Founder Of Reagle Music Theatre To Take A Bow: Patch PM

MASSACHUSETTS — It's Wednesday, March 31. Goodbye March, we hardly knew ye. Here's what you should know this afternoon:

• The man accused of stabbing his former classmate 20 times was found not guilty.
• A major boost on the vaccination front.
• A horror movie filmed in Massachusetts gets an anticipated release this weekend.

Scroll down for more on those and other stories Patch has been covering in Massachusetts today.

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It is the end of an era for the Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston.

When the theater was founded back in the summer of 1969 to acclaim, Robert Eagle, then just in his 30s, was there. When the theater employed its first professional actor in 1984, Eagle was there. Through five decades of awards and acclaim, Eagle was there.

But this June he is exiting stage right.

Can you spell "Reagle Theatre with out "eagle"? Read the rest of the story: Reagle Music Theatre Founder To Retire After 52 Years

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Other top stories

100k Johnson & Johnson doses inbound: Massachusetts will get more than 100,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine next week, something Gov. Charlie Baker said is a sign the federal government is ramping up distribution. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine necessitates just one shot to inoculate people. So far about 85,000 Johnson & Johnson doses have been part of the roughly 3.5 million vaccines administered in Massachusetts, per state data released Tuesday.

By reason of insanity: Jeffrey Yao was found not guilty by reason of insanity in Middlesex Superior Court Wednesday for stabbing a former classmate of his 20 times — killing her — and slashing a man who tried to intervene three years ago in the Winchester Public Library.

The Championship Pride Of Marblehead: Lexie Laing said she and her Boston Pride teammates felt the coronavirus had stolen two National Women's Hockey League championships from them in the past year. Saturday night was the night for the Marblehead native and the Pride to take the crown back together playing for the Isobel Cup on their home ice in Boston. "Honestly, I knew we were going to win right from the start of the day," Laing said.

Sudbury gets creepy: A new horror movie filmed last year around Sudbury's Wayside Inn premiers this week in theaters. "The Unholy" is the film version of the 1983 novel "Shrine" by James Herbert. The movie centers on a young deaf girl who gains the ability to speak, hear and heal the sick after a supposed visit from the Virgin Mary.

Illegal procedure — Former New England Patriots receiver Kenbrell Thompkins is facing identity theft charges after federal prosecutors said he was part of an unemployment insurance fraud scene. Thompkins, 32, of Miami, Florida, was charged with access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to prosecutors, Thompkins stole the identities of several Florida residents to get roughly $300,000 in unemployment insurance payouts from the State of California during the coronavirus pandemic, from August through September 2020.