[EDIT: Due to the weather, Friday, Feb. 5 show is canceled.]
There's just one weekend left of the two-week run of "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" at Buck Creek Players, and with the first week sold out, it may be difficult to get in this Friday, Saturday or Sunday as well.

So if you are considering going at all, call this number now, (317)862-2200, and make your reservation.

A pox on both houses. That is the message the American people are sending to Washington. The number of Americans who claim allegiance to either major political party has declined dramatically. The majority now consider themselves as independents. This is due primarily to mostly wealthy members of Congress who let ideological dogma and personal political ambition prevent them from working together on pragmatic solutions to the problems facing the middle class and the poor.

With a talented cast that includes Hancock County residents Carrie Bennett Fedor and Parrish Williams, the Indianapolis Civic Theatre production of the William Inge play "Bus Stop" is an entertaining winter diversion.

Where does health care reform go now that Scott Brown’s election to the Senate gives the GOP the 41 votes to keep any filibuster alive? Is reform now dead in the water or does the Democratic leadership go back to the drawing board? Political pundits believe the Scott Brown election in Massachusetts is due to the public’s desire to kill health care reform. That is probably a great overstatement. An exit poll of Massachusetts voters show that those who voted for Brown this year but for Obama in 2008 believe the Senate’s reform bill “does not go far enough” by a 3 to 2 margin.

There's only one weekend left to catch an excellent production of Shakespeare's "Richard III," 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the IndyFringe Building, 719 E. St. Clair (just east of the College-Mass. Ave intersection).

The No Holds Bard theatre company takes an unconventional approach, including with the layout of the stage. Don't arrive late, as the action takes up the center of the floor and the building entry becomes backstage. Seating is around the edge of the floor and on (what would usually be) the stage, lending the production an intimate feel.

"The Housewives of Mannheim," on stage at the Phoenix Theatre through Feb. 6, is a funny, touching, thought-provoking look at four Jewish women living in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn during World War II.

(Note: Review contains minor spoilers)

Theatre on the Square (627 Mass Ave. in Indy) has been known to put on what has been referred to as the "naked man in January" play, but this year, while no one actually gets undressed, the topic of what people do naked is the subject of "My First Time."

Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which means banks, post offices and government offices are closed, as well as the schools. But this isn't about what's closed, but what's open.

As per the tradition at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, they give the musicians a rest and devote January to a stage comedy. Thus "The Foreigner" by Larry Shue is camped out on the stage -- oddly static (considering the rotating it does during musicals the rest of the year) decorated as an unchanging lodge in the Georgia woods.

There is a new vulnerability that has been discovered with nearly all versions of Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe Reader. Someone can create a PDF that can be opened on your computer using one of the Adobe products mentioned and infect your computer with a virus.

The bad news is, this effects just about every version of Adobe's PDF viewers, regardless of how old or new it is. Fortunately, it only causes infections on some Windows systems. For the rest of the Windows systems, as well as Mac, Unix, and Linux, opening an infected PDF will simply cause Acrobat to crash.