At the Dietrich Theater in downtown Tunkhannock

Opening Night Gala - Friday, April 9 at 6:00 pm

Gala Tickets: $45 each

Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, two films - The Last Station and An Education, and desserts by Epicurean Delight. Reservations are required for gala night only. Call 570-996-1500 for tickets.

Okay, next big, big, big event, of course, is the Spring Film Festival Gala night! Now, Jeffrey couldn’t get us a film that hadn’t opened yet because right now there isn’t anything suitable for festival. So, maybe in the fall we’ll once again open a film before NY or LA. But that isn’t to say that we don’t have two absolutely incredible films to start one of the best festivals in years!

First film of the night is The Last Station – the story of Tolstoy’s (played by Christopher Plummer) final days and his wish to leave his work to the Russian people and his wife’s wish that he leave them to her. It stars the grand dame of British films, Helen Mirren, who got an Oscar nomination for her efforts.

The second film is An Education, starring Carey Mulligan, who also got an Oscar nod. It’s about a young girl who gets an education of a different sort when an older man singles her out for attention. It’s been on every “Best” list this year (as has The Last Station) and is an interesting and uplifting story of a young woman who finds that life isn’t always what you deem it to be.

And remember, not only are both these films superb, but that night we have food for you from three of the best prepares of good eats in the entire northeast! Twigs, Seasons and Epicurean Delight will be preparing niblets to excite your palates, and then between movies Epicurean sets up a dessert table to die for! (I always pray there is just the tiniest piece of lemon cake left for when I go through the line (there always is). Plus then we have the grand wine from Nimble Hill which makes it a spectacular evening of great food, great movies and superb wine.

And remember that when you come to gala night, you are getting a superb evening of entertainment, and you are also helping the Dietrich out with one of it’s bigger fund-raisers of the year. So it’s a two-fold gift. First, you get one of the best evenings ever (!) and second, you get to help out our cultural programming. Now that’s a pretty good deal, don’t you think?

So don’t wait. You don’t want to get on the dreaded waiting list. Call 996-1500 and reserve your tickets today for an evening that is perfect for foodies and movie buffs alike!

A couple more things to tell you about. On this coming Sunday at 2:00 in the Evans Theater, actress and historian Monica Hoffman will do a one woman show about the life and times of Amelia Earhart. It looks to be completely fascinating. I know that today we just accept that women can do anything a man can do (and as Ginger Rogers used to say – she could do everything Fred Astaire could do only backwards and in high heels!) but in Amelia’s day that wasn’t the case. She was a high spirited trail blazer and I’m sure this show is going to be terrific! Call 996-1500 for reservations, or just come by on Sunday afternoon – we’ll keep the light on for ya!

Finally, Saturday morning (March 20) we have Arts Open House wherein most of the Dietrich Instructors will give you a taste of what they do so you can decide if you’d like to take a class or not. It’s really great fun and gives you a chance to “taste” all the programming we offer.

So that’s the week. Next week I’ll give you a rundown on all the films for festival. I wasn’t kidding when I said I think it might be our best festival ever!

See you at the Dietrich.

In just three weeks the Dietrich’s Spring 2010 Film Festival will be kicked off. From Friday, April 9 to Thursday, April 22, join us for fourteen days of sixteen foreign, independent, and art films. The movies that Hildy, Ronnie and the theater’s movie buyer, Jeffery Jacobs, selected are tops! They include The Art of the Steal, Broken Embraces, An Education, Fresh, Ghost Writer, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Last Station, Me and Orson Welles, The Messenger, Nine, North Face, The Road, A Single Man, Terribly Happy, That Evening Sun, and The Young Victoria. I can’t wait to see so many of these films; so many look so intriguing.

For Opening Night, April 9 at 6 pm, the Dietrich will play The Last Station, starring Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren, and An Education. To compliment the acclaimed films of the evening, Epicurean Delight, Twigs Restaurant, and Seasons Restaurant will delight us with delicious hors d’oeuvres, Nimble Hill Vineyard & Winery will provide a great selection of wines, and Epicurean Delight will supply sumptuous desserts. Tickets are $45 each and can be reserved by calling the Dietrich at 570-996-1500. This is an evening you won’t want to miss.

In addition to the film festival in April, the Dietrich will be hosting a fantastic concert on Sunday, April 25 at 3 pm featuring the Pennswood Guitar Quartet. This exciting new chamber group in northeastern Pennsylvania is comprised of four accomplished musicians - Rembert Meszler, George Sprengelmeyer, Jay Steveskey, and Charles Truitt. This quartet will take the Dietrich stage to perform beautiful, diverse, and challenging compositions from around the world and throughout the ages. They will showcase the music of Boccherini, Brouwer, Torroba, Machado, Duarte and Sor. Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased at the Dietrich Theater ticket booth or by calling 570-996-1500.

The Dietrich also has some great classes coming up. On Monday, March 29 from 6:00 - 9:00 pm, learn the basics of creating stained glass. Esther Harmatz will teach you how to work with a design, cut glass, polish, foil wrap and solder. Each student will leave with a finished item. All glass supplies and equipment will be provided. Admission is $55.

Then in April, Victoria Romero will start up her Spanish for Adults series. What a great opportunity to learn this widely used language! During Introduction to Spanish on Mondays, April 12 to May 17 from 7:00 - 8:00 pm, students will learn basic Spanish phrases and vocabulary using a variety of teaching methods. Hispanic culture will also be explored. This class will be tailored to individuals’ personal language learning goals. I took Victoria’s Introduction to Spanish class about a year ago and learned so much. Her teaching methods made learning the language fun.

For those of you who have some basic knowledge of the Spanish language, Victoria will be offering Conversational Spanish on Mondays, May 24 to July 5 from 7:00 - 8:00 pm. This class will begin with a review of basic vocabulary and sentence structure. The class will then focus on learning additional vocabulary, verb conjugation, and key elements of Spanish grammar. Students will incorporate these elements each week in conversational exercises. Admission to each class series is $50.

For more information about classes and events at the Dietrich, please visit our website www.dietrichtheater.com.

Movie Times: (570)836-1022

	Coming Soon Spring 2010 Film Festival (April 9 to April 22) At the Dietrich Theater in downtown Tunkhannock Opening Night Gala - Friday, April 9 at 6:00 pm Gala Tickets: $45 each Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, two films - The Last Station and An Education, and desserts by Epicurean Delight. Reservations are required for gala night only. Call 570-996-1500 for tickets.
www.DietrichTheater.com Friday, March 19, 2010
At The Dietrich by Hildy Morgan What a wonderful, wonderful weekend we had! The Grapes of Wrath was so much more than we dreamed it could be. Jennifer Jenkins directed a superb production of true community theater – not a pro in the bunch and yet I dare say it was every bit as good as last year’s Our Town! It was one of the most gratifying things that’s ever happened here to see the theater completely full on Sunday afternoon, and to see the actors just shine for their final performance. All in all, it was a grand five days. Thank you one and all! Okay, next big, big, big event, of course, is the Spring Film Festival Gala night! Now, Jeffrey couldn’t get us a film that hadn’t opened yet because right now there isn’t anything suitable for festival. So, maybe in the fall we’ll once again open a film before NY or LA. But that isn’t to say that we don’t have two absolutely incredible films to start one of the best festivals in years! First film of the night is The Last Station – the story of Tolstoy’s (played by Christopher Plummer) final days and his wish to leave his work to the Russian people and his wife’s wish that he leave them to her. It stars the grand dame of British films, Helen Mirren, who got an Oscar nomination for her efforts. The second film is An Education, starring Carey Mulligan, who also got an Oscar nod. It’s about a young girl who gets an education of a different sort when an older man singles her out for attention. It’s been on every “Best” list this year (as has The Last Station) and is an interesting and uplifting story of a young woman who finds that life isn’t always what you deem it to be. And remember, not only are both these films superb, but that night we have food for you from three of the best prepares of good eats in the entire northeast! Twigs, Seasons and Epicurean Delight will be preparing niblets to excite your palates, and then between movies Epicurean sets up a dessert table to die for! (I always pray there is just the tiniest piece of lemon cake left for when I go through the line (there always is). Plus then we have the grand wine from Nimble Hill which makes it a spectacular evening of great food, great movies and superb wine. And remember that when you come to gala night, you are getting a superb evening of entertainment, and you are also helping the Dietrich out with one of it’s bigger fund-raisers of the year. So it’s a two-fold gift. First, you get one of the best evenings ever (!) and second, you get to help out our cultural programming. Now that’s a pretty good deal, don’t you think? So don’t wait. You don’t want to get on the dreaded waiting list. Call 996-1500 and reserve your tickets today for an evening that is perfect for foodies and movie buffs alike! A couple more things to tell you about. On this coming Sunday at 2:00 in the Evans Theater, actress and historian Monica Hoffman will do a one woman show about the life and times of Amelia Earhart. It looks to be completely fascinating. I know that today we just accept that women can do anything a man can do (and as Ginger Rogers used to say – she could do everything Fred Astaire could do only backwards and in high heels!) but in Amelia’s day that wasn’t the case. She was a high spirited trail blazer and I’m sure this show is going to be terrific! Call 996-1500 for reservations, or just come by on Sunday afternoon – we’ll keep the light on for ya! Finally, Saturday morning (March 20) we have Arts Open House wherein most of the Dietrich Instructors will give you a taste of what they do so you can decide if you’d like to take a class or not. It’s really great fun and gives you a chance to “taste” all the programming we offer. So that’s the week. Next week I’ll give you a rundown on all the films for festival. I wasn’t kidding when I said I think it might be our best festival ever! See you at the Dietrich.	Now Showing www.dietrichtheater.com/movie or (570)836-1022 for times Diary of a Wimpy Kid March 19, 2010 - April 8, 2010 Shutter Island March 19, 2010 - March 25, 2010 GREEN ZONE March 12, 2010 - March 25, 2010 Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief March 20, 2010 - March 21, 2010 ALICE in WONDERLAND March 5, 2010 - March 25, 2010 Coming Soon www.dietrichtheater.com/preview or (570)836-1022 for times Events www.dietrichtheater.com/event or (570)996-1500 to reserve Arts for Everyone Open House March 20, 2010 Determined Spirit: The Story of Amelia Earhart March 21, 2010 Spring 2010 Film Festival April 9, 2010 - April 22, 2010 Tom Knight Puppet Show April 13, 2010 Earth Day & Arbor Day Celebration April 24, 2010 Jammin' with George Wesley April 24, 2010 The Pennswood Guitar Quartet Concert April 25, 2010 Faces of Tunkhannock Photo Contest May 3, 2010 - May 3, 2010 Alive to the Call May 2, 2010 Dietrich Radio Players Performance May 25, 2010 Watkins Glen Bus Trip June 2, 2010 Auction Basics June 8, 2010 Shakespeare in the Park June 26, 2010 Bus Trip to Everhart Museum July 10, 2010 Adaptation: Another Form of Translation? July 17, 2010 Looking to the River July 17, 2010 Celebrate Our River Day July 24, 2010 Classes www.dietrichtheater.com/class or (570)996-1500 to enroll Exploring Painting March 11, 2010 - April 2, 2010 If You Build It! March 2, 2010 - March 30, 2010 Little People & Nature March 9, 2010 - March 31, 2010 Mixed Media, ages 5 - 12 January 14, 2010 - April 2, 2010 Intergenerational Quilting, ages 13 and up January 13, 2010 - March 31, 2010 Open Studio for Painting, Drawing & Pottery - Days January 11, 2010 - March 29, 2010 Open Studio: Painting, Drawing, & Pottery - Nights January 12, 2010 - March 30, 2010 Beginning Bead Crochet March 16, 2010 - March 30, 2010 Creat a Felted Hat March 17, 2010 - March 31, 2010 Decorative Painting, for ages 16 and up January 20, 2010 - March 31, 2010 Introduction to Stained Glass March 29, 2010 Jewelry Making: Introduction to Glass Fusing March 22, 2010 - April 5, 2010 Pottery & Sculpture January 11, 2010 - March 29, 2010 Introduction to Spanish April 12, 2010 - May 17, 2010 Conversational Spanish May 24, 2010 - July 5, 2010	Live at The Dietrich by Erica Rogler In just three weeks the Dietrich’s Spring 2010 Film Festival will be kicked off. From Friday, April 9 to Thursday, April 22, join us for fourteen days of sixteen foreign, independent, and art films. The movies that Hildy, Ronnie and the theater’s movie buyer, Jeffery Jacobs, selected are tops! They include The Art of the Steal, Broken Embraces, An Education, Fresh, Ghost Writer, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Last Station, Me and Orson Welles, The Messenger, Nine, North Face, The Road, A Single Man, Terribly Happy, That Evening Sun, and The Young Victoria. I can’t wait to see so many of these films; so many look so intriguing. For Opening Night, April 9 at 6 pm, the Dietrich will play The Last Station, starring Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren, and An Education. To compliment the acclaimed films of the evening, Epicurean Delight, Twigs Restaurant, and Seasons Restaurant will delight us with delicious hors d’oeuvres, Nimble Hill Vineyard & Winery will provide a great selection of wines, and Epicurean Delight will supply sumptuous desserts. Tickets are $45 each and can be reserved by calling the Dietrich at 570-996-1500. This is an evening you won’t want to miss. In addition to the film festival in April, the Dietrich will be hosting a fantastic concert on Sunday, April 25 at 3 pm featuring the Pennswood Guitar Quartet. This exciting new chamber group in northeastern Pennsylvania is comprised of four accomplished musicians - Rembert Meszler, George Sprengelmeyer, Jay Steveskey, and Charles Truitt. This quartet will take the Dietrich stage to perform beautiful, diverse, and challenging compositions from around the world and throughout the ages. They will showcase the music of Boccherini, Brouwer, Torroba, Machado, Duarte and Sor. Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased at the Dietrich Theater ticket booth or by calling 570-996-1500. The Dietrich also has some great classes coming up. On Monday, March 29 from 6:00 - 9:00 pm, learn the basics of creating stained glass. Esther Harmatz will teach you how to work with a design, cut glass, polish, foil wrap and solder. Each student will leave with a finished item. All glass supplies and equipment will be provided. Admission is $55. Then in April, Victoria Romero will start up her Spanish for Adults series. What a great opportunity to learn this widely used language! During Introduction to Spanish on Mondays, April 12 to May 17 from 7:00 - 8:00 pm, students will learn basic Spanish phrases and vocabulary using a variety of teaching methods. Hispanic culture will also be explored. This class will be tailored to individuals’ personal language learning goals. I took Victoria’s Introduction to Spanish class about a year ago and learned so much. Her teaching methods made learning the language fun. For those of you who have some basic knowledge of the Spanish language, Victoria will be offering Conversational Spanish on Mondays, May 24 to July 5 from 7:00 - 8:00 pm. This class will begin with a review of basic vocabulary and sentence structure. The class will then focus on learning additional vocabulary, verb conjugation, and key elements of Spanish grammar. Students will incorporate these elements each week in conversational exercises. Admission to each class series is $50. For more information about classes and events at the Dietrich, please visit our website www.dietrichtheater.com.
Movie Times: (570)836-1022 General Information: (570)996-1500