Reports of the imminent demise of Savannah’s community theatres may have been premature. JinHi Soucy Rand, a community activist who happens to be an 18–year veteran of the local stage […]
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Up in the Air, Nine, Sherlock Holmes, The Road, etc.
UP IN THE AIR **** In the cinema of 2009, Ryan Bingham should by all accounts emerge as the Protagonist Least Likely To Be Embraced By The Nation’s Moviegoers. That’s […]
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Bruce Goldman means business
They say that while an actor may leave the stage, the stage never really leaves the actor. Bruce Goldman, who has the lead role of Tevye the Milkman in this […]
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Documentarian, artist, or both?
Photographer P.H. Polk spent nearly forty years as the official photographer for the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, after becoming the school’s first photography student in 1917. Over the course of […]
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Princess and the Frog, Invictus
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG *** Given the Disney studio’s recent disdain toward traditional hand-drawn animation, it’s sometimes hard to believe this was the company that over seven decades […]
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What’s Next: The Royal Comedy Tour
Comedy fans, take note. A king and a queen will soon be passing our way. A show booked for March 12 in the Johnny Mercer Theatre features a quartet of […]
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The Messenger, Everybody’s Fine, Old Dogs
THE MESSENGER ***1/2 Coming up with a compelling hook is half the sale, and writer-director Oren Moverman has found one with The Messenger, a drama that looks at the wartime […]
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No place like home
The title is The Nutcracker in Savannah, but it might as well be called The Savannah in Nutcracker. Because there’s an awful lot of Savannah in this elaborate retelling of […]
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What’s Next: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Tyler Perry
There’s a wonderful song on Mary Chapin Carpenter’s third album, Come On Come On. It’s called “Halley Came to Jackson,” and it’s based, Carpenter has said, on the works of […]
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Put these in your stocking
Grace Diaz Tootle directs the Little Theatre of Savannah’s annual Holiday Cabaret at the Freight Station, Friday through Sunday this week and picking up again the following weekend. “It’s simply […]
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His land is R.Land
R.Land may not be a household name, but for more than two decades, his work has blurred the lines between cartoons and fine art, and hidden serious messages behind hilarious […]
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Breaking news: Tyler Perry coming to Savannah
The one and only Tyler Perry is coming to Savannah April 13 and 14, in the cast of his own Madea’s Big Happy Family. Tickets for the Savannah Civic Center […]