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Playhouse supporters celebrate old and the new

Playhouse marketing director Dane Whitlock (right) thanks Bob Otto as Charlotte Otto looks on.

By Bill Moss, Published: May 10, 2017

Local folks know of the early days of the Flat Rock Playhouse on the Great Flat Rock — the circus tent, the Lowndes House and then the performance barn still used today. But the theater founder’s plunge into drama was 80 years ago, when young Robert William Smith boarded a ship in Liverpool for Baltimore.

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