Auditions will take place at the theater from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The production dates are Oct. 11 to 14.

For young people in the Mississippi Delta, there are opportunities to “blossom” and discover expressive outlets through the performing arts.

“They call themselves the Shakespeare family,” said Steve Iwanski, who leads the Greenwood Shakespeare Project.

"Lone Star” and “Laundry & Bourbon,” two linked one-act plays by James McClure, will be doing a Texas two-step at the Greenwood Little Theatre, starting Thursday night.

There’s still time to apply and audition for this summer’s Shakespeare Summer Camp.

For Dr. Alphonso Sanders, Valley professor and director of Greenwood Little Theatre’s upcoming production of the musical “Dreamgirls,” it’s a first stab at directing a full-length musical production.

“Love Letters,” a play by A.R. Gurney that features the lifelong correspondence between two childhood friends, opens Thursday evening at the J.M. Whittington Jr. Playhouse.

The 1944 existentialist French play written by Jean-Paul Sartre and adapted for American audiences by Paul Bowles features drama and comedy, said the play’s director, Nichole Henry.

Henry’s passion for theater took off after her 10th-grade performance in “Bullshot Crummond,” a detective comedy set in the pre-World War II era. After that show, she was hooked.

For many members of the Greenwood Shakespeare Project, participating is about more than learning neat new skills, such as sewing, carpentry or painting, or learning more about a poet and playwright largely considered the greatest writer in the English language. 

“Suddenly, Last Summer” centers around two women who share startlingly different accounts of the life and death of a man who was an important part of their lives.