The Notario Dance Company draws from choreographer Brook Notary’s colorful past in gymnastics, the circus, and martial arts. The most striking numbers use costume and props to turn the human body into ...

Alison Cullen Cressey teaches dance to kids in the 2023 Camp Vaudeville at the Smoot Theatre in Parkersburg. Registration is underway for the 2024 camp from July 8-13. Cressey returns as an instructor ...

If clothes make the man—or woman—can a building make a dance? In the case of the stately Scottish Rite Cathedral downtown, a building can and did. The Grand Parlor, a theater inside the main hall ...

Ballet Instructor Alison Cressey guides campers through dance steps. (Photo by Matty Lamp) PARKERSBURG — Monday marked the start of The Smoot Theatre’s 2025 Camp Vaudeville, which has been happening ...

Red-haired Amsterdam native Inez Courtney was 15 when she performed a specialty dance act during a three-day run in the vaudeville show at the Rialto Theater in Amsterdam in October 1923. People ...