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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Two of Waynesboro’s major arts organizations – the Wayne Theatre Alliance and the Shenandoah Valley Art Center – have joined forces to create a new regional tradition. On Saturday, June 5, the first Arts of the Blue Ridge Festival will be held in Constitution Park in Downtown Waynesboro.
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] It’s a telling sketch. Local actor-playwright Ted Swartz plays a college student who comes home and tells his father that he decided to change his major from theater to pre-med. “I want to become a brain surgeon,” the young man tells his dad. The father, an…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The River City Radio Hour, Kid’s Avenue and the Wayne Theatre Alliance Children’s Hour mark a busy schedule of events for Third Fridays in Downtown Waynesboro.
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] PERKASIE, PA – It was one of those much anticipated magical moments that don’t happen often enough, so when it does, you try to savor every minute. Saturday, March 6, 10 Bishop first cousins assembled at Tom Bishop’s comfortable suburban Perkasie, home for the premier event…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] Theater at Lime Kiln will host open auditions for actors on Thursday, March 18th, at 6:30 p.m. at the Johnson Theatre at the Lenfest Center for the Arts on West Nelson Street in Lexington. This season, Lime Kiln is planning to produce three musicals, including the 50th anniversary of The…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] Fishersville United Methodist Church will be presenting a musical drama at Easter called “Bow the Knee.” The church, at 1600 Jefferson Highway, will be holding three performances in the week leading up to Palm Sunday – on Friday, March 26, and Saturday, March 27, at 7 p.m., and Sunday,…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] “So You Think You Can Dance” and “High School Musical 3” dancer Jaimie Goodwin will be in Waynesboro Saturday, Feb. 6, and Sunday, Feb. 7, to teach a benefit workshop in association with Old Dominion Performance Arts Studio. Goodwin was a finalist on “So You Think You Can Dance”…
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Valley native releases first album Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Amanda Mackintosh set off for Belmont University in 2005 hoping that one day she’d make her name in Music City. Her first album is coming a bit sooner than expected. “It’s pretty exciting that I already have an album coming out,” said Mackintosh, a Clarke…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] Do you love singing, candy, and getting wrapped up in a great story? Then Roald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka” musical auditions are for you! The Waynesboro Players in partnership with Imagine That! Theatre is producing this much-loved tale of the world-famous candy man on a quest to find a young…
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Robin & Linda Williams on the bill for Tuesday-night show Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] Court Square Theater presents a Hank Williams Sr. Tribute show at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 29. Tickets are $24 in advance, 22 for students and seniors, and all tickets are $4 more at the door. The tickets are available…
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