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A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES Thursday, January 10, 2019 Page 15 Grant to The Theater Project Supports Young Playwrights UNION — The Theater Project, formed by professional actors at the presenting programs in Cranford, March awards ceremony. On the day Maplewood, Union and Rahway, re- of the ceremony, the judges and mem- cently received a $500 grant from bers of The Theater Project’s Adult Investors Foundation. The grant will Playwrights Workshop also offer half- help further Theater Project’s mis- hour tutorials to any interested con- sion of encouraging the next genera- test entrant. Several past winners of tion of writers by supporting its 17th the Playwrights Competition have annual Competition for Young Play- gone on to pursue degrees in theater wrights. and playwriting, and they often return “We are deeply grateful for this to this event to present prizes and gift,” said Theater Project Artistic share their journeys with the newest Director Mark Spina. “Now more honorees. than ever, young people need to be This year’s submission deadline is encouraged to develop critical think- January 21, 2019. The website con- Christina M. Hinke for The Westfield Leader and The Times ing skills through arts participation, tains all the necessary entry guide- FUN TIMES ON NYE...Maestro David Wroe, pictured center and Broadway and the grant from the Investors Foun- lines and formatting rules: singer Cooper Grodin have a bit of fun performing during the New Jersey Festival dation supports them by helping us TheTheaterProject.org. Orchestra New Year’s Eve musical celebration, held at the Westfield High School provide public recognition of their The Theater Project is an award- auditorium Monday evening. work.” winning professional company in Every year, The Theater Project Union, NJ, where it will offer a sum- receives short plays from students all mer theater festival in 2019. The com- Alexis Morrast Is Set to over New Jersey. Winners receive pany also offers events in Cranford, cash prizes and see their work per- Maplewood and Rahway. ‘Dazzle’ at Watchung Arts LIGHT OF DAY...Willie Nile is one of many artists who will perform at the Light WATCHUNG – Alexis Morrast, player Sean Jones; NJPAC with Chris- of Day WinterFest 2019 to benefit ongoing battle against Parkinson’s disease. the recipient of “The Best Up and tian McBride; the world-renowned Outpost in the Burbs, First Congregational Church, 40 South Fullerton, Montclair, History of Josephine, The will host the event on January 11, followed by more events at other locations. Coming Young Artist Award” 2017 Apollo Theatre, where she emerged by Hot House magazine and 2017 as two-time Amateur Night winner winner of and later returned Empress Gardened “Showtime at the as their Special Light of Day Concert to CRANFORD — Garden Historian floral industry that endures today. Apollo” is all set to Guest, and Dizzy’s Lesley Parness will give a special Ms. Parness is the retired superin- razzle and dazzle Coca-Cola Club presentation, “Josephine — The Em- tendent of horticultural education at the audience at The with jazz legend Benefit Parkinson’s Research press Gardened” on Tuesday, Janu- New Jersey’s Morris County Park Watchung Arts Barry Harris. Fur- MONTCLAIR – With a goal of here.” Ms. Cotton penned, “The Mys- ary 22, at 7 p.m. at the Cranford Commission where she oversaw pro- Center on Saturday, thermore, Ms. pushing its 19-year total past $5.5 tery of Me”—a lovely ode to self- Community Center. gramming at The Frelinghuysen Ar- January 19, at 8 Morrast’s’s re- million in its ongoing battle against acceptance — in just one night. The The event is hosted by The Hanson boretum, Willowwood Arboretum and p.m. The concert sounding tone was Parkinson’s disease, Light of Day album’s 10 tracks feature an eclectic Park Conservancy. Ms. Parness will Bamboo Brook Outdoor Education will be followed by also heard on the WinterFest 2019, presented by the mix of rock and soul, from the soaring discuss how French Empress Center. She is a member of the Herb a dessert reception Millennium Stage Asbury Park Press, is returning to “Set Me Free” to the deeply personal Josephine’s fine taste informed 18th Society of America, The Council on and an opportunity of The Kennedy Montclair on Friday, January 11, for “Drink” and the upbeat “4 Ur Life,” and 19th century style, from couture Horticultural and Botanical Litera- to meet Alexis Center, Lincoln Light of Day North Jersey: which pulls inspiration from classic fashion to interior design. Likewise, ture, and Garden State Gardens, a Morrast. Center, and more Songwriters Up Close and Personal, Motown, as well as Sly and the Fam- she was influenced by her Caribbean consortium of New Jersey’s public Singer/song recently abroad in for the world-renowned Light of Day ily Stone, in this we find Ms. Cotton heritage, her narrow escape from the gardens of which she is a founding writer Morrast, the Cape Town South Foundation. coming to terms with her newfound guillotine, and her legendary love for member. 17-year-old marvel Africa and Austria. Light of Day North Jersey: happiness. The song’s carpe-diem flowers. The Cranford Community Center and native of New- She’s worked with Songwriters Up Close and Personal, message also makes it a call to arms When divorced from her husband, is located at 220 Walnut Avenue in ark, now residing in greats like Greg starring Willie Nile, James Maddock, for the younger generation in our Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, this Cranford. The program is free and Plainfield, began Phillinganes, Steve Danielia Cotton, Williams Honor, and current political climate, she adds. “I powerful style-maker and lifelong open to the public. No registration is singing at the age Alexis Morrast Jordan, Ray Chew, Joe D’Urso, plus Jon Caspi, Chris- just feel like we need that right now. fashionista focused her energies on required, but seating is available on a of three. Since that Lisa Fischer, tine Martucci, Laura Crisci, and Rick It’s saying something that needs to be her estate, Malmaison. There, first-come, first-serve basis. This pre- time, she’s performed on several Michael Feinstein and Tony Award Winowski will be held Friday, Janu- heard, but not in a way where you’re Josephine’s passion for plants grew sentation is sponsored by the Hanson stages: the U.S. Open in 2013; the winner Christine Ebersole to name a ary 11 at Outpost in the Burbs, First like ‘goddamn.’ It’s not throwing it in and bloomed. Her legendary love of Park Conservancy. To learn more, 2015 Central Jersey Jazz Festival in few. Congregational Church, 40 South your face, but it’s also like ‘this is it, roses stopped a war, cost a fortune, please visit, New Brunswick, featuring trumpet Despite her young age, Ms. Morrast Fullerton, Montclair. Doors open 7 the moment it changes.’” It’s a strik- set explorers to sail, and started a www.hansonparkconservancy.com. has had the opportunity to “sit in” or p.m.; Showtime is at 8 p.m. Tickets ingly optimistic message, one that work with greats such as Ray Chew, are $35 ($75 VIP meet and greet) and Ms. Cotton’s arrived at after endur- History of the Jersey Amina Figorova, Alvester Garnett and available at ing some incredibly difficult times — the incredible Bertha Hope. She stud- www.outpostintheburbs.org. where she dropped into an abomi- Arts and Entertainment Shore Presentation ied under Conrad Herwig, taking part The 10-day festival will bring over nable low. But “The Mystery of Me” MONTCLAIR — The Victorian in several jazz events and venues. 150 music acts to 30 venues in two sees the Hopewell, N.J.-born singer/ Society of America will present The She feels “blessed, honored [and] New Jersey cities, New York City, songwriter rising from the ashes of Events at Area Libraries History of the Jersey Shore on Mon- humbled” to have been able to meet- Philadelphia, and Rockland County, that tumultuous period and finding a day January 21, from 7:30 p.m. at the and-greet countless musicians and N.Y., January 11 to 21, following a new healthier perspective. “This is Montclair Womens Club, 82 Union performers including Dionne holiday season European tour. sort of the album that’s coming up to Literary Café at Screening of Notting St., Montclair. Admission: $5 non- Warwick, Lalah Hathaway, Twinkie In 2018, Light of Day WinterFest the other side,” she says. “This is me members, Free for members. Clark, Danny Mixon and Randy raised enough money to catapult its standing more solidly on the ground.” Library this Saturday Hill at SP Lib. Everyone has heard of the pirates Weston. 18 year cumulative total past the $5- Straight from Asbury Park’s leg- CRANFORD -- The library will SCOTCH PLAINS – The library’s of the Caribbean, but have you heard Her first artistic influences were -million mark. Light of Day endary music scene, comes Williams hold its Literary Café on Saturday, Friday Film this Friday, January 11 is of the pirates of New Jersey? At one her mom, dad, and her aunt Vernell, WinterFest 2019 is expected to push Honor, an unstoppable collision of January 12, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 Notting Hill. It will be screened on time, the coast of New Jersey was a recording artist in the group Koffee the 19-year total past $5.5 million. likeminded influence, chemistry and p.m. Literary Café is a book chat January 11 from noon to 2 p.m. Each infested with pirates and privateers.