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Beth Henley's darkly comic sensibility suffuses her Pulitzer-winning comedy/drama, in which three sisters in a small Mississippi town contend with the ramifications of "a really bad day."

In a year where many of our politicians feel it’s their patriarchal duty to abridge women’s rights, it’s encouraging to see plays on both sides of Tampa Bay that celebrate female empowerment. One running in St. Petersburg through Feb. 5 is a dark Southern comedy ultimately celebrating family. American Stage has mounted a sterling production of Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Crimes of the Heart,” which is firmly rooted in the quirky Southern Gothic tradi...

Three best friends play three sisters in Bolton Little Theatre’s latest production of ‘Crimes of the Heart‘ on stage next week.

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With a whoop of the siren from a Temple-Greenville police car, they were off – the runners in the Souhegan Lions Club annual New Year’s Day Peanut Butter Chip Chase.The 5-kilometer race returned in-person for 2022 after having been virtual last year,...

TUPELO - The relationship dynamics between sisters can be quite complex. There are times when theyre rivals and cant stand each other. But even in their messiness there are heartfelt moments when sisterly love takes over and they have each others backs. Few theater productions accurately capture this sibling relationship better than "Crimes of the Heart," written by Jackson native Beth Henley. The story of sisters who reunite in their Mississippi hometown won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama a...

When Liz and Andrew Porter of Charlotte shifted their distillery to making hand sanitizer, they thought they were doing their civic duty in a pandemic. Thursday they learned the federal government planned to bill them $14,000 for their effort. Fortunately for the Porters, that decision was reversed on New Year's Eve.