As you approach the Reynolda House along its winding and wooded driveway, with the botanical garden set below the main house and an expansive front yard in the foreground, you can feel the splendor coming from the stonework.

The Stained Glass Playhouse's production of James Goldman's acclaimed, award-winning historical drama The Lion in Winter will open this Friday at 4401 Indiana Ave., Winston-Salem.

The tile-covered walls deep inside Triad Stage reverberated with the voices of men who had been unnerved by what they had just witnessed. Opening night of David Mamet's Oleanna sparked a vigorous postmortem in the men's room.

You may not know "The Rusty Bucket Kids Club," but soon enough you might. With so many small-screen franchises devoted to kids, teens and tweens, it's no surprise that a local production would seek to make its own mark in the marketplace.

Director M. Seth Reines should be commended for casting the husband-and-wife team of Jillian Nyhan Zygo and J. Michael Zygo in the lead roles of Robbie Hart and Julia Sullivan. Reines has worked with the Zygos on separate occasions, directing Jillian in the touring company production of Funny Girl.

The School of Drama at UNC School of the Arts will open its 2009-10 performance season with August Wilson's acclaimed Fences, which will open on Oct. 29 at the Catawba Theatre, located in Performance Place on the UNCSA main campus (1533 S. Main St., Winston-Salem).

The Paper Lantern Theatre Companys production of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, a cross between a stage play and a documentary about the aftermath of Matthew Shepards death, was performed Monday at the Arts Council Theatre in Winston-Salem. The performance represented one of more than 150 staged readings held around the world on Oct.

The British studio, which specialized in Gothic horror and science-fiction from the 1950s through the 1970s, left in its wake a cinematic legacy that may never be equaled, much less surpassed. Just ask its fans. Just take a look at Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula, Quatermass and the Pit, Brides of Dracula, The Gorgon.

David Joy is one of the more versatile and prolific actors in the Piedmont Triad. He doesn't necessarily think so, but more about that later.

Glass is a fascinating medium," says Avery Shaffer from his downtown Greensboro studio and gallery, Ellenburg Shaffer. "It's pure color because light passes through it. And we as humans kind of respond to it because of its watery nature, its illusory qualities. "