Andy’s Summer Playhouse Producing Artistic Director Jared Mezzocchi knew how important the Wilton summer theater company was to the kids who call it home between June and August.He just had to find a different way to foster that creative energy in.
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The weekend is young, and I’m feeling partial to patty melts and Bloody Marys (with gobs of horseradish,
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Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and chihuahua imitators.
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cartoon is endlessly malleable, able to serve as a staple of children’s programming even as it questions gender norms (e.g. Bugs Bunny) or functions as a proponent of U.S. foreign policy (may I introduce you to U.S. soft power ambassador Donald Duck?).
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Paul Pescador is interested in cartoons for those reasons but for many others, too: their saturated color, their emotionality cartoons are pure melodrama and their ability to render bodies in inventive ways. “There is no more abstract version of the body than the cartoon,” says Pescador. “You shift a pencil line and you make something more curved, and you make it more feminine. It can make this remarkable c
Patellis stars as the Italian grandfather Nonno in Team Marco, which is now on Hulu.
He is a Merrillville High School Class of 1968 graduate who first appeared on stage at Merrillville High School and Ross Music Theater. He went from performing in The Music Man in a summer stock theater in Northwest Indiana to acting in a worldwide tour of West Side Story, Shear Madness at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., and William Shakespeare s Twelfth Night at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
Patellis, who still periodically returns to visit friends and family in the Region, has worked for years in theater in New York City and also appeared in television shows like Law & Order and Gotham, as well as commercials like Denny s first Super Bowl ad in 2009 in which he plays a Junior Soprano-like mob boss.
Published: 4/30/2021 11:18:06 AM
Growing up, Jared Mezzocchi heard the tall tales. The stories from before he was born, when his family lived in a house that was, well, haunted. Take it for what you will, but the accounts are real, Mezzocchi, Andy’s Summer Playhouse’s producing artistic director, said. They’ve been told so many times with such great detail there’s no way they could be anything but. And it all happened in small-town New Hampshire.
The house was big but the asking price did not match. Seemed too good to be true, one might say – and it didn’t take long for the Mezzocchi’s to figure out that was, unfortunately, the case.