“I often wonder whether I’m going too far, forcing myself to watch things to make myself cry,” said Amelia Pedlow, fresh out of Julliard, in town to play Anne in Virginia Stage Company’s The Diary of Anne Frank.

Any cynic can ridicule Sarah Palin’s War on English, but let’s give the doll some credit: Below the surface, it actually looks like she’s trying to harness The Elements of Style. Plus yard sailing, cardboard boat racing, and collaborative consumption – oh my!

‘Letters for a Young Girl’, a new play by Philip Odango, is wholly compelling, utterly frustrating, totally fascinating, completely bizarre, and absolutely heartbreaking.

Miep Gies, last surviving protector of the Frank family, died yesterday. Writer/director Philip Odango talks about Gies, the connection between the Holocaust and Darfur, and channeling real life heroes into characters.