tl20001207-000 "0 Weir igh Thursday virww.thetowerlight.com Published twice-weekly by students of Towson University 12/7/00 Phone system being installed 3 Shopping on a college budget e 11 Sutton bracts out in 3rd straight win 19 Tigers hit lows in 49-point loss or. Departments News 3 Campus briefs 5 SGA Meeting Report 5 Nation 7 A&E 11 In a Theater Near You 12 Wrasslin' Weekly 12 The High Road 17 Sports 19 Fast Break 19 Punt, Pass & Pick 20 Op/Ed. 26 'Roc' samples the Bard TU alum Charles S. Dutton returns to star in, direct 'An Evening of Shakespeare' Justin Smulison The Towerlight It's 5:35 p.m. Friday, 35 minutes after the cast of ""An Evening of Shakespeare"" received a call from their director and star saying he is caught in traffic on the Beltway and will arrive at the Center for the Arts Mainstage Theatre shortly. Finally, the man arrives, and the atmosphere lightens up. The cast jokes with him, poking fun at his current marital status and elimi- � nating all authoritative boundaries usually established between actor and director. Making the scene even more sur-prising is that the star/director isn't a student, or even a professor. It's Emmy Award-winning director Charles S. Dutton, and working with him is a dream come true for junior theater major Joe Corgan. ""I was really, really ecstatic, because I knew even though it's a short rehearsal period of time I knew I was going to be learning so much from him,"" Corgan said. ""Just by watching him, just watch-ing him work, he is a man who acts from his soul. Everything comes from deep within."" � � � Forty -nine-year-old actor/ director Charles S. Dutton is the perfect example of some-one who learned from his mis-takes and turned a bad situation into a successful future in show business. He served seven-and-a-half years in prison for stabbing a man, and during that time, developed a love for theater arts and earned a two-year degree in theater from Hagerstown Junior College. ""I was living a very precari-ous life before any of this."" Dutton said. ""The way it could Jeff BewdourThe Towerhght Charles S. Dutton, who's back at Towson starring in and directing An Evening of Shakespeare,"" credits the University with helping him get his life back on track after he was released from prison more than 20 years ago. have easily fell down, I could have been doing life in the peni-tentiary, I could have been dead or I could have been strung out on drugs."" But Dutton steered clear of that path, completing his bache-lor's degree at Towson after being released from prison. Since graduating, he has appeared in many Broadway performances and movies, pro-duced and starred in the sitcom ""Roc,"" and won the Emmy for best directing in a mini-series last year for the HBO mini-series, ""The Corner."" This week he is back at Towson, working with students in his first love, theater, in ""An Evening of Shakespeare"" which will play Dec. 8 and 9 at 8 p.m. at the Mainstage Theatre. ""The joy of working with stu-dents is that they're so innocent, so naive, so talented but yet so raw, and they haven't been spoiled by success. So they still can be molded, they still listen to you, they still take directions well and they're hungry and all that,"" Dutton said. The performance will raise money for the Charles S. Dutton Scholarship Endowment at Towson. Dutton said it is his way of giving back to the school and the community. Due to the prestigious cast and selection of scenes, the theatre is expected to come close to sell outs for both nights. Working on this collage of Shakespearean scenes from See DUTTON, page 17 Today High 35 Low 25 Friday High 46 Low 27 Saturday High 46 Low 27 Sunday High 43 Low 32 "
