An "Anne Frank costume for girls" being sold on online Halloween costume stores whipped up controversy across the internet on Monday.

They don’t in playwright Liz Shipe’s “Bonny Anne Bonny,” a rollicking, funny and also emotionally resonant profile of a real-life female pirate from the early 18th century.

Plans for a statue of two real-life female pirates at an iconic coastal spot have been withdrawn. The monument of 18th Century pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, thought to have been lovers, was ...