Aunt Jemima News

Theater J, the nation's largest and most prominent Jewish theater, announced today the launch of the Yiddish Theater Lab dedicated to preserving and reviving the forgotten literature of the Yiddish Theater. Through this initiative, Theater J will uncover and re-interpret nearly-forgotten Yiddish classics in new English language readings, workshops, commissions, and eventually productions.

The Ojai Playwrights Conference (OPC), one of the most acclaimed new play developmental programs in the country, announces its 19th season with an exceptional program of playwrights, new play workshops and special 

Tickets are on sale today for all the productions in the 2016/17 season for the Alliance Stage, Hertz Stage, Theatre for Youth and Families, and the Kathy and Ken Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young series.  The 48th season includes seven world premieres, five musicals, five productions by Atlanta playwrights, and exceptional productions for youth and families. 

Lexington, KY—University Press of Kentucky author John van Willigen has been recognized by the the Southern Anthropological Society for Kentucky's Cookbook Heritage: Two Hundred Years of Southern Cuisine and Culture. The book was awarded an Honorable Mention for the James Mooney Award for its contribution to anthropological scholarship on the South and Southerners. The Mooney Award was created to recognize and encourage distinguished anthropological scholarship on the South and Southerners. Presented annually, the award includes a $500 cash prize and certificate of recognition to be presented to the winning author at an awards ceremony. In addition, an Honorable Mention Award includes a certificate of recognition. It was created in honor of James Mooney, the prominent American ethnographer who lived with the Cherokee people during the late nineteenth century. 

For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, a nationally touring exhibition from NEH on the Road, opens April 6 at Kean University's Human Rights Institute Gallery.

For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, a nationally touring exhibition from NEH on the Road, opens April 6 at Kean University's Human Rights Institute Gallery.

Atlanta's nationally acclaimed Alliance Theatre and Jennings Hertz Artistic Director Susan V. Booth have announced the 2016/17 Season for the Alliance Stage, Hertz Stage, Theatre for Youth and Families, and the Kathy and Ken Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young series. The 48th season includes seven world premieres, five musicals, five productions by Atlanta playwrights, and exceptional productions for youth and families. The 2016/17 season marks the Alliance's last in its current theater space before it undergoes a complete renovation, its first since it was built in 1968.

PARSIPPANY, N.J., Feb. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ Pinnacle Foods Inc. (NYSE: PF) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.255 per share, payable on April 8, 2016 to all common stockholders of record at the close of business on February 23, 2016.

This November, FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade presents the Fourth Annual Gotham Storytelling Festival. With storytellers from a variety of ethnic, national and sexual backgrounds, this year's festival promises to break the mould and bring you stories that are both intensely individual and strikingly universal. Don't miss out on six days of stories that will make you laugh, cry and want to hear more! This year's festival will run November 4-11 at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Avenue and Avenue A). Tickets ($10-$15) may be purchased in advance at www.horseTRADE.info. 

The Alliance Theatre is pleased to announce the three artistic projects chosen for development during its second annual Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab. Each project will receive $10,000 to use toward further exploration and development, as well as access to the Alliance's artistic, educational and production staffs, and rehearsal spaces. The lab productions will be presented in free performances in the Spring of 2016.

Now in it's sixth season, The Fire This Time Festival will welcome seven new playwrights into the family, January 19-February 8 at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery). Aziza Barnes (me Aunt Jemima and the nailgun, published by Button Poetry Press), Rod Gailes OBC (COLORS: Dream Of the MASTA), Julienne L. Hairston (Ababuo in Project Y's Racey Play Reading Festival), Daaimah Mubashshir (Video Clare with Manhattan Repertory Theatre), Azure D. Osborne-Lee (member of EMERGENYC and Rising Circle Theater Collective's INKtank), Larry Powell (Dreams of a Prophet) and James Anthony Tyler (Some Old Black Man starring Arthur French at La MaMa). These playwrights will present an evening of ten-minute plays, each inspired by one of Alex Harsley's original photographs. More of Harsley's pieces will be featured at the TFTT festival kick-off event this fall, in which he and the playwrights will be introduced to the Horse Trade Theater Group and 4th Street Arts Block community.

Sandra Day O'Connor will interview her brother H. Alan Day about his new memoir, 'The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs,' at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington D.C. O'Connor and Day co-authored the New York Times bestselling memoir Lazy B: Growing Up On a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. The Horse Lover, co-authored with Lynn Wiese Sneyd and published by the University of Nebraska Press, is Day's personal account of creating and managing the first government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary located on 35,000 acres in the Sand Hills of South Dakota. After successfully lobbying Congress to approve the idea, Day received 1500 wild horses in 1989 from the Bureau of Land Management. His deep connection with the animals in his care is clear from the outset, as is his maverick philosophy of horse-whispering, which he used to train the entire herd. The memoir reveals the Heculean task of balancing the requirements of the government with the needs of the wild horses. Day's story also weaves in cowboying adventures that he had astride some of his best horses - Saber, Aunt Jemima, Tequila, Chico - and the lessons of perseverance, steadfastness, and hope he learned from these four-legged friends. Booklist has called 'The Horse Lover' 'an instant classic.' H. Alan Day is a retired cattle rancher and former owner of Mustang Meadows Ranch located near St. Francis, South Dakota; Rex Ranch near Whitman, Nebraska; and Lazy B Ranch in southwestern Arizona. Lynn Wiese Sneyd is a published author and owner of LWS Literary Services. Sandra Day O'Connor served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1981 to 2006. The 14th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center from 10 am to 10 pm on Saturday, August 30, 2014. O'Connor, Day and Sneyd will be presenting at 11:50 am.

The Palm Springs Gay Men's Chorus (PSGMC) will present Gala 15 and the Palm Springs premiere of Emmy Award winning actor/comedian/stage performer Leslie Jordan's new show titled 'Show Pony' at The Hard Rock Hotel tonight, May 17 at 6:30p.m. I had the chance to sit chat with the hilarious and engaging Mr. Jordan as he prepares for his Palm Springs Premiere - here are a few excerpts from that interview...

MCLEAN, Va., May 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ America's leading frozen food makers today launched a national effort to encourage consumers to take a fresh look at frozen foods through the 'Frozen. How Fresh Stays Fresh.' category education and promotion initiative.

The Palm Springs Gay Men's Chorus (PSGMC) will present Gala 15 and the Palm Springs premiere of Emmy® Award winning actor/comedian/stage performer Leslie Jordan's new show titled 'Show Pony' at The Hard Rock Hotel on Saturday, May 17 at 6:30p.m. ?Best known for his movie roles in 'Sordid Lives,' 'Southern Baptist Sissies' and 'The Help' as well as his sidesplitting TV role as Beverly Leslie on 'Will And Grace,' Mr. Jordan will tell the hilarious tale of how life was supposed to be after reaching one of the highlights in his career, winning the Emmy® in 2006, in his new one-man smash hit 'Show Pony.'? I had the chance to sit chat with the hilarious and engaging Mr. Jordan as he prepares for his Palm Springs Premiere– here are a few excerpts from that interview:

Tonight, July 12th at 9:00pm Actor/Singer/Writer Ron Stroman will perform Sikofitall Gudtyme Tour (a spanking) at The Triad/Stage72, 158 West 72nd Street. Sikofitall Gudtyme Tour (pronounced: 'Sick of it all goodtime tour') (a spanking) is fifth in Stroman's one-man show series, which includes: The Serpent's Sermon; The Bastard Love Child of Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben; Welcome to My Momentum and The Sikofitall Gudtyme Tour, part one.

On Friday, July 12th at 9:00pm Actor/Singer/Writer Ron Stroman will perform Sikofitall Gudtyme Tour (a spanking) at The Triad/Stage72, 158 West 72nd Street. Sikofitall Gudtyme Tour (pronounced: "Sick of it all goodtime tour") (a spanking) is fifth in Stroman's one-man show series, which includes: The Serpent's Sermon; The Bastard Love Child of Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben; Welcome to My Momentum and The Sikofitall Gudtyme Tour, part one.

Katie Polebaum has created an original piece of theatre that cleverly mixes the innocence of the past with the horrors of the future in D is for Dog now playing at Studio/Stage in Hollywood. What is most intriguing about Dog is its employment of video and puppetry along with the six actors in telling the bizarre sci-fi story.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater presents the world premiere of Marcus Gardley's every tongue confess, which opens the new Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle, the third theater space in the Mead Center.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announced the full cast for the world premiere of Marcus Gardley's every tongue confess, which opens the new Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle, the third theater space in the Mead Center.