Next to Normal, with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt, explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness. Winner of three 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Score and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Next to Normal was also chosen as “one of the year’s ten best shows” by critics around the country, including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The New York Times.

Dad’s an architect; Mom rushes to pack lunches and pour cereal; their daughter and son are bright, wise-cracking teens, appearing to be a typical American family. And yet their lives are anything but normal because the mother has been battling manic depression for 16 years. Next to Normal takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, presenting their family’s story with love, sympathy and heart.

Next to Normal, with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt, explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness. Winner of three 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Score and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Next to Normal was also chosen as “one of the year’s ten best shows” by critics around the country, including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The New York Times.

Dad’s an architect; Mom rushes to pack lunches and pour cereal; their daughter and son are bright, wise-cracking teens, appearing to be a typical American family. And yet their lives are anything but normal because the mother has been battling manic depression for 16 years. Next to Normal takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, presenting their family’s story with love, sympathy and heart.

THE ART OF LOVE SHOW at the Greensburg Garden and Civic Center

Theme – The splendor of love or the not-so-splendid side of it.

Organized and curated by Mary Ellen Raneri

Juror — Artist and Instructor, Kenneth Nicholson

Reception – February 12th at the Greensburg Garden and Civic
Center – 6-8 PM

$15 application fee –You may enter 1- 3 pieces. Art must be able to be hung on the wall. No sculptures. The fee covers prizes, refreshments and expenses for the show. Payable to Mary by cash or check.

Prospectus/application will be posted on my page later today. Applications are due by Sunday, January 26th.

This year, artists and writers will articulate their creative expression at the Art of Love juried art

show to be held at the Greensburg Garden and Civic Center.

Artists have been invited to explore love in all its splendor and non-splendid moments and to

express what the word LOVE signifies to them.

The reception for The Art of Love will be held on February 12^th from 6 PM-8:30 PM. During the

reception, there will be an awards ceremony in which several cash prizes will be awarded.  In

addition, local writers have been invited to compose poetry, prose and short narratives about

pieces in the show that “spoke” to them.   The awards and writers’ compositions will indeed be a

secret until the night of the reception.  Awards and honors should begin at 6:45 PM.

We are pleased to announce that Kenneth Nicholson will act as juror for this event.  Born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Kenneth received his AFA from Westmoreland County Community College in 2010, BFA from Seton Hill University in 2014, and MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2016.  He currently teaches as an adjunct instructor at Westmoreland County Community College, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, and Seton Hill University. His work has been exhibited in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Ohio, Washington DC, New Jersey, and New York.

The Art of Love exhibition was organized by Mary Ellen Raneri a, local artist.

Please join us at the reception for a blend of writing and art, music, friendship and light snacks!

There is no admission and the show is open to the public.

The Art of Love exhibition will be on display from February 4^th until March 26^th at the Civic Center.

Next to Normal, with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt, explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness. Winner of three 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Score and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Next to Normal was also chosen as “one of the year’s ten best shows” by critics around the country, including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The New York Times.

Dad’s an architect; Mom rushes to pack lunches and pour cereal; their daughter and son are bright, wise-cracking teens, appearing to be a typical American family. And yet their lives are anything but normal because the mother has been battling manic depression for 16 years. Next to Normal takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, presenting their family’s story with love, sympathy and heart.

Next to Normal, with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt, explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness. Winner of three 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Score and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Next to Normal was also chosen as “one of the year’s ten best shows” by critics around the country, including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The New York Times.

Dad’s an architect; Mom rushes to pack lunches and pour cereal; their daughter and son are bright, wise-cracking teens, appearing to be a typical American family. And yet their lives are anything but normal because the mother has been battling manic depression for 16 years. Next to Normal takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, presenting their family’s story with love, sympathy and heart.

Next to Normal, with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt, explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness. Winner of three 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Score and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Next to Normal was also chosen as “one of the year’s ten best shows” by critics around the country, including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The New York Times.

Dad’s an architect; Mom rushes to pack lunches and pour cereal; their daughter and son are bright, wise-cracking teens, appearing to be a typical American family. And yet their lives are anything but normal because the mother has been battling manic depression for 16 years. Next to Normal takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, presenting their family’s story with love, sympathy and heart.

A comedy by Neil Simon

Al and Willie as “Lewis and Clark” were top-billed vaudevillians for over forty years. Now they aren’t even speaking. When CBS requests them for a “History of Comedy” retrospective, a grudging reunion brings the two back together, along with a flood of memories, miseries, and laughs.

A comedy by Neil Simon

Al and Willie as “Lewis and Clark” were top-billed vaudevillians for over forty years. Now they aren’t even speaking. When CBS requests them for a “History of Comedy” retrospective, a grudging reunion brings the two back together, along with a flood of memories, miseries, and laughs.

A comedy by Neil Simon

Al and Willie as “Lewis and Clark” were top-billed vaudevillians for over forty years. Now they aren’t even speaking. When CBS requests them for a “History of Comedy” retrospective, a grudging reunion brings the two back together, along with a flood of memories, miseries, and laughs.

adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher

Miss Nelson can’t control her crazy classroom because she’s just too nice. But when she disappears, her replacement is the hard-as-nails, detention-loving, recess-canceling, homework-overloading substitute teacher Viola Swamp! The kids suddenly realize how much they miss Miss Nelson and they’ll do anything to solve the mystery of her disappearance and bring her back.

adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher

Miss Nelson can’t control her crazy classroom because she’s just too nice. But when she disappears, her replacement is the hard-as-nails, detention-loving, recess-canceling, homework-overloading substitute teacher Viola Swamp! The kids suddenly realize how much they miss Miss Nelson and they’ll do anything to solve the mystery of her disappearance and bring her back.

adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher

Miss Nelson can’t control her crazy classroom because she’s just too nice. But when she disappears, her replacement is the hard-as-nails, detention-loving, recess-canceling, homework-overloading substitute teacher Viola Swamp! The kids suddenly realize how much they miss Miss Nelson and they’ll do anything to solve the mystery of her disappearance and bring her back.

A drama by Tennessee Williams

In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, who is slowly dying, hence a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future.  By evening’s end, ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right.

“…a play of tremendous dramatic impact…enormous theatrical power.” —NY Post.

A drama by Tennessee Williams

In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, who is slowly dying, hence a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future.  By evening’s end, ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right.

“…a play of tremendous dramatic impact…enormous theatrical power.” —NY Post.

A drama by Tennessee Williams

In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, who is slowly dying, hence a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future.  By evening’s end, ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right.

“…a play of tremendous dramatic impact…enormous theatrical power.” —NY Post.