Dan Reardon News

North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) announces the nominees for the 4th annual NSMT Spotlight Awards. The Tony® Award style program is designed to honor the accomplishments of high school students and teachers as well as encourage them to achieve the highest levels of excellence in musical theater. This year's program involves 22 high schools and over 1,000 students, and will culminate in an awards ceremony on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 7:30pm on the NSMT main stage. The event is open to the public and a donation of $10 per person will be requested at the door.

Boston Children's Theatre combined its recent 50th anniversary presentation of the classic musical West Side Story with a potent message: gang violence has tragic consequences. Multi-racial and multi-ethnic kids from Boston's inner city and its more affluent suburbs shared the stage - and drove their points home in dramatic fashion.