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The ten finalists are chosen by the theater’s artistic team, and ultimately three winners will take part in the Festival.

It’s been a strange few years. Like you, I was so glad to see theaters and galleries and museums begin to reopen. I’ve missed you. I’m so glad you’re back. And now that there’s been a season to comment on, here is this year’s Nancies, my irreverent, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, totally idiosyncratic awards. Most Clever Ad ... The Nancies 2022

Kat is a self-made woman, an environmentalist pursuing her career with the zeal of the born-again and aflame with sympathies for the Vietnam protesters on Columbia University’s campus. She’s confrontational and proud of it. Henry is bright but tunnel-visioned, skipping boring classes until he’s close to failure and a “Greetings” letter from his draft board, but deeply in love with ... Review: Gulfshore Playhouse premieres an optimistic parable in ‘Another Revolution’

The ’60s were a time of great conflict and turmoil, especially 1968, the year in which “Another Revolution” — enjoying its world premiere at Gulfshore Playhouse — takes place. There were students protesting against the Vietnam War, young men being drafted to fight a war they didn’t believe in, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was ... “Another Revolution” premieres at Gulfshore Playhouse

They’re not twins. Still, the turbulent 1960s —with the Vietnam War, the environmental movement and changing sexual and cultural philosophies — is close kin to the new millennium’s second decade. That’s why New York playwright Jacqueline Bircher set  “Another Revolution,” in its world premiere at Gulfshore Playhouse this weekend, in the ’60s. (For details, see the accompanying information box.) “Although the play was ... Gulfshore Playhouse fights ‘Another Revolution’ with ’60s culture clashes not unlike today’s