Humorist/musician

Andy Offutt Irwin, widely admired in his Renaissance

Festival, coffeehouse and college circuit gigs, returns

to Fayetteville's Stars on the Southern Crescent

coffeehouse Saturday, June 3.

Joining

Irwin in the evening's revelries is the Irish folk band

Barney's Goat.

Irwin has

accomplished a lot in the region. He has taught acting at

Oxford College of Emory University, directed the 37th

annual Cracker Crumble, the political parody show of the

Georgia Press Association, and hosted a concert series to

be broadcast on Peach State Public Radio this summer.

Both Irwin and Barney's Goat appeared at the first Stars

on the Southern Crescent in 1993, when the coffeehouse

was in Stockbridge. Their appearance together in June

makes the season finale an event not to be missed.

The venue

for the coffeehouse is National Heights Baptist Church,

at the intersection of Old Norton Road and Ga. Highway

54, between Peachtree City and downtown Fayetteville.

Doors open at 7:45 p.m., with the show beginning at 8:15.

Admission is $6 for the general public, and $4 for

seniors and children under 12.

Hot and

cold beverages and enticing home-baked desserts will be

available. Patrons who bring their mugs from home are

eligible for discounts on hot beverages and for the

"most unusual mug" award.

Offshoot

Productions is seeking a mature male actor and technical

apprentices for its July productions of two children's

participatory musicals, "The Further Adventures of

Maide Marian" and "The Tale of the Frog

Prince."

Auditions

and interviews will be from 2 - 4 p.m. Sunday, June 4, at

the Peachtree City Library, 201 Willowbend Road, in the

City Hall complex.

The actor,

who will play either Friar Tuck in "Maide

Marian" or the King in "The Frog Prince,"

must be able to sing. Technical apprentices attend the

acting workshops offered to all apprentices, and fill

responsible positions in the running of the show. They

may also understudy previously cast apprentices with

roles in the productions. Apprentices range from age 13

through adult.

The shows

will be performed July 20-30 at the LaFayette Educational

Center (formerly Fayette County High School) in

Fayetteville. Rehearsals begin in June.

Offshoot

Productions also will offer six theater workshops this

summer for teens and adults beginning Sunday, June 11.

The first

workshop, "Improv and Interaction" will be at

the Peachtree City Library. Meeting 1:30 - 4:30 p.m., the

workshop will help actors feel comfortable working

without a script and interacting with each other as well

as with audience members.

The cost of

the session is $20, and preregistration is strongly

advised. Instructors include Susan M. Steadman, Ph.D.,

artistic director of Offshoot, and Brian Turner, an

Atlanta actor highly experienced in improvisation.

Subsequent

acting workshops include "Text and Subtext"

June 17 (adults and teens), "Creating an

Ensemble" June 25 (adults and teens), "Theater

Games" July 8 (ages 6 to 8), and "Working with

the Script" July 24 (ages 9 to 12).

The

Peachtree City Library is at 201 Willowbend Road. For

registration forms or information, phone Offshoot at

770-631-2362 or e-mail to [email protected] .

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