After a summer that included impressive (and impressively large) productions of Cabaret and The Wizard of Oz, could our area’s theater season possibly get even better between September and the […]
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A review: ‘The Wizard of Oz’ on Tybee
How do you calculate the success of a family-oriented community theater production, a show that exists solely to entertain? Is it fun? Does it create a world of its own, […]
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Somewhere over Lazaretto Creek
What happens in Tybee stays in Tybee. Or so it might have seemed in the past, with the island and Savannah theater communities operating more or less independently of one […]
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A review: Bay Street’s ‘Cabaret’
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, Mary Poppins advised the annoying little twerps in her charge. Substitute “music” for sugar, and “politics” for medicine, and you’ve got […]
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Dark days and decadence
What goes around comes around. Cabaret takes place in 1931 Berlin; the play opened in New York City in 1967. The Oscar–winning film version appeared in 1972, and in 2003 […]
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Let’s make a Neil
Students in Armstrong Atlantic State University’s performing arts department are about to get a lesson in real–world theater. For the Masquers’ Summer of Simon series, they’re doing three beloved Neil […]
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The show must go on … quickly
Live theater is a pressure cooker, and the people who do it again and again absolutely thrive on it. If something goes wrong, or is somehow unintentional, you roll with […]
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That special kind of crazy
“Improv,” says Justin Kent, “is the perfect thing for a lazy actor, because you can do the show without having to learn the lines.” Kent is part of a fairly […]
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A review: SCAD’s ‘Hair’
Halfway through Friday night’s performance of Hair at the Lucas Theatre, it came to me: It’s not about the big songs, “Aquarius,” “Easy To Be Hard,” “Good Morning Starshine,” and […]
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Simon says
In community theater, a certain amount of risk is always involved. You can do the coolest, most cutting-edge play in the world, or a time-tested classic, and even if your […]
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A ‘Hair’ for all seasons
If you can remember the ‘60s, goes the old saying, you probably weren’t there. Movies and television would have us believe the ‘60s were all about peace, love, flower–power and […]
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‘Like it’ or not
“All the world’s a stage,” says the character Jaques in Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It, “and all the men and women merely players.” Immortal lines from an immortal Elizabethan […]