Terry Baker Mulligan wins award!

Terry Baker Mulligan wins!

2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results

16th Annual Awards to be Celebrated in New York on June 4th

Congratulations and sincere thanks to over 2,400 independent authors and publishers who participated in our 16th annual, 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards contest. The awards ceremony to honor the medalists will take place on June 4th in New York, on the eve of the Book Expo America convention.

This year's entry totals are the biggest ever, with 4,813 print book entries, 390 e-book entries, and an average category size of 50.  The largest category was Memoir, with 213 entries; the smallest was Classical Studies, with just 8 entries. IPPY medals go to entrants from 44 U.S. states plus D.C., 7 Canadian provinces, and 10 countries overseas.

Here are the results of this year's awards, starting with the gold, silver and bronze medalists in our 74 National categories, followed by the Regional category medalists, our Outstanding Books of the Year, and for the first time, E-Book categories.

Outstanding Books are also featured on their own page: Click here to view.

IPPY medalist information and Press Page: Click here to view.

Check this article here - http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1534 

ME - This week!

Check out Motivating Excellence this week at The Riverside Theatre. TRT loves Rhapsody James, and we are so glad to have her back with ME's 3rd season.

Check out the new show's promo video. 

Sugar Hill, Where the Sun Rose Over Harlem

The Riverside Theatre presents:

Terry Baker Mulligan

Reading from & Signing Copies of Her New Memoir

“Sugar Hill, Where the Sun Rose Over Harlem”

Thursday, June 7, 2012
7:30 p.m.

Using Harlem’s famous cultural institutions and memorable characters as her backdrop,
Terry Baker Mulligan writes joyously about weathering adolescence, while history unfolds
around her in the legendary neighborhood called Sugar Hill.

This feel-good story resonates with humor, warmth and wisdom as Mulligan chronicles her life among flamboyant evangelists, curly-haired Doo-Wop boys, snuff-dippers, Fidel Castro’s entourage, interracial marriages, chitlin’ parties and testy interactions between West Indian immigrants and Southern blacks.

Meet Mr. Big B, the neighborhood numbers banker; join Terry at Apollo matinees, where she is dazzled by Ella, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dinah Washington, Miriam Makeba, Eartha Kitt, and R&B newcomers like Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. Neighborhood luminaries stroll the sidewalks: Mr. and Mrs. Thurgood Marshall with baby carriage; Sugar Ray Robinson exiting his pink Cadillac; and Malcolm X and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., politicking on the street corners. Young Terry befriends baseball’s Willie Mays in the local shoeshine parlor, paints posters for the 1957 March on Washington, and tries, but fails, to ingratiate herself into junior black society.

Sugar Hill is a living document of mid 20th-century Harlem.
The story it tells will appeal to an America that knows the tremendous shaping influence
Harlem has exerted on its national identity, both at home and around the globe.

Copies of “Sugar Hill” will be on sale at the theatre,
 and purchased copies will be signed by the author

FREE ADMISSION

RSVP HERE

More Mr. Joy!

Beautiful shoe art by Holly Griffin - Don't you want to wear them?

Daniel Beaty in MR. JOY at The Riverside Theatre

Written and performed by Daniel Beaty
Directed by Sheryl Kaller
Co-Produced by The Riverside Theatre and New Heritage Theatre Group
Associate Director/Choreographer: Joe Langworth
Scenic Designer: Charlie Corcoran
Costume Designer: Michael McDonald
Lighting Designer: Michael Gilliam
Sound Designer: Lindsay Lexi Jones
Projections Designer: Shawn Duan
Shoe Artist: Holly Griffin
Production Stage Manager: John Scutchins

Photo Credit: Richard Conde

Daniel Beaty in Mr. Joy

A beautiful shot by Richard Conde of Mr. Joy, Daniel Beaty's latest play, premiering at The Riverside Theatre.

Daniel Beaty in MR. JOY at The Riverside Theatre

Written and performed by Daniel Beaty
Directed by Sheryl Kaller
Co-Produced by The Riverside Theatre and New Heritage Theatre Group
Associate Director/Choreographer: Joe Langworth
Scenic Designer: Charlie Corcoran
Costume Designer: Michael McDonald
Lighting Designer: Michael Gilliam
Sound Designer: Lindsay Lexi Jones
Projections Designer: Shawn Duan
Shoe Artist: Holly Griffin
Production Stage Manager: John Scutchins

Photo Credit: Richard Conde

Exciting News!

Congratulations, Gineiris!

The Riverside Theatre is proud to announce that Gineiris Garcia of Dr. Glory's Youth Theatre program is headed to Yale University this coming Fall. Gineiris will be attending Yale for Drama, and it is one of the most prestigious Drama schools in the country. Gineiris plans to double major and to work on community projects within the city of New Haven. We are so very excited and proud. 

Mr. Joy on Broadway World

Check out our Mr. Joy mention on Broadway World!

http://broadwayworld.com/article/Daniel-Beaty-Brings-MR-JOY-to-the-Riverside-Theatre-20120501