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Musical ‘Spelling Bee’ onstage at AASU
Eric S. Kildow has directed many plays in town, most of them at Armstrong Atlantic State University, where he is a part–time theater instructor. But The 25th Annual Putnam County […]
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Mark your calendar: Oryx and Crake
I was in Florida last weekend, visiting family, and several times I was asked about the music scene in Savannah: What kind of stuff comes through there? What are the […]
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Review: ‘Steel Magnolias’
Robert Harling’s comedy Steel Magnolias is so well–written, so beautifully paced, it would take an exceptionally opaque theater company to do it injustice. Happily that isn’t the case with the […]
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The flowers of friendship
Louisiana playwright Robert Harling wrote Steel Magnolias as a coping mechanism after his sister, Susan, died from complications related to diabetes. It’s the story of six close–knit Southern women jumping […]
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Mark your calendar: Still more ‘Magnolias’
Apparently, we can never have too many steel magnolias. Hot on the heels of the City of Savannah’s auditions for its Oct. 1–10 production of Robert Harling’s tragicomic play Steel […]
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Mark your calendar: Brian Regan
Comedian Brian Regan makes his annual pilgrimage to Savannah Oct. 2. Tickets go on sale Friday, July 30 for Regan’s 8 p.m. Johnny Mercer Theatre show. Regan’s one of those […]