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Author Archives: Cara Kelly

Posted inArts+Movies, Books

Cassandra King’s latest takes readers into the shadows of an Appalachian manor

by Cara Kelly September 18, 2013
Posted inArts+Movies, Features

Dorothea Benton Frank looks at a crumbling marriage in The Last Original Wife

by Cara Kelly June 5, 2013
Posted inFilm/Literature, Spoleto 2013

Dorothea Benton Frank heads home to promote The Last Original Wife

by Cara Kelly May 29, 2013
Posted inOpera/Musical Theater, Spoleto 2013

Tenor Hugo Vera gets obscure with L’Enfant Prodigue

by Cara Kelly May 29, 2013
Posted inJazz, Blues, & Roots, Spoleto 2013

Shelly Waters brings the bayou to the Lowcountry

by Cara Kelly May 22, 2013
Posted inArts+Movies, Books

Karen White does some digging on St. Simons Island

by Cara Kelly June 20, 2012
Posted inArts+Movies, Books

Dorothea Benton Frank returns to Sullivan’s with Porch Lights

by Cara Kelly June 13, 2012
Posted inSpoleto 2012, Theater

Atlantic Stage finds humor in a funeral parlor

by Cara Kelly June 6, 2012
Posted inSpoleto 2012, Theater

Joy Vandervort-Cobb’s bag lady takes a bow

by Cara Kelly May 23, 2012
Posted inArts+Movies, Books

Mary Alice Monroe revisits an early character in Beach House Memories

by Cara Kelly May 2, 2012

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