A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES Thursday, January 6, 2011 Page 15 Paper Mill Appoints Alliance Theatre Presents Director of Development Still Life at Rahway UCPAC MILLBURN – Paper Mill Play- has worked as an independent RAHWAY – Alliance Repertory Van Sant. house announced the appointment of fundraiser, consulting on a variety of Theatre’s next production will be Still Tickets are $22 for adults and $17 Sue-Ellen M. Wright as its director of projects, including the New York City Life by Alexander Dinelaris. It will for seniors and students. They can be Development. Ballet, Friends of the High Line, Lydia run from January 14 to 29 in the purchased either online at ucpac.org “Paper Mill Playhouse is thrilled Johnson Dance Company and Mason Studio Theater of the Union County or by phone at (732) 499-8226. There to add Sue-Ellen Wright to our senior Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) in will also be a wine and cheese management team,” said Todd University. Rahway on Friday and Saturday eve- talkback on Friday, January 21. Schmidt, Paper Mill Playhouse man- She served as assistant Vice Presi- nings at 8 p.m., with one Sunday UCPAC is located at 1601 Irving St aging director. “Sue-Ellen has exten- dent of Corporate Development and matinee on January 16 at 2 p.m. in Rahway. sive knowledge in all aspects of Sponsorship Marketing for seven Still Life concerns Carrie Ann fundraising for the arts, and her skills years at the New Jersey Performing Daley, a recognized photographer, Community Players to will allow Paper Mill Playhouse to Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark. who, at the pinnacle of her career, expand its contributed support.” At NJPAC, she grew corporate inexplicably shuts down. Lost and Present ‘Now Change’ The director of Development is fundraising and sponsorship pro- afraid to even pick up a camera, her WESTFIELD – The Westfield responsible for planning and execut- grams with a combined annual goal descent in interrupted by a whirlwind Community Players continues its YOUNGSTERS GET A JUMP START ON HOLIDAY SHOPPING… The ing the organization’s strategic and of $3.4 million of an $11-million romance with Jeff, a trend analyst 2010-2011 season with the popular Parents’ Association at The Wardlaw-Hartridge School held its annual Holiday operational development in achiev- annual operating budget. She was who becomes determined to help her musical, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Boutique for Lower School students in the Oakwood Room on December 1 and ing a $5-million annual campaign strategically involved in all move on, even while facing his own Now Change. The show opens on 2. Members of the Parents’ Association members and class parents helped the and implementation of planned-giv- fundraising activities and a $180- uncertain future. Saturday, January 8, and runs week- youngsters examine their shopping lists as they selected from an array of novelty ing efforts. million unified campaign for endow- Elissa Strell as Carrie Ann and ends through January 22. The theater and sports items, costume jewelry and other goods. The Oakwood Room was Ms. Wright will work closely with ment, reserve and annual operations. Matt McCarthy as Jeff head the cast, is located at 1000 North Avenue in adorned with snowmen, snowflakes, twinkle lights and other delightful decora- the board of trustees, local, regional Prior to her time at NJPAC, she served which includes Kelly Maizenaski, Westfield. Tickets cost $25 and can tions, as well as refreshments to enjoy. Pictured above, Renee Payami of Scotch be reserved by calling the 24-hour Plains helps her daughter, Kapriana Payami choose a holiday gift. and national foundations, corporate, as director of Development for the Cody Dalton, Mike Babb, Howard government and individual funders Arizona Theatre Company in Tucson Fischer, Chess Lankford and Katie tape at (908) 232-1221. to identify and grow the resources to and Phoenix, Ariz. Hayes. Michael Driscoll directs. Tom The musical, which had a success- Les Malamut Gallery Hosts support Paper Mill Playhouse’s artis- She is a graduate of Montclair State Rowe designs lights and Lilli Marques ful run in New York, is a celebration of tic vision, arts education programs University, earned a masters degree costumes. The stage manager is Bill the mating game, taking on the truths and strategic organizational develop- in Public Administration from Seton and myths behind the contemporary Work of Artist Deutsch ment. Hall University and was honored by Stony Hill Announces conundrum known as “the relation- UNION – The Les Malamut Art are The Artist Framer of Cranford “After a thorough search for a new the Women’s Fund of New Jersey for ship.” Books and lyrics are by Joe Gallery will host a solo exhibit of and the Paper Mill Juried Exhibition director of Development, we are very non-profit management leadership. Latest Audition Dates DiPietro; music, by Jimmy Roberts. encaustic work by artist Jonathan in Milburn. He maintains a website at pleased to have found Sue-Ellen,” “It is truly exciting to take on this SUMMIT – Stony Hill Players’ Directed by Sherrie Ahlin, she is Deutsch. The show will run from jonathan-deutsch.com said Paper Mill Playhouse Producing important role to sustain and grow a auditions for Isn’t It Romantic, by assisted by producer Kay Macrae of January 4 through February 25, 2011. The Les Malamut Art Gallery is Artistic Director Mark Hoebee. “Not- vibrant cultural arts community,” said Wendy Wasserstein, will be held on Westfield. The cast includes Jennifer A reception to meet the artist will be located on the lower level of the Union for-profit arts organizations cannot Ms. Wright. “I am especially looking Monday and Tuesday, January 17 Hanselman, Chris Mortenson, Paul held on Saturday, January 8, from 1 Public Library at 1980 Morris Av- maintain quality programming on forward to working with the adminis- and 18, at 7 p.m. in the Oakes Center, Salvatoriello and Janet Swaim. Mu- to 4 p.m. The show and reception are enue. It is open during regular library ticket sales alone. I believe that the tration and the board of trustees to located at 120 Morris Avenue in Sum- sical direction is by Seth Saltzman free and open to the public. hours and is handicapped accessible. combination of Sue-Ellen’s experi- achieve the vision for Paper Mill Play- mit. and choreography by Meridith Mr. Deutsch has been painting in All work in the gallery is for sale. ence and enthusiasm are a perfect house in the 21st Century. It is an Performances are May 13 to 15 Johnson. oil and acrylic for a number of years. For further information, visit match for the many challenges of honor to become part of an outstand- and May 20 to 22. Casting is for four Continuing the opening-night tra- Recently, he was introduced to en- lesmalamutartgallery.web.officelive.com maintaining and garnering additional ing professional team which is dedi- women and four men with the age dition, audience members are invited caustics, which utilizes beeswax. This or contact Barbara Wirkus, curator, support for Paper Mill Playhouse.” cated to the performing arts and arts span of 20 to 60. For information, call to a reception with cast and crew after form of painting has been in use for at (908) 276-6656. For the past three years, Ms. Wright education across New Jersey.” (973) 376-1216. the curtain rings down. thousands of years. The medium, which consists of wax, damar resin Youth Poetry and Short Story Contest ™ and pigments, allows for a variety of The Woman’s Club of Westfield keep a copy of their work as entries POPCORN techniques to be employed. invites all aspiring student poets and cannot be returned. Brushes and sculpting tools are authors from first grade through high The categories in both Poetry and The Fighter: used to apply and then work the wax school to enter The New Jersey State Short Story are: Category One into the desired form. The paint is Federation of Women’s Clubs’ (Grades l,2,3); Category Two (Grades Exhibits Championship Form applied to a panel after it has been (NJSFWC) Youth Poetry and Short 4,5,6); Category Three (Grades heated. Heating allows the paint to Story 2011 Contest. Poetry entries 7,8,9); Category Four (Grades move from a solid to a liquid state. may be any style with a minimum 10,11,12). One Popcorn, Poor • Two Popcorns, Fair • Three Popcorns, Good • Four Popcorns, Excellent After each layer is brushed on, it is re- length of eight lines and a maximum First place winners in our local By MICHAEL S. GOLDBERGER that deter the shared dream destiny heated and fused to the layer below. of 30 lines. Short stories are limited contest will be sent on for judging at 4 popcorns Mr. Deutsch considers the medium to 2,000 words. Entries must be the New Jersey State Federation of they now envision. Ensconced on he uses to be a form with which he typewritten, double spaced, with a Women’s Clubs level. First place Director David O. Russell’s The Alice’s couch, serving as a chorus to can continuously and without limita- minimum of one inch margins, on NJSFWC winners will then go on to Fighter, an absorbing, powerfully her egocentric reveries, several tion express himself. There are no one side of 8 ½” x 11" paper.A stu- be judged by the General Federation realistic account of light welterweight witchlike daughters provide telling “Irish” Micky Ward’s trials and tribu- comedy relief, echoing mom’s boundaries or language barriers to Deutsch’s Bartlett Pear dent may enter one short Story andor of Women’s Clubs which is the na- overcome for either the artist or the tional level. lations in and out of the ring, is both pontifications to insure their own sur- viewer with his paintings. poem for the local club contest. metaphor and anthropological critic. vival. Anyone of any age, time, culture or The author’s name, address, tele- Pulling no punches, it identifies the We pause to speculate: What is it place can look upon the artwork and Choral Art Society phone number, title of poem or short County Coffee Class vestigial emotions that make this about the lower classes that so in- see for themselves what has been story, the category entered and name genre such a searing microcosm of trigue? Of late, almost a whole show- done and the impact that has been of sponsoring club must be in the top Offered Jan. 26 the human condition. biz franchise has formed, dedicated made. The response and interpreta- To Perform Bach’s right hand corner of each page. All UNION COUNTY – Coffee lovers Give filmmaker Russell and a to spotlighting the mores and folk- tion are unique to the observer. entries are judged on content, organi- can find out everything they ever gaggle of writers credit for making ways of those who either refuse, or For Mr. Deutsch, painting is much Oratorio zation and form. Decision of the wanted to know about their favorite intense, philosophical sense of a very have been unable, to carve out a piece like a state of meditation. The mind WESTFIELD – The Choral Art judges is final. beverage, including benefits to savor messy sociology. Welcome to Lowell, of America’s middle-class pie. Wit- relaxes, and then a flood of thoughts Society of New Jersey, Inc. will per- Material is to be submitted in du- and pitfalls to avoid, by attending a Mass., a town that went down for the ness the bevy of daytime TV shows and inspiration race in during the form Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christ- plicate to the Woman’s Club of free class offered by the Rutgers Co- count after the mills fled. Struggling that delight in making sport of them. process. Painting allows the painter mas Oratorio, Cantatas One, Two Westfield, 314 Orenda Circle, operative Extension of Union County to lift itself off the canvas ever since, Sadly, that’s slumming, rubber- to investigate and ultimately to docu- and Three on Saturday, January 22, at Westfield, NJ 07090, postmarked called “Coffee – Should It Be Your the profound psychological effect is necking at socioeconomic tragedy. ment the creative act. The viewer can 8 p.m. at The Presbyterian Church in before January 20 , 2011 and must be Mug of Choice?” The class will be sternly worn on its denizens’ sleeves. I’d like to think our interest here is choose to be drawn in and participate Westfield, located at Mountain Av- the original unpublished work of the held on Wednesday, January 26, 7 Nowhere does hope spring more primarily sympathetic. Representing in the painting; sharing in the con- enue and East Broad Street. author, written during the contest p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Extension offices desperately than in the home of Alice the Dickensian aspiration for a finer templation. James Little, musical director of year. in Westfield. There is no fee but reg- Ward (Melissa Leo), the hard-drink- life, Wahlberg’s Micky Ward is the Mr. Deutsch has attended New Jer- the society, will conduct the evening’s Authors must be amateurs with istration in advance is required by ing, chain-smoking mother of nine tale’s Cinderella. He knows there’s sey Center For the Visual Arts as well performance. earnings from writing not to exceed contacting Digna Torres at (908) 654- and self-appointed boxing manager. something better than the insular bar- as Columbia University and Univer- Soloists include Ellen Goff $500 annually. Writers are asked to 9854 or [email protected]. As in every family, the Ward culture barism that surrounds him, not just sity of Rochester. He is a member of Entriken, soprano; Jeffrey is built on an amalgam of legend and monetarily, but spiritually as well. several professional organizations, Mandelbaum, alto; Stephen Sands, myth. In their case, it’s eldest son Thus, it is essentially a deadly holy including The Alliance of Profes- tenor, and Mark Watson, bass. The Dicky Eklund’s could-have-been war that widens the rift between him sional Artists, Riverdale Art Center, Choral Art Society Orchestra will glory. and the long held rituals and ethos Contemporary Art Group and accompany the chorus. Magnificently portrayed with Os- that have subjugated his clan. Alice Milburn-Short Hills Art Center. Admission is $20, $15 for seniors car-worthy verve and sensitivity by preaches the mantra, holding up the His work is included in many pri- and students, at the door. For infor- Christian Bale, he was a decent fighter besotted, poor, poor Dicky as the vate collections and he has exhibited mation, call (908) 654-5737 or visit with good potential before succumb- martyred symbol of all their beliefs. in numerous galleries. Among them thechoralartsocietyofnj.org. ing to drug addiction. In recent years, Hanging from that false cross, Chris- he has become a tarnished, charitably tian Bale performs a thespic miracle acknowledged local hero, dining out to behold. on the story of how he once knocked Commanding yet unselfish, he suf- Pearl Street Displays down the great Sugar Ray Leonard. fuses the atmosphere with the entire Some say he slipped. crux of the opus, a symbol of the In any case, as we take up the tale bones of contention gnawing at the Paintings of SP’s Derrett the torch has now apparently passed personae’s souls, and screaming their to little brother Micky Ward, superbly discontent. Knocking heads with him, ELIZABETH – The Union County Arts Association 2010, First Place, detailed by Mark Wahlberg. A road- literally and figuratively, Mr. Board of Chosen Freeholders will the Scotch Plains and Fanwood Arts paver by day, he’s won several fights. Wahlberg bobs and weaves, allowing present an exhibit of artwork by Association 2009, Best of Show and But of late, he has stagnated and him an intermittent limelight without Marion Derrett in the gallery space at the Pastel Society of New Jersey 4th taken numerous beatings, ostensibly losing his character’s importance. the Union County Office of Cultural Annual Member’s Exhibition 2009, due to the subjective and imprudent But perhaps more phenomenal in and Heritage Affairs, located at 633 Award of Merit. She has shown her judgment of domineering Alice and this movie of multifariously sought Pearl Street in Elizabeth. paintings in exhibitions throughout the fallen Dicky. redemptions is the tolerance Bale ul- A selection of Ms. Derrett’s pastel Connecticut, New Jersey and New TIME WITH THE TROOPS...Members of the 102nd Cavalry Squadron Army A real manager offers him a chance timately engenders in his audience. paintings, entitled “Salad Days,” is York. National Guard recently took third grade Bear Scouts from Tamaques School to quit the road gang and train full The idea of heroes and villains soon on display at the Pearl Street Gallery In the eight years that she has lived and their siblings for an informative and interactive tour of the Westfield time in Las Vegas. He yearns for the spins into an enlightening gray area from now until January 28. The gal- in Scotch Plains, she has pursued her Armory. Participants included (front row, from left to right) Joe Gamba, Caden opportunity. But the family has its that speaks volumes about the human lery is open art career with Strauss, Dylan Strauss; (middle row) Maggie McCauley, Colin Murphy, Michael hooks in him. And thus we identify comedy. Along the way, a good old- from 8:30 a.m. passion. She en- Magnotti, Nicholas Schoen, Will Gamba, Grayson Strauss; (back row) CPT Joe the syndrome that plagues the very fashioned look at brotherly love to 4:30 p.m. joys involvement McNamara, Declan McCauley, Joseph Schoen and 1SG John Rowe. best and worst of families: the tyr- complements the perspective. weekdays. in many profes- anny of the DNA. Do as we say or The most prestigious, albeit hack- Born in En- sional organiza- flaunt your repudiation of family, your neyed, accolade that can be laid on a gland, Ms. tions such as selfish betrayal. boxing film is that it isn’t just a ring Derrett earned Juried Member of Fortunately, history shows there’s saga per se, that the dramatic sub- her art degree the American Art- long been a fairly successful antidote stance supersedes its pugilistic con- from Froebel ists Professional to the pathology. It’s an ally, forming tent. In this corner, the combination Institute of League, Juried in its healthiest application a tie stron- is symbiotically profound. Throwing Education in Associate Mem- ger than blood, and commonly known a blow to the senses and a shot to the London and ber of the Pastel as a lover. Enters stage right, Amy gut, The Fighter floors us with its taught art in Society of Adams in a great turn as Charlene winning one-two punch. England for Looking Out to Sea America, Portrait Fleming, a spunky barmaid who’s * * * many years. Society of had a flirtation with college. She seats The Fighter, rated R, is a Para- She has traveled the world and stud- America; Contemporary Art Group, herself in Micky’s camp. mount Pictures release directed by ied Chinese painting while living in Westfield; Westfield Arts Associa- And what a crew she has to deal David O. Russell and stars Mark China and Singapore. tion, Pastel Society of New Jersey; with if she hopes to wrest her knight Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy After moving to Scotch Plains in Scotch Plains and Fanwood Arts As- in shining armor from the shackles Adams. Running time: 115 minutes. 2002, she pursued her studies at sociation, Millburn-Short Hills Art Artspace Studio in Morristown with Center and the Watchung Arts Cen- Julie Friedman at the Visual Arts ter. Center of New Jersey in Summit and Union County artists (whose works the duCret School of Art in Plainfield. can be hung on a wall) interested in Ms. Derrett works from her Scotch exhibiting in the gallery space are Plains studio in pastels, oils and acryl- welcome to apply. For more informa- ics on commissioned portraits and tion about the Pearl Street Gallery or landscape paintings. She also writes to learn about other programs and and illustrates children’s books. services, contact the Union County PJS FOR A WORTHY CAUSE…The Scholastic Book Clubs and the nonprofit Office of Cultural and Heritage Af- Pajama Program joined forces to provide children in need with brand-new Her work can be seen at pajamas and books. The Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District’s Preschool and marionderrett.com. fairs, located at 633 Pearl Street in Kindergarten classes at both Coles and Evergreen schools donated 62 pajamas to Ms. Derrett has exhibited exten- Elizabeth, by phone at (908) 558- this worthy cause. Scholastic matched this donation and provided 62 books to sively and won many awards, includ- 2550. NJ Relay users should dial 711 these needy children. Pictured are Laura Kelk’s preschool students, left to right, ing the Scotch Plains and Fanwood or may e-mail [email protected]. Carolyn Joe, Dylan Weiner and Tommy Weiner.