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"The Scarlet Pimpernel" runs Wednesday through Sunday at Illinois Wesleyan University. Read Ashleigh Rae-Lynn Fegers review here:

Maine State Music Theatre closes its TYA series with an imaginative revival of Robin & Clark’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND. The third children’s production of the season features a young cast – local actors ages 11-18 from the theatre’s Summer Intensive program and the MSMT Singers - in a colorful, clever production that combines song, dance, and puppetry

9 to 5; The Musical at Maine State Music Theatre is a Retro Romp . With music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and a book by Patricia Resnick, who co-authored the film, 9 to 5: The Musical opened on Broadway in 2009. MSMT has taken the...

Maine State Music Theatre’s new production of 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL with Dolly Parton’s pulsating score is a high energy, hilarious madcap misadventure that somehow also manages to ring uncannily true. Both a period piece and a contemporary one, this tale of women in the workplace is propelled by zany humor, but also fueled by the empathetic characters at its core. The trio of women embattled with their narcissistic boss are - as Parton, herself, phrased it “just a step on the boss man's ...

]Spoiler Alert! “Titanic’ is unsinkable. This production shines with superb, polished performances which Marc Robin directs with his exquisite eye for detail. Robin zeroes in from the start that the true star of the show is Titanic herself. The...

“When you start looking at deeper, more accurate history,” writer Jared Yates Sexton says in this episode of The World in Time, “you start to realize that a lot of what we have learned through conventional history—and this is in public education, best sellers, documentaries, and television shows—a lot of the history that we have gotten is actually mythology. Take a look at the

: The Germanic myth of the Erlking has its roots in Denmark but the myth of this child snatcher can be found all over Europe and his name is really Odin or Woden!