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Feb 25, 2021 LAKE PLACID This week the Lake Placid Center for the Arts will begin to feature winners of the Zoom Play Festival, a celebration of short plays written exclusively for Zoom. The showcase will be available for purchase on Vimeo beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday through March 26. Patrons can find all information and a link to the Vimeo page at www.lakeplacidarts.org/virtual-experiences/zoomfest. In August 2020, the LPCA put out a call for new plays written specifically to be performed on Zoom as an opportunity for theater artists to keep creating in the new landscape shaped by the pandemic. The showcase is a compilation of eight one-act plays: four winners and four honorable mentions selected from more than 135 submissions sent in from all over the world.
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brian todd, they are all standing by. and the chief national correspondent john king, and gloria bowler, here in our washington studios. brian, a lot of folks are anxiously awaiting the decisions on the two critically important cases. reporter: that s right, wolf. very anxiously awaiting. some people have said they re nervous, because the moment is at hand. the decision coming down in minutes. i have one same-sex couple here. molly wagner and sharon burke, students at american university. they have braved the swamp-like heat of washington, d.c., to be here. molly, why? you know, they said the decision s coming down today, and we just felt it was really important that we get here and show that this is something really important to us, and that we re here, we re not going away, and the decision impacts us directly. reporter: what about you, sharon? i m hoping the court is on the right side of history this time. i just wanted to come down here and let everyone know that that we
government cannot put validly married gay people into a separate and lesser category of rights holders. i want to go to brian todd, who s outside the supreme court right now where there are many, many same-sex couples, and straight couples, straight individual, celebrating this decision. brian, who is with you now? reporter: jake, they are certainly celebrating. i talked to these two ladies before the ruling. now i m going to talk to them after, because they were nervous before the ruling, but now they re just happy. molly wagner and sharon burke. molly, first your reaction. i don t even have words. i m just so happy, and just overwhelmed with emotion. i couldn t be more proud of my country and of the supreme court today. i m so happy to be here and be a part of it. reporter: sharon, how about you? we ll wait for prop 8. but this is a major victory for everyone in the community. reporter: all right. sharon, molly, congratulations. a little bit of chanting here, jake, as the