ShenanArts auditions for holiday show

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ShenanArts invites the community to audition for their holiday show The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut & The Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree: A Christmas Entertainment better known as The Butterfingers Angel. Created by William Gibson, one of America’s major dramatists (The Miracle Worker, Two for the Seesaw),…

ShenanArts announces auditions for Hairspray

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   ShenanArts will hold auditions this weekend for the first production in its new performance venue at Gypsy Hill Place in Staunton coming up in August. ShenanArts at Ntelos Theatre will open with the Virginia premiere of the recent Broadway hit musical Hairspray, directed by Colton Berry with choreography by…

Pufferbellies sales to benefit ShenanArts

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   ShenanArts will receive 10 percent of the Sunday sales in June at Pufferbellies Toys and Books in Staunton as part of the store’s Shop Sundays for a Cause charitable giving program, owners Erin and Susan Blanton announced this week. Founded in 1981, ShenanArts ‘ mission is to use theatre…

A new home for ShenanArts

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   ShenanArts unveiled its new home on Thursday – and had a couple of friends over to mark the occasion. “Ntelos has been very supportive of ShenanArts for a number of years. We certainly appreciate that. And they’ve shown their support here again and upped the ante,” said Mike Conner,…

ShenanArts to host Junior Opry

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  Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] ShenanArts will be hosting a session of The Virginia Junior Opry at its Stage4 Theatre, on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010. The show will begin at 3 p.m., and proceeds will go to benefit ShenanArts’ re-location fund. The Virginia Junior Opry was formed in the early ’90s, by Staunton native,…