{"id":18439,"date":"2025-09-12T17:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/18439\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:59:06","slug":"sheas-launches-new-stage-and-story-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/18439\/","title":{"rendered":"Shea’s launches new Stage and Story Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shea’s Performing Arts Center launches a book club to explore themes of productions like ‘The Outsiders’ this season.<\/p>\n

BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Shea’s Performing Arts Center announces the launch of Shea’s Stage and Story Book Club, a program that invites the community to explore the themes behind the productions that will be featured on stage this season.<\/p>\n

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Shea\u2019s says the book club offers readers, whether solo, with family, or in groups, an opportunity to engage with the stories behind the shows. Throughout the season two children\u2019s books and two adult books based on themes similar to an upcoming show will be featured. \u00a0<\/p>\n

To kick off the season, Shea’s Stage and Story will be centered around the themes of belonging, identity, and found family, the foundation of the storyline behind the Tony Award-wining Broadway musical ‘The Outsiders,’ which will be on stage Sep. 17-23.<\/p>\n

Companion books for this month include:<\/p>\n

The Outsiders\u00a0by S.E. Hinton (Core Read)\u00a0When I Was the Greatest\u00a0by Jason Reynolds\u00a0Because of Winn-Dixie\u00a0by Kate DiCamillo (Children\u2019s Selection)\u00a0Save Me A Seat\u00a0by Sarah Weeks & Gita Varadarajan (Children\u2019s Selection) <\/p>\n

Readers are encouraged to explore the works, reflect on their meaning and join in conversations, in person or on social media.<\/p>\n

For more information, including Shea’s Stage and Story’s full list of featured books, visit Shea’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shea’s Performing Arts Center launches a book club to explore themes of productions like ‘The Outsiders’ this season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-18439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}