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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Tyler Perry play coming to Schuster Center
The Victoria Theatre Association has booked a touring production of the Tyler Perry play “The Haves and the Have Nots” for performances at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 25 and 26, at the Schuster Center in Dayton.
Tickets are $41 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, at Ticket Center Stage in the Schuster Winter Garden, on line at www.ticketcenterstage.com or by phone at (937) 228-3630. Discounts are available to groups of 10 or more. Contact Betty Gould at (937) 461-8295 or betty.gould@victoriatheatre.com.
Starring Palmer Williams Jr. (“House of Payne” and “Madea’s Big Happy Family”), “The Haves and the Have Nots” is about the members of a wealthy family who are forced to confront how other half lives when their poverty-stricken maid asks for help.
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Five finalists in fiction and six in non-fiction have been chosen for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Winners in each category will be announced Sept. 20 and honored Nov. 13 during a gala ceremony hosted by Nick Clooney at the Schuster Center.
That event will also include presentation of the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award to author Barbara Kingsolver.
Fiction finalists for the only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States are: “The Surrendered,” by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead Books); “How to Read the Air,” by Dinaw Mengestu (Riverhead Books); “Beneath the Lion’s Gaze,” by Maaza Mengiste (W.W. Norton and Co.); “The Gendarme,” by Mark Mustian (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam), and “Kapitoil,” by Teddy Wayne (HarperCollins).
Non-fiction choices include: “Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978,” by Kai Bird (Scribner); “Little Princes,” by Conor Grennan (HarperCollins Publishers); “Unbroken,” by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House); “For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question,” by Mac McClelland (Soft Skull Press); “In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance,” by Wilbert Rideau (Alfred A. Knopf), and “The Warmth of Other Suns,” by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House).
Lee is also the author of the best seller “Aloft: A Gesture of Life.” Hillenbrand wrote “Seabiscuit: An American Legend.” “For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question” marks McClelland’s debut as a novelist.
Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing while serving as the Chicago bureau chief of the New York Times. Bird and co-author Martin J. Sherman won the 2006 Pulitzer for biography for “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.”
A panel of writers including Ken McClane, Eric Bates, Ron Carlson and April Smith will select the winners.
Launched in 2006, the award includes a $10,000 prize to each winner. It was inspired by the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords, which ended the war in Bosnia.
To be eligible, English-language books had to be published or translated into English in 2010 and address the theme of peace on a variety of levels.
“This year’s finalists help readers to see pressing political issues through the eyes of individuals whose lives are inextricably bound up in the larger world around them,” said Sharon Rab, chair of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. “Each work, in its own way, reminds us that even the most personal decisions can have a profound effect on the lives of people halfway around the globe and far into the future.”
For more information about the finalists and award, go to www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org.
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