Kristina Wong is the artist–in–residence for the 2012 Savannah Urban Arts Festival. That means she’ll spend four days with the effusively creative kids from AWOL, and at the end of […]
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Much ado about Shakespeare
“One incredible advance the world has made in the last couple of years,” points out AASU drama professor Peter Mellen, “is No Fear Shakespeare.” Indeed, the SparkNotes book series is […]
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Hello Dali
The critically acclaimed References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot takes to the stage this week in Savannah. As the name alludes, it is a surrealistic, tumultuous, romantic, rhythmic, and […]
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Commander-in-cheat
Profane, cynical, audacious, loquacious — November, opening this weekend at Muse Arts Warehouse, is everything we’ve come to expect in a play by David Mamet. From American Buffalo to Glengarry […]
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Motivated by the Bard
Lakesha Green loves her Shakespeare. The All Walks of Life, Inc. theater arts director studied the Elizabethan acting tradition in college, and four years ago when she came on the […]
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Rites of Spring
When Spring Awakening opened on Broadway in 2006, New York Times critic Charles Isherwood was, typically, tight–fisted with his praise. But he did manage to close with this corker of […]
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Playing around
The last two shows David I.L. Poole directed were pretty serious dramas. Poole helmed Angels in America with his independent group the Collective Face, and Frankenstein as part of his […]
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A man for all stages
For a stage actor, there is no better compliment than being called a Roscius. It’s a comparison to Quintus Roscius Gallus, a thespian from ancient Rome, largely considered the greatest […]
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Forever friends
First things first: Gilda Radner and Alan Zweibel were never an “item.” He was a writer for Saturday Night Live, she was one of the show’s breakout comic stars during […]
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Humor for grownups
Shel Silverstein’s children’s books have sold somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 million copies. The most popular of these, the touching narrative The Giving Tree and the poetry collection Where […]
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Everything olde is new again
From the halls of Scandinavia, Mesopotamia and Ancient Greece, Eve Butler’s epic tale began. For many days and nights, she read and ruminated upon the great adventure stories of old […]
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A Christmas vision
A lot has changed for the Performing Arts Collective of Savannah since last year’s inaugural performance of Langston Hughes’ Christmas play Black Nativity. First and foremost, Clinton Powell, who shaped […]