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Art House Productions Releases BLACK TOM ISLAND Radio Play
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Art House Productions (Meredith Burns, Executive Director) is proud to announce their first audio play, Black Tom Island by Martin Casella. This free audio play is available for download on www.arthouseproductions.org and www.youtube.com/arthouseproductions. A free virtual panel discussion about the actual event featuring historians and the play’s creative team will take place on Sunday, February 7 at 3:00pm EST on Zoom.
Based on an actual incident that took place in Jersey City in 1916, Black Tom Island explores the first documented terrorist attack on American soil through the lens of a fictionalized Slovak immigrant and his wife who may or may not be involved in the attack. Funded in part through the Hudson County Historical Partnership Grant, the original project was imagined to include in-person readings on location in Jersey City, however, to adapt the project to the current safe
My Neighbor, My Pandemic Pal
Coronavirus precautions have made it harder for people to spend time with friends and family. For some, neighbors are filling the gap.
“We started out our friendship by doing walks,” said Judy Fein, left, with her neighbor, Serga Nadler.Credit.Katherine Marks for The New York Times
By Joanne Kaufman
Published Jan. 22, 2021Updated Jan. 24, 2021
When New York went into lockdown last spring to help stem the spread of the coronavirus, it was a rough time for Judy Fein, a retired psychotherapist who lives alone in an Upper East Side co-op.
“It wasn’t just my children I couldn’t see easily during the pandemic,” Ms. Fein, 74, said. “I love to have dinner parties and I use my apartment for fund-raisers, and obviously I haven’t been able to do that. I was feeling socially deprived and I’m not very good on the phone. To me, that’s not socializing.”
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Currently Reading We want to be optimistic, but we want to be realistic; New Haven theaters aim for summer return
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The Shubert Theater on College St. in New Haven photographed on 12/11/2013.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media file photo
Two New Haven area arts organizations are watching the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, hoping to rekindle the magic of live theater this coming summer while weighing contingency plans if that proves inadvisable.
Carla Sullivan, vice president of external relations at the Shubert Theatre, and Rebecca Goodheart, producing artistic director with the Elm Shakespeare Co., said this week that the progress of the fight against the coronavirus, particularly concerning vaccination, was the main variable at hand as they considered the possibility of welcoming back audiences in the months to come.