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Audience enjoys a preview performance of a scene from “Big Smoke,” featuring Gretchen Hedberg and Cooper Castello, at the recent Taste of Theater event at Columbia Center for the Arts.

Dramatic productions featuring local youth open in early March at two locations in Hood River:

Hood River Middle School, March 1 — “Space Pirates,” a new children’s musical, will be performed at 7 p.m., and March 2 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., in the auditorium.