Playwright, Museum Receive 2012 Lights Are Bright on Broadway Awards

Catherine Trieschmann

Playwright Catherine Trieschmann and Discovery Times Square are winners of the 2012 "The Lights Are Bright on Broadway" Awards, given annually by Masterwork Productions, Inc. to recognize individuals and organizations making a difference in the Broadway theater community through faith.
Trieschmann is being honored for her play, How the World Began, which ran Off Broadway this season at The Women's Project in association with South Coast Repertory. It is an intelligent examination of the science vs. creation argument explored from both sides of the issue and prompts debate and discussion among theatergoers. You can read the review by clicking here.

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Discovery Times Square is being honored for its Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit which featured a number of the scrolls, including the oldest surviving copy of the Ten Commandments, artifacts and a stone from the western wall in Jerusalem on which museum patrons were encouraged to leave notes of prayer. It was presented with the cooperation of The Israeli Antiquities Authority.

"How the World Began breathed new life into a timely debate," said Lauren Yarger, executive director of Masterwork Productions. "Ms. Trieschmann creates complex, likable characters who are opposed on the issues, but very respectful of each other as people."

"The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit was a real treat," she continued. "It doesn't get much more literal about bringing the Word of God to the theater district and the museum did so in a way that was meaningful to believers while being interesting to those who had no religious connection to the scrolls. The exhibit also was respectful of all faiths."

Carl Cricco, director of marketing at Running Subway Productions will accept the award for Discovery Times Square. Presentation of the award to Treischmann has not been set.

The Women's Project  in New York, Julie Crosby, producing artistic director, is the nation's oldest and largest company dedicated to producing and promoting theater created by women. Discovery Times Square is is the destination for discovery through unique exhibits in New York. Masterwork Productions, Inc. is a Christian performing arts organization offering the only resource for professional Broadway theater reviews with added information about language and content at Reflections in the Light.

Past winners of "The Lights Are Bright on Broadway Award":
2009 Cheryl Cutlip/Project Dance & Dan Gordan, author Irena's Vow on Broadway
2010 Kia Corthron, author of A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Creek (Playrights Horizons) and Max McLean/The Screwtape Letters (Westside Theatre)
2011 Retta Blaney, producer Broadway Blessing at St. John Cathedral and Dave Davlos, author  of Wittenberg (Pearl Theatre Co.)