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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Children's Theatre Announces 'Pure Imagination'

Hartford Children's Theatre has announced its 2010-2011 Family Main Stage Series, "Pure Imagination."

With stories as diverse as a world-famous candy man's quest for an heir, a plucky orphan's tale of hope and optimism and a 13-year-old boy's struggle to fit in, "Pure Imagination" is sure to delight and entertain the entire family.

HCT's 21st Family Main Stage Series, "Pure Imagination" will feature a delicious new production of Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka, Sept. 24 through Oct. 3 followed by the classic family favorite Annie Jan. 7-16 and 13, a musical coming-of-age story by Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown April 29-May 15.

The shows will be performed at the Bruyette Athenaeum's Hoffman Auditorium on the campus of Saint Joseph College, 1678 Asylum Ave., West Hartford.

In addition to HCT's Main Stage Series, the organization will launch a new touring division entitled HCT on the Road. The new program will tour productions directly to schools within Greater Hartford and beyond, furthering HCT's mission of providing access and exposure to high quality theatre to young audiences. HCT on the Road will begin in November 2010 with a touring production of School House Rock Live! based on the 1970's educational animated series by ABC TV.

March 2011 will see the premiere of Class Clown, a new play commissioned by HCT from children's author Johanna Hurwitz, author of more than 60 children's novels.

For more information, call 860.249.7970 or visit http://www.hartfordchildrenstheatre.org.
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My Bio

Lauren Yarger has written, directed and produced
numerous shows and special events for both secular and Christian audiences. She co-wrote a Christian musical version of “A Christmas Carol” which played to sold-out audiences of over 3,000 in Vermont and was awarded the 2000 Vermont
Bessie (theater and film awards) for “People’s Choice for Theatre.”

Yarger trained for three years in the Broadway
League’s Producer Development Program, completed the Commercial Theater Institute's Producing Three-Day Training and produced a one-woman musical about Mary Magdalene that toured nationally and closed with an off-Broadway
run.

She was a Fellow at the National Critics Institute at the O'Neill
Theater Center in Waterford, CT. She writes reviews of Broadway and off-Broadway theater (the only ones you can find in the US with an added Christian perspective) at http://reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com/. She
is editor of The Connecticut Arts Connection (http://ctarts.blogspot.com), CT Press Club's award winner of first place for web editing and second place in feature writing for the web in 2012.

She is a contributing editor for BroadwayWorld.com and is a theater reviewer for the Manchester Journal-Inquirer. She previously served as Connecticut theater editor
for CurtainUp.com and as Connecticut and New York reviewer for American Theater Web. Yarger is a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly and freelances for other sites. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

She is a freelance writer and playwright and member of The Drama Desk, The Outer Critics Circle, The American Theater Critics Association and The League of Professional Theatre Women. She served as a judge for the SDX Awards presented
by the Society of Professional Journalists. She also is a member of the Connecticut Critics Circle (awards committee).

A former newspaper editor and graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, Yarger also worked in arts management for the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts,
the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and served for nine years as the Executive Director of Masterwork Productions, Inc. She lives with her husband in West Granby, CT. They have two adult children.

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