gracie allen

If you happen upon Happenstance Theater during the next few weeks, count on some good old-fashioned entertainment. The ensemble makes its local debut at the Baltimore Theatre Project with two family-friendly shows celebrating vintage circuses and clowns.

Lary Lewman, an actor who delighted Baby Boomers as television's Pete the Pirate and later became the recorded voice of national Democratic presidential campaign advertisements, died of Parkinson's disease complications Thursday at his Clarksville home. He was 76.