Alumni news, in brief:

Steve Barkhimer -- along with the rest of the cast of Superior Donuts at Lyric Stage -- got a shout-out in The Globe... 

A photo gallery from last week's opening of Zayd Dohrn's Outside People... 

Food Douche, a short play by Molly Smith Metzler, is included in The Urban Dictionary Plays, presented by NYC's Ars Nova Play Group at Ars Nova, Feb. 1-11...

Exactly the kind of thing that makes Google Alerts fun: Check out photographer Peter Sumner Walton Bellamy's blog, which includes creative portraits of Melinda Lopez and other playwrights...

Theresa Rebeck fan Demonio (at right, in front of the Seminar marquee) was thrilled when he learned he could download the pilot episode of one of his favorite BTM playwrights' new NBC series for free...and he thinks you should watch Smash too...