ONE OF Savannah’s most unique performing arts events, the 24 Hour Play Festival, happens this weekend. No, the plays aren’t a day long. The 24 hours is the amount of […]
Theatre
The Last Five Years will break your heart
Presented by No Day But Today Productions (founded by stars from several Savannah troupes), Jason Robert Brown’s 2002 musical is sure to be an emotional journey, chronicling the many thrills, pains, and complications of a marriage.
A new visit to the Little Shop
LITTLE Shop of Horrors is one of the most popular and widely-seen productions in theatrical history. Much like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, people seem to have an endless appetite […]
Cool off with Almost, Maine
ARMSTRONG State University’s Masquers student theatre troupe is ready to cool down the summer swelter with imagination, romance, and a little bit of magic. Boasting a big heart and plenty […]
Review: The Taming of the Shrew by Savannah Shakes
As excellent as the two leads are, what makes this show really stand out is the supporting cast. Shrew is particularly blessed with distinctive secondary characters.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream like you’ve never seen
IT’S THE middle of summer and, well …. what better time to stage Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, eh? Hey-ooooo. Except Savannah Stage Company is doing no ordinary production of […]
Do you Shrew?
ONE OF the beauties of the work of William Shakespeare is its enormous adaptability. Productions of his plays have been set in virtually every time period imaginable—past, present and future. […]
(it)’s all the rage
Their style runs on creativity and imagination—don’t expect streams of puns or up-to-the-minute political jokes. Instead, marvel in the quick-stepping chops of a bunch of locals who dare to dream.
The Big Fish that won’t get away
THE WORLD can’t get enough of Edward Bloom. We first met the traveling salesman with big dreams in 1998 via Daniel Wallace’s novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions. […]
‘On the wheels of a dream’ with SCAD’s Ragtime
The play’s honest talk of race relations and police brutality makes it a coincidentally timely performance in light of Freddie Gray’s murder and the ensuing Baltimore riots.
Boeing Boeing: Collective Face soars high with ‘60s farce
Plenty to love in this Mad Men-era show
Menopause the Musical
“Let’s face it, it’s not Macbeth. But women get it,” says creator Jeanie Linders with a shrug. “It offers women a point of relationship so they know they’re not alone.”
