- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: The Back Channel
CBT needs $180K by year’s end
December 15, 2008 – 1:10 pm
Lindsay Koob, City Paper’s dance critic, says the Charleston Ballet Theatre announced that it needs to raise some $180,000 by the end of the year. The news came just before the CBT performed its Charleston-oriented version of The Nutcracker. What happens if the dance troupe doesn’t? We don’t know yet, but we’ll track it down [...]
Finally, a president who gets it
December 11, 2008 – 10:07 am
On Meet the Press on Sunday, President-elect Barack Obama talked about the role of American arts, culture, and science in a historic economic crisis:
MR. BROKAW:Â Who are the kinds of artists that you would like to bring to the White House?
PRES.-ELECT OBAMA:Â Oh, well, you know, we have thought about this because part of what [...]
Chas. Stage gets $50K matching grant
December 10, 2008 – 1:38 pm
Charleston Stage announced today that a group of long-time supporters have offered a matching grant for as much as $50,000. A matching grant challenged other donors to step up with their own money. Each dollar raised between now and the end of the month will be matched for a total of as much as [...]
Teen Life: Unfiltered a success, station says
December 9, 2008 – 11:07 am
Producers at Lowcountry CW (Comcast channel 14) are so pleased with the turn-out for its public service program, Teen Life: Unfiltered, that the station is considering doing it again on a quarterly basis.
On Dec. 2, the Lowcountry CW and News 2 (WCBD, Charleston’s NBC affiliate) presented at Seacoast Church a program to address issues facing [...]
Gibbes names memorial fund after Friberg
December 8, 2008 – 3:47 pm
The Gibbes Museum of Art announced a new memorial fund in honor of Eric Friberg, who died Saturday. Friberg, 66, was the vice president of the Gibbes’s board of directors. He was instrumental in naming Angela Mack as the museum’s new executive director. And he was in line to be its next board president.
According to [...]
Spoleto, Gibbes champion dies
December 8, 2008 – 10:19 am
A key figure in the histories of Spoleto Festival USA and the Gibbes Museum of Art died Saturday.
Eric Friberg, who is credited with having shepherded the $6 million renovation of the Memminger Auditorium, was 66. He served eight years on the festival’s board. He was also vice president of the Gibbes’ board of directors and [...]
Donnelley says no, not yet
December 5, 2008 – 5:42 pm
The Donnelley Foundation has responded to a request for as much as $250,000 made on behalf of the Big Three: the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Charleston Ballet Theatre, and Charleston Stage.
The answer, according to a press statement released about 10 minutes ago, is no.
Not yet.
Instead, the foundation says it wants to “continue the conversation.”
“The board established [...]
Matt Bivins returns for Santaland Diaries
December 5, 2008 – 1:07 pm
I just got word that Matt Bivins, actor and former member for Jump, Little Children, is in town to work on a revamped Santaland Diaries, based on the essays of David Sedaris. Performances run Dec. 17-18 at 8 p.m., Dec. 19-20 at 10 p.m. Tickets are $15.
Bivins rejoins director and improv artist Greg Tavares, one [...]
Dear John immune to strike
December 4, 2008 – 5:28 pm
We don’t have to worry about Dear John being affected by yet another Hollywood strike.
According to publicist Scott Levine, Dear John is set to wrap on Dec. 16, well before the Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood’s largest union, can rally the votes needed to force a work stoppage.
And besides, Levine says, Dear John is an independent [...]
Amahl and the Night Visitors at Circ. Church
December 4, 2008 – 2:39 pm
This is the first time it’s done this kind of thing, but it might not be the last.
That is, if the funding can be worked out. And in this economy, that’s a big if.
The Circular Congregational Church is about the stage Gian Carlo Menotti’s one-act opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors on Dec. 14 at [...]
