The first thing you notice about the children dancing and singing their way across the room is that they’re good. Not just that they’re talented, which, they are. These children […]
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Theatre: Blues in the night
The Savannah Community Theatre’s Ladies Sing The Blues – 50 Years of Torch is the kind of production that lets you just lean back and absorb the sound. The show’s […]
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Theater: Swan song
The musical set to open Aug. 1 at the Trustees Theater is boisterous, colorful and ultimately uplifting. Once on This Island is a singing and dancing delight, yet there is […]
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Theater: Will the real genius please stand up?
He may head Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Theatre Department, but Dr. Peter Mellon doesn’t get many chances to act. Mellon is happy he has a major part in Proof, a […]
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Theater – Gender bender
Imagine a play written for a cast of women who sometimes play men, that was written by a woman who might really be a man. Wait a minute — what? […]
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Theater – The other odd couple
Playwright Jon Klein has written more than 20 plays, but is best known for a quirky, Southern-fried comedy called T-Bone N Weasel. This story about two best friends with larcenous […]
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Theater – An actor’s play
Born into a Christian fundamentalist household, playwright Marsha Norman wasn’t allowed to play with other children or watch television or movies. However, she was allowed to read, play the piano […]
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Theater – Peter Pan syndrome
The Savannah Children’s Theatre production of Peter Pan will take off June 12 — literally. “We are flying,” says director Kelie Miley. “Shannon Kuanfung is Peter Pan and is everything […]
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Puppets for the public
Savannah is about to be overrun by puppets. The Southeast Region Puppeteers of America is holding a regional conference called the 2008 Puppet Gumbo Festival, and the Savannah Coastal Puppetry […]
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Theater: Coward’s comedy
If Pepi Streiff seems a bit distracted lately, it may be because she’s having to learn a lot of lines in a very short time. “I got the script on […]
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A view to a chill
MOST PEOPLE in this area know of the Oatland Island Wildlife Center as that secluded area about five miles East of downtown that’s home to a wide variety of wild […]
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Theatre: The Boy Friend
British playwright Sandy Wilson set his musical The Boy Friend in the 1920s on the French Riviera. First performed in London in 1953, The Boy Friend is a comic pastiche […]