The “kenergy” is real for Barbie–the highest grossing film in 2023 according to Global Box Office.  Barbie has also become Warner Brother’s highest grossing movie beating The Dark Night made in 2008.    However, with Barbie’s popularity, controversy has risen with mixed understandings of the movie’s meaning. While Rotten Tomato rates the movie a solid 88%, websites such as...

Competition season arrives for the cast and crew of Belleville West Little Theatre’s 2024 Contest Drama, Rabbit Hole, by Tom Dudzick.   Each year, Little Theatre produces five productions, all of which are viewable by the public and consist of varying genres plus a new cast and crew consisting of all grade levels.  These shows consist of Fall Play, Freshman-Sophomore One Acts, Children’s...

The Belleville West Little Theatre is prepared for the Freshman-Sophomore show, The AI Play, written by Don Zolidis. The show is performed only by underclassmen and allows them a chance to experience theater for the first time in a new show every year.   “The show is about a girl called Eleanor, who uses AI to write her Great Gatsby paper, and because of that she gets into a really smart school....