<BR><small>Deanna Costa, a graduate student at the University of Maryland Department of Dance, on the stage of the 180-seat Dance Theatre. (Courtesy the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center)</small> <BR> <BR><B>Making a Debut</B><P>By Natalie Hopkinson in The Washington Post <P><BR>Christine Frazier had resigned herself to driving at least 20 minutes from her Hyattsville home or taking the Metro downtown when she wanted to attend plays and concerts.<P>A few months ago, though, the 32-year-old technical writer went to a concert by the Positive Vibrations Youth Steel Orchestra.<P>The concert was great. But Frazier was even more impressed by something else: the commute. "It was five minutes from where I live," Frazier recalls, "if that."<P>The venue was the shimmering new $130 million Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland -- Prince George's County's first major multidisciplinary arts center. "That's the beauty of it," Frazier says. "Quality entertainment and it's close to home."<P><BR><A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62485-2001Sep20.html" TARGET=_blank><B>more....</B></A><BR>