IT’S BEEN six years since Savannah’s Jewish community sponsored the First Annual Joan and Murray Gefen Memorial Savannah Jewish Film Festival — the initial funding for which came through a […]
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New TV pilot looks at haunted Savannah
LET’S face it. Many of the people who bring money to Savannah have been dead for years — sometimes centuries. The designation of Savannah as America’s Most Haunted city a […]
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Masquers go Full Monty
“LADIES, the time to grab is now!” Such were the first words I heard upon walking into Jenkins Theatre as director Benjamin Wolfe was giving notes to his cast. Damn, […]
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‘Probe’: Work by Blazo Kovacevic
MODERN technologies often have their origins in scientists’ philosophical or even playful experiments. They are almost immediately taken over by State institutions – for example, photography became very quickly in […]
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Finally, Flannery
SHE SPENT most of her life elsewhere, but there’s no denying the impact that Savannah had on Flannery O’Connor. The great writer was born in 1925 at the old St. […]
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Cardinal Rep does Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
EVER wished for a “Behind the Music” version of Hamlet? Ever wondered who the heck were some of those characters lurking in corners at Elsinore Castle? Wonder no more as […]
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New releases: Coraline, The International
Coraline Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas was actually Henry Selick’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, given that it was the latter who actually directed the film. Here, he displays his […]
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The ‘beach theater’, reborn
LAYOFFS. Budget cuts. Hiring freezes. None of these are pleasant to any business, but they’re especially disheartening to a nonprofit organization. Donors have less to give, memberships slacken and already […]
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Blues for an Alabama Sky
TERESA-MICHELLE WALKER loved Blues for an Alabama Sky when she was a student at Georgia Southern University. These days, Walker is the one in charge. She teaches theater at Savannah […]
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The Shape of Things
WHERE DOES art stop and crassness begin? Such is the question asked by director Lawrence Ballard and the cast of The Shape of Things, a Neil Labute play coming to […]
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New releases: Push, Taken
Push If Push comes to shove, then the only sound advice is to stay away from the theater and re-watch X-Men on DVD. Certainly, that’s an infinitely superior mutant movie, […]
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Everything else that’s out there
Defiance The landmark 1970s TV miniseries Holocaust and the 2002 theatrical release The Grey Zone both touched upon the topic, but Edward Zwick’s Defiance might be the first celluloid outing […]