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Posted on May 1st, 2009 by Madison Underwood

Muse of Fire DREAM includes improv comedy

Muse of Fire DREAM includes improv comedy

Christopher Davis doesn’t ascribe to that old actor’s adage, “Never work with animals or children.” [...]

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Posted on February 20th, 2009 by Glenny Brock

Improv comedy from Extemporaneous Theatre Company

Improv comedy from Extemporaneous Theatre Company

Three performances of unscripted funny

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Posted on January 15th, 2009 by Jesse Chambers

RIP Miss Jennings

RIP Miss Jennings

The brutally cold December air kept most of the revelers off the large front porch, but inside the funky, two-story house in Southside, Rebecca Jennings’ annual solstice party was going strong.

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Posted on December 11th, 2008 by Jesse Chambers

RIP Miss J

RIP Miss J

Rebecca Alice Jennings, a legendary figure in the Birmingham theatre community whose career spanned seven decades, died on Nov. 27 after a series of illnesses. She was 85 years old. A memorial service was held on Dec. 4 at Grace Episcopal Church in Woodlawn.

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Posted on December 8th, 2008 by Jesse Chambers

Holiday open house at Alabama and Lyric

Holiday open house at Alabama and Lyric

Holly Burrow, Director of the new Hill Arts Center adjacent to the Alabama Theatre, will never forget her first visit to the Lyric, the magnificent old vaudeville and movie palace at Third Avenue and 18th Street North downtown.

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Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Jesse Chambers

High kicks: Tuscaloosa teen with the Rockettes

High kicks: Tuscaloosa teen with the Rockettes

A touring production of the famed Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the Rockettes is coming to the BJCC Arena Dec. 12-14, and an aspiring dancer from Tuscaloosa has snagged one of the key roles.

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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Jesse Chambers

The voice of the theatre

Theatrical impresario Jake Wells built the magnificent Lyric Theater at Third Avenue North and 18th Street in downtown Birmingham expressly for vaudeville in 1914, and there wasn’t another house like it in the city, perhaps in the Southeast.

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Posted on April 13th, 2008 by Madison Underwood

Striding the blast: Muse of Fire presents Macbeth

Sloss Furnaces doesn’t seem like it would be a great place to stage a play, especially a Shakespeare play. The blast furnace-turned-museum is a monument to Birmingham’s roots in heavy industry; its grounds are much more likely to make a visitor think of boilers and blowing engines than curtains and soliloquies.

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Posted on April 5th, 2008 by Glenny Brock

On the boards: Spamalot at the BJCC

There\’92s the Broadway crowd, comprised of folks who actually go to New York at least [...]

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Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Molly Folse

Lots of luring local theatre

Last summer I wrote a story about the CenterStage production of the 1998 sexually charged [...]

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Posted on February 1st, 2008 by Brent Thompson

Theatre: Swinging Baby- The Rat Pack comes to the BJCC

There was a time when the coolest of the cool wore tuxes, sang, danced, drank [...]

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