Lawrence Toppman

These kids today, with their short attention spans! Why, when I was a youngster, it took time for a werewolf to change: Forelegs lengthened painfully, hair crept across a horrified face, teeth stretched torturously into fangs.

They meet, as dreamers often do, in a bar - and on Monday nights, when only hardcore dreamers gather in such a place.

"New Kid" has only a single idea, but it's a first-rate one - and just as playwright Dennis Foon has explored it enough, his drama ends gracefully.

Every enduring play is about us - you and me, breathing the polluted air of this century and struggling with loves and rages and doubts that have afflicted Western society since ancient Greece.

On the left side of the drawing, a multicolored African plant blooms optimistically.

'Art & Copy' examines work of ad designers. Film exec and educator slated for appearances.

If Greece had contributed nothing beyond spanakopita, the voice of Maria Callas and the beginnings of Western democracy, it would still qualify as a remarkable civilization.

"The Best Musical. Ever." This proclamation adorns advertisements and posters for "A Chorus Line," which kicked off the Performing Arts Center's Broadway Lights series Tuesday night at Belk Theater.

You can't know how vast the movie world is until you leave the United States.

Amy Aussieker says she has taken four risks in 39 years.