{"id":125356,"date":"2026-01-20T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/125356\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:36:16","slug":"psst-wins-nine-broadway-world-tallahassee-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/125356\/","title":{"rendered":"PSST Wins Nine Broadway World Tallahassee Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 20, 2026
26-4<\/p>\n

Jessica Pope
Communications and Media Relations Coordinator<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Peach State Summer Theatre\u2019s 2025 season \u2014 \u201cThe Wizard of Oz,\u201d \u201cLittle Shop of Horrors,\u201d and \u201cA Closer Walk With Patsy Cline\u201d\u2014 is the winner of nine Broadway World Tallahassee awards. This includes the highly coveted Favorite Local Theatre honor.\u00a0Visit www.valdosta.edu\/psst<\/a> for details about PSST\u2019s 2026 season, which kicks off June 5 and runs through July 4.<\/p>\n

\"54617916584_9884876110_k.jpg\"<\/p>\n

\"54593813263_52863c09da_k.jpg\"<\/p>\n

\"54570889826_6c2f60adaa_k.jpg\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

VALDOSTA \u2014 Peach State Summer Theatre\u2019s 2025 season \u2014 \u201cThe Wizard of Oz,\u201d \u201cLittle Shop of Horrors,\u201d and \u201cA Closer Walk With Patsy Cline\u201d\u2014 is the winner of nine Broadway World Tallahassee awards. This includes the highly coveted Favorite Local Theatre honor.<\/p>\n

This is the fourth consecutive year Peach State Summer Theatre has been named Favorite Local Theatre, a recognition of its showstopping community theatre scene across the South Georgia-North Florida area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis award belongs to the entire PSST family \u2014 our artists, staff, students, volunteers, and audiences,\u201d said Hank Rion, artistic director of Peach State Summer Theatre. \u201cEarning it for a fourth year inspires us to keep raising the bar, to take creative risks, and to remain deeply invested in both artistic excellence and mentorship. It\u2019s a powerful reminder that when a community believes in the work, it pushes us to do even better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hank Rion won Best Direction of a Musical for his work on PSST\u2019s \u201cLittle Shop of Horrors,\u201d a sci-fi tale about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that needs human blood to survive.<\/p>\n

PSST\u2019s production of \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d won Best Musical and Best Ensemble honors.<\/p>\n

A timeless reminder of courage, compassion, wisdom, and home, PSST\u2019s \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d also had five cast members earn individual honors \u2014 Aubrey Anderson, Best Performer in a Musical; Clara Jean Kelly, Best Costume Design of a Play or Musical; Sarah Wildes Arnett, Best Choreography of a Play or Musical; Zach Cramer, Best Sound Design of a Play or Musical; and John Hemphill Jr., Best Lighting of a Play or Musical. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Peach State Summer Theatre, or PSST, is Georgia\u2019s premiere professional summer stock theatre. Each summer, dozens of performers, technicians, managers, and creators gather on the campus of Valdosta State University to rehearse, build, and present a series of entertaining musicals in rotating repertory.<\/p>\n

Peach State Summer Theatre started in 1990 as the Jekyll Island Musical Theatre Festival. In 2005, the summer theatre program relocated to the campus of VSU and was renamed PSST.<\/p>\n

The Georgia Legislature designated Peach State Summer Theatre the Official Musical Theatre of the State of Georgia.<\/p>\n

VSU\u2019s H. Duke Guthrie serves as the managing director of Peach State Summer Theatre.<\/p>\n

Visit www.valdosta.edu\/psst<\/a> for details about Peach State Summer Theatre\u2019s 2026 season, which kicks off June 5 and runs through July 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 20, 202626-4 Jessica PopeCommunications and Media Relations Coordinator Peach State Summer Theatre\u2019s 2025 season \u2014 \u201cThe Wizard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[62133,115,62131,62132,232,234,233,58038,18965],"class_list":{"0":"post-125356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-college-of-the-art","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-peach-state-summer-theatre","11":"tag-psst","12":"tag-tallahassee","13":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","14":"tag-tallahassee-news","15":"tag-valdosta-state","16":"tag-vsu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}