The Dublin School arts building will be undergoing a complete overhaul, which the students and staff are thrilled about. But at the same time, there is a certain sadness with leaving their old space. Jan Haman has been producing plays in the old space since the 1970s, and sat next to me for opening night of "Our Town" last night, the play that is to be the last performed in the old arts building.

A double-feature silent movie with live music accompaniment filled the house at the Wilton Town Hall Theatre yesterday. I hadn't heard much about the star of the films, Douglas Fairbanks, except that he was the first ever "action star" of the movies.

I just witnessed a world premiere on the London National Theatre stage... in Peterborough... New Hampshire.

"Nation," based on a novel by Terry Pratchett and adapted by Mark Ravenhill, was projected onto the Peterborough Players new 10' x 16' screen and broadcast live from London. Unfortunately, the premiere was screened before only about a dozen of us.

It was nobody's fault. You think about these things afterward and imagine that if you hadn't missed a turn, had left the house a minute earlier or had decided to take out the garbage before you left, it never would have happened. But who is to say that one of those small changes would not have resulted in something even worse? And things could have been much worse.

Today is Halloween, which means tomorrow is the first day of November, and, coincidentally, the day that daylight savings time ends. Days are getting shorter. The air is getting colder. The leaves are pretty well off of the trees.

This blog, along with a number of other features, is a component of our new, improved website. In this entry, I am supposed to inform you of all the great new content this blog's existence will provide. Instead, I am going to compare it to "Where the Wild Things Are," which I just saw yesterday.