Dottie Ashley
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Dottie Ashley reviews theater and dance and writes about local arts organizations. She is the winner of the 2003 Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Award given to the outstanding arts writer in the state, and twice won a National Partners of the Americas Journalist Fellowship to Cali and Bogota, Columbia. She worked for The State newspaper in Columbia for 15 years, where she won the 1985 American Dance Festival Critics Award. Ashley has covered the Spoleto Festival USA since its founding in 1977. She has a master's degree from the University of South Carolina.
Recent Stories
Troupe takes on comedy/drama
'Crimes of the Heart' opens Friday as staged by Midtown/Sheri Grace Productions
Things are not going all that well for the three Magrath sisters as they gather in their grandparents' vintage, vine-covered Southern home in the town of Hazle- hurst, Miss. It appears that Babe, the youngest of the trio, has a small problem: She shot her husband in the stomach.
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Artist to be on CBS show
'Sunday Morning' scheduled to feature Whyte on Sept. 5
Local artist Mary Whyte will be a featured guest on CBS "Sunday Morning," which airs 9-10:30 a.m. each week on WCSC-TV.
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Artist still challenges the status quo
LOS ANGELES -- It's lunchtime at Little Doms, a funky restaurant in the heart of the Los Feliz neighborhood above Sunset Boulevard, where lonchocarpus trees and balsam pines shade Mediterranean mansions.
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'Osage County' opens Village season
You may hear the sound of theatrical fireworks exploding in the Village Playhouse come Thursday when the theater celebrates its 10th anniversary.
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'R and J' a modern take on Bard classic
Picture, if you can, Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" performed by four girls, inmates in a reform school under rigid Catholic supervision.
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Pure's 'Ginger' is darker side of fairy tale
Transforming the familiar Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel" into the story of two teenagers is Pure Theatre's latest quest to produce a brain-teasing theatrical experience.
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Commission honors state artists
Poet Barbara G.S. Hagerty and Pure Theatre co-founders Sharon Graci and Rodney Lee Rogers represent a near-sweep by Charleston County in capturing three of the four 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship Awards announced by the S.C. Arts Commission.
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Lease, life, travel lead to gallery closure
When it was announced recently that Helena Fox Fine Art at State and Queen streets would close its doors at the end of July, talk spread like wildfire.
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Local surgeon crafting new career
It was a rainy November afternoon when my husband, Franklin, and I found our "Paris Cat." On a final stroll near the Seine, before leaving for the airport, we spotted in a shop window a charcoal rendering of a Siamese cat with soft, blue chalk eyes.
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Playhouse's holiday tribute to Cash
It was those Johnny Cash songs such as "I Walk the Line" and "Ring of Fire" that guitarist Michael Easler remembers hearing when he and his parents would travel from San Diego to visit family in Spartanburg, where country-and-Western music, and especially Cash's songs, were popular even in the late 1950s.
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