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Dean Anthony is a hands-on director if there ever was one.

During a rehearsal for Opera on the James’ upcoming production of “The Merry Widow,” he’s right in the middle of the action during a party scene early in Act II.

Anthony, the resident stage director for the Shreveport Opera, runs into the scene at various points to show the actors what he’s looking for. Op

The zombies have invaded Sweet Briar College.

During an evening rehearsal for the college’s upcoming dance concert, a group of students channel the creatures usually found in horror films.

Their clothes are torn and tattered. Their faces and arms are covered in bright red paint, their hair teased and wild-looking.

It was Professor Plum, in the conservatory, with the candlestick.

No, wait.

Maybe it was Miss Scarlet in the lounge with the revolver.

Keith Lee presides over a morning class with members of the Charlottesville Ballet, running through instructions so fast you wonder how the dancers even remember it.

The idea for Robert Wray’s latest play came to him in the late 1980s, when he was living in New York and working as an actor and writer with the Circle Repertory Company.

Heritage High School puts on a production about the boy who never wants to grow up.