Delaware audiences got an upclose look at one of last night’s Tony Award winners last year when she starred in a play at Delaware Theatre Co. Bonnie Milligan, who won on Sunday night won the 2022 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in “Kimberly Akimbo,” was in “Other World,” a special effects musical extravaganza that also featured …
The Buccini/Pollin Group, which has been called Wilmington’s largest private landowner, has rebranded its downtown holdings. Market West is the new name for five blocks that go from Market to West streets and Delaware Avenue and 12th Street. It features five buildings BPG bought from the DuPont Co. in 1999 and 2017 as the company downsized and moved to the …
Delaware SBDC’s Margo Reign Announces Retirement Published May 2023 .flex_column.av-7ws4vn-31c98abdc59c835ee7cbbb5817b90973{ -webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px; -moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px; border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px; } Newark, DE – If you’ve worked on your financials with a Delaware Small Business Development Center Advisor recently, chances are you’ve worked with Margo Reign. With 12 years of service to the Delaware …
Longwood Gardens’ main fountain complex comes to life again this summer with illuminated shows choreographed to light and music as the region’s favorite attraction starts its summer schedule. The gardens’ popular Fireworks & Fountains shows will not return until the summer of 2024, and already one new segment of the illuminated fountain shows — drones and fountains — is already …
Fifteen tech-enabled startups with at least one team member from an underrepresented demographic are sharing $198,000 in non-dilutive grant funding from the third Startup302 competition, coordinated by Delaware Prosperity Partnership and its partners. The contest attracted 169 applicants from throughout Delaware and across the United States, plus Canada, Brazil, Uruguay, Italy, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. Startup302 winners Delaware Tech-Enabled (sponsored by …
As Delaware Theatre Co.’s musical “Man of La Mancha” opens, the writer Miguel de Cervantes is being escorted into a dungeon during the Spanish Inquisition. Above, light shines through a trapdoor. Below, it’s clear there are worse depths to this jail. Cervantes’ fellow prisoners set upon him, stealing his possessions, including a manuscript, which they threaten to destroy. Instead, Cervantes, …
A classic farce, a look at the first Black-owned pro basketball team, a prequel to ‘Peter Pan,’ a celebration of a country music queen and a world premiere by a favorite Philly playwright will make up the Delaware Theater Co.’s 2023-24 season. The plays include: “Noises Off!” by Michael Frayn, Sept. 20-Oct. 8. The Tony Award-winning play is a backstage …
Chris Turner knew immense pressure would come with being one of only 51 high schools in the country allowed to perform Disney’s “Frozen” on stage. The Mount Pleasant High School drama director hoped that pressure will create diamonds, and a memorable show for folks in the Brandywine School District community and beyond. “We knew we were the only school doing …
A new art house movie theater opened Friday, drawing 100 patrons to see Oscar-nominated documentaries, animated and live-action shorts. The Screening Room at 1313 is starting business by showing the documentaries, animated shorts and live action shorts nominated for a 2023 Oscar. Co-owners Beverly Zimmermann and Bob Weir have worked together before and had been searching for a new theater …
Five Delaware high school students will show off their work in this year’s Delaware Young Playwrights Festival. Their scripts were chosen from a pool of 58 one-act plays written by 64 students in recent months. The showcase winners are: Morgan Baker of William Penn High School – “The Ladder Escape” Danielle Chapman of St. Elizabeth High School – Happy New …
