Shippensburg University President Laurie Carter is a finalist for a New Jersey college’s 2021 presidential search, according to an announcement from the school’s website.
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♦ The Theater Project is seeking entries for its 19th annual Young Playwrights Competition and, to serve as an incentive of sorts, the Union-based professional theater company will re-stream four of last year’s winning plays online 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday.
The contest is open to New Jersey high school-aged residents. Deadline to enter the 2021 competition is Jan. 22. Guidelines can be found at thetheaterproject.org. Winners receive cash prizes and will have their work performed by professional actors at a Zoom awards ceremony in the spring.
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Dreams, in a sense, are virtual happenings. This year, so is Dreamcatcher.
The professional repertory theater ensemble based out of the Oakes Center in Summit is in the process of finalizing its new online season, starting with “In With the New,” an online fundraiser gala scheduled for live streaming 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10.
The live event will feature performances and an interactive trivia game.
Admission to the gala is $100, which includes a souvenir stemless wine glass filled with cookies delivered to each attendee’s home. (Additional glasses can be ordered for $10.)
Christian McBride is a man of many titles.
All of this is to say that McBride, also the host of “Jazz Night in America” on National Public Radio, had several fronts from which to view the artistic, business and personal toll of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
“NJPAC, Jazz House Kids, Jazz Museum in Harlem, Newport Jazz Festival, every organization I’ve been involved with, everybody’s running,” McBride said. “It’s both a sprint and a marathon, so everybody’s running hard and fast trying to stay out there.”
So it’s gone across our region, as folks from every walk of life have worked tirelessly to simply survive and see the next day.
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First Night Morris County, for one, was planning to celebrate its 29th year of offering an alternate “alcohol-free and substance-free celebration of arts and culture” with live events throughout downtown Morristown on New Year’s Eve.
Instead, it will aim its efforts toward the internet with “First Night Reimagined,” a virtual celebration beginning 5:40 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 31, with more than 40 streamed and on-demand programs by 21 acts.
Passes start at $15 and will provide access to all the events as they’re posted and on-demand through Jan. 3. The lineup even will include “virtual fireworks” at 9 and 11:50 p.m. tomorrow.