NASSAU, The Bahamas -- Would you rob someone at an ATM to get money to feed your child after being unemployed for so long? Would you allow your son to take care of you with money he made selling drugs?  These are just some of the life-like situations that will unfold onstage at College of the Bahamas’ Performing Arts Center when Adrian Wildgoose’s play The Recession debuts for a two-night run beginning this Friday April 16th.           

Wildgoose, a Grand Bahama native is an award-winning filmmaker who proves his talents in The Recession as the writer, director, producer and one of the actors. His first two plays were, Imagine Me and Imagine Me 2: A Christmas Story. He says he was inspired to write the play because today in The Bahamas, many individuals are still facing the remains of a global recession. He said he hopes the play will capture the reality of the impact from a youthful perspective.           

 “The Recession explores the many social and psychological effects that an economic recession can have on a single parent family,” he says. “Overall, I’ll say it’s a hilarious and emotional dual journey through the maze of situations caused by a recession and the realities of it impact on a family’s perception of God and each other while arriving to a new understanding of the more important things in life, namely faith, hope and charity.

With both humor and drama, the play examines the extreme affects that a struggling Bahamian family can face due to the pressures of hopelessness. This reality is realized in a sequence of events that a mother and a son are confronted with. Even though some of the characters carry a heritage of Jamaican, the environment and language speaks the language of the average youth with knowledge and insight of the older generations.”

FREEPORT, Grand Bahama -- Singin’ in the rain, just singin’ in the rain … let the sun shine in, let the sun shine … somewhere over the rainbow … cause its too darn hot! 

No, this is not the weather forecast for the weekend, these are just a few of the "hot" song and dance numbers featured in Broadway in Concert 2010 which opens this Thursday, April 15, at the Regency Theatre.  An enjoyable musical extravaganza for the whole family to enjoy!

Starring a cast of nearly fifty talented singers, dancers, and all-round entertainers, there is truly something for every member of the family to sing along and snap their fingers to in this show, even if you have never been anywhere near Broadway itself.  And at only $15 for adults and $10 for kids tickets, everyone can afford this musical trip!

Talented tap dancers Tony Lowe, Julia Geiger and Devan Chee-A-Tow bring youthful delight to the Fred Astaire classic Singin’ in the Rain, and Rouen Robinson leads a colourful chorus of kids in his amazing technicolour dream coat in Any Dream Will Do, complete with ribbons and lollipops. 

Tiffany Dennison and Trevor Russell trade musical barbs in a hilarious rendition of Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better. Eddie Llambias will have you laughing as he wrestles with his pink feather boa in I Am What I Am. 

If you’re seated in the front row, watch out, Dalia Feldman will teach you how to be Popular in a delightfully quirky number.  

GRAND BAHAMA, Bahamas --  ‘I will Sing of my Redeemer’, a collection of Easter monologues and hymns recounting the Passion of Christ leading up to Good Friday will be presented a select group of thespians and soloists in a special concert at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Eight Mile Rock on Holy (Maundy) Thursday at 7:00 pm.

This contemporary drama is being produced and directed respectively by Gwen Hamilton-Claude and Wes Butler, renowned members of the Grand Bahama Players, and reminisces on the Passover season, the five days leading up to Palm Sunday and Good Friday.

Butler said “The performance accounts the biblical story from Palm Sunday to the crucifixion and features some of the characters from the past (Mary Magdalene, Peter and Joseph of Arimathea) and some from the present (a choir member, a college student and a widower), all affected by the Easter miracle of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection

“The one hundred years since the first Passion play, drama and music have gone hand in hand during Holy Week.  Through the dramatic/musical approach, worshipers get a little closer to understanding the suffering of Christ, or appreciating His glory,” said the Director.

Ms. Hamilton-Claude holds that “The lyrics to our most beloved Easter season songs and the creative inspiration for this collection of monologues dramatizes familiar hymns and tells stories that parallel the meaning of the songs.