Archive for October, 2008

All branches of the Somerset County Library System will be closed for staff training on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4. Regular hours of operation will resume on Wed., November 5. CLARENCE DILLON PUBLIC LIBRARY Tuesday night at the movies classic…

College opens classic ‘Measure for Measure’ BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin College Department of Theater and Dance will present “Measure for Measure,” running from Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 6-8, at 8 p.m. each night in Pickard Theater on campus.

Huntington North High School’s Mask & Gavel theatre students not only act but direct the one-act plays that makes up their annual festival. Every year, a theme is chosen and short one-act plays are selected to fit the theme. This year is “Stories around the Campfire.”

Tuya’s Marriage, a moving, splendid movie from China, introduces to us a fine new writer-director, Wang Qua’nan, and an extraordinary actress — Yu Nan, who plays the title role with perfect control and quiet power. It also immerses us in a country — Mongolia — and a culture that, during the course of the film, become more and more strangely familiar, even as the story veers off into realms of …

Paradise Theatre went all out this year with its haunted house. Many ghouls and other scary characters decorate the site at 9911 Burnham Drive NW in Gig Harbor. There are themes less frightening to younger children and scary for big kids.

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. -After years of turning down TV and movie offers, children’s author Mary Osborne Pope decided to take her popular book series to the stage.

Mary Ribeiro of Westerly loads up with books for her and her husband Anthony at the Dunns Corners Community Church book sale.

It must have felt like an early wake. On Thursday, just two days before today’s super Saturday of byelections, the alcohol flowed in the Legislative Council president’s dining room when the upper house MP Linda Volz hosted a lunchtime fund-raiser for the Labor candidate for Ryde, Nicole Campbell.

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Local News (Sherwood Park News)

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November is an important month at Salisbury Composite high school.

Some tried-and-true traditional productions and many promising new performances are among the offerings you’ll find on stage near you during this theatrical season.