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WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED at 102 Belair Street in Brockton, Massachusetts, in the predawn hours of April 17, 2003, they observed two teenagers poking their heads out of second-floor windows. One of the teens was 17-year-old Frances Choy, who, awakened by her mother’s scream of “Frances, there’s a fire!” had called 911 on her cell phone. The other was Kenneth Choy, Frances’s 16-year-old nephew. Inside the house, a fire was burning with such intensity that it had melted wall fixtures, and thick smoke had trapped Frances, Kenneth, and Frances’s parents—Jimmy and Anne Choy—in thei...

Sarah Gancher's brash, multi-styled social satire about Russian internet misinformation campaigns of 2016 is spun with all sorts of creative online tricks. It's full of visual surprises and equally shocking reminders of how little has changed in four years.

PITTSFIELD -- Barrington Stage Company and Berkshire Theatre Group top BroadwayWorld’s 2020 Berkshires Awards for achievements over the past decade including theater company of the decade (Barrington Stage); musical production of the decade (“Godspell” at BTG); and play production of the decade (“Breaking the Code,” BSC). All in all, Barrington Stage garnered 10 awards; BTG garnered seven in a poll of best local theater of the decade as nominated by and voted on by the theatergoing public. Eligibility was for productions which opened between Jan. 1, 2011 and Sept. 3...

TheaterWorks Hartford is in the forefront of theaters who have adjusted to COVID-era challenges by producing its shows online. The theater is now offering a show a month, a big change from its accustomed six-plays-a-year seasons, and has produced such breakout hits as "Russian Troll Farm" and a "Quarantine Edition" of its holiday staple "Christmas on the Rocks."

Some businesses thrived, many lagged during pandemic in 2020 by The Associated Press Last Updated Dec 31, 2020 at 12:14 pm EDT By March 23, Apple had lost $435 billion in market value in about five weeks and many of its retail outlets were shut as the virus pandemic walloped the global economy and stock markets. Meanwhile, a report issued by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that 2% of small businesses surveyed had shut down permanently in March. On Dec. 30, Apple’s stock market value totalled $2.29 trillion, up 133% since March 23. Meanwhile, Congress has approved nearly $300 ...