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More than 2,000 people have been arrested on college and university campuses since April 18, as a wave of pro-Palestinian protests ripples across the US. Follow for live updates. Follow for live updates.

Middletown Mall is a marvelously bland name for a generic no-place middle-America shopping mall in the late ’90s. It is here that playwright Lava Alapai sets her scene and where Third Rail Repertory Theatre takes us for its final production of the 2023-24 season. While you may be initially drawn in by the energy of four 20-somethings, toiling in the wasteland of suburbia, the person we're really hear to talk about is Greg (Darius Pierce)....

“That was not the intention,” said state Sen. Kim Thatcher (R), who introduced the bill. “Not at all.”

Buy a Guinness in Coho Theater’s lobby before entering the intimately-lit set of Two Pints, and when you find yourself facing a flawless facsimile of an Irish pub, watching a barkeep glide by with a rag and tray of glasses—well, you get the point. You're there. You're in the audience, but you're also in a pub with two old Irish guys. To be honest, this would all happen even if you don't buy a Guinness,...