A collection of unlikely cultural announcements that reached Feedback’s desk today:
1. The Heritage Theatre Festival—hey, that name worked out pretty well after all—announced its summer schedule, complete with the requisite Bob Chapel-helmed musical (Oliver!) and a play that should pass as pretty inventive fare for Heritage: the slightly meta-theatrical farce Moonlight and Magnolias, about a crash-course production of Gone With the Wind. Scope the full schedule here and, when you see Chapel, tell him his Voysey Inheritance last year was great.
2. To celebrate the band’s 30th anniversary, The English Beat—fronted by Dave Wakeling, who later formed General Public with members of Dexy’s Midnight Runners and The Clash—is launching a tour that will bring them to a handful of stateside clubs, theaters and…UVA’s South Lawn? So says a press release from the band’s publicist. The show is scheduled for June 6 and (just guessing here) will probably make the Beat the most high-profile English ska act to ever play Charlottesville. Take that…um, the rest of you.
(Don’t forget: Steve Earle performs at The Paramount Theater on the same night. Decisions, decisions…)
3. Ross Bollinger, a forest-dwelling filmmaker and animator schooled at Light House Studio, is doing his former film program (and a city of cinephiles) proud at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Bollinger received a scholarship award from the National Board of Review for his short, "Pencilmation," at SVA’s annual Dusty awards ceremony.
Not one to rest on his laurels, Bollinger recently posted "Pencilmation #2" (promisingly titled "The Pen is Mightier!") to his website. Watch it here.
