news staff graphic/dayin chen Show your Irish pride at the 104th St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston. The parade begins at 1 p.m. on Sunday, March 21 at the Broadway T station. The three-hour parade will feature marching bands, pipe bands and floats. Call (617) 268-7955 for details.
March 18 Thursday The Council for Univer-sity Programs (CUP) presents Ice-T in a lecture on racism, discrimination and the recent cancellation of Springfest. An open forum will follow the lecture that begins at 7 p.m. in Blackman Auditorium, Ell Hall. This event is free. Tickets are available in the NU Box Office, two tickets available per student ID and are first come, first served. For more information, check out www.cup.neu.edu or call ext. 4336.
The Huntington Theatre Company will be holding its first-ever “Breaking Gro-und Festival.” Events incl-ude readings of four new plays by writers commissioned through the Stanford Calderwood Fund for New American Plays and a reading of a new musical. “The Breaking Ground Festival” runs from March 18 to March 21. Readings are free and open to the public, with a suggested donation of $10. For reservations, call the Huntington Box Office at (617) 266-0800.
March 19 Friday “Comix 101: An Even-ing with Art Spiegelman,” a lecture with slides featuring one of the New Yorker’s cover artists and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Art Spiegelman, will be in Blackman Theatre, Ell Hall. The lecture begins at 8 p.m. General admission tickets are $15 and $8 for Northeastern students. Tick-ets are available through the NU Box Office. For more information or for tickets, call (617) 373-2247.
March 21 Sunday The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum will be holding a public forum with Sean Hemingway, grandson of Ernest Hemingway, who will discuss his grandfather’s writings on war. The event begins at 2 p.m. and goes to 3:30 p.m. and is at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston. All forums are free and open to the public. For reservations or more information, call (617) 514-1643.
March 22 Monday Lambda Kappa Sigma and Sigma Phi Epsilon present “Denim Drive.” Come donate old jeans at 7 p.m. in 435 Curry Student Center. All proceeds benefit Boston Health Care for the Home-less Program. For more information, e-mail nulks @hotmail.com.
Upcoming Northeastern University’s Department of Theatre will present “Dr. Caligari and All the Rest,” a new play adapted for the stage by Dmitry Troyanovsky and Gabe Geltzer. The show will run from March 24 to March 27 and March 31 to April 3. Performances will be at The Studio Theatre in the Curry Student Center and begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 for Wednesday and Thursday shows and $13 for Friday and Saturday shows. For more information on show times and to purchase tickets, call the NU Box Office at (617) 373-2247.
The Huntington Theatre Company unveils its first annual “College Night” on Friday, March 26 at 8 p.m. “College Night” is a special night for college students, featuring a production of “What the Butler Saw” by the Huntington Theatre Company, a sex farce by Joe Orton. For this performance only, students can buy $14 tickets in advance and attend an exclusive free reception after the show. Tickets are available at the Huntington Box Office at 264 Huntington Ave. A valid ID must be presented for each ticket purchased. Tickets are subject to availability. For more information or for tickets, call (617) 266-0800 or visit www.huntingtontheatre .org.
