This Week at Jersey City Theater Center
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JERSEY
CITY LEGEND, SINGER MS. MARY AIKEN, WILL BE INTERVIEWED
MAY 5 @
7:30pm EDT on JCTC FB Live
The Jersey City Theater Center (JCTC) presents the fourth installment
of the new talk series, “Black Space,” an ongoing series of intimate
and candid conversations exploring the experiences of black artists in
the world today, on Wednesday, May 5, at 7:30pm EDT. Series host Ashley
Nicole Baptiste, JCTC’sassociate artistic director, shines the
spotlight on the beloved jazz singer and educator “Ms. Mary” Aiken, a
Jersey City living legend, in a candid conversation about growing up in
Jersey City, her career as a local music artist and also her commitment
to serving as a role model for young people.
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OPENING NIGHT of JCTC's New Play Festival 2021, Healing
May 6th @7:30PM
May 6th
LINEUP: E Minor Seventh
by Timothy Nolan. Man starts to play a song he remembers from high
school. It reminds him of Woman who taught it to him when they
were sixteen... When he goes to find her many years later, he finds an
awful truth; Fractured
Ferry Tale by Ken Levine. This play is
about a father who travels back to the past to rekindle and heal his
relationship with his son. Hope
Sings, Nocturnal by Ken Preuss is about three people
cross paths in the days after a tragedy: music, friendship, and hope
emerge. Tiny
Secrets Notes by Marj O'Neill-Butler. This play asks if
there is solace in holding onto grief. After her father's death,
Diane visits her mother to comfort and heal her, by taking over her
father's loving ritual. Curators: Dr. Catalina Florescu,
Mark Cirnigliaro; Directors: Sarah Lang, Andrew Binger.
For tickets visit www.jctcenter.org
ASL
Interpretation and Closed Captioning available
Sponsored by the City
of Jersey City and the Jersey City Cultural Affairs
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This event is part of
the New Jersey Theatre Alliance 2021 Stages Festival, made possible by
support from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency
of the National Endowment for the Arts; Bank of America; The Horizon
Foundation for New Jersey; OceanFirst Foundation; the George A. Ohl,
Jr. Trust; New Jersey Historical Commission; and Fund for the New
Jersey Blind. www.njtheatrealliance.org/stages
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