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Baayork Lee: Bring It ON!

Baayork Lee: Bring It ON!

League of Professional Theatre Women’s Oral History series Monday, February 12th at The Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.  Honoring…

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Testimonial #48: Bryan Austermann, NYC Actor

Testimonial #48: Bryan Austermann, NYC Actor

How has your life been indelibly touched by a teacher who utilized the arts for whatever reason and acknowledge how they were instrumental in breaking the mold to allow you…

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Testimonial #48: Bryan Austermann, NYC Actor

Testimonial #48: Bryan Austermann, NYC Actor

How has your life been indelibly touched by a teacher who utilized the arts for whatever reason and acknowledge how they were instrumental in breaking the mold to allow you…

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National Arts in Education Week

National Arts in Education Week

House Resolution 275 designates the week beginning with the second Sunday in September as Watch the video and join us in the celebration! Celebrate. Host a celebration in your community,…

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A Conversation with …Marcina Zaccaria, Playwright/Director VILLAGE, MY HOME

A Conversation with …Marcina Zaccaria, Playwright/Director VILLAGE, MY HOME

Being a playwright, a critic, and a theater director has given me the opportunity to work with such smart, creative people, who every day search for deeper meaning.  The world…

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Extraordinary Women Telling an Extraordinary Story: SHADOWS ROUND THE MOON

Extraordinary Women Telling an Extraordinary Story: SHADOWS ROUND THE MOON

"This is a story of incredible love and extraordinary loss. The play is a chance to introduce an amazing woman to the world since Mary Shelley has not received the…

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Leveraging Theatre for Social Good

Leveraging Theatre for Social Good

Before it was fashionable to be an advocate or activist, my acquaintance Jessie Fahay invited me to join her very new theatre group. She had a vision to pair advocacy…

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Our Mother’s Brief Affair: LI Premiere

Our Mother’s Brief Affair: LI Premiere

I will be performing the role of Anna Cantour in OUR MOTHER'S BRIEF AFFAIR by Richard Greenberg Studio Theatre will be the first Long Island theatre to present this off-Broadway…

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Finding Home: Migration, Exile, and Belonging

Finding Home: Migration, Exile, and Belonging

Lady Liberty's Worst Day Ever:  J.Dolan Byrnes (Vinnie) and Frances McGarry (Lady Liberty)     BY MONICA BAUER On the last day of the run of the “three plays against Islamophobia”,…

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Arts as a solution – let’s start a movement!

Arts as a solution – let’s start a movement!

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Young Women in the Theatre and Media

Young Women in the Theatre and Media

The League of Professional Theatre Women invite you to another... NETWORKING EVENT Connect, Collaborate, and Consolidate Join your colleagues, expand your networks, bring a potential new member! Tuesday, October 25,…

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Presidential Proclamation — National Arts and Humanities Month, 2016

Presidential Proclamation — National Arts and Humanities Month, 2016

This month, we acknowledge all those who have proudly and passionately dedicated their lives to these diverse, beautiful, and often challenging forms of expression. In our increasingly global economy, we…

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Off-Broadway Review: ‘The Lady Liberty Theater Festival’ at Urban Stages

Off-Broadway Review: ‘The Lady Liberty Theater Festival’ at Urban Stages

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Lady Liberty’s Worst Day Ever: Art Imitating Life? Life Imitating Art?

Lady Liberty’s Worst Day Ever: Art Imitating Life? Life Imitating Art?

Art Imitating Life? Life Imitating Art?  LADY LIBERTY'S WORST DAY EVER, by Monica Bauer.  Lady Liberty played by MOI who's told by her agent, Vinnie, played by J. Dolan Byrnes…

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Lady Liberty Theater Festival 2016

Lady Liberty Theater Festival 2016

Theatre Educates:  New Festival Dedicated to Fighting Islamophobia The Lady Liberty Theater Festival presents a trio of exciting immigration short plays aimed at curing the disease of Islamophobia in America, tied…

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Continuing the Conversation with. . . Marisa Vitali: Part II

Continuing the Conversation with. . . Marisa Vitali: Part II

 Marisa Vitali returns home to Northport, LI to show the premier screening of her movie, GRACE at the John W. Engeman Theater.  To raise awareness of the plight of recovering…

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Former Northport teacher impacts students decade after retiring

Former Northport teacher impacts students decade after retiring

Updated June 18, 2016 10:18 AM By Joe Diglio  joe.diglio@newsday.com The biggest piece of advice Frances McGarry gave students over the course of her 30-year teaching career -- take risks…

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Memorial Day 2016

Memorial Day 2016

 

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