The Society of Bluffton Artists Gallery welcomes N. Jack Huddle as the featured artist now through December 5. “An Exhibit of Contemporary Art” presents colorful abstractions of common themes with dominant colors in each, intentionally used to set the mood of the viewer.

Six seniors will take the stage for May River Theatre’s third show of the season, You Haven’t Changed a Bit (And Other Lies), playing November 6 through 22 at Bluffton’s May River Theatre. The adventures of aging are filtered through three married couples in their sixties who have known each other for more than 30 years in this riotous Baby Boomer musical.

An encore presentation of a conversation with bestselling author Pat Conroy about his work from the page to the screen

Story and Photos by Mark Shaffer

October 29^th the ‘Pat Conroy at 70 Literary Festival’ kicks off with a special screening of The Great Santini at the USCB Center for the Arts. The film was a cinematic landmark for South Carolina: the first major motion picture to shoot in Beaufort, the first of several Conroy adaptations, and the movie that put the state – and the Lowcountry – on Hollywood’s hot sheet. I’m set to moderate a post-screening panel with the author and some of the film’s stars, including Michael O’Keefe and David Keith. (Keith was also in The Lords of Discipline.) This is familiar ground and territory I never tire of covering.