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“Learning to Fly” Takes Flight on the anniversary of 9/11

by Jennifer Kimball

Today is September 11. Last night, the President announced that we “will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat” of ISIS. This weekend, Amber Bradshaw and Thom Stanley, whose work you recently saw on Essential’s stage in this summer’s World Premiere production of That Uganda Play, are at the 9th Micro-Festival of Unfinished Puppetry in Quebec, Canada, workshopping and presenting a full one-act length version of their collaboratively developed Learning to Fly,  which premiered this past spring as a 12 minute short in XPT at the Center for Puppetry Arts.

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Topher Payne on a roll in Simply Buckhead

July/August 2012 – Simply Buckhead: Topher Payne: Actor/Playwright on a roll. Actor/playwright Topher Payne lives in Decatur, but seems to be practically everywhere. In the upcoming year he’ll premier new scripts at area playhouses from Roswell’s Georgia Ensemble Theatre to 7 Stages in Little Five Points, to the Springer Opera House in Columbus.