She Goin’s Learn, written by and starring Lisa Strum
She Gon’ Learn – the Award Winning ‘Dating While Black’ solo play that was a surprise hit on the theatre festival circuit – makes its New Jersey debut at Merseles Studios, presented by Jersey City Theatre Center (JCTC) as part of its Disruption series.
via Press Release: Written and performed by Lisa Strum – and directed by Christopher Burris – this autobiographical ‘dramedy’ is at turns hilarious and painful as audiences accompany Strum as she comes of age and looks for love. She Gon’ Learn shifts back and forth through different periods of her life and includes eight different characters – a distant father, a wise and supportive grandmother, and several would be suitors – all portrayed by Strum, an accomplished actress and writer.
“Lisa’s play is both incredibly honest and incredibly funny,” said Olga Levina, Artistic Director, JCTC. “She shows us a segment of society often overlooked – African American women who are well-educated and striving to succeed in life, but finding the search for love to be surprisingly complicated and difficult. Her story is one many women can relate to, especially how she ultimately finds empowerment as a woman.”
She Gon’ Learn runs June 1 (7:30 pm), June 2 (8:00 pm), and June 3 (8:00pm) at Merseles Studios, 339 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, N.J. For tickets visit: jctcenter.org Continue reading
One of the many highlights of 
The Stratford-upon-Duncan Performance “Henry V” & High Tea (thx to 
Through May 31: SURFACE, a group exhibition features
February 2 – March 2
Friday, September 30 at 7:30 PM – 11 PM
Diane Stiglich earned her B.A. in art from the University of Texas at Dallas and M.F.A. from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She has shown her paintings in numerous shows in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. She has lived in Hoboken almost continuously since 1983, where she owns the Luna Rosa Home store. She is impassioned by memory and its nuances and also by how the ordinary can appear extraordinary. Diane negotiates life between the art studio, the martial arts studio, the store, the town and home, and she likes to write about them all. “Have You Seen Cindy Sleigh? and “Other Stories” is her first book. The book is published by Poets Wear Prada, a Hoboken publisher of beautifully designed volumes of well-crafted poetry and fiction.
The book and the paintings in this show are about confrontation and the moment when eyes meet and it is finally decided what one will do. The animals portrayed speak to the nonverbal part in us; they evoke the anima in us. The paintings and their animals address the unspoken forces each of us carries inside – strength and weakness and the intersection between them. This work was inspired by the intensity of physical training and the complex dynamic of life in the martial arts studio.