Photo by Dana Niemeier Here’s a link to the video for Cry-Baby the Musical at the Henegar Center. Click here. To read my review, click here or just jump over to the “theater” section of this website. The show runs May 15 to 31 at the Henegar Center, 625 E. New...
A Cultural Summit Beckons

by PAM HARBAUGH It’s a tough terrain out there for artists and arts organizations wanting to get to the mountaintop. The Brevard Cultural Alliance wants to help smooth out that path when they present their first ever Cultural Summit next Thursday. The event’s keynote speaker is one of the country’s leaders...
Playing It Again

By PAM HARBAUGH The good folks behind the South Brevard Sharing Center’s big annual fundraiser, “A Night in Casablanca,” always put a creative spin on the evening. This year it’s no different. Organizer Keri Kolumbus Donald sought help from the Art Club at Jupiter Elementary, a school where 77 percent of...
I Need My Space

By PAM HARBAUGH Family had visited for a long weekend and suggested a trip to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Sounded like a great idea. It sounded like a great idea. After all, it had been years since we were all there together. So I’m at the Space Shuttle Atlantis...
VIDEO: A Love-In for Link

By PAM HARBAUGH Scores of people held a love-in Friday in the Eau Gallie Arts District. The object of their adoration was Eau Gallie Florist Link Johnsten, who passed away in his sleep Thursday morning. The manner of this love in? Festooning Highland Avenue with thousands of rose petals. What a...
Link Johnsten Passes Away

A photo of Link Johnsten, nearby his Eau Gallie Florist, surrounded by some of the community that continues to love him so. By PAM HARBAUGH The community is reeling from the shocking news that beloved Link Johnsten has passed away. One of the most wonderful, involved, giving and talented people in...
‘Pirates of Penzance’ land at Eau Gallie High this weekend
‘Pirates of Penzance’ at Eau Gallie High School. Photo courtesy of Eau Gallie High School drama department. By PAM HARBAUGH Holly McFarland makes her debut as the director of a big musical this weekend when her students hit the stage at Eau Gallie High School in the production of “Pirates of...
Day Four…Humana Fest delivers with two surprises

Actors Theatre_Photo by Kertis Creative By PAM HARBAUGH LOUISVILLE, KY — The final day of the 2015 Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville ended with a bang. No whimpers here. For us, it began with “That High Lonesome Sound,” a collaborative work by playwrights Jeff Augustin, Diana Grisanti, Cory...
Humana Fest…Start day 3 with a raucous laugh

From “I Promised Myself to Live Faster” Jennifer Kidwell, Dito van Reigersberg and Mary McCool_Photo by Bill Brymer (2) By PAM HARBAUGH LOUISVILLE, KY — When the curtain rose on “I Promised Myself to Live Faster,” I felt like Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company had collided with San Francisco’s outrageous “Beach...
Humana Fest day 2…the best of times, the worst of times

Kevin R. Free Sharon Washington Marjorie Johnson and Sean Dugan_Dot_Photo by Bill Brymer By PAM HARBAUGH LOUISVILLE, KY — Friday at the Humana Festival started with breakfast hugs from Les Waters, the artistic director of the Actors Theatre of Louisville, which runs the Humana. The theater offered breakfast at Milkwood restaurant...