The Pistarckle Moment - Our Friday Surprise
b'What\'s going on at Pistarckle Theater this week and into the Summer Season? Well, let\'s a look!\\n\\nPistarckle Theater Named Finalist for National Award\\xa0in May 2017. The Pistarckle Theater Performing Arts Youth Program was recently named as 1 of 50 finalists in the 2017 National Arts &Humanities Youth Program (NAHYP).\\xa0\\n\\nThe Pistarckle Moment\\xa0Radio Show airs every Friday at 1:30 pm Eastern with Etienne A. Gibbs,\\xa0Talk Show Host & Executive Producer of\\xa0Virgin Islands\\xa0Small Biz Showcase.\\xa0Learn more about Pistarckle Theater by listening\\xa0in\\xa0any time, to any of our on-demand radio programs. Click here to go to our\\xa0News page.\\n\\nThree original plays were presented for the 1st time on the Pistarckle Theater stage at the 2017\\xa0New\\xa0Playwrights\\xa0Festival (NPF) May 20, 2017.\\xa0Pistarckle, a community, featured the readings of the 1st acts of\\xa0Bone is for Dog; Meat is for Man, by Stacey A. Bryan,\\xa0How to be an Immigrant\\xa0by Dr. Gillian Royes, &\\xa0Alternative Facts\\xa0by Matthew Hamilton-Kraft.\\n\\nThe audience commented that they were thrilled to get\\xa0a sneak peak of the presentation of the original plays.\\xa0Ms\\xa0Gloria Gumbs, 2017\\xa0NPF\\xa0Chair,\\xa0said,\\xa0"I was very pleased with the audience\'s receptive reactions. The plays garnered laugh-out-loud to shock responses as each story unfolded."\\xa0 The development of the\\xa0NPF\\xa0was initiated by\\xa0Ms\\xa0Gumbs in 2015, while she was the Board President.\\xa0Visit\\xa0Pistarckle Theater!'