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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.

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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