Plays
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By Staff Reports on 22 January 2010
Creative programming alliances link the past with the present.
Posted in Arts, Music, Plays, Travel | Tagged Colonial Williamsburg, Kimball Theatre
By Jennifer McManamay on 11 January 2010
Enjoy the arts, from the traditional to offbeat…
Posted in Arts, Exhibits, Music, Plays | Tagged Dance, Fringe Festival, Sweet Briar College
By Ronnie D. Lankford on 30 October 2009
The Appomattox Courthouse Theatre presents Dinner with Mimi in November.
Posted in Arts, Plays | Tagged Appomattox Courthouse Theatre, Dinner with Mimi
By Ronnie D. Lankford on 19 August 2009
In August of 2009, the Town of Appomattox can take two things for granted. One, that Appomattox Courthouse Theatre is preparing for a new season of great plays including its current production, Neglected Husbands’ Sewing Club. And two, that the local community can enjoy these performances within the historic setting of the old Appomattox Courthouse.
Posted in Arts, Columns, Hot Stuff, Plays, Steam-Powered Arts Review | Tagged Neglected Husband's Sewing Club, Paul Freed's Death By Chocolate, The Hounds of the Baskervilles
By Ronnie D. Lankford on 23 July 2009
One of the things I love about writing for Appomattox News is that it gives me – an introvert – a chance to get out more often. On a recent outing, I met Geoffrey Kershner and a number of the folks involved with the Endstation Theatre Company at Sweet Briar College. It was such a good experience, I planned to see as many of the group’s productions as possible during the Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival.
Posted in Arts, Columns, Plays, Steam-Powered Arts Review | Tagged Appomattox Courthouse Theatre, Endstation Theatre, Harvey, Shakespeare
By Staff Reports on 13 July 2009
Waterworks Players is pleased to announce that this year’s summer production will be Steel Magnolias. Set in rural Louisiana, playwright Robert Harling draws from his own personal experience concerning the death of his sister in order to explore how Southern women utilize humor to assist them in coping with difficult, personal situations.
Posted in Arts, Plays | Tagged Steel Magnolias, Waterworks Players
By Ronnie D. Lankford on 22 June 2009
The Bluest Water: A Hurricane Camille Story is a fictional memory play, focusing on the tragic events that unfolded in Nelson County in 1969. On August 19th and 20th, flooding in the aftermath of the hurricane left approximately 153 people dead; a number of bodies were never recovered. This year’s reprisal of the play by the Endstation Theatre Company at Sweet Briar College has special significance: 2009 is the 40th anniversary of this life-altering event.
Posted in Arts, Plays | Tagged Endstation Theatre Company, Hurricane Camille, Nelson County, Sweet Briar College
By Ronnie D. Lankford on 17 June 2009
Plays don’t produce themselves. Someone has to put the nuts and bolts of a production together, and even before that, someone has to form a theater company. This takes a little time, lots of sweat, and – if you really want to offer something special – a vision. But even with a vision, a theater needs at least one more element to pull everything together: a place to set up shop.
Posted in Arts, Plays | Tagged Enstation Theatre, Sweet Briar College, theater
By Staff Reports on 17 June 2009
The Waterworks Players next production will be the comedy-drama “Steel Magnolias” by Robert Harling. Auditions will be held at 7:30 pm on Sunday and Monday, June 21st & 22nd at the Waterworks Theater In Farmville.
Posted in Arts, Farmville News, Plays | Tagged Farmville, Steel Magnolias, Waterworks Theater
By Suzanne Ramsey on 4 June 2009
The 2009 Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival, presented by Endstation Theatre and hosted by Sweet Briar College, where the company is in residence, opens Friday, June 12 with an encore run of “The Bluest Water: A Hurricane Camille Story.”
Posted in Arts, Plays | Tagged Hurricane Camille, Monacan Nation, Shakespeare
By Ronnie D. Lankford on 29 May 2009
If you’re a homebody like me, a night on the town means finding a musical or theatrical event in Appomattox proper, and then grabbing a late night supper at the Huddle House. It’s not a bad thing, per se, because between Baine’s Books & Coffee, Friday Cheerz, and Appomattox Courthouse Theatre, there’s usually something worth getting dressed up and out of the house for.
Posted in Arts, Plays | Tagged Brigadoon, Farmville, The Waterworks Players
By Staff Reports on 6 May 2009
An enchanted Scottish village that appears once every one hundred years will emerge from the misty glen on Waterworks Players’ stage when Brigadoon opens on May 22nd. Look on a map and you will not find it, but look in your heart and there it will be.
Posted in Arts, Plays | Tagged Brigadoon, theater
By Suzanne Ramsey on 23 March 2009
This month, Sweet Briar College senior Liz Zuckerman will direct “Doctor Faustus,” a play in which title character loses his soul after making an ill-fated pact with the devil.
Posted in Arts, Plays | Tagged Babcock Studio Theater, Doctor Faustus, Sweet Briar College
