging Directors award who last year assisted George C. Wolfe on the Broadway production of Topdog/Underdog, warns us not to expect "a play about the Holocaust." Instead, seen through the eyes of a group of turbulent teenagers researching history for a school project, An Artist's Workshop grapples with the idea of learning under grim circumstances, while using text and movement to capture how the students reach for Dicker-Brandeis' ideals.

An Artist’s Workshop staged reading, Thu., July 24, 8 p.m., free-will donation, Plays & Players Theater, 1714 Delancey St., 215-733-0255.

—Juliet Fletcher