Program Details. Page and Stage: Theater, Tradition and Culture in America unites the assets of the Aquila Theatre Company (professional company-in-residence at NYU's Center for Ancient Studies), the Urban Libraries Council (ULC), the American Philological Association (APA), and the Center for Ancient Studies at New York University in the creation of a new program that will bring 16 public libraries together with their local performing arts centers to inspire people to come together to read, see, and think about classical literature and how it continues to influence and invigorate American cultural life. The program is organized around four thematic units: 1) Know Thyself: Issues of Identity. 2) Nothing in Excess: Crossing Boundaries. 3) The Trojan War: History or Myth? 4) From Homer to Hip-Hop: Reinventing the Classics. It will consist of free public performances of Homer's Iliad by the Aquila Theatre Company at each library, and an acting master-class using Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors to demonstrate how these themes have been conveyed, and are still relevant today. There will also be scholar led reading groups, lectures and post-performance discussions.