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The Stained Glass Playhouse production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” opened on May 3-5 at the theater located at 4401 Indiana Avenue in the former sanctuary at Marvin United Methodist Church. Friday and Saturday productions are held at 8 p.m. and the Sunday production is held at 3 p.m. The productions will continue during the following weekends: May 10-12 and May 17-19.
On Saturday, May 11, the Winston-Salem Symphony will present a concert that just may well be a historic event when two dynamic women – Michelle Merrill and Nia Franklin – join together in “At Last: Nia Imani Franklin.”
Miss those days of Flower Power, bell-bottoms and 45 singles on the turntable? Well, you’re in luck! The Winston-Salem Pops is bringing back the music of the ‘60s in their concert, “Swingin’ the ‘60s: Celebrating the Sixties in Song.” The concert will be held on Friday, May 17, 6:30 p.m., at Ardmore Baptist Church in the Brown Auditorium, 501 Miller Street.
‘Once On This Island’ opens May 10 at Theatre Alliance
Senior Games/SilverArts literary arts winners announced
Piedmont Plus Senior Games announces SilverArts medal winners
40+ Stage Company, supported by a grant from The Shallow Ford Foundation, will offer acting classes for seniors (age 50 and up) at the Mary Alice Warren Community Center in Lewisville.
Snapdragon, a journal of art and healing, celebrated its first anthology of selected poets from its five years of publication and its online readings, at an event at Bookmarks on March 16.
Piedmont Opera presents Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ at High Point Theatre
