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Yahoo
6 days ago
- General
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Healing After Loss helps community members cope with grief
AFTON, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – A community-driven non-profit held an open-house last week to showcase their services available to those grieving a loss. A local organization, Healing After Loss or HALos, opened its doors last week to those seeking to learn more about its mission. The establishment, located at 146 Main Street in Afton, provides unique and essential programs to those who are grieving. Some programs, like Art for Wellness, foster programs that assist all members of the family, grief recovery work, and trauma and loss help. The establishment features many amenities such as a therapy dog, a comfort room, a gathering room, and a community room. Founder and Executive Director Joyce Humphrey says the scope of their mission has broadened since it started. 'We look at grief in a broader scope than some might. Some people just think of death or possibly divorce that would fall into that category, but we look at incarceration, deployment, fire, flood, all kinds of things that are experienced by a family that are loss,' said Humphrey. The organization is holding a one-day Grief Camp event for school-age kids on June 14 that will be filled with fun activities around the establishment. For more information, go to Horace Mann prepares to say 'farewell' to Principal Peter Stewart Ponies clinch 11th straight win on Baseball and Education Day Healing After Loss helps community members cope with grief Auchinachie donates $1,000 to Whitney Point Civic Association Celebrate the anniversary of Schoolhouse No. 4 with free tour Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Corrections: April 25, 2025
A theater review on Thursday about the show 'Grief Camp,' in one instance, misstated the name of the play. It is 'Grief Camp,' not 'Grief Play.' Errors are corrected during the press run whenever possible, so some errors noted here may not have appeared in all editions.
New York Times
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Review: Little Adds Up in the Elusive ‘Grief Camp'
The campers in Eliya Smith's new play are not the happy kind. The show is called 'Grief Camp,' after all — though Smith delays even mentioning what ails her characters. And when she finally gets to it, she parcels out information in fragmentary exchanges and scenes. This strategy does help the show steer clear of therapeutic bromides and conventional catharsis, but it creates a different problem: 'Grief Play,' which leans heavily on whimsy, feels unmoored, tentative. Les Waters's staging of this play — Smith's Off Broadway debut — for Atlantic Theater Company is marvelously realized, as much, at least, as Smith's often maddening script allows. The set designer Louisa Thompson has recreated a cabin that feels so lived in, you can almost smell the wet towels and hear the soft creak of the bunk beds. The six teenagers who inhabit it can be tender or they can be aggressive. Sometimes they shut down and sometimes they open up. Always, communication proves slippery. Every morning, the kids are summoned to breakfast by P.A. announcements from the unseen Rocky (Danny Wolohan) that grow increasingly lengthy and surreal as the show progresses. Sometimes, a guitar player (Alden Harris-McCoy) comes in and strums a guitar by the side of the cabin. Is he a counselor? Do those teenagers really want to hear the country song 'Goin' Away Party'? Smith paints the campers in quick brush strokes as they go through their daily activities. The girls have a little more individuality than the boys — the underwritten Bard (Arjun Athalye) and Gideon (Dominic Gross) almost feel like payback for decades, if not centuries of malnourished female roles — but little adds up. The characters harbor emotions yet come across as numb, they have quirks yet are undifferentiated. You could consider this elusiveness as a commentary on grief itself, but it's a challenge to bring an audience along. The most elaborate interactions take place between two characters whose shared scenes pique our attention: the counselor Cade (Jack DiFalco) and the camper Olivia (Renée-Nicole Powell), whose prickly relationship gives this nebulous show a source of narrative tension. He is not much older than his charges and like them he carries an emotional burden. But somehow he appears to incite tumultuous reactions in Olivia, who already has a tendency to hide her distress under a tough attitude and provocative statements — 'Damn need to change my tampon,' she tells Cade, seemingly apropos of nothing. (Referencing Chekhov, the script describes Olivia as 'a Yelena who thinks she's a Sonya,' but she feels more like a Cady pretending she's a Regina.) The other girls include Olivia's sister, Esther (Lark White); Luna (Grace Brennan); and Blue (Maaike Laanstra-Corn), who emerges as another strong personality only because of a childlike yet determined innocence. Blue is writing a musical that, based on what we discover about it, has the makings of Shaggs-like outsider art. She asks the other campers for feedback ('I'd prefer if you kept it sort of granular'), but she is too lost in her peculiar, solipsistic inner world to appear to take it into account. (Her monologue toward the end is not so much a character speaking as a playwright listening to the sound of her own voice.) Waters ('Dana H.,' 'The Thin Place') has an affinity for creating slightly eerie, disquieting atmospheres, and he respects the play's ellipses and its commitment to nonlinear weirdness. This only makes the occasional overcompensation a noticeable misstep. The sound designer Bray Poor can create the illusion of rain falling outside the cabin, summoning the almost subliminal impression that we are right there with the campers — so when actual rain eventually comes down onstage, it's a little jarring. The show is most interesting in its suggestion that the campers are lost in a kind of limbo in which hours and days lose their traditional meaning. 'I just wanted you kids to think about the passage of time and how it feels in the body,' Rocky says toward the end of a particularly verbose P.A. announcement. And here I found myself circling back to oddball Blue and her amorphous musical. What is time for this girl, holding on to childhood but maybe a little curious about whatever awaits, vast and uncertain?
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Atlantic Theater Company And IATSE Reach Tentative, Potentially Historic Agreement Covering Production Workforce In Nonprofit Off Broadway Venue
Off Broadway's much-honored Atlantic Theater Company and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees have reached a tentative agreement that could see the Atlantic become the first-ever not-for-profit theater company producing solely Off Broadway shows to have such a union agreement. The tentative agreement – pending approval via ratification by the workers – covers nearly 100 production workers employed by the company. If ratified, the agreement could end a strike that began in January after months of negotiations stalled. The Atlantic's crew voted nearly unanimously to unionize with IATSE in February 2024. More from Deadline Atlantic Theater Company Closes Two Off Broadway Productions Amidst Stagehands Strike 'Drop' Review: Meghann Fahy Gets Stalked By A Murderous Memelord In Christopher Landon Thriller - SXSW 'Holland' Review: Nicole Kidman Leads Mimi Cave's Manic Midwestern Thriller - SXSW In a joint statement, the Atlantic and IATSE said the proposed agreement includes 'significant compensation increases including comprehensive benefits that both parties believe reflect the essential contributions of the production crew to Atlantic Theater Company's success.' Full details of the agreement will be made available to the workers and organization stakeholders in the coming days, according to the statement. 'Ultimately, after extensive discussions and dialogue, the Atlantic Theater Company is poised to become the first not-for-profit theater company producing solely Off Broadway in history to have a union agreement covering production classifications,' the statement said. When the strike was called in January, the theater at first postponed and then canceled two shows that were already in previews: Eliya Smith's Grief Camp and Mona Pirnot's I'm Assuming You Know David Greenspan. While today's announcement of a tentative agreement did not disclose the current or future standing of the two shows, a note on the theater company's website reads, 'We can't wait to see you back at the theater soon! We will share additional information including new performance dates and ticket on-sale information shortly.' The Atlantic was founded in 1985 by David Mamet, William H. Macy and an ensemble of their acting students from New York University and has grown into an acclaimed Off Broadway company operating two theaters: the 199-seat Linda Gross Theater and the 99-seat Stage 2. As a producer of compelling new works, we are committed to championing the stories of new and established artists alike, amplifying the voices of emerging playwrights through our deeply collaborative programs and initiatives. Among the many acclaimed productions that began life at the Atlantic are Spring Awakening, The Band's Visit, Kimberly Akimbo and such Martin McDonagh plays as Hangmen, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. The strike came at a pivotal time for the Off Broadway community, as nonprofit theaters, which traditionally have not been unionized, struggle with both the harsh economics of the post-Covid theater industry and many crew members' increasing desire for union representation. Best of Deadline The 25 Highest-Grossing Animated Films Of All Time At The Box Office 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery
