Dramas

BURBANK — “The Jay Leno Show” may do more harm than good for local economies, even as it prepares to begin rolling tape from a studio here next month, experts say. Although the show will bring production jobs and spending to the area, it will simultaneously crowd out potential dramas from prime-time TV spots, costing the region hundreds of possible entertainment-industry jobs at a desperate time for labor markets, experts say....

VALLEY GLEN — Down three points with 4:30 left and 60 yards to go, the St. Francis High football team’s offense seemed dead in the water. The Golden Knights’ star player was on the sideline and it didn’t take a second look at a dejected Dietrich Riley laid out on a trainer’s table to figure out he wasn’t coming back in. Not exactly the stuff storybook endings are made of, but, for St. Francis, there was still plenty of time for a rewrite.

Josh Kleinbaum Joshua Ward took a few steps toward the center of the stage in Rosemont Middle School's cafeteria. He tugged on his tie, threw his arms into the air, and tugged on his tie one more time. "No respect, I tell ya," said Joshua, doing his best Rodney Dangerfield impression. "No respect." He was playing Hogney, a Dangerfield-inspired pig in the Rosemont drama program's production of "The Three Pigs and Friends." In this Three- Little-Pigs-meets-Hollywood spoof, Hogney is the dumb pig who, clearly, gets no respect.

Judy Seckler GLENDALE -- The star of this show was a plywood camel named Hoshmakaka who was rigged up to kneel by the manger. At First Lutheran School and Art Academy, students were in their glory as they went through the paces of their holiday play, "The Last Straw." Drama teacher Raine Chism adapted the children's story for the stage, she said. About 100 children had parts in the story of the camel chosen by the Three Wise Men to carry gifts to the baby Jesus.

TEMPLE CITY — It was a victory that almost got away from the Golden Knights twice. The St. Francis High baseball team lost a two-run lead in the sixth inning and later saw its persistent host, Temple City, load the bases with one out to threaten an even slimmer margin with the winning run in scoring position. That was the unenviable scenario that reliever Chris Sember was thrown into in the bottom of the eighth inning, but the junior right-hander was able to record the final two outs and close the door on a 3-2 St. Francis win in the championship game of the Arcadia Elks Tournament on Saturday.

match point"Match Point" is a Woody Allen film masquerading as something entirely different until the climax when it is revealed to be, if nothing else, a Woody Allen film. As with most of his films, "Match Point" is beautifully shot, well-acted, and superbly directed. The hermetically sealed milieu, and characters, featured in some of his weaker films, supports, rather than undermines, the story here. Set in modern-day London, "Match Point" follows the upward mobility of Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers)

NORTHEAST GLENDALE ? It was a barrage of errors, wild pitches and basepath woes. But it was six innings that never lacked drama. It was perhaps the first time any baseball team, much less a Little League squad, won a game after committing 11 errors. But it was a 9-8 High Temp win against Landry's in the Major Baseball championship of the Little League District 16 Tri-Cities Tournament at Babe Herman Field that had High Temp Coach Rick Perasso plenty happy to get. "That was a wild one," said Perasso, whose High Temp team (25-6)

Alecia Foster NORTHWEST GLENDALE -- Six Hoover High School students took home first place trophies in the Cal Poly Pomona Invitational High School Shakespeare Festival. Maria Touniyans and Don Daniels won for best female and male performance. Each performed monologues from "As You Like It." Ledian Dirgrigorian, Ashley Erikson, Arax Gevorgian and Claire Parke took first place for best group performance. The group of four students acted a scene from "A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Alecia Foster Fifty Crescenta Valley High School students will be singing and dancing during this year's spring musical, "The Music Man." Drama, choral and orchestra students will all have a hand in the performance, which is under the direction of Brent Beerman, head of the Drama Department. The first show will be at 7:30 tonight in the school's auditorium. Other performances will be Saturday at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m.; and 7:30 p.m. on March 15, 16, and 17. Admission is $8 for adults and $5 for students and seniors.

Grant Gordon After the heavens opened up and rains poured down upon the area, it made for hellish conditions on the Crescenta Valley High soccer field. But the quagmire in which the match was played proved to be just one of a plethora of compelling storylines during Friday's CIF Southern Section Division II first round playoff game. There was senior Rachael Rigamat, owner of one of the most storied careers in Falcon program history, refusing to play her final match.

NORTHEAST GLENDALE - The Glendale Community College men's basketball team had the hotter hand and the cooler head down the stretch of Friday night's championship semifinal of the 2011 Vaquero Classic. As a result, the Vaqueros will now be in their tournament's championship game at 5 p.m. today after beating Victor Valley, 69-61, in a game made a bit testy in the final minutes by a confrontation that could have escalated into something much more serious. "I commend some of my guys [for]

One month after being invited to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe — the largest arts festival in the world — the Glendale High School drama program has launched a major fundraising effort to make the trip a reality. Mack Duggard, who has headed the program for 22 years, said he is reaching out to community organizations and local businesses to help cover the $6,300-per-student cost. He hopes to take about 17 students to the August 2012 event, as well as a handful of technicians to help with staging, costume, makeup and music.

GLENDALE — [Updated] Police briefly locked down Hoover High School on Thursday morning after students were seen with what turned out to be a prop gun from the drama department, officials said. The fake weapon was supposed to be locked up, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said, and school officials were looking into how it got out. "It should have been secured," he said. "It's unknown why it wasn't secured. " No injuries were reported in the incident. At 8:47 a.m., a student reported seeing fellow classmates playing with what appeared to be a handgun during class, said Elena Heimerl, spokeswoman for the Glendale Unified School District.

What a pleasure it is to have a classical theater company like A Noise Within in Los Angeles. From William Shakespeare to Henrik Ibsen, no playwright is deemedtoo "high-brow", and its actors' passion for the material is palpable on stage. Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" has been chosen to launch the 19th season of the company, and even though it was written more than 400 years ago, it still feels modern with its themes of moral corruption and political irresponsibility. Vienna is the setting, and the Duke (a stirring Robertson Dean)

The advanced acting class at Hoover High School is learning what it’s like to work with a playwright and hone a script that will eventually become a professional production. Los Angeles-based Jonathan Dorf writes plays produced by high schools, colleges and professional theater companies across the country. In searching for a high school to workshop his new full-length comedy “Tiny Tim Runs the Marathon,” Dorf received responses from schools nationwide, but chose Hoover because it was close to home and he wouldn’t have to deal with airfare, he said.

VALLEY GLEN — Down three points with 4:30 left and 60 yards to go, the St. Francis High football team’s offense seemed dead in the water. The Golden Knights’ star player was on the sideline and it didn’t take a second look at a dejected Dietrich Riley laid out on a trainer’s table to figure out he wasn’t coming back in. Not exactly the stuff storybook endings are made of, but, for St. Francis, there was still plenty of time for a rewrite.

BURBANK — “The Jay Leno Show” may do more harm than good for local economies, even as it prepares to begin rolling tape from a studio here next month, experts say. Although the show will bring production jobs and spending to the area, it will simultaneously crowd out potential dramas from prime-time TV spots, costing the region hundreds of possible entertainment-industry jobs at a desperate time for labor markets, experts say....

The play, ?Boy Gets Girl? by Rebecca Gilman, opens at 8 p.m. April 30 for three weekends in the Auditorium Studio Theatre at Glendale Community College. ?Boy Gets Girl? is a disturbing drama about a single career woman named Theresa in New York who is terrorized by a blind date who, after she breaks things off, grows increasingly obsessed with her. She must fight to save her identity and herself. The repertory production, staged by the theatre arts department and directed by Jeanette Farr, features two rotating casts.

Offering insight on issues of race and gender, the Alexia Robinson Studio in Burbank presents a powerfully moving rendition of “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.” Robinson herself skillfully directs this extremely complex and emotionally charged production. Originally conceived in 1975, playwright Ntozake Shange’s script exposes the trials and camaraderie of a group of African American women. Constructed as a “choreopoem” this piece incorporates dance, song and the spoken word.