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Playwright Stephen Karam accepts the Tony award for Best Play for “The Humans” onstage at the Tony Awards in New York on June 12, 2016.
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May 25 The film adaptation of Stephen Karam’s Tony Award-winning play “The Humans” should hit our screens this year.
The movie, which wrapped production in 2019, is set to come out in 2021, according to the Internet Movie Database, although an exact release date has not been announced. The story focuses on a family celebrating Thanksgiving in New York City and the tensions that arise throughout the gathering.
Marty Flynn wins State Senate special election
The race is to fill the seat in the 22nd State Senate District vacated by the retired John Blake. Author: WNEP Web Staff Updated: 11:10 PM EDT May 18, 2021
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PENNSYLVANIA, USA Marty Flynn has won a special election to fill the seat in the 22nd State Senate District vacated by the retired John Blake.
The 22nd District covers all 163 precincts in Lackawanna County, 10 in Luzerne County, and seven in Monroe County.
Democratic leaders chose State Rep. Marty Flynn as the nominee over Reps. Kyle Mullins and Bridget Malloy Kosierowski. Flynn has represented the 113th District since 2013. He defeated incumbent Dem Kevin Murphy in a close primary in 2012, then was unopposed in the general election. Flynn has never gotten less than 68% of the vote in general election races for the 113th and has run unopposed three of his five races. He is a graduate of Scranton Prep and Marywood University an
A new community college coming to Sunbury?
The Susquehanna Valley Community Education Project is partnering with Marywood University to create the 16th community college in the commonwealth. Author: Chris Keating Updated: 5:17 PM EDT May 14, 2021
SHAMOKIN DAM, Pa. Officials with the Susquehanna Valley Community Education Project gathered in Shamokin Dam to address the media about a potential new community college coming to central Pennsylvania. At the news conference, it was announced that Marywood University from the Scranton area will be partnering with the group. We believe that this community college will meet the needs of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. That was the statement I heard from the Marywood University team when we met with them, said Lenaire Ahlum of the Susquehanna Valley Community Education Project.
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The Susquehanna Valley Brass (SVB) will perform an in-person concert at the First Presbyterian Church in Clarks Summit on Friday, May 14, at 7 p.m.
The SVB is a dynamic new group comprised of five of NEPA’s premiere brass musicians. Members of the SVB can be heard performing with the NEPA Philharmonic, Scranton Brass Orchestra, Voodoo Brass Band, and the East Coast Sound Brass Quintet. They have performed all across the country with the Monumental Brass Quintet (DC), Bay Street Brass (IN), and the Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass (PA).
The ensemble entertains audiences with a selection of music from the Baroque, Renaissance, Jazz, and Early American musical traditions. A historical and engaging perspective is always present during Susquehanna Valley Brass performances. This program in particular will survey early Americana including styles found in popular songs, music of the American Armed Services, and Jazz. Members of the Susquehanna Val
The festival honors the life of Jane Jacobs, on what would have been her 105th birthday Author: Stacy Lange Updated: 7:39 PM EDT May 3, 2021
SCRANTON, Pa. A festival kicks off Tuesday in the Electric City called Observe Scranton, and it was created to honor the life of one of the most famous native Scrantonians, but not the president of the United States.
The Observe Scranton festival is inspired by iconic 20th-century city planner, journalist, and author Jane Jacobs.
Jacobs grew up in Scranton and Dunmore. Obviously, Scranton has been in national/international headlines for the past year or two, and that s wonderful, but there are other wonderful native citizens that grew up in this region and went on to change the world, said organizer Conor O Brien.