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At a time when “anti-Semitism… has blighted if not ended two major careers” in fashion and show business,” the “terrific” production of Shakespeares “The Merchant of Venice” now at Pace is “oddly fitting,” according to The New York Times’s rave review. http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/theater/reviews/05merchant.html?ref=arts

Evoking the “bottom-line obsessed world of today’s Wall Street,” F. Murray Abraham’s Shylock has “a fierce hatred in his heart, but on the surface struggles to maintain a steady cool,” says the reviewer, Charles Isherwood. Abraham”s performance in many ways exceeds even that of Al Pacino, Isherwood says.

From the NY Daily News: “Enjoy a special event for a special cause – ‘An Evening with Edwidge Danticat: Haiti on My Mind – a Fundraiser’ from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. next Thursday at Pace University’s Schimmel Auditorium, 1 Pace Plaza.”

On Saturday, April 17, from 10 AM to 5 PM in the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University’s downtown Manhattan campus, approximately 25 non-Chinese contestants will try to impress Chinese judges with their knowledge of the world’s most-spoken language and the culture behind it.

“TELL YOUR FRIENDS! The Fair & Balanced Comedy Show” becomes part of 2010 Left Forum conference March 20 at Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University

Some of the nation’s most challenging advocates of urban school reform will present at Pace University’s School of Education’s 8th annual distinguished educators’ lecture series “Beyond Closing the Achievement Gap: The Next Level of Urban School Reform.”

When the curtain goes up on Shakespeare’s Globe company’s performance of Love’s Labour’s Lost on December 8 at Pace University, it will mark the company’s first New York appearance since the sold-out tour of Merry Wives of Windsor in 2005. Now directed by Dominic Dromgoole, who succeeded Mark Rylance in 2003 as Artistic Director, Love’s Labour’s Lost will be completing a two-month national tour with performances through Monday evening, December 21. Opening Night is Thursday, December 10th at 8pm. Both the 2005 and 2009 tours were produced by John Luckacovic and Eleanor Oldham of 2Luck Concepts.

“Pictures and Poetry” – Gallery opening of work by four celebrated photographers and evening of Frank O’Hara poetry at Pace University, NYC Downtown Campus, Schimmel Gallery. Book Signing and Q & A event takes place Wednesday, November 18, from 5:00 to 7:30 pm.

Ishmael Beah, author of the New York Times best seller, “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier,” will be giving a lecture at Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts theater on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 5:30p.m. The lecture will be followed by a book signing in the Schimmel Lobby.

Pace University will pay tribute to James Lipton with its prestigious Leaders in Management Award on Tuesday, April 29 in the Rainbow Room at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.

Some of the nation’s most influential advocates of urban school reform will appear beginning on February 13 in the Pace University School of Education’s sixth annual lecture series, “The Current Status of Urban School Reform: What is Real?”