Local actor Joe Miller was awarded the “Best Actor” Award for his performance in Charleston Stage Company’s production of Underneath the Lintel at the Southeastern Theatre Conference’s Community Theatre Festival held this past weekend in Lexington Kentucky.
The festival featured over 15 play productions performed by community theatres from ten states throughout the southeast, including productions from Florida, North Carolina, Alabama, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Underneath the Lintel, by playwright Glen Berger, won first place in the West Virginia Community Theatre Festival held this past November in Morgantown. Directed by …

Toad’s R/C Hobbies at the Hills Plaza is a product of love. This specialty store is the result of John Lyons’ long term love affair with radio controlled vehicles. Like most boys, John grew up admiring these scaled radio-controlled vehicles at the Fountain Hobby Shop on Washington Street. Soon enough he was building and repairing different kinds of radio controlled cars and aircraft.
His passion for the hobby soon left him with no space at the family’s dining table. He went to build a workshop in the backyard, but he outgrew …

Feel like dancing? WV Dance offers both private and group ballroom dancing lessons in various locations in West Virginia. Headquartered in Charleston, WV, the company promotes ballroom dancing and all kinds of sport.
This spring, ballroom lessons will be held at the 3rd floor ballroom of the Geary Student Union at the University of Charleston. General community members will be charged $10 per person, while UC students, staff and faculty can take lessons for free. Nightclub Two Step lessons will be held every Monday, starting March 29 until May 3. Polka …

Everyone but the poor Prince lives happily ever after when the River City Youth Ballet Ensemble, the West Virginia Youth Symphony, and the Appalachian Children’s Chorus re-tell the stories of the three princesses, with endings that may surprise you. The performance is at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, April 9, at the Clay Center. Call the Clay Center box office at 304.561.3500 for tickets. For more information, call 304.925.3262 or visit www.rcyb.org.

Charleston Stage Company (CSC) will hold auditions for final production of the 2009-2010 season, Jane Martin’s comedy, Flaming guns of the Purple Sage on Sunday and Monday, February 21 and 22 at 7:00 pm at WVSU’s Capitol Center Theatre, 123 Summers Street in downtown Charleston.
The play is a a shoot ‘em up, knock-em’ up, cut-’em up comic romp through deepest Wyoming that director Frieda Forsley calls, “a cross between Carol Burnett, Gunsmoke and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” CSC is seeking four men and three women to play (among …

Charleston Stage Company presents “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” by Sarah Ruhl. Performances starts on February 18 and runs every Thursday, Friday and Saturday until the 27th at the WVSU Capitol Center Theatre on 123 Summers Street in Charleston. Show starts at 7:30pm.
Directing the play is Tim Mace and stars Kate Morris as Jean, Greg Harpold as Gordon, Jamie Dunbar as Hermia, B.A Miskowiec as Mrs. Godlier, K.C. Bragg as Dwight and Emily Alice Dunn as The Other Woman. The play is an odyssey of a woman forced to confront …

Well Read Books is opening its doors today at 10am. Featuring a large collection of children’s books, romance and mystery novels, this used books store is sure to be a treat for all book lovers. Rare and antique book can be traded in exchange for “new” used books in their inventory.
Well Read Books is located at 1015 Bridge Road (front of Rite Aid). The store is open Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10am to 6:30pm. For more details and inquiries, call (304) 941-3176 or e-mail wellreadwv@gmail.com.

Team Trivia, a live trivia game played in teams has found its way to West Virginia. Charleston natives and trivia fanatics Eric & Courtney Bergman are bringing the franchise to WV.
Here’s how Team Trivia work: teams of four (or less) work together to come up with the correct answer to the question asked by the host. Teams are must discuss the question, decide on an answer, set the number of points they want the question to count, and write down their answer in the sheet provided. All thems must present …

The Charleston Light Opera Guild starts the year with a winter staging of the popular opera, The Pirates of Penzance. This comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan tells the story of Frederic, who was apprenticed to a band of pirates, instead of being apprenticed to a pilot. This musical farce has been performed countless times in Broadway, garnering awards for Best Revival and Outstanding musical. The cast includes Gary Brown as the Pirate King, Marina Jurica as Mabel and Mark Hornbaker as Frederic.
Box office opened in January 20, and the …

Headlining this weekend’s show at the Comedy Zone is Paul Hooper, a self-confessed OCD-sufferer who uses it to come up with his own brand of provoking, politically incorrect comedy.
Also featured this weekend is another comedian with a disorder: Sid David has ADD. A Psycology degree holder, Davis calls upon his experiences to keep the audience howling with laughter.
Together, Paul Hooper and Sid Davis will be entertaining the crowds at the Comedy Zone Charleston at the Ramada Plaza Hotel on Janaury 22 (8:00pm) and January 23 (8:00pm and 10:15pm). For details …