Part of HART’s Winter Studio Season

One of the most popular things to do in the winter is to attend the plays presented by HART Theatre in the intimate Feichter Studio in Waynesville.

The 65 seat space plays host to some the region’s most adventuresome drama. It is a “no holds barred” space, meaning the actors from the area pick plays they want to do with no restrictions on subject matter or content.

Over the years everything from light family musicals such as You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown to avant garde works such as Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, have found appreciative audiences. It is a place for those who truly love theater.

This season has been one of the Studio’s most successful, and for March, HART has two productions opening. Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, by Richard Alfieri, will feature Julie Kinter and Cord Scott as an aging but formidable retiree and the dance coach she hires to give her lessons in her condo.

The antagonism between a gay man and the wife of a Southern Baptist minister gives way to profound compatibility as they swing dance, tango, foxtrot, and cha-cha, while sharing barbs and intimacies along with the dance steps.

Catch Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks March 1 & 2. The show may be held over through March 9.

Poe: An Evening of Chills and Thrills will feature “The Raven,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Monkey’s Paw,” all adapted from the works of Edgar Allen Poe. Performers include Tom Dewees, James Bradley, and San and Bob Greenalch. Poe performances held March 14-16. The show may be held over through March 23.

By popular demand, comic storyteller C.J. Deering brings her all too true, tall tales of life, recovery and survival in Most Improved Camper: The Real Life Adventures of C.J. Deering. Performances March 28-30.

Details: Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 2 at 3 p.m. Poe, March 14, and 15 at 7:30, and Sunday, March 16 at 3 p.m. Most Improved Camper, March 28, 29, at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, March 30 at 3 p.m.

To make reservations call the HART Box Office any time at (828) 456-6322 or visit www.harttheatre.com. All performances are held in the HART Studio Theater, 250 Pigeon St. Waynesville, 28786.