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It was a big year for Touchstone Theatre, which also produced a terrific 20th production of “Christmas City Follies.”
Play: “The Secret,” Mock Turtle Marionette Theater. The festival took a measure of Bethlehem’s southside 20 years after Touchstone’s landmark “Steelbouund” production when SteelStacks was a twinkle in the Christmas City star.
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He has written, directed and produced documentary films, some of which have been telecast on public television stations, and narrative fiction films, some of which have been shown in film festivals.
Touchstone Theatre cofounder and ensemble member Bill George returned as Prometheus. The cast included former steelworkers, a county judge and members of previous generations of the Touchstone ensemble.
Festival UnBound
Closed but never forgotten
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Paul Willistein
Paul Willistein is Editor of the Lehigh Valley Press Focus section, a position he has held since 2008.
For 22 years, he worked at The Morning Call, where he was Features Editor, Arts Editor and Entertainment Editor. Paul Willistein reflects on the highlights of the last year, and well as remembering the dear friends that we lost along the way. Doug Roysdon, Artistic Director, Mock Turtle Marionette Theater, was chief writer of the multimedia performance that mixes narrative, song, music, poetry, puppets and actors.
Script collaborators were Jennie Gilrain, William Reichard-Flynn, Aidan Gilrain-McKenna, Matilda Snyder, Kalyani Singh and Seth Moglen.
Original Play: “Prometheus/Redux,” Touchstone Theatre. “Prometheus/Redux” was the astounding opening work of “Festival UnBound.” “Prometheus/Redux,” commissioned for “Festival UnBound,” is written by Gerald Stropnicky, a founding member of Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, and directed by Christopher Shorr, Touchstone ensemble member and director of theater at Moravian College.
He has received more than 30 Keystone Media state newspaper journalism awards and an Allentown Arts Commission Arts Ovation Award. He was marketing and public relations director at The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. He was host and producer of “Hot Splices,” a movie review-interview show; producer and co-host with Michael Gontkosky of ”The Movie Show,” a movie review show, and “Valley Arts,” a Lehigh Valley arts interview show, all telecast on RCN.
He is a songwriter, having co-written “Do The Dutch (Hey Now)” with Steve Brosky and Mike Krisukas.
He has taught screenwriting and media studies at Northampton Community College.
This years awards were dedicated to George B. Miller, Carol Gorney and Adeline Burt.
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78th in a series of posts on Touchstone Theatre
Huzzas, high-fives, hugs, handshakes, and honkings are in order for dramatic elements of Touchstone Theatre’s 10-day festival this fall that occasioned a near record 77 posts here on Gadfly.
Well done!
“The Secret” — the play about Bethlehem-born poet H.
D. — returns to Touchstone April 2-5.
Paul Willistein, “14th annual ABEs Salute Lehigh Valley Stage: From plays to musicals, theater unbound in 2019.” Bethlehem Press, January 3, 2020.
Producer: Touchstone Theatre.