theater
MINDS WIDE OPEN: Celebrating Women in the Arts
Virginia’s first celebration for art contributions made by women.
The Endstation Theatre Company at Sweet Briar
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.
Waterworks Players Announces Cast for Brigadoon
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.
Steel Magnolias at the Appomattox Courthouse Theatre
Truvy’s Beauty Shop will be open for business Friday April 24 and Saturday April 25 at the Appomattox Courthouse Theatre. All the ladies, M’Lynn, Shelby, Ouiser and Clairee gather at Truvy’s to get their hair done by Truvy and Annelle, to gossip and trade opinions.
The Local Arts Scene
I remember my wife (Elizabeth) and I stopping in downtown Appomattox sometime after last Thanksgiving to look for a few holiday gifts. We’d always heard that it was best to shop locally – support town merchants, build the tax base, and save gas – but what if you wanted to buy something unusual, like a purse made out of a cigar box? Wasn’t the arts and craft scene much livelier in Farmville and Lynchburg?
The Noisy Man
Haunted theaters are a common enough thing and this should come as no surprise, actors being creative and highly susceptible to suggestion. The theater abounds with superstitions, too. Some of them pretty peculiar to outsiders who don’t know the history behind the superstition.
Appomattox Business Honored by Longwood Center for the Visual Arts
The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts presented their thirteenth annual Community Achievement in the Arts Awards, Saturday evening, April 19, 2008, in Farmville, Virginia. Baine’s Books and Coffee, a landmark Appomattox business located on Main Street, was recipient of the Business Award. Bryan Baine and his wife Debbie were present to accept the honor.
