Army of playwrights and D.C. celebs amass for Arena's 'Our War'
Two moments stand out from Friday's opening of "Our War," a new collection of short dramatic responses to the Civil War. One moment is a splendidly vivid tale of a rooster and a slave by Lynn Nottage, who won the Pulitzer Prize for "Ruined"; the other is a respectfully colloquial reading of a monologue " about a 19th-century Southern mother " by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Read full article >>