Dig deep in your closets, all you Gen-Xers out there. Those skinny ties, fat shoulder pads and fluorescent leg warmers are making a comeback - for one weekend anyway as the J.W. Mitchell High School Thespian Troupe 6272 will turn the clock back 20 years when it presents the interactive play, "The Awesome '80s Prom." ...more

November 7, 2009

Billed as the "funniest movie ever to make you cry," "Steel Magnolias" was a hit movie in 1989. ...more

October 28, 2009

Two musicals will give students from second grade through high school a chance to learn about theater by getting on stage this spring. ...more

January 21, 2009

Two musicals will give students from second grade through high school a chance to learn about theater by getting on stage this spring. ...more

January 21, 2009

Independent Day School is holding auditions this weekend for "How to Eat Like a Child" and the student version of "A Chorus Line." The shows are part of the private school's Community School of the Arts, and aspiring actors do not have to attend Independent Day School to participate. ...more

January 8, 2009

Helen Gordon Davis surprised friends when she told them she was running for the Florida House of Representatives. ...more

October 11, 2008

The man behind the mask was ... who? No one knew. They knew he threw beads - Lord knows, did he ever throw beads - hundreds during a game, thousands over a season. They also knew he ran up and down the sideline waving an 8-foot flag every time Plant City scored. ...more

September 12, 2008

A comment by his fourth-grade teacher has meant all the difference to Brad Brady. He overheard her exclaim how wonderful his performance in a school play was. "It was only one comment, and I wasn't supposed to hear it, but it has made a world of difference," he said. It spurred Brady to get his degree in theater education at the University of South Florida and to become the head of the theater department at Renaissance Academy, a private school in the New Port Richey area. ...more

July 2, 2008

SAN DIEGO - If there's pain at the pump in the U.S., Mexico may just have a remedy. A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in San Diego retails for an average price of $4.61 a gallon. A few miles south, in Tijuana, it's about $2.54 - even less if you pay in pesos. ...more

June 15, 2008

Students at J.W. Mitchell High School is putting on "Alice in Wonderland." ...more

November 14, 2007