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Friday, June 3, 2011

Mark Twain House News for June

The Mark Twain House & Museum has become a Blue Star Museum, one of more than 1,000 museums nationwide offering free admission for active military personnel and their immediate families now through Labor Day, Sept. 5, 2011.
The free admission program is available to any bearer of a Geneva Convention common access card (CAC), a DD Form 1173 ID card, or a DD Form 1173-1 ID card, which includes active duty military (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard), National Guard and Reserve members and up to five immediate family members. Immediate family members include the spouses and children of active duty military.

Spouses of military who are deployed are eligible for free admission with their children, up to a total of five visitors. To receive free admission, spouses should bring a DD Form 1173 ID Card or DD Form 1173-1 ID Card for active duty military family members.

Blue Star Museums is a partnership among Blue Star Families, the National Endowment for the Arts and participating museums. For details on the program, including a complete list of museums, visit http://www.nea.gov/national/bluestarmuseums/index.html.
 
Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours resume in June. They run on Friday, June 24, and Saturday, June 25, at 6, 7, 8 and 9 pm. Tickets are $18 for adults 17 and up; $15 for members of The Mark Twain House & Museum; and $13 for children 16 and under. Tours are not recommended for children under 10. Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours are by reservation only, and sell out quickly. Call early: 860-280-3130.
 
Bring Dad to the Murasaki Cafe for a Father's Day Jazz Brunch June 19 with Jimmy Roberts, composer of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. There will be two seatings, at 11:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m.. Be sure to reserve ahead of time, as the Father's Day Brunch is likely to sell out. The price of $30 includes performance and brunch, and alcoholic beverages will be available for an additional charge. For reservations, call 860-280-3130.
 
Judith Martin (Miss Manners) comes to The Mark Twain House & Museum for an elegant evening on Wednesday, June 29, in an event sponsored by The Friends of The Mark Twain House & Museum. She will be discussing her career, her affection for Mark Twain -- and, of course, the importance of good manners in an age when all civility seems to have gone by the boards. A 5 pm reception will followed by the 6 pm lecture. A dessert reception and signing of Miss Manners' books follows the lecture.Tickets are $40 and include both receptions and lecture. Call 860-280-3130.
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Lauren Yarger with playwright Alfred Uhry at the Mark Twain House. Photo: Jacques Lamarre)

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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