Few entertainments are more riveting than a British murder mystery — a fact happily embraced by Theatre Lawrence, which is producing two such dramas, back to back, this season.
First up is the classic “And Then There Were None,” which opens Friday. The play is based on Agatha Christie’s 83-year-old novel — by many accounts, the bestselling mystery of all time. Christie also wrote the stage version of ...
Former Haskell Indian Nations University student journalist Jared Nally has settled his lawsuit against leaders of the university — which will result in policy reform at Haskell that free-speech advocates are hailing as a victory.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit that focuses on protecting free speech on college campuses, backed Nally in his lawsuit and called the settlement a ...
The director of Theatre Lawrence's current production considered giving the 26-year-old play a more contemporary look, but one thing stood in his way: a landline telephone.
The ringing phone — with not even an answering machine to quiet it — plays a small but significant role in Donald Margulies’ “Collected Stories,” and director Doug Weaver just didn’t think a cellphone could be substituted and ...
Greg Martin is not a pet owner and was a tad apprehensive about dog sitting for 10 days, but he wanted to help out his little sister, who otherwise might have had to cancel an eagerly anticipated trip to Iceland.
Cindy Martin and her wife, Wendi Norton, hadn’t had any luck getting reliable sitters, so when Greg agreed to come keep an eye on their 3-year-old German shepherd, Blue, it was something of a ...
Spencer Greenwood spent the tail end of his high school years “all cooped up” because of the coronavirus pandemic. That’s why when Theatre Lawrence opened up auditions for its first two shows of this season — both musicals — he leapt at the chance to try out.
“After two years of sitting around the house, something super physical and full of dancing and movement was just so appealing to me,” says ...
After winning the world championship in the pentathlon in 1989, Lori Norwood finally got the dog she had always wanted — and it was way more than she had hoped for.
That first dog, Sadie, an Australian shepherd, became “the love of my heart,” she said.
“When I retired from sport, I’d saved up some money, and she and I traveled through the Northwest up to Alaska, and we just drove in my truck and ...
