Michael Kilian

An inspired revival of the 1969 musical "1776" is packing the house at historic Ford's Theatre here, and one can't think of a more perfectly appropriate play for our flag-waving,...

Shakespeare seems to have become as American as apple pie -- or, to be more contemporary, as a grande Starbucks mocha latte. This was happily brought home to me last...

Can the American cowboy ever be considered art? Fourteen years ago, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art more or less posed the question by staging a big exhibition of Frederic...

The unique and highly influential sculpture of Polish-born American artist Elie Nadelman (1882-1946) was at once classical and modern, folk art and sophisticated idiom. Much of it was also singularly...

It would have been the Love Affair of the (20th) Century, in its way, had Ernest Hemingway and Marlene Dietrich ever been able to get it together. Circumstances intruded --...

Near the end of a "brilliant" military campaign that knocked Saddam Hussein out of power, the Pentagon seemed to be struggling with new demands to stanch Iraqi lawlessness and looting....

Nearing the end of a military campaign that knocked Saddam Hussein out of power, the Pentagon seemed to struggle last week with new demands to stanch Iraqi lawlessness and looting....

And now for the history of country music, from "The Bonnie Lass of Fisherrow" to movies about female boxers. Which is to say, to Deana Carter. Actually, the history of...