A D.C. playwright's tale of a refugee professor and the artists he inspired
Jacqueline E. Lawton's "The Hampton Years" is about as local as local can get: The D.C.-based playwright's world premiere got its start at Theater J's first Locally Grown Festival. Lawton's world-premiere play follows the Austrian Jewish professor Viktor Lowenfeld and two of his students at the Hampton Institute in Virginia who went on to become iconic African American artists: John Biggers and Samella Lewis. Lawton …