Play at Round House Theatre Bethesda tackles the complex transition home.
A most timely and thoughtful theater offering opened this week at Round House Theatre in Bethesda. ReEntry looks at the return of Marines from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The play, which runs through Oct. 30, has played to rave reviews in theaters in New York, New Jersey and Baltimore, as well as military bases and hospitals in the U.S. and overseas. ReEntry was written by Emily Ackerman and KJ Sanchez (they met through The Civilians, an investigative theater group) and is directed by Sanchez. Both women are the sisters of vets. Sanchez has five brothers who served in the Vietnam War era and Ackerman has two brothers in the Marines who have recently served multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. The playwrights did hundreds of…
The Treats 4 Troops project collected more candy this year than in the past thanks to local participants.
A local service group is putting leftover Halloween snacks to good use after collecting about 10,000 pounds of candy to benefit the Treats 4 Troops project. Last week, Bethesda-based service group MoverMoms organized a candy drive, known as Treats 4 Troops, for U.S. servicemen and women and had an overwhelming response from the area. This year, MoverMoms collected about 2,500 pound more than the drive in 2009, said Rebecca Kahlenberg, co-founder of MoverMoms. "This year I think we got more organized and got the word out a little earlier," Kahlenberg said. "This year it really exploded as a corporate good citizenship effort and we got donations from more people and more places." Kahlenberg said that candy donations came from places like …
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