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Monday, June 29, 2009
The Twiss Wrist Fund - Donate Now
The show must go on!
Local Triangle actress Andrea Schulz Twiss took the phrase "Break a Leg" and added her own "twist" on stage opening night during Working the musical.
While enthusiastically ogling the UPS man on stage, portrayed by Coty Cockrell, Ms. Twiss lost her footing and fell on her wrist. Not making a sound, she exited the stage during the next transition, and promptly asked the back stage crew to call 911.
Ever the theater professional, Ms. Twiss instructed the EMS respondents to "just wrap it in a splint, I've got to sing during the second act". Meanwhile, on stage, the ensemble seamlessly worked together to cover the missing actress for the final 10 minutes of act one.
EMS respondents ascertained the wrist was indeed broken, asked Ms. Twiss if she would like transport to the hospital, (which she declined again), and left after getting a verbal promise from Ms. Twiss that she would go directly to the hospital after her solo in act two.
After intermission, Ms. Twiss courageously sang "It's an art", the waitress song which includes the line "There's a twist to my wrist", which the audience enthusiastically responded to. After the show, it was confirmed at the hospital that Ms. Twiss' wrist is broken and will require surgery.
Andrea continues to perform in 'Working' - full arm cast and all. The show will run two more weekends and then it may be surgery for her.
Unfortunately, Andrea and her family are currently transitioning jobs and Andrea does not have medical insurance to cover these expenses. With an Emergency room visit, doctor visits, surgery, physical therapy--the expenses are going to be staggering.
Please help us raise money to off set those expenses for Andrea and her family.
Make checks payable to Andrea Twiss and send them to:
The Twiss Wrist Fund
C/O Julie Jones
110 Anamoor Drive
Cary, NC 27513
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Monday, July 06, 2009
Summer Theater Camp News!
The Sun will come out this Summer!
JTP will put on full productions of Annie Junior at our summer camps this year. Join us the weeks of July 6, 13 and 20th at The Franciscan School in North Raleigh.
The Emily K Camps will run the weeks of August 3 and 10.
There are NO counselor positions available at this time.
Please email marketing @ thejusticetheaterproject.org for information and updates.
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Gimme Five for Justice!
$5 can and DOES make a difference! Donate to JTP and get that warm, fuzzy feeling. (Oh, and get a $5 off coupon, too!)
Now we can tune the piano and present fantastic local singing talent to you during the run of "Working".
Spend $5 this spring AND get a $5 off coupon to a great local restaurant.
Just click HERE to go to our Fund Raiser Blog and Give us Five! (You can give us more than five, we won't mind)
Your printed receipt is also a coupon to either Bogart's American Grill or The Red Room Restaurant on Glenwood Avenue.
Want to tell us what you think? The Gimme Five for Justice Blog is a great way to let the world know how The Justice Theater Project has touched your life through theater, camps, outreach or education.
We can't wait to hear from you, and THANKS for giving us five!
Here are the GREAT things you will fund for next year:
A Forum Theater original event in collaboration with Passage Home. Three fantastic main stage plays that include "Laundry and Bourbon", "Dancing at Lughnasa" and "Fences". Three summer camps to provide area youth with a safe and fulfilling theater experience. Monthly FREE acting classes for adults and teens at Poplar Springs Christian Church.... and SO MUCH MORE!
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2009-2010 Season!
Each year, JTP explores in-depth a theme of social justice concern.
2009-10 finds us all turning back to the family .How family is affected when our fathers, sons, mothers and daughters come back from war. How a family of sisters so solidly held together all of their lives can be suddenly scattered to the winds on the breath of a radio wave. How a family desperately wanting more for their children can resent them for the opportunities that they themselves were denied. How families are made and remade after overcoming great obstacles.
Thought-provoking. Entertaining. Inspiring.
The Justice Theater Project is a non-profit theater company dedicated to the idea that art can and does inspire change.
Season Passes on sale now.
$40 Adults $30 Seniors/Students
Click "Read More" to see the description of the entire season:
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
2009-2010 Season!
Each year, JTP explores in-depth a theme of social justice concern.
2009-10 finds us all turning back to the family .How family is affected when our fathers, sons, mothers and daughters come back from war. How a family of sisters so solidly held together all of their lives can be suddenly scattered to the winds on the breath of a radio wave. How a family desperately wanting more for their children can resent them for the opportunities that they themselves were denied. How families are made and remade after overcoming great obstacles.
Thought-provoking. Entertaining. Inspiring.
The Justice Theater Project is a non-profit theater company dedicated to the idea that art can and does inspire change.
Season Passes on sale now.
$40 Adults $30 Seniors/Students
Click "Read More" to see the description of the entire season:
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Gimme Five for Justice!
$5 can and DOES make a difference! Donate to JTP and get that warm, fuzzy feeling. (Oh, and get a $5 off coupon, too!)
Now we can tune the piano and present fantastic local singing talent to you during the run of "Working".
Spend $5 this spring AND get a $5 off coupon to a great local restaurant.
Just click HERE to go to our Fund Raiser Blog and Give us Five! (You can give us more than five, we won't mind)
Your printed receipt is also a coupon to either Bogart's American Grill or The Red Room Restaurant on Glenwood Avenue.
Want to tell us what you think? The Gimme Five for Justice Blog is a great way to let the world know how The Justice Theater Project has touched your life through theater, camps, outreach or education.
We can't wait to hear from you, and THANKS for giving us five!
Here are the GREAT things you will fund for next year:
A Forum Theater original event in collaboration with Passage Home. Three fantastic main stage plays that include "Laundry and Bourbon", "Dancing at Lughnasa" and "Fences". Three summer camps to provide area youth with a safe and fulfilling theater experience. Monthly FREE acting classes for adults and teens at Poplar Springs Christian Church.... and SO MUCH MORE!
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Working - A musical by Studs Terkel
Working
The Reviews are in!
"Strong Performances found in Studs Terkel musical" - The News and Observer
"The Justice Theater Project scores big with WORKING..." - Triangle Theater Review,
Thank you for attending! See you in September for "Laundry and Bourbon".
We hope you enjoyed the ultimate People's Musical written by the late Pulitzer Prize winning oral historian Studs Terkel
"Working" is based on interviews with American workers from the book "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do" by Studs Terkel.
"Working" features local professional singers and actors, with original music by James Taylor and Stephen Schwartz ("Wicked", "Pippin", and "Godspell").
CAST: LeDawna Akins, Susan Burcham, Bing Cox, John Honeycutt, Barbette Hunter, Byron Jennings, Kevin Lawrence, Andrea Shulz Twiss and Deb Royals.
See photos and bios at http://www.jptworking.homestead.com.
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Monday, March 02, 2009
Dignity Forum Theater Event
THANK YOU to the over 600 people who came to support the young adults, and to experience an interactive forum theatre event!
Join us for a final performance at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church as we become a part of The Franciscan Coalition's ongoing 'Sojourns for Justice' series.
What is Dignity? How do you define it? Can someone take it away from you? Can you give it to others?
These questions are being explored by the young adults of Poplar Springs Christian Church in Raleigh, with the help of JTP's artistic Director, Deb Royals.
This collaboration will culminate in a "forum theater" style performance on Wednesday, April 29th at 7:00 pm at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church 11401 Leesville Rd, Raleigh, NC 27613
(919) 847-8205 . http://www.stfrancisraleigh.org
This event is free and open to the public, and no tickets are needed.
Here's a web site with all the specifics about the show and the actors: http://jtpdignityforum.homestead.com/Index.html
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
Thank you for attending!
Written by Frank McGuinness. Directed by Carnessa Ottelin
February 27 and 28 at 8 PM. March 1 at 2 PM
The Justice Theater Project concludes the critically acclaimed production of Someone Who'll Watch Over Me with a weekend of three final performances. This amazing collaboration combined with a stellar script is what the Independent Weekly calls "clever directing by Carnessa Ottelin and the well-cast, dynamic trio of performers... by the final curtain, the audience has fallen in love with these men."
The News and Observer says "...the production entertains and enlightens, showcasing three fine talents."
The Triangle Theater Review calls it a "...must see drama... Don't miss it.".
Witness the emotional, intense and trusting interaction between David Henderson as Edward the Irish journalist, Ryan Brock as Michael the English professor, and Byron Jennings as Adam the American doctor.
Inspired by the true account of former prisoner Brian Keenan, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me won the New York Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play, the Writers Guild Award for Best Play, and was nominated for Best Play at the Tony Awards.
Saint Mary's School Pittman Auditorium, Raleigh.
Based on Irish playwright Frank McGuinness' Tony nominated play, "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" explores the relationship between three men trapped together as hostages in a basement somewhere in Lebanon. One American, one Irishman and one Englishman struggle to maintain their sanity, humanity and hope. visit http://www.jtpsomeone.homestead.com for all information about the show.
The Reviews are in!
The Independent: http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A287865
The News and Observer: http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/1411462.html
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
The Line in the Sand: Stories from the US/Mexico Border
Questions or reservations: 259-6936 or
Reservations not required.
The Line in the Sand was written by a group of actors and writers from Catholic Relief Services (a national organization based in Baltimore, MD), who visited areas on both sides of the border between Mexico and Arizona in 2005 and interviewed citizens of both countries, immigrants and non-immigrants.
The play presents the dire situation that those people find themselves in. Not only is the story line compelling and moving, but it is told in the voices of real people and shows the various ways that many people, again not just immigrants, are affected by the lack of practical and humane immigration legislation.
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
Still…Life
SATURDAY NIGHT PATRONS:
Please Park in the Rosemary Street Public Parking Lots. You can then take a shuttle bus to Memorial Hall and walk across the street to Swain Hall.
"Still...Life", an original play written by members of The Justice Theater Project and directed by UNC's Joseph Megel, will be performed at Swain Hall on the UNC Chapel Hill campus as part of the Carolina Performing Arts Criminal/Justice. The Death Penalty Examined. year of death penalty discussion.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Expresate : To Express. The Price You Pay.
TONIGHT'S SHOW CANCELED: SATURDAY, JANUARY 19.
DUE TO THE SLOW MOVING WEATHER SYSTEM HEADING OUR WAY, AND TEMPERATURES DIPPING BELOW FREEZING, WE REGRET THAT WE ARE CANCELLING TONIGHT'S SHOW.
Thank you to all the patrons that were able to come out on Friday night and interact with the teens. The teens did a magnificent job and we are proud of their accomplishments.
The Justice Theater Project presented one evening of interactive performances based on scripts created by local farmworker teens. A facilitator guided the audience as they asked questions, stopped the show, and became a part of the event. Rooted in Augusto Boal's Forum Theatre model, The Justice Theater Project's objective is to create discourse around issues of social concern, firmly situating JTP as the only theater company of its kind in Central North Carolina.
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Friday, August 31, 2007
The Grapes of Wrath
The Justice Theater Project began a year-long exploration of displacement and migration by presenting Frank Galati’s Tony Award-winning adaptation of the Steinbeck classic, "The Grapes of Wrath".
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Friday, April 13, 2007
Still… Life.
Thank you to every one that was able to attend the workshop performances of Still...Life. Your valuable comments and questions have directly impacted the ultimate full production that will take place on April 13 and 14, 2007, at the Cardinal Gibbons High School Performing Arts Center.
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Dead Man Walking
The Justice Theater Project presented Dead Man Walking at the Cardinal Gibbons High School Performing Arts Center from February 1 to February 10, 2007.
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Friday, February 18, 2005
Witness
Based on Newberry Award winner Karen Hesse's moving novel, Witness is the quietly moving story of a small Vermont town in the early 1920's. On the edge of tragedy when the Ku Klux Klan moves in, Revelation Falls is a community torn apart as it learns about racism, bigotry, and human kindness.
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Friday, December 24, 2004
A Lesson Before Dying
The News and Observer Arts and Entertainment article, "A Year in the Arts: Best Theater" (Sunday, December 25, 2004) named The Justice Theater Project's production of "A Lesson Before Dying" one of the top 10 best locally produced shows of 2004. Our most recent production of "Nickel and Dimed" was also mentioned in the article as a "timely issue with strong political resonance".
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Saturday, November 13, 2004
Nickel and Dimed: on (NOT) Getting By in America
Playwright and director, Deb Royals-Mizerk directs Joan Holden's theatrical adaptation of social critic Barbara Ehrenreich's best selling book, Nickel and Dimed.
Nickel and Dimed "…helps us make sense of the looking glass land that exists alongside our own, one that we interact with everyday but which so few of us really take the time to see." —Anchorage Press
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