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Madison Avenue in 1960 is the setting for what has become the best drama on television. That’s right, best drama - not best new drama or cable drama.

Set at a bustling advertising agency, the series stars Jon Hamm as Don Draper, a middle-aged creative director who is still on top but starting to look down and fear the young sharks below.

January Jones is superb as Draper’s lovely but brittle Grace Kelly of a wife, who is trying to keep the faith on the suburban Connecticut home front - with the help of a psychiatrist, a little booze and lots of cigarettes.

[DAVID ZURAWIK]

HIP-HOP SCREAMFEST TOUR // 7:30 p.m. Friday. 1st Mariner Arena, 201 W. Baltimore St. $27.50-$57.50. 410-547-SEAT or ticketmaster.com.

Be sure to bring earplugs to the Screamfest Tour stopping in town Friday. Featuring the hottest names in urban music - including Southern rap kings T.I. and Young Joc and R&B-pop princess Ciara - the show is sure to draw thousands of teens. On stage, expect plenty of tightly choreographed dance routines and swaggering sing-alongs.

[RASHOD D. OLLISON]

THEATER BALTIMORE PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL // Various times, locations, prices. 410-276-2153 or baltimoreplaywrightsfestival.org.

Here’s your chance to find out what some of the most fertile minds around are thinking. The 26th annual Baltimore Playwrights Festival is in full swing, with five plays still running as of today.

You have your pick of Rudy Doo by George Purefoy Tilson, about a menage a trois between a heiress, a hockey player and a murderous recluse; CYA (Kimberley Lynne), about a corporate tug-of-war involving a CEO who collects medieval weapons; Save Me (Stefanie Zadravec), about a born-again Christian who tries to cure her sister of a brain tumor; Last Night at the Owl Bar (Mark Shark), about a theater director who embarks on a round-the-world trip to find answers to his messed-up life; and Almost Vermilion (Sonja Kinzer), a family drama set in rural West Virginia featuring an oppressed farm wife and her artistic son.
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