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- Completing its February run of three weekends at Bowie Playhouse, Prince George's Little Theatre offers fresh insight into Beth Henley's dark comedy "Crimes of the Heart"
- The able production examines tension in South Carolina's African-American community
- The idea of bringing foreign students to the United States for summer jobs was a good one, but it has grown out of control and is now displacing American students who need jobs.
- The death late last month of Boston Mayor Kevin H. White who steered the city through the storm caused by court-ordered school desegregation is also credited with giving political access to blacks, women and gays.
- European composers still tend to dominate most classical music programs in the United States, but the Columbia Orchestra makes a case for our country in a program titled "American Inspirations."
- "The Girl in the Picture (Napalm Girl)," released by Yanah in 2004, is one of over 300 famous and not-so-famous songs and spoken-word tracks about the war that are included in a 13-CD musical anthology.
- As a resident of Strawbridge Home for Boys in 1950, Jim Mathis, at age 13, found himself working on a full-fledged farm with cows, hogs, chickens and horses.
- Media has failed to properly report ethical lapses of Pentagon experts
- The Ruxton Players, a community theater troupe that performs at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 1401 Carrollton Ave. in Towson, is hosting a special performance for Veterans Day, Nov. 11, for its fall production, "The Hasty Heart."
- Compass Rose Studio Theater is a new company that opened its first production in Eastport Shopping Center on Oct.21. Running through Nov. 20 is the Pulitzer Prize-winning work "Lost in Yonkers."
- Bay Theatre's season-opening production of Margaret Edson's "Wit" may be the most compelling to theater experience in the company's 10-year history.
- Chesapeake Shakespeare Company hopes to remake "Our Town" into a pleasant memory.
- Jay Frisby, Columbia actor comes to town in 'South Pacific' revival
- Bringing any musical back can be a risky business, as producers of such recent misses as "Bye, Bye Birdie" and "Promises, Promises" and "Ragtime" can attest.
- Bay Theatre founder Janet Luby could not conceal her delight as she announced that the first celebratory event of the coming season, a fashion show and fundraiser, had sold out nearly two months in advance.
- Baltimore's Centerstage gets a new director and a new direction as the fall theater season opens.
- Comedian and musician Reggie Watts performs Aug. 23-26 at Woolly Mammoth in D.C.
- Leonard Pitts says a resolution by the nation's oldest — and most institutionally conservative — civil rights organization recognizing the failure of treating addiction as a law enforcement issue should lead others to call for an end to the drug war.
- Take this list as personal suggestions, from one neighbor to another.
- Just because news and information comes from a non-profit operation rather than corporately-owned one, that doesn¿t mean it is ideologically-free, disinterested and independent reporting that citizens can automatically trust.
- Rep Stage's 2011-12 season offers works by Lynn Nottage and other contemporary playwrights
- Everyman Theatre's 2011-2012 season, the last in current venue, mixes classic, recent works
- Leonard Pitts: Lying in defense of extremist views is no virtue