
Waynesboro Cultural Commission offers two screenwriting workshops
The Waynesboro Cultural Commission is offering a workshop series with award-winning screenwriter Alexander Gillies on back-to-back Wednesdays, June 5 and 12.

The Waynesboro Cultural Commission is offering a workshop series with award-winning screenwriter Alexander Gillies on back-to-back Wednesdays, June 5 and 12.

Every magician would dream of having this title, but the only way to win this title is to be part of a magic competition. Unfortunately there is none in the Valley. That is until now! WTA’s Gateway will fill that void with its first WTA Virginia Magicians’ Competition.

Two of the Valley’s newest bands bring their unique take on bluegrass to WTA’s Gateway on May 11, 2013. Both Bourbon Barrel Congress and Many Nights Ahead were born in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley and share a common bluegrass heritage, but each uses that lineage to move to a style of their own.

The Three Sillies will bring two evenings of fun for the whole family to WTA’s Gateway on Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4. The show is an original theatrical production created by Boomie Pedersen, the Artistic Director of the Earl Hamner, Jr. Theatre. The performances are at 7 pm at 329 West Main in downtown Waynesboro.

The Waynesboro Cultural Commission announces its 2013 Writers’ series, an annual schedule of workshops designed to allow area writers to explore different literary genres. In response to great public interest, all the workshops will include two sessions in order to present more information to writers who attend. Writers of every level are invited to the workshops, and all are presented free of charge as a service to Waynesboro’s writers.

Due to the impending weather, Strategic Analyses of the American Civil War, a lecture scheduled for tonight at the Gateway Theatre in Waynesboro, has been postponed.

WTA’s Gateway has arranged for the return of The Richmond Comedians on Saturday, January 26. In celebration of their return the cover charge will be $5 instead of the usual $10. The performance will be emceed by Michal Ketner with Corey Marshall and David Wingfield. The performance begins at 8 pm at 329 West Main in downtown Waynesboro.

Bridgewater College associate music professor Larry Taylor will present an eclectic keyboard concert on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m., in the Carter Center for Worship and Music at Bridgewater College.

TV commercial set to run on Comcast in the Waynesboro/Staunton market promoting December 2012 events at the Gateway Theatre in Waynesboro, Va. Spot produced by Augusta Free Press.

That sense of wonder that you had as a kid when you saw your first magic trick – that’s what Steve Pittella is going for. “As we grow older, that wonder kind of drifts away. My catch-phrase is, Remember the wonder,” said Pittella, one of the magicians on the bill for the Magic Weekend in Waynesboro, Sept. 28-30.
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