Ben Wolfe, well-known pillar of the local theatre community, will produce three professional shows this summer through a unique collaboration of Broadway directors, a cast of New York performers and elite young actors.

Can we talk about the blues? Back in the 50’s and 60’s lived a popular show on TV called “Queen for a Day.” It starred Jack Bailey, a backbench actor who played miniscule parts in huge hits like “It’s A Wonderful Life” and “Gunsmoke.”

South Carolina’s Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth will be one of the featured guests at USCB’s Lunch with Author event on Thursday, June 30^th, where she’ll discuss We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel, the book she coauthored with Dr. Bernard E. Powers, Jr. and Herb Frazier.

The South Carolina Humanities Festival returns to Beaufort

By Mark Shaffer

For many of us the humanities constituted a portion of our college curriculum that we were either eager to pursue or desperate to avoid. One of the best explanations of the humanities I’ve come across is simply: “the study of how people process and document the human experience.” That generally encompasses things like philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history, language and all that spins within these complex and interconnected orbits. Back in 1972 the South Carolina Humanities Council was formed “To enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians.”