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...look at the delightful, eclectic set of The Road to Mecca and you know that you are about to embark on a journey to somewhere unusual. Paper mache animals perch on pebbles bordering a room crowded with sparkling colored candles, odds and ends of flowered furniture. As soon as Janine Poreba and Jennifer Sun walk onstage and begin to speak, however, it is their engrossing performances which overflow the room. Athol Fugard's brilliant script is given life by an extremely talented cast, who bring a piece of South Africa's karoo home to Harvard...
...biggest theatrical event of the year. After playing to more than 600,000 people in 1991 and 1992, it is projected to reach up to a million in 31 cities in the U.S. and Mexico, in such venues as Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum this week and Milwaukee's Mecca next week. Sales have been slowish, although the opening-night audience offered a standing ovation and sustained applause...
...absolute ruler of the Nation, preached a message of Black supremacy and racial isolation as intrinsic to Islam. Malcolm X, the foremost among Elijah's ministers, was also a disciple of bigotry until he reached his crucial epiphany when, brought into close contact with Muslims of every color at Mecca...
Baltimore is no one's idea of an artistic Mecca -- maybe the last top-tier cultural icon to emerge there was Babe Ruth -- but for 30 seasons it has fostered a nonprofit theater of increasingly venturesome repertoire. Housed in a converted college building amid the rundown brick facades of downtown, Center Stage has debuted Eric Overmyer's On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning, a sprightly fantasy about three Victorian women explorers that became one of the most widely produced plays of the '80s; David Feldshuh's Miss Evers' Boys, a drama about government experiments on black victims...
...newcomer to the San Joaquin Valley, Crown was stunned to learn that the same rich topsoil that makes the region an agricultural Mecca also harbors this deadly microbe. She has become a statistic in the worst epidemic of valley fever ever recorded. From 1986 to 1990, doctors reported an average of 450 cases a year to state authorities. In 1991 the number nearly tripled, to 1,208. Last year it soared to 4,54l, with an estimated death toll exceeding...