Reports of the imminent demise of Savannah’s community theatres may have been premature. JinHi Soucy Rand, a community activist who happens to be an 18–year veteran of the local stage […]
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Bruce Goldman means business
They say that while an actor may leave the stage, the stage never really leaves the actor. Bruce Goldman, who has the lead role of Tevye the Milkman in this […]
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Breaking news: Tyler Perry coming to Savannah
The one and only Tyler Perry is coming to Savannah April 13 and 14, in the cast of his own Madea’s Big Happy Family. Tickets for the Savannah Civic Center […]
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The final curtain?
Next June, the Little Theatre of Savannah will celebrate 60 years with a big birthday bash. If they can find a place to hold it, that is. And no one’s […]
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Can you tell me how to get to ‘Avenue Q’?
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark TV series Sesame Street. All similarities between that beloved preschooler program and the musical comedy Avenue Q, however, end there. Don’t […]
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That’s Mister Mercer to you
While most everyone has gotten the word that this year marks the centennial of Johnny Mercer’s birth, comparatively few people really know that much about the Savannah native and Oscar-winning […]
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Katrina in Scotland
With a performance of The Katrina Project: Hell and High Water, the Savannah Arts Academy Theatre Department will perform in the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland next summer. In […]
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To stage a Mockingbird
In 2003, the American Film Institute ranked Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th Century. The protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird – memorably portrayed in a beloved […]
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A new look at Anne Frank
When Benjamin Wolfe learned he had the opportunity to direct the Little Theatre’s upcoming production of The Diary of Anne Frank, he was a little hesitant. “I thought it was […]
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Ring tone from the great beyond
Like Alice through the looking glass, Jean — a timid New Yorker — discovers a portal to another world. But Jean doesn’t find mad hatters, murderous queens and psychedelic tea […]
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That’s the spirit!
When she was 7 years old, Lisa Williams began receiving messages, inside her brain, from the dead. A decade would go by before she realized that it was a special […]
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There’s no business like ‘I Love a Piano’
Give Irving Berlin 88 keys and a half hour, and he’d come up with a song that would soon have America singing. He loved a piano, did our Irving: So […]