A singular artistic voice from southern Alabama will be reinvigorated for an intimate crowd in downtown Mobile soon. Welcome back, Mr. Capote; your audience awaits.
Those eager attendees will be on the upstairs floor at Sophiella Gallery (111 Dauphin St.) on Aug. 29, 7 p.m. Four actors will inhabit the writer’s work for a readers’ theater entitled “A Capote Compote,” courtesy of the Public Works Project.
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