Upcoming Events

Get Your Book: Wyoming County Reads – Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

At the Dietrich Theater in downtown Tunkhannock and Tunkhannock Public Library

Presented by: the Dietrich Theater and Tunkhannock Public Library

Sponsored by: the Wyoming County Commissioners Office, Tom Henry, Judy Mead and Ron Williams

Start reading Ragtime now! Join us for book discussions in February and the Movie in March. Book discussions are free and open to the public as is the movie showing on Wednesday, March 6. Call 570-996-1500 for details about Wyoming County Reads.

Stories from Around the World

At the Tunkhannock Public Library

Saturday, January 19 at 11 a.m.

Snow date: Saturday, January 26 at 11 a.m.

Presented by: Master storyteller Fiona Powell

Sponsored by: Toni Hockman

Experience a morning of stories at the Dietrich Theater as acclaimed storyteller Fiona Powell sits at her spinning wheel and spins folk tales from around the world for us to enjoy. Wherever your ancestors are from, Fiona probably knows a tale from that land! Although Fiona specializes in tales from her native Wales, Scotland and England, over the years people have “gifted” her with stories from around the world. Call the Dietrich at 570-996-1500 for event details.

At the Dietrich Theater in downtown Tunkhannock

Friday, January 25 on 4^th Friday in Tunkhannock; Open Mic at 7:15 p.m. Feature at 8:15 p.m.

Feature: Breaking Ground Poets

Come prepared to get on stage or to be entertained. Musicians, poets, story-tellers, comedians, playwrights and other performers are invited to share their talents. Breaking Ground Poets, a Tunkhannock-based group of young people dedicated to self-expression, will perform after the open mic. Led by Katie Wisnosky, the one-year-old group is already known locally for its poetry slams, writing workshops and open mics. Open mic sign-ups start at 6:30 p.m. Reserve your slot early. Call the Dietrich at 570-996-1500 for details.

Ragtime from Barrelhouse to Broadway

Bus will meet at the Dietrich Theater in downtown Tunkhannock

Sunday, January 27- Bus will depart from the Dietrich at 1:30 p.m. Concert at 3 p.m.

Presented by: Pianist Gary Boerckel and soprano Bernadette Boerckel

Admission and transportation: Free

Sponsored by: Apple Wagon Antique Mall and Sandy & Ron Vieczorek

Pianist Gary Boerckel, host of “Music to My Ears” on WVIA-FM, and soprano Bernadette Boerckel will perform rags from the 1890s to the 1990s, narrating the story of the rise and revival of one of America’s most enduring musical styles. Music by Scott Joplin, Zez Confrey, William Bolcom and excerpts from the musical Ragtime based on the E.L. Doctorow novel. Join us in the Sordoni High-Definition Theater Studio at WVIA for this delightful program, which will be recorded for later radio broadcast. A light reception will follow. Free transportation from the Dietrich Theater to WVIA’s Media Center will be provided. By reservation only. Please call the Dietrich at 570-996-1500 to sign up.

This is the best day! Really, truly it is. I am writing this on Tuesday and the first showing of It’s A Wonderful Life has been seated and hundreds of bags of popcorn are being consumed and gallons of soda and a thousand million cheery “Merry Christmases” have echoed through the galleries and everyone is so happy, so full of the spirit of the season and it is so fine. So fine. So you see, it really is the best day.

Someone once told me that the theater is packed for those showings because they’re free. And I said (this is the clean version…family friendly) “oh, fiddlesticks! I don’t think so!” And the fact is, that’s simply wrong. We talked to folks who came from Wilkes-Barre and Honesdale, from Scranton and Montrose. They came to share the experience of one of the most optimistic and heartfelt films ever made.

It’s set in a far simpler time, when, admittedly there was a lot in our society that needed fixing, but where the violence we deal with today would have been entirely foreign to them. Imagine George and Mary Bailey hearing a story about some poor lunatic who murdered twenty children and six teachers in cold blood, and with absolutely no evident motive of any sort. That would have been so utterly foreign to their sphere of understanding that I doubt they would have been able to make sense of it at all.

Imagine George and Mary Bailey and their neighbors all having assault rifles that shot over ten bullets a second. It’s a Wonderful Life would have turned into a Quentin Tarantino movie!

My father once wouldn’t tell us a story about a small child who had died when an escalator had malfunctioned. He said there was no point in my sister or I knowing about such things. Bad things happen, he said, but rarely and there’s no point in you girls knowing about them. But today, my father’s protectiveness toward his wife and children would be considered odd. After all, the average elementary school child grows up with more violence as a part of his or her daily life then my father saw in Okinawa during WW2.

I’m not one who minds a lot of violence in films, but I really hate it when parents bring the wee ones to see them. Children don’t get the subtleties of plot, they just see all the killing. And eventually it has to have a numbing effect. I haven’t played video games, but I think many of them are very violent and children spend hours and hours and hours playing them. Can’t be good on an impressionable mind.

And we have to stop pretending that mental illness is a sin and must be kept secret. And that our government can endlessly cut funding to mental health programs. And that the mentally ill can play endless hours of video games and buy high powered weapons and somehow it will all work out okay.

Do I know what we can do? I have no idea. I just know that growing up we watched a program on the television at night – one -- (and that was when I was nine – we didn’t have one before that) just one, and then we read or talked or played games or whatever families did then. Televisions weren’t babysitters. We didn’t own a lot of stuff, but we had a lot of parental contact. We talked. And we didn’t believe, not my family or anyone else’s I knew, that guns would settle our problems. But there are so many guns. How do we get rid of them? We most likely can’t. How do we help the mentally ill in these times of budget cuts? Why would Hollywood or gamemakers or the NRA or anyone with much money to make and nothing to lose listen to any of us? Maybe they wouldn’t.

But we have to talk, anyway. We at least have to talk. Did you read that the one little girl murdered in Connecticut had pleaded to be able to wear her new Christmas dress to school on that terrible day. Her mother gave in and she wore it. It became her shroud.

We really, really need to talk.

Bless us one and all.

See you at the Dietrich.

Movie Times: (570)836-1022

	Dietrich Theater Christmas Gift Bags and Poppers make great gifts for employees, customers, family and friends. Give a gift that all will enjoy. Stop by the theater anytime to purchase or call 996-1507 to order any quantity in advance. Happy Holidays! Upcoming Events Get Your Book: Wyoming County Reads – Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow At the Dietrich Theater in downtown Tunkhannock and Tunkhannock Public Library Presented by: the Dietrich Theater and Tunkhannock Public Library Admission: Free Sponsored by: the Wyoming County Commissioners Office, Tom Henry, Judy Mead and Ron Williams Start reading Ragtime now! Join us for book discussions in February and the Movie in March. Book discussions are free and open to the public as is the movie showing on Wednesday, March 6. Call 570-996-1500 for details about Wyoming County Reads. Stories from Around the World At the Tunkhannock Public Library Saturday, January 19 at 11 a.m. Snow date: Saturday, January 26 at 11 a.m. For all ages Presented by: Master storyteller Fiona Powell Admission: Free Sponsored by: Toni Hockman Experience a morning of stories at the Dietrich Theater as acclaimed storyteller Fiona Powell sits at her spinning wheel and spins folk tales from around the world for us to enjoy. Wherever your ancestors are from, Fiona probably knows a tale from that land! Although Fiona specializes in tales from her native Wales, Scotland and England, over the years people have “gifted” her with stories from around the world. Call the Dietrich at 570-996-1500 for event details. Open Mic Night At the Dietrich Theater in downtown Tunkhannock Friday, January 25 on 4^th Friday in Tunkhannock; Open Mic at 7:15 p.m. Feature at 8:15 p.m. Feature: Breaking Ground Poets Admission: Free Come prepared to get on stage or to be entertained. Musicians, poets, story-tellers, comedians, playwrights and other performers are invited to share their talents. Breaking Ground Poets, a Tunkhannock-based group of young people dedicated to self-expression, will perform after the open mic. Led by Katie Wisnosky, the one-year-old group is already known locally for its poetry slams, writing workshops and open mics. Open mic sign-ups start at 6:30 p.m. Reserve your slot early. Call the Dietrich at 570-996-1500 for details. Ragtime from Barrelhouse to Broadway Bus will meet at the Dietrich Theater in downtown Tunkhannock Sunday, January 27- Bus will depart from the Dietrich at 1:30 p.m. Concert at 3 p.m. Presented by: Pianist Gary Boerckel and soprano Bernadette Boerckel Admission and transportation: Free Sponsored by: Apple Wagon Antique Mall and Sandy & Ron Vieczorek Pianist Gary Boerckel, host of “Music to My Ears” on WVIA-FM, and soprano Bernadette Boerckel will perform rags from the 1890s to the 1990s, narrating the story of the rise and revival of one of America’s most enduring musical styles. Music by Scott Joplin, Zez Confrey, William Bolcom and excerpts from the musical Ragtime based on the E.L. Doctorow novel. Join us in the Sordoni High-Definition Theater Studio at WVIA for this delightful program, which will be recorded for later radio broadcast. A light reception will follow. Free transportation from the Dietrich Theater to WVIA’s Media Center will be provided. By reservation only. Please call the Dietrich at 570-996-1500 to sign up.
www.DietrichTheater.com Friday, December 21, 2012
At The Dietrich by Hildy Morgan This is the best day! Really, truly it is. I am writing this on Tuesday and the first showing of It’s A Wonderful Life has been seated and hundreds of bags of popcorn are being consumed and gallons of soda and a thousand million cheery “Merry Christmases” have echoed through the galleries and everyone is so happy, so full of the spirit of the season and it is so fine. So fine. So you see, it really is the best day. Someone once told me that the theater is packed for those showings because they’re free. And I said (this is the clean version…family friendly) “oh, fiddlesticks! I don’t think so!” And the fact is, that’s simply wrong. We talked to folks who came from Wilkes-Barre and Honesdale, from Scranton and Montrose. They came to share the experience of one of the most optimistic and heartfelt films ever made. It’s set in a far simpler time, when, admittedly there was a lot in our society that needed fixing, but where the violence we deal with today would have been entirely foreign to them. Imagine George and Mary Bailey hearing a story about some poor lunatic who murdered twenty children and six teachers in cold blood, and with absolutely no evident motive of any sort. That would have been so utterly foreign to their sphere of understanding that I doubt they would have been able to make sense of it at all. Imagine George and Mary Bailey and their neighbors all having assault rifles that shot over ten bullets a second. It’s a Wonderful Life would have turned into a Quentin Tarantino movie! My father once wouldn’t tell us a story about a small child who had died when an escalator had malfunctioned. He said there was no point in my sister or I knowing about such things. Bad things happen, he said, but rarely and there’s no point in you girls knowing about them. But today, my father’s protectiveness toward his wife and children would be considered odd. After all, the average elementary school child grows up with more violence as a part of his or her daily life then my father saw in Okinawa during WW2. I’m not one who minds a lot of violence in films, but I really hate it when parents bring the wee ones to see them. Children don’t get the subtleties of plot, they just see all the killing. And eventually it has to have a numbing effect. I haven’t played video games, but I think many of them are very violent and children spend hours and hours and hours playing them. Can’t be good on an impressionable mind. And we have to stop pretending that mental illness is a sin and must be kept secret. And that our government can endlessly cut funding to mental health programs. And that the mentally ill can play endless hours of video games and buy high powered weapons and somehow it will all work out okay. Do I know what we can do? I have no idea. I just know that growing up we watched a program on the television at night – one -- (and that was when I was nine – we didn’t have one before that) just one, and then we read or talked or played games or whatever families did then. Televisions weren’t babysitters. We didn’t own a lot of stuff, but we had a lot of parental contact. We talked. And we didn’t believe, not my family or anyone else’s I knew, that guns would settle our problems. But there are so many guns. How do we get rid of them? We most likely can’t. How do we help the mentally ill in these times of budget cuts? Why would Hollywood or gamemakers or the NRA or anyone with much money to make and nothing to lose listen to any of us? Maybe they wouldn’t. But we have to talk, anyway. We at least have to talk. Did you read that the one little girl murdered in Connecticut had pleaded to be able to wear her new Christmas dress to school on that terrible day. Her mother gave in and she wore it. It became her shroud. We really, really need to talk. Bless us one and all. See you at the Dietrich.	Now Showing www.dietrichtheater.com/movie or (570)836-1022 for times THE HOBBIT: An Unexpected Journey December 14, 2012 - January 10, 2013 FLIGHT December 14, 2012 - December 24, 2012 LINCOLN December 14, 2012 - December 27, 2012 Monsters,Inc.3D December 19, 2012 - January 1, 2013 LIFE of PI December 7, 2012 - December 24, 2012 Coming Soon www.dietrichtheater.com/preview or (570)836-1022 for times Les Miserables December 25, 2012 - January 15, 2013 Events www.dietrichtheater.com/event or (570)996-1500 to reserve Stories From Around the World January 19, 2013 Open Mic Night - January 25 January 25, 2013 Ragtime from Barrelhouse to Broadway January 27, 2013 Hiking Through the Natural Beauty of PA February 2, 2013 Wyoming County Reads - Ragtime March 6, 2013 - March 6, 2013 February - Dance Films & Lessons February 10, 2013 - February 24, 2013 Open Mic Night - February 22 February 22, 2013 Under the Big Top February 23, 2013 Dietrich Theater Auditions March 2, 2013 - March 3, 2013 The Power of Story March 10, 2013 Open Mic Night - March 22 March 22, 2013 Reptiles and Amphibians of Northeastern PA March 23, 2013 Spring 2013 Film Festival April 5, 2013 Philadelphia Bus Trip to the Barnes April 11, 2013 Tom Knight Puppet Show April 17, 2013 Auntie Mame - Live Theatre! April 24, 2013 - April 28, 2013 Classes www.dietrichtheater.com/class or (570)996-1500 to enroll Holiday Camp December 27, 2012 - December 28, 2012 After School Theatre Arts February 23, 2013 All About Pottery & Sculpture, ages 5- 8 February 8, 2013 - March 1, 2013 All About Pottery & Sculpture, ages 9 -12 February 6, 2013 - February 27, 2013 Creative Characters From Paper to Puppets April 9, 2013 - May 7, 2013 Little People & Nature - Tuesdays March 5, 2013 - March 26, 2013 Little People & Nature - Wednesdays March 6, 2013 - March 27, 2013 Mixed Media ages 5 - 8 - January 2013 January 11, 2013 - February 1, 2013 Mixed Media, ages 5 - 8 - March 2013 March 8, 2013 - March 29, 2013 Mixed Media, ages 9-12 - January 2013 January 9, 2013 - January 16, 2013 Mixed Media, ages 9-12 - March 2013 March 6, 2013 - March 27, 2013 Movement & Storytelling for Preschoolers February 6, 2013 - April 24, 2013 Preschool Mixed Media - January 2013 January 10, 2013 - January 31, 2013 Preschool Mixed Media March 7, 2013 Preschool Pottery & Sculpture February 7, 2013 - February 28, 2013 Quilting for Kids January 9, 2013 - March 27, 2013 Writing Your Hat Off: Creative Writing for Kids March 5, 2013 - March 26, 2013 Quilting for Everyone January 9, 2013 - March 27, 2013 Decorative Painting January 16, 2013 - March 27, 2013 Design a Painted Silk Scarf March 18, 2013 Eating for Health February 21, 2013 - March 14, 2013 Fused Glass Artistry February 25, 2013 - March 4, 2013 Intro to Resin Molded Jewelry March 11, 2013 Introduction to Felting February 7, 2013 - February 21, 2013 Jewelry Making: Beaded Necklace & Bracelet March 5, 2013 Kundalini Yoga January 19, 2013 - May 18, 2013 Little Leather Luxuries February 11, 2013 Locker Hooking for Beginners February 7, 2013 Loom Beading Basics January 28, 2013 Nia February 5, 2013 - February 26, 2013 Open Studio for Drawing, Painting & Sculpture January 8, 2013 - March 26, 2013 Recycled Glass Artwork January 7, 2013 - March 25, 2013 Rev Up Your Immune System with Kundalini Yoga January 15, 2013 Simply Yoga January 2, 2013 - March 20, 2013 Writers' Group December 13, 2012 - March 28, 2013	Live at The Dietrich by Erica Rogler Live at the Dietrich for December 19, 2012 It is hard to believe that Christmas is almost here. If you are looking for entertainment for you and yours over the holiday break, the Dietrich is the place to go. Gather up your friends and family and enjoy some Hollywood fare and the best popcorn around at the Dietrich. We will be showing Lincoln, Les Misérables, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and Monsters, Inc. in 3-D. I can’t wait to see Lincoln. There is so much acclaim surrounding that film. Did you know that Steven Spielberg spent twelve years doing research for this movie, which is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin book Team of Rivals? That’s right - he recreated Lincoln's Executive Mansion office accurately, with the same wallpaper and books Lincoln used. I’ve heard a few folks say that Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field are exceptional in their roles as Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, respectively, and that they are planning to see the movie again. I also want to see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Les Misérables since I read both of those books growing up. The Hobbit is the prequel to the Lord of the Rings series, and from the trailers, it looks just as amazing as those films. And Les Misérables has an incredible cast including Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway. This is the first movie where every single song in the film was recorded live on set to capture the actors’ performances as opposed to prerecording the music and having the actors lip sync to it on set. Speaking of movies, Dietrich Theater gift bags make perfect gifts for just about anyone on your holiday gifting giving list. They are wonderful for movie buffs, teachers, teens, families, customers and employees. Movie bags are beautifully wrapped by Dietrich volunteers and contain two tickets, two bags to bring in for popcorn and two candies. Stop by the theater anytime to purchase them or call 570-996-1507 to order any quantity in advance. In addition to movies, the Dietrich will be presenting its annual Holiday Camp over the break. On Thursday, December 27 and Friday, December 28 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., students ages five to twelve years old will have the opportunity to explore the arts as they throw pots on potter’s wheels, create sculptures and design 3-D collages out of recycled household items under the direction of artists-in-residence Amy and Steve Colley. Admission is $25 and all materials will be provided. Gift certificates are available for this class. Call the Dietrich at 570-996-1500 to register. I would also like to remind middle school and high school students to sign up now for the Dietrich’s After School Theatre Arts program which will take place on Wednesdays and Thursdays, Jan. 2 through February 23 from 3:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.. During this class, aspiring thespians will create their own scripts, props and costumes; learn about stage managing, movement, lighting and sound. This eight-week program led by drama coach Jennifer Jenkins will culminate with a performance of their original production on the Dietrich stage. All students interested in working on stage or backstage are welcome. The theme for this production is "Under the Big Top". Admission is free. For more information or to register, please contact 570-996-1500.
Movie Times: (570)836-1022 General Information: (570)996-1500