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Playwright Profile:
Martha Patterson has written more than 50 plays and has been published in four anthologies by the International Centre for Women Playwrights as well as in collections by JAC Publishing. Her work has been produced Off-Off-Broadway and in Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Florida, and Massachusetts, as well as in Korea and Australia. She has also had a half-hour mystery produced by Shoestring Radio Theatre in San Francisco. She earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.A. from Emerson College, both degrees in Theatre. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the International Centre for Women Playwrights, Screen Actors Guild, and Actors' Equity Association. |
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From all of us at JAC Publishing and New England Entertainment Digest to all of you...
Happy Holidays
& All the Best in 2012!!!
Sincerely,
JulieAnn Charest Govang & Joe Charest
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New Releases
A new short play for youth is next up from Martha Patterson. In In A Garden, Stevie and Tomasina learn lessons about friendship. One boy and two girls in the cast. ISBN #1-60513-132-6; JAC #2011-0037. This title is also available on Amazon.com, and will soon be available in Amazon's Kindle format.
New from Jason Matthews is a short play for two people called What Man?. In it, a teenage boy waits for a phone call that may change his life, as his foster sister attempts to prepare him for what his life may become. ISBN #1-60513-129-6; JAC #2011-0034. This title is also available on Amazon.com, as well as in Amazon's Kindle format.
John Patrick Bray brings us a play in one act called Resonator Blues. Resonator Blues is a character study of three old timers in Texas. Two are looking for more out of their golden years: one has just been accepted into college, and one has an encounter with an antique guitar which could lead him to fortune. ISBN #1-60513-002-8; JAC #2007-0019. This title is also available on Amazon.com, as well as in Amazon's Kindle format.
Barbara White Morgan has released her third selection thru JAC, this time a full-length drama. An American Tract is the story of Anne Jackson, a black single mother who moves with her two sons from a violent inner-city environment to an inherited home in Park Circle, an all white upscale planned community. Anne's salary as a nurse's assistant is, of course, inadequate to meet the steep financial requirements of a planned community where six figure incomes abound. So, some of the Park Circle residents are less than thrilled with their new neighbors who struggle to keep pace. Anne's family encounters and sometimes generates cultural shock on all sides. Her elder son, Rodney, hates what he sees as a stifling hypocritical vibe in Park Circle, and her boyfriend, Earl, thinks Anne is crazy to work around the clock to meet the required expenses of planned community living. An American Tract takes a deep look at Anne's battle to keep her family's American dream from becoming their worst nightmare. This is the tale of a determined woman and her family-those who dare to push beyond the restraints of their social and economic situations to grab the golden ring of opportunity handed to them by chance. It is also about how our life experience shapes our perspective, how we see things, and thus, how we live our lives. ISBN #1-60513-126-1; JAC #2011-0031. This title is also available on Amazon.com, and will soon be available in Amazon's Kindle format.
All JAC Publishing plays are available on our website. For more information about these or any of JAC's play selections, visit us online, or drop us an email! |
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Featured Headline PBC presents The Victorian Nutcracker |
PORTLAND, ME: Portland Ballet Company's (PBC) The Victorian Nutcracker stands out in an region filled with multiple versions of The Nutcracker for several reasons: it is set in Victorian era Portland with Portland historical figures; stage sets are designed based on popular rooms in the Victoria Mansion on Portland's Danforth Street and Portland's Deering Oaks Park; and the cast features professional dancers. The Victorian Nutcracker will be performed at Merrill Auditorium on Friday December 23 at 2:00 p.m. and 7.30 p.m.
Under the leadership of Executive and Artistic Director Eugenia O'Brien and Associate Artistic Director Nell Shipman, The Victorian Nutcracker features the following professional dancers: Matthew Begin, Vanessa Beyland,
Megan Buckley, Derek Clifford, Brett Tomas Emmons,
Deborah Grammatic, Joseph Jefferies, Jenny Johnson,
Jennifer Jones, Meghan McCoy, Ashton Plummer, John Saccone, Morgan Brown Sanborn, Caroline Shelton, Mary Stride, and Emily Avery.
Tickets are available through PortTix at www.porttix.com or 207-842-0800. Ticket prices range from $17-$47. New this year, season subscriptions to Portland Ballet are available. For more information, please contact Portland Ballet at 207-772-9671 or visit www.portlandballet.org. |
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