Article: Parents of drama students answer to another curtain.(Entertainment)

Byline: FRED CRAFTS The Register-Guard

What a difference a year makes.

Last year about this time, Mary Huls, director of the youth-oriented Spotlight Theatre in Pleasant Hill, practically was dragging some of her students' parents onto the stage to do a play.

This year, she can't hold them back.

"They're having way too much fun," Huls says with a laugh.

Sparking the merriment is "Drop Dead," Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore's 1985 screwball who-done-it farce, which Spotlight Theatre will open Thursday.

"Drop Dead" is quite similar to "Noises Off," currently playing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Both ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!