All good, no evil in 'Sound of Music' role

07/17/11 Variety is too weak a word for Lisa Howard's recent roles. The actor best known for originating the role of Rona Lisa Peretti in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" on Broadway will play Mother Abbess in "The Sound of Music" at the Pittsburgh CLO Tuesday through July 31. She last played Paulette in "Legally Blonde" at the Muny in St. Louis.

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Un-Common Theater scores an American first

07/15/11 Next week at the Orpheum Theater, the Un-Common Theatre Co will make a bit of history. The youth theater group, now in its 31st year, will be the first amateur community theatre company in the country to perform the much-acclaimed, Tony Award winning Broadway musical "Spring Awakening."

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PHOTO CALL: Brian Dennehy is "Sir Toby Belch" in Twelfth Night at Stratford Festival

07/15/11 Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy is Sir Toby Belch, Stephen Ouimette is Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Sara Topham is Olivia in Des McAnuff's new production of Twelfth Night, which opens July 15 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada.

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