The Venezuelan playwright will succeed the late Hugo Medrano, who co-led the theater for nearly 50 years until his passing in May.

“It’s important to portray Latinos as normal, middle class Americans because that’s what we are,” says the actor.

It is the U.S. premiere of the show in Spanish.

That sudden, crisp feeling in the air can only mean one thing: the doldrums of one of the worst summer movie seasons in history are mercifully over. DCist suggests you celebrate fall by checking out a few of the many, many sharp looking film festivals starting this week. >> The gimmick is fairly straight forward — Filmmaking teams from cities all over the country compete to see who can make the best film, from script…

An arguably unjust war, largely driven by imperialism. Scores of lives, often belonging to civilians, lost. Sound familiar? Scena Theatre hopes the obvious parallels between today’s post-9/11 world and its production of Robert Auletta’s adaptation of Aeschylus’ The Persians will strike a chord with its audience. Aeschylus’s original, the oldest surviving play in history, is a rather straightforward piece. Examining the Battle of Salamis, which took place in 480 B.C. between the Greeks and the…