Dinner Theater

"Grace and Glorie" Comedy about the flowering friendship of a stubborn 90-year-old country woman and an energetic young New Yorker. Totem Pole Playhouse, U.S. 30, between Chambersburg, Pa., and Gettysburg, Pa. Today at 8 p.m., Saturday, 2:30 and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. Cost: $19 to $25. 1-717-352-2164. "The Miracle Worker" The story of Helen Keller and her tutor Annie Sullivan. Old Opera House, 204 N. George St., Charles Town, W.Va. Today and Saturday, 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Cost: Adults, $11 today and Saturday, $9 on Sunday; students, $7; children 12 and younger, $5. 1-304-725-4420 or 1-888-900-SHOW.

Dinner theater to present show The Christmas dinner theater presentation of "A Christmas in Cricket County" will be held Sunday at Williamsport United Methodist Church, 25 E. Church St. Performances will be at 2 and 6 p.m. The menu is country vittles. Tickets cost $5 per person and must be purchased in advance by calling 301-223-7040. Christmas celebration An old-fashioned Christmas celebration, sponsored by Williamsport's Downtown Merchants, will be Saturday, starting at 4 p.m. The schedule is as follows: visit with Santa Claus, 4 to 8 p.m.; horse and buggy rides, 5 to 8 p.m.; carol sing, 5:30 to 8 p.m.; Mayor McCleaf will read "'Twas The Night Before Christmas," 7 p.m. Conococheague Street will be blocked off from the Town Clock Building to West Potomac Street.

julieg@herald-mail.com Hagerstown property owner Vincent Groh has donated the former Henry's Theater to the city for use as a magnet school for the arts, Mayor William M. Breichner announced Tuesday morning during his State of the City Address. "I appreciate the opportunity to do this. Thank you," Groh said to a crowd of approximately 170 people at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center at Antietam Creek. Groh said the school would be named in honor of his late wife, Barbara Ingram, who died in 1995.

Berkeley Springs Volunteer Fire Department Carnival Ride for one price. Saturday, parade at 5 p.m. Shows at 7 and 10 p.m. Today and Saturday. Fields next to U.S. Silica Co. mines, U.S. 522, north of Berkeley Springs, W.Va. 6 to 11:30 p.m. Rescue Hose Co. Carnival Today, Ricky Lynn Gregg, country; Saturday, The Cramer Brothers. Special Events Center carnival grounds, 400 S. Washington St., Greencastle, Pa. 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. 1-717-597-8489. Chambersfest Saturday, July 18, James Humelsine Memorial Volksmarch, hot air balloon rides, Buffalo Soldiers; Monday, July 20, pet parade; Tuesday, July 21, 6:30 p.m., Almost Anything Goes Games; Friday, July 24, Battle of the Bands and Teen Dance; Saturday, July 25, Sprint Soccer Skills Challenge.

'The Sound of Music' Clear Spring High School Drama Department presents "The Sound of Music. " 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 18; 2 p.m. Saturday, April 19; and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 20. Clear Spring High School, Clear Spring, Md. $7; $5 for students. 'Strega Nona' FREDERICK, Md. -- The Fun Company presents the children's story "Strega Nona. " The play is full of slapstick comedy, boys in dresses, magic potions, bad Italian accents and plenty of pasta.

Patriot Point Theatre in Gettysburg, Pa., has launched a murder-mystery series. The first production is a Civil War-themed comedy called "Grant Us Some Leeway. " And it's dinner theater. Pulse writers Sarah Ofosu and Sarah Johnston reviewed the dinner and show. Sarah Ofosu: After an hour's drive from Hagerstown, we finally arrived in Gettysburg, Pa. The cornfields and battlefields we passed on the way into town set the mood for the evening's production, "Grant Us Some Leeway," a Civil War-themed, interactive, mystery dinner.

Community Foundation surpasses $7 million in grants To the editor: The Community Foundation of Washington County MD Inc. (CFWC) recently went over the $7 million mark in cumulative grants to charitable causes since its first grant in 1998. This is the accumulation of distributions from endowed designated funds, field of interest funds, agency funds, scholarship funds, donor-advised funds and unrestricted community funds. It is exciting to see the mission of the foundation being fulfilled.

" Death Trap " presented by Blue Ridge Theatre Guild Friday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 6, 1:30 p.m. matinee, 6:30 p.m. dinner theater. American Legion Thurmont, Md. Tickets cost $6 for Friday show and Saturday matinee, $16 for Saturday dinner theater. For information, call 1-301-271-3052 or 1-301-271-7132. "Anything Goes" Friday, Nov. 12, to Saturday, Jan. 8; Fridays and Saturdays, select Wednesdays and Thursdays, doors open at 6 p.m., dinner served at 6:15 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays, doors open at 1 p.m., dinner served at 1:15 p.m., show at 2:30 p.m. Washington County Playhouse 44 N. Potomac St. Hagerstown Tickets cost $12 for those 12 and younger for dinner and show, $20 for seniors and students, $25 for adults.

bonnieb@herald-mail.com CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A visitor to the Capitol Theatre Center Monday afternoon might wonder why 74 children braved a snowstorm to stand in a large circle belting out such phrases as: "I don't like boiled spinach. " "This limousine is far too small. " "Pea pods remind me of aliens. " The answer is simple: The smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the crowd. The aspiring actors and actresses, accompanied by parents and siblings, turned out to audition for the musical production of "Cinderella" with the Missoula Children's Theatre.