For Immediate Release: February 28, 2007
Media Contact: Amy Watson Bish, Delaware Theatre Company, 302.594.1104 x244

Delaware Theatre Company’s series of audience enrichment events, Connections: A Community Conversation, continues on Saturday, March 17, 2007 with “Marching Together: African-American and Jewish-American Relations in Civil Rights Era Delaware.” This event is presented in conjunction with the theatre’s production of Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry. This hometown panel discussion will explore how African-American and Jewish-American leaders interacted during the fight for civil rights in Delaware. The Connections forum will follow the 2:00 p.m. matinee at approximately 4:00 p.m. and run about 90 minutes. The event is free and open to the public and is partly funded by a grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information call 302.594.1100.

The panel will be moderated by Ralph Begleiter, University of Delaware’s Distinguished Journalist in Residence. Panelists include Littleton Mitchell, former head of the Delaware NAACP, Dr. James Newton, Professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware, Gilbert Sloan, board member of the ACLU-Delaware, and Nathan Barnett, former executive director of the Jewish Federation of Delaware.

“Marching Together: African-American and Jewish-American Relations in Civil Rights Era Delaware” will take place at Delaware Theatre Company, 200 Water Street in Wilmington. The event will follow the 2:00 p.m. matinee performance on Saturday, March 17, 2007, beginning at approximately 4:00 p.m. Admission to all Connections events are free. For more information, please call 302.594.1100.

Connections: A Community Conversation is partially funded by a grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Delaware Theatre Company’s 2006-2007 season is sponsored by JPMorgan Chase. Corporate Producer for Driving Miss Daisy is AstraZeneca, and Media Sponsor is WRTI. Artist transportation provided by Amtrak. Programs are made possible, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency committed to promoting and supporting the arts in Delaware. The Delaware Division of the Arts provides technical and financial assistance to artists and arts programs and serves as a clearinghouse for information on the arts.

Delaware Theatre Company, Delaware's largest professional theatre, is located at 200 Water Street, on Wilmington’s exciting Riverfront. Delaware Theatre Company is a member of the League of Resident Theatres, Theatre Communications Group, the Arts Consortium of Delaware, the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, the Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia, the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce, and the Wilmington Convention & Visitors Bureau.

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