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Fire Cracker Musical ...- By Angelique Boyd
Posted: 4/25/2008
FREEDOM ON THE 3RD OF JULY is the new musical the Teens Together Summer Theatre Ensemble will present at the West Pullman Park Cultural Center. I am part of the Teens Together Playwriting Ensemble and will be in the show this summer. This is my second year as a member of the Ensemble. We are working right now on the script for the musical, editing and changing it to make sure that what we are trying to say is clear.
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Meade Presents MTW Model To National Audience
Posted: 4/25/2008
The National Community Arts Convening and Research Project took place on the campus of the Maryland Institute College of Arts (MICA) from March 16-18, 2008. The Editorial Board of the Convening and Research Project selected Meade Palidofsky?s text, ?Creating an Institutional Model for Social Change? as one of 68 papers addressing key issues in the field.
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Fabulous Females Fly Into November With Color My Wings
Posted: 4/25/2008
Illinois Youth Center playwrights are busy creating scenes and songs for the new musical Color My Wings. The original play, based on the writers? personal lives, tells the story of a girl who feels like a colorless butterfly after a family member sexually abused her.
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Newest Ambassadors Spread the MTW Story!
Posted: 4/25/2008
Esther Saks and Judy Cottle are the newest members of the MTW Ambassador Ensemble, a group dedicated to building MTW?s support base and visibility in the community. Esther and Judy plan to spread the word when they host a house party for MTW on April 30.
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MTW Alumni! Where Are You Now?
Posted: 4/25/2008
Music Theatre Workshop is about to turn 25! The company will celebrate the anniversary for eighteen months, from September 2008 to December 2009 with a series of special events. Participants, employees, volunteers, board members, supporters and friends from years past can participate in the big celebration!
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From Shy to Shining - By Caroline Donnelly
Posted: 12/12/2007
The summer of 2007 was my second as a member of the MTW Teens Together Summer Theatre Ensemble at the West Pullman Park Cultural Center (Try to say that three times in a row, fast.) I also had the privilege of serving as one of two Illinois Arts Council Youth Employment in the Arts interns.
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14 years and 364 days - By DeAngelo Horton
Posted: 12/12/2007
I believe that nothing in life happens by chance, but rather by design. That design brought me full circle14 years and 364 days after the Evanston police arrested and charged me with first-degree murder.
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What Will It Take...
Posted: 12/12/2007
A group of incarcerated young women, each of whom have suffered abuse or rape, and been discouraged from pursuing prosecutions due to their own criminal backgrounds are the playwrights of BELIEVE ME, an original one-act musical produced under the direction of Music Theatre Workshop (MTW).
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