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The Belleville Theatre Company performs “Little Women, The Broadway Musical” through Sunday at Southwestern Illinois College. Holiday concerts take place in Belleville and Highland Saturday and Sunday.
The George Portz Traditional Music Festival lives on to honor the event’s namesake, who died earlier in the year. The 2023 version is set for Sept. 23-24 at Larry G. Crites Memorial Park, Festus.
Evie Hemphill joined the St. Louis on the Air team in February 2018. After earning a bachelor’s degree in English literature in 2005, she started her career as a reporter for the Westminster Window in Colorado. Several years later she went on to pursue graduate work in creative writing at the University of Wyoming and moved to St. Louis upon earning an MFA in the spring of 2010. She worked as writer and editor for Washington University Libraries until 2014 and then spent several more years in public relations for the University of Missouri–St. Louis before making the shift to St. Louis Pub...