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Charlotte area students win 'Blumey' awards

The Belk Theater was brimming with evening gowns and tuxes Sunday, and performers received their awards with aplomb and grateful speeches. It was all part of the second annual Blumenthal Performing Arts High School Musical Theater Awards - area high schools' version of the Tonys.

Blumey winning musical: Oklahoma

‘Q’ up for bawdy, big-hearted Theatre Charlotte musical

May 20, 2013

Tony-winner of 2004 blends naughtiness and naïveté in a winning combination.

Largest Spoleto season to unfold next week

By BRUCE SMITH | Associated Press | May 18, 2013

From comic book art to Shakespeare and Japanese opera, the new season of the Spoleto Festival USA will be the largest ever, offering 160 performances during the 17 days the festival lights up stages across this seaside city.

http://spoletousa.org

At 90, William Zinsser is still coaching writers

By Dan Barry | New York Times | May 17, 2013

The written word looms over William Zinsser. The many hundreds of books in his Upper East Side apartment stand at attention, as if awaiting instruction from this slight man in a baseball cap and sunglasses who, for a half-century, has coached others on how to write.

Charlotte’s Back Alley Film Series announces its summer slate | May 16, 2013
Theatre Charlotte 2013-14: Five old favorites, one shock | May 15, 2013
The Problem With Gatsby and Draper: They’re grumps | May 15, 2013
Fitzgerald’s Hollywood ending followed sad death | May 14, 2013
Look for Buskapalooza III on Charlotte’s Tryon Street on Friday | May 14, 2013

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