Red & white & blue all over …

What would happen if you wrote a tongue-in-cheek, Modest Proposal-type fiction that got taken way too seriously by a paranoid, media-obsessed public? Why, you’d probably end up with the best-selling book The Return to Morality and sharing the same ethical pickle barrel as writer Arthur Kellogg (Quentin Colgan, pictured) in Jamie Pachino‘s same-named play The Return to Morality, a break-neck-paced political satire. Please see the review in this issue. Show continues Thursday-Saturday nights through March 2. Sunday show: Feb. 17. Tickets: $10 general; $8 students/seniors. Thursdays: All seats only $5! The Blue Room, 139 West First St. (upstairs from Collier Hardware.) Info: 895-3749; www.blueroomtheatre.com.