Red Mountain Theatre Company (Birmingham, AL) and its Executive Director Keith Cromwell, in collaboration with Lee Sentell (Alabama Tourism Director) and Dr. Lawrence J. Pijeaux (President and CEO of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute) are hosting a national search for a one-act written piece to be produced in honor of the 50th Anniversary commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”

The one-act theatrical presentation (play, musical or spoken word) will become the second act of a fully-realized theatrical event that features a first-act dramatic reading of the “Letter to Martin Luther King” by a group of clergymen and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” written during his incarceration in 1963. 

Submissions are due no later than September 1, 2012, and the winner will be announced on October 15, 2012.

Two photos by Anna Bishop of Wetumpka are featured in the 2013 American Paint Horse Association’s (APHA) calendar entitled “Unique By Design.”... Read More

The Capri Theatre will host the premiere of Alabama Public Television's newest documentary, The Durrs of Montgomery.  The screening will take place on Friday, June 22nd at 7:30 p.m., and will include a Q&A session with director Andrew Grace.  This event is free and open to the public.

Clifford Durr (1899-1975) was an Alabama lawyer who played an important role in defending activists and others accused of disloyalty during the New Deal and McCarthy eras, and who represented Rosa Parks in her challenge to the constitutionality of the ordinance requiring the segregation of passengers on buses in Montgomery that launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Virginia Foster Durr shared these ideals with her husband. A civil rights activist and lobbyist, Virginia Durr was close friends with Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt.