Inside Back Stage: Workshops, English History, Queens

• Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Mark Lambert would like you to know that your casting workshop may be an illegal den of scum and villainy.

• Queen Latifah listens to her mother.

• Reviews! David Sheward seems to like "Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play." Kirk Honeycutt says "Robin Hood" is a decent enough action movie, so long as you don't care about Robin Hood—or historical accuracy.