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An assortment of tasty and delightful desserts will top off the evening for The Wayne Theatre Alliance’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” dining event. Fine pastries and other treats donated by bakers from Albemarle and Augusta counties will temp diners already filled from gourmet meals served at 16 host homes during the Sunday, May 17,…
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The Wayne Theatre Alliance will offer “Saturday Special” performances for children on Saturday, April 25 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Awarding winner storyteller, Barbara Spilman Lawson, will bring her fun-filled performance for the whole family to downtown Waynesboro.
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I never got to live the ’60s, being born in 1972 and all, but I’m familiar with the concept. And I’ve been told by those who did that the times were alternatively psychadelic and quite groovy, of course, setting the stage for the Friday event being put on by the Wayne Theatre Alliance.
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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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