East Brainerd Community Theater presents Steel Magnolias, March16-19 at Christ United Methodist Church on East Brainerd Rd. Times: March 16, 17 and 18 at 7:30. Matinees March 18 and 19 at 2:30. Tickets just $10!
Based on his own experience growing up in rural Natchitoches, Louisiana, Robert Harling’s landmark play “Steel Magnolias” explores the bonds between six women at a beauty salon. Harling based his play on the death of his sister, Susan, from complications related to diabetes. Combining light-hearted comedy and quirky characters with a serious, heart-rending storyline, Steel Magnolias has appealed to audiences both onstage and in its popular 1989 film adaptation. It has been translated into seventeen languages and has been produced across the world.
Smoke on the Mountain tells the story of a Saturday Night Gospel Sing at a country church in North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains in 1938. The show features two dozen rousing bluegrass songs played and sung by the Sanders Family, a traveling group making its return to performing after a five-year hiatus.Pastor Oglethorpe, the young and enthusiastic minister of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, has enlisted the Sanders Family in his efforts to bring his tiny congregation into “the modern world.” Between songs, each family member “witnesses” — telling a story about an important event in their life. Though they try to appear perfect in the eyes of a congregation who wants to be inspired by their songs, one thing after another goes awry and they reveal their true — and hilariously imperfect – natures. By the evening’s end, the Sanders Family have endeared themselves to us by revealing their weaknesses and allowing us to share in their triumphs.
Dalton Little Theatre is continuing the tradition of showcasing four one-act plays in one entertainment-filled evening! This year’s plays include 3 locally-written dramas and a previously published comedy.
Performances are March 17, 18, 24, and 25 at 7 pm and March 19 at 2 pm. For tickets, visit daltonlittletheatre.com OR call (706) 226-6618. Tickets will also be sold at the door.
The shows featured in this year’s “A Night of One-Acts” are:
“Ante Capella”
Written/Directed by Jeremy Pickard
Osmund, a struggling alcoholic, wrestles with telling his best friend that he’s in love with her until a conversation with the night lets him know what he should do.
“Life is a One-Man Show”
Written/Directed by Jay Adamson
An existential quarter life crisis comprised of strangers, a past lover, a deceased friend and God all push a Lost Boy toward the edge of a great catharsis. Questions of existence and a search for deeper meaning weigh heavily upon him throughout. Will he be swallowed inside the mouth of the mundane or be compelled to wake up and live? As is life, only he can decide his fate…
“A Murdered Mystery”
Written by Karl Garner, directed by Tanner Jaco, produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Services, Inc.
The scene opens with John, the butler and narrator, standing over the body of Steven Walters, who has invited a group of friends to his house for a specific purpose. Audiences will enjoy this spoof of murder mysteries.
“Scar’d for Life”
Written/Directed by Adam Cook
A middle-aged single mother reflects on her life and death following her fatal car accident, while her grown son encounters two men at her funeral who could each be the father he’s never known.
Based on Playboy of the Western World. To an untidy little country saloon on a wild coast of Mayo, in Ireland, there comes a shy, frightened youth, Christy Mayo, with a tale of having killed his cruel father, with a single blow of a spade, a week ago on a distant farm. He is fleeing the police, and is accepted by Michael James, the publican, and his pretty but tart-tongued daughter, Pegeen, as a hero whom it would be well to hire as pot-boy.
Smoke on the Mountain tells the story of a Saturday Night Gospel Sing at a country church in North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains in 1938. The show features two dozen rousing bluegrass songs played and sung by the Sanders Family, a traveling group making its return to performing after a five-year hiatus.Pastor Oglethorpe, the young and enthusiastic minister of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, has enlisted the Sanders Family in his efforts to bring his tiny congregation into “the modern world.” Between songs, each family member “witnesses” — telling a story about an important event in their life. Though they try to appear perfect in the eyes of a congregation who wants to be inspired by their songs, one thing after another goes awry and they reveal their true — and hilariously imperfect – natures. By the evening’s end, the Sanders Family have endeared themselves to us by revealing their weaknesses and allowing us to share in their triumphs.
Dalton Little Theatre is continuing the tradition of showcasing four one-act plays in one entertainment-filled evening! This year’s plays include 3 locally-written dramas and a previously published comedy.
Performances are March 17, 18, 24, and 25 at 7 pm and March 19 at 2 pm. For tickets, visit daltonlittletheatre.com OR call (706) 226-6618. Tickets will also be sold at the door.
The shows featured in this year’s “A Night of One-Acts” are:
“Ante Capella”
Written/Directed by Jeremy Pickard
Osmund, a struggling alcoholic, wrestles with telling his best friend that he’s in love with her until a conversation with the night lets him know what he should do.
“Life is a One-Man Show”
Written/Directed by Jay Adamson
An existential quarter life crisis comprised of strangers, a past lover, a deceased friend and God all push a Lost Boy toward the edge of a great catharsis. Questions of existence and a search for deeper meaning weigh heavily upon him throughout. Will he be swallowed inside the mouth of the mundane or be compelled to wake up and live? As is life, only he can decide his fate…
“A Murdered Mystery”
Written by Karl Garner, directed by Tanner Jaco, produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Services, Inc.
The scene opens with John, the butler and narrator, standing over the body of Steven Walters, who has invited a group of friends to his house for a specific purpose. Audiences will enjoy this spoof of murder mysteries.
“Scar’d for Life”
Written/Directed by Adam Cook
A middle-aged single mother reflects on her life and death following her fatal car accident, while her grown son encounters two men at her funeral who could each be the father he’s never known.
Based on Playboy of the Western World. To an untidy little country saloon on a wild coast of Mayo, in Ireland, there comes a shy, frightened youth, Christy Mayo, with a tale of having killed his cruel father, with a single blow of a spade, a week ago on a distant farm. He is fleeing the police, and is accepted by Michael James, the publican, and his pretty but tart-tongued daughter, Pegeen, as a hero whom it would be well to hire as pot-boy.
Smoke on the Mountain tells the story of a Saturday Night Gospel Sing at a country church in North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains in 1938. The show features two dozen rousing bluegrass songs played and sung by the Sanders Family, a traveling group making its return to performing after a five-year hiatus.Pastor Oglethorpe, the young and enthusiastic minister of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, has enlisted the Sanders Family in his efforts to bring his tiny congregation into “the modern world.” Between songs, each family member “witnesses” — telling a story about an important event in their life. Though they try to appear perfect in the eyes of a congregation who wants to be inspired by their songs, one thing after another goes awry and they reveal their true — and hilariously imperfect – natures. By the evening’s end, the Sanders Family have endeared themselves to us by revealing their weaknesses and allowing us to share in their triumphs.
Based on Playboy of the Western World. To an untidy little country saloon on a wild coast of Mayo, in Ireland, there comes a shy, frightened youth, Christy Mayo, with a tale of having killed his cruel father, with a single blow of a spade, a week ago on a distant farm. He is fleeing the police, and is accepted by Michael James, the publican, and his pretty but tart-tongued daughter, Pegeen, as a hero whom it would be well to hire as pot-boy.
From the first notes to the final breath, West Side Story is one of the most memorable musicals and greatest love stories of all time. The world’s greatest love story takes to the streets in this landmark Broadway musical that is one of the theatre’s finest accomplishments. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is transported to 1950’s New York City as two young, idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs, the “American” Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks. Their struggle to survive in a world of hate, violence and prejudice is one of the most innovative, heart-wrenching and relevant musical dramas of our time.
*School Matinee available at 9am! Reservations available by email @ closeddoorentertainment@gm