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The Blues Lady, Lorie Strother, and The Lady with the Latest, Olivia Rae Frock, will be headlining this month’s “River City Radio Hour” in Waynesboro. The “Radio Hour,” a production of the Wayne Theatre Alliance, the Waynesboro Cultural Commission and Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc., will also feature the second episode in the running series The…
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If you love, have loved or have been loved, the Wayne Theatre Alliiance’s special Valentine’s Day theatrical presentation is for you. Love Letters is the chronicle of letters written between a couple across their lifetimes. Starring in the show will be Wayne Theatre Alliance executive director Clair Myers and Llyn Walker. The play is being…
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Staff Report “The River City Radio Hour” returns Friday night at 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. with another installment of Matthew Warner’s How the Martians Stole Christmas, music from The Boogie Kings and the “Radio Hour” debut of Bufffalo Gap High School junior Aaron Crosby. Waynesboro Police Department Lt. Mark Kearney will serve as the…
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Photos by Crystal Graham and Mark Miller Blue Mountain Sunrise warms up those in attendance for the Wayne Theatre groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday. Waynesboro Mayor Tim Williams addresses the assemblage. Waynesboro City Councilwoman Lorie Smith was on hand for the big day. Ginny Ross and John Curry unveil the under construction sign. Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Wayne Theatre project seems to have cleared what had appeared to be a substantial political hurdle. “This is an important occasion that marks the beginning of hard work and determination coming to fruition. The Wayne Theatre has become an example of the effectiveness of public-private relationships and has been…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Wayne Theatre Alliance is hosting a groundbreaking ceremony today at 5:30 p.m. in front of the Wayne Theatre in Downtown Waynesboro to mark the beginning of work on the facade and the front of the 82-year-old landmark. The event will kick off at 5 p.m. with music from Blue…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] The big question after the May elections for Waynesboro City Council – one of the big questions, anyway – had to do with the future of the Wayne Theatre Alliance. I was among those who assumed that the Alliance and its planned $7 million renovation of the Wayne Theatre would…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Wayne Theatre Alliance is moving ahead with the planned renovation of the historic 82-year-old Downtown Waynesboro landmark even as its political future remains up in the air. “This is a great day for Waynesboro! It has been a long, but rewarding journey. We thank all those in the community…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Blues Lady and a Martian Christmas story will debut at the September installment of “The River City Radio Hour” in Waynesboro next week. The Sept. 19 edition of the “Radio Hour” will take place at the Blue Ridge Christian Fellowship hall at 329 W. Main St. in Downtown Waynesboro….
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] How’s this for a juxtaposition? Wayne Theatre Alliance chairman Bill Hausrath calls himself “an eternal optimist,” while I’m an preternaturally-pessimistic political realist. But while Hausrath is wondering aloud if the Wayne project can survive without already-promised city funding coming as expected, I think it can, or rather, that…
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