This Pulitzer Prize-winning play, described by the New York Times as “one of the most persuasive works of pure escapism in Broadway history,” features a delightfully eccentric, free-spirited family. The play, an unprecedented success when it initially opened in 1936, enjoyed a hit Broadway revival in 2014.

An offering of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts Festival.

Guided tours of the exhibit, “Undisputed,” will be offered Fridays at 3:30 p.m. before each home football fame, beginning Sept. 4.

Join us for a tour of our annual exhibit from the UGA Athletic Association archives, this year focusing on the 1980 National Championship season.

The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband – on an 1861 comedy play, L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac.  The operetta has enjoyed extraordinary international success since its 1905 premiere in Vienna. [from Wikipedia

Harrison studied poetry with New York School figureheads Kenneth Koch and David Shapiro. He is the author of five full-length books of poetry—"Into Daylight," published in 2014 by Tupelo Press as the winner of the Dorset Prize, "Incomplete Knowledge" (2006), which was runner-up for the Poets’ Prize, "Feeding the Fire" (2001), "Signs of Arrival" (1996), and "The Singing Underneath" (1988), selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series—as well as of "The Names of Things: New and Selected Poems," published in 2006 by Waywiser Press in the U.K.

Thursday Twilight Tour: Highlights from the Permanent Collection

6 – 7 p.m. TOURS led by docents.

Part of UGA's 2015 Spotlight on the Arts.

5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries

The Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries will host its  biannual reception celebrating new exhibitions on display. The event will include light refreshments, guided tours, and gallery activities. The reception is free and open to the public. Reservations are not needed, but please register at: lnessel@uga.edu or call 706.542.3879. For more information about the Special Collections Libraries call 706.542.7123 or visit www.libs.uga.edu/sc

The second annual “4 minutes, 33 seconds: Spotlight on Scholarship” competition will feature graduate students in the arts sharing their research with the community. The competition is inspired by John Cage’s 1952 composition 4’33,” which challenged audiences to reconsider the relationship between artistic practice and philosophy. Students will have four minutes, 33 seconds to explain their research, and two prizes of $433 will be awarded during the competition, fittingly scheduled for 4:33 p.m. on Nov. 5 in the Balcony Theatre at the Fine Arts Building.

Students will perform throughout the day at Tate Plaza. Sponsored by the UGA Arts Council

Student Spotlight Main Event

10 a.m.-4 p.m., Tate Plaza

The book sale features slightly damaged or shopworn books in a range of subjects including nature writing, poetry, fiction, literary criticism, and history will be available, as well as general interest titles about Georgia and the South. Open to individuals with a valid UGA ID. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Thursday and Friday.

"For the Sake of the Children: The Letters Between Otto Frank and Nathan Straus, Jr.," Joan Adler, author, historian and executive director of the Straus Historical Society.

Adler is a historian, researcher, author and public speaker. She is the author of "For the Sake of the Children: The Letters Between Otto Frank and Nathan Straus, Jr." and compiler/editor of several other books about the German-Jewish families she researches.