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Salem Furniture

February 20, 2025
Some Friendships are Special Enough to Last: A short Radio Play

February 11, 2022

by Karon Reynolds Plays can be very diverse in form and The Meredith College Theatre program presented an interesting set of plays known as the Radio Play Series at KCACTF. These plays are simply audio versions of traditional, standard drama performances. In addition to the vocal artists, the technical director, sound effects manager and stage…
Arts Administration and Media: Upfront and Personal at KCACTF 2022

February 10, 2022

by Michael Bell (STX, February 6, 2022) During the first week of February, I had the opportunity to participate in a week-long theatre festival, hosted by The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). KCACTF is a national theater program involving 18,000 students annually from colleges and universities across the country and UVI is part…
Critique: A Sudden Spontaneous Event

February 10, 2022

KACTF -Theatre Review by Carlos Eton (STX, February 8, 2022).-There are two types of plays: ones that are so poorly produced and excruciatingly painful to watch that simultaneously undergoing root canals and colonoscopies would be preferable … and ones that move us so deeply that we are bursting at the seams to share that joy…
Wiley and the Hairy Man: A review of Paper Theatre

February 9, 2022

Set deep within the mysterious Tombigbee Swamp, Wiley and the Hairy Man centers around a young fatherless boy, his conjure-woman mother, his faithful dog, and the Hairy Man who haunts Wiley’s days and dreams. by Hiliary Gordon also printed @https://www.kcactf4.org/itja/6121/wiley-and-the-hairy-man/ The play, Wiley and the Hairy Man, written by Susan Zeder and directed by Brad…
KACTF presents play about Ethel Waters: More than Sweet

February 5, 2022

by Indeyah Todman (STX, February 5, 2022) Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) “Sweet Mama Stringbean,” is more than sweet. Directed by Evelyn D. Tyler, a cast of talented Florida A&M University (FAMU) student actors bring playwright Beth Turner’s vision to life in the hour-long play. Behind the play is a prolific group of skillful stage management,…
2021 Grant AWARD

January 27, 2022

Please join me in congratulating my brilliant students and members of UVI Association of Black Journalists (UVIABJ) who were recently awarded a $1,000 grant from the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)! Great job!