Barrington Stage Company Announces Winners of the 2021 Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award
The 2021 Grand Prize winner is Daniella De Jesús for her play, Get Your Pink Hands Off Me Sucka and Give Me Back.by BWW News Desk
Barrington Stage Company has announced the winners of the 2021 Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award. The award, founded in 2018, supports new, bold voices for the American theatre and is presented to unproduced full-length works that are wholly original and not adaptations or translations of existing works.
The 2021 Grand Prize winner is Daniella De Jesús for her play, Get Your Pink Hands Off Me Sucka and Give Me Back. She will receive a cash prize of $25,000, a staged reading and a possible full production of her play at Barrington Stage Company.
Each of the finalists will present an excerpt of their work, introduced by them personally, in a collaborative online presentation, available via Video-On-Demand beginning January 15, 2020 and ending January 29, 2020. The works can be viewed for free by anyone across the country. Those viewing the works will be will be sent a survey to determine the winner; those votes, in conjunction with an adjudication committee selected by RTP, will determine the final winner of the Festival.
Over the course of the following year, RTP will develop further that winning work, in close collaboration with the chosen playwright, through a series of through a series of private workshop readings and public staged readings, as well as consultations with local artists, mentorship from theatre experts, and the provision of other creative supports. The goal is to give the play a full mainstage production in a future RTP season, possibly as early 2021.
Lowlands Group Launches “On the Go” Program Featuring Family-Style Dining and Snackable Boxes
As part of rollout, restaurant group donates 1,000 meals to frontline healthcare workers in partnership with the Medical College of Wisconsin; Free access to holiday shows from UPAF “Snackuterie™ & a Show” By Lowlands Group - Dec 16th, 2020 11:32 am
Modern Family Wisco Snack. Photo courtesy of Lowlands Group.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Dec. 16, 2020 – Lowlands Group today announced the launch of its “Lowlands On the Go” program, featuring new to-go menus planned around “family-style” and snackable dining options. With people eating and entertaining in so many different ways this year, no matter the size or format, the new menus offer something for everyone. “Family” Meals, Snackuterie™ Boxes and Beverage Bundles are available for brunch, lunch and dinner via carryout, curbside and delivery. Lowlands On the Go orders can be placed via lowlan
Finding More Than Humbug in Scrooge and Company
This year a critic (and fan) of “A Christmas Carol” finds it especially resonant as a “timely study of what it truly means to be a decent person in a community.”
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When I was younger, I drank in every version of “A Christmas Carol” I could find like they were tumblers of eggnog. Eventually, I became a connoisseur. (I maintain the supremacy of “The Muppet Christmas Carol” and “Scrooged,” which I am obligated to watch whenever they’re on TV.)
It isn’t the holly-jolliness that draws me in; I’ve always been intrigued by Scrooge’s scrooginess and the various interpretations of the three ghosts. But this year, as I indulged in a holiday buffet of different productions of “A Christmas Carol,” I found not just a story of redemption and the Christmas spirit but a study of what it truly means to be a decent person in a community. Dickens’s tale, like many of
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Milwaukee Repertory Theater presents Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol December 10 – 24, 2020. Foreground: Lee E. Ernst, Background: Dan Kazemi. Photo by Michael Brosilow.
Stick close to
Dickens. That’s the secret for every adapter of a Dickensian story like
A Christmas Carol. The more of his galloping language, almost grotesque characters and moving demands to address bad social conditions, sentimentality be damned, the better you will be. It’s even easier since so many in the audience already know the story of Scrooge and are eager to revisit it.