Although he’s best known for the Pulitzer–nominated A Walk in the Woods, Lee Blessing is one of the most prolific playwrights of the last three decades. Three of his shows […]
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Fall Arts: Theater and performance
September The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. Bay Street Theatre and director Travis Harold Coles in the Savannah premiere of a drama torn from the headlines (see story in this […]
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Overture, curtain, lights
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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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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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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Mark your calendar: New theatrical shows
The Savannah Children’s Theatre’s new, starting–right–now mainstage production is the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Cinderella (dates are Jan. 14–30), with Caitlin Scott as the rags-to-riches heroine, and Richie Cook (Joseph […]
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A change of ‘Color’
Those familiar with Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Color Purple, which deals almost exclusively with themes of subjugation and abuse among poor black residents of the Old South, might […]
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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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Brushes with greatness
Boy With a Pipe, a 1905 canvas by Pablo Picasso, fetched $105 million at a Sotheby’s auction in 2004, breaking the record for the sale price of a single painting. […]
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The Art of nothing
It makes me physically ill that my best friend has bought a white painting. – Marc, a character in Art Things aren’t always what they seem on the surface. […]
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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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Review: ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’
There are so many things to recommend about Bay Street Theatre’s production of John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, it’s difficult to know where to start. This is […]