ASC begins production of Winter’s Tale
This spring season, the American Shakespeare Center presents a play that has surprised and delighted audiences for 400 years.
One of Shakespeare’s later plays, The Winter’s Tale straddles the line of Shakespearean genre. Directed by ASC Artistic Director Jim Warren, The Winter’s Tale takes the audience through a tragic, dark turn of events in the first act including jealously, imprisonment, death and one dangerous bear. After the interlude, the audience is led quickly into the wonderful world of Bohemia, complete with foolery, dancing, singing and, most of all, love. The finale of this roller-coaster ride from tragedy to comedy is full of beauty and redemption, and will leave the audience believing in miracles. Read more
VDOT road-work schedule
The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton transportation district during the coming weeks.
Work scheduled is subject to change due to inclement weather and material supplies. Motorists are advised to watch for slow-moving tractors during mowing operations.
Also, when traveling through a work zone, be alert to periodic changes in traffic patterns and lane closures. Read more
Community Foundation announces upcoming grants
The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge will announce $175,000 in competitive community grants to 25 organizations serving the cities of Staunton and Waynesboro, and the counties of Augusta and Nelson at an event on Thursday, May 31.
The ceremony will be attended by the organizations receiving funding, past and present Community Foundation board members, and several fund partners. Read more
MBC grad translates layoff into future success
When the door closed on Cindy Good’s job as a clothing inspector, she could not have seen it, but a door of opportunity was actually opening for her.
Good will graduated from Mary Baldwin College on May 20 with a bachelor’s degree in history, a minor in education, and a license to teach elementary school. And none of it would have been possible without a twist of fate six years ago.
“Everybody was scared,” Good said, remembering the day she and dozens of others were laid off from a Wrangler Jeans plant in Luray. “We were all thinking, ‘what are we going to do?’” Read more
VDOT road-work report
The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton transportation district during the coming weeks.
Work scheduled is subject to change due to inclement weather and material supplies. Motorists are advised to watch for slow-moving tractors during mowing operations. Read more
Tarantino, 1600s-style, at Blackfriars
This spring season, the American Shakespeare Center presents a show that rivals anything audiences can see at the multiplex.
John Ford’s re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet leads audiences deep into a story of passion, lust, vengeance, greed, incest, and murder featuring an unlikely pair of lovers, an ex-girlfriend bent on revenge, the loyal sidekick, the comic character that comes to a tragic ending- all wrapped into one sexy story with a bloody and shocking ending. Read more
Bach returns to Staunton
The Bach Project of Staunton Music Festival resumes on Sunday, May 27, when Carsten Schmidt, harpsichordist and artistic director of the festival, turns to performances of J. S. Bach’s Toccatas and French Suites.
The artist is about halfway through the multi-year project, undertaking to play in concert the entire keyboard repertoire that Bach composed for adult players, 140 pieces that require more than 16 hours to perform. No one in the region has undertaken such a program, a herculean task likely to be heard only in one or two very large American cities or in Europe. Read more
