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Following a national search, Virginia Repertory Theatre welcomes new artistic directors, Desirée Roots, Todd D. Norris and Rick Hammerly, who will steer all artistic aspects of Central Virginia’s flagship professional theatre, according to William H. Carter, Chair-Elect of the Board and Chair of the Selection Committee.
Daring Dances, a curatorial program created by Clare Croft, an associate professor of dance and American culture at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, announces its first public events: three upcoming performances in Detroit and Ann Arbor. According to Croft, Daring Dances offers a platform to present dance work and provide live encounters through community engagement, using bodies to stage dissent and invite difficult but necessary conversations.
Caroline is an ordinary high school teacher in a small coal mining community. When spring rolls around, everything she always wanted appears to come to fruition, but Caroline learns the hard way that life is not always as it seems.
Author Loretta Creech's chance encounter with Robert Kennedy while attending Alice Lloyd College in 1968, the sincere, sympathetic look he had given her when she told him how her father had been gunned down during a picket strike only three years back, left a profound mark on her. The event and many others inspired her to write her father's story in her book, 'No Tears for Ernest Creech: A Forgotten Man in 'The Great Society'(published by AuthorHouse).
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