Three years ago this week, in these very pages, we reported on what seemed to be the death knell for community theater in Savannah. The story, headlined The Final Curtain?, […]

Miriam Center knew Johnny Mercer well in the last decade of the great songwriter’s life. Both were Savannah natives, and they shared not only a deep love for the old […]

There’s an argument to be made that the Biblical tale of Judas is one of the great modern–day horror stories.Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is one […]

Sebastian Venable is dead. This much we know. Although the events in Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer take place after Sebastian’s death on a hot beach in Spain, he is […]

Rodgers and Hammerstein would roll over in their respective graves if they heard “It Sucks To Be Me,” “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” and “I’m Not Wearing Underwear Today,” songs […]

Spoiler alert: The first thing you need to know about What the Butler Saw is that there is no butler among the characters. Or rather, consider the possibility that you […]

Give me three weeks, Benjamin Wolfe tells his students, and I’ll make a better actor out of you. Wolfe is the founder and director of the Savannah Summer Theatre Institute, […]

Parallel Lives  opens with two angels working out the advance details of humankind, starting with skin tones, an assignment from “The Big Guy” upstairs. His name is Cliff. Women, the […]

Some of the best works of literature just don’t translate to the stage. That’s why, despite attempts by the most well–intentioned dramatists over the years, the fiery fiction of Georgia’s […]

Few modern theatrical works have galvanized audiences around the world like Rent, Jonathan Larson’s musical about young New Yorkers dealing — as best they can — with poverty, betrayal and […]

The French existentialist Jean–Paul Sartre’s play Huis–Clos arrived on Broadway in 1946, adapted into English, by Paul Bowles, as No Exit. The one–act play can be summarized in one of […]