Nan Colton as Margaret Bourke-White IN PERSON at the Hickman Theater

Join us for a live character performance as local artist, Nan Colton, presents her newest character "Margaret Bourke-White".

Tickets are $25.

Margaret Bourke-White was a pioneering photojournalist who stated: “My life and career was not an accident. It was thoroughly thought out.”

Popular local storyteller Nan Colton will return to the Catherine Hickman Theater October 16, 2022 to perform her newest character LIFE Magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White. The show will be a Sunday matinee, 4-6 pm. Tickets are $25 each and proceeds will support the Gulfport Senior Center Foundation.

Colton says Bourke-White’s life was more dramatic than her photographs. Her enthusiasm for this new character promises a powerful not-to-be-missed performance. One of LIFE Magazine’s original four staff photographers, Bourke-White’s picture of Montana’s monumental Fort Peck Dam graced the cover of LIFE’s debut issue in November 1936. Bourke-White broke ground again and again throughout her career, covering momentous events and key historical figures.

In 1930, she was the first Western photographer officially allowed into the USSR. She was America’s first accredited woman photographer in WWII, and the very first authorized to fly on combat missions. She was one of the first photographers to document the horrors of Nazi concentration camps after they were liberated in the spring of 1945.

She was the only Western photographer to witness the German invasion of Moscow in 1941, she was the first woman to accompany Air Corps crews on bombing missions in 1942. She was also one of the first photographers to travel with Patton’s army through Germany to document the horrors of Nazi concentration camps after they were liberated in the spring of 1945.

During the next 12 years, she photographed major international events and stories, including the unrest in South Africa and the Korean War. She was the last person to interview Mohandas Gandhi before he was assassinated. Bourke-White contracted Parkinson’s disease in 1953 and made her last photo essay for LIFE, “Megalopolis,” in 1957

ABOUT NAN COLTON

Nan Colton is a produced playwright, director, storyteller, actress and performing teaching artist having performed and lectured professionally on stages throughout South Africa, Great Britain and the United States. She has committed her talents to create and present theatrical solo performances and workshops that are interactive, educative and entertaining in museums, art galleries, schools, universities and at conferences. Nan is the Performing-Artist-in-Residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, having researched, produced and performed over 45 vastly different original scripts (historically accurate or humorously fictitious) characters written to explain the art and the exhibitions.

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