THE STAGE

Arsenic and Old Lace is opening tonight at Leverett House, which by now has a long tradition of good productions. 8 in the Old Library, McKinlock Hall. I know of no corpses in the basement there--on the other hand, I used to know someone who maintained that her grocer had stuffed marijuana in her flowerpot, and then tipped off the cops.

The Elma Lewis Center put on Langston Hughes's Black Nativity last year, to considerable applause, I think. Anyway, they've brought it back, and it's at Sanders Theater for the weekend.

Green Julia, by Paul Ableman, at the Loeb Ex, tonight till Saturday.

There's a musical version of Aristophanes's Lysistrata opening tonight at Dunster House. This comedy used to be especially highly regarded in certain quarters because of its incisive discussion of the tactics of a mass revolutionary movement. I don't know who the music is by--on the other hand, when I was a freshman Dunster House put on a terrible play called Saved and my roommate did the lighting

The Mikado should be good, I guess--the Gilbert and Sullivan Players' productions usually are, and in this case the conductor is also nominally a Crimson photographer, although he admittedly hasn't taken a picture in about two years. Opens tonight at the Agassiz.

The Real Inspector Hound is by Tom Stoppard, who wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Paul K. Rowe '76, who usually writes this listing, saw it in London and wrote an article about how much he liked it, and no doubt if he hadn't absconded at the last possible moment and left me to fill his place you'd be reading enlightening details that radically increased your knowledge of British theater. But he did, so you won't Read the Scrutiny article instead, or check the Attica movie at the Orson Welles.