Michael Kilian

In many parts of America, it was tradition for farmers who plowed up hard objects in their fields to pile the objects on the boundaries as stone walls. Over the...

Magical Mary Zimmerman has done it again. The remarkable Northwestern University performance studies professor, a recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant in 1998, won the Tony Award for best director...

One of the unfortunate deprivations of our modern era, I've long thought, is that we've lacked a Carole Lombard. We've had many fine comedic actresses, but none quite with the...

One of the great drawbacks of a traditional piece of theater is the challenge over the years and centuries of doing something different with it. We've seen Shakespeare productions set...

The nation's capital is a city made by war. Its population trebled in the four years of the Civil War, and there was a similar expansion during World War II...

Romare Bearden (1911--1988) was not only one of the most talented American artists of the 20th Century but also one of the most complicated (the name as published has been...

The Arctic Council, a group of eight countries with Arctic territory, including the United States, is expected to issue recommendations on global warming Wednesday that will put the spotlight on...

The defeat over the weekend of President Bush's attempts to fund research and possibly development of a new family of nuclear weapons was hailed Monday by arms control advocates as...

One will be remembered for keeping a lid on mad cows. Another's tenure was marked by a controversial and sweeping education reform plan. And a third tried to do the...

Now we may hear from the dead. The price of the war in Iraq has been measured in terms of mere money, statistical body counts, the United States' standing in...