Oct. 25-28 

 Remember newspapers? Sure you do. They were those slabs of cheap paper with ink and pictures that landed on your doorstep, not in your computer, every morning. (Actually, we have a fondness for them, having worked most of our lives for one and still appreciating the "tactile" quality.) But there was a point - say the 1920s - when they really mattered and when many cities had morning, afternoon and evening and virtually every one bought at least one. Reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur wrote what is widely considered the best play about those days, "The Front Page," a satirical comedy, replete with merriment, mayhem, misdirection and murder. It's been on Broadway, it's been on film, it's been on TV. Hildy Johnson, one of the reporters, has been male and female. Want more gender reversal? The ART (with the Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training) is kicking it up Oct. 20 at the Zero Arrow Theatre with Hildy played Brian Farish. The other reporter, once Walter Burns, is now W. Burns and played by Cheryl Turski. Holly Derr directs. Tickets: $10. 

Zero Arrow St., Cambridge, 617-547-8300 amrep.org