Best Bets for the Myrtle Beach area, Feb. 28-March 6

February 27, 2014

Brookgreen Gardens will have an “Otter Birthday Celebration” 10 a.m.-3 p.m. March 1, to celebrate the second birthdays of three river otter pups, photographed soon after their birth in 2011. COURTESY


Brookgreen’s otter birthday party

Brookgreen Gardens, on U.S. 17 between Murrells Inlet and Litchfield Beach, will have its “Otter Birthday Celebration” 10 a.m.-3 p.m. March 1, to celebrate three river otter pups about to turn 2. The trio, born March 11, 2011, have grown into big boys among a group of resident otters in an indoor-outdoor habitat in the Lowcountry Zoo. This birthday party will include craft tables with color sheets, word finds and masks; storybook reading; ice pops for the resident otters; and a zookeeper talk as the otters unwrap their presents.

Other events in March include (unless noted otherwise, free with admission, which lasts seven days: $14 ages 13-64, $12 ages 65 and older, and $7 ages 4-12):

• Exhibits “Equine Spirit: The Horse in American Art” exhibit, through April 20, and “Sojun tu Gullah Geechee” (“Sojourn to Gullah Geechee”), a traveling exhibit from Geechee Kunda Center, in Riceboro, Ga., noon-4:30 p.m. daily through March 16.

• Cooking Demos, 4 p.m. Wednesdays in March, for $25 extra ($20 members) – reservations at 235-6016.

• “Diggin’ It” Spring Garden Festival, March 22

Details at 235-6000, 800-849-1931 or www.brookgreen.org.

FRIDAY, NEXT THURSDAY | 02.28, 03.06

Curtains open for four plays

Two local historic theaters open plays Feb. 28 for three weekends through March 16:

• “Monty Python’s ‘SpamALot’ ” by Theatre of the Republic, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28, and March 1, 6-8 and 13-15; and 3 p.m. March 2, 8-9 and 15-16, at Main Street Theatre, 335 Main. St., Conway, for $21. Details at 488-0821 or www.theatreoftherepublic.com).

• “The Constant Wife,” by Swamp Fox Players, 8 p.m. Feb. 28 and March 1, 7-8 and 13-15; and 2:30 p.m. March 9 and 16, at Strand Theater, 710 Front St., Georgetown, for $15. 527-2924 or www.swampfoxplayers.com.

Two Horry County high schools will mount major productions starting March 6:

• “Shrek the Musical,” by students in grades 3-12, 7 p.m. March 6-9 and 3 p.m. March 8-9, at Socastee High School, on S.C. 707, near Dick Pond Road. $12 or $17. 293-9041 or socasteeperformingarts.com.

• “Fame the Musical,” 7 p.m. March 6-8, and 2 p.m. March 8, at St. James High School, at S.C. 707 and Salem Road, in Burgess community, for $8. 650-5600.

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SATURDAY | 03.01

Tour churches, hear organs

Local members of the American Guild of Organists, Grand Strand Chapter, and five downtown Conway churches will present a historic tour on March 1. At each church stop for a half-hour, learn about that church’s history and architectural design, and enjoy a demonstration of the pipe and digital organs used in its worship programs. Admission is free.

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