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02/12/2013 Press Release: Prime Stage TheatreProduces the Regional Premiere
of “The Great American Novel” The Great Gatsby – Prime Stage Theatre continues its 16th season with the regional premiere of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby at the New Hazlett Theater from March 1 through March 10, 2013.
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11/06/2012
Review: Prime Stage's 'Fahrenheit 451' warns against the dangers of distractions: Careful, or you might get burned - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Sharon Ebersoni) - Fahrenheit 451" is Ray Bradbury's cautionary tale about a futuristic society
that has given up on individual thought. Books are banned as villainous and,
along with scholars and intellectuals, are as endangered as the so-called
witches of 17th-century Salem. The general population is overrun by a steady
stream of mind-numbing media output, guaranteed to clog the brain without
jogging an original thought...
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09/28/2012 Press
Release: Prime Stage Theatre Launches 2012-2013 Season of
Creative Premieres with Fahrenheit 451 –
Prime Stage Theatre launches its 16th season with the regional premiere
of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (November 2 through November 11,
2012). The stage adaptation of this legendary sci-fi masterpiece will
be directed by Justin Fortunato.
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06/13/2012 Press Release:
Teens 4 Change Grant Award -
Pittsburgh, PA – Prime Stage Theatre has been awarded one of
the
first Teens 4 Change (T4C) grants in the amount of $2,000. The grant
will support the non-profit’s continued work in educating teens,
parents and teachers about the warning signs of teen dating violence.
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05/15/2012
Review: Prime Stage's 'Wrinkle' captures book's quirky characters - Tribune Review (Kellie B Gormly) It seems that most adults read author
Madeleine
L'Engle's beloved novel "A Wrinkle in Time" when they were in seventh
grade. It's one of those stories that sticks with you, even decades
later.
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04/27/2012 Press
Release: Prime Stage Theatre marks the 50th anniversary of
Madeleine L’Engel’s A
Wrinkle in Time with an original stage adaptation.
-
Fifty years ago, Madeleine L’Engle introduced the world to the
unforgettable characters Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, and their
friend Calvin O’Keefe.
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02/13/2012 Press
Release: Prime Stage Theatre presents The Elephant Man by
Bernard Pomerance - A True Life Story of An Extraordinary
Individual By
Katie Mueller - Prime Stage Theatre - known for staging
adaptations of classic literature - takes on Bernard Pomerance’s
Victorian English drama The
Elephant Man.
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02/10/2012 Press
Release: Prime Stage Theatre Brings the Issue of Teen Dating
Violence Center Stage - Demi Brae Cuccia, a
Pittsburgh area high school student, was murdered in August 2007 by her
ex-boyfriend just one day after celebrating her 16th birthday. She was
a victim of teen dating violence. There were warning signs, but neither
Demi, her friends, nor her family were aware of them. Unfortunately,
this is not uncommon. Prime Stage Theatre wants to help change that
with their production of Everything is Fine, which addresses this
urgent, but silent, epidemic.
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01/18/2012 Press
Release: Award-Winning Artist Shares Memoir of Growing up in Pittsburgh
Monday, February 27, 2012 @ 7:30 pm - The
second of Prime Stage Theatre's new reading series, Dark Night, will
feature the newly published memoir by award-winning multi-media artist
Shirley Barasch, For
Professional Purposes: An Artistic Journey. The reading,
reception, and book signing will take place on Monday, February 27,
2012 at 7:30 pm at the New Hazlett Theater.
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01/13/2012 Press
Release: Prime Stage Theatre presentsThe Elephant Man -
A True Life Story of an
Extraordinary Individual - Prime Stage Theatre brings the
profound and touching story of John Merrick to life in its production
of The Elephant Man,
Bernard Pomerance’s award-winning play, opening
February 24 and running through March 4 at the New Hazlett Theater.
Richard Keitel directs.
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11/09/2011
Review: The Scarlet
Letter - Pittsburgh City Paper (Michele
Pilecki)
Ready
for some literary time-traveling? In its new production of The Scarlet
Letter, Prime Stage Theatre brings us a 21st-century view of a
19th-century best-selling portrayal of 17th-century New England. Think
of it as two lenses: Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical interpretation of
what was even then (1850) a distant past, and a modern prism on those
eras from the collaboration at Prime Stage.
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11/04/2011 Pop
City Article - The
Scarlet Letter adapted by Carol Gilligan
Whether
it was on your required reading list in high school, rocked your
neighborhood book group, or you prefer Roland Joffé's 1995 film
adaptation starring Demi Moore, you're not going to want to miss Prime
Stage Theatre's riveting production of The Scarlet Letter. Kicking off
Prime Stage's 15th season, the adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's
magnum opus runs Nov. 4-13 at the New Hazlett Theater.
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09/27/2011 Press Release - 2011 Prime Stage Annual Gala Fundraiser (pdf)
09/15/2011 Press Release
- Futures without Violence is pleased to endorse and support Everything
is Fine, a program created by the Prime Stage Teen
Advisory Board to raise awareness of teen dating violence among
teens, teachers, parents and families.
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08/31/2011 Press Release - 2011-2012 Professional Development Workshops (pdf)
Review: Antigone - Marguerite
McCrory
Review: The Glass Menagerie - Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Review: The Glass Menagerie - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Review: The Glass Menagerie - Pittsburgh City Paper (Ted Hoover)
Review: The Glass Menagerie - Pittsburgh City Paper (Bill
O'Driscoll)
11/03/2010 -
Prime Stage's 'Sleepy
Hollow' aims to
rattle all of the audiences' senses By Kellie B. Gormly, PITTSBURGH
TRIBUNE-REVIEW - Prime Stage Theatre's "The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow" brings a classic,
eloquently
written ghost story from the page onto the stage in a production that
requires viewers to use their imaginations
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10/20/2010 -
MAHS English students take new approach By Patrick
Cloonan, MCKEESPORT
DAILY NEWS - It doesn't take long to read "The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow" by 19th century
American author Washington Irving. It's slightly less than 12,000
words, the equivalent of about 20 full-length newspaper articles.
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10/13/2010 - New
Partnership with Bookseller Brings Free
Readings to the Community - Prime Stage Theatre, in
partnership with Joseph-Beth Booksellers,will hold a free reading from
the book, The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow, at the bookstore located at
Southside
Works on October 16, 2010 from Noon to 2:00 pm.
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02/15/2010
- Hampton teacher earns first Prime Stage Theatre 'Inspiring' award -
By Alice T. Carter, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW - Hampton
Middle School teacher Deborah Van Maele will be honored Feb. 26 as the
first recipient of Prime Stage
Theatre's "Inspiring Teachers - Inspiring Readers" award.
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