PatchCast March 11: Takoma Park Auditorium Goes Green/Magruder Defeated/Hairspray Opens

Here's what happened in the towns around you over the last 24 hours. Brought to you by our team of editors, reporters, photographers and videographers.

• : The Magruder High School boys basketball team's state title hopes were cut short on Thursday night with a loss in the state 4A semifinals at the University of Maryland, College Park's Comcast Center.
• : The largest production to date for Albert Einstein High School, "Hairspray" is a musical about a plump teenager—Tracy Turnbald— who lives in Baltimore in the 60s and dreams to dance on "The Corny Collins Show."
• : The recent renovation of the Takoma Park Auditorium has received LEED Silver Certification.
• : A project that would have brought three residential towers to the corner of Battery Lane and Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda has fizzled.
• : Students at North Chevy Chase Elementary learn about unique art forms at "The Big Draw."