BLT opens ‘Inherit the Wind”Butler Little Theatre opens “Inherit the Wind” Friday at the theater at One Howard St.The fictional play is based on the Scopes Monkey trial from the 1920s, which dealt with the teaching of evolution in public schools.Curtain is at 8:15 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday through March 19.Tickets are $12. Call 724-287-6781 from 7 to 9 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. For more information, visit www.bltgroup.org.

Old Stone House site of beer programBRADY TWP — “Homebrewed History: Beer and Medieval Europe” will be presented at 2 p.m. April 2 at the Old Stone House, Route 8 at the intersection with Routes 173 and 528.The program will explore the role beer brewing and consumption played in medieval European society.The event is hosted by Slippery Rock University’s Stone House Center for Public Humanities.Tickets are $25, available by calling 724-738-4964 or visiting www.stonehouseCPH.org. Ticket holders must be 21 or older.

Orwald play to be stagedAward winning playwright and former Butler County resident Don Orwald will have his play “Monumental Men” presented this weekend at the Workshop Theater’s Jewel Box Theater in New York City.The show begins at 7 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday.Orwald was an English teacher at Knoch High School and directed more than 50 productions there. He also directed shows for Butler Little Theatre and the Musical Theatre Guild.

SRU begins Radio HOFSLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University will present its first Radio Hall of Fame Awards during homecoming in October.The first class of inductees will be announced in September.Seventeen people have been nominated, and the list of nominees and a voting page can be found at sruradiohalloffame.weebly.comOne of the nominees, James “Jim” Wentz will be automatically inducted with the Legends Award, since he was the founder of SRU Radio.For more information, send e-mail to jamesd.aronson@gmail.com.