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Imagine a forest ranger in his lookout tower watching his favorite old Western television drama, "Sawbones," just before he sees an ominous plume of smoke in the distance.

It's not often that graduates get to revisit the good old days on their high school stage.

Rome was sacked 1,500 years ago, an anniversary not lost on HBO. Classics commentator Elaine Fantham offers some historical insight on the cable giant's new 12-part series.

Should a renewed Mahaffey offer different fare for a more sophisticated audience? Some culture folks say so.

There's a fair amount of news on the Alaska theater front this week ... In Anchorage, Alaska Theatre of Youth has a few pieces of news of its own.

Like most men his age, Kevin Burke associates happy, middle-class American life with the same image: A man kisses his wife and kids goodbye, strides briskly off to work down the front walk, waving back to his ...

Jazz, blues and swing will fill the air of Main Street on Saturday night for the fourth annual fund-raising event benefitting the soon-to-be-opened community theater.2.7

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So here we are on the other side of the tsunami known as the summer theater season ... Those four productions were the cream but right on their heels were "Souvenir" at Berkshire Theatre Festival, and "See Rock City" at Miniature Theatre of Chester.2.7

Want to catch a sneak peek at some theater of the future? Three new plays will receive staged readings in Cedar City next weekend as part of the Utah Shakespearean Festival's Plays in Progress series.2.7

This is no frivolous question. For some of us, going to the movies is not just a way to kill a couple of hours.2.7

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It may be quite a leap from the mega-budget Toronto premiere of "The Lion King" to the much smaller stage of Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, but Richard McMillan takes it all in stride.2.9

Baytown Little Theater will be celebrating its 45th season with a year of popular comedies, a classic musical, memorabilia and displays, and special events.2.7

Crazy mathematicians enjoyed a brief but high profile vogue in 2001. That was the year Hollywood released "A Beautiful Mind," the story of math whiz John Nash's struggle with mental illness.2.7

An Aug. 28 Bard SummerScape concert reading of The Golden Apple, the cult 1954 musical by John ... Critical hosannahs and the New York Drama Critics Award for best musical sent it speeding to Broadway, where it nonetheless only lasted a few months.2.9

Brian Moe, aka Melody Rose, took the stage in women's clothes. I want to run down Route 5, yelling, 'Come out.2.7

Pasquotank Arts Council has achieved its fundraising goal of getting the $300,000 in local government support for its campaign to turn the historic Lowry-Chesson building on Main Street into a downtown regional ...

When Lynchburg College students start classes Monday, they will have a new building to explore.2.7

Millions of moviegoers know the German screenwriter-director Tom Tykwer by his breathless 1998 ... Thousands of Pittsburghers remember writer-director and district native Thom Thomas for his productions for such theater companies as the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Pittburgh Civic Light Opera and as the co-founder and primary director of the late, ...2.7

WITH her bare feet on an ottoman, her bed jammed in a corner and a Marcello Mastroianni poster on the wall, Jill Clayburgh appears to be living in an updated Jill Clayburgh vehicle: fluttery-yet-determined mom ...2.9

The 4th Annual Parti Gras on Sept. 17, will be an outdoor, New Orleans-style celebration with free live entertainment by Kenny Menard and his authentic zydeco band, a juggler, a caricature artist for $5 per ...2.7

In theater, as in life, the difference between good news and bad news is often a matter of your ... However, Bricolage's artistic director, Jeffrey Carpenter, says the Pittsburgh production has been postponed, not abandoned.

WASHINGTON - There's a home movie of Marilyn Monroe swinging a golf club. And Michael Jordan playing basketball - in junior high.2.7

Perhaps it was only a matter of time until real estate and theater, two of New York's favorite obsessions, converged.2.9

When the curtain goes up on the 29th Montreal World Film Festival Friday, it will launch eight weeks of marathon screenings in Montreal by three different festivals.2.7

Then: Auditorium Theatre reopened, having been shuttered since 1941. The only place for any significant theater activity downtown: the Goodman Theater, still housed at the Art Institute.2.7

A VISITOR arriving in Ireland this summer, oblivious to the ins and outs of the culture's century-long theatrical past, would never suspect that the history of J. M. Synge on the Irish stage has been a ...2.9

Despite being banned by a Stone Mountain, Ga., theater, the show went on for the play "Shermantown \u2014 Baseball, Apple Pie and the Klan," when cast members Saturday performed readings at a Decatur church.4.2

The family of the late John R. Conway does not want a prolonged controversy over the City Council's decision to name a street in the Los Robles subdivision after him.2.7

STATE OF MINE: John Nehlich, 21, portrays a California miner who gives the newcomers some advice on searching for gold in a program called "Diggins State of Mine." A living history intern at the Oregon Trail ...2.9

Les Belles Aubergine Chapter, from Dodd City was one of the many Chapters of Red Hats to attend and we thoroughly enjoyed the entertainment and the welcoming of the Red River Theatre Company.2.7

Kevin Kline is in the zone. The Academy Award-winning actor is so focused on his role as hard-boiled gumshoe Guy Noir that he doesn't notice he's cut his finger as he shoots a scene for the A Prairie Home ...3.1

A background in teaching, volunteering, theater and Native American art has placed UMaine student David Slagger, a member of the Micmac Indian Nation, in the right place at the right time for a prestigious ...2.7

It's a big night for Janice Jones and her family. The Durham resident, her husband and their eleven-month old son will go out tonight to see "The Dukes of Hazzard." They won't be lining up at a megaplex with ...4.2