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The name Clarence Darrow is used so consistently as a substitute for “person of eloquence” or “progressive” or even “atheist” that it has become its own pseudo brand. The legendary orator, trial attorney and author most famously defended schoolteacher John Scopes in 1925 for teaching evolution to high school students in Tennessee at a time when creationism was the state’s only legal curriculum. Darrow has been the subject of dozens of books, plays and films.... Read more

Free speech is a perennial political hot topic. But what does speaking freely mean in one’s personal life? Actor and Champlain College professor Eric Ronis delves into both the personal and political in his one-man show Things I’m Not Supposed to Say, debuting this weekend at Burlington’s Waterfront Theatre.... Read more

Langston Hughes and Anne Frank never met. But Johnson State College professor F. Reed Brown is bringing the Harlem Renaissance poet and the teenaged wartime diarist together on stage — along with Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson and Helen Keller — in a new play called Voices. Brown has fashioned a script from the historical figures’ own words.... Read more

Jen Berger has an ear for heart-wrenching tales. As director of the Burlington Peace & Justice Center’s 4-year-old “Recruiting for Peace” campaign, the 36-year-old activist travels to high schools around Vermont telling teens what recruiters won’t: that war is not nearly as fun as glossy Army press materials would have them think. While educating students about their right to “opt out” of school-sanctioned recruiter databases, Berger relays real-life stories from modern-day soldiers.... Read more

Pop quiz: What is the largest county and one of the most sparsely populated east of the Mississippi?... Read more

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The Spielpalast Cabaret takes over Burlington's City Hall and fills it with political satire and scantily clad dancers.

The show runs through Saturday, May 17, 2008.

Real crime is no laughing matter, especially a vicious homicide. Yet the audience for Mildred Taken Crazy — a short play based on a notorious late-19th-century murder in Montpelier — can expect some humor at its performance in Burlington next week. Bellows Falls-based actors/playwrights Steve Friedman and Denny Partridge like to say: “Our plays are always funny, no matter how serious.”... Read more

When it debuted in Berlin in 1928, The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) instantly turned old-fashioned opera into groundbreaking musical theater. It had a political edge, thanks to the lyrics of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), and its music was infused with the sounds and sensibilities of 1920s German cabaret, courtesy of the great composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950).... Read more

It’s been a long, strange trip for David Schein since he graduated from Burlington High School in 1967. He left town to study drama and writing at the University of Iowa, did post-Beat experimental theater in Berkeley, taught drama in the projects of Chicago, and traveled to Europe, Tijuana and Ethiopia. What he’s become, besides the director of the Arts Council for Chautauqua County in Jamestown, N.Y., is a sort of unofficial professor of what he calls “arts-a-nomics.” That is, the study of bartering creativity for resources.... Read more