"What do you do with the love you feel?" Madge Owens, played by UNC School of the Arts senior Ali Bill, asks her mother, Flo, in William Inge's play, Picnic. Madge's question to Flo, played by Rebecca Wolf, gets at the very heart of the conflict in the 1953 Broadway hit play currently being revived by UNCSA's production at the Catawba Theatre at Performance Place.

The Revolve Film and Music Festival and the Weatherspoon Art Museum have teamed up to present the North Carolina premiere of the critically acclaimed environmental documentary Dirt!

If the purpose of drama is to invoke a sense of wonder in the viewer - to pitch us out from the comfort of our everyday mundane world and pull us, like a tractor beam, into unknown territory - then Wake Forest University Theatre's production of Jose Rivera's Sonnets for an Old Century.

The independent feature film Wesley, a biographical drama tracing the life of clergyman John Wesley (1703-1791), the architect of the Methodist movement, will enjoy its Winston-Salem premiere this Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Stevens Center (405 W. 4 th St.). Much of the cast and crew will be on hand to greet the audience and discuss the production following the screening.

As you approach the Reynolda House along its winding and wooded driveway, with the botanical garden set below the main house and an expansive front yard in the foreground, you can feel the splendor coming from the stonework.

The Stained Glass Playhouse's production of James Goldman's acclaimed, award-winning historical drama The Lion in Winter will open this Friday at 4401 Indiana Ave., Winston-Salem.

The tile-covered walls deep inside Triad Stage reverberated with the voices of men who had been unnerved by what they had just witnessed. Opening night of David Mamet's Oleanna sparked a vigorous postmortem in the men's room.

You may not know "The Rusty Bucket Kids Club," but soon enough you might. With so many small-screen franchises devoted to kids, teens and tweens, it's no surprise that a local production would seek to make its own mark in the marketplace.

Director M. Seth Reines should be commended for casting the husband-and-wife team of Jillian Nyhan Zygo and J. Michael Zygo in the lead roles of Robbie Hart and Julia Sullivan. Reines has worked with the Zygos on separate occasions, directing Jillian in the touring company production of Funny Girl.

The School of Drama at UNC School of the Arts will open its 2009-10 performance season with August Wilson's acclaimed Fences, which will open on Oct. 29 at the Catawba Theatre, located in Performance Place on the UNCSA main campus (1533 S. Main St., Winston-Salem).