With Temple’s allergies, Jane and Johnson’s awkwardness, Otis’s old age and Carter’s “sqeak-by� writing — the whole crew is rendered basically unemployable and must scramble to hold onto their jobs despite the odds. The lonely editor-in-chief, Sam, however, is more concerned with pitching a different type of “job� to her male employees.

“It’s truly one of the funniest plays ever written,� said director Mark Pirolo, who will direct the musical for his third time. “It’s a brilliant farce that just also happens to be a musical comedy. It’s got an amazing pedigree in terms of its writers. It’s just got a great, fun script.

Families are filled with mysteries and surprises: a member who constantly gets into trouble, someone who causes the family embarrassment, a dark secret to be kept from the outside world.

Dark shadows, ominous whisperings and blood dripping from the walls are not the typical images that Peter Pan resurrects in one’s mind. But with a little creativity and a lot of childlike imagination, No Rules Theatre Company managed to turn the classic childhood fantasy into a nightmare.

“This is activist theater,” said Devon Currie, organizer. Currie herself is a survivor of an abusive relationship and took the movement to heart after hearing about it from a college professor. “It’s really important to me to make women feel empowered and to create a space where women feel safe to talk about their experiences,” Currie said.

Between the Marshall cabinet stacks, drums, guitars and earplugs — The minimal set used six large, black square boxes, which morphed handed out early with the playbill (thank you) — you can’t hear a damn from a bathroom stall to a kitchen table.

In 1952, Miller wrote the play, which dramatized the 17th Century Salem witch trials, in response to McCarthyism, when the US government went on its own witch hunt — for communists. A raving success, the play was later adapted into an opera by composer Robert Ward in 1961.

Barney, Sesame Street, the Teletubbies, the Wiggles — all have long been teaching children valuable lessons such as how to share, count or make friends.

A North Carolina native son, spectacular author, poet and playwright, Reynolds Price is certainly a man deserving honor and respect, especially among the theatrical and literary crowd of his home state.

Just before a tragic accident or life-threatening situation, your entire his- there’s a gay Christian character and that story isn’t often told. But the tory flashes before your eyes, culminating in those few short seconds. playwright doesn’t choose for it to have a political agenda.

For thousands of years, a multitude of cultures — Greek, Roman, Incan and Aztec — have appreciated, respected and celebrated the majesty of nature. Powerful, serene and awe- inspiring, nature has often been personified as a nurturing mother or even a great goddess.

“I think it’s a good fit for [Open Space],� Nierle said. “[Meglin] wanted to see how it would work in a more intimate setting since he had done a larger-stage production in Brooklyn..

Comedian Brian Regan, known for his observational humor and clean jokes about life’s stupidities, answers a few questions before his appearance Friday at the Greensboro Coliseum’s War Memorial Auditorium, as part of his national theater tour..

Local comedians of the Mon Frere comedy troupe pose in the costumes of several of their sketches, which they performed at the Idiot Box Nov. 18. Standing from left are Al-don Schraeder, Mathew Schantz, Bob Beshere, John McIntosh, Tom McCoy, and AJ Schraeder, crouching.

A romantic relationship might be the single most complicated aspect of the human life. It thrives on communication, understanding and a chemical connection, and without any one of those things, has little chance of survival.

Both the films and the musical are parodies of horror flicks, filled with slap-stick humor and cheap, but good, laughs. The musical includes such campy numbers as “All the Men in my Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons,” “Look Who’s Evil Now” and “Do the Necronomicon.

Sometimes a shot of fear is just the adrenaline that many thrill-seekers crave, and the month of October is full of satisfying opportunities..

Picture a poor, uneducated man in an undershirt, beer in hand, and where does your mind place him? Thats right, a trailer park. Its the long-existing stereotype of trailer-park trash, and pure examples of the clich are the Canadian Trailer Park Boys.

Say the name Alfred Hitchcock and the term psychological thriller isnt far from the brain. His dark direction of film not only plays with our minds but forces us to delve into a psy- chotic world of murder and confusion.

Referred to as the Pearl Harbor of our generation, the collapse of the Twin Towers instilled a strange swirl of fear, sadness, pride and unity within our nation. Ten years later, Sept. 11 continues to be a date which will live in infamy. Those lost will live on in our memories, our history books, and even in theatre.