The play button is pushed, and the powerful beat of John Powell's "The Bourne Supremacy" score bounces off the walls of the Missouri Contemporary Ballet's new downtown rehearsal space.

"Prelude to Freedom: The Ending of the International Slave Trade," an afternoon of performances and presentations, marks the 200th anniversary of the ending of the transatlantic slave trade. The program will take place from 3 to 6 p.m., June 25, in the

Before you settle in to your beach reading list, get in touch with your inner writer at the Chautauqua Institution's weeklong celebration of wordsmiths talking about their craft.

A couple of New York City musical theatre writers have been in residence in Ann Arbor, MI, in recent weeks, honing their new musical, Ella Minnow Pea, for a sold-out workshop production by the University of Michigan's respected musical theatre program.

Saturday was Flag Day and people all over the nation took to their yards, proudly displaying their flags in the land of the free. In Tampa, however, it was another day of controversy.