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Or refuse to mention a certain Shakespeare play by name? “BREAK A LEG!” A TREASURY OF THEATRE TRADITIONS AND SUPERSTITIONS is a fascinating compendium of facts and fancies about theatre life ...

While Helen Hunt rose to fame on the big and small screens, the actress has plenty of theatrical credits under her belt, as ...

In theater, we often say "break a leg" to wish someone good luck, but for a senior at Chartiers-Houston High School, she quite literally broke her leg. Now, one of her classmates came to the rescue to ...

As Chartiers-Houston students prepare for their performance of Xanadu, a creative solution helped one of their cast members ...

Yo ho ho and a bottle of sarsaparilla! On Saturday, March 22, Weaverville Elementary School and Trinity Preparatory Academy ...

Pennsylvania (KDKA) -- We say break a leg to wish someone luck before a big show, but a Washington County high school theater student literally broke her leg less than two weeks before opening night.