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Artist gives gallery a little 'Spark'

5/6/2007 8:01:23 AM

A year ago, artist Daniel B. McSweeney had a dream to create a place for himself and other artists to both work and show their art. But he a..
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MUSC art to comfort, inspire

4/22/2007 10:08:28 AM

In a hospital setting, the stress level can be high, not only for those who are ill, but also for those who care for them and for the loved ones wh..
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Palms object of artist's affection

4/15/2007 8:27:29 AM

From the Sabal palmetto, South Carolina's designated state tree, to the canary palms that reign over the Azores and Morocco with their bright orang..
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Series to return with rock opera

4/8/2007 10:07:57 AM

A lighthearted show based on the story of "The Coat of Many Colors" from the Bible had its genesis as a 15-minute pop cantata sung at a boys school..
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Footlight to stage British farce

4/1/2007 9:26:52 AM

The Footlight Players continues its 75th anniversary celebration with the presentation of the comedy "Out of Order" by prolific British playwright ..
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Dunnan new head of CCA board

3/25/2007 9:21:35 AM

John Dunnan, who chairs the Kennedy Center's National Committee for the Performing Arts, has been named chairman of the Charleston Concert A..
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Redux to feature media artist

3/11/2007 9:20:53 AM

Using technology as a means of interpreting the natural world, New Orleans media artist Kevin Jones will have an exhibition titled "Source C..
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Pure play a magical love story

3/4/2007 9:04:45 AM

Why is it that Celestina del Sol, 54, has been pregnant for two years?

"She is a rare and heavenly creature who has no concept of the passi..
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Growing artist guild broadens scope

2/25/2007 8:04:43 AM

Some may view the Charleston Artist Guild as a group of artists whose only goal is promoting their own artwork.

But nothing could be furthe..
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Village Playhouse to stage family drama

2/18/2007 10:42:45 AM

Is it possible for people to change?

That question composes the subtext of the family drama "The Subject was Roses," which won a Pulitzer P..
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Emmitt Smith talks football, dance at event

2/11/2007 8:15:47 AM

COLUMBIA - It was an evening of football and dance. And the man who has proven himself a champion of both was right there: Emmitt Smith, a football..
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A cappella performance fit for a 'King'

2/4/2007 6:38:18 AM

The Charleston Concert Association is reaching outside its subscription series with an "encore" presentation of the King's College Singers at 8 p.m..
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Fans can get their fill of classical music

1/28/2007 8:16:31 AM

The good news for classical music buffs this week is that the concertos of Tchaikovsky, the symphonies of Brahms and the chamber music of Debussy s..
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Nostalgia is hot ticket in Big Apple

1/21/2007 8:14:58 AM

NEW YORK - Overheard while passing the ticket office at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Broadway:

Woman: "Oh, no! Don't tell me that s..
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Comedy fest an improv bonanza

1/14/2007 9:22:39 AM

Audience members will be lured to the stage to compete for a mystery prize in a sketch by the Chicago troupe Don't Spit the Water, just one of the ..
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Post-holiday feast of music, art

1/7/2007 8:26:39 AM

A variety of musical events is in the offing over the next several weeks, including a light and airy pops orchestral concert on Saturday; a chamber..
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Pure hails new year with 'Pillowman'

12/31/2006 10:21:47 AM

Pure Theatre is not letting any sand slip through the hourglass during the first week of 2007.

The avant-garde theater company will welcome..
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Film may be showstopper like stage version

12/17/2006 9:09:57 AM

On a cold but shimmering Christmas Eve in 1981 at Broadway's Imperial Theatre, I saw Jennifer Holliday bring the house down with her defiant..
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Holiday classic 'Nutcracker' continues to enchant audiences

12/10/2006 7:32:22 AM

After 3-year-old Holland Nelson saw the little Snowflakes dancing amid "snow" coming down from above, she began to hum "Frosty the Snowman" at inte..
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Troubleshooter works to build up CSO

12/10/2006 7:53:29 AM

Laura Deaton unabashedly describes her new role at the financially beleaguered Charleston Symphony Orchestra.

"I'm a troubleshooter,..
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Civil War artist to show 'Sunrise' scene

12/3/2006 8:02:01 AM

Acclaimed Civil War artist Mort Kunstler of New York will unveil his latest painting "Sunrise Service" at 6 p.m. today at The Citadel's Bond..
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Artist paints city scenes from memories

11/26/2006 9:01:23 AM

Increasingly, Charleston appears to be an ever-changing scene of renovating or rebuilding, especially in the Upper King Street area between John an..
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'Aida' mixes modern music, classic tale

11/12/2006 8:00:40 AM

No, it isn't Verdi's famous opera "Aida," but it is a terrific way to appreciate operatic librettos through blazing rock, pop and rhythm and blues ..
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Gibbes benefit gala, art auction Friday

11/5/2006 7:58:27 AM

The chance to spend a week on the enormous luxury liner "The World," a floating condominium complex that travels to international ports, will be on..
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Fine art focus of events next weekend

10/29/2006 8:09:39 AM

If you walk the streets of downtown Charleston later this week, you may encounter people discussing the merits of various types of paintings, sculp..
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Vampire camp, classic musical this week

10/22/2006 9:27:41 AM

For those who want to celebrate Halloween in a theatrically raucous manner, Theatre 99 and Sunhead Projects will present Charles Busch's "Va..
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CBT to salute American music, dance

10/15/2006 10:41:01 AM

The Charleston Ballet Theatre opens its King Street Series this week with the "All American Getaway," a celebration of stage and film dancing chore..
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Actor puts imagination to use for kids

10/8/2006 9:12:23 AM

Charleston native Jerry G. White played the leading role in the Academy Award-nominated independent film "Gullah Tales" and was also in the ..
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'Cinderella' never failed to entertain

10/8/2006 7:21:05 AM

Right down to its shimmering finale, Jill Eathorne Bahr's charismatic choreography for "Cinderella," opening the Charleston Ballet Theatre's season..
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Play based on local tale of interracial love

10/1/2006 9:11:58 AM

Although the play premiered in 1966, director Joy Vandervort-Cobb believes "Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White" by Alice ..
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Getting 'Closer' with Theatre /verv/
9/24/2006 8:55:29 AM

The theater scene west of the Ashley will be jazzed up come Saturday night.

That's when actor and theater founder J.C. Conway plans ..
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Art calls attention to local shrimping
9/23/2006 9:07:02 AM

You have seen the bumper stickers in various incarnations: "Friends don't let friends buy (or eat) imported shrimp."

One of the Lowcountry'..
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Paris puts on a magical performance
9/10/2006 8:44:35 AM

On some level, all of Paris is theater.

This is true even at Shakespeare and Co., the famed bookstore where the likes of Hemingway and Fitz..
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Arts evolution
9/3/2006 8:30:31 AM

During the 2006-07 arts season, you may see the fiery turns of Twyla Tharp's "Baker's Dozen" at the Charleston Ballet Theatre, feast your eyes on t..
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Local theater heats up as summer ends
8/27/2006 7:45:55 AM

Although the calendar has not yet reached Labor Day, a time generally viewed as the unofficial beginning of autumn and the arts season, two diverse..
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Local theater league hires new director
8/6/2006 8:02:43 AM

The League of Charleston Theatres was founded in 2005 when representatives from five local theaters traveled to Chicago to see how thespians in the..
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Charleston native in 'Ex-Girlfriend' film
7/30/2006 7:18:14 AM

The impact of the College of Charleston's School of the Arts is being felt in some of the nation's entertainment capitals: New York and Hollywood.<..
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Pretty cool cats in the spotlight at show
7/16/2006 9:42:45 AM

Although the musical "Cats" ran for 18 years on Broadway, the real cat show ran for two days in Mount Pleasant last weekend when the Cat Fanciers' ..
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Director broke new ground on Broadway
7/9/2006 8:45:38 AM

On July 1, when I read of the death of Lloyd Richards, the first black director on Broadway, I immediately thought of cool, starry summer nights on..
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Favorite quotes evoke theater memories
7/2/2006 10:39:29 AM

Do certain lines or lyrics from plays or musicals pop into your mind from time to time? Perhaps at a given moment they apply to your own life, or p..
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Lowcountry to get taste of 'Broadway'
6/25/2006 9:06:30 AM

With a blockbuster of a season ahead, the North Charleston Performing Arts Center and the Nederlander Producing Company of America are selling seas..
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Tony Awards exciting - even on TV
6/18/2006 9:24:42 AM

I have always wanted to attend the Tony Awards, but never have had the opportunity.

At least one local theater aficionado has, though. Sam ..
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Gibbes acquires James Whistler collection
5/30/2006 4:07:46 PM

Caroline and Anton Vreede, a couple who moved from upstate New York to Kiawah Island in 2004, have donated 26 etchings and lithograph..
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Gibbes has big exhibit in the 'Hopper'
5/21/2006 9:18:45 AM

A "first" takes place at the Gibbes Museum of Art this week; and on the Charleston music scene, a new chamber music society has been launched.
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Mother's dedication influences love of arts
5/14/2006 8:21:17 AM

Oscar Wilde once said, "Theater is a reflection of life, only writ larger."

Since today is Mother's Day, I want to thank the person who fir..
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'Paradise' found at the Gibbes Museum
5/7/2006 8:40:08 AM

You may not think of Winslow Homer's misty bridges or Georgia O'Keeffe's sun-baked desert scenes as being remotely connected to the glistening, sun..
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'Nebraska,' Philly closer than you think
4/30/2006 8:03:49 AM

Two local theaters, Pure Theatre and the Village Playhouse, will open productions this week. The performances vary in subject matter from looking a..
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Good and bad news for CSO
4/27/2006 7:37:10 AM

A gift of $100,000 and the offer of free office space for five years were welcome news for the Charleston Symphony Orchestra on Wednesday, but it d..
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Flowertown to stage 'Lesson Before Dying'
4/23/2006 8:38:25 AM

'A Lesson Before Dying," Romulus Linney's stark drama that examines the way one faces the inevitable, will open May 5 as a production of the..
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'Millie' on modern-day tour at the PAC
4/16/2006 12:32:42 PM

I first saw "Thoroughly Modern Millie," one of the last of the old-time movie musicals, in 1967. It starred Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler ..
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Meeting star in 1981 'Taylor-made'
4/9/2006 9:05:57 AM

Driving home the other night, having just seen Lillian Hellman's explosive family drama, "Toys in the Attic," which is playing at the Villag..
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'Baby' looks at trials of parents-to-be
4/2/2006 9:22:55 AM

Three couples on a college campus and three different ways of viewing impending parenthood are the subject of "Baby, the Musical," to be performed ..
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Playhouse brings out 'Toys in the Attic'
3/26/2006 8:36:14 AM

The explosive theme of fragile family relationships will be explored in Lillian Hellman's drama, "Toys in the Attic" when the drama opens th..
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C of C to stage original play about Mozart
3/19/2006 9:58:17 AM

Who exactly was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? Outside of his life-changing music, who was he and how was he influenced by his surroundings?
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Critic leaves legacy of life well-lived
3/5/2006 7:58:07 AM

I recently had occasion to recall a balmy evening in California 16 years ago, when I attended a full-length comedy performed by professional actors..
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Rigby to take flight here as 'Peter Pan'
2/19/2006 8:09:38 AM

A former Olympic gymnast and the first American woman to win a medal in the World Gymnastics competition, actress Cathy Rigby has spent the ..
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Where to find music that says 'I Love You'
2/12/2006 8:43:32 AM

A musical valentine will be presented by the College of Charleston's International Piano Series when acclaimed French pianist Monique Duphil..
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Playwright's death a milestone for women
2/5/2006 7:52:37 AM

'The women's movement, the one which said, 'Your voice is worthwhile,' is the only reason I feel like a person," Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright ..
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CSO makes sure love is in the air this week
1/29/2006 7:51:45 AM

Classical music concerts, an original play featuring nudity and a self-guided exhibit of African-American art are all part of this week's eclectic ..
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Hot Tickets
1/22/2006 7:48:49 AM

NEW YORK ? The "fabulous invalid" (as Broadway theater often is called) is home from the hospital.

For some reason, and no one can quite pi..
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Despite transit strike, these 'cats' were cool
1/22/2006 7:48:49 AM

NEW YORK ? The glitz and glamour of Broadway had their genesis in 1866, when Charles M. Barras' "The Black Crook" was staged at Niblo's Garden, a 3..
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Theater scene has something for everyone
1/15/2006 9:16:50 AM

Area theater offerings this week will let you have your pick of tragedy, tragicomedy or a comedy festival.

In "The House of Blue Leaves," p..
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'This Is How It Goes' at Pure Theatre
1/8/2006 8:38:02 AM

Oscar Wilde once said that the life-blood of theater is the element of surprise.

This is an adage that Pure Theatre adheres to, as over the..
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Dunnan head of Kennedy Center committee
12/18/2005 8:19:07 AM

Charleston resident John Dunnan has been named chairman of the Kennedy Center's National Committee for the Performing Arts (NCPA), the perma..
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Spoleto picks later date to announce '06 lineup
12/11/2005 7:52:05 AM

The Spoleto Festival USA, to be held May 26-June 12, is releasing this year's schedule six weeks later than festival organizers have done in previo..
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Two versions of 'Nutcracker' being offered
12/4/2005 9:21:08 AM

Snowflakes will flutter, flowers will waltz and mice will scurry as the most famous ballet in the world, "The Nutcracker," will be perform..
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Theater troupes to offer yuletide humor
11/27/2005 9:06:30 AM

Sometimes holiday traditions become overwhelming. At that time, it's better to chuckle at the high expectations each yuletide season promises but o..
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A Christmas Ghost Story
11/27/2005 9:06:30 AM

His new adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol' will be positively haunting if director Julian Wiles has his way. This will be no dreary retelling of an ..
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C of C teacher's work played at Kennedy Center
11/20/2005 8:17:01 AM

'The People Could Fly," a musical composition by College of Charleston faculty member Trevor Weston, was performed by the Starling Chamber Orchestr..
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CBT to take a stroll down Broadway
11/13/2005 7:42:13 AM

Yes, you still can have fun in a nursing home, even if you have to depend on a walker to get to the sink to mix your gin and tonic.

The fam..
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Music, theater, art round out the week
10/30/2005 8:27:58 AM

This week's arts lineup brims over with events that include a portrayal of Hermann Goering, the complex leader of Hitler's Third Reich, and the Cha..
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Wilder play applies more today than ever
10/23/2005 7:57:12 AM

Some may think of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Thornton Wilder as a straightforward writer who penned such delights as the timeless "Our Town...
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Footlight, Pure to stage dramas
10/16/2005 6:28:27 AM
Two diverse family dramas will be performed this week, one by the Footlight Players and one by Pure Theatre.

A story of love and forgiveness ..
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C of C's 'Outside' looks inside skin color
10/2/2005 7:47:02 AM
'It's the secret issues in the black community regarding shades of skin color that the play 'C.O.T.O: Chocolate on the Outside' deals with," says J..
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Village Playhouse expects visit from the Count
9/25/2005 1:40:03 PM
With a flurry of recent movies and television shows dealing with the boundary that separates the undead from the dead, the Transylvanian count will ma..
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New galleries bring art to Lowcountry islands
9/18/2005 9:21:38 AM
On your next trek to Kiawah or Seabrook Island, you may want to check out an art gallery that recently opened in Freshfields Village at 130 Gardeners ..
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Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
9/11/2005 10:18:40 AM

I first visited New Orleans 39 years ago on my honeymoon. Fresh out of college, I seldom had traveled a great distance from the small Upstate town ..
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Fall into the arts
9/4/2005 9:54:12 AM

Having weathered myriad changes over the past year, the Lowcountry arts community is primed to present events ranging from hard-edged dramas, such ..
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'Charleston' right at home in Hollywood Bowl
8/28/2005 9:00:41 AM
LOS ANGELES--On a vacation when we had planned simply to sip mango tea by a swimming pool and visit old friends in the Hollywood Hills, we found Los A..
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A little bit country, a little bit rock 'n' roll
8/21/2005 8:36:32 AM
Over the next two weeks, country-and-western music mingled with strains of rock 'n' roll will enliven the half-block between the Footlight Players at ..
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'Furry Affair' to celebrate SPCA's 125th year
8/14/2005 8:47:15 AM
Someone once said, "You may be blessed to live in gold- and silver-lined halls, but nothing can replace the love of a true furry or feathered friend."..
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Theatre 99 founders await city zoning decision
7/31/2005 9:37:28 AM
'For now, we're in limbo," says Timmy Finch, one of the three founders of Theatre 99, which is spearheaded by The Have Nots!, the only professi..
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Festival lets critics go to the dance
7/24/2005 7:54:16 AM

They come every year to the majestic Gothic-inspired Duke University campus, redolent with forests and gardens, to learn new approaches to that mos..
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'Pirates' return to Tour Charleston
6/26/2005 8:27:28 AM
If you missed "Pirates! The Revenge of Colonel Rhett" at the 2005 Piccolo Spoleto Festival, you will have a chance to see it when this rollicking, his..
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Acerbic critic leaves New York post
6/12/2005 8:31:12 AM

John Simon signed off in his final review ("Sweet Charity") for New York magazine on May 23 when he resigned as theater critic, a position h..
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Folly gallery exhibits wartime Iraqi art
5/29/2005 8:08:07 AM
Explosions ripping through Baghdad during the United States' invasion of Iraq served as a backdrop to a group of artists trying to block out the chaos..
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Tony Awards are real gauge of talent
5/22/2005 7:53:12 AM
One Monday in May 1995, I happened to be ending a weekend of theater-going in New York when, in my hotel room, I heard on television that the Tony Awa..
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Artist tries to convey respect for animals
5/15/2005 7:42:50 AM
A frog dressed as Uncle Sam attentively watches a group of pigs passing by.
A large rooster presides over a lavish breakfast.
These are part o..
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Art becomes 'Sideshow' for exhibition
5/10/2005 10:34:53 AM
So who wants to watch someone force his body through a tennis racket, or witness a man swallowing fire, or how about a man-eating chicken?
The ans..
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Flowertown Players to make 'Proposals'
5/1/2005 9:19:43 AM
When I saw the West Coast premiere of Neil Simon's pre-Broadway staging of "Proposals" at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles several ..
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Footlight Players getting 'Odd' for finale
4/24/2005 7:13:57 AM
One bachelor is a neat freak who can't bear for a crumb to fall on the floor; the other is a sloppy Joe who never empties the trash. The two divorced ..
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South served as Benton's inspiration
4/10/2005 8:33:33 AM
The artwork of one of the most renowned painters of American Regionalism, Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), will be on display at The Gibbes Museum of A..
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Robert Ivey Ballet offers eclectic spring concert
4/2/2005 5:09:46 AM
From a lush pas de deux with Russian-trained ballerina Olga Wise wearing a lilac in her hair, to a jazzy Fosse-style number with women dancers ..
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Village Playhouse to reacquaint patrons with Prima
3/27/2005 9:39:07 AM
Through the decades, many people have thrilled to the exuberant song "Sing, Sing, Sing," made popular by Benny Goodman. But most are not awa..
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'Don Quixote,' season finale of CBT, exudes joie de vivre
3/20/2005 7:58:46 AM
When you see the ethereal two-dimensional set, the to-die-for costumes and the fantastic dancing in The Charleston Ballet Theatre's "Don Quixote,..
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'What Comes Around' to come around
3/20/2005 7:58:46 AM
Pure Theatre opens a world premiere of the drama "What Comes Around" on Thursday. The play is about a young black man who desperately wants ..
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College operetta a courtroom comedy
3/13/2005 7:43:45 AM
Opera fans have a treat in store when Gilbert & Sullivan's "Trial by Jury" is performed by the College of Charleston's School of the Art..
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Poignant 'On Golden Pond' benefits from convincing set
3/11/2005 7:51:53 AM
Richard Heffner's amazing set is reason enough to see "On Golden Pond" which opened at the Footlight Players Thursday before an audience tha..
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'Tide' will come in at the Sottile
3/6/2005 8:13:12 AM
'A Tidal Concerto," composed by local musician Edward Hart, will be performed by Enrique Graf as part of the International Piano Series at 8 p.m...
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CBT to put 'Captured Angel' in 'Blue Jeans'
2/27/2005 7:35:57 AM
The celebrated dance piece "Captured Angel" has been described as "a wordless heaven where only dance can take us, as it follows a capt..
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Relationships 'play' out in local dramas
2/20/2005 7:30:36 AM
Two plays dealing with two different types of relationships open this week at the Village Playhouse and the College of Charleston. One play examines t..
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Tavares to direct himself in 'Polish Joke'
2/13/2005 8:23:19 AM
Do ethnic jokes ever come close to the truth? Greg Tavares, of the Have Nots! improvisational troupe and Theatre 99, deals with this question when he ..
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Charleston Ballet to revive 'Serenade'
2/6/2005 7:50:32 AM
Long considered the signature piece of the New York City Ballet, "Serenade" was the first ballet that Russian-born George Balanchine ..
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Ungrangsee will conduct CSO concerts
1/30/2005 9:43:10 AM
Bundit Ungrangsee, principal guest conductor and former associate conductor with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, will lead two final performances w..
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Sinatra tribute, opera, dramas on tap this week
1/23/2005 8:01:27 AM
Nudity, drugs and an obsession with sin will be juxtaposed with a fancy opera and a happy musical tribute in this week's diverse lineup of theater and..
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Dance company seems headed for stardom
1/19/2005 3:53:06 PM
The James Sewell Ballet knows how to make even the dragged-along husbands like dance.
The large crowd at Sottile Theatre laughed at the deli..
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