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If spring is in the air, that means love is soon to follow, and weddings after that. Family Affair: The Wedding taps into that loving feeling — and brings a lot of laughs with it. Husband-and-wife team Gill Nelson and Pamela Bunn-Nelson, co-founders of Timeless Entertainment, presented a heartwarming stage play at Bowie Center for the Performing Arts filled with laughter and drama.

The Playboy of the Western World – A New Version, now playing at Silver Spring Stage, is not just entertaining. It’s thoroughly funny. Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s The Playboy of the Western World – A New Version, from 2007, is more than an adaptation of the 1907 originalby J.M. Synge; it’s a character study and a warning against hero worship. The plot sounds like a setup for a joke: What happens when you drop a Nigerian fugitive, wanted for murder, into a Dublin, Ireland, pub run by gangsters?

What if Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol turned stingy and mean again? What if he charged the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Future with kidnapping, breaking and entering, attempted murder, and theft in a court of law? What if Scrooge was his own attorney in the trial? The Port Tobacco Players’ The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge hilariously explores these questions.