DelawareLive Dec 22

Delaware LIVE Weekly Review – December 22, 2024

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Top Stories Include Five sports complexes share $10M in sports-tourism fund grants DelShakes summer production will have lots of firsts State OMB Director Cerron Cade arrested for shoplifting at Home Depot Long-time educator Ron Russo dies at 79 Delaware Hospice moving to scattered bed model at St. Francis Click on the image below to view the PDF Sonja …

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DelShakes thinks outside the box for summer show

Ken MammarellaCulture, Headlines

  Delaware Shakespeare (DelShakes) will present a summer production for the first time that is a musical, partly in Spanish, and includes words written by people not named William Shakespeare. “Twelfth Night O Lo Que Quieras” was initially presented in DelShakes’ 2022 community tour. Artistic director Mariah Ghant said she was “really blown away” by the 2022 production and wanted …

DelawareLive Sept 17

DelawareLIVE Weekly Review – September 17, 2023

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This Week’s Review Includes: DNREC funds Delcastle program to build EV charging stations ‘Chopped’-style contest highlights Saturday’s SoDel Fest Judge dismisses suit against law letting firearm dealers be sued Barclays fills EastSide teachers’ Amazon classroom wish lists Dover spoils Appo’s home opener Click on the image below to view the PDF Sonja Frey

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DelShakes director David Stradley to leave at end of 2023

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

David Stradley, who helped Delaware Shakespeare evolve from a one-trick pony to a multifaceted year-round organization with multiple programs, will leave at the end of 2023. The 21-year-old arts organization will start a search for two new leaders — a managing director and an artistic director — to replace Stradley, who led Delaware’s only professional Shakespeare organization as producing artistic …

DelawareLive Oct 23

Delaware LIVE Weekly Review – Oct. 23, 2022

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines No jail time for ‘deeply remorseful’ McGuiness Court halts state switch to Medicare Advantage How to vote in Delaware’s Nov. 8 general election Did you receive your $300 tax rebate? 780,000 others did Red Clay board member accused of not living in district Culture …

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DelShakes’ bilingual musical ‘Twelfth Night’ ends this weekend

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

Three years ago, Delaware Shakespeare decided to stop out on a ledge and produce a musical version of “Twelfth Night” for its 2020 community tour. Then writer Liz Filios of Philadelphia had another inspiration: What if the musical was also bilingual, partly because they have Spanish-speaking audience members? Go for it, DelShakes Executive Editor David Stradley told her. They asked …