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The Wayne Theatre Alliance campaign to return the former movie theatre to the community as a performing arts center was given a new boost. The Cabell Foundation of Richmond announced a major $200,000 challenge grant to the WTA, the largest single foundation grant to the Alliance’s capital campaign.
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The Wayne Theatre Alliance will unveil its first-ever Garden Walk on Saturday, May 16. From 10 am to 4 pm guests will be welcomed at five private gardens and two public gardens. Master gardeners will be on hand at some of the gardens to offer advice.
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Bill Hausrath, chair of the Wayne Theatre Alliance, announced on Monday that the renovated Wayne Theatre will be named The Paul and Virginia Ross Center for the Performing Arts at the Wayne Theatre.
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The Wayne Theatre Alliance’s 2014 dinner theatre mystery will focus on the Red Brick House. Inspector Kathy Johnson of Murder is a Game will use her new skills as a clairvoyant to solve the reported the death of the Union doctor and his burial in the basement of the Red Brick House.
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The Wayne Theatre Alliance announced on Wednesday that it has secured funding to proceed with the final phase of the effort to renovate the 89-year-old Downtown Waynesboro landmark. Video from Augusta Free Press with comments from executive director Clair Myers, WTA board member John Curry, Waynesboro City Councilman Tim Williams and Waynesboro city manager Mike Hamp.
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The I’s have been dotted, the t’s crossed, and the final phase of the restoration of the Wayne Theatre is set to begin.
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For many, the Wayne Theatre Alliance’s home tour has become a holiday tradition. The sixth Home Tour is scheduled for Saturday, December 6.
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The Wayne Theatre Alliance will join forces with the Heifetz International Institute to present a concert by Heifetz on Tour musicians at the Main Street United Methodist Church.
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The Wayne Theatre-sponsored Boogie Kings/Scott Helmer fundraising performance at Constitution Park in Downtown Waynesboro scheduled for Friday evening has been canceled.
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I remember being told, “Nothing comes for free.” I can attest to the validity of that. The Wayne Theatre qualifies for $3,000,000 in tax credits. At one time this infusion of funds for worthy projects seemed like ‘free money.’
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