Sunday, March 29, 2026

Take a peek behind the curtain and test drive the NEW StateNews.com today!

Features

FEATURES

Shakespeare adapted for MSU production

“As You Like It,” a traditional Shakespeare play with a twist, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. today in Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre and will run until Sunday. Assistant director Wes Haskell said the play leaves its original Elizabethan setting and enters “an American Victorian Carnaval.”

FEATURES

'Poppins' butler discusses show, touring

Dennis Moench plays the nervous and chronically overwhelmed butler, Robertson Ay, in “Disney and Cameron Mackintosh present Mary Poppins.” The State News talked with Moench about his role in the musical and his experiences being on the road for the show.

FEATURES

Health benefits might spring from pets

Nikolina Antonacopoulos, a psychology graduate student at Carleton University in Ottawa, in Canada, conducted a study in March to discover the psychological health benefits of owning a pet for individuals who live alone.