PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX)- This month, the Singing River Little Theatre is celebrating a milestone. The organization is using what started 80 years ago to build a brighter future.

“What happened at the Little Theatre was front-page news back then,” Singing River Little Theatre historian Rick Roberts said. “We had the first community theatre production on the Coast, the first organized community theatre and the first community theatre.”

Along with being an active participant in the Singing River Little Theatre, Rick Roberts is the organization’s historian. What was originally called the Paspoint Little Theatre launched the first community theatre production on the Coast in 1945, just days after the end of World War II.

“Pascagoula had gone from a small fishing village of about 5- 6,000

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