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Jun 30, 2024 | 
mdtheatreguide.com | Michael Garvey
A group of creative minds and talented players at The NOVA Skylight Theatre presented a Pulitzer Prize winning drama,”The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds” by Paul Zindel, written in the style of Tennessee Williams. Directed by Jessie Roberts, the play takes place in 1971 in the Hunsdorfer home which was once a vegetable store.
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May 30, 2024 | 
smokesignalsnews.com | Michael Garvey
The June Lit Lunch will meet on June 7 at noon at the Village Station to discuss Willa Cather’s short story “Paul’s Case”. Ms Cather was a journalist, teacher, short story writer and a novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize In 1923 and virtually every other award a literary figure could win. She is generally considered to be one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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May 23, 2024 | 
equitablegrowth.org | Kate Bahn |Molly Kinder |Michael Garvey |Kathryn Zickuhr
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth on May 21 hosted its marquee event, “Research on Tap: Three Forces Shaping the 2024 Economy,” at the National Union Building in Washington, DC. Guests showed up for drinks, dialogue, and debate, as a panel of experts discussed how the forces of climate change, generative AI, and racial inequality are affecting the U.S. economy.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Michael Garvey
Often we are tempted to think that we control our own lives – making decisions and being responsible for the outcome, good or bad. But this leaves God out of the picture. I know all too well both the feeling of being personally responsible for my work and the consequences of trying to will good things to happen. Some years ago, I purchased two theaters in my city with the intention of starting a performing arts center for children.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
smokesignalsnews.com | Michael Garvey
Lit Lunch will meet at noon on Friday, March 1, at the Village Station to discuss “Haircut”, a short story by Ring Lardner. This is one of Lardner’s most famous short stories. Ring Lardner (1885-1933} was born in Niles, Michigan, the youngest of nine children of a prosperous family. He began his writing career as a sports reporter and writer and branched out to write witty essays and short stories about the lives and activities of ordinary people.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
sentinel.christianscience.com | Michael Garvey
Several years ago I picked up the phone to call a Christian Science practitioner for the first time. My parents had called practitioners at different times to pray for me when I was a child, but I had never reached out to one on my own. The first name I noticed in the directory in The Christian Science Journal was one I was familiar with from a radio program I had heard and found helpful years before. I felt I had been led in this time of need to ask this person to pray for me.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
mdtheatreguide.com | Michael Garvey
IT’S ALIVE! Mel Brooks’ and the late Gene Wilder’s bold slapstick film that revised Mary Shelley’s classic now has her rolling over in her grave with the musical version of “Young Frankenstein” presented by Rockville Musical Theatre (RMT). With the book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, music and lyrics by Mel Brooks and original direction and choreography by Susan Stroman, the musical follows the film’s screen adaptation with reckless abandon and then some.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
smokesignalsnews.com | Michael Garvey
Lit Lunch will meet at noon, Sept. 1, at the Village Station to discuss J. D. Salinger’s short story, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish.” This short story was first published in the New Yorker in 1948. Of course, Jerome David Salinger (1919-2010) is best known for his novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” first published in 1951. That novel became very controversial and Salinger began a long period of self-imposed isolation from the general public.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
smokesignalsnews.com | Michael Garvey
Lit Lunch will meet on July 7 at noon at the Village Station to discuss “Neighbor Rosicky” by Willa Cather. Cather was a novelist and short story author who wrote primarily about frontier life on the Great Plains.
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Apr 18, 2023 | 
mdtheatreguide.com | Michael Garvey
Crickets, the sound of nighttime with frogs, running water, and night air set the stage for a romantic interlude (sound design by Adam Ressa, Jaqueline Robertson, David Ward, and Sally Baczewski). The theater backdrop is small and intimate and set at a moment in time in a Victorian boathouse. There are frayed and faded decorative panels, netting with buoys, eroded lattice designs, and old, wood construction that is falling apart.
