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After their acclaimed production of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit and their adaptation of Tracey Slaughter’s novella The Longest Drink in Town (which recently received seed funding from the New Zealand Writers Guild for a potential screen adaptation), ...

Although set in 1991, Peter Morgan’s Patriots feels urgently current. On the day that the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine was breached, causing extensive flooding, it is sends more than a slight chill down the spine to watch such a stark portrayal of how a few throwaway decisions led to the rise of Putin and his authoritarian regime.

A feature of the show is the fiery lighting design by Jack Knowles who knows how to create a war-zone effect to complement the thunderous events taking place.

|The piece is penned by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan ||London|Kiln Theatre

Top-seeded Tam High (18-7) had to work hard to defend its NCS Division II crown with a 9-8 victory over visiting Piedmont (14-4) in double overtime Thursday afternoon in Mill Valley.

The top-seeded Red-tailed Hawks are off to a fast start after Thursday’s 14-6 NCS quarterfinal victory over MCAL rival Novato.

Redwood junior Jake Vasquez scored a game-high six goals in the Giants’ 17-2 victory over Tam in the MCAL final Saturday afternoon in Kentfield.

By ERIC TUCKER The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A British tobacco company has agreed to pay more than $629 million to settle allegations that it did illegal business with North Korea in violation of U.S. sanctions, the Justice Department said Tuesday. British American Tobacco, one of the largest tobacco companies in the world, entered into […]

WASHINGTON—A British tobacco company has agreed to pay more than $629 million to settle allegations that it did ...

It used front companies that concealed connections from the U.S. banks that processed the transactions.