More stage productions (Detroit Free Press) "Apartment 3A": *** A revival of the play by Jeff Daniels. Directed by Guy Sanville. 8 p.m. Thu.-Fri., 3 & 8 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., 8 p.m. Tue.-Wed. Through Dec. 20. Purple Rose Theatre, 137 Park, Chelsea. 734-433-7673. www.purplerosetheatre.org. $20-$38.

Will identity be open source? (ZDNet) Not only have project managers had to explain and defend the need for secure identities to a consumer audience which thinks it Big Brother, but they had to navigate among the interests of several big-name vendors -- Sun, Oracle and IBM among them.