Performing Arts/Museums

Posted: 12:05am on Mar 5, 2008; Modified: 10:12am on Sep 30, 2008

Ohr-O’Keefe Mueum of Art

1596 Glenn Swetman St., Biloxi, MS 39530; (228) 374-5547; www.georgeohr.org.

Visitors to the museum’s transitional location on Glenn Swetman Street will be able to see about 30 pieces of George Ohr’s work. Museum hours are 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.

MUSIC AND OPERA

Arts Under the Dome

A performing arts series that sponsors five concerts a year with entertainers from all over the world. Family discounts are offered through season tickets for a family of any number. Individual season tickets are $35.

First United Methodist Church of Gulfport at 2301 15th St., Gulfport
229-6851 or 863-0047

Coast Community Concert Association

Sponsors four subscription concerts each year by national and international traveling groups. Performances are at the Saenger Theatre. Memberships are sold each year in the spring.

P.O. Box 1416, People's Bank, Biloxi, 39533-1416
Attention: Tom Wicks; 435-8208

Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra

Five classical concerts a year at the Saenger Theatre in Biloxi; three free outdoor holiday concerts, family concerts and four school concerts. Youth symphony program also available.

P.O. Box 542, Biloxi 39533
435-9800

Mississippi Gulf Coast Opera Theatre

Founded in 1954, the Opera Theatre puts on two productions and other events at the Biloxi Saenger Theatre each year.

P.O. Box 118, Biloxi 39533
Shirley Heitzman, 436-6514 or Jane Hardin, 388-2169

Mississippi Coast Jazz Society

Holds a monthly social and concert of at least two jazz bands. Newcomers welcome; just bring an instrument. Meets every first Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Elks Club, 12010 Klein Road, Gulfport.

897-2330 or 392-4177

LIVE THEATERS

Bay St. Louis Little Theatre

Details: 864-2882 • www.bsllt.com

Biloxi Little Theatre

The theater presents four major productions annually plus two youth productions and fund-raisers.

P.O. Box 955, Biloxi, MS 39533; 220 Lee St.
432-8543

Center Stage

The theater offers five regular season performances, two children's theater productions and children's theater workshops a year with informal SNACS - Saturday Night At Center Stage - arranged intermittently around regular season plays, plus a major fundraiser.

240 Eisenhower Drive, Biloxi
388-6258 • www.centerstagebiloxi.com

Gulfport Little Theatre

The theater features a regular season of amateur plays and year round children's performances, workshops, special events and educational summer theater camps.

P.O. Box 567, Gulfport, MS 39502; 2600 13th Ave., Gulfport
864-7983

KNS Theatre

KNS is a nonprofit, regional community theater that produces two Broadway musicals a year at the Biloxi Saenger Theatre.

P.O. Box 671, Ocean Springs, 39566
218-9026

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Campuses have active theater programs with productions during the school year.

Jackson County campus, Gautier, 497-9602. Jefferson Davis campus, Gulfport, 896-3355. Perkinston campus, Perkinston, (601) 928-5211.
www.mgccc.edu

Mississippi Repertory Company Theatre Inc.

Professional theater company that produces two to three Broadway comedy/dramas a year at the Biloxi Saenger Theatre or the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center.

P.O. Box 521, Ocean Springs, 39566
875-3646

Phoenix Productions Inc.

An arts service and management agency that provides entertainment services, stage and film production. Also sponsors Broadway South Repertory, a semi-professional theater performance company.

P.O. Box 8401, Biloxi
896-7996.

Picayune On Stage

Community theater for the Picayune area.

P.O. Box 1987, Picayune
601-799-1714

Walter Anderson Players

WAP puts on four productions a year.

P.O. Box 1128, Ocean Springs
875-4156

MUSEUMS

Alice Moseley Folk Art & Antique Museum

Featured in the Alice Moseley Folk Art & Antique Museum are 36 Alice Moseley original paintings, a guided tour of the Alice Moseley Folk Art and Antique Museum and a seating area for visitors to watch the video, "Hello, I'm Alice Moseley!" Open six days a week (call for museum hours).

214 Bookter Street, Bay St. Louis
800-466-9048 or 228-467-9223

Command Historical Exhibit/Seabees Gift Store Naval Construction Battalion Center

Exhibits depict the history and fighting spirit of the U.S. Navy Seabees and Civil Engineer Corps. Exhibit and Seabee Gift Store hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Building One, Gulfport
871-3619

Lynn Meadows Discovery Center for Children

One of the top 50 children's museums in America; sponsors annual Bluegrass festival for the whole family; WINGS Performing Arts of The Lynn Meadows Discovery Center presents year-round children's performance productions, including educational summer arts camps. A monthly calendar offers the details on their website.

246 Dolan Ave., Gulfport
897-6039 • www.lmdc.org

Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum

The Museum Gift Shop is now open at the Biloxi Schooner Pier from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Ohr-O’Keefe Mueum of Art

1596 Glenn Swetman St., Biloxi, MS 39530; (228) 374-5547; www.georgeohr.org.

Visitors to the museum’s transitional location on Glenn Swetman Street will be able to see about 30 pieces of George Ohr’s work. Museum hours are 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.

Walter Anderson Museum of Art

WAMA features the works of the three Anderson brothers, Walter, Peter, and Mac, as well as changing exhibitions by national and international artists. An extensive educational program, tours and cultural events are ongoing and open to the public throughout the year. WAMA is open 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Monday through Saturday and 12:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. on Sunday.

510 Washington Ave., Ocean Springs
872-3164 • www.walterandersonmuseum.org

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